News : Cask Ale Week 2010

29th March to 5th April 2010 is National Cask Ale Week.

Help us celebrate Britain’s National Drink during this year’s National Cask Ale Week.

From March 29th – 5th April the nation’s pubs will raise a glass to real ale to toast everything brilliant about beer.

Cask ale out performs almost every other drink on the bar :

*On trade figures show cask ale has a better year on year volume performance than standard lager, premium lager, even wine and spirits.

Growth in number of people drinking cask ale :

*Doubling in the number of female drinkers year on year.

*400,000 new cask ale drinkers in last 12 months - now 8.5 million drinkers

*31% of beer drinkers are now cask ale drinkers.

Cask ale - Britains National Drink :

*Record membership of CAMRA - now over 100,000

*Record attendance at beer festivals - 64,000 at the Great British Beer Festival in August 2009

*Increased positive media attention - two major TV series focusing largely on cask ale in 2008/2009

*More new brewery openings - now more UK breweries than at any time since the 1940's

The Beer Hall is the brewery tap and a showcase for real ale. It has a Cask Marque award for serving "the perfect pint" and is in The Good Beer Guide.
Open 7 days a week and in the evenings is for hire as a party venue. There is also a conference room, which seats 20.
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