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Welcome
A warm welcome to the website of Ayrshire & Wigtownshire CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. Geographically, our branch is located in South West Scotland and covers an area of approximately 1600 square miles (4185 km²)
We have almost 600 members who are passionate about pub-going and real ale while having fun at the same time. We are a very active branch with regular social activities and a successful festival which is held in early October each year. In addition, we publish a multi-award winning branch magazine called Full Pints with issues printed and distributed quarterly.
Please have a look around our website or better still come and join us in a pub for a beer or two.
Branch AGM
Our branch AGM takes place on Saturday, 22 March and starts at 14:00. The venue for the meeting is the Reception Room, Walker Hall, Municipal Buildings, South Beach, Troon. This meeting is restricted to current CAMRA members. A copy of the meeting agenda can be downloaded here.
This is a “dry” meeting but will be followed by a crawl of Troon’s three real ale pubs. All Ayrshire & Wigtownshire CAMRA members are encouraged to attend.
40th Anniversary Branch Awards
In recognition of their contribution to the branch, several long-standing members were recently presented with certificates.
The presentations were made at various locations over the festive period.
Beer of the Festival Presentation
Mighty Oak’s Captain Bob won the ‘Beer of the Festival’ vote at the 2024 Ayrshire Real Ale Festival. Despite being based in Maldon, Essex, a presentation trip was organised for Wednesday 29 January and nine branch members, along with two from Germany,
headed down to spend some or all of the week in Essex.
The presentation of the certificate to brewery owner, John Boyce, was made by our Branch Chair Lindsay Grant, and was followed by a tour of the brewery.
Festival stalwarts, Josef Hoffmann and Ursula Keiler, travel over from Germany every year to attend our festival, and we were delighted that they managed to join us at the brewery and also at the Colchester Beer Festival. We have named the Beer of the Festival Award after them
