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WE ALL DRINK (REAL ALE) TOGETHER
It is a wonderful thing to greet you as the
new Young Members Contact after Hattie
Rowling became the branch secretary.
It’s very promising that our branch now
has quite a few young members on the
committee – Peter Marquis, Membership
Secretary and Elspeth Winthorpe, Cider/
Perry Officer - certainly hope that we can
bring new ideas and make the campaign
more engaging to younger people.
I am happy I discovered real ale in
my 20’s as there is such a variety of styles
and flavours which I hadn’t experienced
before dabbling with it. It started off with
one of my friends introducing me to it
then I learnt about the campaign at a
conference I attended which showed how
we campaign to keep pubs open and how
they along with breweries can grow and
thrive, this inspired me to join CAMRA.
I certainly didn’t expect to find a beer
that tasted like the leftover milk from a
bowl of coco pops, but there it was at
Sunderland Beer Festival a few months
back (Coco Pop by Hambleton Ales).
Sometimes people don’t go for the
real ale because they don’t know if they
will like it, you never know unless you give
it ago. It’s certainly not a drink exclusive to
those adorned with a beard and sandals.
Lots of places sell it through the area.
In Wetherspoon some are as little as
£1.90 a pint.
Speaking of Wetherspoon, if you are
a young person under 26 or a member of
a university real ale society, you can join
CAMRA for £19 (£17 by Direct Debit) or
if you have just snuck past the age of 26
(like myself) its £27 (£25 by Direct Debit)
and you get £20 worth of Wetherspoon
discount coupons off Real Ale & Cider.
For those of you who attend one of our
two great universities both of them have
real ale societies, so you may consider
joining them and I’m sure they have some
exciting trips and events planned.
Newcastle University has the Newcastle
University Real Ale and Cider Appreciation
Society as well as Europe’s first student
run microbrewery StuBrew, which
recently celebrated its fourth birthday as
well as collaborating with our CAMRA
branch to deliver ‘Core Curriculum’, their
latest cider. Northumbria University has
the Northumbria University Real Ale and
Cider Society.
Anyway, I hope I will see you soon.
Come along to one of our bus trips or
wanders, it’s basically a pub crawl around
real ale establishments getting a idea of
what pubs we should consider for Pub
of the Year (POTY), Club of the year
(COTY) and the Good Beer Guide.
(Check out the branch diary on page
4 for more information).
If you are already a member, great!
Look out for an email coming out about
our younger members December Wander.
If you are a member of another branch -
but at studying or working up here - drop
me an email and I’ll be sure to invite you!
Anthony McMullen
Young Members Contact
youngmembers@cannybevvy.co.uk
Anthony hard at work
Issue 246 • Winter 2018
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