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Some of our happy entrants of the Good Beer Guide 2025
We have Clare at the Black Horse, Checkenden; Loddon Tap Yard; Ruth at the Fleur de Lys, East Hagbourne; John at the Spire & Spoke, Watlington; Di at the Crown, South Moreton; Nick and Hazel at the Flowing Spring, Playhatch; Dave at the Cross Keys, Wallingford; Corinne at the Red Lion, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell; Rodney at the George, Sutton Courtenay; and Lottie at the Greyhound, Whitchurch-on-Thames.
Branch, Regional & National News
- The final four pubs of the year are announced
Monday 28 October 2024
Congratulations to the final four in the Pub of the Year 2024 competition. They are:
- Black Horse, Preston
- Three B’s, Bridlington
- Little Green Dragon, Winchmore Hill
- Bailey Head, Oswestry
Sadly our regional winner, and twice previous national winner, the Bell at Aldworth didn’t make it through this time.
The overall winner of the competition will be announced in January 2025.
For full details, including profiles of each finalist, head over to the full press release.
Branch & Regional Events
Note that only the first venue for socials is shown. Click through to the event’s page to find the full itinerary.
- Presentation of Autumn PotS Tuesday 26 November 2024 19:30 Red Lion, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
- Branch Annual Darts Tournament Thursday 28 November 2024 19:30 Black Horse, Checkendon
- Branch Meeting Wednesday 4 December 2024 19:30 Red Lion, Woodcote
- Branch Social to Cross Keys Winter Beer Festival Sunday 8 December 2024 14:00 Cross Keys, Wallingford
- Branch Christmas Social Friday 13 December 2024 19:00 Sweeney & Todd Restaurant
Other Local Events
- Winter Beer Festival Saturday 7 – Sunday 8 December 2024 Cross Keys, Wallingford
Latest Soxon Ale Magazine
Click or tap the cover to read our latest branch magazine, silver medal winner in the 2024 CAMRA Magazine of the Year awards!
Attention Branch members
If you are a fully paid up member of CAMRA, please do visit the Members' Area, where we endeavour to keep all of our members appraised of the latest news relating to Good Beer Guide nominees, Pub of the Year and Season candidates, and general beer scoring trends. You will also find minutes of our monthly Branch meetings for the last 12 months, as well as for our most recent AGM.
Calling all pub landlords and brewers in the Branch area
If you are throwing a beer-related event at your pub or brewery we would love to hear about it! Please contact us to let us know about your event and we will post it here as well as on our social media.
Pubs as ACVs
We currently only have 3 pubs as Assets of Community Value (ACVs) in the branch. If you would like to find out more about protecting your local with an ACV, take a look at the help on our main website.