South Oxfordshire

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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

  • Our Branch Pub of the Year 2025 is ‘Crowned’ Monday 28 April 2025

    We are delighted to announce that South Oxfordshire CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2025 is The Crown, South Moreton.

    Many congratulations to Di Humphrey and everyone associated with this fantastic community-owned village pub.

    As ever, it was a tight competition as the other contenders are all equally great pubs. The runner-up this year is the Spire & Spoke, Watlington.

    We’ll be presenting the Award to the Crown in due course. It will now go through to the Oxfordshire County round together with the PotYs for the other branches covering the county, which are the Kings Arms, Wantage (White Horse); the Grapes in Oxford (Oxford); and the Red Lion, Horley (North Oxfordshire).

  • May is Mild Month Friday 25 April 2025

    Every May, CAMRA branches across the UK celebrate Mild Month, an initiative to celebrate and highlight the mild beer style, which was recently under threat of extinction due to a drop in popularity.

    To help revive the drink, CAMRA branches encourage local pubs to have at least one mild on the bar during the month of May, and some organise trips to pubs and breweries that embrace and support the beer style.

    Mild is a beer style which developed in the late 18th and 19th centuries as drinkers started to demand a slightly sweeter and less aggressively hopped beer than porter. Early milds were much stronger than modern versions, which tend to be 3% - 3.5% ABV, though a number of brewers are bringing strength back into style.

    Mild is usually dark brown in colour, due to the use of well-roasted malts or roasted barley. Look for a rich malty aroma and flavour, with hints of dark fruit, chocolate, coffee and caramel, with a gentle underpinning of hop bitterness.

    Examples from local breweries to us include:

    • LoveBeer Mild Rover
    • Hook Norton Hooky Mild
    • Renegade Maggs’ Mild
    • XT Pi
    • Indigenous Baldrick
    • Windsor & Eton Malt Head Mild

Branch, Regional & National Events

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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.