Herefordshire pubs went down a treat with a recent visitor from across the pond. See the Website of this much-travelled, real-ale-loving American and learn a bit about real ale in the US.
Bull's Head, Craswall (see opposite)
The Live & Let Live, Bringsty Common.
Herefordshire's CAMRA's new county pub guide.
Alternatively, if you want to know where to find the best beers, there is the best-selling Good Beer Guide, the very latest edition for 2008 listing over 4000 pubs, 26 of which are in Herefordshire. This book is the indispensible guide for both the pub connoisseur and the occasional pub-goer alike, with articles on brewing and beers helping you to demystify those visits to pubs with a myriad of unusual guest beers on the bar! Available from all good booksellers. Further, the neighbouring Worcester CAMRA branch publishes a Guide to the Malvern Hills which also covers a part of east Herefordshire.
Welcome to the web site of the Herefordshire Branch of The Campaign for Real Ale, the UK's only consumer group dedicated to independent breweries, traditional pubs and real ale. The branch area is the County of Herefordshire.
Despite showers on the opening Friday and, at times, torrential rain on the Saturday afternoon and evening, Beer on the Wye IV - held from the 4th to the 6th of July in a riverside marquee adjacent Hereford Rowing Club - has been declared a runaway success by organisers, Herefordshire CAMRA. Full story on Festival page.
At Beer on the Wye, Herefordshire CAMRA launched a photographic display celebrating seventeen of the county's best heritage pubs - specifically those that have either totally or relatively unspoiled interiors. The display represents a four-figure financial commitment by the branch, and has involved a lot of painstaking work.
Following the positive feedback from visitors at Beer on the Wye, the display was invited down to be displayed at the Great British Beer Festival at London's Earls Court back in early August, where it was seen by over 60,000 visitors.
Most recently seen at the Green Dragon, Bishops Frome during their first annual beer festival, the display is likely to appear at other local events. Watch this space!
Closure in 2007 marked the end of a chapter for this isolated pub in which it was converted from a run down cider house to a vibrant, nationally recognised eating house, but gradually declined and was finally plundered by its tenants. Throughout this time its bar remained utterly unspoiled and frozen in time, meriting the recently announced entry in the CAMRA National Inventory of Pub Interiors. Now a new chapter is beginning - the Bull's Head has reopened. (Link)
This great news follows hard on the heels of the successful reopening of the 16th Century, Grade II-listed Live & Let Live pub at Bringsty Common, after being closed for 11 years and having survived four attempts to convert it into a private house by the previous owner - see Pub News
Meanwhile, the Red Lion at Kilpeck has been sold. See Pub News
The first edition of Herefordshire Pubs, published back in August 2003 went straight to the top of the Herefordshire book charts, and was awarded 'Local Pub Guide of the Year' by CAMRA at the Southport Members' Weekend (AGM). When the fully updated and revamped second edition was launched the Herefordshire book charts were no longer compiled, but the CAMRA still judges its local guides......and Herefordshire has won again, the award being presented at the Wolverhampton Members' Weekend.
The second edition of Herefordshire Pubs: A Guide to the County's Real Ale and Cider Pubs was launched by the Mayor of Hereford at CAMRA's Hereford Beer & Cider Festival. Priced at only £4.95, the professionally-produced and fully comprehensive guide lists all 284 pubs and bars across the county - even those that only sell fizzy beer, but it has more fulsome descriptions of those that sell real beer an cider. Every pub has its facilities listed, and there are a number of photographs, as well as maps - showing the locations of pubs in the different towns. It lists full details of all the county's brewers and cider makers, and there are a number of interesting and thought-provoking articles, covering a gamut of subjects from rural pubs to public transport, as well as items on matters affecting local pubs, brewers and cider-makers. A colour map of the whole county finishes off this attractive volume nicely.
You can buy the book direct from Herefordshire CAMRA by sending a cheque payable to Herefordshire CAMRA for £4.95, (members £3.95) plus £1.00 p & p per book to: Herefordshire Pubs, Hynett Moor, Bartestree, Hereford, HR1 4BE. Finally, the book is on sale at the Hereford Map Centre in Church Street, Hereford, as well as Tourist Information Offices, pubs and book shops around the county.
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