Each quarter, the branch awards a Pub of the Season (PotS) in both Town and Village categories. The eight Pub of the Season winners then make up the shortlist for the branch Pub of the Year (PotY), which is judged in the new year.

You can nominate a pub at any time via this form.

Below is the write-up of each presentation, taken from the branch magazine Pints of View, in which it was featured. Please note that all information applies to the date at which it was written and is subject to change. Please check camra.org.uk/pubs for up-to-date information regarding the availability of real ale, opening hours, etc.

The rules of both competitions, previous and current, can be found here.

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Previous Winners

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2026

Branch Pub of the Year 2026

Beth Jono Lina and vice chair Dick

Congratulations to Damann, Jono and Matt and all the staff at the Brown Cow, who are Mansfield and Ashfield’s Branch Pub of the Year 2026.

Another issue of Pints of View and another edition celebrating The Brown Cow, who only last season picked up the Pub of the Season award, which entitled them to be judged for Pub of the Year, alongside the other Pub of the Season winners.

The fact that you are reading this, of course, meant that they won the overall Pub of the Year, and in late March, it was time to present them with the award. On the night, there was plenty of beer to choose from, with most in attendance giving Banana In The Tailpipe, a Chocolate Banana Stout by Bang The Elephant a try.

Since the last issue, The Brown Cow have been as busy as ever, with Beth, daughter of landlord/part-owner Jono, heading down to Leicester to Everard’s to brew an International Women’s Day collaboration beer with several other Everard’s-owned pubs, as well as Nottingham-based group, ‘No Half Measures Collective’. The resulting beer was Lalahon, a keg-only 5.6% ABV New England IPA (NEIPA), and it is great to see the team taking part in another successful brew day.

Not to mention that on the 17 - 19 April, the Brown Cow hosted their first beer festival of the year, with some members of the branch staffing the upstairs stillage bar. As always, it was a great success, with us selling out of more beer than we have at any previous festival, and we loved getting to chat with so many of you who came along!