Judging Pairing and Pop-ups
CAMRA welcomes crafty kegs I was pleased to see that, last year's AGM vote notwithstanding, in 2019 CAMRA seems finally to have accepted craft beer into its world, courtesy of a special Key Keg "pavilion" at the Great British Beer Festival . The pavilion featured bars offering ales from Magic Rock , Wild Beer , Siren and Tiny Rebel and there was another whole bar of key-kegged goodies from the likes of the Kernel , Eight Arch , Pig and Porter and more. I did my rounds and sampled several beers but, like last year, the bulk of my time at the festival was spent in an activity. Last year it was a Belgian beer tasting session. This time I went for beer judging. Why beer judging? Am I planning to offer my services at the next local beer festival? Well, maybe, but my main motivation was to learn more about blind tasting, about how to describe beers accurately and to just be more beer-aware. I was also interested to find out how much I knew compared to people wh