New Volunteers required!
29th January 2012
Planning for the 19th White Cliffs Festival of Winter Ales is well under way and we are appealing to any CAMRA members to help out at the beer festival.Our beer festival is organised and run by unpaid volunteers and we are always looking for volunteers, old and new, to join us. So if you'd like to help out, whether it's just for a few hours one evening or throughout the beer festival, you will be made most welcome. Don't worry you don't need any experience. The only condition for being a volunteer is that you are a CAMRA member.
If you would like to help out, even if it for a few hours then please email events@camra-dds.org.uk
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CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group Bulletin - November 2011
19th November 2011
One of the great joys of Britain's pubs is their sheer variety, ranging from simple rural pubs to late-Victorian extravaganzas. CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group is committed to protecting and promoting our historic pub interiors. The Group maintains the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, a list of those interiors that have remained intact for a long time and/or have features of exceptional historic or architectural importance. The group sends out monthly bulletins details the changes to the inventory, and the November bulletin has just been published. Click here to read the bulletin.
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Good Beer Guide 2012 is launched
15th September 2011
Now in its 39th edition, CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2012 is fully revised and updated, with details of more than 4,500 pubs across the country serving the best real ale.
From country inns to urban style bars and backstreet boozers, all selected and reviewed by over 125,000 CAMRA members, this is your definitive guide to finding the perfect pint!
This is a book you do not want to be without if you like real ale
The RRP of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2012 is £15.99, with a discount for CAMRA members. Copies can be bought at a reduced rate from the CAMRA Shop: shop.camra.org.uk
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The Autumn edition of Channel Draught (Edition 49) is now available
27th November 2011
The 49th edition of Channel Draught is now available online. Full of all the regular features, this edition has an article that looks at two new Kent breweries; the SIBA South East Beer Competition and the Bake & Ale House in Westgate.
Channel Draught can be found in real ales pubs throughout our branch and can be downloaded from this web site. You can also have Channel Draught delivered to you door.
Go to Channel Draught for more information.
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Kent Regional Pub of the Year 2011 announced
16th August 2011
After many months of judging The Flower Pot, Maidstone has been declared the winner of CAMRA's Kent Regional Pub of the Year 2011.It was an extremely close-fought competition between The Flower Pot and The Berry in Walmer, but the Flower Pot pipped The Berry to win the award.
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Kent Breweries take Beer Competition by Storm
25th July 2011
Kent breweries have done extremely well in SIBA's South East Beer Competition, held at the 5th SIBA South East Beer Festival on the 15th July 2011.Of the 15 categories which were judged, Kent breweries took one of the top 3 places in 13 of these categories, coming first in eight of them. The Whitstable Brewery won first place in the Overall Champion with its Native beer.
The results of the Overall Champion of the Competition, sponsored by Olympus Automation, were:
Award Beer ABV Gold Whitstable Brewery Co Ltd Native 3.7 Silver Itchen Valley Brewery Pure Gold 4.8 Bronze Ramsgate Brewery West Coast IPA 6.5 Full results can be found on on SIBA's website at www.siba.co.uk
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Pubs & Planning
24th July 2011
Planning applications for a pub or club are of particular interest to CAMRA, particularly when the application relates to a significant change to the pub or club - such as a change of use.For many years the branch has monitored these planning applications for many years and now we've made it possible for you to monitor these applications as well.
We've added a new page to the website that lists all the currently active planning applications that relate to a public house - click on the Planning App. link in the left-hand frame.
We'd be interested in your feedback. Email pubs.officer@camra-dds.org.uk.
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Pub, Brewery and Cider Makers' Maps are now online
7th June 2011
Interactive maps, showing the location and contact details of the pubs in the Deal, Dover & Sandwich branch and the breweries and cider makers in Kent, are now available on our website.
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We aim to keep this website regularly updated. So, if you have any comments or suggestions, or spot any errors or ommissions, please email the Webmaster at webmaster@camra-dds.org.uk.
Last updated: 29th January 2012