The mission

Just how many pubs are there in Brighton? I was thinking about this yesterday and vaguely recalled hearing at some point that there were over 300, or nearly enough to be able to drink in a different establishment every day of the year. So I decided to check online and I was wrong, apparently there are over 900 pubs in Brighton, ranging from traditional 'locals' to trendy pre-club bars. This led me to wondering how many of these I had actually drank in myself and the answer, particularly as I have lived in Brighton all my adult life, is relatively few. Maybe this is not so surprising, given that myself and the word 'trendy' rarely appear in the same sentence and like most people I discovered my favourite pubs long ago and see drinking in a different one as a bit too adventurous for the likes of me. But 900 is a huge amount for such a small city, what if by limiting myself to the usual haunts I am missing out on some hidden gems? So I've decided to put a plan in to action that I have been kicking around for a couple of years and have a drink in every one of Brighton's 900 pubs, be they trendy, local, gay (gulp) or a complete shithole and then I'm going to write a review of the pub. Obviously this can't be accomplished all on one night, this would leave me requiring medical attention before I'd barely completed 1% of the mission. Even the idea of having a pint in a different pub every night of the week is impractical, given my lack of financial clout and the fact that I'm (allegedly) in training to run two marathons next year. Even if I were by some miracle able to pull this off then it would still take me nearly two and a half years, longer considering  that new drinking establishments seem to spring up with alarming frequency. So there will be no timescale and no rules. As I say, I've been in Brighton all my adult life and as there appears no real sign of this changing in the near future I can complete this mission at my leisure. In doing so I hope to compile a helpful dossier on Brighton pubs that people might like to read. Whether they then choose to disregard my (honest!) observations is up to them. And if by chance any bar staff get to hear of my mission then I'll let it be known now that a favourable review will only cost you a free pint. Maybe I'm kidding myself and the only one who'll end up reading my reviews is myself? What the hell, I'll have fun doing it....I think. All this thinking, I need a drink.