Next local branch events:
Our social events are normally open to guests, these events include a mix of midweek and weekends, daytimes and evenings. Most events are in our branch area though we also have some trips further afield.
We are experimenting with having some branch meetings on weekend afternoons (e.g. Saturday 2nd November) and some on the first Tuesday of the month (e.g. Tuesday 1st October). Branch meetings are for members only.
See our events page for more information on upcoming events.
Pictured right, members at a social event in Ribblesdale, August 2024
The CAMRA Good Beer Guide is the premier guide to pubs selling real ale in the UK. Listing 4500 pubs, both urban and rural the Good Beer Guide is revised and updated each year by CAMRA volunteers up and down the country. The Guide also has a comprehensive list of UK breweries.
Attention, Members!
Please record National Beer Scoring System Scores for Pubs in the branch area. Branch members can use our local system,
for more information, click here. Remember the guide is the Good Beer Guide and an NBSS score of 3 or more indicates good beer in your glass. Branch members may
enter cards here, and view both a list of high-scoring pubs in the and a league table of scorers in the NBSS Scores section of the Members‘ area.
Skipton Beer Festival 2024: Public Vote Results
Cask Beer of the Festival: Craven Brew Co VIP (Victorian Imperial Porter) presentation in the brewery at Craven Brew Co
Cider of the Festival: Appletreewick Cider (plus sampling freshly pressed juice in October 2024).
KeyKeg of the festival: Neon Raptor Vampyre Disco presentation at Neon Raptor’s brewery tap, Nottingham.
Community Pub of the Year: Goat‘s Head, Steeton
Our Keighley and Craven Community Pub of the Year 2024 is the Goat‘s Head, Steeton. Scott and Rebecca run a community focussed pub, and judging by the turnout for their presentation the community appreciates their effort, indeed the plaque is dedicated to Scott and Rebecca and staff and customers.
Pub of the Year: Beer Engine, Skipton
Our Keighley and Craven Pub of the Year 2024 is the Beer Engine in Skipton. This is the second year running that it has won the local award. Last year it went on to win CAMRA Yorkshire Region Pub of the Year, and even better made it into the final 4 of the country. Well done Adam, Steve, and staff.
Club of the Year: Applegarth Club, Riddlesden
Our Keighley and Craven Club of the Year 2024 is the Applegarth in Riddlesden. The club won two years running under the stewardship of the late Andy Yuill, with family members coming to collect this year‘s certificate in his honour. Non-members are welcome for a drink while reular visitors are expected to join the club. Club members get the use a a pool table, darts board, and two full size snooker tables.
CLICK HERE for a list of pubs in the Keighley & Craven CAMRA area, with links to CAMRA National on-line database, WhatPub.
And what about the local breweries?
There are a number of breweries in the Keighley and Craven branch area
See our Breweries page to find links and / or contact details for most of these.
Wednesday 12 February to Saturday 15 February 2025
Get fired up for the Great British Beer Festival Winter 2025 at the iconic Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham! This former steelworks provides a perfect backdrop for an incredible selection of cask ales, craft beers, traditional ciders, and perries. Don’t miss out on what promises to be the hottest beer festival this Winter - tickets on sale now!
The Winter 2023/24 edition of Alesman is available to download here. (2.7MB, it may be hard to read on a mobile phone screen. If you are in the area why not pop into your local pub and read the paper version over a beer?).
The Summer 2022 edition of Alesman is available to download here. (10.8MB, may be hard to read on a mobile phone screen).
Due to continued disruption caused by Covid-19 we were unable to distribute a printed Alesman in Spring 2021. In the mean time we compiled another virtual edition. It includes an obituary of long-time volunteer Ken Armitage who sadly died in February 2021 age 73.
Download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones).
Due to continued disruption caused by Covid-19 there was no Autumn Alesman in 2020. We did, however, put together a two-page ‘Inn Brief’ which is available to download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones), and you can still download the crossword as a large screen / printer friendly page.
Ale Trail of Cross Hills area
There‘s lots of variety in Keighley and Craven. How about an ale trail in the Cross Hills area? Its about 3 miles and 7 pubs if you do it all in one go. Click here to download a pdf for more information.
Ale Trail of Grassington
CAMRA social events were suspended for over year to comply with social distancing guidelines, in order to keep everyone safe. One event planned for a Saturday in the autumn 2020 was to visit pubs in Grassington using service buses. As the trip is based on service buses you may wish to support these pubs by organising your own trip. Click here for more information.
Due to the disruption caused by Covid-19 there was no printed edition of the Summer 2020 Alesman. Instead we made a virtual mini-edition available to download here. (small file, should be legible on most smart phones), and you can download the crossword as a separate large screen / printer friendly page.
The national closure of pubs has paused the distribution of our Alesman magazine in its tracks. We therefore made the Spring 2020 edition available to download here. (8.1MB, and best seen on a PC because the layout does not fit a mobile phone screen). Obviously many event dates mentioned are up in the air at the moment.