Posts by: Roger Protz
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...
BrewDog's sour taste
It was all going to be so refreshingly different – a brewery turning its back on “industrial lagers and stuffy ales” and offering bright new beers for...
Axed Strong Suffolk bounces back
Greene King has axed and then rapidly reinstated its heritage beer Strong Suffolk Ale. The demise of Strong Suffolk was signalled by the brewery’s qua...
Problem drinking? Brits are actually quite moderate drinkers
As regular as a red London bus, another report has come trundling along about “problem drinking”. It repeats the media mantra that the Brits consume t...
Make real ale special
There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip, but the lockdown is coming to an end, we will be able to sup inside pubs and beer will once again be gushing in...
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