A beer-mad grandad who has visited more than 50,000 British pubs to smash the Guinness World Record claims Manchester's Cask has served up 'the best pint in the UK'.
But there's a problem. Nobody can remember what it was.
Bruce Masters, 74, began his pub-crawling hobby aged 16 with a pint costing one shilling in his hometown of Hertford.
He has visited 51,695 UK pubs earning him a Guinness World Record in 1994 which he has proudly defended ever since - despite protests from his 'nagging' daughters, who want him to slow down.
Bruce, from Flitwick, Bedfordshire, said: "My favourite beer has to be the ones I tasted in Cask, Manchester, last week.
"But I of course enjoy my local when I'm down south which is The Swan in Flitwick.
"It's awfully hard to say where my favourite pub is because I'll visit one every couple of weeks that I think is a great one."
Matthew Ashcraft, manager of Cask, said: "Bruce was a lovely chap. It's quite an achievement.
"We're glad he liked the beer. It's just a shame I can't remember what he was drinking because our casks are changing all the time!"
He believes his epic pub crawl which include 843 pubs in Manchester itself, have kept him young.
First visiting the city in 1978, he tested out The Old Nag's Head, on Jacksons Row, in the city centre, along with Piccadilly Tavern, The Rising Sun and Grey Horse Inn.
Over the last five decades Bruce reckons he spent around £120,000 - almost as much as three Porsche 718 Caymans.
Racking up a gut-busting 1,000 pubs each year, Bruce says he plans to reach 100 and hopes to 'keep going forever' and believes the travel and socialising helps him stay sharp.
Bruce said: "When I ask people how old they think I am they're always about 14 years out. "
It must be the good effect of beer - the preservatives.
"I'm planning to be a centenarian anyway so I can't imagine how many pubs I'll have visited by then - I'm hoping to never stop.
"Some people my age aren't able to get around as much, but I walk quite a lot when I'm out and about so that keeps me active too.
"My daughters do nag me sometimes and say 'Dad, don't you think it's time you slowed down a bit!' "I say 'no way!' I plan to just keep going forever - who knows what number I could get up to.
"The general public are always completely surprised and wish they could come along."
In 1960, aged just 15, Bruce visited pubs after school with friends which is where he truly found his love of beer.
But it wasn't until 1971, when he was working in London that he really began to 'blitz' the pubs and set an aim of visiting all the pubs in the Capital.
Bruce said: "My first pub visit was the week before my 16th birthday - one or two of the publicans weren't too particular [about the law] and they were known to local schoolboys.
"As an underage drinker buying my own pints, I went for the cheapest at one shilling a pint and I thought 'this is an acquired taste'.
"But when I first tasted beer rather before the age of 16 I liked it. I think my first taste would have been a sip of my dad's brown ale.
"I originally started counting in 1971 and I remembered the ones I'd done from 1960.
"The idea [of visiting as many pubs as possible] occurred to me when, funnily enough, I was sitting in a pub.
"I decided that would be my hobby there and then - not many girls are attracted to steam engines, after all.
"I was working for British Rail and after work I'd go and blitz a few areas of London. "Being in London, where there are around 6,000 pubs, I decided I wanted to to try them all."
After being made redundant more than 20 years ago, Bruce dedicated more of his spare time travelling to several locations per week - with other pensioners, or alone. Bruce said: "I've been on my pub finding mission ever since.
"I've been averaging, apart from when I was blitzing London, around 1,000 a year - so around 20 pubs per week.
"And I usually spend around £40 a week on beer - give or take - and I'll only have half a pint at each place. "I do try to avoid visiting a pub twice, even if I love it.
"It tends to be like trainspotting - once you've done one you don't tend to be back. I want to bump the numbers up all the time.
"And it's impossible to say what attracts me to pubs. The beer has to be good, of course, but I always pay special attention to the welcome behind the bar.
"I also place importance on the condition of the toilets - you spend a lot of time in there if you've been drinking.
"Pubs have diversified over the past years. You have Premier Inns with bars, American diners, micro pubs.
"Some of the leisure parks have around 10 bars and it can take all day to get around those.
"No-one knows how many pubs there are in the UK for sure - places are opening and closing every day."
While Bruce is often kept busy looking after his two grandchildren - aged eight and two - he has no problem leaving them at home with his wife to pursue a new 'watering hole'.
And although his wife prefers to catch up on soaps than visiting rowdy pubs, Bruce claims he's only ever seen one fight in 59 years.
Bruce said: "My wife is completely disinterested in my hobby. She doesn't want anything to do with it at all.
"She comes from Botswana and when I went over there there weren't many pubs over there.
"She just doesn't like coming on pub crawls with me - she prefers Coronation Street and a glass of wine.
"I have a following of friends who sometimes join me on my trips, but I don't mind going alone either.
"You meet so many interesting people out and about and the British pub is a great place for overcoming the British reserve.
"The British pub is a very safe place.
"I've only seen one fight and that was in 1973 in Newcastle - that pub's closed down now.
"I was walking past the door and there were bar stools, ash trays and glasses flying around.
"I thought 'I mustn't go in there'. I've never seen any trouble since."
BRUCE'S TOP FIVE PUBS IN THE UK
1. The Unicorn, Hertford, Hertfordshire (closed in 1984) - One of his favourite early pubs, visited aged 15.
2. The Swan, Flitwick, Bedfordshire - His local, one of the few pubs he visits more than once.
3. The Kings Arms, now renamed The Lady Ottoline, Holborn, London - His favourite pub from his time in London.
4. The Two Chimneys, Luton - The friendliest welcome.
5. CASK, Manchester - Some of the best beer on offer.
