News and Events

Marble Arch winner of the Branch Cider Pub Of The Year 2024!

Branch Chair Sean O'Mahoney pictured presenting Christopher Makin & Salma Sanchez with their Certificate.

City Arms wins Central Manchester CAMRA Pub Of The Year (POTY) 2024!

Branch Chair Sean O'Mahoney pictured presenting Josh Schofield and Caitlin O'Shea with their winning Certificate. And the full team at the City Arms, courtesy of the City Arms

Best Newcomer in the Branch

has been given their certificate! The Victoria Tap was presented with this award on the 19th June. Pictured are (L to R) Amie Black (of the Piccadilly Tap), Sean O'Mahoney (Branch Chair) and Ciara Woods Manager of the Victoria Tap

Ciara also baked a special cake for the occasion and it was absolutely lovely - using Lees Stout

Next Branch meeting.

The next all members Branch meeting will be on 12th November 2024 1800/1830 at a venue yet to be decided. The next Committee meeting is on 1st October - venue TBC. , Details of any further meetings (incl Branch and Committee meetings will be posted as soon as they are confirmed.

Latest Pub News

When you visit any pubs in the Branch area (or for that matter in ANY Branch!) make sure your score your beers on What Pub We need the scores to decide our entries for future GBG's.

Looks like a new bar may be opening on/near Oxford Road station? Sister to the Piccadilly Tap and Victoria Tap!

Branch Socials

On Saturday September 28th, we're planning a trip to the Shrewsbury Beer Festival which is being held in the grade 1 listed Church of St Mary the Virgin (a redundant Church mainly used as a community resource). It is a ticketed event and entry for CAMRA members will be £9 (£12 for non-members), which includes free entrance fee, £3 refundable souvenir glass deposit, 9 beer tokens (enough for your first 3 half pints), and a programme. As of writing there are 95 tickets remaining.

Trafford & Hulme Branch are getting 10.30am train from Piccadilly to Cardiff Central, so we suggest joining them, or getting 11.30 train from Piccadilly to Swansea, both of which go direct to Shrewsbury. The journey is 1hr 11mins and will cost £30.10 for an open return before any railcard discounts and The Church of St Mary is a 6-minute walk from Shrewsbury Station. The festival opens at 11am and finishes at 9pm, or when the beer runs out. The trains back to Piccadilly are around 50 mins past the hour, every hour.

link to the Shrewsbury and West Shropshire page for The Shrewsbury Beer Festival, with all the information needed. https://saws.camra.org.uk/shrewsbury-beer-festival/ To buy tickets, please follow this link. https://tckty.camra.org.uk/e/278/shrewsbury-camra-beer-and-cider-festival

On Tuesday 8th October to welcome new and returning students to Manchester (plus, any excuse for a CAMRA social), we’ll be having a ‘student social’ on October 8th. (Non-students welcome to join).

The social will explore the Piccadilly area of the Northern Quarter, where we'll visit 4 pubs. First stop at 1830 will be Pelican (The entrance is up a number of steps, and the bar is through the right-hand door. Alternative accessible entrance is available upon request on Tariff St). Then we'll be off to the Northern Monk Refectory for 1915, less than a minutes walk from Pelican. Our third stop is Port Street Beer House at 2000. Our final stop will be the Peer Hat which is a live music venue just off Stevenson Square. Timings are approximate.

Hope to see you there. Cheers, Chris.

If you have any thoughts as to where we may go or where you would like to go, for any future social, let us know via ku.gro.armac.retsehcnamlartnec@riahc and we'll see if we can sort it!