CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2020

CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2020 by CAMRA Campaign for Real Ale
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I now know about a lot more beer and good places to drink it in, from Abbots Ann to Zennor and A-B InBev UK to Zymurgorium; they’re all in there. But what the guide does fail to do in most cases is list where you can get these beers. Not everyone wants to buy a firkin, and after all the book is aimed at the consumer. It’s also hard to put a pub crawl together if you don’t know the area. I feel that some basic public transport information should be included rather than whether a bus stops outside or not. And perhaps there should be some clearer criteria indicating whether the pub is in an urban or rural area or a standalone venue. It’s no good setting off for a quiet drink to find that you’re in the middle of a town centre. I’d love to go out and explore these pubs but they’re all shut. And this makes me wonder if some of them won’t open again.

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