Southern Hampshire CAMRA

Welcome to the website of the Southern Hampshire branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. If you'd like to know more about us and what we do, please visit our About Us page. If you'd like to receive our low-volume emails, then please join one of our Mailing Lists.

The latest news of our activities locally and CAMRA's activities nationally are described below.

Whatpub logo
Whatpub is Britain's best researched and most up-to-date pub guide. Go to Whatpub.com to find the pubs you need in Southern Hampshire or further afield.

Local News

 
Photo of branch chairman and the landlord of the Woolpack, Sopley
Branch Chairman Norman Clinnick congratulating
Nick and his team from the Woolpack, Sopley on
being a new entry from our branch in the GBG
Woolpack Sopley - new entrant in the 2024 Good Beer Guide

Branch Chairman Norman Clinnick congratulating Nick and his team from the Woolpack Sopley on being a new entry from our branch in the GBG. The Woolpack was last in the Guide in 1994

Other pubs from Southern Hampshire branch area that are in the Good Beer Guide for the first time, or after a long gap are:
Cleveland Bay, Chandler's Ford (returns after 18 years)
Hidden Tap, Botley (new)
Drop the Anchor Brewery, Hinton (new)
Brewhouse & Kitchen, Southampton (returns after 5 years)

For more about the guide visit 2024 Good Beer Guide

Posted by Pete Horn on 11/10/2023
 

 
2024 GBG launch event group photo
Key & Anchor landlord Ady Vincentand CAMRA branch chairman Norman Clinnick
with their copies of the 2024 Good Beer Guide
2024 GBG launched at the Key & Anchor

Thursday 28th September saw the official launch of the 2024 Good Beer Guide. To promote the Guide, members of the Southern Hampshire Branch went to the Key & Anchor and presented landlord Ady Vincent with a complimentary copy of the Guide. As well as sampling the good range of beers at the Key & Anchor, customers had the opportunity to buy the new guide at a bargain introductory price.

For more about the guide visit 2024 Good Beer Guide

Posted by Pete Horn on 04/10/2023
 

 
Southampton Beer Festival charity cheque presentation.
Robert Smith of SERV-Wessex receives a donation cheque
from branch chairman Norman Clinnick
Southampton Beer Festival Charity Donation

The chosen charity for this year's Southampton Beer Festival was 'SERV Wessex - The Blood Runners' - a 24 hour service that that delivers blood products, urgent samples and medication from Hospital Pharmacies in Hampshire, South Wiltshire and Dorset. A total of £318 was raised by the customers of Southampton Beer Festival and the cheque was presented to Robert Smith (left) by Southern Hamshire branch chairman Norman Clinnick (right).
Posted by Pete Horn on 14/08/2023
 

Previous local news can be found in our Local News Archive.

 

Please send all spam to here so that we can feed it into our spam engine automatically!