Stop the year, I want to get off - the best of 2020
Goatee Phil picks his best from a COVID-riddled year Well, you don't need me to tell you what a shit year this has been. I guess we have learnt a lot about ourselves. Maybe the biggest lesson is that we all have routines and there's nothing more irritating than having your routines upended. We now have to rethink everything. All that we do, even the consumption of beer - where we buy it, where we drink it and its place in the scheme of things - is up for renegotiation. But in spite of all the disruption, all the trauma, there are some constants. Beer is still one, thankfully, and my guess is that most of my "best of"s would have been the same had 2020 been the same as 2019. I guess we'll never know though, eh? Best Pub: The Foghorn (Portslade) Runners-up : Watchmakers Arms (Hove), Brighton Bier Haus (Brighton), Brunswick (Hove) Best pub again? Of course it is. Granted, I haven't visited nearly as many pubs this year as I would normally do but I do know