Beery News from What’s Brewing

  • 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. 
  • by David Jesudason
    A customer walks into a Star Pub and asks for a local beer. It sounds like a feed line of a joke – and maybe this is a very dark one – but […]
  • by Timothy Hampson
    Villagers have until the end of October to raise £100,000 in a bid to save a pub that has been at the centre of community life for 200 years. The Cottage Tavern, in […]
  • by Timothy Hampson
    A Berkshire brewery has become employee-owned in a move which its founders say will safeguard its future in its current home in Marlow. The founders of the Rebellion Beer Company have announced that […]
  • by WB Reporter
    Tony Hunter took home the big prize of £1,000 in this month’s CAMRA Monthly Raffle with Ian Penny scooping £500. Michael White, Philip Hinchliff and Mark Baldwin each won £100.  
  • by Timothy Hampson
    Women On Tap CIC International Women's Collaboration Brew Day (IWCBD) will be back in 2027 with the Unite Sustain theme. The campaign brings together beer and International Women’s Day by inspiring communities to […]
  • 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.   

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2027 Good Beer Guide launching 24th September Fitzgeralds, Grey Street.

Copies will be available to purchase at the event.


Gateshead Pub Month 2026 map and info coming soon.


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.