Beer lover visits 12,000 pubs during 55-year UK-wide pub crawl

Rob has been travelling across the country for more than five decades sampling ales in thousands of pubs since 1969.

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00:00Hi, my name's Rob Cockett and last Friday I did my 12,000th pub in Stockton Heath in

00:09Cheshire.

00:10Hi, my name's Rob Cockett, I'm 73 years of age, I'm from Stoke-on-Trent, I follow my

00:22local football club, Stoke City, and because of Stoke City I managed to go to lots of different

00:28pubs all around the country.

00:29I've now clocked up over 12,000 pubs and I'm quite proud of the achievement.

00:34Hopefully I can continue to do this as long as my health manages to be okay and monetary

00:41wise I'm okay, I'll try and pursue my 13,000th pub, even though my wife is not very thrilled

00:47about it, but then again that's just another thing.

00:55Right here is the Good Beer Guide 2025, basically for Canberra, and I religiously follow this

01:01guide.

01:02I've been to over 1,800 pubs in the guide and there's 4,500 pubs in it.

01:08Once I've ticked these pubs off I go and put them into a master file, I have three master

01:12files of all the places that I've been and it's listed alphabetically by county order

01:22along with the address and the beer that I've drank.

01:24As soon as I've been doing it for 55 years I've clocked up over 12,000 pubs.

01:31This page here is Borch and it just so happens to be Newbury, and in there I've been to about

01:3715 pubs in Newbury and there's the list of all the pubs with the addresses and the beer

01:42that I drank.