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.
Tynemill replaced by "Castle Rock". Many of Tynemill's establishments are run as tenancies rather than managed public houses. Tynemill Tynemill is a British pub chain based in the East Midlands and Yorkshire. It was founded in 1977 by former Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) chairman Chris Holmes. Their first pub was the "Old King Arms" in Newark. Tynemill has won the "Pub Group of the Year" award in 2002, 2006, and 2008. They operate several pubs or cafe bar establishments which all have a policy of selling cask beers from regional and local microbreweries. Tynemill also owns and operates the Castle