Campaign for Real Ale Campaign for Real Ale The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes real ale, real cider and the traditional British pub. With over 191,000 members, it is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU). The organisation was founded in 1971 in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland by Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin, and Bill Mellor, who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.
Hail to the Ale, Wolverhampton Pub of the Year [2015], West Midlands County Pub of the Year awards [2015 & 2017] and Wolverhampton CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year [2018]. The micropub was also named in the Daily Telegraph's Thirsty Thirty pubs list, picked by the writers of the Pint to Pint column in the newspaper's Weekend supplement. Hail to the Ale, Wolverhampton Hail to the Ale is a micropub at Claregate, Wolverhampton, WV6 9JN. The pub is owned by Gary and Angela Morton of Morton Brewery, based in nearby Essington, Staffordshire. The pub was the first micropub to open in the West Midlands, opening