Hang on a minute - haven't you all forgotten that the Southerners do have some decent ales from the Sheprherd Neme brewery in Kent then you have the Morland brewery in Bury St Edmunds but was originally in Abingdon, Oxon until the company was bought by Greene King a Suffolk based brewer. Oh and I have to say that a pin of Abbot ale by Greene king knocks 7 kinds of shite out of a pintof John Smiths any day of the week - fact
Another fact I was bought up on real ale as I lived in a Davenports pub from the age of 6 -12 and at the age of 7 I was serving customers but that was back in the day. My first pint was a pint of Mild at 7yrs old as my parents said when I was old enough to pull a pint I was old enough to drink 1 so I'm more than qualified to comment on a decent pint of real ale
Another fact I was bought up on real ale as I lived in a Davenports pub from the age of 6 -12 and at the age of 7 I was serving customers but that was back in the day. My first pint was a pint of Mild at 7yrs old as my parents said when I was old enough to pull a pint I was old enough to drink 1 so I'm more than qualified to comment on a decent pint of real ale