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Date for your Diary 20th Beer Festival Monday 11th to Sunday 17th February 2013

Raising money for for the Magdalene Group Jigsaw Project Chris and Glynis invite you to the Trafford Arms - 61 Grove Road, Norwich 01603 628466 www.traffordarms.co.uk [email protected] NN#162_Layout 1 11/09/2012 09:03 Page 3

Norwich & Norfolk Branch Chairman: Graham Freeman Tel: 01603 687495 New policy will Email: [email protected] Secretary: Warren Wordsworth Tel: 01603 665557 Email: [email protected] Social Secretary: Michael Philips help save Pubs Email: [email protected]

Pubs Officer: Ian Stamp The Queen’s Head in Hempnall not only their detailed local Email: [email protected] is the latest in a long line of policies but also the broader pubs to be closed and sold for national policies. Until March West Norfolk Branch Chairman: Steve Barker housing. Lost to the commu - 2012, those national policies email: [email protected] nity forever. Others have occupied a legion of docu - Secretary: Ian Bailey become supermarkets, a deed ments totalling over 1000 Contact: Bruce Ward which does not require plan - pages. Some policies were Tel: 01485 609107 ning consent. You sense that vaguely helpful to pubs, albeit Branch websites: www.norwichcamra.org.uk CAMRA’s focus is changing. mainly rural ones. www.camra.org.uk/wnorfolk The battle for is won, but drinkers’ rights are what The new Framework sweeps Branch mailing list web page: we must fight for now. We away this complex set of rules, groups.yahoo.com/group/ CAMRA_Norwich want a decent pint, at a fair replacing them with just 52 price, in a good local pub. pages of policy guidance. Published every 3 months by the Norwich, Norfolk & West Norfolk branches of the Quality is in our own hands, if Thanks to intensive lobbying © N&N CAMRA you think that the pint in front by CAMRA, this new guidance 2012 Norfolk Nips is produced and distrib - uted by members of the branch in their of you is less than perfect – say includes national policies which own time. Views expressed in Norfolk Nips so. The others require a bit of are potentially very helpful to are not necessarily those of the editor or of CAMRA. effort from all of us. If you do community facilities like pubs. not want the price of beer to Most importantly, Councils are Edited by: escalate every single year – told to “guard against the Mike Baldwin Email: [email protected] then sign the e-petition. Is your unnecessary loss of valued facil - Chris Lucas local in danger of closing – ities and services” which Email: [email protected] what can you do? specifically includes community Maybe there is an answer – pubs. What’s also crucial is that Design & Production: CAMRA’s Local Planning these rules apply to all pubs, Daniel Speed - Orchard House Media Email: [email protected] Advisor Paul Ainsworth urban and rural. explains: Distribution: Councils must have in place, 12,000 copies / four times a year Norwich and Norfolk District: The National Planning Policy by March 2013, local planning Tony Miles [email protected] Framework – not words likely policies consistent with the West Norfolk District : to get anyone's pulse racing Framework; in the meantime, Ros Harre [email protected] are they? Yet this new docu - Framework policies should Advertising: ment is a powerful weapon in generally be applied. For advertising enquiries please the battle to protect our belea - contact Jane Michelson or Chris guered pubs. So what does all this mean if Shilling on: 01778 420888 / 421550 your local is threatened by an [email protected] Over recent years, we've lost unwanted planning applica - Front Cover: huge numbers of pubs through tion? You should object to the Sampling local in Blackfriar's Hall conversion to housing and Council, of course, but when at the 2011 Norwich Beer Festival other uses that need planning doing so, make sure to refer to permission. When Councils the relevant policies in the consider planning applications, Framework. If you can show they must take into account that loss of the pub would AUTUMN 2012 3 | NN#162_Layout 1 11/09/2012 09:03 Page 4

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NORFOLK NIPS New Policy to help pubs - continued | reduce the local community's The Framework is already to a restaurant or a shop for ability to meet its day-to-day making an impact. Councils in instance. CAMRA is campaigning needs, then the Council should Cambridge and the Fylde have hard to get planning law refuse the application. used it to refuse planning appli - changed in these areas. In the cations to convert pubs to meantime, the new Framework CAMRA has produced an houses. In those cases, the is very much a step in the right advice note on the best applicants have appealed direction. wording to use and this can be against the refusal and, in each found, along with much other case, the Government If you have any issues information on planning issues, inspector, considering the regarding a campaign to save a at www.camra.org.uk/nppf or appeal, has dismissed it largely local pub in your area please me if you would like any of these because approval would run contact CAMRA’s Local Plan - documents posted to you then counter to Framework policies. ning Policy Advisor Paul please phone CAMRA’s Ainsworth on Campaigns Officer Claire Cain Sadly, not every development [email protected] on 01727 798 454. adversely affecting pubs needs or go to camra.org.uk/nppf planning consent – conversion Norwich & Norfolk CAMRA’s Rural Pub of the Year 2012 Presentation The presentation of the Norwich & Norfolk branch of CAMRA’s (Campaign for Real Ale) award for 2012 Rural Pub of the Year to The Green Dragon, Wymondham took place on Tuesday 12th June.

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Chairman’s Letters NORFOLK NIPS | Words from the West At last, we have some hot usual high standard an excel - ever increasing duty levied by weather. The Olympics have lent range of on offer at the Government of the day. come and gone, Team GB reasonable prices. This always The E-petition that CAMRA has managed a good crop of raises a good sum of money to set up now has in excess of medals to go with the good fund the Lions charitable work 80,000 signatures, and only crop of seasonal beers on the and is well worth supporting. need 20,000 more to have the Olympic theme. Commons Debate. Please go to The presentation of third place the CAMRA website to sign up I enjoyed an extremely pleasant in the East Anglian Cider and help achieve this very Sunday afternoon at Whin Hill competition was awarded to worthy aim. Cider with members from West The Railway Arms at Downham Norfolk and Norwich Branches, Market. It was a very enjoyable The West Norfolk AGM is to be for the presentation of the evening, with many regular held at Narborough Sports and Perry award for East Anglia. An customers and other Camra Social Club on Tuesday 14th excellent buffet, with a few members in attendance. When October, please join us. At his glasses of the very best of Whin in Downham, this pub is espe - meeting the four choices for Hill products were enjoyed by cially worth a visit as the beers the Branch Pub of the year will all. A well deserved award. It and ciders are all gravity be announced, all nominations was good to meet Mark and dispensed and in excellent in advance to Jeff Hoyle please. Lisa Jarvis who have taken over condition. from Jim and Pete and best of Cheers luck for the future. It is regrettable that in all parts of the country pubs seem to be Steve Barker The Beer Festival at Stuart closing at an alarming rate, this West Norfolk CAMRA Chairman House Hotel lived up to its is certainly not helped by the West Norfolk CAMRA Pub of the Year Selection Procedure Nominations for any pub in the country. See the CAMRA These will be accepted from any CAMRA website for details. member living within the West Norfolk Branch area of affiliated to the branch. They can be Selection submitted in person at a branch meeting or other The result will be decided by members visiting event, by email to [email protected], or the pubs and filling in scoring sheets as used in by post to Jeff Hoyle, 91 Tennyson Road, Kings the national CAMRA pub of the year competi - Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 5NG tion. Any West Norfolk branch member or affiliate can participate in the judging, but must Short List visit and score all the short listed pubs for their The nominations must be submitted by the scores to be used. To request a copy of the Branch AGM, normally the second Tuesday in judging form and guidelines, contact me as October. At this time a short list of no more than above. Completed forms should be returned by four pubs will be complied. If more than four any of the methods above at or before the nominations have been received, the short list branch Good Beer Guide selection meeting, will consist of the four pubs which have the best which is normally held towards the end of average score on the NBSS system over the February. It is hoped that the result will be period of December to the AGM. Any CAMRA announced at this meeting. member can enter scores on the NBSS system Jeff Hoyle NN#162_Layout 1 11/09/2012 09:03 Page 7

NORFOLK NIPS Chairman’s Letters | Beer Festival Bonanza

Well I'm not sure we can call this summer our 220+ Real Ales, 40+ Ciders and Perries, memorable with all the rain and little sunshine. 100+ Bottled Continental Beers, but not all in However what has struck me is the consider - one session. able amount of Beer Festivals that are available to us in the Norfolk area. Many Pubs and Finally I would like to thank Ian Stamp, Pubs Village Halls are now offering a great range of Officer and his Campaigning Team who local beers & ciders and some other beers recently carried out a beer census of all the from far and wide. I recently visited the Pubs in the city centre. We found 254 Real Ales Ranworth Beer Festival and had a very relaxing were available and again enhance our claim to evening sampling the beers, although under Norwich being the Real Ale Capital of Britain. constant attack from the midges. Maybe they This bodes well in the run up to the 2013 liked my northern blood with a head on it. National CAMRA AGM being held here next April. For some reason beer and steam trains seem to go together and my trip to the North Graham Freeman Norfolk Railway Beer Festival was the usual Chairman Norwich & Norfolk CAMRA welcoming and enjoyable journey. They are going from strength to strength and are promoting Real Ale and Cider in a popular area of our County. Well worth a visit.

On the other hand the Mid-Norfolk Railway Beer Festival is just getting on track and I wish them well. The train trip up to Wymondham Traditional English Inn coincided with a call in at the Green Dragon Recently refurbished and Beer Festival where I had to do more sampling. re-open after three years We receive many enquiries on how to set up a Beer Festival and we are always willing to assist Selection of three Real Ales in promoting Real Ale & Ciders. We can all the time including ‘The Red Lion Ale’ usually advertise a forthcoming Beer Festival in Senior Citizen Menu the Norfolk Nips and on our branch website if given enough notice. Further afield I made my served Mon-Fri: 12-2pm £4.95 usual trips to Ipswich and Peterborough Beer Festivals to research beers for our own Full menu served daily lunchtime & evening Norwich Beer Festival. I found some and hope - Monthly Quizzes fully they will be available when it starts on Monthly Live Entertainment from local artists 29th October to 3rd November 2012. As usual it will be held in St Andrews and Blackfriars Opening hours Mon-Fri 11-3pm & 5-11pm, Halls and if you would like to volunteer please Fri & Sat 11-midnight & Sunday 12-10:30pm contact us early so we can make arrangements Food served Mon-Sat 12-2pm & 6:30-9pm for you to attend. I know you will enjoy the Sun 12-8pm experience. If you are unable to help as staffing then I hope you can help by drinking Please call for more details 01842 829728

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NORFOLK NIPS Words from the Editors | The Ed’lines

Welcome to the eagerly of communication are Scene and have some fasci - awaited autumn edition, changing – fast. Time was nating stories to tell. This idea bursting at the seams with all when the editor would receive was suggested to me by a that you need to know and a hand written note or post - reader on a CAMRA trip. Roger want to read! Thanks to all card about a pub, then it was and Anthea Cawdron are first those who have contributed. e-mails. Now it is more likely to up and you can read what they However, yet again some copy be a posting on facebook or have to say on page 27. has had to be held over for the twitter. No matter how you do next issue! it, if you want to tell fellow It has been a golden summer readers about a pub that you (even the sun shone once or We are, of course, looking have visited, let me know. We twice) but sadly not for some forward to the 35th Norwich now have a twitter account - in the pub trade. Pubs are still Beer Festival in October. I will @norfolk_nips. But please bear closing and you sense that be working there again this in mind that whilst twitter and there is worse to come. year, so please take the oppor - facebook are immediate, we CAMRA’s new initiative will tunity to say hello and tell me have a three month lead time! help, but the message is clear – what you like, or don’t like use your local pub or lose it! about this magazine. We also have the first in a The White Horse at Upton new series of articles, where we found a way, and you can read In this issue, Pub Post-its seek the views of those unsung their story in the next issue. makes a welcome return. heroes who have contributed However, times and methods so much to the Norfolk Beer Enjoy!

Stig’s Words As the wettest summer in many Bockbiers will be coming out in with this issue, Travels world - years come to a close, autumn Northern Europe and in Britain wide by branch members and beckons and no doubt loads of beers of mellow fruitfulness some optimistic news about sunshine! become the order of the day as local pubs. it cools down, however there is The Euros, Olympics and still time for a few hoppy ones Thanks as always to those Paralympics have passed into in the late sun! who contribute to making this history, leaving some great a good read, contributions memories, but doing little for There’s little I enjoy more always welcome. Also news of trade in pubs, shops or most than autumn colours on the a new system for selecting other places of business. leaves of trees surrounding a West Norfolk’s pub of the, year Autumn is a good time for beer beer garden brought to life by please see within. enthusiasts with Norwich Beer a golden sun. Hopefully there is Festival in October plus a bit plenty of variety for you to read A pleasant autumn to all! further a field Oktoberfest. whilst you enjoy the autumn Stig

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NORFOLK NIPS | Pub and Brewery News

Pub News cage in Pottergate has bought advised us that their opening the freehold of the Sir Garnet hours have changed since we Wolseley , which has been surveyed the pub for the Good Starting with the bad news, we closed for over a year, and after Beer Guide – this will inevitably have to report the closure of a major refurbishment, re- happen occasionally given that the Railway at Coltishall, opened it as the Sir Garnet , we do the surveys in January the Ship at Bacton, and with two ales on handpump on and February, and the Guide is the Swan at Gressenhall – all the bar (Brains and Timothy published in August. The temporary we hope. Unfortu - Taylors) and two more on stil - current hours are 5-11pm nately the same cannot be said lage behind (from local Mon-Thu and Sat, 3-11pm Sat of the Suffield Arms at brewers Golden triangle and and 12-11pm Sun. Gunton, which has been sold Tipples). at auction and will not re-open. Lastly, you may know that the The Garden House at Norfolk branches of CAMRA The Cricketers Rest , Fakenham has been bought by maintain a Pub Database Norwich; and Cat & Fiddle , Wetherspoons, the Rampant at http://www.norwichcamra.o Norwich have all been closed Horse , at Freethorpe has re- rg.uk/pubdb. While we try for a while, but nothing is opened under new hard to keep it up to date, the known about their future – if management, and the George speed of change in the you have any information, Hotel in East Dereham has industry, and the large area we about these or any other pubs been bought by a local busi - have to cover – more than 800 in Branch area, please contact nessman and is being pubs! - makes this a massive me atpubsofficer@norwich - refurbished prior to re-opening. task. With the national CAMRA camra.org.uk. However Members’ Weekend and AGM the White Lion , Somerton, The Star in Fakenham has re- coming to Norwich next year, which had been closed for a opened. The new landlords, we’d like to ensure that the while, has re-opened. business partners Stuart and information we have is as up to Carrie, have over ten years date as possible, so if you can The eagerly-awaited opening experience in the trade and are spare a few moments, please of the Fat Cat and keen to develop the pub's check out your local pub, and Canary (formerly the Mustard potential. Greene King IPA is let us know if we need to make Pot) in Thorpe Road, Norwich on at present at £2.50 per pint any updates – you can email happened just in time for the for a limited period. Wood - them to me at pubsofficer@ City of Ale in May/June, forde's Wherry will join it later. norwichcamra.org.uk, as following a major refurb. Colin mentioned above. Keatley’s third pub in the Fat In other news, real ale is on sale Cat group is run along the at the new Appleyard’s Café Brewery News same lines as the other two, in Exchange Street, Norwich – with a wide choice of regional just a firkin (of Yetman’s at the and national ales alongside the Blackfriars Brewery in Great time of our visit) on stillage in Yarmouth, which was recently excellent Fat Cat range of the cafe, but good to see real beers. purchased by a drinks distrib - ale making an appearance utor, JV Trading, has closed, outside the traditional pub with the retirement of founder Also in Norwich, Lauren environment. And the Cherry Gregory, lessee of the Bird - and previous owner Bill Russell Tree at Wicklewood have due to ill health, after nine

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NORFOLK NIPS News from the West | years. Blackfriars Yarmouth News from the West and Cobblestones (formerly was a past Beer of the the Princess Royal) is awaiting a Festival, and we wish Bill and What a pleasure it was at our decision on an application to his family all the best. Branch Meeting in July to see turn it into a funeral parlour. I The future of the brewery is how the Victory at have opposed this on CAMRA’s uncertain, but JV Trading own Clenchwarton has been trans - behalf, but more in hope than the rights to the Lacon’s name, formed from a struggling pub expectation. Just out of town, and were in the process of trial with an uncertain future to a at Bawsey, the Sandboy is still brewing using Lacon’s recipes thriving village local with three closed and up for let. and yeast, with a view to beers and grand plans for the reviving the name. Latest news future. Look out for Chris’s Up at Old Hunstanton, the is that the first beers may be article or better still, visit the Neptune is the latest coastal available by the end of the year. pub for yourself. Wayne isn’t pub to receive the Sunday the only landlord to transform Colour supplement treatment. Norfolk’s stock of breweries a local pub. We were very Jay Rayner reviewed the food remains undiminished, impressed with the Old Bell at for the Observer , and whilst he however, as Poppyland Saham Toney when we called was generally enthusiastic Brewery , based in Cromer, in, and hope to hold a branch about the food, did comment released their first beer on June meeting there later in the year. that the price of £160 for two 30th. Owner Martin Warren, with wine is a tad expensive. previously a researcher at Other pubs which are up and I have rarely been in since the Norwich Museum, intends to running again include the days when retired West Indian release one-off, small batches Bedingfeld Arms at Oxbor - pilot, Henry, used to run an of “really extraordinary” ough, about which we have excellent locals pub. I doubt bottled ales. The first two had good reports, and Harry that you can still call in just for (brewed in Elveden while the tells us that the Squirrels a drink any longer, so head ex-Allen’s Garage in West St., Dray at Sporle (formerly the round the corner to The Cromer, is converted into a Chequers) has reopened as the Ancient Mariner if you are in brewery) certainly fit the bill: Peddars Inn, selling ‘fine local the area. Contrast the price of Poppyland Pilot is a 5.8% cask ales’, which is confirmed the Neptune with the Chalk American IPA, and Out of the by Michael, who scored the and Cheese in the converted Blue a 7.1% saison, brewed Adnams Flame Runner at 4/5. school house at Shouldham, with Belgian yeast and Not such good news for the where I recently had an excel - Hallertau Hersbrucker hops and Winch at West Winch which is lent sandwich for under a fiver spiced with elderflower. once again closed, even before washed down with one of the the ‘new management’ sign Elgood’s dog decathlon Wolf Brewery will now be was down. Further down the specials at £2 a pint, in very supplying Poppy Ale and Prairie road at Tottenhill, the Dray comfortable surroundings. Gold to ten Sainsbury’s Super - and Horses has been closed markets in the South East, when we have passed recently. Out at Congham, the Anvil is Including Attleborough. This In Kings Lynn there are the now being run by Karl and follows The Sainsbury’s Great long standing empty pubs such Cath Long, who also run the British Beer Hunt, where as the Jolly Farmers , London Porterhouse in customers tasted and voted for Hogshead , Wildfowler and Kings Lynn. Landlord and Bate - their favourite beers to find the Antonio’s Wine Bar . Work mans were on the bar when best local beers in the country. has not yet started o n the Les called, and good value food The Brewery will soon be transformation of the Queens is an added attraction. moving to new premises, but Arms into a community centre, remaining in Besthorpe. Jeff

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The Norfolk Brewhouse, a new equipment shipped in from farm. Moon Gazer Golden, 10 barrel brewery in north Canada. Amber and Ruby are a range Norfolk started brewing this which covers light citrus ales to summer - fulfilling a long term Equipment which incidentally the more robust chocolate ambition for owners Rachel and allows them to brew a craft bitterness of ruby ale. David Holliday. lager called StubbleStag – which recently appeared in cask The ales have been well Located in north Norfolk in a at The Trafford Arms and Plas - received by pubs across Norfolk. renovated barn, the beers are all terers. brewed using chalk filtered To find out more: water from the brewery’s own The brewery brews three ales www.norfolkbrewhouse.co.uk well. Along with some pretty called Moon Gazer - a reference Facebook: Norfolk Brewhouse nifty, state of the art brewing to the hares which live on the

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CAMRA News NORFOLK NIPS | National Cask Ale Week members of the British Guild of Beer Writers will be conducting tutored cask ale tastings in pubs throughout the week. Cask Ale Week will this year run between Friday 28th September and Sunday 7th October. Greene King Pub Partners The campaign is organised by Cask Marque Three hundred-plus Head Brewer’s Cask Club (with support from CAMRA) and aims to: sites will be using the “Try Before You Buy” • Encourage non-real ale drinkers to try theme and third pint glasses and paddles to real ale for the first time create interest and encourage drinkers to try cask ale. Lots of Greene King pubs will be • Encourage inexperienced real ale drinkers to hosting cask ale festivals and some will be try more varieties of real ale hosting “Meet the Brewer” nights. • Encourage experienced real ale drinkers to visit real ale pubs throughout the week Punch Taverns Nearly 1,000 Punch Taverns pubs up and down • Encourage non-real ale pubs to stock the country will be taking part in a Free Pint real ale for the first time promotion. CAMRA members will be able to • Encourage pubs to organise a number of download their voucher for a pint of cask ale real ale events to encourage more real ale trade from the www.freedrinkspubs.co.uk website.

CAMRA are expecting thousands of pubs to Marston’s come on board to help raise the profile of Marston’s are rallying over 2,000 pubs across their Britain’s national drink. Visit the Official National entire pub estate as well as free trade customers to Cask Ale Week website. get involved with Cask Ale Week. The brewery will be supplying ‘Only in Britain, Only in Pubs’ kits Try before you buy to pubs and encouraging activity ranging from “The theme and the strapline are aimed to beer festivals to tutored tastings. attract people back into pubs,” says Paul Nunny, director of Cask Marque, “as well as to get Ian Ward, Ale Category Marketing Manager for people sampling cask ale, our national drink. Marston’s Beer and Pub Company said: “Cask They should provide a great platform for brew - Ale Week is a fantastic idea that allows pubs to eries and pubs to talk about what differentiates highlight their unique point of difference in the cask ale from the other beers on the bar and leisure sector.” Festivals will focus on persuading from ale on the supermarket shelves,” he says. guests to try new and different cask ales and bar “By making Cask Ale Week into a real celebra - staff will be recommending “try before you buy” tion, an extension of all the 2012 activities, on all cask ales. between us all we can make a real impact.” Great British Beer Festival The Caskfinder App, which has 50,000 uses a month, will also be used to drive trade into pubs Around 47,500 people attended the event this participating in Cask Ale Week, and prizes for year, a record for Festivals held at Olympia. pubgoers using the highly successful World’s The GBBF was back at Olympia this year Biggest Ale Trail will be doubled during the because the Olympic Volleyball had taken over Week. Earls Court. Fears that numbers would be down  because of high accommodation costs and Beer Sommeliers travel difficulties, caused partly by London Beer sommeliers will be helping to launch Cask Underground refusing to reopen the Olympia Ale Week with tutored tasting sessions. They and Branch, were unfounded.

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Coniston Brewery won the accolade of Cham - pion Beer of Britain with its Number 9 Barley Wine. Silver was won by The Green Jack Brewery of Lowestoft for their Trawlerboys Best Bitter.

Where will the GBBF be in 2013? Earls Court was due to be demolished after the Olympics and it is not clear whether or not there are other suit - able venues available. Where should it be? Send your suggestions to the Editor. Have you signed the e-petition yet?

CAMRA’s online petition needs 100,000 signa - tures to get the Beer Escalator debated in Parliament. At the time of going to press, a further 15,000 are needed urgently. If you have not done so, please sign today. No computer? Use the facilities at your Library or get a family member or friend to help,

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West Norfolk on the Buses NORFOLK NIPS | West Norfolk CAMRA on Tour 2012 I organize the West Norfolk branch’s annual sense, hmm! Yoda Ed!) , the Mermaid is Xmas pub crawl, and thought maybe a summer a class pub full of atmosphere and a unique jaunt would be nice, but with a difference. So, character. Back to the schedule and the Royal putting my creative juices in full flow mode I Oak at Poringland, they don’t usually do food came up with the idea of using public transport but a BBQ was out back so some nice burgers out of Norwich to visit some pubs we wouldn’t and hot dogs were enjoyed, as well as some normally get to, using the Anglian Bus good ales. I had Triple FFF Moondance, just one company. And here is the story of our day! of eight real ales which I failed to note down (sorry!), mind you the handwriting was getting Our small group assembled in St Stephens slightly dodgy by now. Wonder why?! Then it Street at bus stand C, including some members was back into the fair city of Norwich (come on of the Norwich branch, caught the 1125 (which you Yellows, let’s be havin’ ya!), arrived back a was 5 minutes early) Anglian Bus to Bungay, we little after 5, myself and Nuddsy popped into bought a day ticket which cost just 7 pounds. the Champion for a swift one, only three on of Took about an hour to get to Bungay and our which we had Bateman’s XB (also Summer first stop (bus stopped right outside!), the Swallow & Woodforde’s Wherry), the XB was Green Dragon , home of the Green Jack good. One more stop and the Bell Hotel by brewery, most started with Green Jack Chaucer, Castle Mall, one of the better Wetherspoon’s but you could also have the brewery’s Bridge outlets, good pint of Lancaster Decathlon Gold Street Bitter, Gold, and Strong Mild. Nice pub (they also had Hobgoblin, Adnams Gunhill, with character, and a piano, you hum it I’ll play Brains SA, and Kelham Island Pale Rider). Some it, ha ha! Back on the bus for a short ride to of the group headed off to a gig at the Water - Broome and The Artichoke , landlord JC & front, and others (like me!) headed home, a missus were out but the staff were very friendly, great day out. we took the chance of a light lunch to go with our superb ale, I had Elmtree Burston Cuckoo Thanks to all who came along and made the and Hop Back Taiphoon (both delish); other ales day a brilliant one, I think everyone enjoyed the on handpump and gravity included Adnams day, thanks also to the very friendly and helpful Bitter, Elgoods Black Dog, Nethergate Lightning, Anglian Bus drivers. I’m glad it all came together and Abbeydale Absolution (think there were so well. I got some good exercise too, due to some Fat Cat beers too). other commitments my mate Stig couldn’t make it (and he put as much effort into the Thanks to Pete & Phil we squeezed an extra planning of this crawl as I did), so to save taxi pub to our itinerary, this was the Mermaid Inn fares I walked to and from Brandon train station. at Hedenham, and what an excellent pub, in My legs and feet felt it next day!!! See you all on fact my pub of the day! Three brilliant local ales, the next event. Cheers!!! Tindall Summer Loving, Winters Going for Gold, and Adnams Flame Runner (an Olympic theme I Timbo.

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GOOD BEER GUIDE 2013 NORFOLK NIPS | The GBG is 40!

Good Beer Guide Digital A new version of the highly successful Good Beer Guide Mobile app will be launched for Apple and Android™ compatible devices. This new evolution of the app will go live on 13th September 2012 and will incorporate a basic version which will be free to download and allow limited ‘near me’ searches and restrict available functionality without a paid subscription.

Once the basic version is installed, a 12 month subscription can be purchased in app for just £4.99 and will allow access to enhanced searches by pub name, postcode and street address and will provide a greater number of pubs for the user to browse full listings of when CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide 2013 looking for a pint. Detailed information on all ISBN: 978-1-85249-290-8 UK real-ale breweries and their key beers will Pages: 944 also be made available. Subscribers will also be RRP: £15.99 able to record the pubs they have visited and Editor: Roger Protz. input their own review notes using their unique subscribers account. The Guide is Britain’s best-selling and fully inde - pendent beer & pub guide and has updated *Please note the new version of the app super - listings for 2013 - this 40th edition features over sedes earlier versions and cannot be installed 1000 pubs that did not appear in last year’s from within earlier versions. In order to retain Good Beer Guide any existing user notes or data purchased prior to 13th September 2012, users should NOT • It is a beer lover’s best friend, featuring 4,500 delete earlier versions of the app from their pubs from around the UK all nominated and phones. reviewed by CAMRA members. *CAMRA will also be releasing an e-book • The easy-to-use listings are grouped edition of the Good Beer Guide 2013 that will geographically so you can find a friendly be available on numerous platforms, including watering hole wherever you are Kindle, iPad and numerous e-pub compatible devices. • The ‘Breweries Section’ lists over hundreds of breweries of all over the nation of all shapes and Point of interest (POI) files for Tom Tom, sizes, and tasting notes and a Beer Index help Navman and Garmin satellite navigation you to find and enjoy your perfect pint systems will also be available.

Available to CAMRA members for as little as Find out more about all of these formats at £10 (online www.camra.org.uk/shop) or £11 www.camra.org.uk/gbg mail order.

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NORFOLK NIPS GOOD BEER GUIDE 2013 | Competition Time

The North Norfolk Railway goes from strength to strength, and following the successful Beer Festival in July, they are offering Complimentary Rover Tickets for two lucky readers. These are for four people to travel free of charge on the Poppy Line, and are valid up to the end of October 2013.

To win, simply answer the following question: Which popular television series filmed an episode on the Poppy Line forty years ago, in 1973?

Please send your answer with your name and address to the editor Michael Baldwin at [email protected]

Congratulations go to Graham Smith of Great Yarmouth who won the competition in the last issue. The answer to the question was Bateman’s Brewery.

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NORFOLK NIPS Post-its | Pub Post-its As always, remember that these post-its are subjective and reflect the personal experience of our correspondents. Please feel free to email your post-its in to [email protected] - and if you really like the pub, why not nominate it for next year’s CAMRA Good Beer Guide?

Kings Arms, North Walsham A large old inn Troll Cart, Great Yarmouth was full on a on the corner by the market cross. The central sunny Saturday with its £2 range of real ales and island bar has three hand pumps and the KA punters were entertained by the Puppet Man, bitter (£2.80) is brewed especially by Bees on tour? Brewery of Walcott and was delicious. Check out the lounge upstairs with its high ceiling and Ormesby Grange, Great Yarmouth is immense mirrors. trading again, with six exotic ales available at £2.75. A beautiful imposing building with inter - Black Swan, North Walsham Situated esting history on the walls. through an archway off the market place the building is a stand alone classic boozer full of Sadly the Suspension Bridge had closed again racing enthusiasts but not ale drinkers. The two when the above tour was conducted. handpumps included Wherry (£3) but it was not top notch. A shame as it is obviously a thriving Tibenham Greyhound has a remote rural local. location on the mighty river Tib. A contempla - tive May evening was disrupted by the arrival of Bluebell, North Walsham The country pub a large troupe of morris dancers. They were on the edge of town as it declares itself proved kitted out in green and yellow and thus perfectly to be a welcoming watering hole with five hand - complemented the laburnam tree in flower pumps of which two were from Norfolk. outside the saloon’s bay window. A roaring fire Woodfordes Once Bittern (£3.40) was excellent. warmed the cockles by the bar which sold four An old photo of a S&P dray outside the King of beers at £3.20, two from Suffolk, one from the Belgians was notable. Where was it taken? London and one from Yorkshire.

Barking Smack, Great Yarmouth An Kings Arms, Martham historic 19th century pub on Marine parade, it Since my last visit when the current Landlord offers a large range of Grain beers (£3.10-£3.40) took over some twelve to Eighteen months ago, and Crones cider (£3.50). Simple wooden decor hard work and dedication in the cellar to and a great photo of a 1952 refit with Lacons produce an excellent pint of bitter has paid divi - mild and bitter on the bar. Next door the dends by winning Adnams "Best Kept Cellar" Marine, Great Yarmouth has had a modern award. The bitter is now served at the correct refit and has reopened as a family pub with temperature and in perfect condition, with the games room and beer garden (with a resident prices ranging from £3.10 to £3.40, including Netherland dwarf) at the rear. Two beers (£3) on guest ales. Both he and his wife, with the help of offer and a striking tropical fish tank mounted their chef, have now turned their enthusiasm above the fire place. into providing the finest of meals. The 26 cover restaurant is bright with a warm atmosphere, Another 19th century classic with a Dutch and crisp white linen table cloths give it that double pantiled roof is the Theatre Tavern . extra touch of class. Prices are also very attrac - This tiny pub by the market place is open again and selling Adnams and Smiths cask at £2 50. Continued overleaf

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NORFOLK NIPS Post-its - continued | tive with a Sunday Lunch costing from £6.25 to £9.75 for a three course, plus various other dishes including Steak & Kidney Pie, fish courses and vegetarian options, all at reasonable prices. Lets hope that they can soon add an The pub with no bar, award for recognition of their catering. ales direct from cask. Lion Inn, Somerton At long last, after a two year closure, it's good to Watch www.nelsonslocal.co.uk for forthcoming events. see a pub re-open, and after a facelift the Lion is Tongue twizzling food, and great value. back in business. It now has two real ales, Huge garden and children’s play area. (Woodforde’s Wherry at £3.00 per pint and “Nelsons” Revenge), with a possible third being Shooting parties, lunch & dinner added as trade and demand permits. After only menus available a weeks trading (Re-opened 14th July), things look good as several “Old and New” customers Victory Barn Function Room are filling the seats in a comfortable pub that for Weddings and Parties now offers a friendly greeting. Food, although limited at present, will I’m sure attract the holiday boating people from the near-by Come & visit Nelson’s local. Staithe. Lets hope that they continue to supply Walsingham Road, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk PE31 8HN good beer and company, with a long time stay, 01328 738241 and not a five minute wonder. Good Luck. White Horse, Chedgrave Popped in to this lovely local village pub after a family visit in Beccles. It was a sunny evening so we started off in the garden with a very well kept pint of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord. The pub was quite busy with diners and the Olympics Come and visit this converted Victorian school closing ceremony was about to start on the telly where you will be transported into an eclectic in the bar. world with a touch of the Scottish highlands.

Enjoy a a drink from our selection of Real Ales, We decided to stay for food as the pub was local ciders or two premium lagers. dog friendly and allowed well –behaved dogs in ~ the bar. The food was nice but a little on the pricey side. The staff were very friendly even Wood-fired oven baked pizzas and though they were busy. A pleasant country pub other tasty local dishes available and recommended for the atmosphere, well ~ kept ale and it’s dog friendly. Farm shop and~ antiques gallery Accommodation available Quality rooms and award winning breakfasts provide a restful night’s stay. www.bed-and-breakfast-west-norfolk.co.uk /contact_chalk_cheese.asp Telephone Andrew on 01366 348039 for reservations and more details

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West Norfolk NORFOLK NIPS | What’s cooking

Time was, when you went into one of those posh pubs that served food, it was wise to ask which beer they used in the kitchen. That would be the one which was not selling very well, probably with good reason. You could then choose something else, safe in the knowledge that you had avoided the worst of the ones on the bar. Things are different these days. Pub food has become respectable and is often good quality, and cooking with beer is more about adding flavour rather than using up the dregs. I was reminded of this when the bar wife pointed out a query in her Sainsbury’s magazine. Katie wanted to know whether she should use lager, bitter or stout when making batter. The team’s answer confirmed what many real ale drinkers instinctively know. Lager contributes little in terms of taste, whereas stout and bitter add depth and flavour. However, to make batter we recommend a light fizzy lager as the idea is to lift the batter from the bubbles rather than to add flavour’. As for the bar wife, her culinary adventures sometimes involve cooking pork in cider, but I So there you are. If you want depth and flavour think her use of alcohol is mainly in puddings. choose beer, but if bubbles are your thing, go These are often livened up with the contents of for lager. Sound advice, but rather compromised the mysterious bottles of spirits and liqueurs that by the suggestion that you choose something lurk at the back of the pantry. Are we the only that you will enjoy drinking with you meal, as ones with a collection of bottles which were few recipes call for a whole bottle in the either won in a raffle or brought back from cooking. If the price of fluffy batter is having to abroad, whose destiny is to languish unloved drink a half bottle of fizzy lager, I might stick and untouched until called upon to perk up a with pies. Worryingly, the next question in the fruit salad? magazine is ‘Can you suggest an alternative to lard?’ As for cooking with beer, the bar wife did spend a year in Belgium in her younger days, For the cooks who like their beer, salvation is at where she worked at a conference centre. She hand with a recipe in the Guardian for Barley, says that she can cook a wonderful “Carbon - Beer and Oregano Flatbread. (Not a dish that nade a la Flamande”, which is a beef and beer was popular in the terraced streets of Lancashire stew and looks fantastic. Enthusiastically, I when I was young). Dan Lepard’s instructions suggested we head down to Beers of Europe to call for ‘a good flavourful sort of beer, rather buy some authentic Belgian beer for the recipe. than lager’. Proof if it were needed that the ‘Great’, she said. ‘You had better invite a few middle classes are at last embracing beer people around. The recipe serves 200.’ culture. [email protected]

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In the 2012 Cask CAM RA Good Marque Be acc er Guide redited

A popular pub with locals and holidaymakers alike, the Crown Inn is perched right on the seafront overlooking the beautiful sandy beaches of Sheringham in Norfolk.

Enjoy a meal or snack from our extensive and popular menu A fine selection of real ales • Heated smoking area Live bands every Saturday from 9:00pm Extensive outside seating area overlooking the sea Tel: 01263 823213 email: [email protected] Lifeboat Plain, East Cliff, Sheringham NR26 8BQ www.crown-sheringham.co.uk

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NORFOLK NIPS Beer Legends | Beer Legends advice they would give to someone wanting to run a pub for the first time? Work for a good licencee in the first place, was the answer, then you will need a good business plan based on sound data – do your history, Roger advised. This is the first of a new series, where we inter - view people who have made the Norwich and I wondered what they thought that the biggest Norfolk Beer scene what it is today. challenges facing the industry today where? “The Big People” Anthea replied. Roger nodded, First up is Roger and Anthea Cawdron, now of “Government legislation and the Beer Escalator The Ribs of Beef in Norwich. I caught up with Tax” added. “ Not many people are aware that them recently, in the pub, which was surrounded it is 1p per pint on a 3.2% alcohol beer, but it by scaffolding.”We are having the roof done”, really mounts up, the stronger the beer” he said. Anthea explains. Apparently being able to do it is one of the joys of owning a freehouse. Roger thought that CAMRA was a very useful vehicle for promoting beer and pubs and also Roger and Anthea have been married for 44 praised The City of Ale Festival. “That was very years and during that time, the list of pubs that good in the 1st year” he mused, “but this year they have managed or owned is impressive – there was too much going on at the same time, Fishers Free House, The Adam and Eve, The with the Jubilee, etc, but the organisation was Mischief, The Black Horse, The George and good” he added. Dragon, The Bridge House and Catton Old Hall, a B & B. I was beginning to wonder how they found time to relax and how they unwound in their At one stage in the 80’s, they had five pubs at spare time? Their eyes light up. “The water”, the same time. I asked if there was a common hey exclaimed, “we love rowing on the river at theme to the pubs, but Roger said that the indi - Thorpe. “ We love spending time with the vidual managers meant individual styles. It did grandchildren and have a caravan on a good enable him to go for bulk buying and the site with a good pub, of course”, chimed Norwich Inns Buying Group was formed. Anthea. I thought that they must have seen a lot of changes since they started in the 70’s and they OK, where next I asked? The USA is a natural both agreed. Anthea mentions the licencing draw for them as their son lives there, and they hours, selling food and wine and Roger points would love to run a real ale pub in New York. out the sheer variety of cask ales now available, Roger remembers that in a restaurant in and the fact that they now sell water, unheard of Houston, Texas, they came across the sign for in the 70’s. Mind you, he remembers selling The Mischief, by John Crome, based on an orig - Martini Dry with ice and lemon then! inal by Hogarth.

Anthea remembers selling her first drink on 4th The beer was good, so was the conversation January 1972. It was a Mann’s Brown, which and the ambience, but it was time to leave. cost 9d. On that first night they took £60, not “Any last thoughts?” I asked? “Keep Calm and bad when the annual rent was £150. have another beer!” laughed Anthea.

With all their experience, I asked them what Good advice.

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COAST ROAD, WALCOTT, NORFOLK NR12 OPE

Telephone (01692) 650371

FREE HOUSE Proprietor since 1989: STEVE BULLIMORE OPEN FOR FOOD & DRINKS ALL DAY, EVERY DAY, 11am - 11pm Food available all day until 10.30pm 10% off food and drink on production of CAMRA membership card FOUR REAL ALES & CIDER www.lighthouseinn.co.uk

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THE ANGEL INN CAMRA Member’s Discounts FREEHOUSE With the price of the pint in your hand set to esca - late for the foreseeable future, it’s reassuring to know that you don’t always have to pay the full price.

There are Pubs which offer discounts to CAMRA NORFOLK CAMRA PUB OF Members on production of a valid Membership Card. Discounts do vary, but finding out which Pubs THE YEAR 2010! offer what is not easy. Open all day every day The Norwich and Norfolk Branch want to compile a Excellent home cooked meals list of those in Norfolk that do. Details from the list will be published in future editions of Norfolk NIPS and available from our award Cask Force and the list will be forwarded to CAMRA winning kitchen HQ, who are setting up a nationwide scheme. This will mean that wherever you go, you will able to find Large Beer Garden with play area a decent pub and save some money too. En-suite accommodation So, if you are a Licencee who does, or wishes to Camping and Caravanning available offer such discounts, or a Happy Drinker who knows Larling, Norfolk, NR16 2QU (17th Century former coaching inn) a Pub that does, then please let us know. Contact Ian Stamp [email protected] or any Tel: 01953 717963 Committee Member. www.angel-larling.co.uk Downham Market Pub Celebrates Regional Award

Members joined locals at the Railway Arms in Downham Market on the 16th August to celebrate their success in coming third in the East Anglia Regional Cider Pub of the Year Competition.

The Railway Arms, which regularly sells cider from nearby producer Pickled Pig, who are based at Stretham near Ely, was one of 25 pubs in the East Anglia Regional Cider Competition. The small cosy The Real Ale Shop is a unique off-licence bar on the platform at Downham Market Station also offering over 50 bottle conditioned ales sells two beers and is one of the towns entries in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide. from 15 Norfolk brewers. Ian and Lesley Ann Pinches, who have been We are located on a beautiful arable farm running the Railway Arms for nearly three years said close-by Wells-next-the-Sea, which provides "'We are very honoured to receive this award and much of the malt used in brewing the wish to thank our customers and our cider and beer ales we sell. suppliers for supporting us. Particular mention should be given to Elgoods, The Small Beer The Real Ale Shop, Branthill Farm, Company and of course, Charles Roberts at Pickled Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, NR23 1SB. Pig, but there are many others as well. We care passionately about our ciders and beers and we are Tel: 01328 710810 pleased that so many people from far and wide appreciate our efforts"

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Victory at Clenchwarton NORFOLK NIPS | “England expects ever pub to do its duty”

closed for two weeks over The donations took on a new Christmas and had not been pace when it came to sorting left in good order; it was dirty out the garden with all the and hardly heated. Wayne plants being donated! The decided to take a punt and heating has been improved take it on; he admits his first dramatically making the Victory thought on starting to sort out much more comfortable. the mess was “What HAVE I The Victory in done?” Wayne decided the language in the bar was a bit too Clenchwarton sails After general clearing up it “nautical”, so he has installed a into clear seas. was decided to open as soon as swear box which has cured the possible, repainting took place problem and raised £40 for the with local help whilst trading. RNLI in the first two months! If A few weeks ago West Norfolk £500 can be reached a local branch had our monthly There were no clocks in the has kindly agreed to match it. meeting a the Victory in pub; one with a nautical theme Clenchwarton just North of was found by local Clive. There The improvement in the bar King’s Lynn, after the meeting were some HMS Victory related has led to a wider section of the landlord introduced himself items in the pub and store the village community using and told us a little about the re- sheds, a ship model was kindly the bar from families to young birth of the pub. restored by more local help people. A quiz is held on the and a nautical theme is first Wednesday of each month This sounded like a story worth followed in decorating the pub in support of the village PTA. telling, so I returned later in the with items coming by local month to get the details. donation. Wayne’s wife, Beata is from Poland and Polish cakes are a The first person I spoke to was local resident Mary, in the restaurant. Her view of the renewed pub was, “The best thing that’s happened to Clenchwarton in years.” A good omen I think you’ll agree!

After salmon on samphire with hollandaise sauce and desert all home made, it was time to hear the story…

Wayne was looking for a pub to run when he was offered the Victory, he decided to look around. The pub had been

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NORFOLK NIPS Hawian Trip | feature of quiz nights, appar - ently Polish gherkins and A TRIP TO THE cheese and ham kievs are also popular. The regulars make up a tasting panel for the new HAWAIIAN ISLANDS menu items, trialed on the bar.

Wayne works from a tiny kitchen not much bigger than a cupboard which has had as many as nine people working in it! In spite of this the menu of locally sourced foods has changed three times since the pub re-opened… Wayne come from a baking CAMRA members Craig and tary personal would have family and hopes to bake more Sandi Forcum who have lived access to. There are nineteen when a larger kitchen is in Thetford, are now residing in bases on Oahu and most have installed. Hawaii, Lt. Colonel Craig bars with discounted prices. Forcum was based at USAF Elgood’s seem delighted with Lakenheath but was posted to Happy hours are popular the progress at the Victory and USAF Pearl Harbor. Craig and around Honolulu and Craig did are helping out with improve - Sandi invited some CAMRA his best to locate most of ments such as new double members to visit prior to their them. One in particular was glazing and re paint of the departure. This opportunity the Yard House close to Waikiki exterior plus improved car park was taken up and four of us beach which featured over lighting. The beers are from the flew out for a holiday on the one hundred beers on tap. No Elgood’s range plus guests sun. Craig and Sandi live in an real ale I’m afraid, all were through the brewery, well original house (pre 1942) on gassed and very cold. looked after by Wayne and the military base at Pearl Beata. Harbor and that is where we all During our two week stay we stayed. saw most of the spectacular Wayne feels that making the sights of our island (Oahu) and pub a hub for village contacts Their hospitality was second also managed to visit Kauai of all kinds both business and to none, catering for all our island (helicopter trip included) social. needs even borrowing a six and also the Volcanic Big island seater truck for transporting us but this ended by our heli - I think this is a good example to various locations on the copter flight being cancelled of what can be done, with the island. due to bad weather. We did right ideals making good busi - lots of fabulous other stuff ness sense. Our first treat was an amazing much to numerous to mention array of American bottled beers or perhaps for another time. The most amazing thing to drink at our leisure. Craig is about the rebirth of the Victory also renowned for his collection But overall our fortnight stay is that all this has happened in of single malt whiskies, of which was brilliant thanks to our only eight months! we tried a few. superb fantastic hosts, again if you do read this many many Stig We were also privileged to thanks. visit many sights that only mili - Bruce Ward

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The 35th Norwich Beer Festival - a word from the Organiser

As I write this, advanced tickets we aim to continue our Beer staffing team of Sadie and Jane for the 35th Norwich Beer and Cider tastings which were whom I'm sure will do a Festival have just gone on sale, very successful last year and fantastic job (see as usual I'm expecting these to gathered quite a few plaudits http://www.norwichcamra.org. go rather quickly even in these from customers and organisers uk/festival/staffing.htm for austere times. As organiser for alike. further details). the last few years, I have been constantly surprised by the We also will be bringing back As usual, I'd like to give my popularity of the festival and the half pint tankard which was thanks to all those who have how much buzz in brings to extremely popular with our put their name forward to help the city for the month of visitors, I did look at trying out out, it is appreciated and the October. a pint tankard in similar vein to festival wouldn't work without the half pint but after consulta - you. This year we have taken a tion with our suppliers, just Martin Ward long look at our range of beers couldn't find anything remotely Norwich Beer Festival Organiser and come into this festival with suitable, perhaps next year. a clean slate, although its early days in the ordering process, Planning has been going on expect some new breweries since the latter days of the last and new beers. No pesto beer festival, and this year we bring though... back our excellent caterers Natural Nosh with their With the venue we have, we fantastic commitment and flex - really can't change too much, ibility, which is much but we try to tinker and appreciated. enhance what we already have, trying to improve the running Although the festival is still a and organising of various couple of months away, there sections, so its easier for us and is still time to volunteer, lend a provides a better experience for hand, serve a pint. For further you our customers. This year details please contact our new

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NORFOLK NIPS Norwich Beer Festival 2012 | Tutored Tastings at the Beer Festival

Do you enjoy drinking real taking centre stage on ale, cider or perry but want to Thursday, all hosted by experts know a little more about how in the field. it’s made, what the main ingre - dients are and how they Priced at £12 per person for contribute to the flavours and the real ale and cider and perry aromas we all love? tastings, and £15 per person for the foreign beer tasting If so, you’ll want to book a (reflecting the much higher place at one of the Tutored price of the beers), all tastings Tastings we’re running for the include ‘fast lane’ free entry to second year at Norwich Beer the beer festival and 6-8 Festival later this year. And this The same evening sees the samples. And there’s a £2 year we’ve added an evening first of the three real ale tast - discount for CAMRA members. tasting to the four lunchtime ings, with a Tour of Norfolk events, and included a foreign hosted by Stephen George of For more information and to beer tasting with the opportu - the award-winning Humpty apply for tickets, please see the nity to try both draught and Dumpty brewery. Wednesday Branch website bottled Belgian beers, which and Friday lunchtimes will see at www.norwichcamra.org.uk, kicks of the programme on two further real ale tastings, or write to CAMRA BFT, 45b Tuesday at 12:30. with Real Cider and Perry Bethel St, Norwich, NR2 1NR.

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Saturday June 30th saw the re-check because we couldn’t 15 in 2011 - although the second UK ‘Capital of Real Ale’ believe what we were seeing! arrival on the scene of the survey of Norwich pubs, 259 seemed too good to be White Lion, which has just designed to show that the true, and it was, but after close been awarded East Anglian variety of real ales on sale in scrutiny we were able to Cider Pub of the Year, made a Norwich exceeds that of any announce the result at around major contribution. other city! Last year we found 10:30pm - over 550 beers in an amazing 215 different real total, and 254 different ales, a So a big thank you to all the ales, out of a total of just under massive total which was team, and to the brewers, 500 on sale. This year’s survey enough to beat off a very publicans and bar staff for your had the added spice of a chal - strong challenge from York fantastic efforts which make lenge from the York branch of who finished on 247. Norwich such a Fine City for CAMRA, who, miffed by claims real ale! from Sheffield to the title, had This has since been beaten by decided independently to hold Sheffield, who conducted their Norwich and Norfolk their survey on the same day. survey in July and recorded 310 Branch Membership different beers, but from a Fortunately the rain which much larger area and popula - up again! had been dampening spirits tion – on both counts over ever since the drought was twice the size of Norwich – Latest figures announced by declared in April held off for which we believe justifies Membership Secretary David most of the day, allowing our calling Norwich the UK Capital Rackham show that the Branch 40 plus surveyors a dry run of Real Ale! now has 2,571 members. Of around the city’s pubs. As these, 1,820 are male and 740 organizer, I started the day Unsurprisingly Woodforde’s, are female. We also have 274 being driven round several of Greene King and Adnams were Young Members (18 – 30) and the outlying pubs I hadn’t the breweries whose beers 3 “others”. wanted to ask people to walk were in most pubs, with Wood - to (driven by a non-drinking forde’s in 46 pubs, 39 of which David has also revealed that partner of course – thanks Oli!) stocked Wherry. 19 local brew - our oldest member is 88 years Fortunately thanks to the eries were represented. The Fat young! number of volunteers who so Cat had most beers in total, 31, selflessly (!!) gave up their time, and surprisingly, there were Numbers are set to rise again there weren’t too many of 167 beers which were only on in October when we welcome these, and by 3pm we’d set up sale in one pub! The average new Members who join at the campaign HQ in the Reindeer price of a pint came out at Beer Festival. Talking of which on Dereham Road, where Scott £3.09, up 14p from last year - – why not beat the queues this looked after us all wonderfully. thanks Mr. Osborne - and the year and join before the average ABV exactly the same Festival and get free admission As volunteers started to at just over 4.2%. into the bargain? return, the forms were piling up – I really need to get a I should also mention real Simply fill in the form printed better data entry system sorted cider and perry, which showed within this magazine or for next year! But with a lot of a huge increase on last year, contact your Branch Member - help from the team, we finally with 38 different varieties out ship Secretary. came up with the numbers for of 55 in total (30 more than 2012 – and had to go back and last year), in 21 pubs, up from

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Beery dates for your diary NORFOLK NIPS | Beer Festivals 28 - 30th September 55+ cask beers over 3 days, plus Strictly Norfolk real cider, perry and bottled White Horse, Overstrand foreign and British beers. 20- 22nd September A weekend of Norfolk Food and 21st Letchworth Garden Real Ales 25th Oct - 4th November City Beer & Cider Festival Contact: 01263 579237 Murderers 7th Beer Festival The Gallery, Station Road 2 - 8 Timberhill, Norwich Letchworth Garden City SG6 3BL 29th Sept - 2nd October Over 50 Ales. festival.staffing@camranorth - White Lion Beer and Cider Contact: herts.org.uk Festival 01603 621447 www.camranorthherts.org.uk White Lion, Oak Street, Norwich www.themurderers.co.uk 50+ real ales including local Celebrating the first year of Ben brews. Excellent selection of and Becky being at the pub. 26 - 30th October cider, perry + foreign beer 30+ Ales • 30+ Ciders and Perries Royal Oak, Poringland including draught foreign beer. Autumn Beer Festival 3 - 6th October www.poringlandroyaloak.co.uk 26 - 29th September 35th Bedford Beer & St Albans Beer Festival Cider Festival Civic Centre, St Albans AL1 3LD 1 - 3rd November Corn Exchange, St Paul's Square, www.stalbansbeerfestival.com 1st South Woodham Bedford MK40 1SL Up to 350 real ales in all plus Ferrers Contact: cider perry, bottle conditioned Hullbridge Road www.northbedscamra.org.uk beers and large range of foreign S Woodham Ferrers CM3 5LJ About 110 power-cooled real beers from all over the world. www.maldonanddengiecamra.org.uk ales, 40 ciders + perries and a Daily breweriana auctions, quiz 30 Beers, plus Cider - up to 5 beers range of draught and bottled on Saturday with superb prizes. from Crouch Vale Brewery. foreign beers. 27 - 30th September 1 - 4th November 10 - 13th October 3rd Amber Valley Beer Old Bell, Saham Toney Beer Nottingham “Robin & Cider Festival Festival Hood” Beer and Cider Midland Railway, Butterley Station, Contact: Festival Ripley DE5 3QZ 01953 884934 Nottingham Castle [email protected] www.theoldbellsaham.co.uk Top of Friar Lane, Nottingham www.midlandrailway-butterley.co.uk NG1 6DH 100+ beers, ciders, perry + fruit wines. 8 - 11 November Contact: Coincides with Steam Gala Event Sat Erpingham Arms, [email protected] + Sun, Trains every ½ hour. Erpingham www.beerfestival.nottingham - 3rd Beer Festival• 25 Real Ales camra.org/ 28 - 30th September www.erpinghamarms.com A record breaking one thousand 2nd Oulton Broad Beer different cask beers, plus over Festival 9 - 11th November 200 different real ciders and Wherry Hotel, Bridge Rd, Oulton 1st Annual Beccles Beer perries, mainly sourced from the Broad, Lowestoft NR32 3LN Festival smaller producers. 50+ Draught Ales, Ciders, Wheat Contact: and Fruit beers • Live Music. www.becclesbeerfestival.co.uk 25 - 27th October Contact: www.wherryhotel.com St Ives Booze on the 30th Nov - 1st December Ouse Beer Festival The Pennoyer Beer Festival 28 - 30th September St Ivo Recreation Centre Pennoyer Centre, Station Rd, Folk ‘n’ Beer Festival Westwood Road, St Ives Pulham St Mary IP21 4QT Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich PE27 6WU Ales from Yorkshire, West country www.maddermarket.co.uk Contact: and the best of local breweries [email protected] www.pennoyers.org.uk

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From the Archives | NORFOLK NIPS From the Archives Issue no. 111 Oct/Nov 2000 latest Good Beer Guide on sale at the Festival. Why not buy the Guide and compare your opin - ions of the beers with the descriptions in the Looking forward to the 23rd Norwich Beer guide, he suggested. Festival, Beer Festival Organiser Alan Edwards explained why some “favourites” would be Issue 112 announced that the Beer of the missing that year. Festival was Chalk Hill CHB, which also won the Bitter category. The Chalk Hill Brewery was set The CAMRA AGM that year had passed a reso - up in 1993 behind the Coach and Horses pub in lution that instructed Branches not to promote Norwich and at the time of writing, it was the real ales that share their names with keg, sole remaining Brewery in Norwich. smooth or other versions. Elgoods won the Mild category with Black Dog Alan said that the Norwich Branch was happy Mild and their Wenceslas Winter Warmer won to comply, although some drinkers may be the Strong Ale category. disappointed that Boddingtons, Tetley, Brains Dark and Everard’s Tiger would not be making Other winners were: an appearance. Best Bitter – Triple FFF Dazed and Confused Premium Bitter – Lidstones Rwalpindi IPA He went on to add that there would be a Old/Stout/Porter – Reepham Velvet Stout number of beers from very new Breweries on Speciality Beer – Green Jack Orange Wheat offer. Alan felt that the established Breweries Cider – Sam’s (matured in oak vats in premises had the edge on the new micros, because of closed by Bulmers) their experience and Quality Control proce - Perry - Troggi dures, but each had to be judged on their own merits. Consistency should be the aim for all.

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CAMRA Branch Calendar | NORFOLK NIPS

Norwich and North Norfolk Branch Sunday 4 November Beer Festival Take Down Help is wanted to pack everything away and clear Tuesday 18 September the halls. Please come along and lend a hand – the Branch Meeting, Humpty Dumpty Brewery, more the merrier! Reedham, 8pm - Coach available from Norwich Come and join us for this popular event. The Good Friday 9 November Beer Guide 2013 Licencees Packs will be available First Friday Five (route tba) for distribution. Coach pick-ups: 6.47 p.m. junc. Southwell Thursday 27 September Rd./Grove Rd.; 6.55 junc. Old Palace Rd./West 35th Beer Festival Planning Meeting, Take 5, End St.; 7.02 junc. Mile Cross La./Eversley Rd.; Norwich, 8pm 7.06 Sprowston Fire Stn.; 7.10 Heartsease Last chance to have your say in the running of the (Harvey Lane bus stop); 7.15 Norwich Railway Festival this year. Stn. (Thorpe Rd. bus stops). Friday 28 September Please contact Michael Philips, our Social Secre - Campaign Trip visiting 5 county pubs to the tary to obtain further details or to book a seat on North of Norwich - Booking Essential the coach on 07851 923 554 or socialsecre - [email protected]. Sunday 30 September Branch Store tidy-up. Come and visit our Beer Store CAMRA Members who have registered their and help get everything shipshape for the Festival! e-mail address with the Branch will receive a monthly update on this list. If you would like to Friday 5 October take advantage of this service, or have not Ascot Races and Beer Festival (up to 200 beers) received the latest e-mail, please contact the – Booking Essential Membership Secretary, David Rackham, at [email protected] Friday 5 October First Friday Five (route tba) Our monthly jaunt around five pubs in Norwich. West Norfolk Branch Check the Branch website or facebook for details. All Branch Meetings start at 8pm. Thursday 4th October, 1pm True’s Yard, Saturday 13 October Lynn, talk by Jeff Hoyle “Lynn’s Lost Pubs” Possible social event / brewery visit Tuesday 9th October Sunday 21 October Narborough Social Club, AGM 6th Beer Festival Planning Meeting, Take 5, Norwich, 8pm Your very last chance…. Tuesday 13th November Red Lion, Hockwold, Branch meeting Sunday 28 October Beer Festival Set Up Tuesday 11th December Bell, Saham Toney, Branch Meeting Mon 29 Oct - Sat 3 Nov 35th Norwich Beer Festival @ St Andrews Hall Saturday 15th December This is it – what we have all been waiting for! Christmas tour of Norwich

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GOLDEN STAR COLEGATE • 01603 632447 H Up to six real ales H Fantastic evening menu H Sunday roasts H Bar billiards H Live music H Weekly quiz H Free wi fi www.goldenstarnorwich.co.uk

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Beer Tech NORFOLK NIPS | Ladies and Gentlemen – Welcome to The Theatre of Pour!

Regular readers will know that Will traditional cask customers in earlier editions of this maga - notice the difference, will they zine, we have looked at the approve? North v South Divide and the problems in getting real ale Angrams Operations Director into Hotel and Theme Bars. Mark Carrington certainly thinks so. The pump has a In the 21st Century, there has smaller footprint than tradi - to be a better way, we argued. tional handpumps and the sleek modern designs would Well maybe, just maybe, we certainly be at home in a have stumbled on the solution. modern chrome plated hotel or OK, perhaps stumbled is not themed bar. the right word, I hadn’t had a drink at that point, but popped Theatre of Pour into The Otter in Thorpe The first thing that you notice Marriott. Taking up my is the high swan neck. If, like customary position in front of me, you have stood patiently at the handpumps, I opted for a the bar waiting to be served, pint of Greene King IPA. whilst the bar person is pouring Imagine my horror when the a pint of frothy lager for Landlady took two steps to the someone else, you can’t help left and proceeded to pour me but notice that it is often a pint from the shiny chrome served at eye level. This is offering on my right. My deliberate. This is what Mark protestations that it had to be Carrington calls The Theatre of real ale were met with a warm Pour. The customer observes reassurance that I would get that a clean glass has been my wish. selected and can only marvel as the golden coloured liquid fills And indeed I did. This new the glass, foaming with about inspect and it is also served piece of kit was worthy of as much added gas as is below counter height. My beer closer inspection. It is made by required. Watching it pour is is presented to me as a fait Angram Ltd of North Yorkshire relaxing, it makes you feel accompli. No wonder some do and was commissioned by good and you can anticipate not complain if their pint is less Greene King as part of the the full flavour of a refreshing than perfect. With this new multi million pound rebranding pint served at just the right stem, I too can now enjoy the of Greene King IPA. The new temperature. Who am I theatre. handpumps, or to give them kidding? their correct name “The New North or South Greene King IPA Illuminated But think about it, my pint is In issue No. 160, Cask Branding Stems” certainly have then served in a glass I have Marque’s Annabel Smith some interesting features. not had the opportunity to discussed the difference in

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NORFOLK NIPS | beers in the north and south of I prefer Greene King IPA branding opportunities, will re- the country and the effect that northern style. enforce cask ale as a premium sparklers can have on the taste. product and appeal to a wide She suggested that, where it Expect to see this device on audience. was possible, to ask for two other Greene King Beers, Old halves of the same beer, one Speckled Hen and Old Golden It’s an interesting thought, poured through a sparkler and Hen. but what do real ale drinkers in one without, then see which This is clever marketing. As a the East think? you liked best. Brewery expands its network of operations throughout the UK, I doubt that many would, in you have to be able to offer all honesty, ask a landlord to what the customer wants. One fiddle around with a sparkler answer is to tinker with the for two halves. Pints, maybe. brew to produce a southern beer for a northern drinker and But here is the interesting vice versa. Or how about one second feature on these stems. beer and let the customer The swan neck incorporates a decide – North or South, Left valve, which acts as a sparkler. or Right? It can be turned on or off with the flick of a wrist. A small Angram say that this, and "Want to save money? notice on the stem says “North their other new products, some See page 23 or South – you decide”. I have, of which have interchangeable

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A warm welcome from Rob and Fawnda to... NORFOLK NIPS Correspondence | THE GREYHOUND • THE STREET, TIBENHAM NR16 1PZ • Pint Rage? An old Fashioned, traditional country pub. Dear Editor, Serving a selection of Real Ales and Fine food. I have a Woodfordes glass which states CE PINT, Children’s play area and large car park. OPENING TIMES The other day I poured a bottle of beer into a Wood - Mon: 12 - 3pm and 6.30pm - midnight fordes glass, it took all the beer and produced a nice Tues: 6.30 - midnight. Weds and Thurs: 12 - 3pm and 6.30pm - midnight. 10mm head. For the second bottle I tried to fill the glass Friday: 12 - 3pm and 6.00pm - midnight. as full as I reasonably could and still there was beer left in Sat and Sun: 12 midday -12 midnight. the bottle.....mmm? I discovered that the first bottle was 500ml while the second was a Pedigree at 568ml. Carvery lunch Sunday afternoon 1pm - 3pm. Booking advisable 01379 677676. Having drank the beer I washed the glass and measured out a pint in our kitchen jug, pouring this into the Camping space & pint glass, it took the full pint but only when it was Electric hook ups for absolutely level with the rim of the glass only avoiding Caravans available spilleage by the surface tension on the water.

Dog Friendly In conclusion I was short changed at the beer festival I For up and coming events picked the glass up from as all pints were poured within see or website 10mm from the rim with no head. the-greyhound tibenham.co.uk Secondly how many pint glasses are out there like this Tel: 01379 677676 where beer is poured with a head so a proportion of smithrjsmith@btinternetcom your paid for beer and £1.20 tax is foam. I am aware some glasses have a pint line which sounds fair to me which allow space for the head.

Surely this is nothing new! What is happening here?

Kind Regards Bruce Vaughan

Editor’s Reply:

Dear Bruce, Firstly, the Woodforde’s glass that you have is a brim measure glass, i.e you have to fill it up to the brim to get a full pint. This means that any head that appears on top is part of the measure. If your beer is served to you in this fashion, you can ask for a top up if you consider that there is too much froth and not enough beer. After all, as you say, you are paying for both beer and froth. A pint is 568ml, so your glass would easily accom - modate a 500ml bottle and I would expect some beer left in the 568ml bottle, owing to gas/fermentation. Secondly, the Norwich CAMRA Beer Festival has used over sized lined glasses for the last five years for this reason. You get a full measure of beer, with a head on top, and is easier to handle. Volunteers at the Beer Festival expect to be given an oversized glass to fill, so if you are using a brim measure glass of your own, then please tell the bar staff, who will then fill your glass to the brim.

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Brewery News NORFOLK NIPS | Bloomers –Norwich in Bloom’s 25th Anniversary Ale

Norwich will be judged as one of only five cities nominated for the Best City category of the Britain in Bloom competition.”

“Considering Bloomers’ popularity, we will have to consider making it available in pubs and bars on a more regular basis, and hopefully making an appearance at the 35th Norwich Beer Festival to be held at St Andrews and Blackfriars Hall from Monday 29th October to Saturday 3rd November. The Friends of Norwich in Bloom would especially like to thank Norwich Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for supporting the Bloomers launch”, Pam added, “and local Bloomers launch at the Assembly House – Friends firm CIM Signs and Graphics for providing the of Norwich in Bloom celebrate the launch artwork for the ale launch and organising the Norwich in Bloom’s 25th Anniversary Ale, promotional flyers.” Bloomers, was launched on the 10th July at The Assembly House and is proving to be a very For further information, please contact The popular brew! Bloomers is a refreshing blonde Friends: Bloomers 25th Anniversary Ale Organ - ale, 4.0% ABV, and was eagerly taken by 17 of iser – Pam Keten 07904 584555 email the best real ale pubs and bars in Norwich. [email protected] Competition Organiser/Secretary – Julie Brociek- The Beehive pub in Leopold Road was one of Coulton 07786 694325 [email protected] the first pubs to offer Bloomers, and it or visit www.norwichinbloom.co.uk sold out fast! Beehive landlord, Alex Kerridge, was very pleased with the popularity of 2012 Diary Future Activities: Bloomers. She said “We put the beer on hand pump on Tuesday and it was gone by Saturday 6th October Wednesday! It was great. Can I order another Britain in Bloom Awards Ceremony - St. Peter one?” she added. Port Guernsey

Bloomers is brewed by Mark Riches, of inde - Monday - Friday 3rd - 7th October pendent local brewery, Beeston Brewery, and Friends of Norwich in Bloom Schools Giant was named to recognise the contribution of the Pumpkin Competition Judging many volunteers (Bloomers) who have worked so hard over the last 25 years to help Friday 19th October make Norwich a blooming city. Friends of Norwich in Bloom Presentation Evening, The Assembly House - Theatre Street “We were initially aiming for Bloomers to be 7.00pm - 9.00pm available until early August,” said Pam Keten of The Friends of Norwich in Bloom, “when

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Cologne and the Eifel Mountains NORFOLK NIPS | Kolsch und Zwickelbier, not so Eifel after all!

I went on a bus tour earlier this other parts of Europe, only year which took in Cologne beer produced in Cologne can and the Eifel mountains, oppor - be called Kolsch as the name is tunities for beer tourism were regionally protected like Cham - limited but a couple of visits pagne. Research indicated that did transpire. in the limited time a visit to the Malzmuhle brewery at 6 The main target of the Heumarkt would produce a Cologne visit was the enor - classic example of a Kolsch mous Dom, a twin towered brauhaus not of the four giant leviathan of a Cathedral visible manufacturers. from thirty Kilometres away! The bar was re-built after the wholesale destruction visited on the city by allied bombing during world war 2 only the Kobes are famous for their doorframe remains original! sense of humour and knowl - edge, when asked what The beer has a clean, some happens if someone “loses” the would say bland taste but is beer mat our waiter replied very refreshing served in 2l “Simple, we charge for a glasses by blue uniformed hundred beers!” A highly waiters called “Kobes”. The recommended experience. name come from a tradition going back to the pilgrimages We also visited Monschau in to Santiago de Compostella, the Eifel, famous for its black the German route was through and white timber framed Cologne. Santigo is St James in houses. On exiting the bus English, Jakobus in German, park I spotted Brauerei The cities most famous beer Kobe is a German diminutive of Museum on a sign pointing style is Kolsch. First brewed in Jakobus applied to the land - away from the town centre, in the city in 1906 the beer got lords who provided the for a Pfennig… it’s name in 1918, however it hospitality to the pilgrims. was not as popular as more The blue uniform comes from We discovered the traditional German brews until the same tradition. The Kobes Felsenkeller Brauhaus and the 1960’s when a boom in serve your beer from a special Museum just up the hill. The sales saw Kolsch became the glass holder called a Krantz and brewery stopped producing dominant beer of Cologne. keep replacing your glass beer on site in the 1990’s but unless you leave some or cover all the plant and memorabilia Since the 1980’s sales have it with a beer mat. A score is was still present. Only German begun to decline but the style kept on the beer mat from was spoken, but I managed has spread to America and which the bill is calculated. and we looked around, the

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Rainer near Aachen, and sold in the excellent bar, food is also top notch. I have checked the website for the museum and it seems production of both beers is being re-started at the museum from September, so it now has everthing!

I did manage to get down into the town for a few photos as well. Above: Monschau Brauhaus museum Stig. Felsenpils beer was produced from 1924.

In order to keep the beer cool in the summer allowing a different fermentation tech - nique the ice from the mountains was gathered during the winter and packed into cooling Kellars dug into the mountainside! The unfil - tered Zwickelbier is now brewed by Privatbrauerei

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CAMRA AGM 2013 NORFOLK NIPS | Help Required for CAMRA National Members Weekend and AGM 2013

the same as our annual beer hosts for brewery trips, infor - festival. The formal conference mation and general support. will take place in St Andrews Hall with Blackfriars Hall being If you feel you are able to and used as a ‘beer ex’ selling local would like to volunteer for any beers. of these jobs, or have any queries or questions about the Arrangements for this event Members Weekend, please Many NIPS readers are prob - have already commenced and contact me on ably aware that the venue for we are looking for volunteers [email protected]. next year’s CAMRA National who can help make this event a Help in any of the above areas Members weekend and AGM is great success. Can you help in however small will be very going to be in Norwich. It will the following areas – staffing much appreciated. be held over the weekend of the members bar in Blackfriars, Friday 19th – Sunday 21st April glasses stall, stewards and Warren Wordsworth, Local 2013 with the venue being St. hospitality for guests, tellers AGM 2013 co-ordinator. Andrews and Blackfriars Halls, (during conference sessions),

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A to Z NORFOLK NIPS | Letter E It could stand for “excellence” or even “every - 2013 CAMRA AGM and Member’s Weekend. thing”, but that does not do Norfolk justice, so Let them discover Norfolk Pub of the Year The let’s go for “eclectivity!” Fat Cat with it’s 31 beers found during the 2012 Survey or delight in Woodforde’s beers, It’s the eclectic mix, that broad range of all that although they may miss the Admiral’s Reserve or there is to celebrate in the beer scene in the fair Tinseltoes which are coming soon. And there are county of Norfolk. It’s the number of real ale many, many more delights in Norfolk, far too pubs and breweries and the wide range of many to do them justice here. You know who quality real ales on offer. There is so much to be you are – please take a bow! proud of, as visitors from other parts of the UK That was quick, and there is a bit of space left, will discover when they come to Norwich for the so let’s do the next one, which is: F for Fakenham Until I started delivering Norfolk NIPS to the pubs real ale – Elgoods Cambridge on my last visit. there, I have to confess that I had no reason to visit Walk along the riverbank, or down the road to Fakenham, except for the odd day out at the races. the racecourse and you will come across The Most visitors, I suspect, go there for the regular Fakenham Sports and Leisure Centre, which also Thursday market, which overfills the market place. featured in an earlier edition of NIPS. Two real ales, Despite having two major supermarkets at hand, the Woodforde’s Wherry and a guest, sometimes town appears to have kept a good mix of local Sharp’s Doombar. shops,including an old fashioned sweet shop – Sweets ‘n’ things, (run by Lisa Smerdon and Glen If you have had enough of the town, retrace your Mallett), who were behind the first Fakenham Beer steps, cross the road, walk passed the cottages and Festival, and pubs. you are in Hempton, where The Bell awaits with three real ales – John Smith’s Cask is the regular If the Norfolk Orbital Railway succeeds in its here, plus two guest ales. objectives and brings the railway back to Fakenham, linking the Mid Norfolk and North Further afield, there is The Henry IV, on Greenway Norfolk Heritage lines, some visitors may alight Lane, a Greene King Hungry Horse establishment, there and go in search of a decent pint, perhaps. which has Abbot as it’s regular plus one other from the Brewery, and right on the outskirts next to And there is real choice here. As reported else - Morrisons is The Running Horse, a Marstons pub. where in this issue, the oldest pub in the town, The Eight handpumps here, with three beers on at a Star, in Oak Street, which featured in an earlier time. edition of this magazine, has reopened. With it’s There is good and bad news. The Crown, a large secluded garden to the rear, this will make a former 3 star hotel in the Market Square, stands great family pub, which will offer two real ales. In empty and neglected and The Rampart Horse Inn the market square, The Gallery Bistro offers the on Holt Road does not have real ale. opportunity to eat inside or dine al fresco. There is always one real ale on offer, sometimes Hobgoblin. But Wetherspoons will be here next year some - Wolf Brewery’s award winning Poppy Ale was on time as they have bought The Garden House, when I visited. Just off the market place is The Bull, opposite The Bull in Bridge Street. Just for the which is probably the jewel in the crown. No less record, I found 18 real ales and one real cider on than five real ales and a real cider on offer here, my last visit. plus great food. Down by the river is The Wensum Lodge, a small hotel on the river, which offers one

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Freshly-cooked food A range of ales • Beer Garden Situated beside Rockland St Mary staithe, The New Inn is a traditional country pub offering a warm welcome in a relaxed and informal setting. Our food is freshly prepared using locally sourced ingredients and cooked to order. We have a large selection of ‘All-time favourites’, plus a variety of Chef’s Specials. Our Sunday Menu is very popular.

Cask Marque Families, children, accredited, we always have 3 or 4 dogs and walking real ales on offer. clubs all welcome.

Visit www.newinnrockland.co.uk or our page to keep up to date

New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary Tel: 01508 538403

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The Willow House 2 High St, Watton, Norfolk IP25 6AE Tel: 01953 881181 Pub, Restaurant and Bed and Breakfast Accommodation in Norfolk

A selection of great real ales served including constantly changing guests

Food Available from a la carte cuisine to bar snacks. Serving times are Mon - Sat: Noon - 2pm and 7 - 9pm Sun: noon - 2.45pm

Bed and Breakfast Room rates from £55.00 per night Pets welcome by arrangement

www.thewillowhouse.co.uk

Michaela and Rik welcome you to The Kings Arms 22 Hall Rd Norwich NR1 3HQ Tel: 01603 766361 Everchanging 13 Real Ales, Cider and Mild. Fruit Beer also served

Ea BEER GARDEN • Popular Quiz Night t your tak last Wednesday of every month eaway in th e pub - pl Texas hold-em poker played ates an cutle d Thursdays and Sunday 8pm start ry prov S ided! ee m C o i st ty o Food served: 11.30 - 2pm Monday -Fri 12-30- 3pm Sunday ’s f (H m N o a o m tc rw A e h i See www.kingsarmsnorwich.co.uk w a e ch ay nd s !) for details

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NORFOLK NIPS Local Feature | The Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History

Situated on the Hempton Road, just opposite The Wensum Lodge and a short stroll away from The Bell and The Bull, this museum is a little gem. Many small towns had works for the production of “town” gas but this is the last remaining example of an English small hori - zontal retort hand-fired Gasworks. Established as a Museum in 1987, it is now laid out as it would The raw gas was then condensed, which have been in the 1960’s. The technology though removed the ammonia present, which in is Victorian. When established in 1846, the Fakenham was dumped as waste. The tar pit works produced gas “of an unusual purity” for and liquor tank held coal tar at the bottom and street lighting. It closed in 1965, when it was the ammonia liquor on top. Handpumps at serving 500 homes and employed 8 men. It was different depths pumped both out as and when using three railway wagons of coal per week, required. Tar surrounds the pit from when the but as there was no siding, the coal had to be works were in operation and the remaining tar delivered from the Railway Station. was removed from the pit in 2003 as it was a source of ground contamination. The front of the Museum is the showroom, which has a fascinating collection of gas appli - Now relatively clean, the gas was pushed ances including cookers from the early 19thC to around the rest of the site by a pump known as the 1960’s. You can watch the short video on an Exhauster. This had a small Lister petrol the early days and the discovery of the method driven engine, but there was also a gas engine, for removing impurities from gas to create what made in 1910. Just to be on the safe side, an some called “the flame of Hell itself”. electric motor was available as back-up. The Livesey Washer removed further ammonia Gas is produced in enclosed chambers, known and the Purifiers extracted the hydrogen as retorts. Fakenham had fourteen of them, each sulphide. Now it could be metered and passed 3.3m long. They held about 250 kilos of coal into the Gas Holder or Gasometer for use. each, which had to be loaded evenly from the back, hard work for the stokers and hot too as The museum also holds galleries on the history the furnaces reached 800 C and some of the of Fakenham, including the Printing Industry, retorts were above head height. When the doors which was the main employer in the town for were closed, air was cut off, so the coal did not many years, and also National Hunt Racing and burn, but decomposed in the heat. The resulting memorabilia from the two World Wars and the gases escaped via an ascension pipe, and what association with the USAF and RAF bases at West was left in the retorts was coke. Some of this was Raynham and Sculthorpe. re-used and the rest sold in bags. The Museum is open Thursday, Saturdays and The dirty brown gas cooled, and as it did so, Bank Holiday Mondays from 10.30 – 3.30 until tar was formed and collected in pits, and in the 29th September. Group visits can be Fakenham this was sold for road building and arranged at other times by calling 01328 used for waterproofing the buildings on site. 863507. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

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OP C EN AM TO 12 N RA 11P OR M SU CIT WIC TO N Y PU H FRI B O 10. YE F TH 30A AR 2 E M - 011 11PM SAT UP TO 10 CASK ALES PLUS TRADITIONAL CIDERS AND PERRIES BELGIAN BEERS • BAR BILLIARDS • SATURDAY BRUNCH 10.30 - 2.30 SUNDAY ROASTS 12-3 • HOT SNACKS AVAILABLE ALL DAY EVERY DAY

LIVE MUSIC every Friday & Sunday JAZZ JAM SESSION every Monday QUIZ NIGHT last Monday of the Month TAPAS NIGHT first Thursday of the Month

KINGS HEAD HOLT 6 BRILLIANTLY KEPT REAL ALES PLUS 8 NEW ALES ON OUR ALE WALL Including the ever popular Adnams Bitter, Broadside and Woodfordes Wherry. Proudly providing 3 guest ales (143 in one year and rising!) Giving everyone a fantastic accompaniment to our ever growing grill menu. So why not try a delicious locally sourced steak cooked to perfection on our char-grill! 3 stylish, comfortable, yet affordable B&B self-catering single or double rooms. Recently re-furbished ‘George’ Lounge with Snugs and quiet corners Come pull up a stool, grab an Ale at ‘The Question mark Bar’ and put the world to rights! Live music throughout Spring, Summer and Autumn Enclosed Courtyard Beer Garden in the heart of the Appleyard To find out more you can visit our website http://www.kingsheadholt.org.uk/, give us a call on 01263 712543 , or just come on down and give us a try, you won’t be disappointed!

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NORFOLK NIPS Reindeer Norwich | The Reindeer sets out to unite real ale drinkers and real food lovers New Licencees Dan and Katie Searle outline their wanted our next venture to involve food, some - visions of the future for this Elgood’s pub. thing that allows us to showcase really great British cooking in an informal and unpretentious It’s had a colourful past and siblings Dan & environment,” comments Dan. There is always a Katie Searle have no doubts that they still have large selection of guest real ales (7-10) alongside their work cut out. ‘There is something the brewery staples from Elgoods in Wisbech. genuinely satisfying about returning a struggling There is also a good selection of draught beers pub to it’s former glory, in terms of keeping it from around the world (12), including America, open at least”, says Dan, who talks lovingly Germany, Belgium and of course the UK. about his passion for the trade. “A fresh approach is required to meet the growing Only British produce is used for the new expectations of our customers and to keep menu. Ingredients are sourced locally, where people interested” adds Katie. The pair already possible, and are seasonal. There is a strong run the Rumsey Wells, and they have managed focus on dishes to share and the introduction of to offer something different at the Reindeer. forgotten recipes that will serve to deliver the communal spirit of traditional pubs and pay Whilst the Rumsey Wells has a reputation for homage to great British cuisine. “In order to entertainment from DJ’s to bands and even an deliver this the team here is hugely important” art gallery, the Reindeer has a greater focus on comments Katie. the food and beer selection. “We have always Angel The London Gardens Tavern Free House Free House This independently run freehouse has been under the Great real ales, fine wines and spirits. ownership of Ian Warren since 1988 and is situated on the north of the city near to Waterloo Park. Food Served: Monday- Friday 11am - 5pm Saturdays 11am - 3pm Sundays 11am - 3pm Homecooked and speciality meals Evening meals on request Prepared by Ian - a qualified chef with Roast Dinners Sundays 12-3pm years of experience. Chilled bar rolls made daily only £1.00 Up to SEVEN reasonably priced Real Ales including THREE guest ales Attleborough’s only Good Beer

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Award Winning Real Ale Pub

We Don’t Have a Big Screen TV, Food Or a Juke Box We do have 17 handpumps, with Real Ale from far and wide, 2 Real Ciders and 2 Real Ales From gravity, a large car park, large beer garden With heated smoking shelter, darts, pool, quizzes And crib.

We now serve morning coffee from 11am, children are welcome.

The Royal Oak lies at the heart of the community and new customers are always welcome. Come along and get a real welcome from a real pub selling real ale!!!!!! Nick, Delia And The Team would love to see you soon. Autumn Beer Festival Friday 26th October to Norwich And Norfolk Tuesday 30th October Pub Of The Year 2007 Music Friday Night with Tosh and Friends Norfolk Pub Of Music Saturday Night with Murphys lore The Year 2007 A dream of a pub situated in the village of 14 years in the Poringland on the B1332 road to Bungay. Good Beer Guide! The main bus route from Norwich stops right outside.

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