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A new brewery has started up at the Bull Ring, Kingstone which will supply the attractive south west area of the county. See Golden Valley Ales
The 48-page Autumn issue of our award-winning newsletter is now being distributed. See Newsletter for more details, including the links to the CAMRA super complaint and Broom’s Green planning.
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 2009 listing over 4400 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.
The excellent news can now be reported that the Sun Inn at Leintwardine has been sold to a local consortium of two people: Nick Davis (owner of Hobsons Brewery of Cleobury Mortimer) and Gary Seymour (owner of the neighbouring Fiddler’s Elbow chip shop, and one of the team of locals who had been helping Flossie Lane to run the pub for a number of years until her death). The transfer was fully completed on November 6th. The new owners have met with the locals to reassure them that any changes needed to make the Sun sustainable will be undertaken with the utmost care and sympathy to the pub’s history.
The exciting news of the completion was covered by BBC Midlands Today (9th November) and BBC Breakfast Time (11th November).
To learn more go to the Save the Sun Website
With the attendance up by over 40%, Hereford’s Beer & Cider Festival sells out, and is unable to open on the final day, much to the fascination of the world’s media. Full story and pictures
The Commons Business and Enterprise Select Committee has finally published its report on Pubcos. It doesn’t make very good bedtime reading for them.
But will the Government act on the recommendations? See full story.
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 £3.95, (members £2.95) 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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