Roger Protz

Six beer books to help educate your bar staff

19-Sep-2017 By James Beeson

Last week, the Campaign for Real Ale released its 45th edition of the Good Beer Guide. The guide contains 4,500 of the “best real ale pubs in the UK” and information on every real ale brewery currently operating and its key beers.

Isn’t it time beer writers took their heads out of the sand?

29-Oct-2013 By Robert Sayles

Is it my imagination or are many beer writers a little bit detached from reality? The reason I say this is because their obvious reluctance to mention let alone write about the enormous white elephant sitting in the middle of the room is a little puzzling...

The Good Pub Guide does pubs a great disservice

06-Sep-2013 By Pete Brown

Pete Brown takes the Good Pub Guide editors to task over their controversial claims on pub closures

Pubs need to improve service standards for international visitors warns VisitEngland chief

19-Jul-2012 By Gurjit Degun

Licensees need to do more to improve service in pubs to accommodate international visitors — that’s according to VisitEngland chief executive James Beresford.

Roger Protz: beer and the brickbats

21-Sep-2010 By Phil Mellows

As CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2011 is published, editor and MA columnist Roger Protz has a pint with Phil Mellows to talk about battling big brewers and...

Beer expert furious at open season on pubs

13-Mar-2008

Beer writer Roger Protz has launched a blistering attack on media coverage of "24-hour drinking"Speaking at the annual Society of Independent Brewers...

LETTERs

08-Oct-2007

Drink-drive law is hard on rural pubs I read your publication every week, and I have to say that I often find the views of Roger Protz to be rather...

LETTERs

28-Feb-2007

Where there's a will there's a way Re: Roger Protz's article "Breaking the silence" (MA, 21 February 2008). On the assumption that Government will...

Buyouts and co-ops 'could save brewers'

13-Sep-2006 By Tony Halstead

The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has called for management buyouts and the formation of co-operatives to stop more regional and family breweries from closing.

Protz: bottled beers need detailed labels

04-Mar-2004

Beer writer Roger Protz has called on brewers to print more product information on bottle labels to inform drinkers about ingredients used in the...

Camra calls for menu push to lift beer sales

25-Sep-2003

by MA Reporter Pubs should attract diners to beer by including recommendations and tasting notes for beers on their menus, according to Good Food...

Industry expert launches attack on large pub companies

24-Sep-2002

Beer industry expert Roger Protz has launched a scathing attack on the country's giant pub companies accusing them of conducting an "extortion...