Branch Diary

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For more information on any of these events please contact our socials team by emailing socials@shantscamra.org.uk.

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New for 2024 is a group of real ale socials.
Two of them are in regular venues, The Hour Glass, New Milton, and the Park Inn, Shirley, the other tours around Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire.
The planned itinerary for the year is on this poster:
Real Ale socials list
Full details for each event will be below. (Don's Spot only when in our branch area).

May 2024

Thu 23rd
12:00 noon
Park Inn Thursday
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
Join us again for our monthly get together and enjoy a beer with some of our friends and CAMRA members from New Milton, Dorchester, Salisbury and Basingstoke. Everyone welcome whether a CAMRA member or not, you just need to enjoy good beer and good company.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.
Thu 23rd
5:00pm
Vibrant Tap Lyndhurst - Soft Launch
Vibrant Tap, 16 High Street, Lyndhurst, SO43 7BD
BRANCH SOCIAL - NEXT WEEK

Short notice social!

I've contacted Ryan Dack at Vibrant Forest Brewery and he's kindly agreed to extend the invitation to the Vibrant Tap soft launch to our branch members.

Thursday 23rd May, 5pm to 9pm – The Vibrant Tap, Lyndhurst High Street.

This will be a fantastic opportunity to see what's going on with one of our branches most loved breweries and give their team an opportunity to get any niggles and teething problems out the way ahead of the official launch.

The Vibrant team would like a rough idea of numbers so please drop me an email at chair@shantscamra.org.uk
 Contact Owen Jackson for more information. Phone: 07568 488876.
Mon 27th
9:30am
Itchen Navigation Pub Walk
Start Woodmill, Southampton
Our annual stroll along the old Itchen Navigation towpath, calling in on a few pubs on the way. Depart from Woodmill Bridge, Southampton at 9.30am, reaching Winchester around 3 to 3.30pm. The Black Boy is open again on Monday afternoons so that is an option, but for the last two years we have been going to the Queen Inn so we may well stick with that. Possibly we'll go on to other pubs; you can always phone to find out where we are. Later on we usually finish off with a curry somewhere.

Join us en route if you like - we expect to be at Steam Town, Bishopstoke Road, Eastleigh at 11am*, and the Bridge, Shawford around 1.30pm. Please note that departure is at 9.30am. Steam Town is a pub and brewery that opened November 2017 and has quickly found much favour in Eastleigh, and it's on our route - just turn left, not right, at Bishopstoke Road!

*Steam Town very kindly opened early for us at 11am last year, and we hope will do so again, so if joining us at Eastleigh then Steam Town at 11am is the place to be.
 Contact Pete Horn for more information. Phone: 07968 809291.

June 2024

Sat 1st
12:00 noon
Branch visit from East Dorset
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
A visit from the East Dorset branch for a tour around Shirley. Starting at around 12 noon at the Park Inn, then making our way back towards the railway station. Stopping for refreshments at as many of the following pubs as possible.
Freemantle Arms, Waterloo, Key and Anchor, Craft 101 @ The Hub, The Wellington Arms.
Everyone welcome to join us either for the whole afternoon or just parts of it.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.
Thu 6th
12:30pm
Thirsty Thursday
Hourglass, 8 Station Road, New Milton, BH25 6JU
An East Dorset get together in one of our pubs in New Milton. Meeting at the Hour Glass from 12.30. Everyone welcome.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.
Fri 7th – Sat 8th 11th Winchester Beer and Cider Festival
Winchester Student Union, Sparkford Road, Winchester, SO22 4NR
Winchester Beer and Cider Festival 2024

We are pleased to announce the return of our Winchester Beer and Cider Festival on the 7th and 8th June 2024 at our new location at Winchester Student Union, Sparkford Road, Winchester.
With up to 75 high quality local and national Real Ales, Ciders and Perry, Bottled and Canned Beers, and Olaf's Tun/Bottle and Stoat's 'Craft' Beer Bar.
We will be running 4 sessions:

7th June 11:30-16:00 Quiet Session
7th June 18:00-22:30 Live music from Ben and Zan Dlugokecki
8th June 11:30-16:00 Featuring the festival quiz
8th June 18:00-22:30 Live music from Britpop tribute band, The Blurtones.

Tickets cost £10.00 a session and are available from the festival website, The Bottle and Stoat (Southampton), The Hyde Tavern (Winchester), The William Walker (Winchester) and The Westgate (Winchester).
Ticket price includes the festival’s commemorative glass and programme. CAMRA members can claim £3 of free beer tokens (on presentation of a valid membership card).

For further details check the website at winchesterbeerfestival.camra.org.uk
 Contact Kevin Wooton for more information. Phone: 07708 698318.
Tue 11th
8:00pm
June Branch Meeting
Belgium & Blues, 184 Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7DW
Join us for our June Branch meeting 8pm at Belgium and Blues. Find out what is happening in your branch area, sharing the latest brewery news, pub updates, beer festival information, latest campaigns and beer scores, all while enjoying a pint with like-minded members. We always welcome all CAMRA members, new or old, and look forward to seeing you
 Contact Kevin Wooton for more information. Phone: 07708 698318.
Thu 20th
12:00 noon
Park Inn Thursday
Park Inn, 37 Carlisle Road, Southampton, SO16 4FN
Join us again for our monthly get together and enjoy a beer with some of our friends and CAMRA members from New Milton, Dorchester, Salisbury and Basingstoke. Everyone welcome whether a CAMRA member or not, you just need to enjoy good beer and good company.
 Contact Norman Clinnick for more information. Phone: 07974 837868.

 
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