Oxford CAMRA:
What's New

Welcome to the web pages for the Oxford Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale.

3rd February

Oxford Drinker issue 60 is now available for download (PDF, 6.5Mbytes). The magazine is available at the usual distribution points, and should be finding its way into the pubs over the next few days.

Branch Diary updated. On Saturday February 6th we will be going on the first of our Pub Walks - come along with us on a stroll through the Oxfordshire countryside, and visit some pubs along the way (meet at Thornhill Park and Ride at 11.30am).

Note also the date of the Oxford Beer Festival Helper's trip - Saturday 27th February. This is a free outing to Ringwood Brewery and Winchester, for people who worked at the Beer Festival last October, and any spare seats will be made available to non-workers for a modest contribution towards the costs costs. Unfortunately the staffing officer has lost the staffing forms, so we are struggling to make contact with many of the people who worked at the festival - please spread the word to anyone that you can think of!

12th December

The website now has a new Members Area, which is accessible to people who are able to log in using their CAMRA membership number and associated password. Logged in members can check the beer scores that they have submitted for pubs in our area over the last year. There has been a noticable fall-off in beer scoring this year, and we would like to encourage all members to get into the habit of scoring the beers they drink on a routine basis - we really value your year-round impressions of beer quality in our pubs, to help with the task of selecting pubs for the Good Beer Guide. See this article (oringinally published in Oxford Drinker 47) for a reminder of what the scoring scheme involves, why it is important, and how CAMRA members can get involved.

We are pleased to announce that following a vote at the December branch meeting, Far From the Madding Crowd has been voted as the branch's City Pub of the Year 2009.

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