ABOUT CAMRA
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale is an independent, voluntary organisation once (Dec 2019) with 192,289 members campaigning for real ale, community pubs and consumer rights. Down (Dec 2025) to a eight-year low of 143,038 possibly due to the pandemic without beer festivals for renewals/new members.. But it could be that now members have been deprived of a monthly What’s Brewing paper and can only view information online that they find it no longer value for money? 22% of the over 65’s do not use the internet. CAMRA acts as the champion for beer drinkers and pub-goers on issues ranging from protecting pubs from closing down, keeping the lid on the price of a pint and ensuring there is fair competition in the beer and pubs market. CAMRA supports well-run pubs as the centres of community life and believe their continued existence play a critical social role in UK culture.
NEWS
Where are most “foreign” lagers brewed? According to this article it’s the UK. Our branch was 50 years old in 2024. Back in the day (1980-1989) the branch produced a local newsletter named unsurprisingly enough, Pigs Ear. Here is the Nov/Dec 1981 edition. One from Feb 85. But before that Bas Clarke produced the East London Newsletter. Here is the first volume from December 1976, Volume 3 and Volume 6. Volume 7 , Volume 10, Volume 13 , Volume 14 , Volume 15 , Volume 17, Volume 18 , Volume 19 and Volume 20.Photograph a pub.
What do the following pub/bars have in common?, Ciderhouse E7 0JN, Riverside East E20 2AD, Tommy Flowers Pub E14 0NU. None have a picture on CAMRA Pubs. If you can help please send us your photograph. A map with all the pubs plotted on them is here. Brewery History Society Website. The latest London Drinker is available here. CAMRA London Pubs Guide. London Beer & Pub Guide.Beer Barrels and Brewhouses Publication on
forgotten East End breweries. See here. PDF
here.
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
Campaigning for real ale,
pubs & drinkers' rights
since 1971.
© Disclaimer and Copyright Notice: “All pages, their contents and related items are provided as is. Thus no liability, consequential or otherwise, rising from them is accepted. Where not already
belonging or assigned to others, all material remains our copyright. CAMRA East London & City 2026. Parts of this website were updated 21 July 2026..
Branch events
The Epping Ongar Railway (EOR) 2026 beer festival is scheduled to take place 24 to 26 July. This is a joint EOR / CAMRA event. Help is still needed to organise and set up the festival. If you can help us out email us. Please put this on the website - tomorrow will do after todays event Wednesday September 2nd 7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, Black Lion, 59-61 High Street, E13 0AD Thursday September 3rd 8pm Branch Meeting. Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Road E8 1JH Tuesday September 15th 7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, European, 557- 559 Lea Bridge Road, E10 7EQ We are proposing to hold the Roberts Ramble on Saturday 3rd October in St Albans, which is during the autumn football international break. A full itinerary will be circulated soon. Pete Roberts, I believe, can be seen on the front of June 1979 London Drinker mourning the demise of Watney’s Red Barrel. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary. BEER SCORING If you tend to score the beers you drink then you need to read this article and this PDF as the system is changing.
Blind Beggar E1 from TrisC.
WELCOME
Campaigning for real ale,
pubs & drinkers' rights
since 1971.
© Disclaimer and Copyright Notice: “All pages, their contents and related items are provided as is. Thus no liability, consequential or otherwise, rising from them is accepted. Where not already
belonging or assigned to others, all material remains our copyright. CAMRA East London & City 2026. Parts of this website were updated 12 May 2026..
WELCOME
Blind Beggar E1 from TrisC.
NEWS
Where are most “foreign” lagers brewed? According to this article it’s the UK. Our branch was 50 years old in 2024. Back in the day (1980-1989) the branch produced a local newsletter named unsurprisingly enough, Pigs Ear. Here is the Nov/Dec 1981 edition. One from Feb 85. But before that Bas Clarke produced the East London Newsletter. Here is the first volume from December 1976, Volume 3 and Volume 6. Volume 7 , Volume 10, Volume 13 , Volume 14 , Volume 15 , Volume 17, Volume 18 , Volume 19 and Volume 20.Photograph a pub.
What do the following pub/bars have in common?, Ciderhouse E7 0JN, Riverside East E20 2AD, Tommy Flowers Pub E14 0NU. None have a picture on CAMRA Pubs. If you can help please send us your photograph. A map with all the pubs plotted on them is here. Brewery History Society Website. The latest London Drinker is available here. CAMRA London Pubs Guide. London Beer & Pub Guide.Beer Barrels and Brewhouses Publication on forgotten East End
breweries. See here. PDF here.
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
Branch events
The Epping Ongar Railway (EOR) 2026 beer festival is scheduled to take place 24 to 26 July. This is a joint EOR / CAMRA event. Help is still needed to organise and set up the festival. If you can help us out email us. Please put this on the website - tomorrow will do after todays event Wednesday September 2nd 7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, Black Lion, 59- 61 High Street, E13 0AD Thursday September 3rd 8pm Branch Meeting. Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Road E8 1JH Tuesday September 15th 7:30pm Pigs Ear Planning Meeting, European, 557-559 Lea Bridge Road, E10 7EQ We are proposing to hold the Roberts Ramble on Saturday 3rd October in St Albans, which is during the autumn football international break. A full itinerary will be circulated soon. Pete Roberts, I believe, can be seen on the front of June 1979 London Drinker mourning the demise of Watney’s Red Barrel. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary. BEER SCORING If you tend to score the beers you drink then you need to read this article and this PDF as the system is changing.
ABOUT CAMRA
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale is an independent, voluntary organisation once (Dec 2019) with 192,289 members campaigning for real ale, community pubs and consumer rights. Down (Dec 2025) to a eight-year low of 143,038 possibly due to the pandemic without beer festivals for renewals/new members.. But it could be that now members have been deprived of a monthly What’s Brewing paper and can only view information online that they find it no longer value for money? 22% of the over 65’s do not use the internet. CAMRA acts as the champion for beer drinkers and pub-goers on issues ranging from protecting pubs from closing down, keeping the lid on the price of a pint and ensuring there is fair competition in the beer and pubs market. CAMRA supports well-run pubs as the centres of community life and believe their continued existence play a critical social role in UK culture.
