tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post4808778664946372346..comments2024-01-29T10:16:00.995+00:00Comments on CALLED TO THE BAR : GBG: pub-listing Proustian pornAdrian Tierney-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-53104163874137967342010-09-20T19:54:27.796+01:002010-09-20T19:54:27.796+01:00Paul — I have collections of all sorts of things, ...Paul — I have collections of all sorts of things, and they are in the loft but hoping to get it insulated and boarded up soon so it becomes another study.<br />Steve — think that was Crisp, saw him at the ICA about 1983, a fragile slip of a man.<br />Andy — good to hear from you, you reckon the USMC will bring any craft beer with them…Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-41626425891446234662010-09-19T11:24:05.870+01:002010-09-19T11:24:05.870+01:00Hi Adrian,
Great blog mate. Yep, I am in Helmand! ...Hi Adrian,<br />Great blog mate. Yep, I am in Helmand! <br />Website still up and never say never, gotta pay the bills though!<br />Cheers,<br />AndyBier-Mania!™ Cultural Beer Tourshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04104848036307924399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-49458009225500285592010-09-18T09:40:48.528+01:002010-09-18T09:40:48.528+01:00I work on the principle (I think it’s Quentin Cris...I work on the principle (I think it’s Quentin Crisp’s) that dust doesn’t get any worse after 2 years. I hate friends who call round and pick up one of my glass collection of the dresser to admire and a, leave clean finger marks on it and b, don’t put it back exactly in the clean patch it came from!Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-74363417333609214412010-09-17T20:35:15.920+01:002010-09-17T20:35:15.920+01:00Like Martyn I also have a complete set, including ...Like Martyn I also have a complete set, including a rather tatty original 1974 edition - cover price 75p! Whilst the set is sometimes useful for research purposes, I couldn't really justify the space the guides were taling up on the bookshelves. My wife also, quite rightly, pointed out that they were just gathering dust! They now erside in several boxes, up in the loft.Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-19749965791986563812010-09-17T15:34:00.575+01:002010-09-17T15:34:00.575+01:00Cooking — had enough of that type when I was growi...Cooking — had enough of that type when I was growing up, so well up to speed on it all.<br />Steve — yes, he’s still out there, heard the other month<br />Martyn — I have them going back to the mid 80s and about 10 years of WB in the attic as well, very useful as you say for research.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-42433206851972800822010-09-17T13:07:11.539+01:002010-09-17T13:07:11.539+01:00I have a complete set, after I was complaining to ...I have a complete set, after I was complaining to the father of a friend of my daughter's that I was missing the 1975 and he said: "I think I've got one in the attic …", though admittedly my 1974 is the 20th anniversary reprint rather than an original. I do now use them for historical research - as I do my collection of What's Brewings going back to 1977 …Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-59109245728405324712010-09-17T11:44:56.214+01:002010-09-17T11:44:56.214+01:00I've got the article you wrote for the Beer su...I've got the article you wrote for the Beer supplement of What's Brewing in November 2006 about that tour framed and on the wall by my desk - I'm nothing if not vain!<br />I've been on several tours since, one with Ron Pattinson and Jeff Bell (Stonch). I must get around to visiting the Gunmakers. It's a pity Andy's had to pack the tours in, the last I heard he was surveying in AfghanistanStevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-86096188616025367212010-09-17T11:38:48.758+01:002010-09-17T11:38:48.758+01:00I certainly cannot critisise the lure of familiari...I certainly cannot critisise the lure of familiarity, Ade. The joy of a can of Foster’s in my living room is the warm womb of familiarity. It is just worth noting that for the beer guide following beardy, the only appreciation of our many and diverse modern drinking establishments will come from the binge drinking headlines of our tabloids and not from a personal experience of a lovely ice cold pint of lout in the company of orange ladies and Ben Sherman’d chaps.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-70875365813948396182010-09-17T11:25:55.649+01:002010-09-17T11:25:55.649+01:00Ed — I look back at all my old copies (like Steve ...Ed — I look back at all my old copies (like Steve I have ammassed many from before when I used to buy it regularly) and see lots of interesting stuff<br />Hi Steve, cor that was an exhausting trip wasn’t it?<br />Cooking and what’s wrong with familiarity, though even without the book you can see which pub you should avoid (usually a gaggle of sagging chaps in the rain, fags in hand, the urgent conversation of the truly lush)you can know where to go and not where to.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-5315570225857850332010-09-17T11:10:31.519+01:002010-09-17T11:10:31.519+01:00A sadness of this book, rarely mentioned, is the d...A sadness of this book, rarely mentioned, is the degree to which it ghettoizes (is that real word?) the beardy pong drinkers.<br /><br />By compiling a national peer reviewed guide, the beardy knows where to go in an unfamiliar town and thus is spared "pot luck". The pub the guide directs the beardy to is likely to be acceptable as it fits the agreed criteria of the peer group. However the beardy will never see the full picture of his society. He will never enter the establishments that do not fit into the peer group norms and will never thus understand our fractured and diverse contemporary drinking culture.<br /><br />Maybe the beardy does not want that, preferring the warm womb of familiarity wherever he goes.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-28456417216105653312010-09-17T10:47:34.081+01:002010-09-17T10:47:34.081+01:00Over the years I’ve amassed a collection of 29 GBG...Over the years I’ve amassed a collection of 29 GBGs (30 if you include the 1984 one I lent to friend in 1986 who was going on a contract to the Middle East and wanted some nostalgia to read – I haven’t seen him since). I even have one of the first ones, copyright date 1974, price 75p, 96 pages. Unfortunately it’s not one of the first print run which was withdrawn due to a legal threat because it said of Watneys “Avoid like the plague”. These are as rare as rocking horse droppings and a mint one will set you back quite a few bob. Mine just says of Watneys “Avoid at all costs”.<br /><br />Like Adrian (we met on a Bier-Mania tour once) and Ed I liked the articles in the front too.Stevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-78902342700038166642010-09-16T23:18:53.106+01:002010-09-16T23:18:53.106+01:00I liked the articles in the front too.I liked the articles in the front too.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.com