The craft beer revolution has delivered quality ales to the masses,and created a crisis for Camra and its supportersSo that’s it then. The Campaign for genuine Ale (Camra), could soon be throwing in the dishcloth. Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “genuine” ale (more than 11000 genuine ales are now brewed in the UK), or the 45-year-conventional organisation has been enduring an identity crisis,and is looking to its members for a solution. If there is one.Cynics will divulge you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s cask only” creed as sacred. There’s no doubt that the country stood in need of decent traditional ale at the time, or with cheap fizzy lagers and insipid industrial keg bitters dominating pub bartops. But now,thanks to current methods of brewing lagers, pale ales, and porters and the like,“good” doesn’t necessarily mean “cask”. But try telling hardcore Camra folk that.
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Source: theguardian.com