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South Oxfordshire CAMRA
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South Oxfordshire branch of CAMRA.
All things Pubs, Beer, Cider, Perry. Content posted reflects the views of individuals.
RP not necessarily an endorsement.
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Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd February, lots of music in various venues around Wallingford including several pubs, some ticketed, many free.
Wallingford Winter Blues and Jazz 2026
Wallingford Winter Blues and Jazz Weekender 20-22nd February 2026
wallywinterbluesnjazz.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Our Winter Pub of the Season is the Plum Pudding in Milton
February 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Can you spare us a few hours?
Planning for this year's beer festival (18–23 May) is well under way. It's run entirely by unpaid volunteers. Can you give us a hand? Find out more and sign up here: tinyurl.com/cbf-volunteer
Volunteering - Cambridge Beer Festival
The Cambridge Beer Festival is run by unpaid volunteers. Find out how to join in.
tinyurl.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Tomorrow, Wednesday 11th February, we have a branch meeting starting at 8pm at the Cross Keys in Wallingford.

camra.org.uk/pubs/cross-k...
Cross Keys, Wallingford - Grade II Listed Pub
17th-century Grade II-listed Wallingford pub with original beams & large garden. CAMRA pub & cider winner; changing cask ales. Explore real ales
camra.org.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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February 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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Community-owned pubs are keeping rural places alive – but @plunkettuk.bsky.social warns the government’s new business rates discount won’t address the pressures they face. Plunkett is calling for more ambitious, long-term support for community ownership.

➡️ plunkett.co.uk/government-p...
Government pub support package falls short and leaves rural communities exposed
Plunkett UK has expressed disappointment at the government’s announcement of a 15% discount on pubs’ business rates bills from April.
plunkett.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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EARLYBIRD TICKETS ARE OUT NOW! 💚💛👉🏻 www.eventbrite.com/e/maidenhead... 👈🏻

Saturday through Sunday, three sessions and a hell of a lot of amazing beer! 🍺

Earlybird tickets are just £10 exclusively until March 31st - so get yourself locked in to Berkshire's best beer festival!
February 6, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Tomorrow (7th) we have a social at the Tonbridge Juddians Beer Festival. We will be meeting at 10.50am at Orpington Station, and will be taking the train for Tonbridge at 11.09am. All welcome to join us! Details including the beer and cider list here: www.tjrfc.co.uk/news/tjs-win...
February 6, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Beer news!: Hook Norton Brewery has launched its first seasonal cask ale of 2026, Double Stout – ‘a classic English stout crafted from the brewery’s original 1898 recipe.’ Available at the bar in Hooky pubs in Feb, or in bottles from their online shop
www.experienceoxfordshire.org/a-classic-en...
A classic English Stout from Hook Norton Brewery – Experience Oxfordshire
Hook Norton Brewery is set to launch its first seasonal cask ale of 2026, Double Stout – a classic English stout crafted from the brewery’s original 1898 recipe.
www.experienceoxfordshire.org
February 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Pub news: The Royal Blenheim is the winner of Oxford CAMRA's 'City Pub of the Year' title, having narrowly lost the title to the Grapes last year. The Grapes came second this year, with the Masons Arms in Headington Quarry again coming third.
oxforddrinker.camra.org.uk/2026/01/roya...
February 1, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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23rd & 24th May 2026!! 💚💛 MAIDENHEAD CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL IS BACK for the late May Bank Holiday weekend!!

Earlybird tickets are coming very soon, WATCH THIS SPACE!
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Forty-six years after she took the keys to The Bull in Wargrave, near Maidenhead, landlady Jayne Worrall has become Brakspear’s longest-serving licensee beertoday.co.uk/2026/01/30/j... #pubs #pubnews @camraofficial.bsky.social
Celebrating 46 years behind Brakspear bars - Beer Today
Forty-six years after she took the keys to The Bull in Wargrave, near Maidenhead, landlady Jayne Worrall has become Brakspear’s longest-serving licensee
beertoday.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Perry tasting.
Not something that we get to post about that often.
January 28, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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It was way back on 17 January 2008, that the very first #Colchester #CAMRA Winter Beer Festival opened.

Organised by @colCAMRA it grew into a popular and successful annual tradition.

This year's event - the seventeenth, opens tomorrow...

More:

colchesterbeerfestivals.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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On the day the govt is expected to announce £100m relief on biz rates, I’m on Radio 4 You and Yours from 12pm today talking about pubs, we use them and how they're changing. Tune in!
January 27, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The Nag’s is turning 19! 🎉🍻

📅 Thurs 19 Feb
🎶 FREE live music – Dolly & The Clothes Pegs
🍺 12-cask Vibrant Forest takeover
✨ Big beers. Big vibes

Come raise a glass to 19 years of The Nag’s. 🐴🍻

From 6pm...see you down the pub.

#Nags19 #PubBirthday #ReadingPubs #ProperPub
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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Do you own a brewery. Do you know someone who owns a brewery. Would you like one (or two) of your beers on at one of the finest beer festivals in Lancs. We're looking for first pours and one off specials to showcase at Clitheroe beer festival. Drop us a message if you want to get involved.
January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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New team at the Craven Arms, Enborne, near Newbury.
The menu has been revised. Beer from Wadworth Brewery.
NB Closed Mondays.
www.thecravenarmsenborne.com/index
camra.org.uk/pubs/craven-...
Craven Arms, Enborne - Large Garden & Wadworth Ales
Spacious country pub with beams, large garden & heated tipi (open Fri–Sun). Wadworth ales include two regular beers & a changing beer. Plan your visit
camra.org.uk
January 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Tomorrow, Saturday 24th Jan, we have a branch social in Reading.
Starting at the Greyfriar 12ish, then the Allied Arms, then @nagsheadreading.bsky.social then the Castle Tap then the Hopleaf just after 4pm before heading back into town via Zerodegrees and finishing at the Alehouse.
All welcome.
January 23, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Congratulations to the team at the Tamworth Tap on being awarded CAMRA's prestigious National Pub of the Year for a record third time 🍻
Tap’s record-breaking hat-trick
CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year 2025 title has been won by the Tamworth Tap in Staffordshire, bagging the title an unprecedented three times. Since t...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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In need of some tasty cask to brighten your January? Great news, tomorrow is the 4th Friday of the month so it's time for our CAMRA Payday Social! Tomorrow in Maidenhead from 6pm 🍺
January 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM