Great British Beer Festival

MyShout

MyShout

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

Record numbers for beer festival

Record numbers for beer festival

By Iain O'Neil

The 2006 Great British Beer Festival has been hailed as a tremendous success by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). NEW COMMENT

Peter Mandelson

Beer with Food - Served with a twist

By Susan Nowak

An invitation from Camra gave Susan Nowak the opportunity to reinterpret some old pub stalwarts. Beer and food is, of course, an extremely serious...

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,...

Band of

Band of

golds Everyone likes winning. Yet for those brewers ­ many of them micros ­ that won an award at the Great British Beer Festival, the joy of...

David Longbottom

David Longbottom

David Longbottom, a former executive of Allied Breweries, died this week after a long battle with leukaemia. Longbottom worked in the brewing and pub...

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...

No place like home

No place like home

Global consolidation in the beer market has led to an increase in brands being brewed under licence, but is the beer the same? By Ben McFarland.The...

Pass the Deuchars

Pass the Deuchars

Caledonian's Deuchars IPA has this year become the first Scottish Champion Beer of Britain. Ben McFarland discovers the brewer is ready to capitalise...