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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 ...
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, [1] [2] 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.
Broughton Ales beer range. This is a list of breweries in Scotland. Beer has been produced in Scotland for approximately 5,000 years. [1] The Celtic tradition of using bittering herbs remained in Scotland longer than the rest of Europe. Most breweries developed in the Central Lowlands, which also contained the main centres of population ...
It does not pressurize the beer like typical of keg beer. Before 2018, CAMRA refused to regard a cask ale kept "fresh" by cask breather as real ale. In 2018, this policy was changed, allowing pubs using cask breathers to be listed in the Good Beer Guide. [2]
The National Pub of the Year is an annual competition held by CAMRA, the winner of which is announced in the February of the year following that in which the competition is run, that finds the best pub in the UK. Established in 1988, the competition helps to highlight quality pubs around the UK that are worth seeking out and visiting.
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.
Jennings Bitter (3.5% abv) - The original beer from the Jennings brewery in Cockermouth and the brewery's biggest seller in west Cumbria; since May 2019 this is now called Night Vision. Seasonal Ales: Red Breast (4.5% abv Dec 2014 and Dec 2015) - Named from a line in The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly by William Wordsworth, who was born in ...
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).