The Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation based in St Albans, England, whose main aims are promoting real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub.

The original name was the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale.

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In Britain, the Campaign for Real Ale was founded in 1971 to protect unpressurised beer.

The Campaign for Real Ale has designated May as " Mild Month ".

* Campaign for Real Ale

Awarded ' Champion beer of Britain ' by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) in 1988.

The Assize of Bread and Ale in the thirteenth century demonstrated the importance of bread in medieval times by setting heavy punishments for short-changing bakers, and bread appeared in the Magna Carta a half-century earlier.

* Real Ale Festival in Chicago, Illinois, includes categories for mead as well as cider and perry.

Porter had refined the recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale alongside chemist Archie Jones over a period of three years.

The company cited the general fall in the market for beer, over-capacity in its plants in general, and the fact that the Dunston site was currently operating at just 60 % capacity, despite the fact that sales of Newcastle Brown Ale had never been higher.

Geordies know Newcastle Brown Ale as " Dog " ( alluding to the British euphemism of seeing a man about a dog ) or Broon ( Geordie accent for ' Brown ').

In April 2010, Heineken USA introduced the Wellington glass, branded as the " Geordie Schooner ," for Newcastle Brown Ale consumers in America.

In 1993, Adnams Extra won the Champion Beer of Britain ( CBOB )-an award presented by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) at the annual Great British Beer Festival.

* Royal Wedding Ale, a 4. 1 % abv ale with Heather Honey, brewed for the wedding in 2011 of HRH Prince William and Catherine Middleton

It raised fears as to the future of Gales ' Horndean brewery and some of its beers, and the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) launched a campaign to encourage Fullers to continue production of the full Gales line at Horndean.

* Hamm's Beer: Winner of the 2007 Gold Medal for American-Style Lager and the 2010 Gold Medal for American-Style Specialty Lager or Cream Ale or Lager at the Great American Beer Festival

; 7 Up Gold: 7 Up Gold was marketed for a short time in 1988 as a spice-flavored beverage, similar to Vernor's Ginger Ale.

* Genesee Cream Ale, a brand name for several beers produced by the Genesee Brewing Company ( High Falls Brewing Company from 2000 to 2009 )

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

A cornerstone of the Chichester music scene is Chichester RAJF ( From " Real Ale and Jazz Festival "), a four day festival of music and real ale held each July in tents beside the 13th century Guildhall in Priory Park.

In 2012, Summer Ale ( 4. 4 %) and Founder's Ale ( 4. 8 %) were launched in Tescos across the UK.

* Diamond Ale, a 4. 1 % abv beer, brewed with Pale Ale and Premium Cara malts, with Sovereign hops and locally-sourced honey, produced to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II

In 2012, a seven-year-old tavern, Ale Mary's, received controversy when a Facebook page was established a few weeks ago demanding that relics ( which can be made suitable for secular display by a certain process ) on display there be returned to the Catholic Church ; the owner, Tom Rivers, has received threats because of the unique situation.

2012 saw the introduction of the Quarterly Favourites range featuring the four most popular beers from the 2011 Signature Ale range.

Esquire magazine selected Fat Tire Amber Ale as one of the " Best Canned Beers to Drink Now " in a February, 2012 article.

* " Tam Lyn " by The Watersons on the 1993 CD reissue of their album For Pence and Spicy Ale " and also on their 2004 4CD anthology " Mighty River of Song "

In 2008, Alexia released her first studio album in four years entitled Ale and a new record deal with Edel.

John Foreman sang a version on the album The Tale of Ale, a compilation of English drinking songs.

* Birch Bock Brewed in Juneau, Alaska by the Alaskan Brewing Company as a " Limited Edition Specialty Ale "

* Bold Forester Spring Ale 4. 2 % alcohol by volume

* Boondoggle Summer Ale 4. 0 % alcohol by volume

* Huffkin Autumn Ale 4. 4 % alcohol by volume

* XXXX Porter Winter Ale 4. 7 % alcohol by volume

* Seventy Eight Spring Ale 4. 2 % alcohol by volume, special brew produced in 2008 to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the brewery.

* Whitstable Bay is an Organic Ale which has an elegant, light flavour and is backed by the traditionally farmed, English malted barley and organic hops from New Zealand, which fuse to produce a bittersweet flavour with floral overtones and a dry finish.

Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Newcastle Brown Ale was originally created by Lt.

On 13 October 2009 it was announced by Scottish & Newcastle that it planned to close the Dunston brewery in 2010, moving production of Brown Ale to the John Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster also.

Newcastle Brown Ale is traditionally sold in Britain by the pint ( 20 fl oz, 568 ml ) and more recently in 550 ml ( 19. 4 fl oz, 0. 97 pint ) bottles.

Among the real ales brewed by Eldridge Pope Limited were Royal Oak and Hardy's Ale ; these were chiefly associated with the era of Denis Edwin Holliday, head brewer at Eldridge Pope Limited throughout the 1960s and 70s.

Three Ring Time, a comedy-variety show sponsored by Ballantine Ale, was followed by a 1943 program sponsored by Campbell's Soups.

The first product in the Royal Crown line was Chero-Cola in 1905, followed by Royal Crown Ginger Ale, Royal Crown Strawberry, and Royal Crown Root Beer.

The club's shirt sponsor has been Newcastle based bank Northern Rock since 2003, but prior to this, they had been sponsored at different times by ntl: Telewest, Newcastle Brown Ale and Greenall's.

* Mad Anthony Ale ( Mad Anthony's APA ), an American Pale Ale ( APA ) brewed by the Erie Brewing Companyin Erie, Pennsylvania

The yearly beer festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ), was held at the theatre until 2008.