{"id":38232,"date":"2017-11-14T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=38232"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:35:47","slug":"uk-beer-debate-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2017\/11\/14\/uk-beer-debate-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pub debate returns for another round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hopbunker<\/a> pub on Queen Street is set to host another edition of the UK Beer Debate following the success of the inaugural event last year.<\/p>\n

Industry experts, journalists, brewers and pub enthusiasts of all sorts came together at last year\u2019s event after the International Manchester Beer Convention<\/a> turned sour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussion lost its way somewhat and became rather heated and volatile!\u201d said Waen Brewery\u2019s Sue Hayward, on the Manchester event. \u201cOn my return, I decided to sort another and revisit the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following the success of the first debate, Sue\u2019s looking forward to this year\u2019s edition on 26 November, which will focus on the hotly disputed reform plans at the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s become such a heated issue as so many breweries are now vying for trade,\u201d said Sue. \u201cSome craft breweries see CAMRA as supporting the pubs buying cheap beer and not fully understanding the intricacies of newer style brewing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many breweries, including Sue\u2019s own Waen Brewery, have had to close in the past few years following an influx of cheaper brews that have quite literally oversaturated the market. And with the recent rise in the number of craft ales, some have questioned whether CAMRA should broaden its scope.<\/p>\n

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The organisation, which has always championed cask-matured ales and the traditional British pub, announced in 2016 that they were planning a \u2018Revitilisation Project\u2019 to review their purpose. There are even suggestions that they have achieved their initial goals and are therefore no longer relevant, though this is also fiercely rebuked.<\/p>\n

\u201cReal ale and pubs have a unique and personal synergy,\u201d said Julian Grocock, former chief executive at SIBA. \u201cI do not accept that our greatest ever consumer movement\u2019s relevance has been superseded by the modern craft industry \u2013 and I will explain my reasoning at the debate!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UK Beer Debate is returning for a second year with a stellar group of journalists, brewers and pub-goers ready to talk about CAMRA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":38362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,162],"tags":[158,1335,699,2021,3036,70,453],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-food-home","tag-bar","tag-beer","tag-camra","tag-debate","tag-discussion","tag-drink","tag-pub"],"yoast_head":"\nThe UK Beer Debate returns to Cardiff to discuss CAMRA reform<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following the success of last year's event, the debate returns to the Hopbunker for an afternoon of 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