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Trafford & Hulme Branch awards four seasonal awards to pubs, bars & clubs in the branch area
The Pub Of The Season award is presented to a pub or bar within the branch area which has excelled in one or more areas:
a) introducing real ale to a new area or market where none has been available
b) on-going excellence in the quality of real ales (and ciders) on offer
c) on-going excellence of service to customers and/or the local community
d) significant increases in the sales of real ales and/or traditional ciders
e) excellence in support promotion of CAMRA and its aims
f) significant charitable work
Nominees for the award are put forward by local CAMRA members & voted on by branch members once a quarter.
A pub (while under the same management) cannot be Pub Of The Season more than once in a 3 year period. A pub must have been under the same management for over one year before it becomes eligible to be nominated as Pub Of The Season.
Find out more about Trafford & Hulme Branch's process for pub and club awards here.
Our Winter Pub of the Season 2023/24 goes to......
As usual, you're always guaranteed a great pint! That's why this cracking pub has won CAMRA award after award and this is no exception.
A welcoming bar in Whalley Range with 5 hand pumps offering a range of strengths & usually something dark, as well as selection of craft keg and imported German beers. The ales are sourced locally & further afield, recently they hosted a Verdant tap takeover.
The winner is - Hillary Step
Join us on Thursday 15th February for the Award, and the launch of their house beer, brewed in collaboration with Blackjack brewery who will be there to celebrate with them.
Come and join us at 199 Upper Chorlton Road, Manchester M16 0BH
Congratulations to Costello’s Bar Altrincham
Are the winners of our Pub Of The Season Autumn 2023.
The award was presented to the Manager and Assistant Manager, Jack and Olly, by our outgoing and new Chair.
At the time of the presentation Jack was serving his last few shifts as Manager. Lucy from Costello’s Bar Times Square, Warrington, has taken over the top job at Costello’s Bar Altrincham.
It is very much a case of welcome back Lucy! Lucy used work in their Altrincham bar before taking on the role as Manager at their Times Square bar. Trafford and Hulme CAMRA wish Jack all the best for the future after serving customers for 12 years at Costello’s Bar Altrincham.
This is the third award we have presented to this venue this year, in January they were presented our Special Award for being in the Good Beer Guide for 10 consecutive years and then in May they were awarded our Runner-Up Pub Of The Year 2023. Plus, all the other awards that the bar and brewery has won over the years.
Well done to all the team!
At the Branch Meeting on the 7th March 2023 the Old Roebuck was selected as the branch Spring Pub of the Season.
A tradional style pub which retains its individual rooms giving it a cosy.feel especially during the cooler spring evenings, making it a great place to enjoy some of the varied food on offer accompanied by one or perhaps more of the three cask ales usually on offer.
Join us on Tuesday 4th April for the presentation evening.
On Thursday the members of the branch had the enjoyable task of visiting the Beer House, Chorlton to drink some of the excellently kept and served ales, but also present Alex and the team with our Pub Of The Season (Winter 2022/2023) Award. Here we see Caz from the branch presenting the award:-
and here are the rest of the team whose hard work contributed towards the award.
Our heatfelt congratulations go to Alex and the team for consistantly delivering quality beer.
After lean times when their normal customer cohort of Students was absent through Covid, the Salutation has powered back to strength with a great offering of beers from Bollington Brewing Co, food and entertainment. In recognition of the great place that it is, it was selected as the Branch Pub of the Season - Autumn 2022. Here we see George the Branch Chair presenting Josh the manager with the Pub's award.
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 a dark winters night there is nothing better than a pub visit. On the 12th February The Salutation in Hulme was our destination as it was the date to present Ronan Clowes, the manager and his team with the Trafford & Hulme "Pub of the Season Winter 2020" award.
Here we can see Tom Watson, the supervisor receiving the award from George Elmslie the branch chairman.
Acquired by the Metropolitan University in 2011 and operated by Union since 2013 it has retained many of it’s original features through several tasteful refreshes. In 2019 it entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Bollington Brewery and its cask and keg ales available usually with one guest from elsewhere.
The menu features several vegan and vegetarian meals in addition to more traditional pub fare. Interestingly the menu includes a beer pairing suggestion for each dish.
Its been challenging times with our pubs and clubs closed, but we did manage to make a socially distance presentation to Sean and Sophie Robinson at the Assembly, Urmston.
Here we see Sean proudly holding the certificate:-
Congratulations to the team at The Salutation, Hulme who have been awarded the Trafford & Hulnme Pub of the Season winter 2020
The Salutation is a real gem of a pub tucked away in Manchester Metropolitain Unvesity Campus. Despite several refurbishments it retains much of its historic interior and has a real community feeling. It hosts regular events inlcuding a quiz night. There is a great range of cask ales and craft beers, largly from Bollington Brewery available. Food is available lunch times and evenenings and the menu includes beer pairing suggestions for each dish.
Well as the nights are strting to draw in, and a few of the leaves start to turn bronze and golden its obviosuly time to present the Autumn Pub Of the season award which went to Dulicmer, Chorlton. For a modest little bar it offersa great range of Ales, with real cider also being available on hand pump. They have frequent music events, and as we visited there were dulcet tones drifting down from the upstairs room. Here we see Chris of Dulcimer accepting the award from the Branch Chairman, George.
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