Exeter Real Ale Festival
From the collection of
From the collection of
Del Cooper reports from the Exeter Real Ale Festival and talks its organiser Alan Major. Ale includes bitter, mild, stout and pale, golden or old ale and is the traditional method for brewing British beer. In the late sixties and early seventies craft beer was losing out to large breweries and the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale was set up in 1971 by Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin and Bill Mellor. In 1973 it became the Campaign for Real Ale or CAMRA.