National News
Champion Beer of Britain – vote now!
The Champion Beer of Britain 2027 closes on 31 October for nominations. The Champion Beer of Britain is one of the most prestigious beer competitions in the world. It is the ultimate honour for UK brewers and has helped put many into the media spotlight. Have your say...
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...
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...
SIBA Indie Beer
CAMRA has thrown its weight behind SIBA’s new Indie Beer campaign, designed to help consumers seek out independent beers and breweries. The campaign includes a brewery checker tool so consumers can find out if a brewer is independently owned, and an “assured” mark for...
Handpump Hijack
In March 2024, Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) launched ‘Fresh Ale’. These are brewery-conditioned versions of their cask range, which are then kegged and served through cask handpumps. They positioned this as a way to ‘revive’ cask by giving it a longer...
Good Beer Guide 2025
The UK’s best-selling beer and pub guide is celebrating its 52nd edition with not one but two optional covers featuring the UK’s favourite fictional locals: Coronation Street’s Rovers Return Inn, and Emmerdale’s Woolpack.You can buy it directly, with your members...
Branch 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Local News
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Plough at Kings Walden has been saved!
The Plough at Kings Walden was under threat from a change of use planning application by its previous owners, Admiral Taverns. On May 24th after a lengthy battle they agreed to sell it to the Pilkington Farm Partnership who bought it for the community. Adam Nicoll led...