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Pubs become more female-friendly for drinkers and owners
16 August 2015
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Pubs are becoming a more female-friendly environment with many more women passing through their doors each week, according to research out today.
A new study from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) showed that over half of women (54 per cent) said they now regularly visit the pub, according to the Telegraph.
The change in atmosphere doesn't just affect punters. Women now equate to almost a third (32 per cent) of pub owners under the age of 35.
Independent research from Barclays also supported CAMRA's conclusion. In a study of 8,000 business customers in the Pubs and Bars sector, it found that more than half of pubs (56 per cent) are currently run by at least one landlady.
The news come just days after CAMRA announced that the half pint is now the most popular choice amongst all drinkers for trying a new beer - a glass size once assumed to be the choice of women, not men.
The organisation made sure there were plenty of beers to try at its self-proclaimed "world's biggest pub." The 38th Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), which held its fifth and final day at Kensington Olympia in London yesterday, offered revellers a choice of over 900 beers, ales and ciders.
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But the rivalry between real ale and craft beer continues as many punters opted instead for the smaller, newer London Craft Beer Festival, held over the same weekend at Bethnal Green in London.
The Craft Beer Festival, now in its third year, pitched itself as "a new kind of festival," making it vastly different from GBBF with a history of almost four decades.
Brewer Matt Hollingsworth attended both festivals, and tweeted: "GBBF is great [for] traditional beers, but real exciting experimental stuff was at LCBF, which was more like a counter culture beer fest."