Welcome to the Furness Branch of CAMRA You can scroll text in each box if there is more than you can see! InnQuirer Magazine update September 2025 We are hoping to re-launch InnQuirer (The Branch Magazine) for the Winter/Spring season. Before we can do this, however, we need to balance the advertising income with the physical printing costs. If you would like to advertise, and we really would appreciate it, then have a look at a FAQ file that we have produced which gives information on how to create an advert that will fit, costs and other stuff that will help. Feel free to download this pdf: InnQuirer Advertising Information Worth the wait for Hawkshead Finally, after a long wait, The Kings Arms in Hawkshead opened at the end of August. For those who know, the pub was a focus for the town (or village - depends on who you talk to) and many of us remember popping in for a pint or a meal. Seems like forever but now completely refurbished with a selection of cask ales and of course good food. Plans are to offer accommodation too but not quite yet so watch out for the next announcement. Goodbye Barngates Brewery Although the Drunken Duck pub is still open as usual, July 2025 marked the end of an era when Barngates Brewery ceased brewing. Very sad as they did brew some great beers We will greatly miss some of the greats like Goodhews Stout but that appears to be life at this period in time! More Awards for our local brewers Alex Douglas, Logan Beck Brewing, has done it again! This time getting a Gold in the CAMRA North West Champion Beer of Britain awards (Mild category) which was held at The Petersgate Tap in Stockport. We will be presenting Alex with his award certificate in The Manor, Broughton-in-Furness on Wednesday 11th June around 5pm. Branch Trips and Outings Pictures from our Trips (not all of them!) are on the: Trips and Tours page. Cask ale Petition Please Sign the Petition! "Following the UK’s ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we call on the Government to recognise production and serving of traditional British cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage." This not a CAMRA initiative but we fully support it. If you appreciate Cask Ale and all that surrounds it you should visit: Support Cask Ale as an Intangible Cultural Heritage This is a Government page where you can read a bit more and sign the petition as well as following how many people have signed it. Also, look out for the Craft Beer Channel - they are on social media platforms so you can follow them to see how things are shaping up. They are the ones who started the petition. Indie Beer CAMRA is supporting IndieBeer which is focussed on Independent Breweries rather than the global players. If you want to know if your beer is produced by an independent brewery rather than a Global Corporation then this is the site that you need. Find out if the beer you are drinking is produced by an Indie or not by going to their website on Indie Beer. Support your local independent breweries - we need them! Real Cider Producers CAMRA has a definition of what is real cider (you can find this and more information on the main CAMRA website - the link is at the bottom of our Cider and Perry Page) but as a helper, this is what we have as a list as of February 2025. Have a look and see if the cider in your pub conforms to the definition Real Cider Producers Feb 2025. Branch Presentations See the latest presentations for CAMRA awards for Furness pubs and breweries on the Presentations page. IMPORTANT - Handpump Hijack CAMRA has launched a campaign to raise awareness of Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company’s (CMBC) Fresh Ale concept, which sells keg versions of three of its cask beers through handpumps – long associated with real ales. We need all members to get involved in helping CAMRA with the campaign to identify pubs where this 'Fresh' ale fake handpump is used as it has a major impact on whether that pub can be considered for inclusion in the next Good Beer Guide, or even remain in the current Guide. 'Misleading Dispense' is one of the areas that CAMRA takes very seriously. To read more about this, visit CAMRA's dedicated page here
