This years event takes place from 3rd to 5th April in York at the University of York West Campus, in Central Hall. There are several strands to the event – the legally required AGM, the conference where members debate campaigning policy, workshops to share experience running branches and the social side with a members’ bar, … Continue reading CAMRA’s National Members’ Weekend, AGM and Conference
Voting is now open for our entries into the Good Beer Guide 2021. As in recent years, we are hoping to nominate 30 pubs within the Sheffield city boundaries and a further 6 from the Derbyshire part of the branch. All Sheffield & District CAMRA members are able to take part in voting by selecting … Continue reading Good Beer Guide 2021 voting
Our 500th issue of Beer Matters magazine is published on Tuesday 27th August 2019. We are celebrating with a bumper 48 page issue. In addition to the usual pub, club and brewery news, awards, listings and trip reports we have a number of articles looking back over the years at how the real ale scene … Continue reading Beer Matters 500th issue
As a magazine that has been appearing in the pubs and clubs of the Sheffield area for many years, you may take it for granted that Beer Matters will arrive in your local each month for you to pick up a copy. However, as we celebrate our 500th edition we thought we should shine the … Continue reading Beer Matters – from printers to pub
As with all branches of CAMRA, Sheffield & District is volunteer run and we need more people to help out to be effective. If you fancy getting involved, here are some things you can do that require varying levels of time/commitment/effort: Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO): This is a role that is all about building a … Continue reading Get involved! Volunteers needed
Owner John Mitchell writes about the history of his family business You could say beer runs through my veins and a drop of wine! I have been retailing and wholesaling in Sheffield for over 50 years. It all started when my dad Dennis opened his Butchers shop at Meadowhead in 1935, in 1963 we became … Continue reading Mitchells Wine Merchants & Brewery
The new edition of the Good Beer Guide is now out and features the very best real ale pubs in each area, as selected by local CAMRA branch members that drink in the pubs. It also contains listings of all the breweries in the UK producing real ale at the time of going to press … Continue reading Good Beer Guide 2017
At the beginning of September a number of CAMRA volunteers went out and did various pub crawls across the City to undertake our annual beer census – also known as the Beer Capital Survey – to record the beers out there on the bars on a single day, giving an idea how many different beers … Continue reading Annual Beer Census results
Elsecar by the Sea beer festival (Barnsley CAMRA) The CAMRA Beer Festival instructions: go and drink A CAMRA Beer Festival gives the chance to try great beers. The one at Barnsley was even better. I participated the Barnsley CAMRA Beer Festival and I have to admit that I enjoyed it very much. Barnsley is one of … Continue reading Matteo Malacaria – My Yorkshire beer experiences so far…