Posts by: Roger Protz
Neil Kellett – Campaign pioneer
Neil Kellett, a CAMRA pioneer who played a vital role in keeping the Campaign solvent and able to challenge the power of big brewers, has died suddenl...
Carlsberg’s wrecking ball swings again
Carlsberg is wrecking Britain’s brewing heritage. Not content with closing four ale breweries, it has now turned the blow torch on a raft of beers, se...
Kismet Hardy
It’s The Return of the Native – the launch of a new edition of Thomas Hardy’s Ale, the celebrated English barley wine that beer lovers feared might di...
Keep your eyes on the Prize
The launch of a new edition of Dark Star’s Prize Old Ale (9 per cent) cements a potent link with a family of English beers known as stock ales that da...
The door’s ajar at the Last Chance Saloon
The grim spectre of Covid still has its bony hand on our shoulders. The impact of the pandemic and the lockdowns that followed delivered shocking blow...
Carlsberg juggernaut rolls on
Not content with closing Jennings, Wychwood and Ringwood breweries, Carlsberg now plans to axe the giant Banks’s brewery in Wolverhampton, famous for...
Coming up for air
The arrival of Fuller’s Vintage Ale is a cause for celebration, the beer lovers’ equivalent of the latest Bordeaux wine from France. Vintage Ale is li...
The Devil’s in the Draught Lines – review
We are still living in the shadow of the Covid pandemic and the lockdowns that followed. The sickness that gripped the country had a profound impact o...
Restoring Burton’s pride
Expansion is underway at Burton Bridge brewery. New brewing kit is waiting to be assembled to replace vessels that are leaking and no longer fit for p...
Don't feel guilty – have a beer
Do you feel guilty supping a glass of beer? In all the years I have been writing on the subject, I have never known such a flood of one-sided and ofte...
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