Solihull Beer Festival: Bigger Than Ever
Fresh from the sell-out success of last year, the eleventh annual festival will have no fewer 40 fine real ales - a quarter more than the previous record! *** NEWSFLASH *** The provisional beer list is now available online.
What I Drank On My Holidays
Continuing our occasional series of reports on world beers, Gordon Clarke has handed in his (late) summer essay.
Drinker Hits Press
The Winter issue of the Solihull Drinker, our quarterly newsletter, is out now. This issue features our 10th Beer Festival, Solihull's Most Improved Pub 2008, CAMRA Local Pubs Week 2009, part one of our Liverpool weekend away, our Stratford on Avon pub crawl and a trans-Pennine rail ale trip.
Assembly Rooms Scoops Pub Award
Solihull's large new J D Wetherspoon has landed itself Solihull CAMRA's Most Improved Pub Award 2008.
Obama Drunk in Kenya
President elect Barack Obama's Kenyan roots are being celebrated there with "Obama" beer.
2009 Good Beer Guide Launched
The 2009 edition of CAMRA's indespensible Good Beer Guide is published this month, featuring listings for more than 4500 of the best pubs in Britain and the UK's top independent brewers.
The Vaults is Back on Top
Knowle's Real Ale mecca the Vaults has once again won Solihull CAMRA's Pub of the Year award.
Boats, Trains and Automobiles... and a Minibus
Our annual weekend trip, this time to Exeter, proved to be a real spectacular. Steve Dyson concludes the epic task of documenting it...
One Village, Six Pubs, Four days
Last month the Warwickshire village of Long Itchington staged its first ever beer festival. Solihull CAMRA were there.
The Search is Over
The climax of the Perfect Pint Puller Award, Solihull CAMRA's search for the best barman or barmaid in the area, has finally arrived. The award was given to Sophie Clark of the White Lion at Hampton in Arden.
Save the Bass Museum
It's an irreplaceable treasure and the nearest thing Britain has to a national museum of brewing. Now the current custodians, Coors, want to close it down in a matter of weeks. Read the report from the Solihull Beerhunter.
Meet the Brewer
The Vaults in Knowle recently played host to David Waller, head brewer of Adnam's, who gave a fascinating talk and beer-tasting, complete with props, in the style of the Royal Society's Christmas Lectures. Gordon Clarke was there.
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