2025

I recently created some software which analyses my pub database and reports on statistics, so let's have a look...

In 2025 I logged 258 pub visits.  This does not include pubs I regularly drink in, because I don't record them in the database.

Of those 258 visits, 206 were "required" (I.E. I hadn't been there in the preceding five years), just over the target of 200.  A remarkable 68 of those were to places never before visited, a mixture of brand new operations and newly-discovered older ones - That's the highest number since 2018.

In the last five years I have used 949 pubs, a little shy of the target I have set myself of one thousand.  I'm going to blame that on the lockdowns that continued into 2021 - Only four pubs visited in the first four months.

Moving on to the grand totals for the twenty-seven years I have been doing this, there are 2,090 pubs in my database, of which I have drunk in 1,586.  926 locations are now recorded as no longer operational, and experience shows there will be more that have closed but I haven't found out yet.  Sometimes it's only when I get to the door!

What's in the future?  More of the same, I think; in 2026 I will again aim for 200 "required" visits and I am hoping to get the five year figure closer to a thousand.  A trip to the new Everton stadium on a match day should net me a few new ones to get things going.  I can see 1,600 pubs visited coming fairly soon as well, only fourteen more needed.

In conclusion, may I wish a Happy New Year to all my readers.  I'll see you here or, even better, in a pub in 2026.