The thing to bear in mind is that for every proper hardcore hippie there were ten people who were sort of interested in that whole sort of thing and fifty who thought there was some interesting stuff going on although they wouldn’t necessarily go the whole way with it. Say one vegan to ten vegetarians to fifty people who sometimes cooked vegetarian (even when there weren’t any vegetarian guests). Left bookshops spread this stuff; local campaign groups were a good environment for it, as were some churches (including my parents’!).

So, while it wouldn’t be true to say that CAMRA grew out of the hippie scene – the hippie scene was never really into beer, and besides it wasn’t that big – it certainly grew in ground that had been prepared by the hippies.

CAMRA’s complex enough, though, that Jerry might have joined out of a desire to preserve Olde England, while Tom would be in it for the living beer and to stick it to The Man.