CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is a voluntary consumer organization based in St Albans, England. It focuses on promoting real ale, cider, perry, and traditional British pubs and clubs. With nearly 150,000 members, CAMRA is the largest consumer group in the UK dedicated to a single issue. It also plays a key role as a founding member of the European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU).

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Hard cheese for UK brewers

3 weeks ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Roger Protz

1 minute ago I arrived at Round Corner Brewing in Melton Mowbray on the day another small independent brewery had pulled down the shutters. Northern Alchemy in Newcastle said it had called in the administrators as it was overwhelmed by the rising costs of making beer. It’s a sadly familiar story and I wondered whether Round Corner would still be operating in the town’s historic cattle market.
Beer’s man of letters

3 weeks ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Roger Protz

1 minute ago Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Martyn Cornell, beer writer and acclaimed brewing historian, has died suddenly at the age of 72 on the eve of the publication of his major study of the history of porter and stout. Martyn had an international audience for his work. His books Beer: The Story of the Pint and Amber, Gold and Black, were translated into Italian, German, Danish and Spanish.
K A passionate advocate for cask ale

4 weeks ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Roger Protz

3 minutes ago Ken Don, who has died aged 80, was a passionate brewer of traditional beer who also played an important role in saving Maris Otter, considered the finest British malting barley. He spent most of career at Youngâ€™s, the revered brewery in Wandsworth, South London, which kept the flag flying for cask ale at a time when the industry was switching to keg beer and lager.
In a gadda da vida

1 month ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Laura Hadland

2 minutes ago As I write these words, the sky outside my window is the most vivid shade of blue. There is a handful of the laziest, fluffy clouds you can imagine floating wistfully by. I think we can all agree that spring has been kind this year. The April showers forgot us almost entirely, with just 51 per cent of the long-term average rainfall being reported last month. With sunny, dry days comes one unavoidable urge. The visceral need to down tools and head to the nearest beer garden.
Campaigners save iconic beer

1 month ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Roger Protz

5 minutes ago Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Draught Bass, a legendary Burton pale ale, has been saved from oblivion thanks to tireless campaigning by lovers of the beer. At its peak, Draught Bass, brewed in Burton-on-Trent, accounted for close to a million barrels a year and was the biggest-selling premium cask beer in the country.
Standing up for what’s right

1 month ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Matthew Curtis

2 minutes ago Introduced in May 1988 by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, Section 28 is a piece of legislation that is now, thankfully, consigned to the dustbin of history. Part of the Local Government Act of the same year, it sought to “not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship”.
Make mine mixed on VE day

1 month ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Roger Protz

5 minutes ago It’s good news for our beleaguered pubs that they will be able to stay open until one in the morning on 8 May as the country celebrates VE Day – the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. As we raise a glass to mark the day, it is fascinating to look back and see what both pubs and beer were like at the time. Today pubs are awash with many styles of beer, from golden lager to black stout, with IPA, pale ale, wheat beer and golden ale in between.
Generation game

1 month ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Laura Hadland

5 minutes ago A couple of weeks ago my phone pinged as a press release dropped into my inbox. It told me the story of Steve Birch, the head brewer of Mauldons brewery in Sudbury, who has crafted his 25 millionth pint this month. The weird thing was, when I opened that email, I was with Steve taking a look around the brewery. Steve is a modest and immediately likeable man whose fierce loyalty to Mauldons and intense passion for cask beer shines through from the moment you meet him.
Easter beer brownie

2 months ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Christian Gott

3 minutes ago Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description This recipe’s inspiration is Easter and if, like me, you have school-aged children and a house full of chocolate. Dark chocolate is a key flavour you get from heavily toasted malts and is easily identifiable when you drink a stout. It is no surprise then that stout and dark chocolate is a classic pairing.
Community Pub Ownership bulletin - April

2 months ago | wb.camra.org.uk | Matthew Curtis |Roger Protz |Laura Hadland

2 minutes ago Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description This is the first of a new quarterly bulletin about community-owned pubs. For more information, the community pubs webpage of CAMRA’s website contains advice and guidance as well as regularly updated information about both existing and planned community pubs. Pubs are going through a tough time, and reports of them struggling or closing are all too common.