National News
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
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...
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!
Cider Pub of the Year 2024
Congratulations to Freddie, & Emily and their team at the Half Moon, Hitchin for winning the CAMRA North Herts cider pub of the year award for 2024.
Pints of View 311 – Autumn 2024
Those of you who look out for the quarterly Herts magazine in our pubs may have wondered where it is. Unfortunately, we are not able to distribute a paper copy this time, nor publish some of the content. So here is a link to a digital download. Please particularly see...
We’re celebrating 50 years!
Celebrating 50 years since the formation of CAMRA North Herts, we met in the Red Lion, Stevenage Old Town, where it all started. Committee members form the 70’s to present day joined branch locals and visitors from South Herts to share memories, photos and browse old...
Club of the Year 2024
Congratulations to Hitchin Rugby Club for winning CAMRA North Herts Club of the Year.
Local News
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...