Welcome to the Heart of Warwickshire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). This site has information about our branch, including our branch events & local beer festivals, contact details, downloadable copies of the branch magazine, the “Beer and Ragged Staff“, our local pubs and breweries and our annual beer & cider festival.
Navigate around the site using the menu bar above (or the 3-line “hamburger” icon on a mobile device) and click on the bear logo to return here. There is a search bar at the bottom of every page.
Branch News
Branch Christmas Dinner
Tickets are now available for the annual Branch Christmas Dinner. Please see the events page for full details.
2025 Harbury Beer & Cider Festival Awards
The beers and ciders of the festival have been awarded based on the votes of attendees and can be seen here.
New CAMRA Website and WhatPub Website Closure
The new CAMRA website helps you get to the pints you want to drink the most, in the places you want to drink them, as easily as possible. Whether you’re on holiday, visiting a friend, or simply searching your local area, our website brings you the best pubs, beers and breweries straight to you in an instant.
We have brought all our data and standalone websites together, so you can access everything you need to know about pubs and clubs, beer and cider and our campaigning efforts in one convenient place combined with the ability to upload beer scores and update pub information. The standalone website WhatPub will be shut down on 25 August 2025.
The newly enhanced online features with easy-to-use smart tools are designed to help you enjoy more of the beer, pubs and festivals you love:
- Search for over 55,000 pubs around the UK by a variety of filters
- Identify Good Beer Guide recommended pubs, now as part of your membership
- Plan pub trips and create itineraries of places you want to visit
- Score your beers at all the pubs and clubs you visit
- Search our database of beers and find out where they are served. Save your favourites or even list those you’d like to try
- Access information on breweries from around the UK and save these as favourites for later too
- Read CAMRA verified beer tasting notes
- View CAMRA beer rating scores and recommendations
- Plus so much more!
To date, more members have logged in to the new site than the previous site had in its whole lifetime! In 2025 alone, 13,000 venues have been favourited by users and a massive 45,000 pub visits have been recorded on the website.
Whenever you order a pint of cask beer, remember to log in to our website to submit and keep track of your beer scores. This is one of the easiest and most fun ways to volunteer for CAMRA and helps local branches find out which pubs are serving quality cask. There is more brewery data on the site, and you can now update this data too.
You can help power CAMRA’s campaigning by submitting updates about pubs. Simply go to a pub’s listing on the website and scroll down to the ‘suggest an edit’ section. This will alert the local branch that the pub’s information needs to be updated. It couldn’t be easier!
Don’t forget, even if you are not a CAMRA member, you can still access some of our website’s great features by becoming a subscriber for as little as 99p a month.
Pub Of The Year Competition
Congratulations to The Old Post Office in Warwick for once again winning the branch Pub Of The Year and continuing its record of being in the top three pubs in the branch every year since opening in 2014. The OPO will now progress to the next stage of the competition, the County Pub Of The Year. The full results can be seen on the Pub Of The Year page.
Butchers Arms, Bishops Itchington
We’re pleased to report that Tiffany and Jason Giles have taken over the Butchers arms in Bishops Itchington from 8 January 2025.
They have run pubs in the local area area for several years, all of which became Cask Marque accredited, and they were awarded Rugby CAMRA’s “Most Improved Pub” award in 2010.
Warwick Pub Walk
The landlords of the five Warwick pubs featured in the 2024 Good Beer guide have produced a leaflet describing a walk around the pubs. Full details are here.
