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

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

In 2010 he contributed to the book 1001 Beers You Must Try Before You Die ( edited by Adrian Tierney-Jones, Quintessence ) and in 2011 published his own first book, The CAMRA Guide to London's Best Beer, Pubs and Bars ( CAMRA Books ).

CAMRA defines perry and pear cider as quite different drinks, stating that " pear cider " as made by the large industrial cidermakers is merely a pear-flavoured drink, or more specifically a cider-style drink flavoured with pear concentrate, whereas " perry " should be made by traditional methods from perry pears only.

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

CAMRA developed the " National Beer Scoring Scheme " ( NBSS ) as an easy to use scheme for judging beer quality in pubs, to assist CAMRA branches in selecting pubs for the Good Beer Guide.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

The Wenlock Arms is a renowned cask ale public house in London, and has been named North London Pub of the Year by the local CAMRA branch on four occasions since it reopened in 1994.

* Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ), The Regional Inventory for London, Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest.

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.

In 2009, CAMRA announced that it had reached the 100, 000 members mark and has since surpassed the 144, 000 members mark.

CAMRA is organised on a federal basis, with numerous independent local branches, each covering a particular geographical area of the UK, that contribute to the central body of the organisation based in St Albans.

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.

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.

The " CAMRA Pub Heritage Group " is a group established to identify, record and help protect pub interiors of historic and / or architectural importance, and seeks to get them listed, if not already.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.