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ALE May-July 2010 No. 345: The Brown Stuff: R.I.P.; Empress Takes The Crown; Vincent Is Our First Champ; Another Great Festival; Pickled Pig Prevails; Co-ale-ition – What Next?; Pub News; Oriental News; Cambridge’s Cosiest Pub - the Radegund; My Round(s); Grubbing Around with Paul & Jane - the George Babraham
ALE March-April 2010 No. 344: The Beer Festival is Coming; Mild Month; Another Great Winterfest; A Lifeline for Pubs?; The Brown Stuff: Where have the Games Gone?; Pub News, Mar-Apr; Pub Review: Queens Head Newton Revisited; Renewing Acquaintance; Night on the Keg Revisited; Children in Pubs - the Debate Continues
ALE January-February 2010 No. 343: Portland Arms Reprieve; OFT – The Battle Goes On; The Brown Stuff: Action is Essential!; The Brown Stuff: Shutting the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted; Pub News, Jan-Feb; The Devonshire Arms; The Green Man Is Back - Grantchester; A Plug for the Bath House; Thai'd Houses!; Letter to the Editor - Babies & Children; Grubbing Around with Rosie - Carlton Arms; Weekend Delirium in Brussels
ALE November-December 2009 No. 342: Real Beer is the Best; The Brown Stuff : Fairness to All!; National AGM : Join the Island Invasion; City Pubs - the Losses Mount; Pub News, Nov-Dec; Grubbing around with Paul & Jane; An Un-nappy Experience; The Panton Brewery Remembered; The Boys on Tour! – The Peak District
ALE August-October 2009 No. 341: The Brown Stuff : Quality, That’s the Ticket!; An Evening with Everards; Book Review : Cambridgeshire's Best Pubs by Ted Bruning; Pub News; The Sun Rises - The Sun, Waterbeach; Pub Review : The White Swan Stow-Cum-Quy; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane - The Chequers, Pampisford; Pub Review : The Rainbow & Dove, Hastingwood, nr M11; Ale of Man; The Lambic Monster gets to Prague
ALE June-July 2009 No. 340: LocAle Launched; Beer Festival Breaks Records; The Brown Stuff : Taking Stock of the Situation; Greene King’s Kambridge Kull (Kancelled); Pub News, June-July; Letter to the Editor : Waggon & Horses Correction; Catching Up; mALE and femALE visit the Globe; GWA Revisited; Pressing Investigation; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane
ALE April-May 2009 No. 339: The Festival Is Coming; White Horse First Past The Post; The Brown Stuff : Stella Artois Tops The Poll!; National Noodlings; News of the Brews; Pub News, April-May; Best Pubs - Twenty Years On; Pub Review : Waggon & Horses, Milton; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; Why I'm A Member of CAMRA
ALE January-March 2009 No. 338: Meeting Mr Moonshine; Real Ale Ramblings; Letter to the Editor : Binge Drinking; The Brown Stuff : Binge Drinking , The Answer!; Pub News, January-March; mALE AND FemALE; A Stroll Into Town; Rooms At The Top; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane
ALE November-December 2008 No. 337: Think Green, Drink Green : Suffolk Leads The Way; LocAle Update; The Brown Stuff : Pride in Binge Drinking!; Pub News, November-December; Pies and Pints - Perfect Pear; Unsung Heroes; On the Campaign Trail: Flying the Kite; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; National Newsbites
ALE September-October 2008 No. 336: The Brown Stuff: The Parable of Molie; Pub News, September-October; Elvis Has Entered The Building; Red Lion Roars Again; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; Mac's Magical Mystery Tour
ALE July-August 2008 No. 335: Big is Beautiful; The Brown Stuff: Cyder, That's The Thing!; LocAle - Drink Beer, help save the planet; Pub News, July-August; Carlton - Business as usual; On the Campaign Trail: Mill Road Cambridge, part 1; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; Central London Pubs; The Boys Hit The Coast!
ALE May-June 2008 No. 334: Bell Chimes with Judges; The Brown Stuff: Disaster Looms!; News of the Brews; Pub News, May-June; Tea, Thwaites, Tiddlers and Toddlers; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; The Lambic Monster Goes Brewery Bonkers in Bamberg
ALE March-April 2008 No. 333: Budget Fury; The Brown Stuff: Always Keep The Bible Close; Minutes of the South Pidleyshire CAMRA Branch Meeting; Greene King - a History : Part Two; Pub News, March-April; Histon Revisited; Grubbing Around with Paul and Jane; The Boys Hit Grantchester!; A Pub Walk around Belgravia and Mayfair
ALE January-February 2008 No. 332: Trouble Brewing; Community Pubs week; The Brown Stuff: Increase the Duty on Beer!; Civilised and Binge Drinking; Greene King - a History; Pub News; Real Ale for the Chop; The Boys Revisit The Beer Quarter; Campaign Trail - The Willingham Wander; Letter: Real Ale Meccas
ALE November-December 2007 No. 331: All Change at the Blue; Bright Future for Real Ale; Checking the Checkers; The Brown Stuff: A Year On!; News of the Brews; Pub News; Coming Up Trumps; Wheatsheaf Reborn; Britain's Real Ale Meccas - One Man's View; The Boys at the GBBF!
ALE September-October 2007 No. 330: Mr George Bateman; Community Pub of the Year Chosen; Local Beers for Local People, take 2; The Brown Stuff: What About the Empire!; Wholesale Committment to Real Ale; Pub News; Zebra Takes Pole Position; Isolated Edith; The Old Gits London Break
ALE July-August 2007 No. 329: GBBF Hits Thirty; Cambridgeshire Sweeps The Board - Cider; The Brown Stuff: Reflection; Local Beers for Local People; An Essex Oasis - White Horse, Ridgewell; Wensleydale Surprise
ALE May-June 2007 No. 328: The Brown Stuff: Not A Sporting Choice; More To Life Than Leffe; A Night On The Keg
ALE March-April 2007 No. 327: We've A Job For You If?; Marcus Aurelius Wins Ale Battle - 11th Cambridge Winter Ale Festival; Beer and Skittles No More; The Brown Stuff: Where Have All the Animals Gone?; An Irked Geordie Writes; Kilderkin At The Double; News of the Brews; Community Pub of the Year; The Regal - Ripe for Reassessment?; The Lambic Monster in Berlin
ALE December-February 2007 No. 326: The Brown Stuff : Beginning and End of an Era; Signs of the Times; The Good Old Days?; Harveys Fans Lewes Out; A Drop of the Everards Stuff; Newts Help Save Pub; Pub Review: The Queens Head, Newton
ALE October-November 2006 No. 325: Good Beer Guide Tells All : Oops! : Your Shout!; Think You Know About Beer?; Another one Bites the Dust; The Brown Stuff : Time for Reflection; The Campaign Trail : The Southern Cross Tour; Deceived? Or not Bothered?; From The Diary of the Lambic Monster - Part Three
ALE August-September 2006 No. 324: Good Beer Guide - Over to You!; On the Campaign Trail; East Is Best; Cambridge Pubs - A Fresher's Guide; Pub Review - The Green Man Thriplow; Poacher Turned Ploughman; Southwold Revisited!; From The Diary of The Lambic Monster - Part Two
ALE May-July 2006 No. 323: Despite It All... - 33rd Cambridge Beer Festival; The Brown Stuff : 33rd Cambridge Beer Festival; The Live Triumphs Again; More Bitter Blows for Drinkers; Cider: the Best in the East; Dodgy Horse Trading - White Horse, West Wickham; Pub Closures - New Shock Figures; From the Diary of the Lambic Monster - Part One; Britain's Most Unspolt Club
ALE March/April 2006 No. 322: Third Biggest and Growing; Tutored Beer Tastings; The Brown Stuff : Licensing - Oh Dear!; Brownie Goes West! - Seattle; The Mysteries of the GBG; Smoking Ban - Boon, Bust or What?; More Trouble Brewing?; A Capital Question; Pub Review : The Blue Ball, Grantchester; New King of the Cassels
ALE January/February 2006 No. 321: Cambridge Winter Ale Festival 2006; The Brown Stuff : Old Dogs and New Tricks; Regional CAMRA Awards; 24-Hour Drinking - The Reality; A Taste of Greene King; Leave A Bitter Taste - Please!; Pubs In Time; Unique Pubs of East Anglia Number 8 : The Nags Head, Bishops Stortford; Central Nottingham Mini Pub Crawl
ALE November/December 2005 No. 320: Winter Festival On Its Way; The Brown Stuff: Sloppy Habits; Flintoff Recommends...; Three Of The Best - Linton; Heritage Pubs of Cambridge; Unique Pubs of East Anglia Number 7: The Painters Arms, Luton
ALE September/October 2005 No. 319: The Brown Stuff: Thank God for Watneys!; East Anglia Regional Inventory; Unique Pubs of East Anglia Number 6: St Peter's Hall, Suffolk
ALE July/August 2005 No. 318: Does Bland Beer Have Its Place?
ALE May/June 2005 No. 317: In Praise of Greene King - response; Licensing '24-hour' and Binge Drinking; Unique Pubs of East Anglia Number 5: The Cock, Broom, Bedfordshire
ALE February-April 2005 No. 316: Beer Quality; Pubs for All; Guest Beers; The Brown Stuff: Wine at the Bar; Unique Pubs of East Anglia, Number 4: The Hand and Heart, Peterborough
December 2004/January 2005 No. 315: In Praise of Greene King; Unique Pubs of East Anglia, Number 3: The Nutshell, Bury St Edmunds
Summer 2004 No. 314: Disability and Pubs; Greene King in the News Again; Hit List Revisited; Unique pubs of East Anglia, Number 2: The Berney Arms, Norfolk
Spring 2004 No. 313: Local Beers for Local Pubs and Saving Your Local; Cleanliness and Friendliness - the key to a popular pub; Unique Pubs of East Anglia, Number 1: The George and Dragon, Foulness, Essex
Winter 2003/04 No. 312: ALE - A History
Summer 2003 No. 311: The Brown Stuff: Beware the Enemy Within!; The Broad Arrow
No. 310: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival Programme: Festivals Past - a history of the Cambridge Beer Festival
ALE Spring 2003 No. 309: Licensing Bill; Licensing - a Brief History; The Brown Stuff: Biting the Hand That Feeds You!; The Grauniad: CAMRA's Zeitgeist?
ALE Winter 2002/2003 No. 308: Quantity or quality?; CAMRA Investment Club
Spring 2002 No. 305: Behind the Scenes at the Cambridge Beer Festival; Public House Viability Test
Autumn 2001 No. 304: Debates; Talk from David Waller of Cask Marque

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