Good Beer Guide

[3] These scores are then reviewed by local volunteers in the spring, who put forward those they consider to serve the best real ale.

After two long stints as editor, Roger Protz announced in autumn 2017 that the Good Beer Guide 2018 would be his last.

[6] Rather than a professionally published volume, it was a collection of sheets of paper stapled together and posted out to CAMRA members.

In a list of the country's brewers, the entry for Watney's consisted of the advice to "Avoid like the plague.

"[8] Concerned that this statement was libellous, the publisher, Waddington's, recalled the first print run and revised the entry to "Avoid at all costs.