Posts by: Roger Protz
Reflections on announcing CAMRA competition results
Announcing the results of Champion Beer of Britain competitions can be a high-risk activity. I still recall with a shiver the occasion when I told the...
Ancient beer style breaks out of Yorkshire
Stingo is busting out all over. An ancient beer style, largely forgotten and confined to Yorkshire, its county of origin, is now making an appearance...
Goodbye to all that – it didn't last long
So, RIP Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company. It didn’t last long. Formed in 2020, like Monty Python’s famous parrot it is no more and has gone to meet...
Double Diamond brewer back in business
Allsopp’s, one of the most famous names in British brewing, along with its leading beers Pale Ale and IPA are being recreated by a descendant of the f...
Heineken flops as its Silver lager falters
The news may have bypassed your radar but Heineken has axed its Silver lager brand just two years after the launch. When the world’s second biggest br...
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...
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