York CAMRA is a branch of the national Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). CAMRA is a well-established national organisation with more than 160,000 members which aims to promote traditional real ale and pubs.

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Help us to keep in touch

We are keen to keep in touch with our members, so having up-to-date contact details is important.  If you are a CAMRA member please take a minute to follow these steps to ensure we can keep you informed. Thank you.

Log on to camra.org.uk and click ‘Log In’. You will need your Membership Number and Password. Drop down the ‘Members Area’ and select ‘Edit membership details’. The first tab is ‘Personal Details’ where you can click ‘Edit’ to update anything.

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Lockdown update – takeaway beers from pubs

Following the campaigning efforts by CAMRA HQ and branch members across the country, guidance for lockdown restrictions currently in place until 2nd December allow pubs to offer takeaway beer, if pre-ordered for collection. Current regulations also stipulate that pubs will be able to continue this service until March next year if their area is subject to local lockdown restrictions following the lifting of national measures on 2nd December 2020. 

Many pubs in our branch area are already offering a takeaway service and local breweries continue to offer a range of fantastic beers available for delivery. 

Please find below the current list of pubs and breweries within our branch area offering beer for takeaway or delivery. If you’re a pub or brewery selling beer, or you know of your local that is, then please email  secretary@york.camra.org.uk so we can include you in our social media posts and branch mailouts. 

Pubs doing takeaway food & beers

• Rook & Gaskill, Lawrence Street – Order online & pick a time slot for collection. Offering a wide selection of beers, pizzas and burgers.
• Wagon & Horses, Lawrence Street – Order on 01904 637478. Selection of cask beer takeouts in 2, 4, & 8pint containers. For latest beers check their twitter account @WaggonYork &
• House of the Trembling Madness, Stonegate & Lendal – Order online for same day delivery or visit shops as both are operating as off licences. Fresh draught beer available at Lendal.
• Minster Inn, Marygate – Order on 01904849240 for collection or delivery of beers and pizzas. Check out offers and pizza menu on their facebook page
• The Knavesmire, Albermarle Road – Order via facebook and also to see the latest beers and times for collection.
• Fox, Holgate road – Order beers from the Ossett website for collection at the pub. The Fox also does pizzas for order via the pub.
• The Marcia, Bishopthorpe – Order by phone 01904 706185. Range of beers in 8pint containers, pizzas, Sunday lunches. Latest menus on their facebook page
• Mended Drum, Huby – Order online . Awesome meals and beers, local deliveries to Huby & Stillington. Also available for collection. Check out latest menus and beers on their facebook page. Current beers:
  • Bone Machine Brew Co Let Man Loose Juice. 3.5% – Light American Amber Ale.
  • Play Brew Co  Marshmellow & Peanut Ice Cream Stout – 6.0%
  • Half Moon Brewery  Cinder Toffee. 4.5% – Cinder Toffee Dark Mild
• White Bear, Stillington – Order by phone 01347810338. Sunday lunch takeaways and beers for takeaway See menu on facebook page & .

Locale breweries offering collection and delivery

• Ainsty Ales – order online for delivery & check their facebook page for latest beer-in-box for their Friday drive through collection
• Brew York – Order online for a wide variety of beers available for delivery, next day via DHL or locally on Tuesdays and Fridays. Get 15% off your order with code LOCKDOWN15.
• Brass Castle – Order online for delivery (inc free Friday delivery to York) or visit the Tap room in Malton for collection Friday & Saturdays. Stocking our Locale Festival case, cans, minikegs & bag-in-box from Brass Castle & Bad Seed and regular guests.
• Half Moon Brewery, Ellerton – Order online for delivery. Free shipping when you spend over £50. Pre-arranged collection available from the brewery Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm.
• Helmsley Brewing Co, Helmsley – Order online for local delivery. Wide variety of beer available.
• Hop Studio, Elvington – Order online for pre-arranged collection. Wide variety of beers available.
• Jolly Sailor, Selby – Order online for delivery or collection. Wide variety of beers available.
• Samuel Smiths, Tadcaster – Order online for delivery.
• Treboom, Shipton-by-Beningburgh – Order online, call 01904 471569 or email info@treboom.co.uk for local delivery or collection. Free local delivery with minimum order £20. Brewery shop is open Tues to Fri 10-4 and Sat 10-1pm for collections.
• Turning Point – Order online for deliveries, or call 01423 869967. Free shipping when you spend over £30. Get 10% off orders over £60 with code PROJECT ZEUS. Collection available from the brewery.

Online stores

• Pivovar, Elvington – Order online for delivery. Wide variety of beers available for delivery.

Our Drink-at-home Locale Festival case

Our locale festival case is a great way to explore a variety of beers from our locale breweries.

We created the case as part of our locale festival, to support pubs and locale breweries through October and November.

Order from Brass Castle beer shop.

12 beers included from: Ainsty Ales, B.A.D. Co & Wilde Child, Bad Seed, Brass Castle, Brew York, Half Moon, Harrogate, Roosters, Rudgate, Treboom, Turning Point.

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Small Brewers’ Relief

On 21 July 2020, the government announced it had concluded a review into the Small Brewers’ Relief and would reduce the threshold at which the amount of relief would start to taper off from brewers producing 5,000 HL per year, to breweries producing 2,100 HL per year. This means that small brewers who are producing more than 2,100 HL or those just below and looking to expand, will be hit with a larger tax bill. This includes a number of our wonderful local breweries.

You can help by signing the Anspach and Hobday petition to reverse the change https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334066

CAMRA’s position

CAMRA believes that the Small Brewers’ Relief Scheme is vital to a thriving beer market, and to ensuring choice for consumers. We have always been concerned about the proposal of removing relief from the smallest brewers and maintain that this should not happen without broad industry consensus – which has not been achieved.

We do not believe that the Treasury’s intention to increase the scale of production over which the relief is applied by reducing the lower threshold is the correct way to reform Small Brewers’ Relief.

CAMRA will be joining calls for:

• The Government to publish the evidence of how it arrived at the preferred approach of lowering the point at which a brewery receives the full relief from 5,000HL to 2,100HL
• The Government to publish the full detail of its preferred approach to taxing small brewers at all levels of production
• The Government to change its preferred approach and reinstate the 5,000HL threshold up to which a brewery will continue to receive full relief

We remain committed to campaigning for an increase in the top threshold for relief to 200,000HL, in line with calls from both SIBA and the Small Brewers Duty Reform Coalition.

We will not be advocating a specific solution for changing the curve of relief at this stage – only that the curve should be smoothed by increasing the range of production covered through an increase to the top threshold, rather than the reduction of full duty relief at the bottom end of the production scale.

We remain hopeful that the industry can find agreement on what reforms to the relief curve above the 5,000HL threshold should look like, in order to remove current disincentives to growth, and promote healthy competition, cask beer, and consumer choice.

We believe in constructive and positive campaigning, and attacking or calling for boycotts of breweries in CAMRA’s name will not be considered appropriate as part of our strategy for campaigning on Small Brewers’ Relief.

What are CAMRA doing?

• Sharing calls to sign the Anspach and Hobday parliament.uk petition from the national CAMRA social media accounts
• Writing to the Treasury to restate our position and set out our asks to the Government.
• Emailing all members (who’ve opted into emails) next week.

What can you do?

You can sign the petition to reverse the change https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/334066

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York CAMRA beer festival 2020 is cancelled – so we’re running York Locale Festival instead!

Our annual festival could not go ahead this year, so our celebration of beer is moving to the pubs of York.

York pubs and our locale breweries need our support more than ever this year so our locale festival will aim to keep you up to date on what’s on where so you can go out and enjoy a great beer in one of our wonderful pubs.

See the festival website for more information and follow our twitter accounts @YorkLocaleFest & @beerfestyork & like us on Facebook to for updates.

We plan to return to the Racecourse in 2021, provisional dates are 15-18^th September 20201. I do hope to see you then.

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The Slip Inn is our Pub of the year 2020

We are delighted to announce that The Slip Inn, on Clementhorpe is the York Branch Pub of the Year for 2020. The pub remains closed as the layout does not allow for safe social distancing. We look forward to presenting the award when they open.

Paul Crossman, landlord and pubs campaigner gave us his response to the award (click through to read in full):

2020 has turned out to be a strange and very difficult year in so many ways. Most of us have never experienced a time like it, and this very much includes the pub world. We were among the very first businesses to close, and will inevitably be among the last to reopen, something which is especially true for small community-orientated pubs like our own.

While essential workers have toiled to keep our nation fed, functioning and as safe as possible, the employees of tens of thousand of pubs have by necessity become “essential non-workers”, furloughed en-masse as part of an effort to salvage as much of the hospitality industry as possible for the future. The kind of close social experience that is our true stock-in-trade has been rendered temporarily, tragically, toxic, as we have all collectively found ourselves with no choice but to suppress our natural, normally very healthy, social instinct to gather and mingle.

So it would seem, on the face of it, a strange and perhaps frustrating year for The Slip Inn to find itself honoured with the award of York CAMRA’s Pub of the Year.

Yet in time-honoured tradition we have chosen instead to look on the bright side. Click through to read response in full

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Stay in touch while we social distance

CAMRA has created a virtual pub for beer drinkers and pub-goers to get together for a beer and tackle the loneliness and social isolation felt during the Coronavirus lockdown and closure of the nation’s pubs.

Within the walls opened The Online Arms on facebook welcoming locals.

And keep an eye out for online tasting sessions from some of your favourite breweries such as Turning Point and Tiny Rebel.

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York Branch Area

The York branch covers an extensive geographical area, which includes Selby, Tadcaster and rural parts of North and East Yorkshire, as well as the city of York itself.

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Neighbouring us is the Scarborough Branch of CAMRA who have their own website.

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Branch Meetings and Socials

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, all upcoming branch socials and meetings are cancelled. We look forward to welcoming you to them in the nearest future.

All events are published on our website calendar, along with local beer festivals.

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Ouse Boozer – our quarterly magazine

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FAQ for Beer festival organisers and licensees

Beer festival organisers – we can help get the word out on our website and social media pages. Check out our Beer festival organiser FAQ page.

Licensees – if you want to know more about real ale, locale, get Ouse Boozer delivered for your pub, then check out our  Licensee FAQ page.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for get in touch – here’s our contacts page.

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