Well, that's another year done and dusted. How was it for you? Did you drink some good beer? Excellent.
Personally, I was sat there all contendedly like, thinking that 2025 was probably a fairly decent year, beer-wise, but delving into the records I keep, it actually appears far more underwhelming. Disappointing even, which is just what I needed at this time of year. Fuck you, you stupid year!
Unless the spreadsheets are telling lies, I managed 595 new cask ales during the year (about 100 down on 2024) and only five of them scored the 'effective maximum' of 8/9, which, I suppose, means they can all be detailed here without any need to shortlist them, so at least I won't have to remember which were slightly better than the others!
This takes my overall total up to 12,890 since I first starting keeping track, exactly 30 years ago. (Happy beer-ticking anniversary to me! Do I get a Pearl tankard or something?)
I'll try and work out my absolute 'beer of the year' in a moment, but firstly, a few mentions of the - ahem - 'other' stuff...
