Posts by: Roger Protz
Big boys have arrived in Ukraine
On my first and so far, only visit to Ukraine I booked into my hotel in Kiev, went to the terrace for a beer and found myself sitting under a Stella A...
Mild Magic conjured up in North-West
CAMRA branches in North-West England are planning a major campaign to boost mild ale in April and May with a series of events called Mild Magic.
Brewer’s welcome boost for cask beer
At last some good news on the cask beer front. One of our major regional brewers, Black Sheep in the Yorkshire Dales, is launching a major campaign to...
Landlord lifts Doom gloom
I took a break from driving last month at a pub on the Beds/Bucks border fittingly called the Travellers Rest. It’s an old coaching inn with beams, lo...
Fight to save ‘national treasure’
CAMRA members in St Albans are leading a campaign to save a pub described as “a national treasure” as the first branch of the Campaign was formed ther...
Kent’s great survivor keeps it local
Goachers is a great survivor. The brewery was launched in 1983 by Phil and Debbie Goacher and it’s not only one of the country’s oldest small independ...
Have a beer and save the planet
Drink beer and help save the planet? It’s a serious question – so serious that I was delighted to see CAMRA had launched a Drink Greener scheme to co...
Fight now to halt catastrophic cask sales fall
I had half an hour to kill waiting for a train at King’s Lynn station following a visit to Elgood’s brewery in neighbouring Wisbech so I crossed the r...
Brewers abhor a vacuum
We were supping fine beer from the Navigation Brewery in the Cross Keys in Nottingham and the man sitting next to me said that when he moved to the ci...
Cask beer is on the up
Pardon my alliteration, but real ale is remarkably resilient. During lockdowns and pub closures, there were concerns that cask beer was heading for th...
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