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  • Bailey Head Award Presentation

    Bailey Head Bailey Head, Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    Presentation of the CAMRA National Pub of the Year award to the Bailey Head in Oswestry at 1:30pm.

  • Festival Working Party

    Prince of Wales 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

    Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA festival working party, organising the next Shrewsbury Beer Festival. 7:15pm start at the Prince of Wales in Shrewsbury. Members and non-members welcome. For more information on these meetings, see the Festival Working Party section on the About Our Events page.

  • Beer Bus Trip to Oswestry

    Trip starts at Salopian Bar 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Oswestry. The minibus will take us to some rural pubs near Oswestry and then into Oswestry centre itself, giving everyone the chance to visit CAMRA's national pub of the year, the Bailey Head. Departing from Salopian Bar at 7pm. Members and non-members welcome. Places must be pre-booked with Dave Ricketts – he can be contacted using the email address below, or by phone after 4:30pm (SMS text preferred). For more information about our Beer Bus trips, please see the About Our Events page.

    £15
  • Branch Meeting

    Cromwell's Tap House 11 Dogpole, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA branch meeting at Cromwell's Tap House in Shrewsbury. Members and non-members welcome. For more information on what happens in Branch meetings, please see the Branch Management section in the Our Branch page.

  • Festival Thank You Trip No. 1

    Salopian Brewery Old Station Yard, Station Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    A trip to Salopian Brewery on Thursday 6th February. This is a combined thank you trip for everyone who volunteered or helped in any way at the last Shrewsbury Beer Festival in September 2024, and also an official branch visit so any branch member is also welcome to come along. The bar will be open for us and there will be the opportunity to speak to brewing staff and to tour the brewery. There is a bus from Shrewsbury bus station that arrives in Hadnall at 5:43pm, leaving a five minute walk to the brewery, which will open for us at 6pm. There is a bus back at 8:01pm, otherwise the branch will pay for shared taxis back to Shrewsbury town centre. If you are interested in coming to the event, please let Norrie know using the email address below, so we can let the brewery know how many to expect. Thanks.

  • Festival Thank You Trip No. 2

    Trip starts at Salopian Bar 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    A trip using a hired bus to Tewkesbury Winter Ales Festival on Saturday 8th February. The bus is free for everyone who volunteered or helped in any way at the last Shrewsbury Beer Festival in September 2024, as a thank you for their hard work during the festival. Others are welcome to join us but a fare will be charged (price tbc).  If you are interested in coming, please let Dave Ricketts know by text or email (his contact details are below), as he will need to know numbers beforehand. The bus will depart from the Salopian Bar at 8:30am. We should get back to Shrewsbury between 5pm and 6pm. If you know of anyone that helped with our festival who may not have heard about this thank you trip, please try and contact them and let them know the details. Thanks.

  • Committee Meeting

    Prince of Wales 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

    Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA committee meeting at the Prince of Wales. All members welcome. Note that the start time for the committee meetings will now be 7:15pm, to give people who are getting the train to Shrewsbury time to walk across town. For more information on what happens in Committee meetings, please see the Branch Management section in the Our Branch page.

  • Great British Beer Festival Winter

    Magna Science Adventure Centre Magna Way, Templeborough, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    The Great British Beer Festival Winter is back with hundreds of UK beers, international beers and real ciders and perries. The venue will be the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham, and the festival will run for 4 days from Wednesday 12th February 2025 to Saturday 15th February. For more information, please look at the festival website here. For tickets, please see CAMRA's event ticket website.

  • Valentine’s Ale Massacre

    Ludlow Brewery Station Drive, Ludlow, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    Ludlow Brewery's three-day Valentines festival of beer, the Valentine's Ale Massacre, returns in February 2025. Free entry during the day.Friday 14th February - 11am-6pmSaturday 15th February - 10am-5pmSunday 16th February - 12pm-8pm (Open mic 4.30-8pm) 20 + beers, lager, ciders and more. The Pizza Girls Saturday 12-5pm The Beefy Boys Sunday 12-5pm Ticketed live comedy + live music evenings at night.Friday Night Comedy Club - 8pm-11pmSaturday - 7.30pm-11.30pm Live Music

  • Festival Working Party

    Prince of Wales 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

    Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA festival working party, organising the next Shrewsbury Beer Festival. 7:15pm start at the Prince of Wales in Shrewsbury. Members and non-members welcome. For more information on these meetings, see the Festival Working Party section on the About Our Events page.

  • Public Transport Group Trip to Liverpool

    Trip starts at Shrewsbury Railway Station Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom

    Social trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to Liverpool. The second of this year's out-of-area PTG trips. Members and non-members welcome! Suggested train is the 09:26 from Shrewsbury to Chester. Then onwards on the 10:31 from Chester, arriving Liverpool Central at 11:13. The first pub is an eight minute walk from there. The Anytime Day Return from Shrewsbury to Chester is £16.60 which has no restrictions on outward and return times to/from Chester. Shrewsbury booking office also sells the Merseyrail Day Saver All Areas for £6.20. We will start at Liverpool Central station and walk up the hill to the Philharmonic which opens at 11:00. From there will go to the White Hart a former club which opened as a pub in January last year. To the rear is the Engineer, part of the same building but has a different ambience and on the last visit, different beers. Next stop the Queen of Hope Street a former restaurant which became a pub in September 2023. A short walk takes us to the St Peter’s Tavern, a former night club which became a pub in November last year. On to the Monro, taken over and renovated in August last year. Next the Red Lion converted from a terraced house in 2022. Then an old favourite the Vines (the Big House) renovated in 2023. The connection linking the above pubs, apart from the Philharmonic, is they are all run by the same Pub Co. and all offer a CAMRA discount of 10%. Our progress between the pubs will pass other temptations including the Cracke. Opposite the Vines is the Liverpool Brewing Company Tap (CAMRA discount) with Liverpool Central for the homeward journey a short walk away. For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.

  • Prince of Wales Winter Beer Festival

    Prince of Wales 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

    The Prince of Wales in Shrewsbury, our current Shrewsbury Pub of the Year, are having a Winter Beer Festival on the 21st to 23rd February 2025. There will be a selection of 16+ of local and regional ales, seasonal guests, and local cider.