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                                <title><![CDATA[What's Brewing New Feed]]></title>
                    
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                                                    <updated>2026-09-26T05:08:06+01:00</updated>
                        <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Seeing in the dark]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/11/seeing-in-the-dark" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3015</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Claire Daniels]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[I don’t have webbed toes. Or square eyes. Or hair on my chest. I admit to being shocked when it was revealed that carrots won’t really make you see in the dark.
The little white lies we’ve been told over the years were just so. White lies can grow, but where does a tiny snippet of misleading information metamorphosize into a full-blown lie? How far does omission have to go to be called out as deception. If the studio didn’t actually state that Milli Vanilli were the voices on the track then they didn’t outright lie? Or did the packaging and hype amount to exactly that?]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-09-26T05:08:06+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA Monthly Raffle update – September]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/22/camra-monthly-raffle-update-september" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3013</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Congratulations to all the winners of CAMRA’s Monthly Raffle!    
The big winners were Dominic Pugh who took home the big prize of £1,000, Derek Pake won £500 plus Malcolm Boswell, Verna Doe and Alan Robson all get £100 each. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-25T04:06:05+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Latest Good Beer Guide released]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/22/latest-good-beer-guide-released" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3014</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[CAMRA has published the 2027 Good Beer Guide and renewed its calls for a formal competition investigation into the global brewers that dominate the UK beer market.  
The newcomer definitive guide to pubs that serve great cask beer across the UK​ and uses an independent, volunteer-led selection process that makes it the authoritative and trusted voice of real ale drinkers.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-24T06:00:06+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Cost-cutting beer range launched]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/17/cost-cutting-beer-range-launched" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3012</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[As pubs and bars continue to navigate rising costs, RedWillow brewery has announced Nonetheless, a new series of cask-only pale ales.
Nonetheless has been designed to be the most competitively priced beer in the brewery’s range and the first orders go out this week in time for the Cask Ale Week promotion which runs until 27 September.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-23T03:33:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Beer fest celebrates thriving Welsh beer scene]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/17/beer-fest-celebrates-thriving-welsh-beer-scene" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3011</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Wales’ thriving independent brewing scene is to showcase its expertise in November when the breweries come together to pour hundreds of Welsh beers under one roof.
Indie Beer Fest Wales is a four-day festival running from 12-15 November at Down By Here Swansea bringing together more than 35 independent Welsh breweries. With 150-plus beers pouring from cask and keg and live music in the evening sessions, this is the biggest celebration of Welsh brewing culture anywhere.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-22T05:22:05+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Where are all the women?]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/06/where-are-all-the-women" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3010</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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 October. 
Women’s involvement with beer dates back millennia. Throughout the 9,000-year history of fermented drinks, archaeologists and historians have charted the role of women, both in the production and sale of beer. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-21T05:29:05+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Timothy Taylor ate my hamster]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/11/timothy-taylor-ate-my-hamster" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3009</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Laura Hadland]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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. The cause of the outrage? Timmy T’s latest brand refresh. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-09-20T04:20:05+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[PUBlic Affairs update – September ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/14/public-affairs-update-september" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3008</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Tori Wood]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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.  ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-21T08:39:53+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA Pub Heritage Group update – September]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/15/camra-pub-heritage-group-update-september-3" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3007</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Tom Chapman]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-18T04:05:07+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Cask Ale Week begins today]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/16/cask-ale-week-begins-today" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3006</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Harri Knight-Davis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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 more cask beer and for pubs, brewers and organisations to promote this unique drink.  ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-17T11:45:08+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Award-winning landlord dies]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/11/award-winning-landlord-dies" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3005</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[James Kirkcaldy]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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 2002 before it was sold. It did not take long for the new licensee and his family to make their mark, and how.
By 2005 it was back in the GBG, won branch and regional awards and in 2006 won the ultimate accolade of CAMRA National Pub of the Year. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-09-17T04:58:06+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Bid big for charity beer mats]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/06/bid-big-for-charity-beer-mats" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3004</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[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 reverse carrying a sponsor. The first set went live in August with the two others following in September and October. To bid search eBay using SCBF50.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-16T05:13:06+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Welsh government’s ‘refreshing' pro-pub rates cut]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/15/welsh-governments-refreshing-pro-pub-rates-cut" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3003</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Chris Charters]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The Welsh government has announced that pubs will receive a 30 per cent discount on business rates bills in the next financial year from April 2027.
CAMRA Wales director Chris Charters (above) said: “It is refreshing to see a first minister and Welsh government recognising the importance of pubs and social clubs to communities and giving them extra support so that more can survive and thrive. This builds on existing plans to introduce a Community Right to Buy to help people save their pub.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-15T16:24:08+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Heritage pub heroes celebrated]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/14/heritage-pub-heroes-celebrated" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3002</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Just in time for Heritage Open Days CAMRA has honoured two publicans for their significant efforts in reviving important heritage pubs.
Kerry Tyrrell, licensee of the North Star, Steventon in Oxfordshire, scooped the top prize and said: “We are very pleased indeed to have won this very special award and thank everyone who nominated the North Star. It will take a special place on the mantlepiece at the centre of the settle.”]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-09-15T05:49:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[First steps towards tackling ‘Big Beer’]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/14/first-steps-towards-tackling-big-beer" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3001</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The government has announced the Pubs Code for England and Wales will continue and be strengthened following its review.
CAMRA chairman Ash Corbett-Collins said: “We’re glad that the Pubs Code will be kept in place, as it's needed more than ever. Ordinary drinkers are being denied choice and value by the global brewers that dominate the UK beer market, including how beer is sold to pubs. We’re looking forward to seeing the details of how more tied pub tenants might be able to challenge the beer tie.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-14T12:39:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Owners needed to save listed pub gem]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/11/owners-needed-to-save-listed-pub-gem" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/3000</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[CAMRA’s Pub Heritage Group is appealing to experienced pub owners and operators to take on the listed Star Inn, Netherton.
Currently advertised on Rightmove, the Star Inn is the sole pub in a rural village and boasts features of truly outstanding heritage importance but it sadly closed in 2023 due to the ill health of the landlady. It is described by Historic England as a “rare example of a modest and largely unaltered Edwardian public house of great character” and is notable for its simplicity of layout and fittings.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-09-14T12:14:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Beer mustard]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/08/beer-mustard" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2999</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Christian Gott]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[I’ve been writing about food and drink for five or six years now. First on my own basic blog then a more professional website and finally for commissioned pieces, and let me tell you it doesn’t get any easier. Sure, there are always lots of ideas, too many to be honest, buzzing around in my head. However, setting them down coherently requires a great deal of inspiration and perspiration and I am always trying to find an event, news story or interesting fact to build the article on.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Uncategorised" />
                        <updated>2026-09-13T04:57:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Double drop commitment to cask]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/09/double-drop-commitment-to-cask" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2998</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Brakspear cask beers, including the flagship Original Gravity bitter, are now being brewed at Hogs Back in Tongham, Surrey triggering a significant investment in installing traditional double-drop brewing at the brewery.
The new partnership between pub operator Brakspear and Hogs Back represents a major commitment to the future of cask beer.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-12T06:32:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Liquid gold rises from the depths]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/04/liquid-gold-rises-from-the-depths" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2997</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Roger Protz]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[A 162 year-old bottle of Guinness rescued from a shipwreck is being analysed by brewing experts to see if the beer can be brought back to life. If successful, it would give a fascinating insight in to how stout tasted in the 19th century.
The beer was discovered by Stefan Panis, a Belgian diver and deep-sea photographer. He investigated the wreck of the Mindoro that sunk in 1864 following a collision with another vessel off the English coast near Dover.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-11T04:30:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[New guide to Island delights]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/03/new-guide-to-island-delights" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2996</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[
The fourth booklet in the Sheffield pub heritage walk series is now available: Kelham Island. Sponsored by Abbeydale Brewery and Kelham Island Brew Co., this publication concentrates on Kelham Island. Included are copious images, a map, detail on the various pubs featured and lots of information on the area and its history, including a timeline. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-09-10T04:36:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
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