Same as for East Midlands, this is just the total beers from across the counties. This includes Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Rates are only counted if you are in the top 50.
Place
Rater
Total Rates
1
Grumbo
2314
2
madmitch76
1832
3
fonefan
1790
4
imdownthepub
1768
5
mR_fr0g
1378
6
Theydon_Bois
1337
7
harrisoni
1262
8
Leighton
1075
9
cgarvieuk
1006
10
FatPhil
962
11
Beese
955
12
leaparsons
900
13
jjsint
881
14
maeib
876
15
DJMonarch
874
16
oh6gdx
806
17
Rune
796
18
chriso
790
19
Mr_Pink_152
778
20
SHIG
756
21
saxo
741
22
Rasmus40
729
23
allmyvinyl
692
24
ManVsBeer
671
25
AshtonMcCobb
641
26
Ungstrup
628
27
SilkTork
620
28
Fin
617
29
yespr
590
30
Finn
571
31
DruncanVeasey
553
32
Scopey
553
33
BlackHaddock
539
34
berkshirejohn
526
35
Stuu666
523
36
mr_h
490
37
hughie
479
38
downender
464
39
The_Osprey
442
40
Garrat
433
It might not be a surprise but @grumbo is top for this region. What are people top beers and/or breweries for the region?
I have always struggled with some of the counties in this region. But Hertfordshire changed for me with Baron and Crossover. Baron, 9 in the fridge from Brewser. Crossover 1 x 750 in the fridge. I was keeping it for the Birmingham bottle share, but I most people had it at last years event.
It’s dead centre and in terms of railway regional tickets was always in the ‘East Midlands Rover Ticket’ zone. I realise however that it gets Anglia TV, as did Wellingborough Northants, where I finished my schooling … so in that respect Northants is just as much East of England.
I also struggle with Hertfordshire in the bracket … It’s a home county, practically London.
@Mr_Pink_152 is using the official East of England region:
I think that there’s border counties in all the official regions which are debatable, but for our stat purposes it seems sensible to base it on the official ones.
For what it’s worth, my stats for this region are:
Beds 41
Cambs 29
Essex 25
Herts 63
Norfolk 57
Suffolk 139 (my 2nd most rated county).
Total 354
Closer to being in the list than I expected, although my main aim is to turn all the counties darkest blue.
My top rated beers from the region are surprisingly from the regional brewers - Adams/Stone Double IPA, and (very surprisingly) Greene King Strong Suffolk, both on 4.2.
My most rated brewer in the region is also Adams - I’ve always thought they’re the best of the old family brewers.
Top place - Beers of Europe. Visiting in person rather than using their clunky website. Despite being just a bid warehouse, it feels like a cathedral of beer, with people walking round in awe and talking in hushed voices!
I knew this would be a controversial one, due to points made by @Theydon_Bois. I am using the official UK regions and working clockwise (except Greater London, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland as these are regions to themselves so are already listed on RB).
I am thinking of some grand summary at the end (still giving this some thought) unless the regions are to controversial. I will post the next one (South East) some time next week maybe the weekend. I fear this region may be equally as controversial as the East of England.
Like I said, the set shown in the wiki page posted above by Wheres The Path … may as well throw Northamptonshire in
I moved school by about 25 miles when I was 15 from a village south of Leicester to Wellingborough in Northants
Look at Wellingborough on a map
You can’t get much more central to England
We got crappy Anglia TV much to my dismay … it was dull as ditchwater compared to Central
6 o’clock news was just parochial nonsense about someone in Norwich whose cat was stuck up a tree … may as well have put Alan Partridge’s Mumbling at Midnight slot on !
Quite an interesting one this, I now live on the Herts/Bucks/Grtr London boundary which is on the extreme SW corner of that map and there is absolutely no way I would consider it as the east of England (it’s more outer western suburbs of London). I can see some maps counting Herts as the east of England and some not. My TV is all London.
My Mum lives between Northampton and Milton Keynes and that area has Anglia TV, it’s almost no mans land around there, not east/south or Midlands.
