This article is a re-edit of two previous articles I wrote for Pubpaper, but targeted at CAMRA members. You can find the original articles here and here. The PDF of the published magazine can be found here The world of real ale is reaching the crossroads. We have travelled far enough up the road that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Craft Ale’
Caldercask – Winter 2011 – State of Play at CAMRA
Posted: 20th December 2011 by admin in Caldercask, WritingTags: Abbeydale, Acorn, Black Sheep, Brass Monkey, CAMRA, Cask Marque, copper dragon, Craft Ale, elland, greene king, Halifax Steam, Molson Coors, real ale, Salamander, sharps, SIBA, thwaites
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Pubpaper 634 – Bland Mainstream Beers
Posted: 1st December 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: beer, Brewdog, carling, Craft Ale, distillery, marketing, real ale
After a having guests over for dinner this weekend, I was left with a couple of cans of Carling in the fridge the following day. Not a beer I’d normally spending money, yours or mine on, I wondered if the product had actually developed a flavour of any description. The answer is a still a [...]
Pubpaper 632 – Real ale going forward and an alternative future for CAMRA?
Posted: 17th November 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Abbeydale, Acorn, Black Sheep, Brass Monkey, Brewdog, CAMRA, Cask Ale, Castle Rock, copper dragon, Craft Ale, elland, future, Halifax Steam, real ale, Salamander, SIBA, thwaites
Following on from last weeks discussion of CAMRA, with all the benefits it confers to the industry as a whole, and it recent shortcomings. We now need to discuss how we take real and craft ales into the next 40 years. What is for certain is that we will need our big “brand name” real [...]
Pubpaper 629 – Animee, CAMRA loves Kegs, New Beers and Brewdog
Posted: 27th October 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Animee, brew dog, CAMRA, Cider, Craft Ale, Hops, keg, Molson Coors, real ale, Stroud Brewery, Thatchers, wetherspoons
Last week I had the opportunity to visit Wetherspoons Beer Festival in Brighouse and sample a couple of the American Craft Brews I mentioned earlier in the month, and I am glad to report that they were both nice beers. The Mordue Red Rye Riwaka and Odell Ninety Schilling had a nice amount of hops [...]