What real ale related organisations exist?
Campaign for Real Ale: (email:camra@camra.org.uk) 230 Hatfield Rd., St Albans Herts AL1 4LW, UK. (http://www.camra.org.uk/) With over 85,000 members, CAMRA the Campaign For Real Ale is the UK’s biggest and most well known real ale organisation. CAMRA runs beer festivals including Britain’s biggest the Great British Beer Festival and produces the Good Beer Guide. Members receive a monthly newspaper What’s Brewing. CAMRA’s heart is its numerous local branches. The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood. (secretary@spbw.com) (http://www.spbw.com) This is Britain’s oldest real ale organisation with similar aims to CAMRA but on a much smaller scale.