I don't think their beers are that bad, but I might pop along the M65 for a look.
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/0...lscrapbook.net
I don't think their beers are that bad, but I might pop along the M65 for a look.
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/0...lscrapbook.net
They're having a go at pubs in East Kent as well.
"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.
Just in case anyone missed it:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...leg?CMP=twt_gu
One for Quinno,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...52208562500396 (facebook page)
For those who don't know he was the author of the Beer Drinker's Companion, a book that came out around the same time as the first GBG but in many ways was far more informative. It listed all the existing breweries at the time and the four remaining home brew pubs. Information about their beere and livery were included along with details of where to find their tied houses.
I crossed paths with him once on a Bank Holiday cycle trip around some of the rural Brakspear houses. His group (which included one of the CAMRA founders Graham Lees) was leaving one of the pubs as we arrived.
He was the prototype and ultimate ticker as he claimed to have drunk every beer (draught, keg and bottled) from every single brewery. This was in the days when you could only get a Manchester beer in the Manchester area and all the Young's pubs were in London or inner Surrey apart from the two in the North Downs at Shere and the one at Plumpton in Sussex. Such a task today would surely be impossible.
Apparently he had been in frail health at a nursing home in Dorset for some time.
"Do I know where hell is? hell is in hello"
Never ones to miss a self promotion opportunity, no matter how it's wrapped up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...n_4722065.html
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.