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BRANCH DIARY
Beer festivals and events
Find out about upcoming beer festivals and beer related events in our area.
EVENTS
Ale Trail 2025
Following our successful 2024 event, we are planning another Ale Trail during August.
Full details of the participating bars will be posted here shortly.
ALE TRAIL
Latest branch news
Harrogate news
The Mucky Duck (Appetite For Life) has applied for a pavement licence at the front of their premises.
The Wicked Wolf (no real ale) has closed its doors just four months after opening in the former Potting Shed.
Knaresborough news
At The Mitre (Brew York) Brew+Bao is to open from 21st May offering Asian street food from YUZU Wednesdays to Sundays 12-9pm. This follows the recent opening of Brew York’s similar venue in Chapel Allerton.
Ripon news
The Golden Lion (Greene King) has closed again.
South Lodge (Punch) has announced a re-opening date of 22nd May.
Other towns and villages news
At The Henry Jenkins in Kirkby Malzeard (closed 2011) a planning application by the owner of the eastern annexe to convert part of the pub to a holiday cottage has been refused by North Yorkshire Council (ZC25/00661/FUL).
In Masham, The Bruce Arms (Stonegate) has re-opened with a new tenant, The Bay Horse (Greene King) is offering CAMRA members a 10% discount while The White Bear is to hold its annual beer festival from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd June.
The George & Dragon at Melmerby is up for sale for £325k. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/158416229
Club news
At the Bilton Club (formerly Bilton WMC) on Skipton Road four ales are now served, a regular Daleside Old Legover, Tetley Bitter and two changing local beers, often including a dark. The club welcomes CAMRA visitors.
Brewery news
Hambleton Brewery is to hold its Annual Brewery Open Day on Saturday 24th May, 12-8pm.
Details at https://hambletonbrewery.co.uk/open-day.
Harrogate Brewing Co have won Gold and Silver awards at SIBA’s Indie Beer Awards North East recently for Nidd Mild and Harrogate Porter respectively. Very well done to Harrogate Brewing.
The brewery is to hold its Hookstone Hooley beer festival, 8-10 August. Tickets available at
https://harrogatebrewery.co.uk/beer-festival Note that the taproom will be closed to non-ticket holders for the duration of this event.
Rooster’s Brewing Co is to hold its Suds with Buds beer festival on Saturday 5th July, 2-8pm. Full details at https://www.roosters.co.uk/pages/suds-with-buds
If you have any pub, club or brewery news that we are not reporting here please email harcamra@hotmail.co.uk
Plan a local pub crawl...
KNARESBOROUGH
This small market town boasts a diverse selection of great real ale pubs.
HARROGATE
RIPON
The spa town with victorian inns, modern bars and micropubs.
From one-eyed rats to unicorns, this cathedral city has a variety of real ale watering holes.
Branch boundary map
You may be surprised by how large an area Harrogate and Ripon Camra covers, from Thornton Watlass, near Bedale in the north, to Pool in Wharfedale on the edge of Otley in the south. The map below shows the branch boundary.
Branch diary
MEETINGS
SOCIAL EVENTS
PRESENTATIONS
Saturday 28 June 2025
Branch meeting
Black Bull in Paradise, Masham.
Followed by presentation of 'Tap Room of the Year', and then 'Country Pub of the Year' presentation to the White Bear.
11:40 bus from Ripon.
July 2025
Branch meeting
Boroughbridge.
Details TBC.
Monday 26 May 2025
Town POTY award presentation
Presentation to Harrogate Tap. 19:00
Saturday 28 June 2025
Masham Walkabout
Following our branch meeting at Black Bull in Paradise. (See meetings tab for details).
Saturday 12 July 2025
Boroughbridge
Details TBC.
Beer festivals and events
Beer scoring and the Good Beer Guide
You are probably aware of the ‘Good Beer Guide’, National CAMRA’s flagship publication which lists the best real ale pubs in the UK. But what you may not know is how those pubs are selected to appear in the Guide. The answer is that it is largely via beer scores submitted by CAMRA members from all over the country. If you are a CAMRA member you can send in beer scores. If you’ve ever wondered why your favourite pub isn’t in the Guide, this may well be because you, and others, haven’t entered scores rating the quality of beer there. By beer scoring, you can contribute to the process of selection of pubs that go in the Good Beer Guide. Here's how...
How do I submit my scores?
In order to submit your scores you need to either login to CAMRA’s online pub guide www.whatpub.com on a desktop computer or a smartphone, or you can use the GBG app on a smartphone. On WhatPub you will find over 30,000 real ale pubs from all over the UK; these are not all Good Beer Guide pubs, merely pubs that serve real ale. The same pubs can also be viewed on the GBG app or you can just select the Good Beer Guide pubs. In order to start submitting scores via either WhatPub or the GBG app you need to:-
1. Login to WhatPub. To do this you need your membership number and your CAMRA password. Or, in the GBG app link your CAMRA account by following the ‘Profile’ icon in the bottom right-hand corner.
2. You can then search for your pub by name. Be careful here as there are many pubs in the country which share the same name. Try searching the pub name and the town or postcode. The What Pub web page on a mobile device also gives you the option to search for real ale pubs nearby, very useful if you are in an unfamiliar town.
3. Once you have found your pub, go to the ‘Submit Beer Scores’ box on the right-hand side of the screen (on the WhatPub desktop version), tap ‘Submit Beer Scores’ on the tab bar underneath the pub photo (on the mobile WhatPub version), or tap ‘Beer Scoring’ immediately above the pub description (in the GBG app).
4. Simply fill in the date and your score, then as you begin typing, the brewery name should automatically appear underneath where you are typing. You do not have to enter the name of the beer you are drinking but if you wish to do so once you have entered the brewery name you should be able to click on the arrow in the beer box and a drop down list of that brewery’s beers should appear. In some cases the beer you are drinking may be new or a one off by the brewery so may not appear on the list, if this is the case you can simply type in the beer name. Select the beer name, click ‘submit score’ and your score will be entered into the database. (You can also optionally include the price per pint and comment on the beer under ‘Advanced options’).
It is as simple as that. An added bonus is that a record of your scores is kept so you can look back (on either WhatPub or the GBG app) to see the beers you’ve had and how you rated them.
How do I edit my scores?
If you submit an incorrect score by mistake or decide you want to change a score, here is a link to step by step instructions on how to edit your submission. EDIT MY SCORES
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