CAMRA presents awards for beers and pubs, such as the National Pub of the Year, in which approximately 4, 000 active CAMRA members from 200 local branches vote for their favourite pub.

CAMRA maintains a " National Inventory " of historical notability and of architecturally and decoratively notable pubs.

Though unexciting on the outside, its interior is still today, a fine example of this type of architecture, and CAMRA has placed it in its National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest.

The Sair won the CAMRA National Pub of the Year Award in 1997.

The Harp in Chandos Place has received several awards, including London Pub of the Year in 2008 by the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, and National Pub of the Year by CAMRA in 2011.

* West Riding Licensed Refreshment Rooms ( on the platform at Dewsbury Station, 2006 runner up CAMRA National Pub of the Year )

CAMRA publishes the Good Beer Guide, an annually compiled directory of its recommended pubs and brewers ; the Good Cider Guide, an occasionally compiled directory of pubs that sell real Cider ; the Good Bottled Beer Guide, an occasionally compiled review of real ale in a bottle.

CAMRA members receive a monthly newspaper called What's Brewing and a quarterly colour magazine called Beer.

The best known CAMRA award is the Champion Beer of Britain, which is selected at the Great British Beer Festival, other awards include the Champion Beer of Scotland and the Champion Beer of Wales.

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.

It is listed in the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA )' s Good Beer Guide and the 2008 Good Pub Guide.

The Victoria Hotel and the Malt Shovel, on Union Street, both appear in the 2010 and 2011 editions of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide.

The trend toward larger brewing companies started to change during the 1970s when the popularity of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA )' s campaign for traditional brewing methods, and the success of Michael Jackson's World Guide to Beer, encouraged brewers in the UK such as Peter Austin to form their own small breweries or brewpubs.

Halesowen is home to two Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) Good Beer Guide listed pubs, the ' Hawne Tavern ' and the ' Waggon and Horses ,' both of which have won the local CAMRA branch Pub of the Year accolade in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

Lytham Beer Festival has been held annually in September since 2007, although this has moved to October in 2012 and is organised by the Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre branch of CAMRA.

The club also hosted the annual CAMRA Mansfield Beer Festival.

Pale Rider won the " Champion Beer of Britain " award at the 2004 Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) organised Great British Beer Festival.

For instance, the bottled Titanic Brewery's Stout beer's first award was Gold in the 1994 Guardian Bottled Beer of Britain, and most recently won 1ST Place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year 2009 ( Stout Category ).

Also Titanic's Iceberg Beer won its first award in 2002, achieving Gold in the CAMRA Champion Beer of the West Midlands category, and again most recently achieved 1ST Place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year ( Speciality Category ).

Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) in 1973 for a type of beer defined as " beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide ".

The use of cask breathers is considered " extraneous carbon dioxide ", so CAMRA does not endorse this method.

The scheme functions slightly differently in each area, and is managed by each branch, but the overall rule is that each participating pub is allowed to purchase beer from whatever brewery they wish, but if it the beer is to be promoted as a ' LocAle ' it must come from a brewery within a predetermined number of miles ( which is set by each CAMRA branch, but generally is around 20 or 25 miles, although, the North London branch has set it at 30 miles ) from brewery to pub door, even if it comes from a distribution centre further away ; in addition, each participating pub must keep at least one LocAle for sale at all times.

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.

CAMRA has established influence at national government level, including English Heritage, and has been designated by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a " super-complainant " to the Office of Fair Trading.

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

In Life, the Universe and Everything Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time ( or CamTim as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to CAMRA ) which tries to preserve events as they happened before time travelling was invented.

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.

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

In more recent years the are has become noted as leading the trend for the resurgence of back-to-basics, real ale pubs like the CAMRA award-winning Southampton Arms, the Pineapple, and Tapping the Admiral.

* CAMRA ( Campaign for Real Ale ) description of Barley Wine

In more recent years, commercial perry has also been referred to as " pear cider ", though some organisations ( such as CAMRA ) do not accept this as a name for the traditional drink.

Clarke is a lover of Real Ale and has been a member of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ).

The Junction Inn has won numerous awards including a CAMRA award for best pub.

The Lion Inn has won CAMRA awards for its real ales, the inn has activities including an annual beer festival, a cider and perry festival, the entering of a team in the Monmouth raft race and a Burns Night celebration.

CAMRA supports and promotes numerous beer and cider festivals around the country each year, which are organised by local CAMRA branches around the UK.

It also plays host to many events including the popular annual CAMRA beer festival.

They may engage in single-issue advocacy ( e. g., the British Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ), which campaigned against keg beer and for cask ale ) or they may set themselves up as more general consumer watchdogs, such as the Consumers ' Association in the UK.

This was a form of monopoly opposed by CAMRA, especially when the brewer forced poor beer onto the market owing to the lack of competition from better breweries.

The brewery re-launched their Emmerdale Ale as a lower-alcohol beer ( formerly 5 %) on 27 January 2006 at The Crown in Manfield for the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ).

He was an early member of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) in 1971, and has written several books on beer and pubs.

He was an early member of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) in 1971, and has written several books on beer and pubs.

The Great British Beer Festival ( GBBF ) is a yearly beer festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ).

CAMRA figures show that in 2006, over 66, 000 people visited the festival over the course of the week and consumed some 350, 000 pints of beer — one pint sold in less than half of every open second.

CAMRA held their first large beer festival in Covent Garden, London in September 1975.