Well that was fun!!!

After a three year gap, it was great to see the grounds of St Clement’s packed with happy people enjoying the beer, the cider, the gin, the music and the sun! Attendance on all three days exceeded all expectations and you almost drank us out of beer – but not quite..

. and we extend a warm thank you to the around 90 volunteers gave up their time to make the festival happen – some of them working for months in advance – and we hope you agree they did a great job. With it being so busy on Saturday, volunteers on the gate and on the bars worked almost non-stop in sweltering heat for hours and hours on end to keep you supplied with drinks. And we must pay special thanks to the dozen or so who worked through until after midnight clearing the church hall ready for Sunday service and then came back to work all day Sunday to take down the Youth Centre and Cider bar and transport it all back to the CAMRA storage.

We would also like to say thanks to all our sponsers – Brightside Brewery, Blackjack Brewing Co, Thirst Class Ale, The Beer House, Fell Brewery and the Prairie Schooner Tap House – and the local businesses who sponsored a cask. 

Also thank you to all who voted for your beer & cider of the festival, sponsored by The Font.

The votes have been counted and we are pleased to confirm that the winners were:

Cask Beer Of The Festival

• Winner: Marble – Birthday Beers No. 3 Ginger
• Runner Up: Dunham Massey – Deer Beer

Keg Beer Of The Festival

• Winner: Wander Beyond – Dragon Dance
• Runner Up: Thirst Class – Stocky Oatmeal Stout

Overall Beer Of The Festival

• Winner: Marble – Birthday Beers No.3 Ginger
• Runner Up: Wander Beyond – Dragon Dance

On Thursday 28th August the Longford Tap was presented with the branch Locale Pub of the Year 2022 award. The Tap opened in 2019 and was the Branch "Best Newcomer" in 2020. It offers a great selection of changing cask ales from the local breweries incluiding Blackjack and Marble making it a worthy winner of this award.

Here we see Bob the branch secretary flanked by Dave and Paul Burgess the bar owners, together with some of the staff.

On Thursday 21st July 2022 the branch was pround and pleased to present Fell, Chorlton with the awards for "Best Newcomer 2022" and "Pub of the Season - Summer 2022".

Fell Chorlton is the Cumbria based breweries first outlet outside its home region. With four Cask lines and twelve keg serving a selection of beers from the brewery and guest ales it has found favour with the Branch members who voted it for it to win the awards. Here we see Joe Marshall receiving the Best Newcomer award..

And togther with Elliot, Manager of Fell Chorlton proudly holding both awards. 

We congratulate them and hope they both go on to win many awards.

On Thursday 3th June Flixton Conservative Club was presented with the Branch Club of The Year 2022 award. Here we see George Elmslie the Branch Chirman presenting the award to Andrea Doherty and Pauline. 

and here it is with the team, Pat, Andrea, Pauline and Tom.