23 MARCH 1962, Page 15

DRAUGHT BEER was sorry no one took up the letter

you published about the appalling quality of so much draught beer. It would have been interesting to sec what sort of defence could be put forward for the gassed-up pasteurised dill-water which is served in the majority of public houses.

But there is such a thing as nemesis, or poetic justice, or even. 1 venture to think, divine retribution. I passed a brewery lorry yesterday belonging to the company which has bought up so many of the decent old inns of north Lincolnshire and stopped them selling Worthington E. It was bearing a new Grimsby registration, and the registration letters are PEE.

AUSTIN LEE

Willoughby Rectory, Alford, Lincolnshire