A world expert on ancient fermented beverages, McGovern was perhaps an unlikely ambassador for prehistoric booze: Dr Pat, as he was known, sported an excessively bushy beard, a thatch of white hair, an array of cardigans and large wire spectacles. He was proper and polite, the epitome of the respectable professor.
It’s every Camra member ever, isn’t it?
I work with one.
He’s a lovely bloke but he is the absolute stereotype. 🙂
“Double Science” on Radio 4 Extra. 🙂
There is credible evidence that the end of the hunter-gatherer epoch and to agriculture was the discovery of brewing beer.
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” — Benjamin Franklin
When I was briefly a CAMRA member, long time ago, I used to get What’s Brewing and they would always try and get photos of women, and so forth. “It’s not just for beardy blokes”. Then you’d go to a beer festival and there were loads of beardy blokes.
I consider CAMRA to be a menace now.