On my first trip to the Beacon Hotel in Sedgley I found a visitor from Japan in one of small rooms supplied by the central bar. When I asked him what had brought him to a pub in the English Black Country he held up his glass and said: “Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby mild.” That’s fame for you. A beer brewed on a tiny plant at the back of a pub that has achieved recognition in the Far East. I recalled that meeting last month when Sarah Hughes won Silver in the Champion Beer of Britain competitio...
