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                                                    <updated>2026-06-11T13:15:54+01:00</updated>
                        <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA hunts for heritage pub heroes]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/10/camra-hunts-for-heritage-pub-heroes" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2885</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Nominations are now open for CAMRA’s new Heritage Pub Revival Award 
CAMRA has launched a new award to recognise the achievements of a group who have revitalised a historic heritage pub. 
From grand&n...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-11T13:15:54+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Branch celebrates half century with 50-pub ale trail]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/05/branch-celebrates-half-century-with-50-pub-ale-trail" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2884</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[As part of the West Dorset’s branch’s 50th anniversary celebrations, a local ale trail was launched in early April which is encouraging people to visit pubs and also highlighting the 50 local pubs that have appeared most often in the Good Beer Guide since the branch was founded.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-11T05:57:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Members’ Weekend 2026 round up – beer scoring review]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/03/members-weekend-2026-round-up-beer-scoring-review" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2883</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Harri Knight-Davis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[What’s Brewing is highlighting key moments from Members’ Weekend 2026 in St Albans.
Watch National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) coordinator Brett Laniosh (above) give an overview of the beer scoring review and explanation of the new beer scoring system, covering why it has been changed and its new features. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-10T06:21:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Boom time for lower-strength beer]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/05/boom-time-for-lower-strength-beer" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2882</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Alcohol duty regime change has led to a boom in lower-strength pint sales, new research has revealed.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), which commissioned the research from Oxford Economics with the Brewers of Europe, said: “The results are proof that when government supports business, business can boost the economy and help people choose lower strength options.”]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-06-09T05:44:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Members’ Weekend 2026 round up – marketing for growth]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/03/members-weekend-2026-round-up-marketing-for-growth" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2881</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Harri Knight-Davis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[What’s Brewing is highlighting key moments from Members’ Weekend 2026, in St Albans.
Watch commercial director Dean Barrett lay out CAMRA’s marketing plan to grow membership.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-09T01:03:58+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Sky’s the limit for CAMRA TV promotion]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/03/skys-the-limit-for-camra-tv-promotion" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2880</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Pubs, pints and people are the stars of the show in CAMRA’s first TV advert, being shown to Sky TV viewers across the East of England.
Filmed by Lamplight Media, the commercial Discover great beers with CAMRA shows people enjoying pints in a pub and at a CAMRA festival.
The advert is currently showing on Sky TV including during hit shows Euphoria, The Miniature Wife, Prisoner, Wuthering Heights and Downton Abbey: The Finale.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-07T05:25:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Double Diamond – still working wonders?]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/03/double-diamond-still-working-wonders" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2879</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Laura Hadland]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[I never tried the original Double Diamond. Production ceased some 30 years ago long before I was of legal drinking age, or indeed at the slightly lower bar (at the time) of the North-West’s mean underage drinking age. It is a beer that, until last week, existed for me only in an apocryphal pantheon – that of history’s most despised beers.
Double Diamond sat with such delights as Watney’s Red Barrel and Worthington E as beers I am glad never to have been around to drink, such is the vitriol and scorn poured upon them by the people who did. The epitome of the bland, fizzy keg beers that inspired the four founders of CAMRA to stand up and start doing something about the decline in quality, traditional brewing in the UK in the early 1970s.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-06-09T00:59:21+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Volunteers’ top scores for Volunteer ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/02/volunteers-top-scores-for-volunteer" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2878</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Staggs in Musselburgh has been declared Edinburgh and South East Scotland branch’s Pub of the Year.
During the previous year, members had been visiting pubs and scoring their beer making an assessment of how well it had been kept and served, submitting their scores online.
In February, members met to consider the highest-scoring pubs. These had been compiled using an algorithm that takes account of the number of people taking part, the amount of visits as well as the scores.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-05T05:31:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Members’ Weekend 2026 round up – chairman’s speech ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/03/members-weekend-2026-chairmans-speech-round-up" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2877</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Harri Knight-Davis]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[What’s Brewing is highlighting key moments from Members’ Weekend 2026, in St Albans. 
Watch CAMRA chairman Ash Corbett-Collins’ (above) speech here: ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-09T00:33:40+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[‘Extraordinary’ women’s brew day growth ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/02/extraordinary-womens-brew-day-growth" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2876</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Women’s Collaboration Brew Day (IWCBD) delivered its biggest year yet with 88 brew days across the UK and abroad, bringing together 1,153 participants, producing 93 new beers and raising an outstanding £33,889 for women’s causes – up 25 per cent on 2025.
Now in its second year under the stewardship of Women On Tap CIC – the UK-based social enterprise championing gender equality in beer – IWCBD has grown into a global movement.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-06-04T05:07:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Win a five-night cruise with CAMRA’s Beer Day Britain Bonanza Raffle]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/06/02/win-a-five-night-cruise-with-camras-beer-day-britain-bonanza-raffle" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2875</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[WB Reporter]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[CAMRA's Monthly Raffle is bigger than ever before with its Beer Day Britain Bonanza and truly special headline prize.  
The prizes include a five-night cruise to Northern Spain for two, courtesy of our longstanding partners at Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines, Instax Mini Evo camera, Trooper Pinter home brewing kit, £1,000 in cash, plus more top prizes.
Every £1 entry gives you a chance to win and you can play up to £20 for more chances to win. ]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-03T06:49:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Community pubs’ key role for young workers   ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/29/community-pubs-key-role-for-young-workers" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2874</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Community-owned pubs are a proven part of the solution to rising youth unemployment, particularly in rural areas where opportunities are most limited, according to Plunkett UK.
The call comes as national media coverage highlights growing concern over young. people’s access to work.
Plunkett UK is calling for greater recognition and targeted support for community owned hospitality through its Save Rural Hospitality campaign, helping more communities to establish and sustai...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Pub" />
                        <updated>2026-06-02T05:21:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Intuitive beer scoring system launched]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/28/intuitive-beer-scoring-system-launched" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2873</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Nick Yarwood]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[CAMRA has revamped its beer scoring system, bringing in a new intuitive rating scheme making one of the key factors in selecting pubs for the Good Beer Guide easier to use.
For lovers of a decent pint, it’s important to be able to find them. CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide has been the bible for finding the very best since 1974 and continues to be relied upon by thousands of cask lovers.
CAMRA’s online pub guide camra.org.uk/pubs can also help because beer quality is indicated by the 3 Pints symbols that members see when logged in.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-01T11:11:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Drinkers right to choose ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/25/drinkers-right-to-choose" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2872</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Dave Pickersgill]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[On 26 May, the BBC ran a story with the headline “Beer boom goes flat as breweries call last orders”. This was featured on its website and led to a pre-breakfast interview on Radio Sheffield with a local CAMRA member. Its story was based on a mix of Companies House and national CAMRA data and stated: 
in April, the number of UK beer brewing companies fell to 2,320. It peaked at 2,594 in 2022.
across the UK 320 businesses shut last year, Companies House data shows. Yet only 170 opened, resulting in a net loss of 150.
The story takes no account of the many nuances which are hidden in the figures.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-05-31T04:13:03+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Madhouse economics]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/27/madhouse-economics" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2871</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Roger Protz]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Greene King’s shock decision to sell its Old Speckled Hen brands to the Spanish lager brewer Damm has shone a light on the rapacious profiteering of giant supermarkets.
Old Speckled Hen is one of Greene King’s major brands but the income from sales to the off-trade is tiny as a result of the deep discounts demanded by the retailers.
As the football World Cup gets under way this month, we will all be confronted in supermarkets by what are known as “slabs” – boxes of 12 beers for around £12 – sold as cheaply as bottled water.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Opinion" />
                        <updated>2026-05-30T05:03:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Killer Peculiar collab ]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/29/killer-peculiar-collab" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2870</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[T&R Theakston and Rooster’s Brewing have come together to create Peculier Assassin, a gluten-free beer that fuses the character of Old Peculier with the hop-charged attitude of Baby-Faced Assassin.
Launching at the end of May in cask, keg and can, the limited-edition 5.4 per cent ABV release will debut at Theakston's flagship pub, the Black Bull In Paradise and Roosters Taproom in Harrogate before rolling out to pubs, bars and retailers across the UK.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-05-29T13:25:35+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Tring Toad tapped in Strangers' Bar]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/27/tring-toad-tapped-in-strangers-bar" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2869</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[One of Hertfordshire’s best-selling beers has been served at Strangers’ Bar in the Houses of Parliament, with MPs raising glasses to the local brew.
Side Pocket for a Toad at 3.6 per cent, Tring Brewery’s flagship beer, was nominated through the parliamentary guest beer initiative by Victoria Collins, MP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted.
As part of the nomination, Tring Brewery beer sommelier Jared Ward was invited to Parliament for a tour of Westminster, and a tip...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-05-28T09:48:06+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[CAMRA festivals update - June]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/26/plan-your-next-festival-trip-4" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2868</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Matthew Rogers]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[The sun is shining so make the most of it and head to a CAMRA festival this summer! Members can now enjoy free entry to many CAMRA festivals (not including souvenir glass and programmes) when booking tickets in advance. For more information and to see all upcoming CAMRA events visit the events webpage.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Campaign" />
                        <updated>2026-06-04T23:59:11+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Old and new combine for Spring]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/14/old-and-new-combine-for-spring" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2867</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Two Sussex breweries, one with over 230 years of brewing heritage and the other one of the UK’s most exciting modern craft breweries, have come together to create a brand new collaborative beer launching in May 2026.
Harvey’s Brewery and Beak Brewery have launched Spring, a limited edition 4.5 per cent golden ale brewed at Beak Brewery in Lewes. Brewed with a blend of Harvey’s and Beak yeast, it opens with fresh grapefruit and bright citrus notes before soft tropical...]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-05-26T06:00:04+01:00</updated>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title><![CDATA[Brewer to open shipping container taproom]]></title>
            <link rel="alternate" href="https://wb.camra.org.uk/2026/05/13/brewer-to-open-shipping-container-taproom" />
            <id>https://wb.camra.org.uk/2866</id>
            <author>
                <name><![CDATA[Timothy Hampson]]></name>
            </author>
            <summary type="html">
                <![CDATA[Derbyshire brewer Buxton is opening a new taproom at Bustler’s upcoming St James Yard development in Derby city centre. Dubbed Dukes, the venue will become part of Bustler’s street food and leisure concept, which is being created from around 20 shipping containers arranged over two levels.
The taproom will feature three cask lines, eight keg lines and a rotating range of canned beers, including small-batch brews produced on Buxton’s forthcoming pilot brewing system.]]>
            </summary>
                                    <category term="Industry" />
                        <updated>2026-05-25T04:38:04+01:00</updated>
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