Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Speech Part 1

My name’s Paul Richards and I’m the Chairman of the Redditch and Bromsgrove branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. It’s a pleasure to be here with you today sampling some of our finest traditional cask-conditioned real ale and I hope you are all enjoying it.
Our organisation started over forty years ago when the development of lager began to outstrip the demand for real ale; and more licensees opted to sell commercially mass-produced watery beers that were fizzed up and chilled to death to take the taste out of them. Hops were replaced by bubbles. The pub landlord found that these new beers were much easier to look after and had a longer shelf life. And these mass-marketed beers all began to taste the same.   
Many people began to become increasingly concerned about the low flavour of these beers and wanted to see a better choice of British brewed beers at the bar.

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