West Berkshire CAMRA
@wbcamra.bsky.social
The West Berkshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale.
https://westberkscamra.org.uk/
https://westberkscamra.org.uk/
The High Horse, 8 London Road, Newbury
Christmas / New Year Opening Hours
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Christmas / New Year Opening Hours
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December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The High Horse, 8 London Road, Newbury
Christmas / New Year Opening Hours
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Christmas / New Year Opening Hours
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Pub Quiz every Sunday 7pm at The Weirside, Newbury.
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pub Quiz every Sunday 7pm at The Weirside, Newbury.
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The annual White Horse CAMRA branch social will take place next Friday 12th December. Starting at 6.30 in The Royal Oak and visiting various pubs before ending up at The Kings Arms where the winter beer festival will be taking place.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members alike.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members alike.
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The annual White Horse CAMRA branch social will take place next Friday 12th December. Starting at 6.30 in The Royal Oak and visiting various pubs before ending up at The Kings Arms where the winter beer festival will be taking place.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members alike.
Everyone welcome, members and non-members alike.
The Catherine Wheel, Newbury, is closed for a private function on Thursday 11 December.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Catherine Wheel, Newbury, is closed for a private function on Thursday 11 December.
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Keystone appoints administrators after swathe of brewery buyouts @teamdb.bsky.social
Keystone appoints administrators after swathe of brewery buyouts
Keystone Brewing Group, formerly known as Breal, which swooped in to acquire Yorkshire’s Black Sheep Brewery, Magic Rock and North as well as Warwickshire-based Purity and London’s Fourpure, Brick, Br...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Keystone appoints administrators after swathe of brewery buyouts @teamdb.bsky.social
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 events at The Tally Ho, Hungerford Newtown, from a recent email newsletter.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 events at The Tally Ho, Hungerford Newtown, from a recent email newsletter.
www.thetallyhohungerford.co.uk
www.thetallyhohungerford.co.uk
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December at the Ibex Inn, Chaddleworth, Berkshire.
Events include:
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 & 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
T𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲
theibexinn.com
Events include:
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 & 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
T𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲
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November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
December at the Ibex Inn, Chaddleworth, Berkshire.
Events include:
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 & 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
T𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲
theibexinn.com
Events include:
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 & 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
T𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀
𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 - 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲
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The West Berkshire CAMRA Christmas social on Wednesday 10 December is an ale trail starting at the Cow & Cask, Newbury, at 7.30pm. Christmas jumpers optional!
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Branch Christmas Social - West Berkshire CAMRA
Our Christmas social will be a festive ale trail in Newbury on Wednesday 10th December starting at the Cow & Cask (7.30pm).
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November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The West Berkshire CAMRA Christmas social on Wednesday 10 December is an ale trail starting at the Cow & Cask, Newbury, at 7.30pm. Christmas jumpers optional!
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/christ...
westberkscamra.org.uk/event/christ...
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CAMRA members, also please remember to score the beers that you drink at camra.org.uk/beer-scoring
CAMRA - The Campaign for Real Ale
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December 22, 2024 at 8:38 PM
CAMRA members, also please remember to score the beers that you drink at camra.org.uk/beer-scoring
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it’s now time to share The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it’s now time to share The Michael Jackson Award for Beer Writer of the Year
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
This is the final award of the evening, and it goes to…
🏆 Winner: David Jesudason
#BGBW25
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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…
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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 ...
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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