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 © Campaign for Real Ale (Plymouth Branch) 2008

Welcome to the Plymouth CAMRA website

Next Event

Sat 29 June 2013

Tamar Valley Line Real Ale Trail, meet at train station at 1030 for 1059 train to Gunnislake. Return trains are 1729 and 1917.

We meet regularly, usually on a Wednesday night.
More information and diary dates here.

We also have a discussion group on Google and a Facebook page. If you need any assistance in joining or accessing these please email the Membership Secretary membership@plymouthcamra.org.uk

Many thanks to all involved who dedicated their time to make the 2012 Beer Festival at the Pavilions run smoothly. We hope that all of you who visited this year enjoyed the changes that have been made as a result of your feedback.

We look forward to seeing you all again next year -
provisional dates are Friday 12th and Saturday 13th 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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The 2013 Good Beer Guide is now available.

Prices start at just £10 (members only) for the paperback edition. To purchase your copy please visit our online store.

Save your pint!

The beer duty escalator was introduced by the last Government in 2008, and is currently in place until 2014/15. It means that beer duty is automatically increased by 2% above inflation every single year.

As a result, tax on beer has gone up by over 40% since 2008. You now pay over a third of your pint on tax.

Any more increases in beer duty will increase the pressure on pubs already struggling to survive and damage the long term ability of the beer and pub sector to continue contributing over £6 billion a year in duty and VAT, and over £21 billion to the UK’s GDP.

CAMRA is calling for the Chancellor to abandon the unfair beer duty escalator in the next Budget.

What is Real Ale?

Real ale is beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide.

Real ale is also known as 'cask-conditioned beer', 'real cask ale', 'real beer' and 'naturally conditioned beer'. The term 'real ale' and the above definition were coined by CAMRA. Real ale comes in bottles too!. It is beer which continues to ferment, mature and condition within the bottle. It contains a visible amount of viable yeast cells together with sufficient fermentable sugars for this to take place..