CAMRA unveils Britain’s best-looking boozers at Pub Design Awards
By: JimOldfield
November 8th, 2012
Britain’s best looking pubs have been unveiled this week, as CAMRA picks its champions for the annual National Pub Design Awards. A judging team of architects, historians and pub campaigners have scoured the UK for the hostelries with the best “vision, imagination and a level of restraint in their design”, and have returned with four Read the full post…
Magna rustles up cash!
By: JimOldfield
October 21st, 2012
By Alex Vessey October 21 2012 It seems drinking is good for health, if you live in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, where real ale lovers sank so many pints at this year’s Magna beer festival, they raised enough surplus cash to re-write their own record books and give £40,000 to local health charities. Now organisers of Read the full post…
S Yorks brewery and ale fest both launch… in New York!
By: JimOldfield
September 27th, 2012
A South Yorkshire town’s beer festival AND a brand new brewery are about to be launched just a couple of miles away… in New York! Rotherham’s Chantry Brewery will produce its debut ales, at the first ever real ale festival to be run by the town’s CAMRA branch. And the whole thing will take place Read the full post…
Drink more beer, win more prizes in Birmingham!
By: JimOldfield
September 3rd, 2012
Birmingham CAMRA has come up with the offer of a lifetime for Brummie beerophiles… The more ales you drink, the more PRIZES you win! The CAMRA branch has set up an ale trail involving 50 top pubs around the city. And there will be prizes for beer buffs who manage to cover 30, 40 or Read the full post…
Bentley’s Brew remembers Louth CAMRA hero
By: JimOldfield
September 3rd, 2012
Louth & District CAMRA branch will remember their former founder member and chairman, with a special commemorative brew. Bentley’s Brew will mark the passing of much-loved CAMRA man Jeff Bentley, who died in July. The ale will be brewed at the Fulstow Brewery, above the Gas Lamp Lounge in Louth, with brewer Phil Ellis guiding Read the full post…
Another year – another festival of great ale!
By: JimOldfield
August 30th, 2012
When Hand-Pumped offered two free tickets for this year’s Great British Beer Festival, in assocation with CAMRA, reader Adrian Pearce was lucky enough to come out of our hat first. And London-based Adrian was kind enough to share his good fortune – by writing a first-person review of his day out… complete with pictures. Here Read the full post…
CAMRA champ Harvest Pale is the rock to found a castle on!
By: JimOldfield
July 29th, 2012
Castle Rock’s Harvest Pale ale has brought in a bumper crop for the Nottingham brewery – by helping boost its turnover by more than £1m! Winning CAMRA’s Supreme Champion Beer of Britain title at the GBBF in August 2010 was the springboard to Harvest Pale’s success, and over the year to last March its sales Read the full post…
Kids’ charity benefits from huge North-East ale festival
By: JimOldfield
July 24th, 2012
One of the North-East’s biggest beer festivals is giving 10 per cent of its take to a children’s charity this year. The sixth Tynemouth Beer Festival takes place from September 13-15 – and its organisers have chosen the Children’s Foundation to benefit from it. “The foundation supports medical research into childhood illnesses and conditions and Read the full post…
Go Lune-y – help out at Morecambe’s first beer festival!
By: JimOldfield
July 15th, 2012
Real ale comes to the seaside this year, when the Lunesdale CAMRA branch launches its first-ever Morecambe Beer Festival. But if you’re a red-roser, they need YOUR help to pull it off! Some 50 real ales and 10 ciders go on show at the town’s newly-reopened Winter Gardens, next month. But the organisers need help Read the full post…
Thirsty Magpies build an 80-ale nest-egg at footy club beer fest
By: JimOldfield
July 3rd, 2012
A town’s football club has teamed up with a local pub to stage a four-day beer festival showcasing more than 80 ales and ciders. EvoStik Premier Division side Chorley, nicknamed the Magpies, will launch their Thirsty Magpie Beer Festival, at their Victory Park ground from July 12-15, in collaboration with the Spinners Arms pub at Read the full post…
