West Berkshire CAMRA
@wbcamra.bsky.social
The West Berkshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale.
https://westberkscamra.org.uk/
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The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Tonight’s beer board at Newbury’s micropub - The Cow & Cask.
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tonight’s beer board at Newbury’s micropub - The Cow & Cask.
Swindon Beer Festival 2025
23-25 October
The #beer and #cider lists are now available online. These and further festival information including tickets can be found on this link: swindon.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php...
23-25 October
The #beer and #cider lists are now available online. These and further festival information including tickets can be found on this link: swindon.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php...
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Swindon Beer Festival 2025
23-25 October
The #beer and #cider lists are now available online. These and further festival information including tickets can be found on this link: swindon.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php...
23-25 October
The #beer and #cider lists are now available online. These and further festival information including tickets can be found on this link: swindon.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php...
Monday 20 October
7.30pm
The Lion, West Street, Newbury
CAMRA Social with Good Beer Guide (GBG) 2026 launch event (reduced price) and opportunity to meet local GBG publicans and staff. All welcome.
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/good-b...
7.30pm
The Lion, West Street, Newbury
CAMRA Social with Good Beer Guide (GBG) 2026 launch event (reduced price) and opportunity to meet local GBG publicans and staff. All welcome.
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/good-b...
Good Beer Guide 2026 launch - West Berkshire CAMRA
A limited number of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2026 will be available for sale at this launch and social event at the Lion, Newbury.
westberkscamra.org.uk
October 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Monday 20 October
7.30pm
The Lion, West Street, Newbury
CAMRA Social with Good Beer Guide (GBG) 2026 launch event (reduced price) and opportunity to meet local GBG publicans and staff. All welcome.
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/good-b...
7.30pm
The Lion, West Street, Newbury
CAMRA Social with Good Beer Guide (GBG) 2026 launch event (reduced price) and opportunity to meet local GBG publicans and staff. All welcome.
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/good-b...
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We're down to the last four in @camraofficial.bsky.social Pub of the Year: wb.camra.org.uk/2025/10/10/f...
Fab Four revealed
The fight to win CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year 2025 competition is hotting up with just four pubs remaining after months of rigorous judging.
The...
wb.camra.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
We're down to the last four in @camraofficial.bsky.social Pub of the Year: wb.camra.org.uk/2025/10/10/f...
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It’s beer festival season in Swindon!
October 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s beer festival season in Swindon!
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GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE HULL & EAST YORKS CAMRA BEER AND CIDER FESTIVAL 30th Oct - 1st Nov at the Minerva Hall, Dagger Lane #Hull with over 30 beers and ciders
tckty.camra.org.uk/e/413/hull-eas…
tckty.camra.org.uk/e/413/hull-eas…
September 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE HULL & EAST YORKS CAMRA BEER AND CIDER FESTIVAL 30th Oct - 1st Nov at the Minerva Hall, Dagger Lane #Hull with over 30 beers and ciders
tckty.camra.org.uk/e/413/hull-eas…
tckty.camra.org.uk/e/413/hull-eas…
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Buzzing to be back in the CAMRA Official Good Beer Guide for 2026! 🍺💙
Big love to everyone who keeps us pouring the good stuff. 🤗
We’ve even got past editions on the pub bookshelf if you fancy a nostalgic flick-through with your pint. 📚
#GoodBeerGuide #RealAle #Reading
Big love to everyone who keeps us pouring the good stuff. 🤗
We’ve even got past editions on the pub bookshelf if you fancy a nostalgic flick-through with your pint. 📚
#GoodBeerGuide #RealAle #Reading
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Buzzing to be back in the CAMRA Official Good Beer Guide for 2026! 🍺💙
Big love to everyone who keeps us pouring the good stuff. 🤗
We’ve even got past editions on the pub bookshelf if you fancy a nostalgic flick-through with your pint. 📚
#GoodBeerGuide #RealAle #Reading
Big love to everyone who keeps us pouring the good stuff. 🤗
We’ve even got past editions on the pub bookshelf if you fancy a nostalgic flick-through with your pint. 📚
#GoodBeerGuide #RealAle #Reading
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One of the highlights of our local calendar, the fantastic Sheffield CAMRA Beer Festival starts on Wednesday! There'll be plenty of our beer on the bar (including the first pour of our latest Funk Dungeon release!) alongside hundreds of other tasty treats! Let us know if we'll see you there?!
October 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
One of the highlights of our local calendar, the fantastic Sheffield CAMRA Beer Festival starts on Wednesday! There'll be plenty of our beer on the bar (including the first pour of our latest Funk Dungeon release!) alongside hundreds of other tasty treats! Let us know if we'll see you there?!
Parched, Bartholomew Street, Newbury, has been added to the CAMRA database of pubs and clubs.
Beers are sourced from small independent breweries.
No real ales are listed as there is no handpump or gravity dispense for cask ale.
camra.org.uk/pubs/parched...
Beers are sourced from small independent breweries.
No real ales are listed as there is no handpump or gravity dispense for cask ale.
camra.org.uk/pubs/parched...
Parched, Newbury
Bar with keg beers and cider, wine, spirits and cocktails. From 2022-2025 the premises were Sushizen restaurant. Parched was set up by converting the premises to a bar with the help of a crowdfunding ...
camra.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Parched, Bartholomew Street, Newbury, has been added to the CAMRA database of pubs and clubs.
Beers are sourced from small independent breweries.
No real ales are listed as there is no handpump or gravity dispense for cask ale.
camra.org.uk/pubs/parched...
Beers are sourced from small independent breweries.
No real ales are listed as there is no handpump or gravity dispense for cask ale.
camra.org.uk/pubs/parched...
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An independent bar (Parched) and an independent freehouse (Weirside) have opened in Newbury within the last few months.
When will you visit?
Find details of pubs and bars on the CAMRA website
camra.org.uk/pubs/place/n...
When will you visit?
Find details of pubs and bars on the CAMRA website
camra.org.uk/pubs/place/n...
October 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
An independent bar (Parched) and an independent freehouse (Weirside) have opened in Newbury within the last few months.
When will you visit?
Find details of pubs and bars on the CAMRA website
camra.org.uk/pubs/place/n...
When will you visit?
Find details of pubs and bars on the CAMRA website
camra.org.uk/pubs/place/n...
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The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has revealed the four finalists in its national pub of the year competition. The winner will be announced early next year beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/14/c... #pubs #pubsnews #pubawards @camraofficial.bsky.social
CAMRA pub of the year finalists announced - Beer Today
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has revealed the four finalists in its national pub of the year competition. The winner will be announced early next year
beertoday.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has revealed the four finalists in its national pub of the year competition. The winner will be announced early next year beertoday.co.uk/2025/10/14/c... #pubs #pubsnews #pubawards @camraofficial.bsky.social
NB No cask ale at Parched, Newbury
Good to see another new independent bar - Parched - open in Newbury (Bartholomew St. - the pedestrianised end) on 8/10/2025.
1 cider (Kicking Goat) & 11 well chosen beers eg Azvex, Verdant, Deya, Beak in 1/3, 1/2 & 2/3 pint pours.
1 cider (Kicking Goat) & 11 well chosen beers eg Azvex, Verdant, Deya, Beak in 1/3, 1/2 & 2/3 pint pours.
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
NB No cask ale at Parched, Newbury
Live music and events at the Catherine Wheel, Newbury
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Live music and events at the Catherine Wheel, Newbury
Hermitage Beer Festival, near Newbury on Sat 4 October, from 5pm.
Live music from The Station.
Free entrance for West Berkshire CAMRA members with membership card.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
Live music from The Station.
Free entrance for West Berkshire CAMRA members with membership card.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
Hermitage Beer Festival,
near Newbury.
Sat 4 October
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/hermitage-...
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
near Newbury.
Sat 4 October
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/hermitage-...
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
Hermitage Beer Festival 2025 - West Berkshire CAMRA
The third Beer Festival at Hermitage Village Hall. Features beer from local microbreweries +Cider, Drinks, Sausage Shack and Live Music
westberkscamra.org.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Hermitage Beer Festival, near Newbury on Sat 4 October, from 5pm.
Live music from The Station.
Free entrance for West Berkshire CAMRA members with membership card.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
Live music from The Station.
Free entrance for West Berkshire CAMRA members with membership card.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/her...
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Ascot Beer Festival
at Ascot Racecourse
Fri 3 & Sat 4 October.
NB Buses replace trains between Reading & Ascot on Sat 4. Normal train service on Fri 3.
Half price advance tickets for CAMRA members with code.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/asc...
ascotbeerfest.org.uk
at Ascot Racecourse
Fri 3 & Sat 4 October.
NB Buses replace trains between Reading & Ascot on Sat 4. Normal train service on Fri 3.
Half price advance tickets for CAMRA members with code.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/asc...
ascotbeerfest.org.uk
Ascot Beer Festival 2025 - West Berkshire CAMRA
Over 160 real ales, ciders and perries in the Queen Anne enclosure of the racecourse. Half price advance tickets for CAMRA members.
westberkscamra.org.uk
August 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Ascot Beer Festival
at Ascot Racecourse
Fri 3 & Sat 4 October.
NB Buses replace trains between Reading & Ascot on Sat 4. Normal train service on Fri 3.
Half price advance tickets for CAMRA members with code.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/asc...
ascotbeerfest.org.uk
at Ascot Racecourse
Fri 3 & Sat 4 October.
NB Buses replace trains between Reading & Ascot on Sat 4. Normal train service on Fri 3.
Half price advance tickets for CAMRA members with code.
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/asc...
ascotbeerfest.org.uk
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Bangers and Beer Festival
Corn Exchange Faringdon
10th and 11th of October
timcave.wixsite.com/bangersandbeer
Corn Exchange Faringdon
10th and 11th of October
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Bangers and Beer
The 6th Annual Faringdon “Bangers & Beer” Festival, in aid of The Pump House Project and The Place, will take place in 2023 on the 6th and 7th of October.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Bangers and Beer Festival
Corn Exchange Faringdon
10th and 11th of October
timcave.wixsite.com/bangersandbeer
Corn Exchange Faringdon
10th and 11th of October
timcave.wixsite.com/bangersandbeer
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Swindon Beer Festival 2025
at STEAM, Swindon
23-25 October
NB Friday 24 October is split into 2 sessions.
80 real ales + Cider/Perry
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/swi...
at STEAM, Swindon
23-25 October
NB Friday 24 October is split into 2 sessions.
80 real ales + Cider/Perry
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/swi...
Swindon Beer Festival 2025 - West Berkshire CAMRA
CAMRA Festival at STEAM, Swindon. Featuring 80 real ales + Cider/Perry.
westberkscamra.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Swindon Beer Festival 2025
at STEAM, Swindon
23-25 October
NB Friday 24 October is split into 2 sessions.
80 real ales + Cider/Perry
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/swi...
at STEAM, Swindon
23-25 October
NB Friday 24 October is split into 2 sessions.
80 real ales + Cider/Perry
westberkscamra.org.uk/festival/swi...
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The High Horse, Newbury has a large courtyard with bench seating next to the recent rear extension.
An Arkell’s pub operated by Dodo Pub Co (previously Cross Keys)
An Arkell’s pub operated by Dodo Pub Co (previously Cross Keys)
September 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The High Horse, Newbury has a large courtyard with bench seating next to the recent rear extension.
An Arkell’s pub operated by Dodo Pub Co (previously Cross Keys)
An Arkell’s pub operated by Dodo Pub Co (previously Cross Keys)
23-25 October
September 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
23-25 October
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@mirror.co.uk welcomes the launch of 2026 @camraofficial.bsky.social Good Beer Guide but publishes a shocking list of 36 lost prized pubs featured in last year's Guide
Dozens of Britain’s most prized pubs for beer have closed in the past year – see the full list
https://www.europesays.com/uk/449047/
A wave of pub closures has claimed a string of locals that have been lauded for the quality…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/449047/
A wave of pub closures has claimed a string of locals that have been lauded for the quality…#uk #news #uknews
Dozens of Britain's most prized pubs for beer have closed in the past year - see the full list - United Kingdom
A wave of pub closures has claimed a string of locals that have been lauded for the quality of their real ale - with industry leaders calling on Labour for
www.europesays.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
@mirror.co.uk welcomes the launch of 2026 @camraofficial.bsky.social Good Beer Guide but publishes a shocking list of 36 lost prized pubs featured in last year's Guide
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Enjoyed an afternoon at The Catherine Wheel, Newbury on an Oktoberfest weekend.
NB Dress appropriately for a free drink!
Theakston Portergeist / Salted Caramel Porter recommended. Cheers!
NB Dress appropriately for a free drink!
Theakston Portergeist / Salted Caramel Porter recommended. Cheers!
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Enjoyed an afternoon at The Catherine Wheel, Newbury on an Oktoberfest weekend.
NB Dress appropriately for a free drink!
Theakston Portergeist / Salted Caramel Porter recommended. Cheers!
NB Dress appropriately for a free drink!
Theakston Portergeist / Salted Caramel Porter recommended. Cheers!