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LOTS O’ LADS AN’ LASSES THERE, ALL WI’ WEDDED TO SMILING FACES SUCCESS A Northumberland brewery operator has Hadrian Border Brewery has produced a been nominated for a Businesswoman beer for one of the North East’s most iconic of the Year award for her role in driving events. A bottle of Blaydon races Ale is to forward an enterprise that was in danger be presented to every runner in the annual of stagnation. Blaydon Road Race as they cross the Heather Scott, pictured above, from finishing line. High House Farm Brewery, near Matfen The race celebrates the renowned 19th Winner: Mike McLeod celebrated in the first in Northumberland, built up the existing Century Blaydon races and fair, held at Stella running of the modern Blaydon Race in 1981 visitor centre, nurturing it into an even Haugh on the River Tyne. It takes place on more popular attraction that runs happily June 9 every year and attracts some of the from Balmbra’s pub in Newcastle’s Cloth Market alongside the production of beers first world’s top athletes as well as club runners and to Blaydon. The road race, following the route of created by original owner Steven Urwin. those out for 5.9 miles of fun. the song, has been run since 1981. Heather had been employed as a chef “We’ve produced 4,300 bottles, one for each Pete Scott, working with BBC Newcastle, by Steven and Sally Urwin – who are now entrant,” says Hadrian Border brewery manager said the response he received from the public pursuing other family and business interests Martin Hammill. “The rest will be sold over the was “fantastic”. The new first verse goes – and not only did she also bake cakes and bar as our special for June, together with Percy’s something like this: run the bar, she spotted massive potential. Pint which we brewed in conjunction with the We took a trip to Blaydon She and husband Gary took the business on Percy Hedley Charitable Foundation.” ’Twas on the ninth o’June in May 2009, since then the Grade II-listed Two years ago on the 150th anniversary Twenty hundred and twelve clutch of former farm buildings has become of the publication of classic Tyneside anthem It was a Sat’day afternoon the place to get married. written by Geordie Ridley, local singer-songwriter So many changes in the toon With 78 weddings in the order book, Pete Scott issued an appeal for people to Too many for to list ‘em High House Farm is virtually fully booked for contribute to a new version of the Blaydon We couldn’t gan alang Collingwood Street this year and 46 happy couples have already Races, which tells the tale of a mad-cap journey Cos it’s a one way system been confirmed for 2015.

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For futher information please follow us on facebook and twitter Black Horse, Low Fell • @BlackHorse_GHD 166, Kells Lane, Low Fell, Gateshead, NE9 5HY 0191 491 0534 • [email protected] Freewheeling: Jo Theakston, Black Sheep left, and Mike Hughes THEY CALL IT VELO YELLOW, QUITE RIGHTLY With one of the world’s greatest Grand Party, the biggest social UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT sporting events set to pass event in Masham’s history. Local Pub, Local Food, Local Prices its doorstep, Black Sheep Vélo (4.2% abv) is a Sandwich & Lighter Bites Specials served every day between 12-8pm Brewery has launched a “freewheeling”, fresh, pale cask ale, Sunday Lunch served between 12-4pm special celebratory beer which brewed with Cascade hops that 1 course £5.95 / 2 courses £7.95 / 3 courses £9.95 is expected to be its biggest produce subtle hints of orange and Live Music every Friday selling seasonal ale ever. coriander leading to a dry, bitter Quiz & Spice Night every Wednesday - choose from Curry, Chilli, Spicy Vélo – French for bike – has finish. Developed and tested in Sausage Butty & Chips for £5.95 incl drink been launched to celebrate Le Black Sheep’s innovative on-site A wide range of Casks, Spirits and Ciders including the new Grand Départ Yorkshire, the first microbrewery, Vélo has been scaled Old Mount Cider stage of the 2014 Tour de France up in the brewery’s full plant. and the wider sport of cycling. Sales of Vélo will also raise Wheatridge Row, Seaton Delaval NE25 0GH Having started only a few miles funds in support of Mike Hughes, [email protected] 0191 237 6868 up the road in Harrogate on July Yorkshire’s very own Marie Curie www.thehastingsarms.com 5, the world’s leading cyclists will Power Peloton Rider, who helped whizz through the shadow of the launch the new beer at the brewery brewery as it plays host to Le in Masham, North Yorkshire.

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FANS SAY ‘HOWAY THE LAGERS’ Come the new football season, Newcastle United fans will benefit from an innovative smartphone application. The VenueMenu app, which allows refreshments to be delivered to individual seats during a match, has been operating in BRAINBOXES DO SUNDERLAND PROUD the US for a number of years. The company Sunderland’s top brains have seen off a and listed in the Guinness Book of Records as has been working closely with Sodexo challenge from the world’s most experienced the world’s oldest – by 10-9 in the series of Prestige, which operates the catering at quiz players. annual encounters. St James’ Park, and trialled the scheme Four teams picked at random from the York The York League’s challenge with Sunderland with great success towards the end of last CIU and Sunderland Echo Quiz Leagues faced began when the CIU magazine Club Journal season. Users download the free app on each other in the annual challenge at the Isis in reported that they had never been beaten. After to their smartphone or access it via their Sunderland with the top scoring team from each a couple of initial victories for York, it’s been browser and then register, allowing them city going head-to-head. honours even ever since. to pre-order food and drink from 24 hours The team from the Echo League won an Sunderland Echo Quiz League details from before a match up until half-time. These are absorbing encounter 22-19, meaning they Chris Brewis, tel 07768 650 189 or visit then delivered to their seat during the game, now lead the York League – founded in 1946 www.wearside.webspace.virginmedia.com having already been paid for.

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www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 7 NEWS CHIEF BEER GEEK STARTS CHAIN MAIL AND AFRESH HELMETS LAUNCH A self-confessed beer nut has left the Scottish Borders to set up one of the biggest breweries in East Yorkshire. ROYAL BEER Allan Rice, who signs his emails “Chief Krusovice Brewery, distributed through Beer Geek”, has founded Atom Beers Marston’s Beer Company on behalf of in Hull following a spell at Tempest Heineken International, has held a beer Brewery in Kelso which he helped gain dinner in London to introduce its Classic a strident reputation in pubs around Royal Czech lagers to UK drinkers. the North East. Krusovice Brewery – based 30 miles Allan, who has a degree in physiology, North West of Prague – was owned expects his beers and modern branding from 1581 by King Rudolph II, King of to appeal to 25 to 45-year-olds, which is Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, making a younger audience than is traditionally him the only king ever to own his own associated with real ale. commercial brewery. “We are creating beers with big flavours, The dinner in The Armourers Hall using more hops and complex malts,” celebrated King Rudolph and his love of he says. “We also want to promote the good taste, his interest in beer, food, science science of brewing and to encourage and the arts, and through his other great people to learn more about beer. But most passion – armour. The armour was displayed importantly, when they drink the beer they on the evening in catwalk fashion by will taste something really complex with international armour expert Tobias Capwell of lots of flavour.” the Wallace Collection. OVER 40 SEPARATE BEERS, MUSIC AND WEEKEND CRICKET Come along and celebrate our 150th anniversary with us FRIDAY 20TH - SUNDAY 22ND JUNE Friday 7pm -11pm + live music Saturday 12pm-11pm + live music + Cricket Sunday 2pm til we run out of beer + Minor Counties Cricket ADMISSION FOR EACH DAY ONLY £10 Includes commemorative half glass plus 4 beer tokens if purchased in advance or 3 beer tokens if purchased on day.

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It’s the most simple of pub foods; it appears in innumerable guises from mince and onion to Scotch, steak and pork, while four and twenty blackbirds have even been baked in one. e pie – that glorious meaty, crusty, tastiest of convenience food creations. A pie on a plate is beer’s natural ally; they are inseparable as lunchtime companions and tea-time treats. e long-demolished Rose & Crown on Walker Road in Newcastle (near the Free Trade Inn) once displayed the most inviting invitation ever written. A note in the window read: “Free Pie With Every Pint”. What bliss. But it still closed. Also consigned to history is the single pie resting in a heated glass case on a pub counter (how long it had lingered there was part of the attraction).

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Today’s pies are masterclasses pie cases which reduced the use of in invention and avour, served expensive our. with triple-cooked chips or Jersey At the coronation of eight- Royals, salt-baked beetroot and year-old King Henry VI in 1429, fresh goats curd, depending on ‘partryche and pecock enhackyll’ If you don’t live in Amble now is your chance to shop at your sense of adventure. However, pie was served, consisting of The Amble Butcher! it may be a while before we join a cooked peacock mounted in the London pub that oers camel its skin on a peacock-lled pie. • Dry Cured Own Bacon • Fantastic sausage • Award winning Pies pie with chickpeas and pineapple Cooked birds were frequently Also available a wide range of locally reared and butchered fresh in a curry sauce. Apparently, llama placed by European royal cooks is available for the slightly more on top of a large pie to identify and cooked meats, homemade pease pudding, homemade culinary curious, though it has its contents, leading to the quiche lorraine proved less popular. adoption in pre-Victorian times of Once again, we owe the a porcelain ornament to release Romans a debt of gratitude – with steam and identify a good pie. the development of the Roman e Melton Mowbray pork Empire and its ecient road pie was awarded Protected 31 Queen Street, Amble NE65 0BX Tel: 01665 712700 transport, pies as a staple diet Geographical Indication status in Open Mon - Sat 9am - 5pm, Sun 9am - 2pm spread throughout Europe from 2009, meaning that only pies from www.theamblebutcher.co.uk the Middle East and developed that area of Leicestershire can call regional variations based on themselves by that name. available meats and local crops. But anyone can produce a e 1st Century Roman pork pie. Every Saturday, the cookbook Apicus makes various Pork Pie Appreciation Society mentions of recipes which involve meets in the Old Bridge Inn in a pie case. Medieval cooks had Ripponden, West Yorkshire. ey restricted access to ovens due to discuss porkiness, pastry, jelly, the cost of construction and need texture, bouquet and serving for abundant supplies of fuel. But temperature between draughts Join the Dyvels for their popular Pie Special pies could be cooked over an open of Timothy Taylor Landlord; re, while partnering with a baker the group’s ultimate pork pie allowed them to cook the lling accompaniment. Spicy, dry and A variety of Pies on the menu daily inside a locally dened casing. citrus in character, the beer’s using freshly sourced produce including: e earliest pie-like recipes hoppy bitterness balances the Lamb, Chilli & Mint • Chicken, Ham & Leek refer to ‘coyns’ (meaning a pie’s peppery seasoning of sage, Steak & Ale (using local ale) • Chicken & Wild Mushroom basket or box) with straight sealed thyme and parsley perfectly. Game Pie (when in season) sides and a top, while open-top A Yorkshire inn has recently £8.95 incl Pie, Veg and either Potato, pies were referred to as ‘traps’. won the “best pub pie” title Homemade Chilli Chips or Fries is may be the reason why early with an oering described as recipes focus on the lling over “perfect” by judges. e Chestnut the surrounding case, leading to Horse, near Bridlington, won Station Road, Corbridge, Northumberland NE45 5AY the use of reusable earthenware a competition set by Olive Telephone : 01434 633 633 • Website: www.thedyvelsinn.com

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www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 11 PUB FOOD: PIES magazine for a pie that, despite being named the Welsh Cob, is made of diced lamb surrounded by pastry infused with mint. e pub, which has a menu of 35 pies, curiously all named after breeds of horses, was elected the winner from more than 200 entries. Lead judge Tom Kerridge, the chef and owner of two Michelin-starred pub the Hand and Flowers in Buckinghamshire, praised “the balance between the lamb, the lling and the gravy” and named it “the perfect pie”. What Kerridge would make of the pie in the Oxford Bar in Edinburgh mentioned in the crime writer Ian Rankin’s book Atonement is anyone’s guess. It reads: “Two inches were already missing from his pint of IPA. A macaroni cheese pie sat on the plate before him. ‘It was the last hot thing they had,’ he explained. He took a bite and shrugged.” To escort a pie with beer properly, think of ale as red wine and lager as white. A robust steak and kidney should suit a full-bodied beer such as Wylam Red Kite with its subtle, tempting hoppy aroma and a palate dominated by fruitiness and juicy malt. A chicken and mushroom pie reaches greater heights with Budweiser Budvar and its gentle-to-medium bitterness and long biscuit nish. e pie is one of life’s greatest pleasures, so mix and match with your favourite pub and a beer to suit and you’re on to a winner.

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The Robin Hood, The Boathouse, Wylam East Wallhouses Freshly baked pies served with Excellent prime steak & Ale pies mushy peas available everyday. only £8.95. The Dyvels, Corbridge The Red House, Newcastle Sumptous Lamb, chilli & mint pies Choice of pies including chicken, to tickle your tastebuds. gammon and leek; all supplied by Amble Butchers. The Hastings, Seaton Delaval The Turk’s Head, Tynemouth Home to the steak & cheese pie, Choice of pie, plus mash and side sounds delicious. dishes, £4.95 (10% off cask ale for Camra members).

The Brandling Villa, South Gosforth Wednesday night is pie night with six styles to choose from (Northumbrian steak and brown ale and game pie among them), sourced from The Amble Butcher, plus mash and peas and a pint or glass of wine, £7.95.

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Flatiron: The Central in Gateshead, one of the PRINCESS ALICE town’s classic buildings AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE Where was Little Albert? Who their thirsts and why. More than 140 brewed at the Turk’s Head? What photographs show the favourite old did the Crystal Palace look like? pubs on a tour around Gateshead e answers are in e Old Pubs High Street, through East and West of Gateshead, a book launched Gateshead and then onto Low Fell, this month that traces a fast- Deckham, Sheri Hill changing town and a radically and Wrekenton. developing society. Also featured are local brewers, e author, John Boothroyd, pub architecture, and why some is a former manager of the Local pubs have such unusual names. History Service at Gateshead Library People like pubs,” says John. whose aim was to ensure that all “ e pub is still a place to chat and the information at his disposal was unwind, a place to celebrate – and not lost and to present the years commiserate – life’s occasions. But from 1889 to 1939 as a social history society has changed, the world is with a slant on where people slaked a very dierent place from even 30

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NEWCASTLE’SAll Newcastle matches years ago and publicans compete in a crowded marketplace for MOSTNOW IMPRESSIVE shown business. e book is not the nal word on Gateshead pubs, but it’s WATERINGThe city’s largest screen HOLE!! for major sporting events also about how the Deuchars, the 6 Real Ales always on tap. Tuckers and the Calders tted into the Gateshead pub story. Food servedGood from Beer 6amGuide - 7pm 2012 Mon - Fri, 7am-7pm Sat, 8am - 7pm Sun in e North East was a huge 5 Handpulls featuring local market for Scottish breweries C.C Hudsons & from 11am in The such as Lochside in Montrose, and nationalGrand Room real ales for example, and there was great MakeNEW DELICIOUSCenturion your TAPAS meeting MENU competition between them and NOW AVAILABLE the breweries of Burton upon place before or after your Trent and London as well as the Watch manyChristmas major sporting Party events on our local ones. bright 4m projector “ e Old Pubs of Gateshead DON’TSnug MISS Bar OUT available SEE ALLfor privateTHE WOLRD was a good winter project after Wood who was a photographer at CUPfunctions MATCHES including AT THE Christmas CENTURION I retired last June. I was able to Turners in Newcastle. parties Sunday Nights - Live guitarist pull all the information together So, if you hanker after the likes that we had in the library, plus of e Richard Cobden, e Goat, MondayPrivate Nights Meeting - Open & Mic I had access to a good selection e Princess Alice and e British Function roomsFunction available Rooms for private hire of photographs. Queen – and Little Albert – e “ e mapping section in the Old Pubs of Gateshead will bring book is brilliant and you can track back a memory or two and will down exactly where each of them perhaps settle a few arguments, or were – or still are.” set them o. Bar & Deli One of John’s favourites – e Old Pubs of Gateshead although he never drank in by John Boothroyd (Summerhill Grand Central GrandStation, Neville Central St, Newcastle Station, upon Tyne, NE1 5DG it – is the original Foresters Books, £4.99) is available from Tel: Neville0191 Street,2616611 Arms on Derwentwater Road, a Gateshead Libraries; www.centurion-newcastle.comNewcastle Upon Tyne, magnicent building depicted on e Back Page, Newcastle; NE1 5DG the book’s cover from a collection Waterstones and from of images taken by the late Steve www.summerhillbooks.co.uk Tel: 0191 2616611 www.centurion-newcastle.com WHAT’S YOURS? SANE AGAIN A new study on pubs and surface in everyday life. drinking has come up with a “I didn’t ask about mental surprising revelation about why health,” said Emslie. “They raised groups of friends drink together. this themselves. It’s good for their mental health. “You’re drinking together, The Medical Research Council laughing and joking and it’s (MRC) study, Drinking Attitudes uplifting. It helps you to open up in Midlife, focused on men aged and relax.” between 30-50 who drank in Even drinking in rounds – groups in the pub and virtually frowned upon by most other stumbled across the recurring medical studies for encouraging theme that men tend to open up more drinking – was found to to each other and talk about their be beneficial and much valued emotions – traditionally a male by the men in her study as a taboo subject. communal experience. Researcher Dr Carol Emslie She said: “It’s a delicate balance asked the volunteers about drinking because we have got this problem habits and was surprised to find with alcohol, but there is also the one of their strongest feelings pleasure and what men talked was that pub visits benefited their about as being uplifting, crucial, mental health. natural and positive and a way to It appears that drinking opens show concern and friendship to a “space” for men to behave in other men. ways that aren’t so associated “We have to understand that with masculinity. Emotions get drinking is pleasurable, it’s sociable expressed in a way that might not and it’s central to friendships.” www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 15 NEWS Ye Olde Cross Inn UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT NEVER STUMPED FOR CHOICE WHAT’S GOING ON AT THE CROSS What do you do to celebrate 150 local community and to celebrate MONDAY DARTS TEAM years in existence? You host a our own anniversary. TUESDAY � CURRY NIGHT 6�9PM beer festival, that’s what. “And as we also enjoy cricket WEDNESDAY � QUIZ NIGHT � 9PM START South Northumberland (South and socialising, it’s the perfect THURSDAY POOL TEAM North) Cricket Club – based in partnership.” FRIDAY REGULAR ENTERTAINMENT Gosforth conveniently behind Ben Jones Lee, cricket club SATURDAY � BREAKFAST SERVED 9.30AM � 12.30PM The County pub was formed director says: “The inaugural beer WATCH ALL WORLD CUP MATCHES in 1864 as Bulman’s Village festival is only one of the events we ON OUR BIG SCREENS Cricket Club. have planned to mark our 150th LIVE SPORTS/REGULAR ENTERTAINMENT A selection of more than 40 anniversary this summer and it SUNDAY FOOTBALL TEAM beers, ciders and wines will be wouldn’t be possible without the SUNDAY LUNCHES OR ‘DIAL A DINNER’ available over the weekend of June support of RMT, our members and 12NOON � 3PM 20-22, with a range of food and local residents who we hope will entertainment also on offer, as well support the festival and the club RYTON VILLAGE, RYTON NE40 3QP • 0191 413 4689 as a full calendar of cricket. this year.” Gosforth-based RMT As for the cricket, the Friday Accountants & Business evening (June 20) features a Advisers is backing the three-day T20 game; Saturday, it’s South event as part of its 60th Northumberland v Durham anniversary celebrations. 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e planet’s greatest football nations come together this month during the Fifa World Cup. We examine how our pubs and related businesses can take advantage When the rst issue of Cheers North East “particularly when cars on the road outside have rolled o the printing presses, the 2010 been almost doing U-turns. OUR COVER GIRL World Cup was under way in South Africa. “We’ve created a Sports Arena at the back of Tainá Vieira, 22, from Belo Horizonte in Now, four years on, we’re bouncing along the pub with 50” plasma screens and the ags of Brazil is studying chemical engineering and limbering up for Brazil. all 32 competing nations on the roof and at the at Newcastle University. A big football e good news is that with one or two side. e idea is that, when a team gets knocked fan, she returns to her native country exceptions, the vast majority of the matches out their ag will be lowered – until there’s only in September to complete the final two will be played with sensible pub-time kick-o s one left, hopefully England. years of her course. (5pm and 8pm), although England v Italy at England goalkeeping legend Gordon Banks Tainá is one of some 30 Brazilian students 11pm on June 14 may cause a few headaches – ocially opened the “arena” prior to hosting a studying the same qualification – there’s a particularly the next morning. sportsman’s dinner at the pub. high demand for graduates in big companies Brazil play Croatia in the opening match on Norman says: “We’re also having ‘matches’ back home. June 12 – the rst of 64 games all on free-to- with beer and food, such as Jarrow Rivet Catcher Surprisingly, she feels her home country air television. Pubs should be able to take full versus Birra Moretti and pizza up against won’t be celebrating come the final on July advantage with many pulling out all the stops sausage and mash when England and Italy play.” 13. “I don’t think Brazil will win the World to entice customers, which won’t be dicult for Market research company Mintel has found Cup,” she says. “I think it’ll be between Italy England’s matches against Uruguay, Italy and that 75% of the UK adult population will watch and Spain.” Costa Rica, but Iran v Nigeria and Ivory Coast v this year’s tournament on television. e most In our photographs Tainá is wearing a Japan may be more challenging for British fans concentrated group was men between 18-34 – classic 1960 retro Brazil football shirt from but who’s to say they can’t be crackers of fairly obvious really – while a third of those who Gateshead-based Toffs (The Old Fashioned football matches? watch World Cup matches are people who don’t Football Shirt company). Staff there are e prospect of this being the greatest normally take a great interest in football. working flat out to complete World Cup sporting event of the year isn’t lost on Norman Other gures show that the 2010 World Cup orders, hence the unit’s sewing tables are Scott, landlord at e Robin Hood in Jarrow in South Africa contributed more than £1bn to simply awash with coloured fabric. (pictured above), who has simply gone to town the UK economy with beer sales up 13.2% during www.toffs.com in his World Cup preparations. the tournament, so it could be a hands-rubbing “We got a bit carried away,” he says, time for publicans. www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 17 WORLD CUP: PULL-OUT Italy Celebrate with Baladin Luna Riserva Teo United States Musso 2010 (11.5% abv), a barley wine. Pub watch: The Brandling Villa, South Celebrate with Sly Fox Pikeland Pils Portugal Gosforth, Newcastle NE3 1QL (4.9% abv), served in a can. Celebrate with Farsons Lacto (3.8% Pub watch: The Boathouse, Wylam abv), a classic milk stout, soft on NE41 8HR the palate, with lactose added after Switzerland fermentation. Pub watch: Oddfellows, North Shields NE30 2RJ Celebrate with 1936 Bière (4.7% Mexico abv). Pub watch: England The Railway Hotel, Celebrate with Montezuma Dos Equis Vienna Spain Haydon Bridge Celebrate with Pub watch: Lager (4.8% abv). The Schooner, Wells Bombardier Celebrate with Gateshead NE8 3AF (4.1% abv). Alhambra Mezquita Pub watch: (7.2% abv). Pub The Chillingham, watch: The Bridge Honduras Newcastle NE6 Tavern, Newcastle 5XN Celebrate with Cerveza Port Royal Export (4.8% abv). Pub watch: The Blue Bell, West Mickley NE43 7LP France Netherlands Celebrate with David Reynaud Celebrate with Turbock Costa Rica Crozes Hermitage 2011 Doppelbock (9.0% abv) (12.5% abv). Pub watch: The from Brouwerij ’T Ij. Celebrate with Costa Rica’s Segua Red Ale (5.0% abvv). Sun Inn, Acomb Pub watch: The Town Pub watch: The Centurion, Newcastle NE1 5DG Wall, Newcastle NE1 5EF

Ecuador Ivory Coast Colombia Celebrate with La Cascada Celebrate with Solibra Mamba Stray Dog Stout (5.5% abv). Celebrate with Bogota Beer Premium Lager (5.5% abv). Pub watch: The Robin Hood, Company Septimazo IPA (6.0% abv). Pub watch: Head of Steam, Jarrow NE32 5UB. Pub watch: Tilleys Bar, Newcastle Newcastle NE1 5EN

Argentina Brazil Celebrate with Callia Bella Malbec 2013 San Juan Celebrate with Eisenbahn (13.5% abv). Pub watch: The Natural (4.8% abv), WORLD CUP 2014 Dyvels, Corbridge NE45 5AY Pub watch: The Blackbird, Ponteland, NE20 9UH

OLÁ BRAZIL Chile Uruguay Your pull-out guide to the Celebrate with 2013 Concha Celebrate with La Maja Sidra Leve y Toro Cono Sur Bicicleta Espumante Dulce (4.5% abv) cider. greatest sporting event of 2014 Gewurztraminer. Pub watch: Pub watch: The Golden Lion, The Gosforth Hotel, Gosforth Corbridge NE45 5AA

GROUP A GROUP C GROUP E BRAZIL | MEXICO | CAMEROON | CROATIA COLOMBIA | GREECE | JAPAN | IVORY COAST SWITZERLAND | ECUADOR | HONDURAS | FRANCE Brazil v Croatia: June 12 2100 (ITV) Colombia v Greece: June 14 1700 (BBC) Switzerland v Ecuador: June 15 1700 (ITV) Mexico v Cameroon: June 13 1700 (ITV) Ivory Coast v Japan: June 14 2300 (ITV) France v Honduras: June 15 2000 (BBC) Brazil v Mexico: June 17 2000 (BBC) Colombia v Ivory Coast: June 19 1700 (BBC) Switzerland v France: June 20 2000 (ITV) Cameroon v Croatia: June 18 2000 (ITV) Japan v Greece: June 19 2300 (BBC) Honduras v Ecuador: June 20 2300 (ITV) Cameroon v Brazil: June 23 2100 (ITV) Japan v Colombia: June 24 2100 (BBC) Honduras v Switzerland: June 25 2100 (BBC) Croatia v Mexico: June 23 2100 (ITV) Greece v Ivory Coast: June 24 2100 (BBC) Ecuador v France: June 25 2100 (BBC)

GROUP B GROUP D GROUP F SPAIN | HOLLAND | CHILE | AUSTRALIA ENGLAND | URUGUAY | ITALY | COSTA RICA ARGENTIAN | BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA | IRAN | NIGERIA Spain v Holland: June 13 2000 (BBC) Uruguay v Costa Rica: June 14 2000 (ITV) Argentina v Bosnia-Herzegovina: June 15 2300 (BBC) Chile v Australia: June 13 2300 (ITV) England v Italy: June 14 2300 (BBC) Iran v Nigeria: June 16 2000 (BBC) Spain v Chile: June 18 2300 (BBC) Uruguay v England: June 19 2000 (ITV) Argentina v Iran: June 21 1700 (ITV) Australia v Holland: June 18 1700 (ITV) Italy v Costa Rica: June 20 1700 (BBC) Nigeria v Bosnia-Herzegovina: June 21 2300 (BBC) Australia v Spain: June 23 1700 (ITV) Italy v Uruguay: June 24 1700 (ITV) Nigeria v Argentina: June 25 1700 (ITV) Holland v Chile: June 23 1700 (ITV) Costa Rica v England: June 24 Belo Horizonte, 1700 (ITV) Bosnia-Herzegovina v Iran: June 25 1700 (ITV)

18 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk WORLD CUP: PULL-OUT Croatia Celebrate with Karlovacka (5.4% abv). The favourite beer of visitors to Croatia. Russia Pub watch: The Black Horse, Low Fell, Gateshead Celebrate with Stolichnaya Gold Vodka (40% abv) – medium to full-bodied with subtle notes of citrus and anise. Pub watch: Belgium Clarence Villa, Coxhoe DH6 4JS Celebrate with Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet (8.0% abv) with its smoked and spicy nose and roasted malt. Pub watch: The Black Bull, Wylam Germany Celebrate with Königsbacher Pilsener (4.8% abv) – golden, sparkling and aromatic with a thick, creamy head. Pub watch: The Grey Horse, Consett South Korea Celebrate with Soju (varies between 10% abv and 25% abv),a Algeria Bosnia-Herzegovina vodka-like rice liquor. Pub watch: The Bridge End Inn, Celebrate with Pivara Oldbridž Brown Ale (7.5% Celebrate with tea served with a touch of Ovingham NE42 6BN abv). Classic roast malt aroma with some chocolate mint or Hamoud, a cloudy, primrose-coloured and spice on the palate. Pub watch: The Mid lemonade. Pub watch: The Green, White Mare Boldon Club, 60 Front Street, NE36 0SH Pool, Gateshead NE10 8YB

Japan

Nigeria Greece Celebrate with Hitachino Nest White Ale (5.5% abv), modelled Celebrate with Nigerian Foreign Extra Celebrate with Rakomelo (24% abv), a sweet on a Belgian Wit with real orange Guinness (7.5% abv), a fine version of the tasting spirit made from a combination of raki juice. Pub watch: Fitzgerald’s, famous stout. Pub watch: The Hotspur, or tsipouro with honey and spices. Pub watch: Newcastle NE1 6AF Newcastle NE1 7RY The Bacchus, Newcastle NE1 1EW

Cameroon

Celebrate with Kadje Beer Blonde (5.0% Iran abv), a refreshing pale lager with a bready, dried grass nose. Pub watch: The Tannery, Celebrate with tea, the national drink. Alcohol Gilesgate, Hexham NE43 3QD isn’t legally available in Iran but they do a mean Sheer Moz (banana milk shake). Pub watch: La Taverna, Stella Road, Ryton, NE21 4LU

Ghana Australia Celebrate with Accra Chairman (10.1% abv), a ginger-heavy, spiced herbal beer with Celebrate with Bootleg Raging Bull (7.1% abv), a tinges of cardamom. Pub watch: The Duke complex concoction of flavours. Pub watch: The of Wellington, Newcastle NE1 1EN. Central, Gateshead NE8 2AN WWW.CHEERSNORTHEAST.CO.UK

GROUP G KNOCKOUT STAGES: LAST 16 SEMI-FINALS GERMANY | PORTUGAL | GHANA | USA Match 49 June 28 1700: Winner A v Runner-up B July 8 2100: Germany v Portugal: June 16 1700 (ITV) Match 50 June 28 2100: Winner C v Runner-up D Winner Match 57 v Winner Match 58 Ghana v USA: June 16 2300 (BBC) Match 51 June 29 1700: Winner B v Runner-up A July 9 2100: Germany v Ghana: June 21 2000 (BBC) Match 52 June 29 2100: Winner D v Runner-up C Winner Match 59 v Winner Match 60 USA v Portugal: June 22 2000 (BBC) Match 53 June 30 1700: Winner E v Runner-up F USA v Germany: June 26 1700 (BBC) Match 54 June 30 2100: Winner G v Runner-up H THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF Portugal v Ghana: June 26 1700 (BBC) Match 55 July 1 1700: Winner F v Runner-up E July 12 2100 Match 56 July 1 2100: Winner H v Runner-up G GROUP H FINAL BELGIUM | ALGERIA |RUSSIA | SOUTH KOREA QUARTER-FINALS July 13 Rio de Janeiro, 2000 Belgium v Algeria: June 17 1700 (ITV) Match 57 July 4 2100: Winner Match 49 v Winner Match 50 Russia v South Korea: June 17 2300 (BBC) Match 58 July 4 1700: Winner Match 53 v Winner Match 54 *All kick-off times BST Belgium v Russia: June 22 2300 (BBC) Match 59 July 5 2100: Winner Match 51 v Winner Match 52 South Korea v Algeria: June 22 1700 (ITV) Match 60 July 5 1700: Winner Match 55 v Winner Match 56 South Korea v Belgium: June 26 2100 (ITV) Algeria v Russia: June 26 2100 (ITV)

www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 19 FEATURE: WORLD CUP THE WORLD CUP RUNNETH OVER Publicans can simply switch on the telly and wait for football custom to roll in – or they can be highly proactive and present their pub like never before

Brazil’s national dish is pickled cucumber served in a with country. How about hot feijoada, a complex black bean French bun. dogs when the US play, paella for THE FOOD OFFER stew made with various cuts of Misto is a simple ham and Spanish matches, steaks while Serving a few straightforward pork, ham, bacon or sausage. cheese sandwich served hot or watching Argentina, Mexican treats with a bit of imagination Recipes vary but it can be made cold – and Brazilians simply love tortillas and bratwurst with will demonstrate that your relatively cheaply and quickly in torresmo, better known to us as Germany and those inevitable pub really wants its customers big quantities for quick service. pork scratchings. penalty shoot-outs? engaged with the World Cup Other dishes pub chefs might like But don’t forget there are 31 en put together a playlist and create extra interest while to oer include a bauru, a popular other nations competing for the of samba beats from Spotify staying ahead your rivals. e Brazilian sandwich with melted 2014 World Cup and individual and you’ll create a Brazilian trick will be to keep it simple cheese – usually mozzarella – matches present the perfect atmosphere to put “kerching” during a period of high trac. slices of roast beef, tomato and opportunity to match country smiles on customers’ faces.

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Despite Brazilian beer Brahma £55, all packed into a super-cool, being owned by ABInbev, the super-light ice box. Options on cans 12 to 14 June 2014 brewing giant is putting the full include Brooklyn, Piston Head, Tynedale Rugby Club Corbridge- In aid of The North of England Children’s Cancer Research Fund weight of its World Cup efforts BeerLao, Vedett and Underdog. - The Percy Hedley Foundation behind Budweiser and a massive - Queen Elizabeth High School Rowing Club global marketing campaign. Brazil’s national spirit is cachaça, - Tynedale RFC Sports Related Projects a distillation of sugar cane juice. - Over 130 beers & ciders! Great live music! Camerons Brewery’s World Cup The white, unaged version was Thursday – Vieux Carré Jazzmen guest cask ale is Redeemer (4.0% long considered a poor man’s drink - Wine bar and Tyne Valley Big Band abv), a nod to the huge sporting but it has gained popularity as an - Hot food stalls Friday – Diablo and The Baboons Saturday – Northumberland Fayre, event by combining the two iconic artisanal choice. The Caipirinha, the - Saturday afternoon Ali Reay, The Happy Cats, MLC, landmarks of the Angel of The most famous cocktail derived from fun for the kids! A69 and The Gangsters of Ska North with the statue of Christ cachaça is 12.5ml of sugar syrup - Camping Thursday 12 June 6 pm to 11 pm The Redeemer high above Rio. (or two bar spoons of white sugar), Friday 13 June 6 pm to 11 pm Saturday 14 June 1 pm to 11 pm Main Sponsors The beer uses British Fuggles and 50ml of cachaça and lime wedges. South American Cascade Hops to continue the theme. Buy online! Tickets £10 per day Organized by Tynedale Lions and Tynedale Rugby Football Club Lane7 in Newcastle will feature You can now get tickets from the all the big games in its basement festival website. Alternatively, call Ball Room. Fans can pre-book their 652 220 or buy at Hexham or Corbridge01434 “benches” as well as pre-order their Tourist Offices or by post. tipples. Favourite should be Lane7’s www.tynedalebeerfestival.org.uk selection of 24 premium canned PATRICIA J ARNOLD & CO LTD beers from around the world for CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS SHOWING WORLD CUP MATCHES 4 Real Ales & 4 Real Ciders Many other draught and bottled drinks Plus a huge stock of wines and spirits available. Food Served daily Mon to Fri 3 till 9 Sat To Sun 12 to 9 Our own rotisserie cooked chicken with a Mediterranean twist & Tapas Sunday traditional roast dinner YOUR NEW LOCAL BAR

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REGION SEES STARS INVEST IN ITS BARS Two recent major pub Dave Walker, Fluid Group area refurbishments in the North manager (pictured right), says: East form part of a £240,000 “Investment in the site has enabled investment between Heineken’s us to create an amazing experience pub business Stars & Bars and for customers that they won’t find local operators. anywhere else in Newcastle. We’re The Blackie Boy on Newcastle’s excited by the extensive menu of Groat Market and The Seven Stars cocktails, wine and premium drinks, in Ponteland, Northumberland – including Heineken Extra Cold, already successful venues – have and have installed the latest Smart upped their game and added a new Dispense technology.” dimension for customers. The Seven Stars in Ponteland, The Blackie Boy, run by Fluid run by Paul Gibb has a whole new Group, has undergone a complete contemporary look, bringing a bit overhaul that includes the creation of city-centre style to the village. Investment Dave Walker, Fuid Group of a first-floor late night venue The refurbishment sees a new rebranded the All Seeing Eye bar and the reconfiguration of the lease of the Seven Stars and save recognise the need to review, refine (ASE). The previously rarely-used downstairs which allows the pub it from closure. Now with the help and continue to invest in their function room has been stripped to broaden its food and coffee of the Star Pubs & Bars it is time to premises to keep them current and back to exposed brickwork and offer, focusing on sharing platters take the pub to another level.” attract customers in an increasingly opened up into the rafters to and burgers. Chris Jowsey, trading director at competitive market. It is no longer create an urban downtown Paul Gibb says: “I came out of Star Pubs & Bars, says: “Although enough to open the doors and “New York” vibe. retirement in 2011 to take on the very different, both pub operators expect customers to come to you.”

A traditional country pub in Corbridge

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22 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk NEWS Dipton Mill Inn All you’d want a country pub to be... Dipton Mill Road, Hexham, NE46 1YA Tel: 01434 606577 www.diptonmill.co.uk

• A Snug Real Ale Pub next to/part of 42nd Street • HOPPING ON A BANDWAGON • A wide selection of Real Ales & Beers • • Food served everyday between 12-5pm • The British Hops Association to its highest level since 2007 – a has claimed that new brewers time when the market was hit by • Sunday Lunch served every week • hoping to tap into the severe drought. • Child & Dog friendly • burgeoning craft beer movement American aroma hops have could struggle to source become fashionable with most of hops from the US and should the craft beer producers in the North Parade, Whitley Bay, Tyne And Wear, NE26 1 consider British varieties. UK insisting on using US varieties The organisation’s spokesman in their brews. Supply shortages Alison Capper made the are predicted, plus any adverse recommendation in the wake of weather conditions there and in reports that a surge in demand in Germany – which produce 70% of the US had doubled the price of the world’s hops between them – specialist aroma and flavour hops could also have a huge effect.

GIGS ‘N’ THINGS IN JUNE SUN 1 JUNE Buskers 4:30PM THUR 5 JUNE Auld Rockers Music Quiz 8:30PM SAT 7 JUNE No Time for Jive 8:30PM SUN 8 JUNE Removal Men 4:30PM THUR 12 JUNE Undecided Jazz 8:30PM FRI 13 JUNE Shipcote & Friends 6:00PM CAUSEY FOR CELEBRATION SAT 14 JUNE Sour Mash Trio 8:30PM SUN 15 JUNE The Lounge Lizards 8:30PM The South Causey Inn near Brewery in the Lake District. Stanley in County Durham has The South Causey Inn has SAT 21 JUNE Little Stevie & The Business 8:30PM been highly commended in the developed over the past 25 years SUN 22 JUNE U2 Vertigo 4:30PM VisitEngland Tourism Pubs of from an equestrian centre – albeit THUR 26 JUNE Big River Blues 8:00PM the Year in a ceremony held at with one horse – into a British SAT 28 JUNE Broken Levee 8:30PM Cheltenham Racecourse. Horse Society Riding School SUN 29 JUNE Moonshine Stragglers 4:30PM The awards recognise with outdoor activities, an inn EVERY WEDNESDAY IS QUIZ NIGHT businesses that make a big with 29 bedrooms and dedicated contribution to the country’s wedding function room with its SIX REAL ALE HAND PULLS AND ONE CIDER tourism industry. The overall winner own kitchen, four bars, a restaurant GREAT FOOD SERVED 12-8 MON TO SAT AND 12-4 SUN was The Feathered Nest Country and landscaped gardens where Inn in Oxfordshire, while the silver donkeys, alpacas and chickens award went to The Watermill Inn & wander freely. www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 23 Selection of real ales & Traditional, fresh, home cooked food served NEW menu now available served daily 12pm - 8pm including daily specials Great selection of real ales, wines, beers & ciders B&B accommodation All Rooms have En Suite, TV, Wi , Hair Dryer,Tea & Coee making facilities. e prices include a full Breakfast. We have recently tted Orthopaedic Mattresses to all of our beds! Live bands and entertainment every weekend NEW Quiz night & Key draw every Thursday Live sports shown

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The Bodega Fyne Ales Tap takeover and meet the brewer evening on Tuesday June 24th at 8pm. The Bodega Westgate Road Newcastle. Follow us on twitter @thebodega_sjf Camra Tyneside Pub of the Year 2014. For news and events sign up to our mailing list at www.sjf.co.uk

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LECTURES NO STUDENT WILL WANT TO SKIP Europe’s first student-run University’s student Brewing microbrewery is set to open Society where members are in the North East. Funded by a encouraged to get involved in every grant from the Students’ Green aspect of the brewing process from Fund, a scheme managed by sourcing sustainable ingredients to the National Union of Students, marketing the finished product. a group of young entrepreneurs The society’s co-president Zelda from Newcastle University Mendelowitz said the enterprise is called Stu Bru has produced “all about educating students about its first ale in collaboration what they consume and getting with Allendale Brewery them involved in the real in Northumberland. ale movement”. The next move is to build their Inaugural IPA is marketed as own plant but it’s one step at a time “a refreshing twist on a classic of enthusiasm for the process and students to grow their own produce at the moment for the young beer recipe bringing happiness through had some great ideas for their first and take on allotments. lovers. Inaugural IPA was produced Simcoe and Nelson Sauvin hops”. beer without going over the top. A 2.5-barrel Stu Bru plant is at Allendale during the Easter It aims to be an easy-to-drink They have produced a really good planned for Newcastle University’s holidays and it even featured at last summer beer enticing even the quality India Pale Ale.” chemical engineering department in month’s Chelsea Flower Show after most inexperienced ale drinker to Stu Bru was part of an award- time for the next academic year to being made available at a House of enjoy it. winning garden exhibited at last be run on sustainable lines in terms Lords reception. Neil Thomas, Allendale’s head month’s Chelsea Flower Show of energy and water use. The beers Stu Bru’s social enterprise brewer, said: “The Stu Bru team highlighting a national Students will be available through Newcastle scheme runs alongside Newcastle really mucked in and showed a lot Eats project which encourages University Students’ Union bar.

www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 25 FEATURE: FESTIVAL TIME 2014THE HAYDON BRIDGE BEER FESTIVAL FRIDAY 4TH JULY, 6PM - MIDNIGHT THE HAYDON RIDE SATURDAY 5TH JULY, NOON - MIDNIGHT Saddle up, it’s festival time featuring 40 local Ales & 12 Ciders from around the UK Fine wines from around the world Great Food and Live Entertainment £8 FRIDAY • £10 SATURDAY TICKETS INCLUDE entry, programme, two drink tokens & your commemorative glass

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Hooves, wheels and walking Bridge to the Red Lion at shoes aren’t perhaps the most Newbrough (Allendale Golden HIGH HOUSE FARM obvious things that spring to Plover), followed by spicy BREWERY • VISITOR CENTRE • BAR • RESTAURANT mind when beer festivals are minestrone at Fourstones being planned. Services then the Railway Proud Sponsors of But an enthusiastic group of Tavern where High House Farm Haydon Bridge Real Ale riders from the Haydon Hunt, Sundancer was on oer. e nal along with groups of cyclists stop was e Boatside at Warden Ride/ Beer Festival 2014 and several brave walkers made where the horses enjoyed Wedding bookings now being taken for 2016!! sure that next month’s Haydon carrots and pails of water Bridge Beer Festival received while the travellers sat back to plenty of advance publicity by enjoy Wylam Bitter and a very visiting several pubs around the generous buet. Northumberland countryside. is year’s event at the Low Tel: 01661 886192 • [email protected] e rst stirrup-cup was taken Hall Park football ground in www.highhousefarmbrewery.co.uk at the Haydonian Club in Haydon Haydon Bridge – sponsored by Bridge – Big Lamp Sunny Daze High House Farm Brewery – has being the perfect late morning an American Independence Day starter. Hexhamshire Shire Bitter theme, kicking o as it does on at the nearby Anchor Inn soon July 4. e aim of the festival is to made the runners and riders not only sample some terric ales forget the brief but torrential but to ensure visitors have fun shower that had set them on while raising funds for worthy their way. causes such as the Great North e General Havelock – and Air Ambulance, St Oswald’s Geltsdale King’s Forest – came Hospice and Tynedale Hospice. next before the four-mile trot, Details: A traditional Country Pub and Restaurant near the walk and pedal from Haydon www.haydonbeerfestival.co.uk Historic Market Town of Hexham. Close to the banks of the River Tyne just off the A69 with easy access to all Real Ales on tap - Home cooked food areas of interest in Northumberland. (one of Rick Stein's "Food Heroes") Speciality & Entertainment Nights Excellent food and Fine Ales · Traditional Sunday Lunches · Rural setting · Fishing - ring for details! Available - www.wardenfi shing.co.uk · Fine mix of accommodation B&B and Self Open Tue - Sun 12 - 3pm & Catering · Many Golf Courses · Free large car park 6 - 12 midnight- Sun 12 - 3pm Bar open Mon & Sun nights from 7.30pm LOVELY COUNTRY WALKS • GOOD TRANSPORT LINKS • FAMILIES CATERED FOR The Boatside Inn, Warden, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 4SQ Telephone 01434 684376 THE GENERAL Haydon Bridge, Hexham NE47 6ER Tel: 01434 602233, email: [email protected] HAVELOCK INN E: [email protected] 26 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk JUNE 3 AND 4 Forty beers to toast the 150th anniversary of JUNE 28 the club’s formation. Live music and cricket DEUCHARS BEERMAT while you sup. The Friday evening features a THE FIRST BRIDGE END MUSIC FRINGE AUDITIONS T20 game; Saturday, it’s South FESTIVAL If you can sing, dance, play, unicycle or cry, Northumberland v Durham Academy, while The Bridge End, Ovingham, come along and perform to win a place in the Sunday sees the start of a three-day Minor Northumberland NE42 6BN final live at the Edinburgh Fringe. Auditions at Counties game with Northumberland hosting Featuring local talent from the village The Stand, High Bridge, Newcastle NE1 1EW Lincolnshire. See feature on page 16. – Lyrical Whisky, Sam Shields, Mr June 3 from 8.30pm. wwwsouthnorth.co.uk Brown’s Boys, Den & Clive, Dean Tel 0844 693 3336 and The Diamond Inn, Cook,and, of course, Bridge End. The Ponteland NE20 9BB June 4 from 7pm. event starts at 3pm and runs through to Tel 01661 872 898 JUNE 26-28 closing time. Families welcome. BBQ at www.caledonianbeer.com/fringeterms 4pm and 8pm. For more information, call DARLINGTON CAMRA in at the pub and ask James (Outterside). BEER FESTIVAL Tel 01661 832 219 Forum Music Centre, Borough Road, JUNE 12-14 Darlington DL1 1SG TYNEDALE BEER FESTIVAL Thirty ales from independent breweries, plus Tynedale RFC, Corbridge NE45 5AY cider and perry. New venue just a short walk JULY 4-5 Over 130 beers, plus ciders and wine bar. from the railway station. FIFTH ANNUAL HAYDON BRIDGE Hot food, live music every night. Camping www.darlocamra.org.uk BEER FESTIVAL – Saturday afternoon fun for the kids. Low Hall Park football ground, Tickets 01434 652220 Haydon Bridge, Northumberland www.tynedalebeerfestival.org NE47 6AE JUNE 27-29 Up to 40 beers from the region and 12 MILFEST BEER FESTIVAL ciders. Railway station close by and The Red Lion, Milfield NE71 6JD hourly bus service from Newcastle, JUNE 20-22 Twenty real ales and ciders. Tasting night Hexham and Carlisle. Visit the website 150TH ANNIVERSARY BEER FESTIVAL Thursday 27 from 7.30pm. Live entertainment for full details. South Northumberland Cricket Club, Tel: 01668 216 224 www.haydonbeerfestival.co.uk Gosforth, Newcastle NE3 1LU www.redlionmilfield.co.uk Gigs ’N’ Festivals

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28 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk TASTE TEST MRS BROWN’S BOYS With the emphasis on ‘hop forward’ beers, we The longest established multi activity provider in the North East of England. We specialise in genuinely bespoke events, whether corporate thought it only polite to refresh ourselves with team building - or just fun. Brewery tours too! locally-produced brown ales – then a hoppy one Activities include: Adventure Challenge • Rifl e Shooting • Hovercraft Military Paintball • Tank Driving PANDA FROG MAKAROV (6.4%ABV) Located at Matfen Hall We’ve got to admit we were quite scared Contact Richard Wilson to open this. Maybe it would be too www.turboventures.co.uk • 0 191 232 5872 powerful, perhaps its infusion of Russian Caravan Tea would be a bit “kippery”, plus named after a Russian service pistol, what else to expect? But this is an absolute beauty – very slightly smoky, very earthy, malty sweet and a terrific take on a traditional brown ale. One of the tasting team wants to use it as steak pie stock. Panda Frog is the experimental arm of North Tyneside-based Mordue Brewery and the brainchild of head brewer Rob Millichamp. HADRIAN BORDER TYNESIDE BROWN ALE (4.7% ABV) Cheekily brewed to the same strength as Newcastle Brown Ale, this overtakes its better-known kinsman with ease. It’s full-bodied, nutty and well balanced, displaying all the malty flavours of a traditional brown ale and with an aroma www.redlionmilfield.co.uk • [email protected] • 01668 216224 of early-morning pubs – that sweet, beckoning attraction. Deep in its caramel sweetness there’s a steely bitter touch – one Taste Team member volunteered We’re in the “seaweed”. Maybe…but nice seaweed. Traditional family G d B­  Guide... again HAWKSHEAD BREWERY ITI run pu since 1975 (2013) PALE ALE (3.5% ABV) OK, we now have to slip in a real hoppy contender. Iti is named after the Maori word for “little” and it’s the second beer that Hawkshead has brewed using only New Zealand hops. NZPA (New Zealand Pale Ale), first brewed in July 2011, now forms part of the Lake District brewery’s portfolio of modern hop-flaunting beers. Regula Music & Folk Night “Iti is the little brother of NZPA,” says Mon - Fri: from 4pm • Sat: from 12pm Kiwi head brewer Matt Clarke. “At 6% abv, NZPA is one of our stronger beers, but in Sun: 12pm - 3pm & from 7pm developing Iti we have done something quite rare in that we have brewed a ‘littler’, more BRIDGE END INN, Ovingham 01661 832219 accessible version.” www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 29 FUN STUFF SIGNS OF THE TIMES THE DIRTY DOZEN TWELVE OF THE BEST BRAINTEASERS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING 1 What famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co? 2 What year was the first motor race held that was classed as Formula 1? 3 In the Wild West, how was Henry McCarty better known? 4 How many storeys did each of the World Trade Centre towers have? 5 What is the name of the cafe in Coronation Street? 6 According to the BBC, how many rooms are there in Buckingham Palace? 7 What is the busiest single-runway airport in the world? 8 Who lit the opening flame at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics? 9 Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover vehicle? 10 Which country had a secret police force known as the Tonton Macoute? 11 Gala, Jonagold and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit? 12 Which organ of the body is affected by Bright’s Disease?

A WOMAN WALKS INTO A BAR… What is it with funeral directors that they seem unable to spell “independent”? Our pictures show a company …AND SAYS TO THE BARMAN (WHO HAPPENS TO BE HER in Whickham, Gateshead, and a Sunderland firm which advertises on bottles of orange juice (and milk). Maybe it’s HUSBAND): “DARLING, PACK ALL YOUR THINGS, I’VE JUST WON just what they do – like greengocers and their apostrophes (apple’s, potato’s, etc). THE LOTTERY.” “YIPPEE,” HE SAYS, “SHOULD I PACK FOR TROPICAL WEATHER OR FOR ALPINE SKIING?” “WHATEVER,” SHE SAYS, “JUST PUB PIC OF THE MONTH AS LONG AS YOU’RE OUT OF THE HOUSE BY NOON.” “THERE’S SOMETHING WONDERFUL ABOUT DRINKING IN THE AFTERNOON. A NOT-TOO- COLD PINT, ABSOLUTELY ALONE AT THE BAR

Cheers wondered about Ukip leader Nigel Farage hitting – EVEN IN THIS FAKE-ASS IRISH PUB.” the newspapers with a pint of Greene King IPA in hand. Despite a request, Greene King failed to comment. ANTHONY BOURDAIN BLUE THE DOG’S ADVENTURES IN BEER I told you I wouldn’t be away for long. I’ve been paying the bill. How do I know, I didn’t put it away. I told enjoying handing over this space to my friends in you I don’t like spinach. It’s always me, me, me with you, Pub Land – Skipper the cat who owns The Schooner you, you.” I simply let it go over my head. First of all I was quite a turn wasn’t he, and my mate Winston at don’t know what they’re bickering about – and second, Battlesteads is always game for a laugh. it’ll be the opposite on the way home. “Bluesy-woosie, I’ve been up to all kinds of adventures lately and just you’re such a clever doggy-woggy,” he’ll say as he being able to trot along to the pub on these light nights navigates the pavement. “And you’ll be such a good boy with my Master and Mistress is a real treat. They’re a lot if you eat all your spinachy-winachy,” she’ll slur into his more jolly on the way home than they are on the stroll ear. I don’t know what’s worse – the tiffs or the making- there, I can tell you. There’s always something with those up. But the couple of hours in between is brilliant. What two and all I ever seem to hear is: “It’s your fault for not is spinach anyway? Ruff.

QUIZ ANSWERS 1 Tabasco. 2 1950. 3 Billy The Kid. 4 110. 5 Roy’s Rolls. 6 775. 7 London Gatwick. 8 Muhammad Ali. 9 Apollo 15. 10 Haiti. 11 Apple. 12 Kidney.

30 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk FEATURE: GIN CHIN CHIN, A-Z BREWERS GUIDE When looking for a great local brewery, TIME FOR GIN this should be a good place to start... EAGER TO JOIN THE CLUB OR TO FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION? It would seem the whole country is making gin PLEASE CALL: 01661 844115 these days, so why not Northumberland? BLACKHILL BREWERY ROOSTERS Pontop Business Park, Unit 3, Grimbald Port Harelaw Industrial Estate, Weatherby Road, Stanley, Knaresborough, County Durham, North Yorkshire, DH9 8HN HG5 8LJ t: 07905778286 t: 01423 865 959 e:[email protected] e:[email protected] www.blackhillbrewery.com www.roosters.co.uk

HADRIAN & BORDER SONNET 43 BREWERY BREW HOUSE Unit 5, The Preserving Works Durham Road, Newburn Industrial Estate, Coxhoe, Look on the spirits fixture of any demurely called Prudence, Celeste Shelley Road, Newcastle DH6 4HX specialist outlet and you’ll see and Florence (they’ve all got upon Tyne, NE15 9RT t: 0191 3773039 so many brands and styles of Victorian women’s names) are sold t: 0191 264 9000 e: [email protected] gin you’ll wonder at where it all at 20% abv, while the “meatier” e: [email protected] ww.sonnet43.com comes from. Pubs too in recent ones such as Steam Punk Gin and www.hadrian-border-brewery.co.uk years have cottoned on to the Hexam Grand Cru (the dropped rise in popularity of a drink once “h” is intentional) are a respectable regarded as the root of all evil 40% abv and are made with many and the opiate of 18th Century of the traditional botanicals such paupers huddled in their stinking as juniper, star anise and slums – as the history books grapefruit peel. JARROW BREWERY WYLAM BREWERY would have us believe. “Basically we create a big teabag Robin Hood, South Houghton farm, Gin has become a refined, with the botanicals and let it steep in Primrose Hill, Heddon on the Wall, bourgeois spirit; it has lost its the spirit for a couple of days,” says Jarrow, Tyne & Wear Northumberland disreputable label and taken on a Charlie. “We also use essential oils NE32 5UB NE15 0EZ cloak of gentility and desirability. such as parma violets. t:0191 483 6792 t: 01661 853377 “Gin is the thing at the moment,” “We only make between 50 e:[email protected] e: [email protected] says Charlie Gibbs, owner of the and 100 bottles at a time and that www.jarrowbrewing.co.uk www.wylambrew.co.uk Northumberland Gin Company. means they’ll vary slightly with every Gateshead-based Gibbs, pictured batch – for example juniper berries above in Victorian garb, was a home can come from different parts of brewer and friends would often the world.” encourage him to go into beer Northumberland Gin Company making commercially. products – “northern, natural and “I looked into it, but to make any naughty” – are available at Hotel decent money out of it you have Du Vin in Newcastle, while Fenwick PUB AND to brew huge quantities,” he says. also stocks the range amongst an However, had taken note of the impressive line-up that represents explosion in the gin market, took out every part of the country from BREWERS CLUB a licence and away he went. Shetland to Plymouth. “I buy neutral gin spirit and “We want to keep it a niche Eager to join the club or to find out flavour it, then dilute it to commercial product so you’ll never see more information? please call: 01661 844115 strength and bottle it,” he says. “Gin Northumberland Gin in the big or email: [email protected] is vodka with a jacket on.” supermarkets,” says Charlie. “We’ve or [email protected] He produces gin in distinct got lots of ideas in development and strengths – the flavoured ones, we’re now looking at gift packs.” www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 31 NORTHUMBERLAND RIVERDALE HALL HOTEL THE DIAMOND INN Bellingham, NE48 2JT Main Street, Ponteland, t: 01434 220254 NE20 9BB ADAM & EVE t: 01661 872898 Prudhoe Station, Low Prudhoe, THREE HORSESHOES NE42 6NP. Hathery Lane, Horton, THE DYVELS INN t: 01661 832323 Cramlington, NE24 4HF Station Road, Corbridge, A-Z PUB GUIDE t: 01670 822410 NE45 5AY BAMBURGH CASTLE INN t: 01434 633 633 Cheers is all about pubs in the North East Seahouses, NE68 7SQ THREE WHEATHEADS t: 01665 720283 Thropton nr Rothbury, NE65 7LR THE FEATHERS INN and this should be a good place to start... t: 01669 620262 Hedley on the Hill, BARRASFORD ARMS Stocksfield, NE43 7SW THE CROWN THE QUAKERHOUSE Barrasford Hexham, TWICE BREWED INN t: 01661 843 607 COUNTY DURHAM Mickleton, Barnard Castle, 2 Mechanics Yard, Darlington, NE48 4AA Military Road, Bardon Mill, DL12 0JZ DL3 7QF t: 01434 681237 NE47 7AN BUTCHER’S ARMS t: 01833 640 381 t: 07783 960105 t: 01434 344534 THE GOLDEN LION Middle Chare, BARRELS Hill Street, Corbridge, Chester le Street, DH3 3QB THE DUN COW THE QUAYS 59-61 Bridge Street, Berwick, THE ALLENDALE INN NE45 5AA t: 0191 388 3605 Front Street, Sedgefield, 5 Tubwell Row, Darlington, TD15 1ES Market Place, Allendale, Hexham, t: 01434 632216 TS21 3AT DL1 1NU t:01289 308013 NE47 9BJ, t: 01434 683246 DUN COW t: 01740 385 6695 t: 01325 461448 • Home cooked food 37 Old Elvet, Durham, BATTLESTEADS HOTEL THE ANCHOR HOTEL • Real ales DH1 3HN THE FLOATER’S MILL THE ROYAL OAK Wark, Hexham, NE48 3LS Haydon Bridge, NE47 6AB • Entertainment every t: 0191 386 9219 Woodstone Village, 7 Manor Rd, t: 01434 230209 t: 01434 688121 weekend Fence Houses, DH4 6BQ Medomsley Village, DH8 6QN www.battlesteads.com GREENBANK HOTEL t: 0191 385 6695 t: 01207 560336 THE ANCHOR INN 90 Greenbank Road, BEADNELL TOWERS HOTEL Whittonstall, Nr Consett, THE GOLDEN LION Darlington, DL3 6EL THE GARDEN HOUSE INN THE SMITHS ARMS Beadnell, NE67 5AY DH8 9JN t: 01207 561110 Market Place, Allendale, t: 01325 462624 North Road, Durham, Brecon Hill, Castle Dene, t: 01665 721211 NE47 9BD. DH1 4NQ Chester le Street, THE ANGEL INN t: 01434 683 225 HALF MOON INN t: 0191 3863395 DH3 4HE CLENNELL HALL HOTEL Main Street, Corbridge, 130 North Gate, t: 0191 3857559 Harbottle,Morpeth, NE45 5LA THE HADRIAN HOTEL Darlington, DL1 1QS THE GEORGE & DRAGON NE65 7BG, t. 01669 650 377 t: 01434 632119 Wall, Hexham, NE44 4EE t: 01325 465765 4 East Green, THE SHIP t: 01434 681232 Heighington Village, Low Road, Middlestone Village, CROSS KEYS THE BADGER HAT AND FEATHERS DL5 6PP Middlestone, DL14 8AB Thropton, Rothbury, NE65 7HX Street Houses, Ponteland THE HERMITAGE INN Church Street, Seaham, t: 01325 313152 t: 01388 810904 t: 01669 620362 Newcastle upon Tyne 23 Castle Street, Warkworth, SR7 7HF NE20 9BT NE65 0UL. t: 01915 133040 THE GREY HORSE THE SPORTSMANS ARMS CROWN & ANCHOR INN t: 01661 871037 t: 01665 711 258 115 Sherburn Terrace, Moor End Terrace, Belmont, Market Place, Holy Island, HEAD OF STEAM Consett, DH8 6NE DH1 1BJ TD15 2RX THE BAY HORSE THE HORSESHOES INN 3 Reform Place, Durham, t: 01207 502585 t: 0191 3842667 t: 01289 389215 South Side, Stamfordham Rennington, Alnwick, DH1 4RZ NE18 0PB, NE66 3RS. t: 01665 577665 t: 0191 3832173 THE HALF MOON INN THE STABLES DIPTON MILL INN t: 01661 855469 86 New Elvet, Durham, Beamish Hall Hotel, Beamish, Dipton Mill Road, Hexham, THE JOINERS ARMS ITALIAN FARMHOUSE DH1 3AQ DH9 0BY NE46 1YA THE BLACKBIRD Newton-by-the-Sea, NE66 3EA South Street, West Rainton t: 0191 3741918 t: 01207 233 7333 t: 01434 606577 Ponteland, NE20 9UH t: 01665 576 112 Houghton - le - Spring e: [email protected] t: 01661 822 684 DH4 6PA THE HONEST LAWYER THE STABLES www.diptonmill.co.uk THE LINDISFARNE INN t: 0191 5841022 Croxdale Bridge, Croxdale, West Herrington, THE BLACK BULL Beal, TD15 2PD DH1 3HP Houghton le Spring, DH4 4ND DOCTOR SYNTAX Middle Street, Corbridge, t: 01289 381 223 NUMBER TWENTY-2 t: 0191 3783782 t: 0191 584 9226 New Ridley Road, Stocksfield, NE45 5AT. 22 Coniscliffe Road, NE43 7RG, t: 01661 842383 t: 01434 632261 THE MANOR HOUSE Darlington, DL3 7RG THE JOHN DUCK THE THREE HORSESHOES Caterway Heads t: 01325 354590 91A Claypath, Pit House Lane, Leamside, DUKE OF WELLINGTON THE BLACK BULL Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LX e: [email protected] Durham City, DH1 1 RG Houghton le Spring, Newton, NE43 7UL Matfen, NE20 0RP t: 01207 255268 www.twenty2.villagebrewer.co.uk DH4 6QQ t: 01661 844446 t: 01661 855395 THE LAMBTON WORM t: 0191 584 2394 THE MANOR INN SURTEES ARMS North Road, DYKE NEUK THE BLACK BULL INN Main Street, Haltwhistle, Chilton Lane, Chester le Street, DH3 4AJ THE WHITE LION Meldon, Nr Morpeth, NE61 3SL Etal, TD12 4TL NE49 0BS, Ferryhill, DL17 0DH t: 0191 3871162 Newbottle Street, t: 01670 772662 t: 01890 820200 t: 01434 322588 t: 01740 655724 Houghton le Spring, THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL DH4 4AN ELECTRIC WIZARD THE BLUE BELL THE NORTHUMBERLAND ARMS THREE HORSESHOES The Green, West Auckland, t: 0191 5120735 New Market, Morpeth, Mount Pleasant, West Mickley, The Peth, West Thirston Maiden Law, Durham, DL14 9HW NE61 1PS. 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