New Summer Edition of Channel Draught is out now.
14th August 2019
The Summer edition of Channel Draught is now available online with lots of great information about real ale, news, social events, a crossword and much more.
Articles include: o Britons Get Drunk Once a Week; Deal Hop Farm 2019; o Brews From the Past; o The Sandwich Bus Taxi; o Market Square Pubs - The Prince Louis; o The Carlisle Experiment; o More Yorkshire Relish - Part two of the 1994 Beery Boaters trip plus all the regular articles.
The printed edition of Channel Draught will be available shortly pubs across our branch.
Click on the magazine image to go to the Channel Draught webpage.
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New Champion Beer of Britain Competition Results
11th August 2019
At the Great British Beer Festival the winners of CAMRA's prestigious Champion Beer of Britain competition were announced:
- Supreme Champion Gold: Shere Drop, Surrey Hills
- Supreme Champion Silver: Afghan Pale, Grey Trees
- Supreme Champion Bronze: Citra, Oakham Ales
The full list of Champion Beer of Britain categories and winners can be found at gbbf.org.uk/about/champion-beer-of-britain/
New Kent CAMRA Cider and Perry Competition
11th August 2019
The Kent CAMRA Cider and Perry Competition was held at the last month's Kent Beer Festival. The results are:
Cider:
- Winner: Undecider'd - Beardspoon Real Kentish Cider
- Runner Up: Medium Cider - Double Vision Cider
Perry
- Winner: Pear Cider - Turners Cider
- Runner Up: Impeared Vision - Double Vision Cider
The winners will be put forward as the Kent representatives to the National Cider Competition to be held at Reading Beer Festival in the Spring of 2020.
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Launch of the 2019 Sandwich Real Ale Trail
24th June 2019
We're please to announce the launch of our 2019 Sandwich Real Ale Trail - as part of the Sandwich Folk & Ale Festival (5th-7th July). A tour of the real ale pubs in Sandwich with a bit of history thrown in.
Click here to download the PDF of the leaflet.
We'll be distributing copies of the leaflet to the pubs and Tourist Office in Sandwich in a few days.
https://sandwichevents.org.uk/folkandalefestival/
https://www.facebook.com/SandwichFolkAleFestival/
Some Great Pub News
13th June 2019
The George & Dragon, Fisher Street, Sandwich is expected to open on Friday, 21st June.
The Chequer Inn, Ash, owned by the local community, is expected to open on Monday, 1st June.
The Admiral Harvey, Bridge Street, Dover has been repainted and an application for a premises license has been submitted.
We'll post more news as we find it.
Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight 2019
18th March 2019
This year's Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight has been announced: Friday, 27th Sept - Sunday, 13th October.
The official launch will take place at Canterbury Food & Drink Festival on Friday 27th September, in the Dane John Gardens.
Keep in touch at https://kentgreenhopbeer.com
We aim to keep this website regularly updated. So, if you have any comments or suggestions, or spot any errors or omissions, please email the Webmaster at webmaster@camra-dds.org.uk.
Last updated: 14th August 2019
