errrm Mr Pot meet Mr Kettle
But enthusiasts of traditional, English beer said Tesco should be doing more to support home-grown and local ales rather than foreign imports. Iain Loe, research and campaigns manager at the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said: "Leffe may have a picture of an abbey on the label and people think Hoegaarden is made in a little monastery brewery, but they are both owned by InBev, the world's biggest brewing company. Since it was taken over by InBev, I don't think Hoegaarden is as tasty as it once was. If people really want to taste good Belgian beer, they should try something like Orval or Rochefort, which are brewed at Trappist monasteries by monks." Mr Loe added: "Real ales in Britain are hugely popular. One of the problems is that the big supermarkets don't stock all the different ales. It's fine to stock Belgian wheat beers, but places such as Tesco should also source their beer locally, so stores in Kent sell Kentish beers and stores in the North buy from the Yorkshire breweries. After all, beer is largely water, and it's being shipped all over Europe when it could be sourced locally."
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 9:41, 1 reply)

Yeah and CAMRa don't approve of craft keg which is just plain fucking stupid.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 9:58, closed)

that's like saying you can't show a bulldog in the toy dogs category at krufts
Real ale is a cask ale by definition.

CAMRA isn’t about campaigning against keg beers rather ensuring real ale is available. They set up in the 70's when orrid keg beers (Watneys Red Barrel)threatened the survival of real beer.

I have had some delicious keg beers (some belters from the USA)
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:02, closed)

"So – if these craft kegs are good, why doesn’t CAMRA move with the times and campaign for good ale rather than real ale?

Well, there is a problem of course. If you are campaigning for something you have to be able to define what you are campaigning for. We’ve defined real ale. Good is a bit more subjective…… There is also a danger of course that if everyone goes down the keg route in future we will lose the tradition of natural, cask conditioned beer.

So the CAMRA angle is simple – we campaign for real ale. We acknowledge craft keg is out there and adding some interest to the pub scene and we don’t campaign against it, we simply consider it outside the parameters of what we do."
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:05, closed)

*stows pac-a-mac in knapsack*
*dusts off Galsto '90 T shirt*

*brushes cheese & onion crisps from chin strap*

*strides off muttering about smoothflow*
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:08, closed)

Yeah, but now CAMRA are being jolly nice about shit secondary fermentation ales produced by fuckwits.
Which as I suspect is to pander to the scoopers and not to people wanting quality. Like the LocALE project, regardless of the fact that a brewery produces bilge a landlord to keep the good graces of CAMRA would feel pressure to stock it.
Talk about watney's Red all you want - CAMRA succeeded in it's aim. Time for them to revisit the aims.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 24 Jul 2014, 11:34, closed)