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The Drip Tray

From the BusinessBalls Web site...

" Real Ale - for life-balance, healthy mind and body, and lessons about business development, markets, culture and quality". This article, seemingly an explanation of Real Ale for marketing types, contains some interesting sections, such as the British drinking culture and the success of CAMRA. But it also contains "Ten Reasons to Drink Real Ale" by Charles Foster - an excellent general introduction to Real Ale.

View from South Africa

This posting to uk.rec.food+drink.real-ale in January "The truth about CAMRA from a South African..." features an article by a South African wine journalist, who in turn quotes Pete Brown, author of Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer (Macmillan, 2003):

British bitter would probably be in even worse shape if not for CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale, a rag tag bunch of activists who agitated on behalf of barrel conditioned ales and traditional bitters. Brown reckons that bitter would be in even better shape if the CAMRA-istas weren't such anoraks: "bearded, beer-bellied, wear chunky-knit sweaters or tight, stained T-shirts, are pedantic, Luddite, and have trouble relating to girls". So the old, outdated stereotypes live on...

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