CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE

Issued Thursday 2nd September 2005 CAMRA has sent a petition with 4,800 names to Greene King calling on the Suffolk brewer to reconsider its decision to close Ridleys Brewery in Essex following its acquisition in July. Greene King has announced plans to close the 163 year old brewery in the autumn. At its AGM today Greene King has announced an increase in beer volumes of 6% in the last 12 months.

Issued: Monday 12th September 2005, Embargoed: Wednesday 14th September 2005, 00.01 Choice for British beer drinkers is booming as a record number of new breweries has been recorded by the 2006 edition of the Good Beer Guide, published today by the Campaign for Real Ale. Editor Roger Protz says the guide lists more than 80 new breweries, almost twice as many as in the previous year.

Issued: Monday 26th September 2005, For immediate use CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, will be celebrating 'Real' cider and perry throughout October to boost the market for Britain's independent producers.

Issued: Friday 30th September, For Immediate Use CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, today announced the winners of its inaugural Real Ale in a Bottle Retailer Awards.

Entries to help revise CAMRA’s definition for bottled cider and perry Issued: Monday 17th October 2005, For immediate use CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has today launched a new competition, as part of the National Cider and Perry month celebrations, to find Britain’s best bottled ‘real’ cider and perry and to help revise its definition on what constitutes a ‘real’ bottled cider or perry.

CAMRA award prestigious Pomona award to Dunkertons CAMRA's new Good Cider Guide to be launched at the same venue Issued: Friday 28th October 2005, Embargo: Saturday 29th October 2005, 00.01 CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has awarded the prestigious Pomona award to Dunkertons, Leominster, Herefordshire and will present them with their award and launch their new Good Cider Guide at the cider producer's premises on Saturday 29th October, 12 noon.

CAMRA's Cider & Perry Pub of the Year - The Miners Arms, Lydney, Gloucester Issued: Friday 28th October 2005, Embargo: Monday 31st October 2005, 00.01 CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has been celebrating Cider and Perry Month through October, today announced that The Miners, New Road, Whitecroft, Lydney, Gloucester is the best pub in Britain for cider and perry. This is the first time this award has been made to a pub.

CAMRA Books, the publishing division of the Campaign for Real Ale, today launched The Big Book of Beer, a book temptingly subtitled, ‘Everything you Need to Know About the World's Greatest Drink!'

MORE than 1,000 people have thrown their support behind the Wessex branches of the Campaign for Real Ale's (CAMRA) efforts to secure the future of Gale's brewery, beers and pubs.

As National Pubs Week approaches, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has hailed licensing reforms in England and Wales as a boon for well-run pubs and their customers. q

The small-craft brewery of Bullmastiff, based in Cardiff, has won the Champion Beer of Wales competition, organised by CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, with their Son of a Bitch beer.

Issued: Monday 12th September 2005, Embargoed: Wednesday 14th September 2005, 00.01 West Yorkshire is the English county with the biggest number of independent breweries, the 2006 edition of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide reports. The county has 28 breweries producing cask beer, with four of them based in Keighley. North Yorkshire is hard on its neighbour's heels with 22 breweries. In total, the whole Yorkshire region enjoys 66 independent real ale breweries (South Yorkshire 11, East Yorkshire 5).