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CAMRA logo on a bar towel First National CAMRA Beer Festival held at Covent Garden, London, 1975. The organisation was founded on 16 March 1971 in Kruger's Bar, Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, [2] [3] by Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin, and Bill Mellor, who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.
The 2010 edition of the Good Beer Guide showed that there were more than 700 real-ale brewers in the UK at the time of publication — the highest number since the Second World War and four times as many since the founding of Camra. Iain Loe, a spokesman for Camra, explained a preference for moderate alcohol levels and a perception that real ...
The Good Beer Guide also includes a list of real ale breweries in the United Kingdom, with lists and tasting notes on their beers. After two long stints as editor, Roger Protz announced in autumn 2017 that the Good Beer Guide 2018 would be his last. [4] CAMRA stated that from 2019 the Guide would carry the name of the managing editor.
Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for ale that is "brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide".
A year later CAMRA announced that 'Micropubs leading the way for better beer as new research shows 70% of pubs now serve real ale'. There being 53,444 pubs in the UK, of which 37,356 serve real ale. [12] Much of the growth in microbreweries can be put down to reductions in Excise Duty, an idea which began in 2002. Currently, a single producer ...
Beer in England pre-dates other alcoholic drinks produced in England, and has been brewed continuously since prehistoric times. [1] As a beer brewing country, England is known for its top fermented cask beer (also called real ale) which finishes maturing in the cellar of the pub rather than at the brewery and is served with only natural ...
A glass of real ale from an English pub. Ale is a style of beer, brewed using a warm fermentation method. [1] [2] In medieval England, the term referred to a drink brewed without hops. [3] As with most beers, ale typically has a bittering agent to balance the malt and act as a preservative.
The North TransPennine Ale Trail from Stalybridge to Batley features 9 Real Ale pubs, all of which located within short walking distance from the stations. [10] This trail was featured on the BBC2 programme, Oz and James Drink to Britain. In 2013 the trail impacted national headlines after the trail was hijacked by stag/hen dos and people in ...