{"id":5958,"date":"2026-01-26T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:03:11","slug":"tribute-john-hanscomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/tribute-john-hanscomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute &#8211; John Hanscomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2.png 860w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2-768x591.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>John, who died on New Year\u2019s Eve aged 88, was an active campaigner and influential voice in the early days of the Campaign. Some sources also credit John with inventing the term \u2018real ale\u2019. He will however be remembered chiefly as the editor, in 1974, of the first edition of the Good Beer Guide. He secured a place in the annals of CAMRA with his description \u2018Avoid like the plague\u2019 for Watney\u2019s beers. Alas, it was changed when the GBG was reprinted to \u2018Avoid at all costs\u2019 at, I am told, the insistence of the publishers. John\u2019s particular distaste for Watneys was because of their closure of two out of three breweries in Norwich, along many pubs throughout the county. His funeral took place in Watford, close to his home, on 23 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, who died on New Year\u2019s Eve aged 88, was an active campaigner and influential voice in the early days of the Campaign. Some sources also credit John with inventing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5991,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions\/5991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}