JMN2 wrote:My opinion is the clue is in the name, real ale should be the focus, and craft/keg/cider should be left to others.
That would at least keep everything simple.
But then would we just end up with
CAMRA+CAMCI (cider)+CAMPE (perry)+CAMPU (pubs)+CAMKEG+CAMCRA (craft)... which as a large Venn diagram has a very large central multiple shared area?
FWIW I personally CBA to get embroiled on what beer styles CAMRA should or should not be arguing about. Frankly its pretty obvious to me what is "keg craft" and what is "keg naff" and those that insist on bracketing them together I feel have their own agenda, are being overly myopic, or both. A failure to at least try some keg craft so the distinctions can be at least appreciated is rather like rejecting opera when one has never read, performed or seen/listened to any.
Rather CAMRA's focus now on pubs and their future seems to be a totally pertinent position. I live in a brewery town that hasn't any of its pubs featured for the town in the GBG, and hasn't for at least three years - there is a very good reason for that. Meanwhile we read of 27 pubs closing per week
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 53686.html- but at the same time micropubs are opening and thriving
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Art ... -last-year.
No doubt there is a good reason for that too...
didds (CAMRA member and probably in a minority of one with the thoughts above
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