Comments on: Hitchhiker’s Guides to the Beerosphere http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere Going on about beer and pubs since 2007 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Phil http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23704 Phil Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:57:21 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23704 I thought “hand-pulled” was particularly unfortunate. Maybe I’ve read too much Viz.

]]> By: Paul Bailey http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23667 Paul Bailey Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:21:06 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23667 I also have a copy of Mr Reeve-Jones’ London Pubs, and have to wonder what he was on when he wrote it. An interesting publication all the same though.

Incidentally, I also have four other guides in the same series that Batsford published around this time: East Anglia, Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The Kent guide is particularly interesting as it lists all the draught beers avavilable in each pub. (I would loved to have tried the likes of Mackeson Bitter, Fremlins County Ale and Tomson & Wotton Bitter!).

]]> By: Cookie http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23656 Cookie Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:37:10 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23656 It’s the 21st C. All you need is the Wetherspoons App on your mobile. Job done.

]]> By: Coxy http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23635 Coxy Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:53:11 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23635 I’ve gone of the GBG, the internet is a better guide as its more up to date and also the choices are finite so in some areas some distinctly average pubs get in as there is not alot around. Also from local experience some pubs get left out for worse pubs because the committee is matey with landlord,or it’s their local, or they can’t be bothered to visit other pubs.With the poor management of Punch etc pubs are changing very quickly these days, or arrogant pub owners are opening up Brewdog pubs where perfectly good pubs like The Mason and Taylor were!
The GBG was brilliant in it’s day but its days are dying , how many of the younger guys are going to buy a massive book to carry round when you can use your iphone?
I would like a pair of glasses with a gps map incorporated to where all the finest beers are on a particular time , how to get there and whether they have Walkers cheese and onion crisps and not some brand I have only ever seen in a pub

]]> By: Bailey http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23626 Bailey Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:24:36 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23626 Post tomorrow will explain more….

]]> By: Phil http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23625 Phil Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:23:32 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23625 the unfortunately titled Hand-Pulled Beer and Buxom Barmaids

Dear oh dear – what was he thinking of? Or rather, I think I know what he was thinking of, but I wish he hadn’t been.

]]> By: ATJ http://boakandbailey.com/2012/10/hitchhikers-guides-to-the-beerosphere/#comment-23622 ATJ Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:40:30 +0000 http://boakandbailey.com/?p=6055#comment-23622 One of my favourite pub guides is Alan Reeve-Jones’ London Pubs from the early 1960s, completely bonkers.

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