Shrewsbury and West Shropshire CAMRA

Shrewsbury Loopfest Music Festival
2024-05-03 12:00 - 2024-05-05 22:00 (Europe/London) | Shropshire
A 3 day multi-venue music festival in Shrewsbury. Bands will be playing in larger venues such as Shrewsbury Castle and St. Mary’s church, but also in many pubs in the town centre too. Entry to all the venues is free apart from the Castle where the tickets are £25 each. Please see the Loopfest website for more details.

Beer Bus Trip to Bishops Castle
2024-04-26 19:00 - 23:30 | Trip starts at Salopian Bar, 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PB, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Bishops Castle. 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.

Members' Weekend, AGM and Conference
2024-04-26 16:00 - 2024-04-28 16:00 | Caird Hall, City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB, United Kingdom
CAMRA’s Members’ Weekend, AGM & Conference is held annually in April and is open to all CAMRA members. While the primary purpose is to debate motions to steer the Campaign and to elect the Campaign’s new board of directors, it is also a chance for our members to socialise in the onsite bar and explore the beer scene of different cities around the UK.

More information can be found on the national CAMRA website.

Branch Meeting
2024-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Trip starts at Salopian Bar, 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PB, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA branch meeting. Meeting will be in the Loft in the Salopian Bar. Members and non-members welcome.

Tilstock Steam Festival
2024-04-20 11:00 - 23:00 | Horseshoes Inn, Wem Road, Tilstock, Shropshire, SY13 3NR, United Kingdom
The Horseshoes Inn in Tilstock near Whitchurch is having a Steam Festival. There will be historic British steam engines on display as well as a small collection of classic/vintage cars, tractors and bikes. There will also be live music and food. Please note, timings are approximate.

Shropshire Real Ale Trail
2024-04-20 11:00 - 21:00 | Shropshire
The latest Shropshire Real Ale Trail run by the Ale Trail Company. Their description states “Following on the success of previous trails, it’s time to get ready for another extraordinary day out as the highly anticipated Shropshire Real Ale Trail returns. This one-day moving bus-based festival offers a unique opportunity to explore the charming pubs of Shropshire while indulging in a variety of handcrafted ales with your best friends without the worry of driving.”

The Ale Trail Company will be putting on buses to transport everyone around nine fantastic pubs in rural Shropshire. For more information and to purchase tickets, please see their website here. For the list of pubs being visited during this trail, please see the diagram below.

Public Transport Group Trip to Tilley Green and Wem
2024-04-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Trip starts at Shrewsbury Bus Station, Raven Meadows, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PE, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to Tilley Green and Wem. Members and non-members welcome!

Outward on the 511 at 11:40 from Shrewsbury bus station. Off at Tilley Green crossroads and walk to the Tilley Raven.

Then a walk into Wem. The White Lion, Castle, and Warbling Tit will all be open by then. The Dickin Arms opens at 14:00. The Hawkstone Arms opens at 16:00. The Fox opens at 16:30.

If returning by bus, the 17:10 from Wem railway station arrives at Shrewsbury bus station 17:55

If returning by train, the 16:38 from Wem railway station arrives at Shrewsbury railway station 16:50, or the 17:55 from Wem railway station arrives at Shrewsbury railway station 18:11.

For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.

Festival Working Party
2024-04-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-03-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Prince of Wales, 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, SY3 7NZ, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA festival working party, organising the next Shrewsbury Beer Festival. Members and non-members welcome.

Committee Meeting
2024-04-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-03-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Nag’s Head, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA committee meeting. All members welcome

Black Country Ales - Real Ale Trail
2024-04-06 11:00 - 20:00 | Royal Oak, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2DZ, United Kingdom
Black Country Ales are running their annual Ale Trail minibus tours this year between the 1st March and 31st May. Our local Black Country Ales pub, the Royal Oak in Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, is putting on an Ale Trail minibus on Saturday 6th April. This will be travelling over to the Black Country at 11am to visit seven of the Black Country Ales pubs, spending 50 minutes in each one, and then returning at 8pm. The cost will be approximately £20.

Places on the bus are limited and must be pre-booked by going into the Royal Oak and putting your name on the list.

Branch Meeting
2024-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Royal Oak, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2DZ, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA branch meeting. Members and non-members welcome.

Public Transport Group Trip to Oswestry
2024-03-22 10:30 - 17:30 | Trip starts at Shrewsbury Bus Station, Raven Meadows, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PE, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to Oswestry. This is the first beer scoring trip of the year to towns in our branch area. Members and non-members are very welcome!

The recommended bus is the 10:30 X5 from Shrewsbury bus station, arriving in Oswestry at 11:25. First stop will be the Wilfred Owen.

Please note that this is a Friday trip as pubs in Oswestry have better opening hours than on a Thursday, as can be seen by the information below:

The Bailey Head opens at 12:00 rather than 15:00

The Griffin is open all day rather than closing at 15:00

No. 56 (formerly the Bastion) opens at 13:00 rather than 17:00

The Bell opens at 14:00 rather than 16:00

The Black Lion opens at 16:30 rather than 18:00

The former Red Lion now the Coach House is open from Noon to 15:00 on a Friday and closed all day Thursday.

The Tankard, Plough, Oak, Wynnstay Hotel, Fox and Wilfred Owen are open all day.

Bus return times are 16:35, 17:20, or 18:05 from Oswestry bus station.

For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page. To contact the trip organiser, please use the email address below.

Beer Bus Trip to Royal Hill, Kinnerley and Beyond
2024-03-15 19:00 - 23:30 | Trip starts at Salopian Bar, 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PB, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Royal Hill, Kinnerley and beyond. 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.

Regional Meeting
2024-03-02 12:00 - 15:00 | The Merchants Inn, 5 Little Church St, Rugby, CV21 3AW, United Kingdom
The next West Midlands CAMRA regional meeting will be at the Merchant’s Inn in Rugby. Arrive at 12pm for 12.30 – 3pm meeting.

Branch Meeting
2024-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Cromwell’s Tap House, 11 Dogpole, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1EN, United Kingdom
Shrewsbury & West Shropshire CAMRA branch meeting. All welcome

Beer Bus Trip to Whitchurch
2024-02-23 19:00 - 23:30 | Trip starts at Salopian Bar, 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PB, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Whitchurch. Departing from Salopian Bar at 7pm. Note that Beer Bus participants have been invited to the soft opening of the Crafty Dragon on Friday night, the new micro-pub on Mill Street run by Magic Dragon brewery. This is an invitation-only event before officially opening to the public on Saturday 24th. Both members and non-members are welcome on the Beer Bus.

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.

Winter Ale Festival
2024-02-16 12:00 - 2024-02-18 23:00 | Prince of Wales, 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, SY3 7NZ, United Kingdom
Three day real ale festival at the Prince of Wales pub in Shrewsbury, our current Shrewsbury Pub of the Year, and multiple winner of our previous Pub of the Year competitions. The beer list can be seen below.

Great British Beer Festival Winter
2024-02-15 12:00 - 2024-02-17 22:00 | Burton Town Hall, King Edward Place, Burton upon Trent, DE14 2EB, United Kingdom
The wonderful Winter Great British Beer Festival is back with hundreds of not only dark and winter brews, but also a great selection of light and hoppy ales too.

The venue will again be the Town Hall in Burton-on-Trent, and the festival will run for 3 days from Thursday 15th February 2024 to Saturday 17th.

For more information and tickets, please look at the festival website here.

Public Transport Group Trip to Sedgley and Wolverhampton
2024-02-15 10:30 - 18:00 | Trip starts at Shrewsbury Railway Station, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2DQ, United Kingdom
Social trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to Sedgley and Wolverhampton. This is the second of our ‘out of area’ PTG trips that we do in January and February each year. Members and non-members welcome!

Suggested train is the 10:30 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton. The anytime day return fare appears to be £12.30. On arrival at Wolverhampton we will make our way to the old tram stop in Bilston Street and get the No. 1 bus to Sedgley getting off at the Crown public house.

A short walk takes us to the Beacon Hotel, home of Sarah Hughes beers. The pub should have three of their beers on plus two guests.

When we are ready to move on we will return to the centre of Sedgley and visit the Swan Inn. The pub re-opened in January and should have six beers on including Kinver.

Once again when we are ready to move on we’ll return to Wolverhampton. Depending on our arrival time, we will try to visit the Duke of York, Lych Gate Tavern and, of course, the Great Western.

The fast train back to Shrewsbury leaves at 41 minutes past the hour.

For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.

Branch Annual Dinner
2024-02-09 19:00 - 22:00 | Prince Rupert Hotel, Butcher Row, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1UQ, United Kingdom
The branch’s Annual Dinner will be held again at the Prince Rupert Hotel in Shrewsbury on 9th February 2024. Please get there at 7pm as the meal will start at 7:30. All members and partners welcome.

The menu is below with the prices, which are £32.95 for 2 courses and £37.95 for three. If people wish to come, they need to let Helen Arkell know along with their meal choices, either in person or by using her Pubs email address (pubs@saws.camra.org.uk). Payment will be needed up front, but if that is an issue then please contact Helen.

For those that haven’t been to an Annual Dinner at the Prince Rupert before, there is a bar at the hotel where people can order their own drinks. However, there is no real ale available at the bar, so we take two casks of ale with us from local breweries, which is available to purchase for around £2.50 a pint.

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Valentine's Ale Massacre
2024-02-09 11:00 - 2024-02-11 17:00 | Ludlow Brewery, Station Drive, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 2PQ, United Kingdom
Ludlow Brewery’s annual Valentines three day beer festival with great beer, food and music.

Festival Thank You Trip
2024-02-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Salopian Brewery, Old Station Yard, Station Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 3DD, United Kingdom
A trip to Salopian Brewery bar for everyone who volunteered at the Shrewsbury Beer Festival in September 2023, as a thank you for their hard work during the festival. Anyone that helped in any way is welcome to come along. There will be a free bar and we will order takeaway pizza for everyone.

Please make your own way to the the brewery, which opens for us at 7pm. Most people will be travelling by public bus from Shrewsbury to Hadnall. The branch will then book taxis to get people back to Shrewsbury afterwards. If you have any questions, please contact Dave (chair@saws.camra.org.uk) or Norrie (press@saws.camra.org.uk).

If you know of anyone that helped with the festival who may not have heard about this thank you trip, please try and contact them and let them know the details. Thanks.

Beer Bus Trip to Ludlow
2024-01-26 19:00 - 23:30 | Trip starts at Salopian Bar, 29 Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1PB, United Kingdom
Social and beer scoring trip by minibus from Shrewsbury to Ludlow. 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.

Branch Meeting
2024-01-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Prince of Wales, 30 Bynner St, Shrewsbury, SY3 7NZ, United Kingdom

Public Transport Group Trip to Liverpool
2024-01-18 09:00 - 18:00 | Trip starts at Shrewsbury Railway Station, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 2DQ, United Kingdom
Social trip by public transport from Shrewsbury to the Dale Street area of Liverpool. This is the first of our ‘out of area’ PTG trips that we do in January and February each year. Members and non-members welcome!

Suggested itinerary is as follows:

Ship & Mitre, 133 Dale Street;

Excelsior, 121 Dale Street;

Vernon Arms, 69 Dale Street;

Thomas Rigby’s, 23 Dale Street;

Lady of Mann, 19 Dale Street;

Saddle Inn, 13 Dale Street;

Hole in Ye Wall, 4 Hackins Hey;

Denbeigh Castle, 10 Hackins Hey

All offer a good selection of cask beers although the Saddle will probably only have national brands. All open at 12:00 with the exception of the Ship which opens at 11:00, making it our first visit.

Suggested train is the 09:26 from Shrewsbury to Chester. Then onwards on the 10:31 from Chester arriving Liverpool Lime Street at 11:13. The first pub is an eight minute walk from there. The Anytime Day Return from Shrewsbury to Chester is £15.90 which has no restrictions on outward and return times to/from Chester. Shrewsbury booking office also sells the Merseyrail Day Saver All Areas for £5.95. Suggested return is from Moorfields station which gives an opportunity to visit the excellent Lion pub on the way.

For those living north of Shrewsbury who are travelling to Liverpool via Crewe, the 08:57 from Wem / 09:06 from Whitchurch will get to Liverpool Lime Street at 10:42. Return times from Lime Street are 16:08, 17:08 and 18:43.

For more information about our Public Transport Group (PTG) trips, please see the About Our Events page.
