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New CAMRA Website Tuesday 1 July 2025
The new CAMRA website helps you get to the pints you want to drink the most, in the places you want to drink them, as easily as possible.

Whether you’re on holiday, visiting a friend, or simply searching your local area, our website brings you the best pubs, beers and breweries. We have brought all our data and standalone websites together, so you can access everything you need to know about pubs and clubs, beer and cider and our campaigning efforts in one convenient place.

The newly enhanced online features with easy-to-use smart tools are designed to help you enjoy more of the beer, pubs and festivals you love:
- Search for over 55,000 pubs around the UK by a variety of filters
- Identify Good Beer Guide recommended pubs, now as part of your membership
- Plan pub trips and create itineraries of places you want to visit
- Score your beers at all the pubs and clubs you visit
- Search our database of beers and find out where they are served. Save your favourites or even list those you’d like to try
- Access information on breweries from around the UK and save these as favourites for later too
- Read CAMRA verified beer tasting notes
- View CAMRA beer rating scores and recommendations
- Plus so much more!
To date, more members have logged in to the new site than the previous site had in its whole lifetime! In 2025 alone, 13,000 venues have been favourited by users and a massive 45,000 pub visits have been recorded on the website.

Whenever you order a pint of cask beer, remember to log in to our website to submit and keep track of your beer scores. This is one of the easiest and most fun ways to volunteer for CAMRA and helps us find out which pubs are serving quality cask. There is more brewery data on the site, and you can now update this data too.

You can help power CAMRA’s campaigning by submitting updates about pubs. Simply go to a pub’s listing on the website and scroll down to the ‘suggest an edit’ section. This will let us know that the pub’s information needs to be updated. It couldn’t be easier!
It's a Handpump Hijack Monday 30 June 2025
Big brewers threaten consumers’ rights with plans to hijack the iconic cask handpump.

For generations, a handpump on the bar has been a mark of assurance. Now, Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company – one of the world's largest brewery conglomerates – has resorted to misleading consumers by hijacking the handpump to serve its “Fresh Ale” product.

CMBC says this is “preserving the beloved hand pull ritual that delivers the traditional theatre of serve that ale is famed for”.

CAMRA’s Real Ale, Cider and Perry Campaigns Director, Gillian Hough, said: “Consumers deserve better than Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) play acting at serving cask – a product they claim to champion. Instead, CMBC have closed breweries and removed cask lines from bars. “There’s room for all kinds of beer on the bar, but brewers should champion their whole range honestly, proudly serving their keg beers through keg fonts rather than using handpumps and misleading their customers.”

So far, CMBC has three beers in their ‘Fresh Ale’ range. They are Wainwright Gold, Wainwright Amber and Hobgoblin IPA, and will have ‘brewery conditioned beer’ displayed on the pump clip.

In the 70’s, when cask first came under threat and CAMRA was founded, the loss of a handpump was often the canary in the mine – not just for individual venues, but also for the beer industry as a whole. Then, as now, CAMRA members are taking the issue straight to those involved.

You can help fight the handpump hijack by following these simple steps:
- Let us know if you come across ‘Fresh Ale’ in your local. You can do this by using the ‘Send an email to the CAMRA branch’ button at the bottom of the relevant WhatPub venue page.
- Send us photos of ‘Fresh Ale’ pump clips. We need to find examples!
- If in doubt, Ask if it’s Cask. We need consumers to make licensees aware of the issue of misleading dispense and explain why you won’t be buying it.