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 © Campaign for Real Ale (Plymouth Branch) 2008

There are now 4 breweries in production in the Plymouth CAMRA area, which are Dartmoor, Garage, Plymouth Beer Company and Summerskills.

The Dartmoor Union brewery , situated at the Dartmoor Union, Holbeton moved to a new site just inside our branch boundary in South Brent and is now simply called the Union Brewery.

A new brewery called Tavy Ales is also in the process of setting up in the Roborough area.

The brewery at The College of Further Education, which lay dormant following the untimely death of the brewer Roger Pengelly resumed production under the name "Plymouth Beer Company".

The Garage Brewery is located in a garage across the road from the London Inn, Plympton.

The Sutton Brewery relocated to Stokenham in 2004 and was renamed South Hams Brewery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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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..