Wigan Branch

Wigan: Contact: Ken Worthington
Telephone: 07732997284 (mobile)
Email kenworthington@virginmedia.com
Website: www.wigancamra.org.uk

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 Breweries

Wigan has three microbreweries, two of them in the town centre.

Mayflower BreweryThe 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 BreweryAllgates Brewery
On 3 August 2006 saw the opening of our second brewery, Allgates, which is going from strength to strength currently brewing six beers on a regular basis, seasonals and one-off specials. Brewery tours available by request. For further information please visit www.allgatesbrewery.com.

Prospect BreweryProspect 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.
For further information please visit www.prospectbrewery.org.uk

LocAle

LocAle CAMRA LocAle is a new 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 around thirty 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 a number of LocAle accredited pubs in the area holding the CAMRA Wigan LocAle Accreditation Certificate.
Visit CAMRA Wigan website for a list of 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.

CAMRA Wigan Branch supports the aims and objectives of CAMRA and our members live within the geographical areas covered by the Branch in Greater Manchester and Lancashire [post codes WN1 to WN6 and WN8 and L40 (Bispham Green)].

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.

CAMRA Wigan produce a quarterly newletter "Swiggin In Wiggin" with a distribution of 3,000 copies

In addtion we produce a monthly email newletter 'Booze News' for our members on email (the bulletins can also be downlaoded from our website), which provides our members with the latest real ale news in the Wigan area and lists local beer festivals for the forthcoming month.

Click on the Pieman to access the CAMRA Wigan website and our contact details.

Wigan Pieman