You may well think that but if you've still got the last WB (and why would you given the panic buying of bog rolls?) then read the last paragraph and sentence of the editorial. I'd rather have a pint brewed with good ingredients and served carefully with a cask breather (remember them?) than a pint brewed with cheap and nasty dross and that uses the "CAMRA approved" quick dropping yeast from Marston.
1. first pub you drank in - Bede's Lea, Rownhams, Hampshire, aged 15 in school uniform.
2. last pub you visited - One Eyed Rat, Ripon, Yorkshire (20/03/20)
3. last beer you had in a pub - Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild
4. first beer fest visited - Southampton, 1978, worked there as well and also visited the GBBF for the first time that year at Ally Pally.
5. last beer fest visited - Otley 2019
6. total reviews on PG - 2098 different pubs
7. do you have to have a drink in a pub to review - Usually.
8. have you done a Winfield 22 - close but no cigar.
9. fav PG crawl - Black Country.
10. least fav PG crawl - loved them all but didn't enjoy getting lost in Nottingham.
11. first pub reviewed -? was on BITE from which I was banned.
12. last pub reviewed - Pitcher House, Redcar.
13. happy to drink in Wetherspoons - yes
14. camra member - yes, since 1977
15. should we have interior pictures of pubs - yes
16. is there any purpose in posting multiple pictures of a pub - don't get me started; photos on the site boils my piss sometimes, generally any photo that adds something is valuable.
17. if you had to go for a drink with one of these which one Humphrey Smith, Tim, or Boris - Tim
18. no cask so which one Bud, Fosters, Carling, Stella - all shite but I'll drink any of them on an attempted Winfield, and have done and usually it's a half of whatever is cheapest.
19. cask but which one Doom, Pride, Pedigree or Bass - Bass for sentimental reasons Pride otherwise
20. fav beer this year - well other than Sarah Hughes, either Brass Castle or North Riding Hazelnut Mild.
Highest number of Units in a day (2020) 24.68 on 14th March
Highest number of Units in a week (2020) 80.71 30th December 2019 - 5th January 2020
1. Woolpack, Chilham. Aged c14
2.The Ram,Firle.15/3/20
3. Burning Sky,Arise. Yep,evil keg.
4.Either Kent/Canterbury 1976 or an unofficial and probably illegal one in Durham same year.
5. In The Flyer carpark,Smarden in say 2015.
6.242
7.Yes
8.No
9.N A
10. N A
11.Rose and Crown,Bainbridge,Wensleydale
12.Stephan Langton,Friday Street, Surrey.
13.No
14.Yes
15.Yes
16.No
17.Boris,but really none of them appeals.
18.I wouldn't.
19. Bass
20.Three Legs IPA Larkins Alehouse,Cranbrook.
"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
I remember Canterbury 1976. It was late June and held on a green in a marquee somewhere in Canterbury. It was one of the hottest days of the year during that horrible hot drought ridden summer. Three of us cycled there from London and I was dehydrated with a hangover but managed to get 4 pints of milk from a milkman in Rochester. I was a real lightweight at the festival due to the heat. I remember later Canterbury fests at the cricket ground where there was a tree and at a farm on the outskirts of Canterbury.
1 first pub you drank in - Chequers, Lytchett Matravers aged 16.
2 last pub you visited - Oak & Pastor, Tufnell Park, 10th March 2020 - feels like a lifetime ago.
3 last beer you had in a pub - Dark Star Hophead
4 first beer fest visited - A CAMRA festival in the Patti Pavilion on Swansea seafront in 1998/9 - I was a cider drinker at the time, knew nothing about real ale, and was the favourite (i.e. only) customer of the lady manning the cider bar, which meant I got very generous half pint measures of all manner of evil scrumpys!
5 last beer fest visited - Croydon Beer Festival 2020 - it was dreadful, won't be bothering next year.
6 total reviews on PG - 2,425
7 do you have to have a drink in a pub to review - yes, but it doesn't have to be beer/alcoholic.
8 have you done a Winfield 22 .nearest total in a day - No - probably around 15-16 at best
9 fav PG crawl - Liverpool for the pubs, Leeds and Pompey for the crack
10 least fav PG crawl - Loved them all, but maybe Brighton?
11-first pub reviewed - Royal Standard, Croydon
12 last pub reviewed - Denmark Arms, East Ham
13 happy to drink in Wetherspoons - Yep
14 camra member - Lapsed a couple of years ago
15 should we have interior pictures of pubs - Interior, yes. Inferior, no.
16 is there any purpose in posting multiple pictures of a pub - What Will said
17 if you had to go for a drink with one of these which one Humphrey Smith,,Tim,or Boris - Tim, I suppose - Wouldn't last five minutes with Humph before falling foul of his swearing ban
18 no cask so which one bud,fosters carling ,stella - These four are interchangeable to me - normally go for Guinness when faced with no cask/craft
19 cask but which one doom,pride ,pedigree or bass - Pride, although *whisper it* I don't mind a well kept Pedigree or Bass.
20 fav beer this year - Hasn't been a great year for beer so far. Probably Pressure Drop Tambourine Mountain at 'The Experiment' in Hackney. Best cask - Moor Stout in the Rusty Bucket, Eltham.