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Sunderland brewer marks football milestone
Sunderland brewer marks football milestone Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description On this day in 1973, Sunderland Football Club of the then Second Division defeated the mighty Leeds United 1-0 in the FA Cup final. To mark the 50th anniversary of this event, Sunderland brewery Maxim has released a special pump clip for its Lambton’s cask ale.
Sunderland pub celebrates three decades in top guide
Sunderland pub celebrates three decades in top guide Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description The launch of the 2023 Good Beer Guide prompted Sunderland & South Tyneside CAMRA branch to mark the remarkable achievement of one of its pubs which notched up its 30th listing.
South Shields pub’s charity support honoured
South Shields pub’s charity support honoured Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Multiple award winner, the Steamboat in South Shields, has another gong to add to its collection as it became the first to be honoured by the local branch’s 2022 Community Pub Scheme. The nomination came from branch member and musician Robin Sanderson for: “Free use of room for a number of musical events and for fundraising events for a number of charities.”...
UK pub’s colour bar revealed
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Beer writers Hollie Stephens and David Jesudason are the latest contributors to CAMRA’s award-winning education platform Learn & Discover. The new articles are: – What was the Colour Bar? – journalist and campaigner for racial equality David Jesudason unveils the unsavoury history of racial segregation within British pubs.
Plan your July Festival trip now!
Plan your July Festival trip now! Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description This summer sees the return of many local CAMRA beer festivals across the UK. Plan your next festival trip this July by simply perusing the list below.
Natural Selection back with Buck Wild
Natural Selection back with Buck Wild Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Natural Selection Brewing, the scheme which provides Heriot-Watt brewing students with the chance to create, brew and market their own beer, is back after a Covid-19 enforced absence.
Celebrate Independence Day with American craft beer
Celebrate Independence Day with American craft beer Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description As America gears up to celebrate its Independence Day on the 4 July, the Brewers Association’s American Craft Beer ambassador for Europe, Lotte Peplow, has exclusively shared her favourite US brews . Lotte is a certified cicerone, beer sommelier, judge, writer, homebrewer and food pairer.
Double first for collaboration brew
Double first for collaboration brew Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Hogs Back brewery’s latest cask ale is also its first collaboration brew as it has teamed up with Mondo Brewing to produce an American pale ale. When Hogs Fly (4.2 per cent) is also Mondo’s first cask ale. The generously hopped beer is being brewed at Hogs Back’s Tongham, Surrey home and will be served in 100 Fuller’s pubs, mainly in London....
Many pubs won’t survive economic storm
Many pubs won’t survive economic storm Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Thousands of community pubs could be under threat of closure, a new survey has revealed. The majority of hospitality businesses facing a triple whammy of rising goods, energy and labour costs are unprofitable an industry survey has found.... Enjoy unlimited access by joining CAMRA Get unlimited access to What's Brewing by joining CAMRA today along with a host of other benefits.
Maisie’s Mean Tweets to boost cask ale sales
Maisie’s Mean Tweets to boost cask ale sales Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Black Sheep brewery has partnered with comedian Maisie Adam to challenge cask beer stereotypes. The Yorkshire brewery has teamed up with Adam to create a Mean Tweets-style video about real ale. The Drink Cask Beer campaign forms part of Black Sheep’s mission to combat stereotypes and encourage more people to order it....
Double celebration for returning festival
Double celebration for returning festival Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description After two years away, St Albans Beer & Cider Festival returns to the Alban Arena in 2022 for the 25th time. With this year also marking 50 years since CAMRA was established in Hertfordshire, the South Herts branch-organised event marks a silver and golden jubilee celebration all in one – as reflected in the colours of this year’s logo, which will appear on the souvenir glass....
Innovation secures top prize for hop grower
Innovation secures top prize for hop grower Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Will Kirby and Henry Smith (pictured) of Brook House Hops in Herefordshire have won Hop Farmer of the Year crown at the Royal Three Counties Food & Farming Awards. The awards, in association with the Hereford Times, recognise and celebrate inspiring farming and food businesses making a real difference within the region and across the wider industry.
Homebrew competition debuts at our top fest
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description CAMRA’s flagship beer festival will host a new competition this year to find the best home brewed beer in the UK. In recognition that some of the best beers of the future are found among today’s home brewers, the competition will be judged and the winner revealed at the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) trade day (2 August). The winner will have a unique opportunity to commercially produce and sell their winning brew.
Government protects historic pubs
Government protects historic pubs Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Eleven remarkable pubs have been given extra planning protections following a unique collaboration between the Campaign and Historic England. Whitelock’s Ale House in Leeds (pictured – photo Michael Slaughter) and Prince Alfred in Maida Vale are upgraded to Grade II* as part of the project to help save rare historic pub interiors.
Ale trailers urged not to miss flagship festival
Ale trailers urged not to miss flagship festival Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Cask Marque is urging its 80,000 ale trailers to make CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) an “unmissable” stop in their travels this summer. The festival, which takes place at Olympia London from 2-6 August, will feature close to 1,000 cask ales, live craft beers, ciders, perries, gins and wines all under one roof....
Branch lobbies MP for a pubs’ support package
Branch lobbies MP for a pubs’ support package Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Pub-goers and beer drinkers in Northamptonshire are asking a local MP to fight for help for pubs facing the soaring cost of energy, which threaten to close them permanently. CAMRA Northamptonshire branch chairman Bernie Peal has written to Daventry MP and government chief whip Chris Heaton-Harris tasking him to lobby for a pubs’ support package....
PUBlic Affairs round up June 2022
PUBlic Affairs round up June 2022 Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description In a regular series for WB Online, the CAMRA Campaigns Team shares the work that has been going on across Westminster, the devolved parliaments and local government to campaign in support of consumers, pubs, clubs, cider and perry. ... Enjoy unlimited access by joining CAMRA Get unlimited access to What's Brewing by joining CAMRA today along with a host of other benefits.
Silver Birch celebrates Platinum Jubilee
Silver Birch celebrates Platinum Jubilee Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description It has been more than 60 years since a tree which gave a Wythenshawe, Manchester pub its name was planted at the venue. Now that original tree at Joseph Holt’s Silver Birch has now been joined by another to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.... Enjoy unlimited access by joining CAMRA Get unlimited access to What's Brewing by joining CAMRA today along with a host of other benefits.
Minister opens pub microbrewery
Login here to listen to the audio description Stratford upon Avon MP and secretary of state for education Nadhim Zahawi officially opened the microbrewery created by licensees Gaynor and Antony Thorpe of the Warwickshire Lad, Wood End with brewer Silhill.... Get unlimited access to What's Brewing by joining CAMRA today along with a host of other benefits.
Celebrate Beer Day Britain and raise a glass to the rise of the micro
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Today we mark Beer Day Britain - a lovely opportunity to celebrate one of the nation’s favourite drinks, and those who make it. The day marks the anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, which decrees, among the articles we may be more familiar with, “let there be throughout our kingdom a single measure for wine and a single measure for ale”.
Cider focus on Learn & Discover platform
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description CAMRA champions cider and its producers with the latest content added to its online Learn & Discover platform. For cider and perry enthusiasts wanting to learn more about their favourite drink, there are new guides available exclusively for CAMRA members: – Cider Varietals – the second of a two-part series by cider writer Rachel Hendry.
Rules must be relaxed to help save urban pubs
Rules must be relaxed to help save urban pubs Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Community-owned pubs champion, the Plunkett Foundation, has called for relaxed rules so groups can buy urban locals. Foundation research revealed improved community rights legislation, flexible funding and support would boost the number of urban community-owned pubs, breathe new life into neglected buildings and transform neighbourhoods....
Brew for Ukraine beer reaches Parliament
Brew for Ukraine beer reaches Parliament Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description A British-brewed beer created in support of Ukrainian refugees was recently served in th Houses of Parliament giving MPs and ministers the chance to help raise money for the relief effort. White Crow, a 4.5 per cent blonde ale brewed by Bridgehouse brewery in Keighley, West Yorkshire, is this week’s guest beer at the Strangers’ Bar.
Pubco’s slow return to profit post pandemic
Pubco’s slow return to profit post pandemic Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Fuller’s pub group has reported a return to profit but warned the future is still fragile. The group, which was reporting results from the 52 weeks to 26 March, added its current trading year has “started well”. During the year, the company generated revenues of £253.8m (2021 £73.2m), with an adjusted profit before tax of £7.2m (2021£48.7m loss)....
Farmer’s Shire horse charity challenge
Farmer’s Shire horse charity challenge Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Jamie Alcock, a farmer who drove his Shire horses from his Gloucestershire farm to Elgin in Scotland in 2021 is now taking on a second charity challenge. Alcock, his horses William and Millie and Boo Boo Beithe the farm dog will started their journey at MoD St Athan in South Wales on 1 June.
Pubs and brewers urged to support Cask Ale Week
Pubs and brewers urged to support Cask Ale Week Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Cask Marque has launched the website for Cask Ale Week which will run from 22 September until 2 October. Cask Marque director Paul Nunny said the event is important for the cask category as well as the pub.
Mead makers buzzing over £50,000 win
Mead makers buzzing over £50,000 win Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Two beekeeping brothers behind Wye Valley Meadery are buzzing after their take on the world’s oldest drink, mead, won a £50,000 UK accelerator programme for aspiring brewers, supported by UK accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael.
50 Years of CAMRA is ‘best in the world’
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description The story of the Campaign’s first 50 years has won a prestigious international publishing award. 50 Years of CAMRA by Laura Hadland took first place in the Gourmand awards. Now in its 27th year, the international awards saw entries from more than 110 countries and the results were announced in a ceremony in Umeå, Sweden.
Sign up for free online historic pubs symposium
Sign up for free online historic pubs symposium Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description TDR Heritage, Shropshire Council and Lincolnshire County Council have planned a one day virtual event on 15 June to mark Beer Day Britain. The symposium, with speakers including Roger Protz, covers a broad range of topics from the historic place of the pub in the landscape to the hard economics of a modern business....
British hops hit by costs triple whammy
British hops hit by costs triple whammy Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description British hop growers are reaching out to brewers and calling for urgent talks on the prices they agreed as wage, energy and fertiliser inflation hits the industry.
First Belfast Beer Week kicks off
First Belfast Beer Week kicks off Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description CAMRA Northern Ireland’s first Belfast Beer Week launches today to showcase the best local, small and independent breweries in the city and nearby. The event will give the opportunity to discover distinctive, tasty and local brews and brands which CAMRA wants more people enjoy. The pub-based beer festival kicks off this week and continues across the four-day weekend....
CAMRA calls for urgent action to save closed pubs
CAMRA calls for urgent action to save closed pubs Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Urgent fiscal action needed as hundreds of pubs have failed to re-open, cays CAMRA. In response to pub closure figures for 2021, the Campaign is calling for a VAT cut, changes to business rates systems and a new online sales tax to help give our locals a boost.
A social enterprise beer in a social enterprise bar
A social enterprise beer in a social enterprise bar Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Located in a railway arch in Attercliffe, brewSocial is the newest Sheffield brewery. It is linked to Y2V, a locally-based social firm development agency who aim to create employment and training opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market. ...
Urgent action needed to save closed pubs
Urgent action needed to save closed pubs Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Urgent fiscal action needed as hundreds of pubs have failed to re-open, cays CAMRA. In response to pub closure figures for 2021, the Campaign is calling for a VAT cut, changes to business rates systems and a new online sales tax to help give our locals a boost.
Ask the expert - what is a pint?
Ask the expert – what is a pint? Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description In the UK, the volume of a pint is defined as 568ml (20 Imperial fluid ounces) of liquid. This measurement includes the frothy layer of foam on top of the beer, commonly known as a beer’s head. The head consists of gas bubbles – mainly carbon dioxide (CO2) – surrounded by hydrophobic proteins deriving from barley and wheat, alongside polypeptides bonded with hop alpha-acids.
Brewery celebrates gold award
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Durham brewery has been presented with its CAMRA Gold Award in recognition of 27 award-winning years producing top-quality real ale. It is one of only 18 Gold Awards given to breweries and cider makers which have shared CAMRA's aims during its 50 years.... Enjoy unlimited access by joining CAMRA Get unlimited access to What's Brewing by joining CAMRA today along with a host of other benefits.
Villagers bid to buy UK’s most remote pub
Audio Description Login here to listen to the audio description Fundraising is underway to buy the most remote pub on the UK mainland. The Old Forge is in the village of Inverie on the Scottish Highlands west coast’s Knoydart peninsula opposite Mallaig, the nearest port. What makes the pub unique is it is only accessible by a 30-minute sea crossing or an 18-mile walk, which allegedly takes two days !...
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