Like other CAMRA members, I regularly score the cask beer I drink using the National Beer Scoring System (NBSS). This isn’t just for my own convenience: venues generally need to score an aver…| Oh Good Ale
For June’s Session, Laura Hadland asked us about The Ultimate Pub Quiz Round. Like the previous topic, this is a subject on which I’ve got too many thoughts rather than too few – hence …| Oh Good Ale
Fell in the street in a drunken heap… For May’s Session, Phil Cook has asked us to consider “the beers and pubs in art and fiction that have grabbed our attention”. I immediately thought, “that’ll be easy – I’ll do beer and pubs in folk”. Immediately after that, however, paralysis hit. What did I mean […]| Oh Good Ale
Mild Magic, Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of mild, is over for another year. Like all these events/challenges, MM involves visiting a certain number of pubs and dr…| Oh Good Ale
Hosting the April Session, Ding says: “I would love people to tell us where they find the greatest value in beer.” He usefully points out that ‘value’ can mean a lot of diff…| Oh Good Ale
This month’s Session is about the best beers we can drink at home right now. Briefly (the end of February crept up on me while I was thinking about something else): this topic ought to be made for me. Ever since I first laid in a couple of 12-packs from Harvey’s, way back in the […]| Oh Good Ale
What’s the best thing to happen in beer since 2018? asks Alan McLeod, relaunching The Session. I’m very much in favour of The Session being revived – it’s good to be reminded of how man…| Oh Good Ale