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.
Cask ale small amount of CO to replace the oxygen in the cask. Not enough CO to push it up to the bar—that's "top pressure"—but enough "blanket pressure" to keep the beer fresh tasting for longer by replacing some or most of the oxygen that has made it into the cask with CO, an inert gas. The use of cask breathers was at first considered "extraneous carbon dioxide", so CAMRA did not endorse this method. However at its 2018 AGM and Members' Weekend in Coventry a motion to accept a neutral stance on the devices was passed. Broadly speaking, cask ale brewing