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.
Some branch meetings are on weekend afternoons and some on the first Tuesday evening of the month. Branch meetings are for members only.
See our events page for more information on upcoming events.
Pictured: members at a social in Ribblesdale, August 2024
The Summer 2025 edition of Alesman is available to download here.
Our Keighley and Craven Community Pub of the Year 2025 is the Volunteers, Keighley. The pub had been at risk of permanent closure, which would have been a loss for the community. Sam and Fiona took on the challenge and brought it back to life. The place had largely fallen off CAMRA members‘ radar as real ale had been dropped years ago but the bar now features three working handpumps.
Our Keighley and Craven Pub of the Year 2025 is the Beer Engine in Skipton. This is the third year running that it has won the local award. Each time it has gone on to win or tie-to-win CAMRA Yorkshire Region Pub of the Year, and even better in 2023 it made into the final 4 of the country. Well done Adam, Steve, and staff.
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, 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, if you are not quite sure it is probably a 2.5! Branch members may view both a list of high-scoring pubs and a league table of scorers in the NBSS Scores section of the Members‘ area.
To see if any pubs have been selected for targetting this month, click here
CLICK HERE for a list of pubs in the Keighley & Craven CAMRA area, with links to CAMRA National on-line database, WhatPub.
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.
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.
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 pool table, darts board, and two full size snooker tables.
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.
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.
March 2025 - Alesman advertising rates from Spring 2025
To view the pubs that have been selected for bonus points for this and next month, click here
