Posts by: Timothy Hampson

Staff and senior volunteer changes

Following the National National (NE) agreement to replace the position of chief executive, the recruitment process will commence shortly. CAMRA will b...

40 YEARS, TWO FESTIVALS, ONE LOVE OF BEER

A tale of two festivals: Lotte Peplow (pictured centre above) shares her experience of the world’s two greatest beer festivals.

Reading branch honours Sam Smith’s owner of town’s longest mothballed pub

Reading & Mid Berks branch has given a special award to the pub company having the “longest closed pub in the area for no apparent reason”.

Chill wind for cask ale sales

Cask ales might be revered but sales are declining says Matt Eley ‘Cool’, whichever meaning you apply to it, is not a word that tends to be associated...

CAMRA’s Cider Pub of the Year announced

A former Blockbuster video shop turned independent micropub has been named the CAMRA’s National Cider Pub of Year 2018.

When is the best time to drink a beer?

The perfect pint has a head of precisely nine millimetres, is served in a proper pint glass – at 5.30pm on a Saturday evening, in a beer garden with y...

Shepherd Neame reports increased profits as it moves away from contract brewing

Shepherd Neame, Britain’s oldest brewer and owner and operator of more than 320 pubs in London and the South East reports increased profits and turnov...

Celebrity broadcaster launches own brew with JW Lees

Physicist Brian Cox is trying to reach parts of the world other beers cannot reach. The broadcaster and professor is hoping his latest project is goin...

Inflation rises threatens beer tax hike

The recent rises in  inflation figures are bad news for beer drinkers and pubs.

A rose without a thorn named the best pub sign in the country

A London pub named after a line from a once popular 18th century song has had its sign named the best in the country


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