The Campaign for Real Ale
CAMRA is considered one of the most successful consumer organisations ever. It’s aim is to promote good quality real ale, ciders, and perries and to have thriving pubs and clubs in every community. It is independent, not-for-profit, and non-party political.
Find out more about CAMRA visit National CAMRA
The Oxford Branch of CAMRA …
… covers an area rather more extensive than the name suggests. It also includes Abingdon, Carterton, Eynsham, Kidlington, Wheatley, Witney, and all the surrounding villages, stretching to the Gloucester border in the west, to Otmoor in the north-east, and generally to the Thames in the South.
Support local beer, pubs, clubs and cider producers
To find pubs and details on their offering and hours please visit CAMRA Pubs. (Pubs do varying their hours, often from week to week. We do our best to update opening hours but it is difficult to keep up with over 300 pubs. If travelling it is best to confirm with the pub, their website or Facebook or Google Maps all try to stay up to date.) Help us to help you by sending in feedback from the CAMRA Pubs entry if any details have change.
The Oxford Drinker!
We are producing the branch magazine Oxford Drinker again, now four times a year. There is also an online version with up-to-date news and articles, so take a look at: Oxford Drinker
Sign up on the website for email updates, either as they happen or a weekly digest. Importantly tell everyone you know and even people you don’t by using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We have a wealth of news and views, and we welcome your contributions. Get in touch with story ideas, and if you want to write for us – even better!
The Oxford Drinker website is updated whenever there’s something worth telling you such as pub and brewery news, ‘On Tour’ reports, national news about pubs and breweries, thought-provoking guest columnists, ‘Down Memory Lane’ and much more.
On this web site:
Details of branch meetings are in What’s On. There is also the Branch Diary and upcoming beer festivals are in the Beer Festival Diary.
Sadly we had to cancel the Oxford Beer & Cider Festival 2025 which would have been our 26th at Oxford Town Hall and was being planned for Thursday 23 October to Saturday 25th.
Unfortunately a combination of factors led us to the conclusion that we couldn’t do this any more. Rising costs, falling attendance, ill-health, old age, increasing difficulty getting enough fit volunteers to do all the heavy lifting, problems with the venue, and lack of help from CAMRA were just some of the issues. A big thank-you to everyone who has helped staff the festivals over the years and to those who supported us.
If you want to see how we have done it in the past here’s a time-lapse of the setting up: Oxford Beer Festival set-up by Laurence Harman
We have finished our Pub(s) of the Year (PotY) competition for 2026. It was a very close thing in both categories but with familiar faces at the top as usual. City PotY 2026 is a reversal of last year with Royal Blenheim first and Grapes second. The Town & Villages PotY 2026 is the same as last year with the Crafty Pint in Witney first from the Brewery Tap in Abingdon second. Well done to all of them.
You can download and read our current and previous editions of our publication, back issues of Oxford Drinker.
If you are visiting Oxford, you can download our City-centre-pubs-with-times-Oct-2022 or, if you want to find a particular pub, or all pubs in a town or village, there is a wealth of information on CAMRA’s pub database CAMRA Pubs. This site is a much improved version of the old WhatPub site.
If you are not a member, why not join the more than 800 members in the Oxford branch?
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