2024 COA Programme for web

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cityofale.org.uk

WELCOME

Back in 1973 when the writer Christopher

Hutt published The Death of the English

Pub, he came to Norwich and found just

one pub serving real ale. The city once had

three big breweries, all bought and closed

by the London company Watney Mann.

As a result of this devastation, Norfolk, known

as “the grain basket of Britain” as a result of

producing the finest malting barley, had no

breweries and only a handful of pubs serving a

unique beer style that’s the envy of the world.

Scroll forward to 2024 and what a diff erent

picture. Today there are 45 breweries in Norfolk.

Let’s say that again: FORTY-FIVE breweries

operating in the county.

The Society of Independent Brewers reports

that sales of cask beer are on the increase again

following the Covid lockdowns that saw pubs

closed and hand pumps immobilised.

More than a decade ago, when Dawn Leeder and

Phil Cutter launched City of Ale, they had no idea

how vital this initiative would be in restoring good

beer and brewing to the region. Now the pubs are

open, trade is good and the choice of fine ales is

bountiful. Over the coming weeks, visit the pubs

supporting City of Ale and raise a foaming pint to

the glory of cask beer.

ROGER PROTZ

Award winning beer writer and former

editor of The Good Beer Guide

City of Ale 2024

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