Saturday, 20 March 2021

Fifty Years of Beer






So what now for CAMRA?




  1. What few appear to accept is the basic founding ideas of the campaign are born from a bourgeois concern. Who would have the time to be concerned about whether a style of beer survived in pubs?

    A concern that may have been relevant to middle class professional people in the 70s or 80s. If there is a dearth of active young members it is because the young bourgeois do not share those concerns and likely have new ones of their own. The failure to embrace young drinkers with an interest in craft keg beer has likely ostracised those that care enough about beer and are inclined to bother to volunteer. Craft festivals like IndyMan are largely volunteered by young people supporting private companies.

    Whilst cask beer may be in rude health you cannot ignore that it is now an irrelevant product to most of working-class Britain who prefer mainstream keg lager brands. Cask beer is the drink of the middle-class public-sector guardian reader, not the people.

  2. How strange to suggest that middle-class, public-sector, Guardian readers are not people!