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It looks like CAMRA could also do with a PR overhaul then.
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- Thread starter Dandyman
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It looks like CAMRA could also do with a PR overhaul then.
Is real ale your dad's drink ?
Yes, but he's in his seventies and i've got to the age where i've realised that actually I rather want to be exactly like him.
I know a few landlords and landladys who although running very successful beer festivals in their pubs would not let any CAMRA involvement within a mile of their place. Reasons ? That CAMRA are so sure that they know EVERYTHING about the game that they fail to actually notice any current trends. It's as if they are there to set the trends and not let the punters do it.
No self respecting good beer pub would not have a selection of good craft ales nowadays and that percentage of the market will increase dramatically over the next few years I suspect.
But it's not "real beer".
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
But it's not "real beer".
'Dead' beer is a term I've heard bandied about by some stick-in-the-muds, making the sweeping and thoroughly incorrect assumption that if it isn't real ale, it must obviously be pasteurised.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,706
I am not a member of CAMRA but I do OK with the ladies (although not the younger ones)
atfc village
Well-known member
Wetherspoons in Woking used to get voted pub of the year in The News and Ale Area which covers SW Surrey and NE Hampshire ,best Pub really or The fact that the local Comitee drank there or is it the vouchers that camra members recieve from Spoons when they join Camra?
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,706
better than OK would get in the way of my drinkingonly an 'OK'? Maybe a switch to craft beer would improve things?
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,706
atfc village
Well-known member
In some areas Wetherspoon's is the best place to drink - Watford and Stoke spring to mind.
atfc village
Well-known member
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,706
There's a Wetherspoon's in Stoke? Urban regeneration knows no bounds!
atfc village
Well-known member
Yep The Wheatsheaf ,if that is all you can find in Stoke people aren't looking hard enough.
Lyndhurst 14
Well-known member
- Jan 16, 2008
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I drink real ale in the UK and craft beer in the US and enjoy both. I respect CAMRA’s remit, albeit a bit dated, but it doesn’t worry me that they do not consider craft beer to be ‘proper beer’ as it is served cool and force carbonated. What craft beer has done is given Americans more choice, they are no longer limited to the industrial domestic beers like Bud, Coors and Miller – and that has to be a good thing. It is also seems to me that craft beer at the moment is more inventive and diverse in what it produces. It’s horses for courses.
Upon his first taste of Brooklyn Lager, Roger Protz wrote, "I thought it was one of the finest beers I had ever tasted, and nothing since made me change my mind." - Praise indeed from CAMRA’s Roger Protz
Upon his first taste of Brooklyn Lager, Roger Protz wrote, "I thought it was one of the finest beers I had ever tasted, and nothing since made me change my mind." - Praise indeed from CAMRA’s Roger Protz
Seagull's Return
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The most consistently glorious pint of Harveys in Hove is in The Coopers Cask
Obviously I am biased, but I am also correct.
Lord Nelson wins for Brighton.
and that, my beery friends, is a fact.
Absolutely spot on. But will the Cooper's be doing Old this autumn? Please god let it be so.
Trufflehound
Re-enfranchised
Aye, but as I understand it, Roger Protz is also one of the CAMRA 'good guys'...
The most consistently glorious pint of Harveys in Hove is in The Coopers Cask
Obviously I am biased, but I am also correct.
Lord Nelson wins for Brighton.
and that, my beery friends, is a fact.
Coopers also has the distinct advantage of not being a Harveys-run hell hole.*
*With the possible exception of The Nelson, which does do a great, well-kept pint.