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West Cumbria & Western Lakes Branch

Westmorland Branch

CAMRA HQ

Cumbrian Breweries
(Info about new breweries, or changes to established ones, posted as known)


Beer Festivals
Solway: Carlisle, 8th - 10th October
Westmorland: Kendal, 15th - 17th October
West Cumbria: Whitehaven, 20th 21st November

Meeting dates:
Cumbria Branches


West Pennines

Sat 7 November 12.30pm for 1pm start. The Borough, 3 Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 1PP

Tasting Panel
None coming up - please keep doing the cards!
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Page updated
Sept 5th 2009




cover of 2008 Cumbria Real Ale Guide CRAG
The brand-new, up-to-date 2008 guide to Real ale pubs and breweries in Cumbria.

Click here for further details (pdf)


As always, no sooner is a guide published than it is out of date. Please check here for amendments and contact us to add your own. Cumbria Real Ale Guide - online

The Editor, Jim Chapple, has done a wonderful job of creating a site to support the guide. Click here to access
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CAMRA and Real Ale in Cumbria



CAMRA's Cumbria Beer Lovers' Dinner

Middle Ruddings Hotel, Braithwaite nr Keswick, November 2009.
4 fabulous courses created by Liz with all local produce, including Cumbrian beers, for the ingredients. Each course accompanied by carefully chosen Cumbrian beers to compliment the food. The food menu and beers list are both absolutely fabulous! Awards for the best beers in Cumbria for 2009, as chosen by CAMRA members across Cumbria. After dinner speech by the Paula Waters, National Chair of CAMRA.

To book please send payment (£35 per head) in full to Chris de Cordova, 35 Thornton Rd, Whitehaven CA28 6UW

Transport from Whitehaven area and maybe Kendal and Furness areas

Further details here




Congratulations to all who contributed to the new edition of the Cumbria Real Ale Guide, last year. It was finally acknowledged by CAMRA at the Members' Weekend when it received the Best Local Guide of 2008 award.


The Cumbria ... and the West Pennines ... PUB of the Year 2009 has again gone to


the Taps at Lytham - a very worthy winner!!



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Cumbria Pub of the Year 2009
The Watermill at Ings
Help! Are you a CAMRA member aged under 26? If yes, would you be willing to help out the Region by acting as the Regional Young Persons Membership Co-Ordinator. You do not have to be active within your branch at the present time, but it helps! If you think you may be interested then you can get a job description from: - gusinthepub@ntlworld.com Go on, send Gus an e-mail you may be pleasantly surprised at how you can help the Campaign.
The CAMRA Local Guide of the Year winner - the Cumbria Real Ale Guide 2008
Now available. Click on the image left for purchasing details.