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It’s easy to end up drinking the same beers, and going to the same pubs and bars, and feel miserable about it. But there are ways to break free.

1. Walk down a new street or visit a new town and go into the first pub you walk past after a certain hour. (Don’t cheat.)
2. Or go to every single pub in a neighbourhood, town or village, however weird or unpromising.
3. Buy an old guide book and visit the pubs it recommends, or take on a famous historic crawl.
4. Drink your way through a list of beers from a book or listicle.
5. Get someone else to choose beers for you.
6. Drink every beer you can find in a particular style, from a particular region, or that meet some other criteria – ABV, colour, Christmas themed…
7. Critically revisit beers you know you don’t like but haven’t tried in years. After all, they change, and you change too.
8. Spend a month drinking things other than beer, but with beer in mind.
There are lots of other ways to go about this kind of thing. The point is, like writing poetry using restrictive rules, or cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats, it should be sort of pointless… But not really.
You might hate all the new pubs you go in and beers you taste, or you might find new favourites you kick yourself for having missed out on for so long. Even the duds will teach you something.
Breaking out of the Rut originally posted at Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog


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