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23-09-2011, 10:20
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We see today yet more coverage of beer in the Independent (http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/23/the-birth-of-camra-we-knew-next-to-nothing/).
Will Hawkes has been writing excellent beer-related columns for some time now (http://blogs.independent.co.uk/author/willhawkes/) and we should all support his efforts in writing about beer as if it is a mainstream, normal thing that ordinary people are interested in, rather than some bizarre niche interest.
This article is particularly interesting because Will has managed to elicit comments from the founders of CAMRA on current debates around ‘craft keg’. As we read it, they dismiss the idea that CAMRA ought to campaign for it out-of-hand, while apparently confusing it with Fosters but, ultimately, they do conceed that there might be such a thing as good keg beer.
Their comments on the sandals and beard image of CAMRA members echoes Tandleman’s post on the same subject (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/)and subsequent comments (http://tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.com/). They suggest that a very small number of distinctive individuals are stealing the limelight and defining the whole organisation, which chimes with our thinking.


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