GREETINGS
 
Welcome to the not particularly weird nor wonderful world of Chester & South Clwyd CAMRA branch. We are just one of many branches of the Campaign for Real Ale - a consumer group of over 120,000 members whose collective aim is the promotion of traditional cask ale as opposed to nasty fizzy keg and the downright unpleasant smoothflow nonsense.
 
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SAVE YOUR PINT

CAMRA NATIONAL PUB OF THE YEAR 2011
 

We're chuffed to bits to declare that our branch's Welsh nomination for Pub of the Year - the Bridge End at Ruabon - has seen off all comers to win the national title.
  
► Bridge End, PotY

CHESTER REAL ALE FESTIVAL 2011 
November 21st - 22nd 2011
 


 Well, that's over for another year. Hope you enjoyed it. Big thanks to the incredibly hard working festival committee and everyone else who's been involved over the last six months. Great effort.
   
 ► Flickr Festival Photos

ON DEATH ROW
 
 The Plough, Rhosymedre

Closing nationally at a rate of 39 pubs a week, see where locally might have called 'last orders' for the final time.
  
► pubs under threat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 
BRANCH NOTICE
 
  David Hair (14/05/12)
Sad news of one of our former active members.
  
PUB NEWS
  
 Spitting Feathers Visit (21/05/12)
Campaigning spirit shown by Deeside CAMRA members.
 
 Chester Ales on Hold (21/05/12)
Future in doubt for Saltney based microbrewer.
 
 Goshawk Award (21/05/12)
Mouldsworth pub gets nod for Summer Pub of the Season.
    
 Ellesmere Port Snippets  (20/05/12)
News both good and bad.
  
 Hawarden Resurrection (15/05/12)
After years of delipidation the Glynne Arms re-opens.
  
 Bangor-on-Dee / Eyton (14/05/12)
Two pubs and a clubhouse during a blustery pedal ride south of Wrexham.
  
 Boughton / Hoole Crawl  (30/04/12)
A social as part of Community Pubs Month.
  
 St Martin's Lodge (29/04/12)
Brunning & Price get clearance for second Chester pub.
   
 ► Chester / West Cheshire news
► Wrexham / Welsh Area news
 
The Goshawk, MouldsworthVISITOR'S PUB GUIDES 
  
Whether you're on a three-day anger management course in Chester, travelling to see your beloved Braintree United play Wrexham or planning a stag-do in Langollen wearing Bavarian lederhosen, you'll need to take a peek at our area guides to find out where serves cask beer. 

 ► Chester City Centre 
 ► Chester Suburbia
 ► Cheshire East
 ► Cheshire North (inc. Ellesmere Port)
 ► Cheshire South
 ► Deeside
 ► Denbighshire (inc. Llangollen)
 ► Flintshire
 ► Wrexham Borough
► Wrexham Town Centre
  

MASH TUN WARRIORS 
  
Take a peek at our four English and five Welsh microbrewers. 

► local brewers

 

 

NEXT UP
 
 Saturday 26th May
All-Day Social: Chorlton Pub Crawl
 
Sunday 27th May
Pub of the Year Presentation:
Telford's Warehouse, Chester
 
 Friday 1st - Tuesday 5th June
Peal o'Bells Beer Festival
 
 Friday 1st - Monday 4th
Bridge End Jubilee Beer Festival
 
► details and other events

SOCIALLY SPEAKING
 
Supping in the Silk Mill, Derby

More exciting than Herge's Adventures of Tintin, read about the branch's recent socials in our monomaniacal quest to seek out good beer.

 ► social reports

CHESTER WALLS WALK
 
 Take in a few pubs whilst enjoying a leisurely stroll round Chester's famous walls.
   
► chester walls walk

CHESTER CANAL CRUISE
 
 

An alternative city pub crawl alongside the Shropshire Union.
   
► chester canal cruise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

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