A record 16 members (one behind the camera and another elsewhere!) - half of those who then subscribed - and 2 guests attended our 1ST Social in 2023
2024 Events
Proposed:
Saturday, early-mid May
For the remainder of 2025, Socials are being pencilled-in for:
Pembury Arms Lager Festival, Hackney (late-spring)
Nicholas Nickleby, Stroud Green (autumn)
In addition, a trip to Ely may be in the offing too.
Proposed (short term):
'Bill English Memorial Trip to Amsterdam & Antwerp (possibly including Ypres) - tba
Further details may be posted here in due course.
Proposed (long term):
'Further London Lager Microbreweries'
Noon - Antwerp Arms, 168-70, Church Road, Tottenham, N17 8AS then
1.30pm - True Craft (ex-West Green Tavern), 68, West Green Road, South Tottenham, N15 5NR, then
3pm - Bohem Brewery Tap Room, Unit 5, Littleline House, 41-3, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0RE then
4.30pm - One Mile End Brewery Tap Room, Unit 2, Compass West Estate, 32, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0XL then
6pm - Redemption Brewery Tap Room, Unit 16, Compass West Estate, 32, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0XL Closes 7pm
(All taprooms are adjacent to each other, One Mile End moving into Redemption's premises when the latter relocated and Bohem moving nearby to create a venue adjacent to their resited brewery additional to that at Bowes Park.)
CAMAL membership badges should be worn - by those who have them! - by all participating members at every event.
This depiction of mediæval monastic brewing appears to have the CAMAL tankard clearly in view!
You have missed:
Sunday, 2ND March
'A West Middlesex brewery & more'
With most rendezvousing at Ealing Broadway station entrance at 1145 from Bizzie Lizzie Line trains, we walked to reach:
Noon - Questors' Grapevine Theatre Club Bar, 12, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W5 5BQ.
A volunteer-run bar that featured in a memorable episode of 'The IT Crowd', it opened an hour earlier than normally just for CAMAL.
1.15pm - The Forester, 2, Leighton Road, Northfields, W13 5BQ.
Almost unique in London in featuring (defunct) bell-pushes for waiter service in the left-hand bar, this Nowell-Parr designed edifice is a nationally-important heritage pub where some indulged in food and all in the Fuller's beer range.
A short walk south took us to:
2.35pm - Owl & Pussycat, 106, Northfield Avenue, Northfields, W13 9RT.
This long-term CAMAL supporter, where beer for both the Marko Paulo and Ealing Brewery Company concerns is brewed on the premises, a number of lagers and a stout were available from the small bar. With a variety of ciders/perries sourced from elsewhere, this was also our APPFEL venue for 2025.
Most then walked via Graham Avenue/ Midhurst & Coldershaw Roads, although a few took an E3 bus and a shorter walk along Grosvenor Road, to reach:
4.20pm - The Grosvenor, 107, Oaklands Road, Hanwell, W7 2DT.
Another nationally-important structure recognised by CAMRA, the anticipated Forest Road brewery beer failed to materialise but Sunday roasts did for those who hadn't eaten earlier!
Next, sauntering west along Oaklands Avenue and north along Boston Manor Road brought us to:
5.20pm - Dodo Micropub, 52, Boston Road, Hanwell, W7 3TR.
A former shop conversion was presided over by Lucy, the eponymous owner whose doubling of her (sur)name gave the premises its name, where five changing beers from nearby or further afield were offered.
All venues (except for The Forester) were current CAMRA GBG entries.
A handful of CAMAL members then proceeded via The Fox, Green Lanes, and The Viaduct, Uxbridge Road, before dispersing, the majority via York Avenue and the Bizzie Lizzie Line from Hanwell station.
