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Some time in the early 80’s, sitting at the bar in the William Cobbett on the Saturday before Christmas. We needed a change from the normal skin full of English beer yes a normal Friday night.
In front of us beckoned the glass fronted cold shelf with a selection of bottled beers from all over the world, and so it started. At 5% a time we soon moved onto the next pub and by the end of the lunch time session had covered a few more pubs in Farnham.
The aim from then on was to spend the Saturday just before Christmas drinking foreign bottled or draught beer. A town would be selected and while everybody else was shopping we would be on a mission.
Below is the best estimate of places we have visited and thanks to PV the later trips have a list of pubs and what was sampled.
2020 - Guildforf
2021 - Covid
2022 - Hackney
2023 - Brixton - click here to read
2010 - Farnham - click here to read
2011 - Windsor & Eton - click here to read
2012 - Basingstoke - click here to read
2013 - London; Covent Garden/Borough - click here to read
2014 - London; Bermondsey Mile - click here to read
2015 - London; Fulham - click here to read
2016 - London; Westminster - click here to read
2017 - London; Camden - click here to read
2018 - Oxford - click here to read
2019 - Bethnal Green - click here to read
2000 - Wokingham
2001 - Fleet
2002 - Wimbledon - click here to read
2003 - Portsmouth & Southsea
2004 - Epsom
2005 - Croydon
2006 - Guildford - click here to read
2007 - Dorking - click here to read
2008 - Clapham and Vauxhall - click here to read
2009 - Winchester - click here to read
Alton
Petersfield
Goldalming
Richmond
Kingston
Winchester
Farnham (2)
Guildford (2)
Woking (2)
Camberley
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