Alesman is our free magazine. It contains articles on real ale, pub and brewery news, reader‘s letters and a prize crossword. It appears around March, July and November each year and can be found in many real ale outlets in and around our branch area and some in neighbouring areas. Contributions are always welcomed by the editor.
Subscriptions: We also offer a postal subscription. You can subscribe to Alesman for £7.50 (UK only) for six editions (price correct for March 2025 subscriptions). Please make cheques or postal orders payable to ‘Keighley and Craven CAMRA’ and send your request to:
Alesman Subscriptions, c/o Fred Baker, 170 Long Lee Terrace, Keighley, BD21 4TU.
Interested in advertising in Alesman? 3000 copies of each edition are distributed to readers throughout the Keighley and Craven area. Rates are very reasonable and are as follows (rates from March 2025 issue):
- Size
- Width x Height
- One Issue
- One Year
- Loyalty Renewal
- 1/6 page
- 61x59mm
.
- £ 33.60
- £ 95.75
- £ 90.70
- 1/4 page
- 61x91mm or 128x43mm
- £ 52.50
- £149.60
- £141.75
- 1/3 page
- 61x123mm or 128x59mm
- £ 65.00
- £185.25
- £175.50
- 1/2 page
- 61x188mm or 128x91mm
- £ 99.75
- £284.30
- £269.35
- Full page
- 128x188mm
.
- £189.00
- £538.65
- £510.30
• The widths and heights allow for a white margin around each advert.
• The one year price is around 5% cheaper than paying for one issue at a time.
• Advertisers are eligible for the loyalty renewal following a year at the full year rate, is 10% cheaper than paying for one issue at a time.
• The cost of production is supported by our Skipton Beer Festival.
Some back issues of Alesman
(This is not the whole library)
The Winter 2024/25 edition of Alesman is available to download here.
The Winter 2023/24 edition of Alesman is available to download here. (2.7MB, it may be hard to read on a mobile phone screen. If you are in the area why not pop into your local pub and read the paper version over a beer?).
The Summer 2022 edition of Alesman is available to download here. (10.8MB, may be hard to read on a mobile phone screen).
Due to continued disruption caused by Covid-19 we were unable to distribute a printed Alesman in Spring 2021. In the mean time we compiled another virtual edition. It includes an obituary of long-time volunteer Ken Armitage who sadly died in February 2021 age 73.
Download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones).
Due to continued disruption caused by Covid-19 there was no Autumn Alesman in 2020. We did, however, put together a two-page ‘Inn Brief’ which is available to download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones), and you can still download the crossword as a large screen / printer friendly page.
Due to the disruption caused by Covid-19 there was no printed edition of the Summer 2020 Alesman. Instead we made a virtual mini-edition available to download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones), and you can download the crossword as a separate large screen / printer friendly page.
The national closure of pubs has paused the distribution of our Alesman magazine in its tracks. We therefore made the Spring 2020 edition available to download here. (8.1MB, and best seen on a PC because the layout does not fit a mobile phone screen). Obviously many event dates mentioned are up in the air at the moment.
