By gatecrashing our brains, beer has shaped human history. The alcohol in beer is ‘ethanol’, a…
Day: 28 July 2026
Tributes – Rob Jones, Humphrey Smith & Normal Balcon
In this edition we remember three people who have each played a part in London’s pub…
Champion Beer of Britain: awards for all colours!
In some years, CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain competition is more tightly fought than others. This…
Chiswick Bitter we hardly knew ye
Fuller’s brewery has the admirable record of winning CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain award for…
Paddington and Maida Vale tour
This is a twin-centre pub trail that includes some of the most outstanding pub architecture in…
LionHeart – campaigning for cask
There are positive signs that cask beer isn’t quite dead yet. A few breweries have recently…
Remembering John Young
On 17 September it will be twenty years since John Young, the chairman of Young &…
Kingston’s Quiet Pint
Not every CAMRA event needs to be a pub crawl. In Kingston and Leatherhead branch, a…
Last call for a slice of history
The National Breweriana Auction, run by CAMRA’s Games and Collectables section, returns to Burton on Trent’s…
Home brewing – past and present
Brewing at home has been with us for many centuries but it changed substantially in 1880…