A MICROPUB in Weston-super-Mare has been recognised in the latest CAMRA awards.

The Black Cat on Weston’s High Street was the runner-up in the Best Cider Pub of the Year 2024 category for the South West and will receive its award next Wednesday.

The pub “majors on quality craft keg beers but also serves up to four cask ales plus up to 30 ciders, which are selected to comply with the CAMRA definition of 'real' cider, including keeved cider, perries and apfelweins,” as the CAMRA website explained.

The pub was runner-up in the Best Cider Pub of the Year categoryThe pub was runner-up in the Best Cider Pub of the Year category (Image: The Black Cat Facebook page)

Owner Nick said: “We are really proud. I love working in this place.

“We are the first pub in Weston to receive an accolade like this, or anywhere close and I want to thank my staff.

“The last year has been very tough for the industry in general but hopefully it will pick up now.

“This side of the high street is becoming the place to be in Weston on a night out.”

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The Black Pub is a micropub focused on independent brewers.

Nick added: “I could brew my own drinks too, but I’m not that good because I am very meticulous and very careful with what we choose.

“Our brewers have to be small, independent, and good.”

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Nick has been running pubs in the area for 16 years but with The Black Cat he feels he can finally have a pub that reflects what he wants.

He said: “I have been running pubs for 16 years, but this is the first that it is mine. I’m not working for anybody else. This pub is exactly what I wanted to do.”

Nick also said “it will be great to be Best Pub of the Year nationally”.

“It’s good to work towards accolades, and we are on the right track,” he also added.