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First edition in 1974. The content of the Guide is decided upon by volunteers in CAMRA's local branches. [2] Throughout the preceding year, CAMRA members anonymously rate the quality of the cellarmanship of beer in venues using CAMRA's National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) through either WhatPub or the Good Beer Guide app. [3] These scores are then reviewed by local volunteers in the spring, who ...
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 ...
Scottish brewing reached a peak of 280 breweries in 1840. The merger of breweries led to changes, the higher hop content of some of the beers allowed them to travel better than previous products thus creating a higher quality product for export. [2] Edinburgh and Alloa in particular became noted centres for the export of beer around the world ...
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 ...
This is the UK's largest beer festival, with over 900 beers, ciders and perries available over the week long event. For many years, CAMRA also organised the National Winter Ales Festival. However, in 2017 this was re-branded as the Great British Beer Festival Winter where they award the Champion Winter Beer of Britain. Unlike the Great British ...
The growth in microbreweries in the UK led CAMRA to announce in September 2014 that 'Britain now has more breweries per person than anywhere in the World after two years of continued growth'. [11] A year later CAMRA announced that 'Micropubs leading the way for better beer as new research shows 70% of pubs now serve real ale'.
Jeff Evans was born 1960 in South Wales and studied languages at the University of Reading.He has been writing professionally about beer since the 1980s. He became editor of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s Good Beer Guide in 1990 and was responsible for eight editions of the Guide (1991–1998).
Roger Protz at the Great British Beer Festival 2006. Roger Protz (born 5 February 1939) is a British writer, journalist and campaigner. He joined the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 1976 and has written several books on beer and pubs. Between 1978 and 1983 and from 2000 to 2018 he was the editor of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide.