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West Cumbria Branch
Westmorland Branch
CAMRA HQ
Cumbrian Breweries
(Info about new breweries and planned, or changes to established ones, posted as known)
Page updated
Oct 27th 2011
 CRAG Cumbria Real Ale Guide Now Online and Free!!! Updated regularly Search our database for: pubs for dogs,
and many more options, all combinable,pubs for kids, pubs with disabled access pubs for food, free wifi, real ale pubs with B&B, your favourite beers, pub crawls, pubs on bus routes, Pubs near railway stations, pubs near campsites, or search listings or clickable maps to find all real ale pubs in any place Cumbria Real Ale Guide online here Login with your CAMRA member number for fuller data. Contact chris@cumbriacamra if you have information to add. |
Next meetings:
West Pennines
Saturday 26th Nov 2011, The Borough, Lancaster
Cumbria Branches
Saturday 4th February 2012, Furness area.
West Pennines
Saturday 19th May 2012, Isle of Man
Cumbria Branches
Saturday 18th Aug 2012, Carlisle/Penrith area.
Tasting Panel
EnnerdAle Brewery Sat Sept 17th.
Contact webmistress for bus.
Other events and details will be sorted in due course.
Please keep doing the cards!!
CAMRA and Real Ale in Cumbria
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28 - 30th October 2011 - Workington Rotary Club's Oktoberfest. Carnegie, Fri, Sat - 6-11pm, Sunday 12 - 6pm.
Probably the best collection of Cumbrian beers ever seen together, with new ones, including Mitchell Krause beers, and some interesting beers from other counties! 75 altogether. Beer list to download here |
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Online voting for CAMRA's Champion Beer of Britain 2013
click here to vote - active from Jan 1st 2012 Log in with CAMRA membership number and postcode. |
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Cumbria's Online Real Ale Database
A work in progress. click here to search for real ale pubs and hotels by town, facility, beer, etc. (see panel left as well) Log in with CAMRA membership number and postcode for fuller details. |
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CAMRA's Cumbria Beer Lovers' Dinner 2011 The last was an outstanding success - a complete sell-out!! And the next dinner, organised by Furness branch, is getting well-booked up already! It will be at Castle Green Hotel in Kendal on Friday 11th November, 2011 Tickets are £35 per head, including a six course meal with all beers, £33 for CAMRA members, and £300 for a block booking for a table of ten. Contact beerloversdinner@cumbriacamra.org.uk for bookings or other enquiries Transport will be arranged from the Whitehaven area, and could be from Carlisle, Westmorland and Furness areas, if enough want it. Let your branch know you are interested |
Rail Trail leaflet - Whistle Stops - along the Tyne Valley line - train stations and real ale pubs.
Download as pdf here.
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Congratulations to West Cumbria's nomination
- The Brook at Cleator
Presentation of award on Sat Sept 17th at 2pm.
CAMRA members may contact chris@cumbriacamra.org.uk to see if there are any places left on the bus to Ennerdale Brewery beforehand.
Well done to all branch Pubs of the Year, who were the Runners up:
Solway - Cumberland Inn, Alston
Furness - Prince of Wales, Foxfield
Westmoreland - the Orange Tree at Kirkby Lonsdale
The 2011 regional winner for West Pennines was the Swan with Two necks at Pendleton
The final winner will be anounced at the CAMRA Members' Weekend in Torquay in March 2012.
Regional Cider Pub of the Year
National Beer Styles Pub of the Year
And now
joint National Cider Pub of the Year
We think this is the only pub to have won three top awards in one year!!
CAMRA Beer Festivals for 2011
19-22 January 2011 - National Winter Ales Festival
Sheridan Suite, Oldham Road, Manchester, M40 8EA
18th - 19th March 2011, Whitehaven Beer & Cider Festival
2-6 August 2011, Britain's biggest beer festival - GBBF, Earl's Court,
London
Thurs 1 - Sat 3 September 2011 Furness Beer Festival, Coronation Hall, Ulverston
6 - 8 October 2011, Carlisle Beer Festival, Hallmark Hotel. Carlisle
12 - 15 October 2011, Westmorland Beer Festival, Town Hall, Highgate, Kendal
16 - 17 March 2012 - West Cumbria Beer Festival in Whitehaven Civic Hall
Other Beer Festivals
10 - 13 March 2011 - Stout, Porter, Mild and Strong Ale at Prince of Wales, Foxfield
18th - 20th March 2011 - Winter Beer Festival Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall
13th - 15th May 2011 - Strands Festival of Beers, Nether Wasdale
All 19 Strands beers with a festival special!
Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th June 2011, Keswick Beer Festival
Thursday 9th June Sunday 12th June 2011, Boot Beer Festival, the three pubs in Boot
17 - 19 June 2011 - Brewers' Weekend at Prince of Wales Foxfield
1 - 3 July 2011 - Beer Festival at the Punchbowl, the Green, Millom, brewery tap for Beckstones beers. As many of these multi-award winning beers
will be available, together with guests. Open Sat 11am till the end, with music, barbecue, etc. All trains to Green Rd station will be met and
people taken back to the station when ready!
8 - 10 July 2011 - Cider and Perry Weekend at Prince of Wales Foxfield
21st - 24th July 2011 - Summer Beer Festival Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall
20 - 21 August - Cartmel Beer Festival - the four pubs in Cartmel
26 - 28 August - Kendal Rugby Club Beer Festival
27 - 30 August - Stainmore Railway 150th Anniversary, including Croglin beers at Kirkby Stephen East Railway station
2-4 September - The 5th Grassmere Guzzlers Beer Festival at Tweedies Bar, Grasmere
8 - 11 September - Silloth Music and Beer Festival
Thurs 16 September - 14th Birthday Bash at Prince of Wales Foxfield
16 - 18 September 2011 Foreign Beer Styles Festival at Prince of Wales Foxfield
30 Sept - 2 Oct - Beer Festival at Cross Keys Milnthorpe
7 - 9 October 2011 - The Broughton Festival of Beer this year incorporating the beer'n'bangers festival
28 - 30th October 2011 - Workington Rotary Club's Oktoberfest. Carnegie, Fri, Sat - 6-11pm, Sunday 12 - 6pm.
Probably the best collection of Cumbrian beers ever seen together, with new ones, including Mitchell Krause beers, and some interesting beers from other counties! 75 altogether.
Beer list to download here
27 - 29 October 2011- SIBA's Great Northern Beer Festival, Ramada Hotel, Picadilly Manchester.
Help! Are you a CAMRA member aged under 30?
If yes, would you be
willing to help out the Region by working with Phil Walker, the Regional Young
Persons Membership Co-Ordinator. You do not have to be active within
your branch at the present time, but it helps!
He wants to get younger real ale lovers to have fun together and to promote our glorious and diverse real ales
amongst other young people, take over CAMRA and then rule the world, and eventually replace us as the old fogies!!!
email him at youngmembersofficer@cumbriacamra.org.uk
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