The 2012 festival will open at 6 pm on Wednesday 2nd May

Manager elections 8pm 8th Sept, Eldon Arms

Friday 29/07/11 at the Rose & Crown, Sandhurst

Fox & Hounds, Caversham is Two Bridges brewery tap

Fox & Hounds, Caversham is Two Bridges brewery tap

The beer list for Reading Beer Festival is now online

The well-deserved winners of our branch awards for 2011.

Binghams and Mr Whiteheads at the Jolly Anglers 9 February

Chiltern Brewery launch Copper Beach 4.4% abv

Elephant Beer Stampede 10-12th Sept gives 20p discount

Sherfield on Loddon Beer Festival 25th September

From October the 3Bs will open Friday & Saturday evening

Wetherspoons are holding a festival 15th-25th July

Wetherspoons are holding a festival 15th-25th July

The Bird in Hand has a suggestions box for their guest ales

18-20 June: Beer List

The Jolly Anglers has a new house beer - Jolly Bodge

Reading Friday 18 June to Friday 25 June

Planning permission granted in Ruscombe

The Nag's Head will be putting on extra milds in May

A charity beer festival in Twyford 5th - 6th June

Beer List

A great selection of beer from 1st - 4th April

The local branch names two POTY pubs

For 2010 the branch has joint Pub of the Year winners

Reading Beer Festival is now looking for volunteers

The national champion is announced.

Fisherman's Cottage Beer Festival from 13th Feb to 3rd May

summary

Want to play at this year's beer festival?

The winner is announced.

New licence granted

Reading pub to reopen

Locals take over village pubs

Signings by the author.

Goring Social Club has decided to allow card-bearing CAMRA members into the Club for six occasions in any calendar year.

Jeff Evans to sign copies of the Good Bottled Beer Guide on 12 December.

Lists are now available for the beer festivals at the Bird in Hand and Retreat.

Two planning applications that would have meant the loss of local pubs have been rejected.

Magpie & Parrot, Shinfield. August Beer Fest - dates and beer line-up within!

The Star, Waltham St Lawrence, 26 September.

Bronze award in 2009 Champion Beer of Britain final to add to last year's Silver in the Old Ales and Strong Milds category at the Champion Winter Beer of Britain.

The 3Bs now has West Berks Good Old Boy as a permanent beer and on Wednesdays it's only £2 a pint.

Update on the Jolly Anglers and a new application is submitted for the Beehive.

Spring Real Ale and Cider Festival 15-17 May features 15 real ales and 8 ciders and perries. Read on for the beer list ...

TV production company Twofour Broadcast are looking for a pub that the local community want to take over and run, for a series on new UKTV channel Blightly.

It's going to be quite a mild month at the Nag's Head - look at the list of milds.

North Oxon CAMRA have put out an urgent request for staff for the Banbury Beer Festival, to be held 7 - 9 May.

May is mild month and the Nag's Head will be having quite a month!

Pub of the Year page on this website now updated with the results of this year's contest.

If you want a GK beer cheaper than JDW's 99p for IPA, you can have a free pint of Old Speckled Hen.

The Royal Oak at Ruscombe now has a regular guest ale.

The White Hart in Shurlock Row has been renamed The Shurlock Inn after it was bought by a group from the village.

Mark Butler from Butlers brewery Mapledurham has packed his business up, because he is running at a loss, and owed so much money.

List announced for their forthcoming beer festival.

And the winner is ...

Wolf Brewery are pushing for more outlets in the Reading area.

The list of pubs taking part in this year's Ale Trail has been released.

A guide to the real ale pubs along the 127 bus route is being prepared. It is part sponsored by Thames Travel.

Jeff Cronyn, landlord of the Red Lion, Upper Basildon, died on 30th December of meningitis.

A new brewery has opened in the LocAle area of Reading - The Andwell Brewing Company at North Warnborough near Hook.

The guide is now available to download.

Ascot Brewery launch their Winter Reserve at the branch Pub of the Year, The Bird in Hand with a 'Meet the Brewer' evening on Wednesday 26th November.

If you're not going on the "Bus Pass Crawl" on 25 October, try this instead.

The BBC are looking for a couple to volunteer for The One Show - a series of science films on how to stay younger and we're looking for a couple to take part in an item about detox diets.

The Reading town centre bar attached to the old Town Hall, The Three Bs, is to be open in the evenings from Wednesday to Saturday only.

In the Champion Beer of Britain awards.

At The Horns, Crazies Hill

Last chance to enter.

Festival details - 16 August.

Branch social coming up - order your tickets online to save money.

The Reading and Mid Berks list of pubs on the beer scoring matrix has 157 entries. The challenge was to have scoring visits for them all by the end of September. Thanks to the efforts of Quinten Taylor it's been achieved before the end of July!

Funeral Details

Mark, who has run two beer festivals at The Sportsman has moved to the Westside on Tilehurst Road. We welcome Matt who takes over - and promises to continue with the beer festivals.

We were saddened this weekend to hear of the loss of two CAMRA volunteers.

Reading Hockey Club organise an annual beer and jazz festival to raise funds for the club, and this year's event is 17-19 July.

Regional award goes to the Retreat.

For the second year running the Bird in Hand has been chosen as the Berkshire Pub of the Year.

The beer and cider list for the Retreat's festival, 30 May - 1 June.

CAMRA designate the month of May to be Mild Month and several of the local pubs are making an extra effort to make mild availabe. In particular the Nags Head plans to have at least two milds for all of May.

It's festival time!

Reading Beer and Cider Fesitival Lists are now available online

Under Threat

Arrangements for the ale trail following pub closure.

A new beer from Loddon Brewery is available at Terminal 5.

Max, the landlord of the Jolly Anglers calls it a day.

The Butler is closed from Sunday 16th March for redecoration, re-opening Fri 28th. Ale Trail stickers can be obtained from the Nags Head.

I've added a new page to this website with details of the 2008 Ale Trail.

On the 19th February the new look Nags Head will be one year old. The 12 hand pumps have delivered 365 different beers. For the anniversary they will have the most popular beers of the year on the pumps, and the prices will be the same as the day they opened!!!

Plans for a shopping mall put the pub in danger.

West Berks? Maggs Magnificent Mild claimed runner-up in the National 'Old Ales and Strong Milds' category announced at the Winter Beer Festival. Well done Dave and Helen!

Nominations are now open for this year's pubwatch awards, sponsored by the Reading Evening Post.

Voting is now underway for the 2008 Pub of the Year. The branch meeting agreed a shortlist and voting forms are available from me.

Planning application withdrawn.

At the Magpie and Parrot.

23 November.

Jeff Evans to sign copies of the Good Bottled Beer Guide on 1 December.

More pubs in the Reading area are deciding to hold mini Beer Festivals. This, together with reports of an upswing in cask conditioned beers is good news for real ale drinkers. But we need to support them by spreading the news - a visiting them to sample their beers.

We need more tasters for the Berkshire Tasting Panel. Free training given.

5 - 7 October. Cider and beer lists plus other information.

Beer list and other details of the festival at the White Horse, Emmer Green.

Beehive application withdrawn but another pub closes.

Help us fight against a planning application for conversion to residential use.

Special price for CAMRA members available only through the branch.

Presentation to the Bird in Hand.

Young Real Ale drinkers in and around Reading now have a dedicated group page on the online networking community site Facebook.

In a spirit of beery cooperation, here's a reminder that the Reading Real Ale and Jazz Festival starts on 19 July.

Taken over by Marstons.

Berkshire Pub of the Year announced.

Book now for your free helpers' trip.

The "P Factor" talent contest at the Horse and Jockey.

Festival Beer List.

To coincide with the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the twinning of Reading and Dusseldorf ? Zero Degrees will be brewing an Altbier.

Festival Beer list.

Five local pubs host their own beer festivals.

Archers Brewery of Swindon has been placed into administration.

Results of Local Beer of the Festival Awards, CAMRA's National Cider and Perry Awards and the Public Vote for Beer of the Festival.

A successful Milds promotion took place at the 13th Beer & Cider Festival. Now several local pubs are supporting May is Mild month.

Details of the awards to our winner and our runner-up.

Our local winner is announced.

Zero Degrees opening date announced!

The Wynford Arms is holding a Beer Festival from Thursday 8th March to Monday 12 March.

Visit Westholme Stores for an excellent range of bottled beers.

Here's the list for the inaugural festival.

To be launched on 24 February.

Refurbished and refitted as a 'Destination Real Ale' pub, The Nags Head will start serving at 5.00 p.m. on Monday 19th February. The official opening celebrations will be on Saturday 24th Feb.

Launched on 1 February.

The biggest CAMRA beer festival is the Great British Beer Festival in August. CAMRA members are invited to suggest beers they'd like to see there.

Today the Nags Head in Russell Street has changed hands. It will close for 3 or 4 weeks and open as a Real Ale pub with 12 - yes TWELVE - handpumps!

Funeral details and an obituary written by John Wood of Berkshire South East branch.

Colin Lanham suffers fatal heart attack

The decision by the Lambourn Valley Cider Company to cease operations has been rescinded, so there will be Berkshire cider and perry available in 2007.

Latest news including pub sales by Greene King.

The government finally announces a date for its implementation.

Latest update from around our area.

The Royal Oak at Ruscombe.

The Final Episode?

Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December at Henley Rugby Club, Marlow Road, Henley.

A few places still available.

Due to uncertainties relating to the imminent departure of the landlord, the venue for the AGM is changing from the Queens Arms to Caversham Working Men?s Club. The date remains as Wednesday 15th November.

The Real Ale & Cider Society has officially been accepted by their Student Union. Now the recruiting starts.

The branch meeting on the 30th November will be held at the Royal Oak, Ruscombe - who have promissed to get in extra beer.

Today the 5th October, The Sportman on Shinfield Road reopened. Last Friday, a new landlord took over at The Northumberland.

from 6 to 8 October

A special event for students on Monday 9th October.

Your chance to join the organising team of Reading Beer and Cider Festival.

Win £1,000! Competition Open To All.

The Shepherds House on the A4 to the east of Reading is getting West Berks beers

Coming this month.

New ?wine-like? tasting scheme set to revolutionise real ale sales.

This year's winners are announced.

News of the branch adoption of the zero to five National scoring system.

Come and help us present them!

Charity benefits from Reading Festival drinkers.

CAMRA anounces winners of the National Cider and Perry Championship 2006

The Lambourn Valley Cider Company has announced that it will cease operations around the end of this year.

Press release from CAMRA HQ.

And the winner is ...

Planning Application for Wallingford Arms Demolition

Details of how you can take part.

CAMRA has named the best pub in Britain, and it's been there before!

Survey forms are now available for the Branch Pub of the Year contest.

A clean sweep for southern beers!

Dates confirmed.

The first West Berks tied house has opened.

West Berks Brewery announce their first pub.

Now reopened after its latest fire.

The 3rd annual festival will be held from 28 to 30 October

Local breweries have won awards in the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) Midlands region competition held at Nottingham CAMRA beer festival...

CANCELLED

Details of the award presentation for the Bell at Aldworth.

The Retreat will hold its third annual Autumn Cider and Beer Festival, starting on Friday 7th October 2005 at noon.

Your Chance to Help Your Branch.

Starts Friday 16 September.

The winner is announced....

Saturday 10th September.

Message from CAMRA HQ regarding Greene King's takeover of Ridley's.

CAMRA Press Release that asks for your help.

Presentation of awards from the Reading Beer Festival.

An extra trip this year.

New resource added to this site.

Flight of Fancy was the public's choice at the Reading Beer Festival.

CAMRA Press release.

Roke, near Benson, Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Sign the petition!

At this years Reading Beer and Cider Festival a group of invited judges (including brewers, publicans, CAMRA members and journalists) judged all the beers at the festival in a blind tasting brewed within 35 miles as the crow flies of Reading.

A new microbrwery in Gun Street looks on the cards as its planning application is approved.

The Retreat announces details of its third beer festival.

This is obviously the season for beer festivals in Reading, with four coming up in the next month.

"Wet orders" all now available to view.

Beer list and website.

All the information you need to know, regularly updated.

The Hop Leaf is our branch Pub of the Year.

List of winning entrants in the recent Double Your Beer promotion.

The Greyhound at Tidmarsh has suffered a major fire.

Beer and cider lists.

Interview planned by Reading 107 FM.

Wetherspoons have announced that the Back of Beyond will be smoke-free from 9 March.

The Hop Leaf is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a Hop Back pub on 10 February.

The Thatchers at North Street (near Theale) has reopened after a short break.

Burns Night celebration at the Retreat.

Details and voting forms now available on this site.

Would you like to be our new webmaster?

The "Dove Exiles" present an opportunity for premier picklers!

Ale Trail launched to celebrate the branch 30th birthday.

Popular landlord Glen Glenister has left the Bell at Waltham St Lawrence.

The Pig's Ear Beer Festival scheduled to be held in East London in December has been cancelled as per the press release from the organisers

Discount rates on the 2005 GBG for members at branch events.

Details of this year's Festival and a link to the official website.

Beer List

The Retreat are holding a Cider and Beer Festival for national cider month. Here is the list of ciders and perries.

Details of beers and outlets for this year's event.

Detailed itinerary for the coach trip.

CAMRA has launched the new Good Bottled Beer Guide.

Two of the three Reading Beer Festival Helpers' Trips are now full.

Information and news about the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia. Today: Champion Beer of Britain Announced, and New Campaign to Attract 18-30s.

21 to 31 July

One trip is full but a few places are still available on the others.

Presentation of awards to the champions from the Reading Beer Festival.

Details of Woodcote festival and steam rally, 9-11 July.

CAMRA Press Release.

Details of the CAMRA beer tent at the Woodcote Rally starting 9th July.

South Hill Park, Bracknell.

90% of producers back the new campaign.

Reading & Mid Berks. CAMRA have announced the results of this year's POTY suveys.

have been updated.

The winners of the SIBA South East Region awards have been announced.

And cider, and perry, and foreign beer, and wine...

Thank you to all the volunteers from the Staffing Managers.

The Cider and Beer lists for the festival have been updated and can be found on the festival site.

This years pub trail is out. Visit all 12 pubs on the list and get a free season ticket to the 2004 beer festival (free entry, free glass and 4 free half pints).

The beer festival web site now includes the poster you can download.

The pages for the beer festival site have been updated.

Free beer! We're giving away a cask of beer for pubs week.

National Pubs week runs from 21st ? 28th February. There are a number of events planned in Reading to encourage as many people to go to the pub as possible.

Butler's Brewery

Loddon Brewery

How to find out more about staffing or volunteer to work at the festival.

Details of events during National Pubs Week 2004 (21st to 28th February) have been advised by landlady, Debbie.

Diary dates have been updated to include some planned events in spring and summer - subject to confirmation nearer the time.

The newsletter is up and running again. The first issue was out before christmas, with another to follow soon.

Dates have been announced for the 2004 Reading Beer Festival.

Somebody - I think it was Johnny G - suggested I should put my ode on the Hobgoblin's 10th anniversary on the CAMRA website. So here it is - anyone with any knowledge of English poetry will doubtless recognise the parody of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. With some current questions over the future of the pub it is perhaps also of topical interest.

Diary dates for October and part of November have been added.

Following the anouncement that the Bell, Waltham St Lawrence has won the regional pub of the year award we have set the date for the presentation -Tuesday 16th September.

Refresh UK have announced the return of Brakspear's to Oxfordshire.

The <a href="../news/events.asp">branch diary of forthcoming events</a> to the end of August has now been updated.

The first brews from the new brewery at Dunsden Green, Oxfordshire have been on sale in a number of local pubs during the last two weeks.

Andy Lord until recently Reading CAMRA's Beer Festival Organizer and Webmaster has just taken a contract position in Cork in the South-West of Ireland. Here he reports as to whether he has found anything worth drinking and offers some handy tips for beer enthusiasts who find themselves in Ireland.

Please contact allan (details in the main article) as soon as possible if you would like to come on this trip.

On Saturday 19th July there is a branch trip to Triple FFF brewery - places are still available.

<p>Wallingford BunkFest - a festival of music, dance, steam and beer - Fri 29th to Sun 31st August.</p><p>Not a CAMRA event but very popular and they have two small beer festivals with beer from local breweries including a special beer, Bunk Ale brewed by <i>West Berkshire Brewery</i>.</p>

A big thank you from the Staffing Manager to all staff including a few stars of the festival.

Triple fff Moondance wins Siba Southeast Region Brewing Competition

The <a href="http://www.readingcamra.org.uk/beer_festivals/product.asp?Festival=4&Bar=8">wines and fruit wines</a> for the 9th Reading CAMRA Beer and Cider festival have been finalized. We will be having 36 wines from 6 vineyards in Sussex, Hampshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire as well as from our local vineyard, Valley Vineyards just up the road in Ruscombe.<p>

Here is the third part of the 2003 beer list

Here is the second part of the 2003 beer list

Here is the first part of the 2003 beer list

Here is the provisional list of ciders for the 2003 Reading beer festival. This list is subject to change - a final list will be added as soon as possible.

After two months of visits to the shortlisted pubs, members of the branch have chosen the Bell at Waltham St. Lawrence as the pub of the year 2003

Here is the provisional foreign beer list for Reading beer festival. It includes beers from Belgium, Russia, Australia, Czech Republic, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

The provisional list of beers on the SIBA (Society of Independent brewers) Competition Bar has been agreed and the list is <a href="../beer_festivals/product.asp?Festival=4&Bar=7">now available on this web site</a>

The bands playing at Reading CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival 2003 have just been finalized. It is a stunning and varied line-up with the 50's throwback <i>Ding Dong Daddios</i> headlining on Friday and <i>Stund!</i> back, by popular request, headlining on Saturday. <a href="../beer_festivals/live_music.asp">Full line-up details</a>.

One of our local Wetherspoon pubs, The Baron Cadogan in Caversham, is stocking and promoting locally brewed craft ales.

The Red Kite Brewery has changed name to the Loddon Valley Brewery.

Nothing to do with Refresh UK but an ex Brakspear brewer is planning to start a new brewery in Henley.

The photo album from the recent trip for staff who worked at Reading CAMRA Beer Festival, featuring some of the best pubs in Hampshire (and one in West Sussex) and a tour around Ballards brewery.

The Cock a Snook in Reading traded for the last time yesterday.

As the dust settles on the Brakspear's closure more information is coming to light, much of which makes very interesting reading...

It looks as though - as predicted - Brakspears will cease brewing at the end of 2002.

Brakspears have stopped brewing the Old Ale.

The Boar's Head in Friar Street Reading will be demolished unless enough people object to the plans to build a 15 storey Hotel.

Restock of beers due to high sales.

Reading CAMRA are again organizing the <i><b>Festival of Ales</b></i> at Woodcote Steam Fair this weekend (Friday 12 July - Sunday 14 July). Details plus full beer list are given.

Reading University Students Union <b>Real Ale & Cider Society Beer Festival</b><br>Monday 10th June 4pm - 11pm; Tuesday 11th June 11am - 11pm. <br>Over 30 beers from just £1.40 a pint. Free Entry to all. Reading Student's Union, Whiteknights, Reading.

<p>The Oxford Brewery was launched on 14 May.

The battle to Save Brakspear's brewery continues apace. The brewery is making contradictory statements; saying that it is <i>"business as usual"</i> but just as local drinkers breathe a huge sigh of releif they then add <i>"the company has instituted a strategic review of its operations including its brewing, but no changes in Brakspear beers or a decision to change brewing have been made."</i>

Brakspear say it's business as usual pending review of brewing operations.

Brakspear have announced the production of a Queen's Jubilee special beer.

Short Measure Petition sent to minister.

A new CAMRA web site aimed at saving Brakspear's Brewery went live today.

Brakspear's brewery, considered by many to be the Jewel in the Crown of traditional British Breweries is undergoing a 'strategic review' which could lead to the ending of brewing at Henley which has been proudly brewing Brakspear's unique and wonderful ales since 1779.

Report on this year's Reading Beer Festival

<p>A brutal assault took place yesterday on the site of this years Reading Beer Festival. Award-winning Andrew Lord, aged 35, was struck down by a scaffolding pole wielded by the Chairman of the Branch, Roy Garraway, aged 51.</p><p>Whilst assisting the perpetrator to erect a part of the stillaging for this nationally known event, Mr. Lord had occasion to bend over, thus proffering the back of his head to the villain, who, taking full advantage of the situation, let slip the six foot piece of scaffolding and caught the award winner on the cranium.</p><p>The miscreant expressed remorse at the "accident", whilst Andrew shrugged off the incident and is quoted, by a reliable source, as saying "it was a no-brainer."</p>

The Beer Festival really is taking shape now.The marquees went up on Sunday, virtually all the beer arrived today (and there really is loads of it!) The glasses (pints this year) have arrived.A dozen of us allready have bad backs from stillaging 300 odd casks of beer.The programme, (well more of a book this year!) hit the printers at 7.00am.All we need now is the punters! There's no doubt that this year will be the best Reading Beer Festival yet.

The beers, ciders and foreign beers for Reading CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival have just been finalized. 272 Real Ales, 44 Ciders, 16 Perries and 56 Foreign Beers have now all been confirmed. The beer list is in three sections, starting with the <a href='../beer_festivals/breweriesSIBA.asp'>Championship beers.

A cycle ride to the Pot Kiln at Frilsham and the Bell at Aldworth returning to Reading via the Beehive at Upper Basildon and the Greyhound at Tidmarsh

Summer is on the way - the first of a series of pub crawls by public transport in holiday areas.

The beer list is nearing completion, 18 new beers nave been added all marked <img src="images/new.gif" alt="new"> on the <a href="beer2002.asp"> beer list</a>. New breweries featured are Tower, Alcazar, Milton and Old Cottage. Only 12 beers are yet to be confirmed.

Reading CAMRA have announced the winner of the 2002 Pub of the Year Award. The winner is the Retreat on St John's Street in Reading. The award will be presented on Tuesday 23rd April at 8pm. All are most welcome.

Need a break from the festival? Want to see a few of Reading's pubs? Here isa selection to get you started.

This year the Festival will be host to the judging of two nationally significant awards. APPLE, the group within CAMRA tasked to promote traditional cider and perry are holding the judging for their National Champion Cider and Perry Award at Reading, they have now been joined by the Southeast branch of SIBA, the Society of Independent Brewers, who have decided to choose Reading Beer Festival as venue for their Beer of the Year award.

Real Ale Round Reading is your chance to get into the Beer Festival free and enjoy some beer on us!! All you have to do is pick up a passport at one of the 15 participating pubs and strat collection the stickers. Visiting FIVE pubs will get you into the festival free, visit TEN and you get your commemerative glass free too and some free beer to put in it. Full details on the <a href=pub_passport.asp>Real Ale Round Reading Passport Page</a>.

Reading CAMRA's 8th Beer Festival draws closer and the time has come to whet the public appetite! The <a href=beer2002.asp>list of the first 235 cask beers</a> for the festival have been confirmed and published as has the <a href=foreign2002.asp>complete list of 56 Foreign Beers</a> (From Belgium, Holland Germany and France). Cider and Perry fans will have to be a little more patient as the list of 60 ciders and perries is currently being confirmed with the farms.

Reading Camra web-site was awarded the web-site of the year award at yesterday's (Sunday 7th April) National Annual General Meeting of CAMRA

<p>Pub of the Year is an annual award made by each CAMRA branch to the pub in its area that is considered 'the best'.In this article the judging criteria are described and the nominations for this year's award are listed.

Nowadays new pubs are opening, pubs are changing and worse still, closing, at a tremendous rate; this is especially true in urban areas. Just two years after surveying for the Berkshire Pub Guide, members of Reading CAMRA re-surveyed those pubs within the IDR (ring-road). The number of changes was remarkable and not good news for the discerning drinker.

Ale by Rail No. 1 - Goring and Aldworth. This is the second of our series of crawls by public transport helping to publicise the possibility of accessing rural pubs without having to drive. This crawl includes the stunning pub of the year, The Bell at Aldworth.Full details of pubs, train times and directions are provided.

Reading University Students Union Real Ale and Cider Society is, after many years absence, alive and kicking again. With an active membership and strong, dedicated committee the society promises to promote good quality real ale and traditional cider to Reading's students, and also have a lot of fun doing it!

This article questions whether the ban on Greene King selling any of its Morland or Ruddles brands at the Great British Beer Festival is as laudible as it at first appears. It also offers some interesting background and a local perspective to Morlands brewery and its beers (now brewed at Greene King).

A description of the recent festival helpers' trip to Frome, Bristol and Bath with reviews and pictures of MilkStreet Brewery, Nursery Brewery and pubs in Bath.

<i>John Dearing</i> produces a list of all pubs and former pubs which have been listed by English Heritage. His list is based on data provided by <i>The Reading Evening Post</i> and includes a number of surprised - both pubs that no-one would expect to belisted and a number that astonisingly are of considerable historic/acthitectural meritbut have not won English Heritage's attention.

Beer by Bus No 2 - Goring to Wallingford via South Stoke back via Cholsey and Moulsford. This is the second of our series of crawls by public transport helping to publicise the possibility of accessing rural pubs without having to drive.<br>Full details of pubs, bus times and directions are provided.

Beer by Bus No. 1 - Reading to Riseley Route via Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood & Swallowfield.<p> This is the first of a series of crawls by public transport helping to publicise the possibility of accessing rural pubs without having to drive.<p>Full details of pubs, bus times and directions are provided.

Deceiving customers is illegal, but it also happens more regularly than you might think. Trading standards departments exist to ensure that all traders are fair, descent and honest. This article will help you to get a fair deal from the pubs you use.

The marquee is now down the fencing removed and the blisters are starting to heal. With one small exception (running out of beer) the festival was a huge success. Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as the staff did.

Members of Reading and Mid-Berkshire CAMRA have just voted the <i>Hop Leaf</i>, Southampton Street, Reading ss their pub of the year for 2001. The award will be presented on Saturday 16 June from 7pm.

Plans are afoot to start a new branch of CAMRA in the Wokingham, Bracknell, Binfield, Ascot, Sunningdale, Crowthorne, Sandhurst area. An initial meeting has been set up for Wednesday 30 May at 8pm in the Old Manor, Bracknell.

Two local CAMRA members, ex-Chairman, John Dearing, and Ian Hamblin, have joined forces to produce a history of what is possibly Reading?s oldest licensed house, the Sun Inn in Castle Street.

Beer by Bus No. 1 - Reading to Riseley Route via Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood & Swallowfield. This is the first of a series of crawls by public transport helping to publicise the possibility of accessing rural pubs without having to drive.<br>Full details of pubs, bus times and directions are provided.

PUB NEWS - DECEMBER 2000 Compiled by Dave McKerchar<p>A round-up of the latest news on the pub and beer scene within the branch area. 25 reports about pubs in Reading and Mid Berkshire.

Reading and Mid-Berkshire CAMRA?s Pub of the Year Award has for the first time ever been jointly awarded to two pubs. <i>The Retreat</i>, St John?s Street and <i>The Hobgoblin</i>, Broad Street, both received the award.<p>A pub has to be top-notch even to be nominated for the prestigious Pub of the Year Award. Voted on by members of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), the selection process takes into account every aspect of a pub that makes it great. Ambiance, friendliness, community spirit, selection and quality of its real ales are all carefully considered as well as that indescribable something that you can?t put in to words but you know makes the pub stand head and shoulders above the rest.

The licensee who kept the Horse and Jockey when it was awarded Pub of the Year has moved into a fine new real-ale pub opposite the Hexagon theatre. The Cock a Snook sells three beers from the highly regarded Arkells brewery in Swindon alongside two or three changing guest beers all straight from the barrel.

The Hobgoblin, Broad Street, Reading, was joint-winner of the local branch of CAMRA's pub of the year award 2000. Andrew Lord visits the pub and you can read his views on the place here.

The Retreat, St John's Street, Reading, was joint-winner of the local branch of CAMRA's pub of the year award 2000. Andrew Lord visits the pub and casts his views on the place.

Beer by Bus No. 1 - Reading to Riseley Route via Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood & Swallowfield.<p> This is the first of a series of crawls by public transport helping to publicise the possibility of accessing rural pubs without having to drive.<p>Full details of pubs, bus times and directions are provided.