Welcome to the Stockport and South Manchester CAMRA Branch
We are a very active branch of 1,100 pub, beer and cider lovers drawn from the south of Manchester and most of the old county borough of Stockport. For full details of boundary see the Area section of the All about us tab by clicking here.
Our activities vary from social outings to beer festival, through regular monthly consumer surveying (better known as a Stagger or pub crawl), to campaigning about endangered beer types. For more information click here.
Fancy yourself as an ace reporter? Why not help with our award winning monthly magazine Opening Times. With at least 16, and often 24 A4 pages of copy required articles are always welcome. More details here.
National Winter Ales Festival18-21 January 2012
Sheridan Suite, Oldham Road, Manchester, M40 8EA Map
CAMRA is proud to present a selection of 300+ British and Foreign beers, Real Ale in a Bottle, Ciders and Perries.
With a selection of 300 beers, real ales in a bottle, ciders and perries we lay down the challenge that we will be able to find something which suits your tastes. I bet we succeed!
Food available all day until around 9:00pm (or earlier if we eat it all!)
CAMRA Membership Stand, CAMRA Shop, Tombola, Engraving, Books & Poster Shop plus entertainment on Saturday night.
Winter Warmer Wander - last few days
This year's Winter Warmer Wander runs from Friday 2nd December to Friday 13th January so what do I have to do to take part?
Either download an instructions sheet HERE (a .pdf document) or pick up a copy of December's Opening Times, the award winning newsletter from the Stockport and South Manchester branch of CAMRA. Visit a pub from those listed and have a pint (or half) of any of their winter ales remembering to ask for a sticker.
If you collect stickers from 12 different pubs, you win both a ticket to the National Winter Ales Festival in early January and a couple of bottles of winter ale.
Double your prize and be entered into a draw to win a hamper of beer by collecting stickers from 25 different pubs.
Collect all possible stickers (40) and as well as the prize above you will also be entered into a draw for a variety of meal offers.
Prizes kindly donated by the Hinds Head, Manchester Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport and Corin Bland of High Peak Beer Company who can be found in Stockport's Victorian Market hall.
Next major event - Pub of the Month
With around 400 pubs to choose from in the Branch area, to be chosen for this award a pub has to have done something outstanding.
A number of contenders are considered, with a winner emerging after, a sometimes exhaustive, selection process. That is the hard part over, now to the presentation of the award. This takes place (usually) on the fourth Thursday of the month starting at 8pm.
The Pub of The Month for January is the Victoria Hotel located at 438 Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester, M20 3BW Map and it will be presented on Tuesday 17th of January 2012.
Please note revised date
For a fuller description of why this pub is Pub Of the Month read the full article.
Manchester Pub Guide
Six years after the previous one, a new updated extensive Manchester guide is at last published. With all establishments within the inner ring road listed; whether a 200 year old coaching inns or a contemporary bar which has traded for less than a year, all are listed.
- 112 pages in a convenient narrow format (130mm x 210mm)
- Full details of 140 cask ale pubs in the city centre & beyond
- Listings for all other pubs in the city centre
- Full colour throughout
- Clear and concise colour maps throughout
For a full write-up go to
http://www.camragreatermanchester.org.uk/guide.html
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Good beer: CAMRA promotes traditional ales through awards to those who brew or sell them at their best, through 150 annual beer festivals, and through the best-selling Good Beer Guide.
Pubs: With dozens of pubs lost or altered every week CAMRA fights the crass vandalism to your heritage. CAMRA also helps obtain Listed Building status for historic pubs, and promote the importance of "the local" to the community it serves.
Consumer rights: CAMRA campaigns for a fair deal for you the customer, on issues such as full-measure legislation and licensing reform. We act as a vigorous consumer voice in Westminster, Whitehall and Brussels.
Choice: CAMRA promotes independent brewers so you can have something other than national brands. We fight for a licensee's right to stock a guest beer which is free of any outside influence so that landlords can stock what THEY (and you their customers) want to drink.
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