So the BBC’s headline today is that even moderate drinking is bad for you. Yet a quick search of their website yields two stories; one entitled ‘Beer may be good for you‘ and another ‘Litre of beer is good for you‘. A google search brings up many, many articles on the benfits of moderate alcohol intake. Scare stories like this – especially about ‘binge’ drinking – appear in the media on an almost daily basis. Just go away and leave …
BPoD claimed.
Mr Simon Dawson claimed the first BPoD on Saturday. He then gave the £150 prize money to our chosen charity, Beaumond House Community Hospice. Nice gesture. The next competition should be up and running by this weekend.
In the National press again!
After last week’s feature in the Independent, JBs gets a mention in today’s Daily Mail, p15.
Don’t forget comedy night!
JB’s first comedy night and Jokeaoke is tomorrow evening, starting at 8pm. What’s a Jokeaoke? It’s a Karoke but with jokes instead of songs. Simples! Come and have a go, if you think you’re daft enough!
JB hosts Radio Nott’m pub quiz.
Just Beer media whore Tapster Dunc read out the questions for Radio Nottingham’s Friday evening pub quiz last night. You can hear the questions here.
We got Gruftoned!
We got visted by the Grufton guys last weekend. You can see their pictures here. Thanks guys, it was nice to meet you.
Another review.
We were visited by Hinckley & Bosworth CAMRA on Saturday as part of their visit to the Newark Beer Festival. They gave us a nice mention on their web site here. Nice to meet you, guys. Come back soon!
What a day!
Wow! What a day we had yesterday! Thanks to the Newark Beer Festival being run in town, we had loads of new visitors from all over the area and the pub was heaving all day. When the festival ran dry five hours early (well done to them) it seemed like everyone converged on the pubs of Newark to satisfy their thirst for real ale. We at JB got through nine beers in one day and the Blue Monkey Guerrilla lasted …