Campaign For Real Ale

Tim Martin

JD Wetherspoon sees profits jump

By The PMA Team

JD Wetherspoon has unveiled a 13.6% rise in profit before tax of £66.2m as the company opened 39 pubs and saw like-for-likes for the rest of the...

Protz: good cheer doesn't impress Panorama

Life through a distorting lens

By Roger Protz

The BBC's Panorama programme on Oldham's drinking scene was no better than tabloid television, says Roger Protz.

The Sun Inn is set to go under the hammer

Campaigners battle to save historic pub

By Gemma McKenna

Campaigners are battling to save a Herefordshire pub regarded as having "national importance". The grade-II listed Sun Inn in Leintwardine, near...

Camra: 2009 Pub Design Awards open

Camra's 2009 Pub Design Awards open

By Gemma McKenna

The Campaign for Real Ale's Pub Design Awards, which reward high standards of design in refurbishing existing pubs and building new ones, open today....

Stephen Oliver

Oliver regrets Camra "hobbit" jibe

By John Harrington

Marston's beer boss Stephen Oliver says he "regrets" some of his "intemperate" descriptions of certain real ale enthusiasts, who he labelled...

Protz: Smoking ban was wrong

Repent ye pro-ban pubgoers

By Roger Protz

The launch of the Good Beer Guide has fanned further debate about the smoke ban.

Ladies who brew...

Ladies who brew...

By Roger Protz

This brewing business, it's women's work. So, for that matter, is running top beer festivals.

GBBF: Numbers down this year

Beer festival sees dip in visitors

By John Harrington

Attendance at this year's Great British Beer Festival was down 10% on 2007, reflecting the overall downturn in pub visits, but bar sales remained at a good level.

Fight the Hikes: Join the battle

'Darling, you are killing pubs'

By Ewan Turney

The Chancellor will go down in history as the man who launched the £5 pint for the London Olympics and closed thousands of community pubs. That is...

Your say

Your say

Flexible rents are way forward for pubs With reference to the editor's leader "What's fair and maintainable?" (MA, 24 April), I have a few comments....

Summer washout prompts cask surge

Summer washout prompts cask surge

By Tony Halstead

Regional and family brewers are experiencing a dramatic surge in sales of cask beer as appalling summer weather turns drinkers away from lager and...

Camra: What's happened to beautiful new pubs?

Camra: What's happened to beautiful new pubs?

The Campaign for Real Ale, (CAMRA) is looking for exceptionally designed pubs where work was completed last year to be nominated for the prestigious Pub Design Awards 2007.

MyShout

MyShout

Stephen Crawley says the Camra-run GBBF is a great event - but ponders about making it a winter event

The rescuers

The rescuers

CAMRA's new pub preservation initiative is all set on helping tight-knit communities hang on to their local pub. James Wilmore reports.In our...

It's the Grandaddy

It's the Grandaddy

by The PMA Team The Good Beer Guide can lay claim to the title of Guide Grandad. First published in 1972, a year after Camra (Campaign for Real Ale)...

CAMRA's girl power

CAMRA's girl power

The Campaign for Real Ale is modernising, starting with the appointment of its first female chairman. Michelle Perrett speaks to Paula Waters.Beards,...

Beers to the future

Beers to the future

With beer sales in decline there is talk of a crisis. Ben McFarland puts the key questions of what can be done to brewing industry figures.Beer is on...