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SkyNews piece - CAMRA, Protz, Fuller's, ZeroDegs.

I think this piece might have got bumped from the SkyNews schedule, due to the shocking events in Montreal yesterday. I

t's a short piece - but nice & positive, following on from the launch of GBG2007, it appears on their website in text here

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with a 2.15min video here

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It shows footage of Zerodegrees' shiny Bristol brewplant & German brewer, Martin, plus Roger Protz, someone from Fuller's & the chap from the Real Ale shop, Twickenham (&

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Rumour has it they were planning on filming at Spitting Feathers nr Chester,

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but it doesn't seem to have come to anything, cheers, MikeMcG. snipped-for-privacy@betwixtbeer.co.uk
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MikeMcG
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Excellent piece Mike

Peter Peter

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Peter Alexander

Nice advert for real ale, but most of the beer shown at realale.com was pasteurised, filtered bottled beer. (Not a criticism of realale.com I hasten to add, rather of the ignorance of whoever put this clip together.) And I have my doubts about the last "real ale" dispensed, given the dispense type. And at least one of the sparklers is far too tight - maybe shouldn't even be there at all. Unless you like a good pint of foam that is. ;-)

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BrianW

I only noticed Melbourn's, but I don't blame SamSmith's for filtering that, really. That said it is odd that a shop/website calling itself that shouild stock anything else.

I was just pleasantly surprised that it wasn't a downbeat "death if the pub/brewery/civilisation" piece, or indeed a "beards & sandals brigade"-style piece. That they might not have been informed of what makes a good bottled beer really real didn't bother me.

agreed it was badly poured (first pint out I think) but if you check GBG, you should see that ZeroDegs' bizarre brewing/serving methods manage to get the thumbs up (unfiltered, unpasteurised, naturally carbonated & served by air pressure, from serving tanks lined with enormaous plastic bags - & I'm not making this up!).

The previous poster came to the London branch when I worked there, so can confirm the above (though back then we had a leaky valve on 1 fermenter, so had to top up the lager with a touch of bottled co2).

(Hi Pete, glad you liked the link - I take it you didn't make it to Wirral the other week? Really nice fest, but way busy) Cheers MikeMcG

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MikeMcG

I had another look at the piece & spotted the following beers -

Alaskan Smoked Porter (RA?) Brakspear Organic (RA) Hopback SL (RA) Hopback Entire (RA) Hopback Crop Circle (RA) Nethergate Growler (has been sold as both, IIRC) Vale Wychert (RA) Vale Hadda's (RA) Cropton(?) Uncle Sam's (RA) Cropton Monkman's Slughter (RA) Black Isle - Various (RA?) Wolf - unidentified (RA) Plus Fuller's (& Gale's) beers in keg, bottle (not RA) & cask. & Zerodegs' (all RA, even the lager, apart from not being an ale, that is)

not so bad IMO, Mike.

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MikeMcG

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