WELCOME
Branch Events
Tues November 14th 7:30pm - Pigs Ear planning meeting Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Thurs November 16th 8pm - Branch Meeting, Eleanor Arms, 460 Old Ford Rd, E3 5JP Wed November 22nd 7pm - Pigs Ear Publicity Crawl. Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Rd, E8 1JH, 8pm Hackney Tap, 354 Mare St, E8 1HR, 9pm Chesham Arms, 15 Mehetabel Rd, E9 6DU, 10pm Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, E8 1EJ Tues November 28th Noon - Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 1D Glenarm Rd, E5 0LY [till Dec 3] Branch Awards We are pleased to announce the following branch awards for 2023 - Pub of the Year - The Stag and Lantern, 11- 12 The Broadway, London E4 9LQ Cider Pub of the Year - The Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ Club of the Year - Leyton Orient Supporters Club, Oliver Road, London E10 5LG Many thanks to everyone who voted. These winners will go forward as our entries in the respective CAMRA Greater London competitions. Dates for the presentations will be arranged in due course. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary.
NEWS
Our branch will celebrate being 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.Situations Vacant -
Brewery Liaison.
There are currently some vacancies for the Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO) role for breweries within our branch area. Role holders will be the official link between CAMRA and the brewery. Duties consist of producing periodic reports about what the brewery has been up to and maintaining the Brewery Information System (BIS) with new beers and any changes to contact details. Once a year, you will also need to proof the GBG entry and check if the beers brewed are eligible for the Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB). You will be able to attend (optional) the twice yearly Greater London BLO meetings where you can ask questions and share good practice. They are usually held in a brewery! There are currently vacancies for the following breweries in the branch area - Brewdog Brewpub Outpost, Tower Hill Brewhouse & Kitchen Brewpub, Hoxton Deviant & Dandy, Hackney Great Beyond, Hoxton Hackney Church, Hackney Long Arm, Shoreditch Mamouth, Hackney Wick Saint Monday, London Fields (to be opened soon) Wild Card, Walthamstow If you are interested in any of these vacancies then please let us know via email.Reduced price of a pint
Deals on a pint. in E4 the Kings Head have cask ales on Mondays at £3.25 a pint and the Queen Elizabeth has a £1 off on Mondays and Thursdays. E8 1EJ Cock Tavern- are doing all their cask ales @ £3-90 a pint for the summer Mondays irrespective of strength. Just out of our area is the Toby Carvery in Buckhurst Hill where cask day is also Mondays when ale is £2.99 a pint. Drawback one is that when I visited (on a Thursday) the clips showed only Doom Bar and Pride. Drawback two was that only Doom Bar was available. I opted for a ginger beer. The Bell, 617 Forest Road, E17 4NE currently have a cask ale offer. When you buy a pint of cask ale you are given a card which is stamped collect 5 more stamps and your 7th pint will be free. when I visited recently there were two beers on handpump Timmy Taylor Landlord and ELB Cowcatcher.Photograph a pub.
What do the following pub/bars have in common?, Bistrotheque, 23–27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR, Gantry ,40 Celebration Avenue, E20 1DB, Bourbon, 387 Roman Road E3 5QR, 40ft Brewery Tap Bootyard, Abbott Street E8 3DP, Beer Merchants Tap, 99 Wallis Road E9 5LN. None have a picture on Whatpub. If you can help please send us your photograph. A list of all the pubs is here. 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.
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
Campaigning for real ale, pubs & drinkers'
rights since 1971.
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 2022) to a six-year low of 157, 613 possibly due to the pandemic without beer festivals for renewals/new members.. But it could be that now members have be deprived of a monthly What’s Brewing paper and can only view it online that they find it no longer value for money? 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.
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belonging or assigned to others, all material remains our copyright. CAMRA East London & City 2023. Parts of this website were updated 20 November 2023.
Campaigning for real ale, pubs
& drinkers' rights since 1971.
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 2022) to a six-year low of 157, 613 possibly due to the pandemic without beer festivals for renewals/new members.. But it could be that now members have be deprived of a monthly What’s Brewing paper and can only view it online that they find it no longer value for money? 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.
© 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 2023.
NEWS
Our branch will celebrate being 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.Situations Vacant - Brewery
Liaison.
There are currently some vacancies for the Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO) role for breweries within our branch area. Role holders will be the official link between CAMRA and the brewery. Duties consist of producing periodic reports about what the brewery has been up to and maintaining the Brewery Information System (BIS) with new beers and any changes to contact details. Once a year, you will also need to proof the GBG entry and check if the beers brewed are eligible for the Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB). You will be able to attend (optional) the twice yearly Greater London BLO meetings where you can ask questions and share good practice. They are usually held in a brewery! There are currently vacancies for the following breweries in the branch area - Brewdog Brewpub Outpost, Tower Hill Brewhouse & Kitchen Brewpub, Hoxton Deviant & Dandy, Hackney Great Beyond, Hoxton Hackney Church, Hackney Long Arm, Shoreditch Mamouth, Hackney Wick Saint Monday, London Fields (to be opened soon) Wild Card, Walthamstow If you are interested in any of these vacancies then please let us know via email.Reduced price of a pint
Deals on a pint. in E4 the Kings Head have cask ales on Mondays at £3.25 a pint and the Queen Elizabeth has a £1 off on Mondays and Thursdays. E8 1EJ Cock Tavern- are doing all their cask ales @ £3-90 a pint for the summer Mondays irrespective of strength. Just out of our area is the Toby Carvery in Buckhurst Hill where cask day is also Mondays when ale is £2.99 a pint. Drawback one is that when I visited (on a Thursday) the clips showed only Doom Bar and Pride. Drawback two was that only Doom Bar was available. I opted for a ginger beer. The Bell, 617 Forest Road, E17 4NE currently have a cask ale offer. When you buy a pint of cask ale you are given a card which is stamped collect 5 more stamps and your 7th pint will be free. when I visited recently there were two beers on handpump Timmy Taylor Landlord and ELB Cowcatcher.Photograph a pub.
What do the following pub/bars have in common?, Bistrotheque, 23–27 Wadeson Street, E2 9DR, Gantry ,40 Celebration Avenue, E20 1DB, Bourbon, 387 Roman Road E3 5QR, 40ft Brewery Tap Bootyard, Abbott Street E8 3DP, Beer Merchants Tap, 99 Wallis Road E9 5LN. None have a picture on Whatpub. If you can help please send us your photograph. A list of all the pubs is here. 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.
Do you know of any clubs not on this list?
WELCOME
Branch Events
Tues November 14 th 7:30pm - Pigs Ear planning meeting Olde Rose & Crown 53 Hoe St, E17 4SA. Thurs November 16 th 8pm - Branch Meeting, Eleanor Arms, 460 Old Ford Rd, E3 5JP Wed November 22 nd 7pm - Pigs Ear Publicity Crawl. Pembury Tavern, 90 Amhurst Rd, E8 1JH, 8pm Hackney Tap, 354 Mare St, E8 1HR, 9pm Chesham Arms, 15 Mehetabel Rd, E9 6DU, 10pm Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, E8 1EJ Tues November 28th Noon - Pigs Ear Beer Festival, 1D Glenarm Rd, E5 0LY [till Dec 3] Branch Awards We are pleased to announce the following branch awards for 2023 - Pub of the Year - The Stag and Lantern, 11-12 The Broadway, London E4 9LQ Cider Pub of the Year - The Cock Tavern, 315 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ Club of the Year - Leyton Orient Supporters Club, Oliver Road, London E10 5LG Many thanks to everyone who voted. These winners will go forward as our entries in the respective CAMRA Greater London competitions. Dates for the presentations will be arranged in due course. Anyone wishing to make social pub visits or any suggestions or give feedback is welcome to email James Skinner our Social Secretary.
