September 2024. Linton. Cambridgeshire. My Mum always says “If you’ve nothing good to say, say nothing“, but she doesn’t mean it, and this blog GUARANTEES to tell the truth, so here’s the truth about the new industrial estate tap in Linton. Linton ? Yes, the first posh village heading south-east out of Addenbrookes into the… Continue reading YOUR NEAREST GBG CRAFT BAR TO LINTON ZOO
Tag: Good Beer Guide
WELCOME TO THE 2025 GOOD BEER GUIDE – A TRIUMPH
It’s your favourite day* of the year ! CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide is officially launched this morning, only a few hours after the local media get there first with the new entries; Is that Carlton Club in Whalley Range actually a pub ? Looks more like a car boot sale. First and foremost, a big,… Continue reading WELCOME TO THE 2025 GOOD BEER GUIDE – A TRIUMPH
THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF GOOD BEER GUIDE TICKING – A WORKED EXAMPLE FROM HULL (20 MARKS)
The ultimate clickbait; a picture of a pub I haven’t actually been to yet. A week since my last tick, and I can’t even use the excuse of being in the Balkans again, just rotating between Waterbeach and Sheffield. Monday is a good time to travel; there’s a better than 5% chance your Northern train… Continue reading THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF GOOD BEER GUIDE TICKING – A WORKED EXAMPLE FROM HULL (20 MARKS)
THE RETURN OF THE GOOD BEER GUIDE SPREADSHEET – PART I – HOW DID GBG23 END UP ?
Yes, it’s a big spreadsheet. My last post full of numbers and coloured lines at the start of the year has got 414 views, and. in the absence of those rants about closed micros and plant pot pours you love, it seems you want to see pointless statistical analyses on the blog. So here’s the… Continue reading THE RETURN OF THE GOOD BEER GUIDE SPREADSHEET – PART I – HOW DID GBG23 END UP ?
CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMPLETE – BEER STRAIGHT FROM THE POT PLANTS, NOT IN THEM
November 2023. Wisbech. A final Cambridgeshire Guide tick, and yet more GBG24 joy as I’m taken kicking and screaming to Wisbech, which a bit of me still believes in is Lincolnshire. Perhaps GBG25 will place it there, like that pub in Danehill that keeps moving back and forth across the Sussex borders. I know you… Continue reading CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMPLETE – BEER STRAIGHT FROM THE POT PLANTS, NOT IN THEM
THE DRAMATIC RECOVERY OF RETIRED MARTIN’S GBG IN LONGPARISH
September 2023. Longparish. I realise some of you have been unable to sleep since news of the loss of my GBG first broke last Thursday on our way to the End of the Road. Thankfully, someone invented mobile phones and Mrs RM contacted the Plough who confirmed that a middle-aged man had, indeed, stupidly left… Continue reading THE DRAMATIC RECOVERY OF RETIRED MARTIN’S GBG IN LONGPARISH
BEER GUIDE DISASTER IN LONGPARISH
August 2023. Somewhere near Andover. It’s End of the Road day. The campervan is packed with tents and chairs and salami; we’re off to see weird folkies in a field near Salisbury for 4 days. We drive three and a half hours straight (aren’t they’re rules on this ?) and stop for lunch at the… Continue reading BEER GUIDE DISASTER IN LONGPARISH
WILL I TICK THE NEW GOOD BEER GUIDE ?
The new Good Beer Guide (2023) has arrived ! Well, in York, anyway, where BRAPA has his Privilege copy while the rest of the “ticker community” (all six of us) remain on tenterhooks. Or is it tender hooks ? Simon has been dutifully sending us pages of the GBG via WhatsApp, probably breaking CAMRA law,… Continue reading WILL I TICK THE NEW GOOD BEER GUIDE ?
NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO CONQUER
Thank you for all your good wishes on completing the Beer Guide at lunchtime in Rousay. It was an emotional morning, a mix of worry, joy and panic. And calories. This was breakfast at the West End Guest House in Orkney, where a Canadian septuagenarian regaled us with tales of the Peterborough Petes ice hockey… Continue reading NO MORE WORLDS LEFT TO CONQUER
LET ENGLAND SHAKE
Sorry, Polly, but your acclaimed 2011 LP is one of the worst albums in my collection, and you should see my early 80s Saxon. PJ Harvey probably isn’t a big fan of Swindon, but last night the town of magic roundabouts, steam and limited edition Archers beer was the venue for my historic LAST ENGLAND… Continue reading LET ENGLAND SHAKE
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