A beer-lover is celebrating visiting his 12,000th boozer following an epic pub crawl across the UK lasting 55 YEARS.
Rob Cocker, 73, has been travelling across the country for more than five decades sampling ales in tens of thousands of pubs since 1969.
The dad-of-one decided to just "see what else was out there" after getting bored of visiting his local in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., at the age of 18.
Since then, he has caught buses and trains as well as hitched lifts with pals to have a "quick half" in pubs from Oban, Scotland to Land's End, in Cornwall.
Rob Cocker, 73, has been travelling across the country for more than five decades sampling ales in tens of thousands of pubs since 1969.
The dad-of-one decided to just "see what else was out there" after getting bored of visiting his local in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., at the age of 18.
Since then, he has caught buses and trains as well as hitched lifts with pals to have a "quick half" in pubs from Oban, Scotland to Land's End, in Cornwall.
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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.