Wigan Branch
Wigan: Contact: Martyn Woodcock
Email: chair@wigancamra.org.uk.
Tel: 07809677638
Website:
www.wigancamra.org.uk
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Wigan
Wigan is the proud home of premiership football (Wigan Athletic) and
Superleague rugby (Wigan Warriors).
In Wigan, we like nothing better than a sumptuous meal of pie and peas
washed down with a pint of real
ale (as visitors to our annual beer festival will testify!).
There is no shortage of good pubs serving good beer in our town centre and surrounding areas.
Wigan Branch Boundaries
The Branch boundaries are shown in the map below.
Our members live within the geographical areas covered by the Branch in
Greater Manchester and Lancashire. These are the post codes WN1 to WN6 and WN8 and
a very small part of L40 (Bispham Green).
We do not cover the post code WN7. This belongs to the South East Lancs Branch of CAMRA.
Wigan Breweries
Wigan has four microbreweries and one at the planning stage (Problem Child Brewery).Thefour established breweries are listed from oldest to newest.
The Mayflower Brewery
This is our longest established brewery. Alan Branagan took over as the
new owner of the Mayflower Brewery in June 2007 from Stewart Thompson.
Visit the brewery website for further details www.mayflowerbeer.co.uk
Allgates Brewery
On 3 August 2006 saw the opening of our second brewery, Allgates,
which is going from strength to strength currently brewing seven beers on a regular basis, seasonals and one-off specials. Brewery tours
available by request. For further information please visit www.allgatesbrewery.com.
Prospect Brewery
Prospect Brewery was founded in 2007 and being based in Wigan with it's long history of mining and prospecting it was
inevitable that they would name their beers with a mining or prospecting theme. Brewery tours are available on request.
For further information please visit www.prospectbrewery.org.uk
Jones Brewery
Jones Brewery was founded in 2011. Based in Haigh, Wigan, the brewery was founded by Neil Jones after 20 years spent in
both large and micro-scale brewing. A staple of premium beers is produced and complemented by regular special and seasonal brews. For further information please visit
www.jonesbrewery.com
25th Wigan Beer Festival
Thursday 1st to 3rd March 2012
Robin Park Indoor Sports Centre, Loire Drive, Wigan, WN5 0UH (opposite the DW Stadium).
Opening times and admission
Thursday 1st March 2012 17:30 to 23:00 price £2 - CAMRA members FREE
Friday 2nd March 2012 12:00 to 18:00 price £1 - CAMRA members FREE
Friday 2nd March 2012 18:00 to 23:00 price £3 - CAMRA members FREE
Saturday 3rd March 2012 11:30 to 23:00 price £2 - CAMRA members FREE
Entertainment
Thursday 1st March - Billy and The Tempramentals
Friday 2nd March - Old Hall Brass Band
Saturday 3rd March - 13.00 Lazy River Jazz Band; 17.00 Rip Roaring Success; 20.00 The Witnesses
80+ real ales, ciders, perries and foreign beers. Games and tombola.
Courtesy bus from Anvil (Dorning Street). Timetable details will be on the CAMRA Wigan website nearer the time of the festival.
Staffing for Wigan Beer Festival 2012
We require volunteers from Wednesday 29 February for set up, Thursday, Friday and Saturday to staff the festival and then volunteers for take-down on the Sunday.
If you can help in any way please volunteer. Even helping for 1 hour could mean someone getting a decent lunch break.
If you are not sure whether your skills will be needed contact the Staffing Officer whose contact details are on the staffing form.
Wigan Beer Festival Staffing Form 
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Wigan Town Centre Real Ale Pubs
We have produced a map of the real ale outlets in Wigan town centre.
You can print off the map which shows the locations of our real ale pubs in the town centre and create your own pub crawl.
You might find this useful when visiting the town centre especially when you come for our Beer Festival.
Wigan Town Centre Real Ale Pub map.
Whilst every effort is made to keep the information on this map up to date Wigan CAMRA cannot accept any responsibility for the information being incorrect at the time of your visit.
Wigan Publications
CAMRA Wigan produce a quarterly 'glossy' newletter "Swiggin In Wiggin" with a distribution of over 3,000 copies. Copies of "Swiggin in Wiggin" are distributed to all the real ale pubs within the Wigan Branch boundary and is also available to download from the CAMRA Wigan website.
In addtion the Branch produces a monthly electronic newletter "Booze News" for our members on email (these bulletins are also published on our website).
The electronic newsletter provides our members with the latest real ale news in the Wigan area and lists local beer festivals for the forthcoming month.
So if you are a CAMRA member living within CAMRA Wigan Branch boundaries why not email us and ask to be put on our email list.
We will only use your email address to provide you will CAMRA news. Your email address WILL NOT be given to anyone else. CAMRA takes Data Protection seriously.
Email our Membership Secretary membership@wigancamra.org.uk.
LocAle
CAMRA LocAle is an initiative that promotes pubs stocking locally brewed real ale. The scheme builds on a growing consumer demand for
quality local produce and an increased awareness of 'green' issues.
CAMRA Wigan Branch adopted the intitiative in September 2008 and encourages non-tied pubs and clubs to buy locally produced beers.
We have at present 41 breweries classed as local to Wigan (a list of our LocAle Breweries appears on our website).
The Branch decided that breweries around twenty miles from Wigan town centre would be potential LocAle suppliers.
We now have 20 LocAle accredited pubs in the area holding the CAMRA Wigan LocAle Accreditation Certificate.
To receive (and retain) CAMRA Wigan LocAle accreditation a pub must serve a locally brewed beer virtually all the time and of a consistent good quality.
Visit CAMRA Wigan
website for a list of LocAle breweries and the list of LocAle accredited pubs/clubs.
Getting to Wigan
Wigan is just a couple of miles off the M6 motorway (from junctions 25, 26 or 27). We are situated on the main London to Scotland West Coast railway network. Direct trains run from Manchester Airport to Wigan Wallgate every hour. You can even arrive by barge and park up at the infamous Wigan Pier on the Leeds & Liverpool canal.
Come and pay us a visit.......you won't regret it. Hopefully, our website will give you a good insight into what to expect on a drinking visit to Wigan and its surrounding area.
Journey Planner
Just enter your postcode and the journey planner will take you right into Wigan town centre.
On the Journey Planner page you will be given journey options for public transport or car.
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