“’Cos I’m a CAMRA man, CAMRA man, CAMRA man”
So… what do we know about CAMRA?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
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Archie Dream Walker
Not to be mistaken with CAMERA!! Lol…my ‘dad’ always told me how,9months before I was born, his camera bag was stolen from a Belfast carpark…..is it any wonder I believe one of the men in hmhb(who all have names that link to ‘cross’) is my true real BIOLOGICAL father???!!!!
28 March 2014
Brumbiscuit
Judging by the number of ale-swilling, DPAS-wearing punters at the Olde White Rose in Bilston on the one occasion they had sufficient barstaff, I’d wager that many HMHB fans are members or have leanings in that direction; perhaps even CAMRA-curious.
I get my £20-worth of Wetherspoons vouchers every year with my membership card, which is nice, but I always seem to have some left.
I have ventured along to a CAMRA social meeting in my time. It’s the kind of thing you do once unless you have a yearning to be like these gents.
28 March 2014
Poolio
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28 March 2014
EXXO
Joint CAMRA membership at £28 is value if you go to a few beer festivals together (free/discount entry) and use a few of the Wetherspoons vouchers. Some beer festivals want their samplers, erm I mean volunteers, to be members.
It’s a clever deal that Wetherspoons one though cos you can only use one 50p voucher per visit, so it would take 40 visits to use all your vouchers. Mrs Exford and I find that by approaching different barstaff from different angles at the same time before they realise we are together we can get away with only 20 annual visits.
Small victories against the corporate giants eh.
28 March 2014
Third Rate Les
I do often wonder if “The Real Ale Tw*ts” in Viz is directly inspired by the song CAMRA Man.
Not as funny as it used to be, mind you
28 March 2014
Featureless tv producer steve
Very little of this song makes sense to your Ignorant American here – but man, Cheap Trick’s Live at Budokan was HUGE when I was in high school in rural Michigan in 1978. We all knew all the lyrics to “Surrender” and “I want You to Want Me.” Nobody quite knew why, but jeeze, we loved it.
29 March 2014
cardinal RIchelieu
I attended a CAMRA event in Colne a couple of months back. I was labouring under the misapprehension that CAMRA involved a bunch of mostly guys sipping small glasses of ale and comparing tasting notes. Whereas in actual fact it was a bunch of mostly guys knocking back pint after pint and get absolutely rat-arsed.
29 March 2014
oh de kamptown races moo this tune moo dah moo dah
“Joint CAMRA membership at £28 is value if you go to a few beer festivals together” – not really as the divorce settlements would far outweigh the benefits of meandering round an assortment of pump clips at the Nelson & Colne Beer Festival with a half of Old Snodgrass in hand and the money off vouchers you get to redeem in the Sir Jeremy Kyle on the Market Square.
29 March 2014
Brumbiscuit
And joint membership only gives you one lot of vouchers. Two single memberships would double that, though it would commit you to visiting them more often. Now, if they were all like the one I visited in Ledbury, fine, but many of them are like the pokey hole in Acock’s Green I used to frequent, not fine.
30 March 2014
Guest Informant
I’d like to start a Campaign for Surreal Ale but on seeing Stewart Lee going on about craft ales with names such as Bevis’s Frond and Noel’s Chemical Effluent I’d have to say I’ve been beaten to it.
27 April 2014
Batley’s very own… Steve malkmus
In the King’s Head at Huddersfield station (the inn sign is a picture of Jimi Hendrix for some reason) earlier, I noticed an innkeeper’s trade mag on the back of the bar… Not sure if it’s a Camra publication but the title “The Imbiber” made me chuckle to myself.
8 October 2015
Squawk wars
Jimi Hendrix was responsible for the Esher parakeet invasion. Around 7000 parakeets-ronankeets would roost on the stands, floodlight pylons and trees around Esher Rugby ground creating an unusual sight for rugby fans with their pre-dusk swooping. The rugby club was however unhappy with them shite-ing all over the pitch so had all the trees chopped down so the parakeets decamped to an old dears back garden – she was getting in a panic as it was costing her all her pension to feed them. All 7000 parakeets are said to be descendants of two that were released in 1969 by Jimi Hendrix. They are now officially pests and you can shoot them.
9 October 2015
hendrix-tattoo
‘Ugly frontage? Don’t even think it’
The station sounds good It’s a CAMRA Man (q.v) boozer
https://whatpub.com/pubs/HUL/HUL207/station-inn-hull
31 October 2017
professor Abelazar Woozle
Digging up Guest Informant’s comment above, the idea that there ought to be a Campaign for Surreal Ale has been kicking round my head for some years too. To that end, I’m in the process of giving the CAMRA logo the Dali treatment in Adobe Illustrator, with the intent of getting the end result onto a t-shirt.
I also think that it’s high time someone brewed Dr. O’Reilly’s Blitzkrieg Messerschmidt 109…
11 January 2021
EXXO
https://untappd.com/b/bowness-bay-brewing-dr-o-reilly-s-blitzkreig/3488004
I’ll probably be up for that T-shirt, depending on design and price.
12 January 2021
Alice van der meer
Me too!
12 January 2021
professor Abelazar Woozle
I don’t think that Dr. O’ Reilly’s is a match for the Viz original, and the customer testimonials… http://viz.co.uk/2014/09/30/dr-oreillys-blitzkreig-ale/
As for doing a t-shirt, I’ll put the finished design up online when I’ve got it sorted to my satisfaction. I’ve had a look at possible costs and depending on the numbers, I think it’ll be somewhere between £10 and £18. Price will also depend on whether it’s done by the more traditional method of screen printing or inkjet, but I’m not sure how durable the latter is – can anyone comment from experience?
12 January 2021
dr desperate
And perhaps a CAMUA?
https://www.baconbeer.co.uk/listing-22-cooking-with-beer-book.html
13 January 2021
tony fryer
Still not dead yet.
Regarding Viz and T shirts, way back when I was doing my bit with the PA system, one of the bands we used to do regularly was The Buttermountain Boys, a fine outfit out of York. One of their mates used to do some artwork for Viz and he did a T shirt for the band with the legend “Viz apparently presents The Buttermountain Boys” with a drawing of the band underneath. Still got mine, bit small now though. Probably a collectors’ item now.
14 January 2021
professor Abelazar Woozle
Was that drawing on the cover of a tape they put out? I’ve got a copy of it lurking somewhere…
Yes, the Buttermountains were a fine band back in the day, used to see them and You Slosh (one time Bad Shepherd Troy Donockley’s original band) at the Stage Door in Scarborough.
14 January 2021