Goatee Phil's Beer Blog

  Beer and plenty of it Beers at Yard House, Addison TX   So, was 2021 the year that the hospitality industry recovered from the shitshow caused by Coronavirus or have we learned to live in a permanently compromised world? I suspect the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Life doesn't feel back to normal, and that's assuming that we can agree on what normal is. As I write, we've just emerged from Christmas and whereas last year, in the UK, we were heading for a lockdown, this year a rather surprising reversal is happening. Our government is now resisting calls to  clamp down but people have reacted on their own. A week or so ago I met a friend in the Evening Star , one of Brighton's most popular pubs. On the last Monday before Christmas, a day you would expect pubs to be heaving, it was practically empty. The following day, Charita met friends in the Hobgoblin , another busy Brighton pub, and it was the same story. Teasing the positives out of that disconcerting observ