History
The guide was first published in 1972, and was just 18 pages long. Rather than a professional published volume, it was a collection of sheets of paper stapled together and posted out to CAMRA members.
The first printed edition was published in 1974, and contained the comment on Watneys brewery: "Avoid like the plague", which generated a lot of media attention and caused the publisher, Waddington, to recall the first print run and revise the description to "Avoid at all costs".
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