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Nov 2022
'Intimate gem' Knaresborough pub wins rare award for beer quality
A pub in Knaresborough Market Place has been recognised for serving high quality real ale for three decades.
Blind Jack's was awarded a certificate by the Campaign for Real Ale last night for 30 years' continuous appearance in the Good Beer Guide.
The guide, produced annually by CAMRA, is the UK’s premier guide to the best beer in the country.
A total of 24 local pubs feature in the recently published 2023 edition. But it is not believed any can match Blind Jack's record of being included every year in the last 30.
Christian Ogley and his wife Alice bought Blind Jack's five years ago from Ian Fozard, the owner of Harrogate brewers Roosters.
Blind Jack's on Market Place
Mr Ogley said only a handful of pubs in the country could match Blind Jack's long-term record for consecutive appearances in the ale drinkers' bible.
He said conditions in the 400-year-old building were ideal for maintaining ale at the right temperature and the pub also kept the quality high by ensuring a high turnover of live cask ales.
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Alun Gauld, chairman of the Harrogate and Ripon branch of CAMRA, presented a certificate to the owners last night. He said:
The certificate presented last night
Mr Gauld said two other Harrogate district pubs had been in the Good Beer Guide regularly for many years — the White Bear in Masham and the One Eyed Rat in Ripon.
But he said he was only sure Blind Jack's had been listed in the publication every year for the last three decades.
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