Branch & Local News
Good Beer Guide 2026 launched
We’re delighted to announce that 17 North Herts branch pubs feature in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2026, on sale now. The Good Beer Guide, the UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide, is celebrating its 53rd edition and features the best pubs across the UK. Nationally the...
Save our Pubs – The Bell, Bennington
The Friends of the Bell pub in Benington are asking for our support to object to a planning application to convert the pub into a residence. 17th Century Grade II Listed Pub A thriving and much enjoyed pub at the heart of the village, the Bell closed for COVID, has...
East Central Regional POTY
We are delighted to announce that The Orange Tree, Baldock has been voted CAMRA East Central Regional Pub of the Year 2025. Having already been elected 'POTY' for CAMRA North Hertfordshire branch and then Hertfordshire county, the Orange Tree won against the Beds,...
Pints of View Summer 2025
Pints of View edition 314 is online now. It will be available as a paper magazine around Herts after 16th July as soon our volunteers have got around the pubs! You can download an electronic copy by clicking on the image below:
Celebrate Cider and Perry in July!
Whilst better known for it's work supporting and campaigning for Real Ale, CAMRA also supports real cider and perry, and whilst it campaigns on this all year, there is an annual celebration in July. To find out why please visit...
New beer from Buntingford Brewery wins at Cambridge Beer Festival!
Buntingford Brewery's beer Tis Only a Scratch has scooped beer of the festival at this years Cambridge Beer Festival with Loch Lomond's West Highland Way 2nd and Hook Norton's Hooky Mild 3rd. This Old Ale was brewed in collaboration with festival volunteers and is a...
Hertfordshire Pub of the Year 2025
Congratulations to our North Herts CAMRA Pub of the year, the Orange Tree in Baldock which has now also been crowned Hertfordshire Pub of the year 2025, making it two years in a row!!! Rob and his team continue to do an amazing job providing consistently great real...
Petition launched! – Cask ale as intangible cultural heritage
A petition has been started by the craft beer channel (YouTube) to ask the government to recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage. For more details see: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686 This is part of a wider...
Cider Pub of the Year
Congratulations! Garden City Brewery & Bar is our branch Cider Pub of the Year 2025. Not only have Holly, Nick and the team had an ongoing entry in The Good Beer Guide since opening, with their own brews and constantly changing guest ales, but they're recognised...
Pub of the year 2025
We are delighted to announce that The Orange Tree, Baldock is once again our Branch Pub of the Year, retaining the title from 2024, when it was also Hertfordshire County Pub of the Year, and will go forward to the county competition again. We don't judge on range of...