The CAMRA 40 pubs, 40 ales trail was started on March 16th 2011 to celebrate CAMRA’s 40th birthday. People could pick up a empty passport and then over the next 40 days had the opportunity to visit 40 pubs across the city selling real ale. Prizes are awarded to people managing to visit all 40 pubs (with a t-shirt awarded to those only managing 30).
Well just 9 days after the trail was launched on Friday 25th March the first full passport was completed by Mike Perkins- myself (unsurprisingly, especially to those who know me).

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Well it’s that time of year again when English people with absolutely no genetic tie to Ireland (although many of my friends insist they are all of a sudden a quarter-Irish) decide to go out and drink copious amounts of Guinness even though they never drink ‘the black stuff’ any other time of the year.

Why do we do this? Is it because we enjoy celebrating our neighbour’s proud heritage? Is it because with the large Irish community in Birmingham we like to show them how welcome they are? Or is it just because many people just need an excuse to go out and get completely blind drunk on a Thursday without being labelled a raving pisshead (not a concern I’ve ever had if I’m honest).

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I’m sure many of you have seen these Carling drip mats (see below) in the pubs over the last months.
How many of you actually bother to read them though?

Take a look closely and you will see they are amazingly honest.

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Birmingham CAMRA has now launched a blog to keep you posted with news, articles and other bits and bobs which don’t really fit anywhere else on the website.

Many posts are just interesting things we have found on the internet which we think you might enjoy, while other posts will be important issues occurring at the time of writing.

We hope you find it useful.