Beery News from What’s Brewing

  • PUBlic Affairs update – September 
    by Tori Wood
    The regular series returns to What’s Brewing with the Campaigns and Communications team’s latest campaigning for pubs, pints and people across Westminster, devolved parliaments and local government.  
  • Where are all the women?
    by Dave Pickersgill
    One of the highlights of Sheffield CAMRA’s Steel City Beer Festival 2026 (SCBF50) promises to be a tutored beer tasting and discussion by Women On Tap CIC founder Rachel Auty on Saturday 24 […]
  • Timothy Taylor ate my hamster
    by Laura Hadland
    Batten down the hatches! The people with nothing better to do have been falling over themselves to get on the radio, telly and internet to call Timothy Taylor “woke” these past few weeks. […]
  • CAMRA Pub Heritage Group update – September
    by Tom Chapman
    CAMRA’s Pub Heritage Group shares news and updates about pubs with historically significant interiors across the UK. For further news about the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, see the Pub Heritage Group webpage. 
  • Cask Ale Week begins today
    by Harri Knight-Davis
    Cask Ale Week starts today and runs to 27 September as celebrating our national drink cask can’t be restricted to just seven days.  This 10-day celebration is an opportunity for pubgoers to try […]
  • Award-winning landlord dies
    by James Kirkcaldy
    Roger Cudlip, the multi-award winning landlord of the Tom Cobley Tavern, Spreyton passed away at the end of August. The Tom had been in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide (GBG) from 1989 to […]
  • Bid big for charity beer mats
    by Dave Pickersgill
    Three limited-edition, mint sets of the 14 beer mats promoting the 50th Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF50) are being auctioned on eBay for charity. On one side is the event logo with the […]

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2027 Good Beer Guide launching 24th September venue TBC.

Copies were available to purchase at the event.

Gateshead Pub Month 2026 map and info coming soon.

Pub and Club of the Year 2025 Winners

Congratulations to all our winners.

Overall Winners

Overall Pub Of The Year    Dipton Mill Inn

Club of The Year  Heaton Stannington F.C  

Cider Pub of The Year  The Bodega 

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Newcastle Pub of the Year
  1. The County – Gosforth
  2. Town Mouse Ale House – Newcastle
  3. Mean Eyed Cat – Newcastle
Gateshead Pub Of The Year
  1. Microbus – Gateshead
  2. Ye Olde Cross – Ryton
  3. Wheat Sheaf – Felling
North Tyneside Pub of the Year
  1. Left Luggage Room – Monkseaton
  2. Tynemouth Lodge – Tynemouth
  3. Enigma Tap – North Shields
South East Northumberland Pub Of The Year
  1. The Office – Morpeth
  2. Joiners Arms – Morpeth
  3. The Lounge – Blyth
South West Northumberland Pub of the Year
  1. Dipton Mill – Hexham
  2. The Pont Tap – Ponteland
  3. Platform Bar – Hexham
North Northumberland Pub of the Year
Tyneside Cider Pub of the Year
Northumberland Cider Pub of the Year
Tyneside Club of the Year
Northumberland Club Of The Year
  1. Comrades Club – Haltwhistle
  2. Stocksfield Cricket Club – Stocksfield
  3. Ovington Social Club – Ovington

Forge at Ulgham – Community Buyout Launched.