nranic stout - Cold Medal Winner Champion Bottled Beer of Britain awarded at the CAMRA Great British Beer Festival 2004 Titanic Brewery eo Ltd Unit 5, cauender Place, unqard street, Burslem, stoke on Trent ST61JL Tel: 01782 823447 Fax. 01782 812349 e-mail tttantcetitarucorewerv.co.uk www.titanicbrewery.co.uk "Between the bottom of the hill and the deep blue sea" www.thecoastguard.co.uk a location renowned across Kent Award winning British & French Cheese for its beauty, The Coastguard lives board to compliment beer as well as wine. Eup to its reputation for excellent food and drink served with a pleasing GADD'S of Ramsgate and his year we have managed to squeeze in you like to see at future Festivals, I am sure informality, the ideal location to relax HOPDAEMON regularlyon alongside a few more beers. This has been made they will be gratefully received The two and drink in the views out to sea. other award winning Cask Ales from further T possible by moving the bar counter to Thanet Leisure Managers have given us a field. the other side of the hall. We hope you will tremendous support and we thank them for all Keeping our reputation for excellent enjoy this year's selection and that you will their hard work and assistance. empty all of our barrels as you have done on Cask ales and great fresh food Microbreweries are our previous years. Should you have any constructive ideas on preference. complimenting Kentish Ales. how we could improve this festival, comments For this Festival, our veteran 'cellarman', sheet are available on the CAMRA membership David Creen, has managed to procure an stall in the Connaught Hall. St. Margaret's Bay Tel: 01304 853176 exceptional selection of stouts and porters. If our suppliers manage to deliver everything that Roger Marples has been ordered, we shall have fourteen Festival Committee different stouts and porters. These days, it is always difficult to find these beer styles in Thisprogrammehas been publishedby: public houses and it is almost impossible to Design & Layout by: find a range such as is on offer at this festival. 17th Century Inn & Restaurant Once again we give you the opportunity of • TAMq,KnO pESI9N, sampling Harvey & Co.'s Imperial Stout in cask Open all day form. It is available, normally, only in the Full a la carte menu - Bar snacks and Sandwiches Tel: 01733 751286 bottle. Sunday roasts - Clotted cream teas Victorian Freehouse Email: [email protected] • 100 seat restaurant. alfresco dining. beer garden Hotel and Restaurant www.tamoko-design.com The beers have been split into four catego ies, CAMRA Listed Five Real Ales Open all day 'Local Kentish beers', 'Stouts and Porters', 'Beers Advertisement Sales by: Full a la carte menu over 9% abv' and all the remaining beers which are displayed alphabetically, by brewery name. Bar snacks - Sandwiches Sunday Roasts Unfortunately, costs ~ave continued to rise and we have had to raise the p ice of entry on Tel: 01536 358670 Luxury En Suite rooms the Friday, from £2 to ,£3. Howeve, we have Email: [email protected] Six Real Ales with regular guests managed to hold down the price of the beers at Worldwide selection of wines Printed by: the same level as the last two years. Live entertainment •••..... ffij Catering is once again provided by Thanet o - 01304 203300 PRiNTCRS lrd Tel: 01303 844663 Leisure, who are the franchisees of the Town Lodge Printers Ltd 1- 2 Park Place, Ladywell, Dover. Kent The Street, Denton, Canterbury Kent CT4 6QZ Hall. If you have any suggestions about food Tel: 01487 832629 2 The Whit; Cliffs Beerfestival 2005 3 ~ REAL ALE - A Brief .·hsto.. of CAMRA REAL ALE IN 2005 shelf life and reduced cellar work, and were to real ale, as these beers were altered or longer the first choice of the average beer drinker, For the real ale drinker, the choice today is as promoted widely and heavily throughout the withdrawn to suit their own commercial or and the local no longer the traditional first choice good as it has been for many years, and certainly Sixties and early Seventies. However many beer marketing policies. They also continued to of where to drink. Additionally, it has to compete a far cry from the standard bitter, mild or keg of drinkers found them much inferior in taste and display an acquisitive nature, taking over smaller with heavily promoted lager and nitro keg, and the mid Sixties when many of us started using flavour, not least because the method of rivals when the opportunity arose. the somewhat ambivalent attitude of the large pubs. In particular we have the benefit of a large production and dispense had abandoned brewers, in an industry increasingly dominated by number of local and micro breweries who provide traditional procedures; in particular, the a few big global players. Within the last few us with a great variety of beer of many styles and secondary fermentation in the cask (see "What is The Situation Today months two of the four major breweries in this types, as our festival amply demonstrates. It Real Aid'). Additionally, there was a trend to The last ten to fifteen years has seen the industry country have announced that they will cease their could, however, have all been very different. Had transfer all draught beers to various forms of transformed, and while choice for the real ale own brewing of real ale, contracting out their the industry, en-masse, adopted the philosophy of pressurised dispense, not always necessarily keg, drinker is currently very good, there are certain requirements to smaller local or regional brewers; many of the larger brewers in the Sixties and but not real either. It was to counteract such trends which raise concern. From the start of the and there must be considerable doubt over the Seventies, real ale might not now exist, and the activity, to promote and support traditional 1990s the Government, worried about restriction others' long time commitment. Particularly fact that it does is no small thanks to the work brewers and traditionally brewed and served beer, of choice, forced substantial reductions on the worrying is the re-appearance of concentrated and efforts of CAMRA. and to oppose the increasing concentration of the size of the brewers' tied estates via the Beer pub ownership, with some of the pub chains and industry in a few hands, that CAMRA was Orders. At the same time large brewing larger regionals threatening to match the large formed. operations were becoming international rather brewers before the Beer Orders. Although at the A Brief History of CAMRA than national. Today, following a series of merges moment there is widespread ay. ilability of beers CAMRA dates from the early 1970s when, From the start, CAMRA made a serious impact, and realignments, the industry is unrecognisable from large and s all producers alike, commercial following years of mergers and amalgamations, focusing the opposition of those who cared about from that which had confronted CAMRA in the pressures cou Cl we I see that diminish if the bulk British brewing was dominated by six national what was going on in the industry; and while early Seventies. Nationally, large scale brewing of the ind sttY. ails into just a few han s. combines, who owned the majority of brewing there may have been much initial resistance from and pub operating has been split, much of the capacity and pubs. The remaining independent the large brewers, by the end of the 1970s they former falling under foreign ownership, and much local and regional breweries were always at risk of were all being forced to display a serious of the latter converted to non-brewing pub being absorbed by these nationals, and rarely commitment to real ale. New brews were created chains, now a major power in the business with distributed their brews outside their own locality. and old beers revived, and many existing brews estates rivalling in size those of the-large brewers Free houses were few, homebrew pubs a mere were returned to, or sold more extensively in, before the Beer Orders. Meanwhile large tied handful, and microbreweries waited to be cask condition; the regional and family brewers estates are rea pearing in the form of regionals invented. began distributing their ales more widely, and Creene King and Wolverhampton and Dudley, microbreweries became an established presence. who both now control 2,000 plus pubs. Although While much of their production remained local, Meanwhile many of the heavily advertised keg small by comparison with the national brewers of the larger brewers were intent on creating bitters of the 1960s and early 1970s were quietly the past, there is now no restriction on their national brews which could be marketed the dispensed with. growth, the present Government recently having length and breadth of the country, and which seen fit to abandon the limitations imposed by reflected their perception of a beer suitable for The 1980s saw more free houses, as the large the Beer Orders. the mid 20th century. The resultant product was brewers began to reduce their pub estates, and keg bitter, such as Whitbread Tankard or the appearance of guest ales in tied houses. While CAMRA has been immensely successful, Watney's Red Barrel: lager type beer being very However much keg beer continued to be sold and and real ale enjoys a high profile, it accounts for little drunk over most of the country at that time. lager constantly increased its market share. about only 10% of the British beer market, and, Comparatively sweet, more refined and gassy, keg Breweries were still being closed and there was many pubs do not sell it at all, or only in beers offered the advantages of convenience, long doubt over the major brewers' true commitment indifferent condition.