Correction, it's 13 for me and I've found a major error. The Plough at Wistanstow is in deepest Shropshire and nowhere near Staffs. It's been the Woods Brewery Tap since they started brewing and certainly was when I darkened its door in the early 1980s. It doesn't disprove his claim of 50,000 pubs but it is a very basic error.
10 for me. I thought it was going to be more as I'd visited 10 of the first 20, the it all went a bit "tits up".
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Another less relevant point with his top 50 is that the Dronfield Three Tuns closed nearly 18 months ago.