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Cask conditioned ale remains popular within the UK, particularly in traditional pubs. In 2019, 420 million pints were sold in the UK, 13.5% of total pint sales. [3] Described as 'Britain's National Drink', cask ale's 'Britishness' is an important factor in its promotion and consumption. [4]
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.
The pub, in 2013. The Maltings is a historic pub on Tanner's Moat in York. The pub opened in 1842 as the Railway Tavern, a short walk from York railway station, which had opened the previous year. The opening of Lendal Bridge nearby increased its trade, although the relocation of York railway station reduced it. In light of these changes, in ...
CAMRA members may join the CAMRA Members' Investment Club which, since 1989, has invested in real ale breweries and pub chains. [20] As of January 2021 the club had over 3,000 members and owned investments worth over £17 million. Although all investors must be CAMRA members, [21] the CAMRA Members' Investment Club is not part of CAMRA Ltd.
A consumer organisation, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), was founded in 1971 to protect unpressurised beer. The group devised the term real ale to differentiate between beer served from the cask and beer served under pressure and to differentiate both from lager. "Ale" now meant a top-fermented beer, not an unhopped beer. CAMRA was to become ...
The term micropub was originally devised by the Campaign for Real Ale, in the 1976 edition of its Good Beer Guide, simply as a description for an unusually small but otherwise traditional pub. Examples of pubs described as such in this era included Manchester's Circus Tavern and The Nutshell in Bury St Edmunds. [ 1 ]
The Grapes is a Grade II listed pub in Eccles, Salford, England. [1]It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [2]It was built in 1903 by Mr. Newton of the architects Hartley, Hacking & Co. [1] A separate pub, also called The Grapes, is located on Church Street approximately 1.3 miles (2.1 km) away.
The pub, which is owned by Mitchells & Butlers, [3] was named Campaign for Real Ale's branch Pub of the Year in 2016. [ 4 ] In 2019, the pub was refurbished, including the addition of a roof terrace and an improvement to the pub's Chapel Street Brew House microbrewing facility, [ 4 ] which was started in 2014. [ 5 ]