Goatee Phil presents the Goatee Awards 2018
The Goatee Awards 2018 The Brewery Shades , Crawley - an excellent selection of ales, as always If you're a beer drinker, I'm not sure there's been a better time to be alive. Thanks to the impact of the craft beer revolution there are now more microbreweries in the UK than there have ever been. You might suppose that at some point we will reach critical mass, and the market will start to shrink, but there's no sign of it happening yet. On the down side, this was the year in which the torchbearers for good beer, CAMRA , failed to pass a motion at their AGM which would have enshrined their support for ALL good beer, not just the cask ale that they had always championed. This may not turn out to be that significant, or especially damaging, but at a time when cask sales are dropping CAMRA's credibility has taken a damaging hit. Let's hope that it isn't fatal, for them or for cask. My 2018, beer-wise, has definitely been memorable. Trips to German