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CAMRA - North Hampshire Branch This Page:           North Hampshire CAMRA - Home Page     Some of the latest website updates: (Tip: click Refresh or Reload on any page to ensure you can see the latest updates) 31st July - New pub news: The Raven Hotel, Hook - will be g... - See the Pub News page. 31st July - New pub news: The White Hart Whitchurch now has... - See the Pub News page. 30th July - New pub news: Odiham and Greywell Cricket Club ... - See the Pub News page. 28th July - New diary date: Presentation on 15/08 - Presentation of Hampshire Beer of the Year... - See the Diary page. 27th July - New pub news: Fox Inn, Ellisfield - Local real ... - See the Pub News page.     Great British Beer Festival 2010 - 3-7 August - Britain's biggest beer festival returns to Earls Court in London, bringing together a wide range of real ales, ciders, perries and international beers. There's plenty to occupy you at the festival, you can play on some traditional pub games, enjoy live music, sample some food, including good traditional pub snacks, and also attend tutored beer tastings. For more information and tickets details, visit gbbf.camra.org.uk.   North Hampshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2010 - It was a great day over at the Eagle in Abbotts Ann for our Pub of the Year, when Sir George Young presented the award on behalf of CAMRA to Alan and Kate. Click here to read the full article.   CAMRA's National Beer Scoring System - You can help us select pubs that will go into CAMRA's Good Beer Guide by scoring the beer that you drink in pubs throughout the North Hampshire branch area. The surveying will carry on all-year-round. You will need a CAMRA membership in order to access this site: CAMRA's National Beer Scoring System.     ABOUT REAL ALE ..... aka Cask Beers, Cask-Conditional Ales or Real Beer     In the early 1970s CAMRA coined the term 'Real Ale' to make it easy for people to differentiate between the bland processed beers being pushed by the big brewers and the traditional beers whose very existence was under threat. Real ale is a natural product brewed using traditional ingredients and left to mature in the cask from which it is served in the pub. There are a huge range of different beer styles, each with different qualities, tastes and strengths. For more information on real ale, how it is made, how to keep it and serve it, different styles of beer, facts, figures and dietary information, visit the About Ale section of our national website. Stocking and serving real ale: There are many resources online and in CAMRA publications, such as the Cellarmanship guide, that can help you get started with serving real ale.     ABOUT US - CAMRA is the Campaign for Real Ale - We are the North Hampshire branch     CAMRA is the only consumer group in the UK dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional pubs, independent breweries and real ale. We campaign for greater appreciation of traditional beers, ciders and perries as part of our national heritage and culture. There are over 100,000 members in the organisation. Find out more about CAMRA on the national website: www.CAMRA.org.uk As part of the Wessex CAMRA region, the North Hampshire branch is run by volunteers that are elected by branch members. Our campaigning centres on the district surrounding the towns of Basingstoke and Andover.   We enjoy an active social and campaigning diary, with regular visits to pubs, breweries and beer festivals throughout Hampshire and the neighbouring counties. You will find an up-to-date branch diary on these pages. Leave your email address and we will let you know of forthcoming social events as they are planned so you do not miss a night out! The role of the rural British pub as a cohesive centre of its community has never been more important than it is today, and yet a record number have ceased to trade in recent years. Here in North Hampshire, we have actively campaigned over the years for greater protection for public houses. Please visit our Campaigns page to find out more about the local and national issues that we have been involved with.       We hold popular Beer Festivals in our area including the Hampshire Downs Beer Festival in Overton. We also reward the pubs and clubs in our area that are judged to maintain excellent standards of beer, with Awards of Merit and the North Hampshire CAMRA Pub of the Year award.   If you would like to join us in protecting our traditional ales, ciders and perries by campaigning and staffing our beer festivals, why not become a member of CAMRA today?       ... promote quality, choice and value for money ... protect and improve consumer rights ... support the publice house as a focus of communty life     Neighbouring Branches   Please click elsewhere on the map to visit one of our neighbouring branch websites - South Hampshire CAMRA, Portsmouth & SE Hampshire CAMRA and Surrey/Hants Borders CAMRA .     Wessex CAMRA website (formed of 10 branches in Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and Jersey): www.wessexcamra.org.uk     Contributions and opinions expressed in these pages are those of various individuals, they do not necessarily reflect the views of the Campaign for Real Ale either locally or nationally. Links to external sites do not imply any official CAMRA endorsement of the opinions or ideas expressed therein, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. Links to commercial sites are in no way an endorsement of any vendor's products or services. Your privacy and North Hampshire CAMRA: If you subscribe to our mailing list, we will not send you unwanted e-mail messages or junk mail and your details will not be passed to any organisation. Note to new members: Providing your e-mail address on the membership form when you joined CAMRA is not sufficient for subscribing to the mailing list on this website. The mailing list is run independently by the local branch and we require your subscription via this website. All contents copyright © 1998-2010 North Hampshire CAMRA. All rights reserved. Web pages created and maintained by James Broadfield for the North Hampshire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. 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