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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 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]
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 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 ...
Cask ale handpumps. Beer has been brewed in England for thousands of years. As a beer brewing country, it is known for 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 carbonation.
Some pub chains in the UK adopt the same or similar names for many pubs as a means of brand expression. Examples include "The Moon Under Water", commonly used by the JD Wetherspoon chain (and inspired by George Orwell 's 1946 essay in the Evening Standard , " The Moon Under Water "), and the "Tap and Spile" brand name used by the now defunct ...
CAMRA members may join the CAMRA Members' Investment Club which, since 1989, has invested in real ale breweries and pub chains. [21] 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, [22] the CAMRA Members' Investment Club is not part of CAMRA Ltd.
Hook Norton Brewery is one of the last surviving Victorian breweries in the UK. (April 2006). The Marble Arch Inn, home of the Marble Brewery in Manchester Kelham Island Brewery in Sheffield Firkins outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham A 19th-century poster for Phipps India Pale Ale (IPA) showing the Northampton Brewery on Bridge Street, now the site of Carlsberg UK Skinner's ...