CAMRA Northern Ireland

Awards for Two Belfast Pubs

Congratulations to The Errigle Inn in Belfast for winning CAMRA NI’s Pub of the Year 2019. It was a double celebration for the Ormeau Road venue as it came Runner Up in the Pub of the Year awards for the Scotland & Northern Ireland region. A great bar with fantastic beer! Following the presentation, chairperson Ruth Sloan made the short hop across the road to Northern Lights where she awarded

Beers Meet Cheese

CAMRA NI recently teamed up with Mike’s Fancy Cheese and Farmageddon Brewery for a superb night of pairing amazing cheese and quality local beer. This was the first of hopefully many similar events and was expertly hosted by Michael of Mike’s Fancy Cheese with Ryan from Farmageddon introducing some tasty brews. CAMRA NI offered tasting notes on the beer and cheese pairing followed by an address to the evening’s patrons, detailing

CAMRA NI urges Chancellor to cut beer tax to boost local beer and pubs in Northern Ireland

The Campaign for Real Ale in Northern Ireland is calling on the UK Government to consider cutting the tax charged on beer in order to help local pub and brewing businesses. It comes as the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland has called for a cut in alcohol taxes in the forthcoming Budget – which is expected to be presented to Dáil Éireann in October – to help stop rural Irish