“The first time I came to stay with you in London you couldn’t wait to buy me a samosa from Pete’s Fish Bar.” The samosa is superior boozing food. Starchy, crunchy, and only mildly spicy, it lines the stomach without knackering the palate. Pubs should sell them as a matter of...
The Good Beer Guide was first published in 1972, the year following the founding of CAMRA, to help drinkers find pubs serving real draught ale, “because the majority of Britain’s brewers have been pursuing a policy of robbing the public of its already limited choice”. That first issue wa...
In some instances the bottling technique included the “insanitary practice of syphoning the beer from cask to bottle by the operator inserting a rubber tube in his mouth and sucking”. “In the light of these discoveries, arrangements were made for a special circular to be issued by the Lic...
Actually, a friend of mine in Edinburgh found a pretty good personal solution. She’s a wee thing who got a few stitches in her arms one night after a drunken local boxer tried to glass a friend of hers. This lassie stepped in and received some minor flesh wounds while using aikido to...