Surprised that’s top as have eased off gluten containing beers for a while now including local County Durham rates (which explains why I’m ahead in Herefordshire due to cider ratings)
Don’t think I’ll ever be top of a county again unless I move to the Isle of Wight. Surprised I’m still holding onto number 2 in Cambridgeshire after moving 5 years ago.
I don’t know if anyone else really cares about Northumberland, but I love the place, I think it’s a massively underrated part of the UK. I’m planning to ease up on the beers a bit next year, but we’ll still be holidaying in Amble in the summer.
I sort of gave up on Oxfordshire , Herefordshire and Worcestershire which were the counties that for a long while I was either 1st or 2nd in. I now concentrate solely on Derbyshire, it’s much harder post Brexit but beers from Thornbridge, Pentrich and Buxton do get over here, not always all of the latest offerings but I manage to keep ticking along. My dad lives in Derbyshire as well which is handy for return visits to the UK, however we won’t be coming back next year as we have sold our house in the UK and bought a house over here in Bayern, so will be a bit tied up with moving etc.Still I will try desperately to hold on to Derbyshire, I need one more beer for my 200th Buxton rating and only another 130 or so beers until I hit the 1,000 mark for the county which will be quite an impressive achievement.
Shropshire: @minutemat always makes inroads into my lead every time I go on an extended holiday, he is slowly catching me and we will swap places within a year or two. No one else is in the race really!
