Hello, everyone, Matt, your Pub Of The Year co-ordinator here. Nobody could have predicted, 2 years ago, what would unfold on a global scale, nor the impact events would have on things like our annual Pub Of The Year competition. As has already been well-publicised, we could not hold the competition last year, so it was decided to carry over the winner for 2020, The Lion Tavern on Moorfields, as the winner for 2021 also.
I thought the latest edition of MerseyAle (our first physical, rather than online-only, copy for a while) would be an ideal opportunity to remind you of the procedure for deciding upon our branch Pub Of The Year for 2022- will Dave and the team in the Lion retain the title they won in 2020, or will it be someone else’s turn, this time around?
As some of you may remember, the current system was agreed at an EGM which was held in October 2018, and is as follows: