Report: First Real Ale Runabout
The first runabout was a great success, it visited The Donkey and Buskins and Layer Fox in Layer-de-la-Haye and The Hare and Hounds at Layer Breton.
Some photos from the first Runabout: andere
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Calendar
Beer Scoring
We have over 130 pubs in the branch.
Our Branch Area
Colchester and North East Essex (CNEE) CAMRA covers the area shown in the map below.
If you're a CAMRA member living in the area below then by default you're a member of CNEE. If you don't live in the area but would like to be affiliated with us then you can do so - contact our membership secretary
Local Branches
Our neighbouring CAMRA branches are:
Join CAMRA
There's lots of benefits to joining CAMRA - apart from joining in with our active social calendar! Have a look at the national CAMRA site for a full up to date list.
It's easy to join, do it online now on the National CAMRA site, or look out for a leaflet in a pub. If you join at one of our festivals you'll get any entry fee refunded and usually some free beer too!
2011 Cycle Trip 3 to Burnham on Crouch
March 27th 2011.
Finding the Festival
The Beer Festival will be held at the Colchester Arts Centre, close to the Town Centre. The Arts Centre is a beautiful deconsecrated church situated just off Head Street in the heart of the town centre. Amongst its claims to fame is that the church's tower is the original source of the "Humpty Dumpty" nursery rhyme.
Volunteers Required!
Festivals are staffed entirely by volunteers, and without their help they simply could not happen.
Volunteer staff are needed at all sessions of the beer festival, and also for setting up and taking down, so your help is needed — even if you can only manage a few hours. Every little helps.
Railway Riot at the Dog Inn, Halstead
Sunday 24th October 2010
You'll have to ask those taking part what was going on in these photo's.
Or better still, why not come along to our next event and join in. 'Young Members' of all ages welcome apotheke-zag.de.
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Essex University Beer Festival
Saturday 12th December, 2009
In the early hours of Saturday I was rudely awakened by my alarm clock making a ridiculously loud noise in close proximity to my ear. This pleased Mark no end and put him in an even worse mood than normal!! ... I dragged myself out from under the cosy duvet and managed to stumble about the place getting ready to leave for the first ever beer festival held by the University of Essex.
Young Members Quiz Night at the New Inn
Wednesday 21st April 2010
And thanks to everyone else who came and made the night so enjoyable schau dir das an.
Georgie
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Norwich Beer Festival Cycle Trip 2008
At 6.30 a.m. a group of five very keen cyclists assembled in the Bricklayers car park ready to depart for the first leg of our cycle trip to the Norwich Beer Festival. Our plans were to follow the National Cycle Route 1 which links Colchester and Norwich as it wends its way through Britain from the south coast to the Orkneys. Navigation was by means of a GPS, Ordnance Survey maps and the vague memories of two of the riders who had cycled this route previously.
2009 Cycle Trip 1 - Stowmarket
Saturday 28th March 2009
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2009 Cycle Trip 2 - Suffolk Borders
Sunday 3rd May 2009
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2009 Cycle Trip 4 - To London
Saturday & Sunday 25th & 26th July 2009
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2009 Cycle Trip 5 - To Nethergate Brewery
Saturday 15th August 2009
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2009 Cycle Trip 6 - To Braintree
Sunday 20th September 2009
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2010 Cycale Tour 1 Chelmsford Beer Festival
Tour 1 saw us head to Chelmsford Beer Festival. The unseasonably good weather and temperatures not starting with a zero made for a pleasant journey. The lung busting Market Hill in Maldon delayed us slightly as did the stop in the Blue Boar for a well earned pint afterwards.
2010 Cycle Trip 2 - Tendring
Sunday 8th March 2010
Another successful tour completed and a record number of riders as we were joined by two new riders, Bob and Colin. In dry and bright conditions we made our first stop bang on opening time at the Cross Inn, Great Bromley, where we received an unexpected treat.
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2010 Cycle Trip 6 - Norwich to Kings Lynn
Saturday and Sunday 3rd and 4th July 2010
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2010 Cycle Trip 8 - Braintree
Sunday 19th September 2010
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2010 Cycle Trip 10 - Sudbury to Bury St Edmunds
Sunday 21st November 2010
The cycling season usually finishes with the ride to Norwich Beer Festival at the end of October but this year a November ride was a late "weather permitting" addition to the calendar. The weather did permit and so 7 stout cyclists set off for a ride of three towns - Sudbury to Bury St. Edmunds to Stowmarket.
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