Common and Aldbrickham branch will hold its first Founders Day outing aka Pete Smith Memorial Pub Crawl on Saturday 19^th February. This will take the form of a tour of the pubs of Banbury. An itinerary will be circulated to branch members and other interested parties nearer the time. All SPBW members are welcome to join us. Contact John Dearing for further information: john@jbdearing.co.uk/

The annual East London Beer and Curry event will take place on Sunday 27th Febuary 2022.

From lunchtime there will be a tour of pubs in the Aldgate/Spitalfields area of east London, ending at the Pride of Spitalfields around 6pm. We will then proceed to our eating place, which may well be the Halal, corner of Alie Street/St Mark Street, Aldgate. Other food venues are located near by if you prefer not to have a curry!

Meeting pub and full itinerary will be made known in the February issue of Pint in Hand, as well as the SPBW website and the mail out. Anybody interested should contact Roger – editor@spbw.beer

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Cobra-Cow branch arranged a visit to the Ightham branch HQ (‘Old House’ pub in Ightham) on Thursday evening 25th November. Some London based members got the 18.12 train from Bromley South to Borough station which got them to the ‘Old House’ before 19.00. Hopefully there were some BfTW beers on.

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There was three beers from the wood served at this years Datchet beer festival, Berkshire. Please see website for more information. www.datchetbeerfestival.co.uk.

The SPBW 58th Anniversary event was held on Sunday 5th December 2021 at ‘Ye Olde Mitre’, Ely Court, Hatton Garden, EC1.