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 ?
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(XP) – THE EXPECTED PUBS PHILOSOPHY
In the event that City lose a game we dominate, we take comfort in the recent news that (XG) will be used should points being equal at the end of the season. Here’s the (XG) from one of only TWO (2) games (the other was the Euros final) I’ve watched on telly since Covid. City… Continue reading (XP) – THE EXPECTED PUBS PHILOSOPHY
“I’ve seen the cross-ticking and the damage done, a loss of 195 pubs on GBG21. Gone, gone..”
I promised you (well, US Dave), the results of my cross-checking the new Good Beer Guide tonight, so here it is. THE SCORE Having marked in pink all the 4,508 entries in GBG22 that I’ve already done, like this; I calculate I’d visited 3,927 pubs by the time the new GBG “landed” (ugh). That’s 87.1%,… Continue reading “I’ve seen the cross-ticking and the damage done, a loss of 195 pubs on GBG21. Gone, gone..”
THE PROBLEM WITH TICKING
Tomorrow my in-laws return to Royal Tunbridge Wells (sorry, Paul) after fourteen (14) days on holiday in Sheffield, the longest ANYONE has ever spent on holiday in Sheffield. Beyond the jokes, I’ve enjoyed taking them to some classic pubs and watching them drink more cask beer than all of Beer Twitter put together. Though that… Continue reading THE PROBLEM WITH TICKING
CHAUFFEUR TO THE STARS
“Greater love hath no man than this; that he would give up his own ticking time to drive his friends around the pubs of the western Home Counties” At least “psychological support“* was provided as the trips came dangerously close to both Aylesbury and Maidenhead. Another tremendous day for being retired. This was the view… Continue reading CHAUFFEUR TO THE STARS
RETFORD -A (BASSET)LAW UNTO ITSELF
In “Notes From A Small Island” Bill Bryson (an American without Dick and Dave’s taste in pubs) stops in Retford, noting its success in losing out to Worksop as HQ for Bassetlaw Council. Four years later, the TASTE* team went on a pub crawl of Winfieldesque proportions, painting Retford as Gomorrah to Doncaster’s Sodom.… Continue reading RETFORD -A (BASSET)LAW UNTO ITSELF
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