20 APRIL 1962, Page 16

DRAUGHT BEER SIR,—Mr. Austin Lee knows precisely what sort of

draught beer is 'served in the majority of public houses.' There are 70,000 pubs in England and

Wales. Allowing half an hour for visiting each one, he could, at a pinch, have had a drink at sixteen to eighteen of them in an average day. So he must have spent the last six years in travelling and sampling to find out what draught beer was on sale in most pubs. (It was not more than six years ago that the beer he is describing was introduced.) At the end of it all, after drinking not fewer than 17,5004 pints, he produces one of the most amusing letters ever published in the Spectator, What ex- cellent beer it must have been!

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