While many members of the Campaign for Real Ale were sceptical about moving the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) from its London home to the NEC in Birmingham, it is doubtful if many of us were prepared for how badly it would turn out. A whopping £320,000 loss was surely not in anyone's mind, and must have exceeded by far the worst case scenario presented in the business case for it.As someone who has worked at countless Great British Beer Festivals and organised or jointly organised the...| Tandleman's Beer Blog
Fifty three years and counting. It’s that time of the year for the launch of CAMRA’s latest edition of The Good Beer Guide (GBG) when we can see if our favourite pubs have made the cut in the new publication. When I first bought the guide back in 1988 it…| Beer Insider
The Champion Beer of Scotland is the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)’s ultimate prize for Scottish cask beers, and the 2021 gold was presented to Fyne Ales for its single-hop blonde ale earlier this month. “It’s fantastic that Jarl has been recognised as Scotland’s best cask ale again, especially in the year that our brewery […]| Craft Beer | Scotsman Food and Drink
Hi Friends, I know I have been very quiet on the blog lately, that is because I have been busy writing a book, well two books to be specific, but let me not get ahead of myself. I have been working on The Devil’s In the Draught Lines: 1000 Years of Women in Britain’s Beer […]| braciatrix