Branch & Local News
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...
Pints of View Spring 2025 Edition
Pints of View edition 313 is online now. It will be available as a paper magazine around Herts after 19th March as soon our volunteers have got around the pubs. Or download now from the Pints of View website. Features this month are the City of St Al(e)bans and the...
Save our White Horse – New Planning Application
The owner of The White Horse, Kimpton has just submitted another planning application to North Herts Council – for “extension, modification and change of use”. Ref 25/00090/FP. The campaign to save the White Horse and purchase it for use as a community pub has looked...
Cambridge CAMRA needs you!
Our neighbours in Cambridgeshire are currently in the process of selecting their entries for the 2026 Good Beer Guide. They allow CAMRA members from adjoining branches to take part in their selection processes - That means that North Hertfordshire branch members can...
Pints of View Winter Edition
Pints of View edition 312 is online now and it's a bumper edition. It will be available as a paper magazine around Herts after 18th December as soon our volunteers have got around the pubs. Meanwhile, download and enjoy this edition which has a variety of top guest...
The Rose and Crown, Aston is open!
The Rose & Crown in Aston reopened for business on 29 November, having been closed since December 2014. It has 3 hand pumps selling a range of top quality ales some from local breweries. Food is prominent in their new...
50th Beer Festival
This year’s Hitchin Beer Festival is the 50th in a sequence of Beer Festivals hosted (or co-hosted) by the North Hertfordshire Branch of CAMRA, in a continuous run of one or more every year since 1991. It is also 50 years since the North Hertfordshire CAMRA branch was...
Pub of the Year 2024
Congratulations to Rob and his team at the Orange Tree, Baldock on becoming this years Pub of the Year for North Hertfordshire!