Welcome to the Furness Branch of The Campaign for Real Ale You can scroll text in each box if there is more than you can see! Cask ale Petition Please Sign the Petition! "Following the UK’s ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we call on the Government to recognise production and serving of traditional British cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage." This not a CAMRA initiative but we fully support it. If you appreciate Cask Ale and all that surrounds it you should visit: Support Cask Ale as an Intangible Cultural Heritage This is a Government page where you can read a bit more and sign the petition as well as following how many people have signed it. Also, look out for the Craft Beer Channel - they are on social media platforms so you can follow them to see how things are shaping up. They are the ones who started the petition. May is Mild Month Look out for the delights of Mild - not as easy to find as it used to be but worth it to sample the delights of a beer that is a bit different from the popular offerings these days. Not full of hops and with a lower alcohol content than a lot of the heavyweights on the beer scene, Milds can be a really great choice if you are into the darker beers without the alcohol hit of things like Baltic Porter! You can find 'light milds' too which are a lighter colour but still have the feeling of a mild. Indie Beer CAMRA is supporting IndieBeer which is focussed on Independent Breweries rather than the global players. If you want to know if your beer is produced by an independent brewery rather than a Global Corporation then this is the site that you need. Find out if the beer you are drinking is produced by an Indie or not by going to their website on Indie Beer. Support your local independent breweries - we need them! Real Cider Producers CAMRA has a definition of what is real cider (you can find this and more information on the main CAMRA website - the link is at the bottom of our Cider and Perry Page) but as a helper, this is what we have as a list as of February 2025. Have a look and see if the cider in your pub conforms to the definition Real Cider Producers Feb 2025. Newsflashes 2025 Branch Pub of the Year is The Swan Inn, Ulverston. This is the second year that they have been awarded this so well done Sarah and Lewis! InnQuirer Newsletter A Branch Newsletter is now being produced on a regular(ish) basis with snippets of news. It is not being emailed out but can be viewed/downloaded directly from our InnQuirer web page. Note: this on a separate website but run officially by our Webmaster Logan Beck Success At CBoB Brilliant news for Alex Douglas, Logan Beck Brewery, who have just picked up the Gold award at CAMRA's Champion Beer of Britain (Session Bitter) for Proper - a 4.0% abv English Bitter. Alex is producing some great beers and it is good that he is getting national recognition for his efforts. More Awards for our local brewers Cumbrian Ales have won two awards at the SIBA Beer Awards 2024, in the regional bottle/can competition. Vanilla Oatmeal Stout won GOLD in the Stout & Porter category Loweswater Gold won SILVER in the Session Pale Ale category Branch Trips and Outings Pictures from our Trips (not all of them!) are on the: Trips and Tours page. Branch Presentations See the latest presentations for CAMRA awards for Furness pubs and breweries on the Presentations page. And that's not all Don't forget to check back here regularly as we update the website as things change! IMPORTANT - Handpump Hijack CAMRA has launched a campaign to raise awareness of Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company’s (CMBC) Fresh Ale concept, which sells keg versions of three of its cask beers through handpumps – long associated with real ales. We need all members to get involved in helping CAMRA with the campaign to identify pubs where this 'Fresh' ale fake handpump is used as it has a major impact on whether that pub can be considered for inclusion in the next Good Beer Guide, or even remain in the current Guide. 'Misleading Dispense' is one of the areas that CAMRA takes very seriously. To read more about this, visit CAMRA's dedicated page here: . Pub Surveys Before inclusion in the Good Beer Guide, pubs need to be surveyed to make sure that the information that we have is up-to-date. It is an important task and we need all of our active members to get involved if they can. To make this task a little simpler, we have created a PDF form for you to fill out when you are checking the pub out. It needn't be a complex task as all we need to do is find out if anything has changed. If you have the latest version of the GBG to hand, you can see what we have currently on record for all pubs so you probably only need to make some updates and even if nothing has changed, you can send in a form or just let us know nothing has changed so we know that the pub has been surveyed! You can download this form and a copy from the front page of the GBG with helpful instructions on what information we need. To download the form, here is the link: Pubs Survey Form
