We give a new proof of the classification of contact real hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the complex hyperbolic quadric Q m * = SO o m,2 /SO m SO 2 , where m ≥ 3. We show that a contact real hypersurface M in Q m * for m ≥ 3 is locally congruent to a tube of radius r∈R + around the complex hyperbolic quadric Q m−1 * , or to a tube of radius r ∈ R + around the A-principal m-dimensional real hyperbolic spacefor all vector fields X on M 2m−1 , meaning that (φ, ξ, η) is a almost contact structure, and moreover this structure is adapted to the Riemannian metric g by g(φX, φY ) = g(X, Y ) − η(X) η(Y ) and η(X) = g(X, ξ) for all vector fields X, Y on M 2m−1 .Clearly, if M 2m−1 has an almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) so that η∧dη m−1 = 0 holds, then M 2m−1 is a contact manifold. Conversely, if M 2m−1 is a contact manifold, then for any contact form η on M 2m−1 there exists an almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) with this η by a result due to Sasaki [12, Theorem 4].Let us now consider a real hypersurface M of a Kähler manifoldM of complex dimension m. Then M has real dimension 2m − 1, and the complex structure J and the Riemannian metric g ofM induce an almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) on M: Let N be a unit 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 53C40. Secondary 53C55.