As well as a lot of great pubs and a couple of breweries, Salisbury in Wiltshire also boasts one of the finest medieval church Doom paintings in the country. The huge mural at St Thomas’s Church depicts a sort of Biblical apocalypse — a world overrun by devils, dragging people down into Hell.
Of course, there’s something of interest to beer geeks here, too: the ale wife (pub landlady) who faces eternal damnation for her habit of serving short measures.
Why don’t CAMRA make more of this threat in their ‘Take it to the Top’ campaign?