40 YEARS OF RAIL ALE RAMBLES

摘要

REAL ale and rail travel somehow go together, especially with heritage railways, which often hold beer festivals at stations or on board trains. Both interests appeal to people who love tradition and want to support it in the face of an increasingly corporate world. Heritage railways started to develop in the 1960s, and by the 1970s real ale was just as much under threat as steam a decade earlier, with the big brewers switching to mass-produced but far less tastier keg. The (lampaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) was founded in 1971, when parts of the country were becoming real ale 'deserts' as small independent breweries were bought up and asset-stripped, a trend only recently reversed.