CAMRA London Drinker Feb/Mar 2020
When veteran beard wearer Roger Protz was Editor of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide I used to lobby him, as organiser of the Beard Liberation Front, to carry a ‘beard friendly’ symbol for pubs in the Guide.
In summary we could never quite agree on what the criteria should be. Clearly one was that the pub should have hirsute drinkers. Another was that this was a sign that it was open and friendly to all.
The 2020 winner of the Beard Friendly Pub of the Year, the Bumble Inn in Peterborough admirably fulfills both criteria (& rightly is in the 2020 Good Beer Guide).
I was pleased to see recognition of the point in one of CAMRA’s most long running magazine’s therefore. There is more coverage in the latest issue of the Peterborough CAMRA magazine which I’ll post on seperately.
For the moment we can just celebrate that at last CAMRA has embraced the concept of the Beard Friendly Pub
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