CAMRA branches across the UK and NI work tirelessly to provide detailed information for the inclusion of their selected pubs in the best-selling flagship publication from the Campaign for Real Ale, The Good Beer Guide.

NOW AVAILABLE: Purchase GBG 2025 here.

The Swan in Clewer Village, Windsor is extremely proud to announce that they are the Winner of the ‘Best Community Pub’ category at the Great British Pub Awards 2024! Check our Branch News page.

The CBOB nominations are now open, allowing CAMRA members to vote for their champion beers. Why not nominate your favourite cask beer from the last year? The Champion Beer of Britain award is one of the most coveted and well-respected cask beer competitions in the world and starts with individual nominations from CAMRA members and tasting panel nominations, then moving on to area competitions.

Nominations will close 4 November 2024.

Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead Branch 50th Anniversary.

FIRST – SOME HISTORY! Back when CAMRA was still in nappies and a branch network was evolving there was a hole covering all Berkshire East of Newbury, in which 500 members lived. Therefore, a new branch called the Reading and East Berkshire was setup and had its inaugural meeting on the 11th December 1974

With such a large territory it soon became obvious that the area would be better served by two groups. So it was that by February 1975 it had been amicably split into the current branches of, Reading & Mid Berks and Slough, Windsor & Maidenhead.

There are a number of events being planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary, kicking off with the launch of Readings celebrations on the 21st Sept, 2pm at the Fox & Hounds, Caversham.

Campaign hits back against Handpump Hijack.

CAMRA has launched a campaign to raise awareness of Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company’s (CMBC) Fresh Ale concept, which sells keg versions of three of its cask beers through handpumps – long associated with real ales. So far, CMBC has Wainwright Gold, Wainwright Amber and Hobgoblin IPA, which will have “brewery conditioned beer” on the pump clip, in the Fresh Ale line-up.

Each May and October CAMRA celebrates cider and perry to coincide with the production cycle of apples and pears.

This May’s Cider and Perry Month begins in the wake of the sobering news of Heineken’s decision to cut down almost 300 acres of orchards. Heineken – which manufactures products including Bulmers, Strongbow and Inch’s – has felled the trees ahead of its planned sale of the Monmouthshire land.

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