tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post8448547750085090994..comments2024-03-26T09:19:10.810+00:00Comments on BRAPA (British Real Ale Pub Adventure): BRAPA Special - Campaign for a Smaller Good Beer GuideSi 'BRAPA' Everitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-22494410355452721562016-09-07T22:22:18.106+01:002016-09-07T22:22:18.106+01:00Thanks Alexander, I will definitely send an email....Thanks Alexander, I will definitely send an email. <br /><br />I guess you can't please everyone but think there is a strong case for bringing it down from 1,000 to 700 pages by removing the breweries section which could perhaps be reserved for the online edition.<br /><br />Harder to limit the number of words, I like the mystery of a briefer cryptic one liner, but I guess for most, the more info the better! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-87995861105709559572016-09-07T17:29:05.634+01:002016-09-07T17:29:05.634+01:00There's no need to talk at the members' we...There's no need to talk at the members' weekend, or get any motions passed. Instead, please send your ideas to me!<br /><br />I'd be very grateful for people to email me their ideas about how to improve the Guide. They will all get considered.<br /><br />The GBG Pub description length was increased as people had written in and asked for more information on pubs!<br /><br />Alexander Wright<br />National Director – Publishing<br />Campaign For Real Ale<br /><br />alexander.wright@camra.org.ukAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-76226433420305966952016-07-25T17:09:06.051+01:002016-07-25T17:09:06.051+01:00Well the GBG description idea was always a bit of ...Well the GBG description idea was always a bit of a pipe dream (sadly for me). But it does beg the question when it changed from one liner to huge paragraph and why. <br /><br />I looked at a 2012 one on Saturday, even this was only 800 pages so it seems to be growing arms n legs! But 2041, who knows what I will be lugging around? <br /><br />Yes, they could just have brewery, address, whether they do tours and leave it at that. Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-18450084929138373852016-07-25T08:29:10.500+01:002016-07-25T08:29:10.500+01:00Realistically I think people these days expect mor...Realistically I think people these days expect more than a pithy one line description of the pubs in the GBG (or any guide for that matter) so that idea's a complete non-starter. <br /><br />It's the brewery section that's got out of hand really. When the GBG first came out the idea of listing all of the breweries and their core range beers (mind you back then they really only had a core range) was a good one. However in recent years it's all got out of hand. I think there should be an on-line brewery guide and the brewery section in the GBG reduced to about a one or two line entry for each brewery. That would certainly chop out about 250 pages and make it much more manageable.John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-83633931903217866352016-07-22T21:32:17.243+01:002016-07-22T21:32:17.243+01:00It's six months, actually, although you would ...It's six months, actually, although you would think with electronic publishing the timescale could be shortened from when it was all done on bits of paper.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-59273232851049112782016-07-22T21:24:42.758+01:002016-07-22T21:24:42.758+01:00Please may I enquire as to what my outstanding deb...Please may I enquire as to what my outstanding debts are? I have a personal policy of not entering debt. If I pay off whatever these debts are do I become eligible for a prize? Is interest applied? Are the bailiffs likely to come knocking?<br /><br />I think I may have got the name of the directory wrong in my head, either that or it has been renamed. On the subject, can we get rid of the tasting notes, or reduce them to be just style and points of note, with a brief summary, something like:<br />Peacock's Best Fowl - bitter, variable standardTom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-76696661405644563722016-07-22T20:30:24.167+01:002016-07-22T20:30:24.167+01:00An even more difficult Shropshire pub? Crikey. Y...An even more difficult Shropshire pub? Crikey. Yes good point Reidy on the whole "entries decided a year or so before GBG comes out" issue. Never understood that, surely it's in CAMRA's interests to keep it as current as possible.Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-76433428618648420422016-07-22T20:28:20.593+01:002016-07-22T20:28:20.593+01:00Well done Tom, you win. Sadly, you don't qual...Well done Tom, you win. Sadly, you don't qualify for a prize due to outstanding prediction league debts but very well deduced! <br /><br />I nearly mentioned the early articles bit but as it's not too many pages, thought it might be a bit churlish. But yes, they belong in magazines and you might know I have renumbered the pages in the way you say.<br /><br />I think the beers are listed under the brewery section so one and the same, but there is an additional 'directory' with the beers in alphabetical order, also pointless.<br />Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-25509357720516940162016-07-22T08:44:22.784+01:002016-07-22T08:44:22.784+01:00It's the hidden depths you need to worry about...It's the hidden depths you need to worry about most, so make sure you wipe properlyReidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001359551498303655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-42799153090171209182016-07-22T08:35:26.767+01:002016-07-22T08:35:26.767+01:00It took me 35 years, and the reviva of interest in...It took me 35 years, and the reviva of interest in the Tour de France, to understand the lyrics to Anita Ward's 1979 chart-topper. I've only just got the bit in Paragraph 1 about wiping your bottom. Such hidden depths.retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-20546505036794177192016-07-21T18:20:28.678+01:002016-07-21T18:20:28.678+01:00You are talking about the mythical pub in the bowe...You are talking about the mythical pub in the bowels of Stiperstones rather than the Anchor, Anchor I hope !retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-71771671010634469512016-07-21T11:35:22.000+01:002016-07-21T11:35:22.000+01:00Works for me, would be easier to put together for ...Works for me, would be easier to put together for a start, time to print would be shorter and it might be almost current by the time it came out. BTW, I've been to that pub in Shropshire, and it was good. But it's only open every other Tuesday evening, during the summer.Reidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17001359551498303655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-38596190790807206602016-07-21T08:53:36.856+01:002016-07-21T08:53:36.856+01:00Got my vote.Got my vote.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-81204508123737926862016-07-21T08:47:25.044+01:002016-07-21T08:47:25.044+01:00Agreed - I'll vote for your motion!Agreed - I'll vote for your motion!Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-39156738006505016732016-07-20T23:45:19.066+01:002016-07-20T23:45:19.066+01:001h
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I don't know who J...1h<br />2i<br />3g<br />4f<br />5e<br />6a<br />7b<br />8c<br />9d<br /><br />I don't know who Jeremy Kyle or Jade Goody are so a is a struggle, I have used a bit of elimination (ie I answered all of the questions and was left with a pub and a description).<br /><br />I think the most pointless part of the GBG is the section before Bedfordshire, which is primarily magazine articles that for some reason are in the book. The inside from cover should be a key to the symbols, page 1 should be Ampthill onwards.<br /><br />Whilst in a good beer guide it is logical to show a list of the real ales, I don't understand the need to have both a breweries section and a beers section. These could easily be merged.<br /><br />Being a Good Beer Guide, my opinion is that all places that serve good beer should be included, however if somewhere refuses to allow CAMRA members to check this then their beer is unverifiable so they can't possibly go in.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-37818769867626026022016-07-20T23:03:36.149+01:002016-07-20T23:03:36.149+01:00Quite brilliant, which you can take two ways.
I&#...Quite brilliant, which you can take two ways.<br /><br />I'm still working on the quiz, think Penistone RBL is the pretentious toss house. Clues would help.retiredmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15429804437739227082noreply@blogger.com