News
- The Ealing Beer Festival
Wednesday 9 July 2025
The Ealing Beer Festival run by CAMRA West Middlesex Branch returns to Walpole Park 9-12th July.
Admission is £10 for non-CAMRA members £8 for CAMRA members.
The format will be similar to previous years focusing on Cask Beers, Cider & Perry, World Beers, Wine and Keg.
- Maidenhead Beer Festival
Friday 4 July 2025
As a warm up to Ealing Beer Festival, Maidenhead Beer Festival will be held on 4th and 5th July at The Sports Bar, Summerleaze Park.
- The Questors Grapevine Club, May Beer Festival
Thursday 29 May 2025
As part of The Questors Theatre Community Festival weekend, 31st May - 1st June. The Questors Grapevine Club will be kicking off proceedings early with a Beer Festival commencing on Thursday 29th May and running through to Sunday 1st June.
The festival follows the normal format of having 4 cask ales and a cider on the hand pumps and 5 cask ales served on gravity from the snug. The intention is to have 9 of 12 beers on service at any point in time.
The beer list can be found here The Questors' Grapevine Club - May 2025 Beer Festival Beer List
- Wetherspoon increase guest ales prices (in some pubs)
Monday 3 February 2025
The chain is now charging over £3 a pint in three of the Branch pubs whilst reducing the price to £1.99 in others. For a full list of Branch Wetherspoon pubs and prices click here.
- The Questors Theatre, Grapevine Club
Thursday 19 September 2024
Hot off the back of one Beer Festival, here is another. The Questors Theatre Grapevine Club will be holding a mini beer festival over the second weekend of Ealing BEAT (Borough of Ealing Art Trail).
What do they mean by mini? There will be a rotating number of up to eight beers on four of the five hand pumps and two cider on the remaining hand pump.
The Grapevine will announce the beer list once the casks are securely received into the cellar. The club have said there are a wide range of styles being ordered, from Porters to Pale, through IPA and Best Bitter!
CAMRA members are welcome to attend as affiliate members of The Grapevine Club.
- Whitbread closes Beefeaters
Saturday 6 July 2024
The Beefeater pub/restaurants the Grapes and the generically named ones in Uxbridge and Hayes suddenly closed on Thursday.
Whitbread had previously announced plans to sell 126 of its less profitable branded "restaurants", with 21 sales already having gone through. This would see the loss of 1,500 jobs.
The company is quoted as saying the closures :- "...will increase our profits and returns ... we also need to think about our shareholders. "
- Tichenham reopens
Tuesday 4 June 2024
Following a short close the Ickenham pub has reopened. It is no longer run by Wetherspoon but by a group who run a collection of "Irish Pubs" in North West London. Greene King Abbot is currently sold along with four other real ales. Sports TV has been installed and there are stools at the bar.