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Bristol & District branch
Pub Of The Year 2025 results
Winner: The Rising Sun, Frampton Cottrell
Runner-up: The Drapers Arms, Bristol |
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| Each year the Bristol & District CAMRA branch
invites local members to nominate pubs for consideration in
the branch Pub of the Year competition. The finalists from
this nomination stage are then judged against various
nationally designated criteria to decide the result. For
2025, The Rising Sun in Frampton Cottrell is our Bristol
& District branch Pub of the Year and The Drapers Arms
Merchants in Bristol is the runner-up. Congratulations to
both pubs! Pub of the Year is not just about the beer and judges are expected to consider the full customer experience and whether a pub offers that something extra. Presentations of the official certificates have been arranged with the pubs as follows: Rising Sun, Thursday 3 April 8PM Members are encouraged to gather at the pub from 7PM. The presentation will take place around 8PM. Suggested bus services from Bristol City Centre are the Y1 at 6:30PM and the Y2 at 7PM. There are return services to Bristol up until 11:04PM from the Ryecroft Road bus stop. Drapers Arms, Monday 7 April 8PM Members are encouraged to gather at the pub from 7PM. The presentation will take place around 8PM. The Drapers Arms is easily accessible by various bus services including the 71, 72, 74, 75 and 76 from Bristol as well as the 17 from Keynsham/Kingswood. On being told that they had won Olivia Smith and Ed Lankester (General Managers of The Rising Sun) said "We want to say a massive thank you to the CAMRA team for nominating us as Pub of The Year. We'd also like to thank our team who help us to achieve this by being hard working, friendly and knowledgeable on the products we sell. We are extremely fortunate to be in this positions of having our own brewery attached to the pub - Hop Union Brewery, who gives us many top selling products such as Maiden Voyage 4% (Our Best Bitter), Bonville Pale Ale 4% and Moose River 5%. The brewery since being opened has grown in success and has been shown within the pub achieving many awards for a selection of their products. Lastly, we hope to continue the promotion of the real ale campaign through good quality, affordable beer in the heart of Frampton Cotterell." On hearing the news that The Drapers Arms had secured the Runner-Up position owner Garvan Hickey said "I'm delighted our commitment to Real Ale has been recognised, locally. We recently celebrated pouring our 2,000th different cask ale and we'll continue giving our fantastic customers a varied and interesting selection of real ales from Bristol, the South West and beyond. We'll work hard to maintain the high standards that got us here. Special thanks to Tom and the rest of the team who, along with our fabulous customers, help make the Drapers Arms the kind of place that win Awards like this. Congratulations to The Rising Sun, I'm very pleased for them; they are a worthy recipient - and we'll do our best to match their standards next year. Hope to see some new and many familiar faces at our Easter Beer Festival in a couple of weeks." |
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| Cick HERE
for guidance on judging a CAMRA Pub Of The Year
Click HERE to read about the branch POTY selection process. |
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