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Chelmsford & Mid Essex CAMRA Summer Beer & Cider Festival 2026
Tickets are now on sale for this year's summer festival.
Get your tickets before 1st May for an Earlybird discount. There's free entrance for CAMRA members.
For more information, click here for the Festival website.
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CAMRA Membership prices will increase on 24th June. Become a member now and beat the increase and get free entrance to over 100 CAMRA beer festivals including the Chelmsford Summer Beer & Cider Festival 2026. Click here to see all the benefits of becoming a member of CAMRA and application form.
Mild Month
Every May, CAMRA branches across the UK celebrate Mild Month, an initiative to celebrate and highlight the mild beer style, which was recently under threat of extinction due to a drop in popularity.
The Hop
Shop
will be selling mild throughout the month of May (subject to availablity ... ).
The second Saturday of the month (9th of May) will be Mild Day, with free raffle tickets available
to everyone buying any cask mild at any point during the day. The prize will be a gallon of cask
beer.
The promotion has in fact already started, as Moorhouse's Black Cat is already on sale!
"26" in 2026
For 2026 we are asking you to join us in the new 26 in 2026 campaign.
Visit 26 different pubs within our Branch area in 2026 and score your beers and you'll have a chance of winning a limited edition T shirt, free of charge. Again, this will support our local pubs.
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Upcoming Branch Events
- Visit to Norwich Saturday 9 May 2026
- Brief Branch Committee Meeting, and Branch Social and Meeting Wednesday 27 May 2026 19:30 – 22:30
- Weekend visit to Liverpool Friday 29 – Sunday 31 May 2026
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