Brighton Hip City
Brighton and Hove Beer Week How many seagulls has Seattle got, eh? Brighton and Hove Beer Week organiser Emma Inch got it spot on in her publicity when she said that if you were to design a beer town it would probably be like Brighton. It's just a cool place, so cool in fact that it was voted the #1 Hipster city in the world on the CNBC business media website, beating the likes of Seattle, Portland and Lisbon. I've lived here for twenty years and I wouldn't live anywhere else (well, maybe New Orleans if the US ever gets universal healthcare). We've got more record shops than you can shake a stick at, more theatres, tattoo parlours, guitars, beards and weird shops by the street-full. Plus we've got the beach. We also have the bars and the pubs and so many of them are so good that I have trouble on a regular basis deciding where to go for a beer. So why not, thought Emma, organise a festival involving as many great pubs as possible? Actually, she wasn&#