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                                <title><![CDATA[What's Brewing New Feed]]></title>
                    
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                                                    <updated>2026-09-04T05:35:03+01:00</updated>
                        <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[New look for Landlord]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/09/02/new-look-for-landlord" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2990</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Timothy Taylor's has unveiled its first brand refresh in a decade as part of its investment into the long-term future of cask beer.
While the look is evolving, the beer and brewing philosophy that have earned Timothy Taylor’s the trust of generations of drinkers remain exactly the same. The new identity includes an updated logo, pump clips, glassware and bottles and includes its Landlord, the UK’s best-selling cask ale brand by both value and volume.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-04T05:35:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA festival update - September]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/27/camra-festival-update-september" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2989</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Harri Knight-Davis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Summer may be over but CAMRA’s festivals are not so make sure you make the most of them by checking out the list below. Members can enjoy free entry to many CAMRA festivals (not including souvenir glass and programme) when booking tickets in advance. For more information and to see all upcoming CAMRA festivals visit the events webpage. ]]>
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                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-03T05:24:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Steel City fest teams up with local legend]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/17/steel-city-fest-teams-up-with-local-legend" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2988</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The CAMRA Sheffield Steel City Beer & Cider Festival 2026 has teamed up with local legends Henderson’s Relish for a limited-edition run of SCBF50 bottles. Only 500 have been ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-09-02T05:29:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Brewery celebrates 30th birthday]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/17/brewery-celebrates-30th-birthday" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2987</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[On 16th August, Abbeydale Brewery, celebrated their 30th anniversary. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-09-01T05:13:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Rescued Lion still roaring]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/22/rescued-lion-still-roaring" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2986</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[With nominations for this year’s Pub Saving Award now open, What’s Brewing is discovering what success meant for the 2025 winners.
The Ashton Hayes Community Hub and its  Golden Lion in Chester (above) was runner up so what has the past 12 months brought the project.
The only pub in Ashton Hayes village was at risk of being turned into housing when the previous owner of the 300-year-old building closed it in early 2013 and neglected the pub for 12 years.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-30T04:15:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Community pub ownership update – August]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/26/community-pub-ownership-update-august" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2985</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Paul Ainsworth]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Since May’s bulletin, the number of community-owned pubs (COPs) has increased from 227 to 234. Those not owned but run by the community has seen a slight decrease of two, down to 29, however, one of the losses is now community owned. The number of active campaigns has risen from 90 to 101, so there is clear public interest in community ownership.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-29T04:46:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA Monthly Raffle update – August]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/21/camra-monthly-raffle-update-august" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2984</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Congratulations to all the winners of CAMRA’s Monthly Raffle!   
Taking part in the Monthly Raffle is a fun way to support CAMRA. By entering you’ll be supporting vital campaigning work to protect pubs, breweries and cask beer across the UK. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-28T05:01:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Top 16 UK pubs revealed  ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/23/top-16-uk-pubs-revealed" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2983</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The 2026 Pub of the Year competition is hotting up with CAMRA’s England regions and overall Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland winners revealed ahead of a busy bank holiday weekend for pubs.
The pubs now advance to the super-regional stage of the competition, with a final four announced in October, ahead of the reveal of the overall National Pub of the Year in January 2027. 
The final stages of the award are supported by Avani Solutions, CAMRA’s beer quality partner and technology partner ICRTouch. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-27T04:18:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[A toast to the Pev’s heart and soul]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/23/a-toast-to-the-pevs-heart-and-soul" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2982</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[CAMRA members gathered at the Peveril of the Peak in Manchester to celebrate the life of legendary landlady, Nancy Swanick.
Nancy passed away aged 96 on 28 July. She had held the licence for 55 years, since 1971, and it is believed that she was both the oldest and the longest serving landlady in Britain.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-26T06:04:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Pub saving winner a year on]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/21/pub-saving-winner-a-year-on" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2981</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Following CAMRA reopening nominations for the Pub Saving Award, What’s Brewing caught up with last year’s winner the Hull Community Pub Society (above) to see how the New Clarence and its supporters have been faring since being the win.
After closing in 2023, a developer submitted planning applications to convert the New Clarence into a multiple-occupation house. The Hull Community Pub Society was formed, fighting off the applications and appeals, raising enough money to buy the pub in February 2025, and eventually reopening its doors on 6 September 2025.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-25T04:09:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘Another promising step’ on business rates]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/24/another-promising-step-on-business-rates" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2980</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The government has launched an independent review of how pub and hotels are valued for business rates in England.
CAMRA chairman Ash Corbett-Collins said: “This is another promising step from the new government. Our pubs have suffered for far too long under the current ratings system, which punishes bricks-and-mortar businesses and creates the ridiculous situation where global giants pay less per square metre for warehousing than a licensee does for their pub.  ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-25T10:30:53+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Pub garden champ turns back the clock]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/21/pub-garden-champ-turns-back-the-clock" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2979</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The first pub to win West Dorset CAMRA’s Pub Garden of the Year competition back in 2017, the Spyway Inn, has done it again this year.
The Spyway Inn, Askerwell lies in the shadow of Eggardon Hill and with distant views of Golden Cap and Marshwood Vale just off the A35 between Dorchester and Bridport. 
Set on a slight incline to the rear of the pub, the garden is bordered by shrubbery, hedging and a small stream with a large acer tree directly outside the entrance to the bar.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-24T07:09:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘Much-loved’ landlord dies]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/17/much-loved-landlord-dies" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2978</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Malcolm Tattersall]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[For several years, well-loved former landlord Russell Fletcher (above), who died recently, had the unique distinction of running the very first pub listed in each edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide.
Alphabetically, Bedfordshire was the first county, the first town in Bedfordshire was Ampthill, and, of course, the first pub in the town was the Albion, where he was the landlord.
Former psychiatric nurse Russell took over running the place in 2010 after it was bought by the local B&T brewery in conjunction with Leicester brewers Everards.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-08-24T06:50:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Hidden barriers to beer]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/12/hidden-barriers-to-beer" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2977</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Laura Hadland]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[I’m painfully aware that my own experience and needs very much informs the consumer issues I notice in the pub. Happily, people who read my writing are often generous in pointing out the areas I’ve missed. Recently, something pretty big has been brought to my attention that had utterly passed me by.
It’s allergen labelling. Not the most riveting subject, I grant you, but an important one. Now, I thought that the only information that is legally required on a pumpclip is the ABV. But I was wrong, if the beer contains allergens, they must be declared also. I am fortunate not to suffer from any allergies, so this wasn’t on my radar.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-08-23T05:31:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Something’s brewing in Bedford]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/14/somethings-brewing-in-bedford" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2976</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Matthew Curtis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[To the rear of the packaging hall at the Eagle brewery in Bedford is one of the largest cask racking systems I’ve ever seen. As it happens, it’s also a machine with a bit of history. It was once the property of the Strangeway’s brewery – once the home of Boddington’s – and was acquired by Charles Wells before the Manchester brewery was demolished in 2007.
Today, however, it sits in silence, while the larger keg-packaging line opposite busily clunks and whirrs away with two bright yellow robot arms pirouetting like its the crescendo of Swan Lake as they stack kegs onto pallets. Cask beer hasn’t been produced at the Eagle brewery since 2022, when it was acquired by Barcelona’s Damm brewery.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-08-22T05:21:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[PUBlic Affairs update – August]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/20/public-affairs-update-august" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2975</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>2026-08-21T05:29:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Make the most of a million beers giveaway]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/17/make-the-most-of-a-million-beers-giveaway" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2974</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Britain’s pubs will be offering a million free Try Before You Buy beer tasters during September’s Cask Ale Week.
The sampling campaign will see 10,000 pubs offer at least 100 freshly poured shots of cask beer each throughout the week, which runs from 17-27 September.
The aim is to give younger drinkers in particular the opportunity to try Britain’s national beer style, and hopefully convert them into regular cask beer drinkers.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-08-20T06:04:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA Pub Heritage Group update – August]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/18/camra-pub-heritage-group-update-august-5" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2973</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>2026-08-19T04:30:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Big win for CAMRA ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/18/big-win-for-camra" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2972</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Following the announcement yesterday that the government is to introduce stronger planning protections for pubs, CAMRA chairman Ash Corbett-Collins (above) said it was a big win for the Campaign. 
“Several months ago, the government tried to seriously water down planning protections for our locals, which would have made it much harder for successful, viable and valued pubs to be saved from greedy developers. 
“Since then, thousands took part in our campaign and contacted their MP asking for a rethink. 
“Because of our consistent campaigning and discussions with MPs and civil servants, we have secured this rethink.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-08-18T11:57:02+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Druid celebration returns]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/08/15/druid-celebration-returns" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2971</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[A pub in Wales, officially crowned one of the most beautiful in the UK, is bringing back its popular beer festival later this month.
The Druid Inn (above) in Gorsedd, near Holywell, is inviting beer lovers, cider fans and the locals to join it for four days of great drinks, live music and outdoor food from 20-23 August.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-08-18T05:12:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
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