I thought I'd kick this one off now, in the fervent hope that I don't come across anything worse in the last week of this year.

I scored half a dozen pubs on 3 this year: The Falcon (Bridgnorth), Lost Industry Tap (Sheffield), Red Lion (Dunston, Lincs), Londesborough Arms (Metheringham, Lincs), The Rockingham Tap (Swinton, Yorks) and Woodies (Leeds). Some of them it's a matter of taste, so that although my experience was probably more like a 1, I recognise that the pub might not be thought quite so bad by the customers at whom it is aimed. Some it's just bad beer or bad service.

This year's clear winner (and I can't remember now why it scored 2 rather than 1): The Sportsman, Carlisle. Just bad.