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LocAle winning beers from the beer festival – Page 22 Ouse Boozer 1 No. 118 Your Bigger and Brighter Brigantes s Fresh look with a new extended dining area Same friendly faces and great service s Ten cask ales and craft keg beers An exciting wine list with many available by the glass s Quality, freshly prepared food Signature dishes that include gourmet burgers, tavern classics and grazing boards Goodood Good Good Brigantes Bar & Brasserie, 114 Micklegate, York, YO1 6JX. Tel: 01904 675 355 www.markettowntaverns.co.uk Ouse Boozer 2 No. 118 EAR TO THE BAR by Wendy Hyde can choose beers from the SIBA list, so she is going to try to get some more local beers on, and Rose & Crown, Lawrence Street. The Punch owned will take requests for future stock. Recent beers have pub reopened in August after a major refurbishment included Timothy Taylor Landlord, John Smiths Cask under manager Johnny Hewitt. Beers are mainly chosen (which appears to be permanent), York Guzzler, Wylam from the Punch list but there is some freedom of choice Golden Ale, Treboom Yorkshire Sparkle and Saltaire too. Some local beers are sourced through the SIBA Raspberry Blonde. The pub will now stock Ouse Boozer Direct Delivery Scheme. There is a new chef and new and may be a potential candidate for LocAle depending menu (which was sampled on the opening night) and on the availability of local beers on the SIBA list. beers available were Rudgate Viking, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Wychwood The Fox, Holgate Road is open again with a new Hobgoblin and Ossett Big Red. Punch tenant. The licensee is Aaron Ellis whose family own the Fulstow brewery and Gas Lamp pub in O’Neill’s in Low Ousegate now sell real ale – beers Louth, Lincolnshire. Punch has put forward planning choice yet to be reported. applications for a major refurbishment scheme for the pub, one of our most important Regional Inventory pubs. The Lady Anne Middleton’s Hotel in Skeldergate is selling applications in question are 13/03184/FUL (for planning York Guzzler at £2.90 a pint in their Chaplin’s bar. consent) and 13/03185/LBC (for listed building consent) Lucia (Bar & Grill) in Back Swinegate: York Council’s and anyone interested can view them on the Council’s refusal of consent to stay open until 2am has been website at www.york.gov.uk overturned on appeal. Nag’s Head, Heworth: Since the refurbishment of they Victoria Vaults in Nunnery Lane: Mike and Maggie Hird are now stocking three Theakston’s beers. Currently have purchased the pub from Marstons. One of the three they are Best Bitter, Black Bull Bitter and Lightfoot. hand pumps will be dedicated to Cross Bay Brewery Sun Inn, Acomb continues to offer a variety of ales, mainly (Morecambe). They are planning to hold a folk/beer from regional breweries. On offer during this month were festival in the near future. Ringwood Boondoggle, Young’s London Gold and *UHDW WR VHH WZR QHZ FHQWUDO SXEV ERWK RI¿FLDOO\ Special, Brakspear Oxford Gold, Adnams Southwold opened on Friday 18th October: Hop (Ossett Brewery) Bitter, Greene King Ruddles County, Wychwood in Fossgate opposite the Blue Bell and Duke of York Hobgoblin, Timothy Taylor Golden Best and Marston’s (Leeds Brewery) in Kings Square. We wish them both Pedigree. The pub serves beer in thirds too. well. See full report on page 42. Lord Collingwood at Upper Poppleton: The application Knavesmire on Albemarle Road had a “relaunch” on 1st to use the outside area on part of village green has been August, with cask ales back on the bar after an absence successful. Neighbours and some residents opposed of several years. Available were John Smith’s Cask, this but it was balanced with a petition from pub goers/ Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Leeds Pale and villagers. Ray and Gill continue to do a great job running Theakston’s Old Peculier plus two Weston’s ciders. WKHLU¿UVWSXE Local beers from breweries such as Great Heck are being Ye Olde Sun Inne at Colton: Planning Application for supplied through the SIBA Direct Delivery Scheme. erection of dwelling and associated parking has been Ainsty, Boroughbridge Rd: This Spirit managed house lodged. has recently expanded its real ale range to three hand Buckles @ Bilbrough is reported to be serving “real” SXPSV(DUO\$XJXVWVDZWKHSXEKROGLWV¿UVWEHHUIHVWLYDO food and has reintroduced cask Sam Smith’s Old with help from Spirit in the form of the loan of their beer Brewery Bitter. festival “kit” including cooling equipment. The festival saw beers from York Brewery, North Yorkshire Brewery and Commercial, Easingwold is undergoing refurbishment Wylam amongst others. A great effort for a pub that only expected to complete in October but no beer or tenant stocked John Smiths a short time ago! The pub managed information known yet. Ouse Boozer 3 No. 118 Ouse Boozer 4 No. 118 Crown and Cushion at Welburn re-opened in August saying it was re-opening as a Turkish and Mediterranean under its new owners, Provenance Inns. It has been restaurant. sympathetically refurbished and now consists of four The Fenton Flyer is currently being assessed for Cask rooms around a central bar and a much improved rear Marque. Sharp’s Doombar will be removed shortly as one WHUUDFH DQG JDUGHQ 7KHUH ZLOO EH VHYHUDO ORJ ¿UHV LQ of their two permanent beers and replaced with a LocAle the cooler months. Outbuildings are currently being beer (likely to be from either Ossett, Leeds, York or Ilkley converted into a private lounge and dining room. It has EUHZHU\ 7KH\ZLOOVWLOOFRQWLQXHWRRIIHU¿YHFDVNDOHVRQ a strong emphasis on food but retains a couple of areas the bar (John Smiths Cask is the other permanent beer). for drinkers. There are three hand pumps with the beer They are also now offering a comprehensive tapas style RIIHULQJLQWKH¿UVWWKUHHZHHNVEHLQJBlack Sheep Best menu (available Friday and Saturday evenings – 6pm - Bitter and Golden Sheep and Rudgate Battleaxe. It is 8.30pm) and Sunday lunchtimes (Noon – 4pm). The new understood that Black Sheep will be a regular while the menu includes smaller snacky type tapas dishes, as well other two hand pumps will be for guest beers, thought to as weekly specials of more traditional pub dishes (such as be predominantly from Rudgate Brewery, but this has yet sausage and mash). All meats are sourced from the local WREHFRQ¿UPHG award winning butchers in Sherburn in Elmet. The Dunsforth: The former head chef at Harvey Nichols, The House of the Trembling Madness has won the Leeds has invested over £90,000 in a stylish new public White Rose 2013 Yorkshire Pub of the Year. These are house and restaurant venture creating 12 new jobs in the Yorkshire tourism awards organised by Welcome the small North Yorkshire village of Lower Dunsforth WR <RUNVKLUH ,W EHDW VL[ RWKHU ¿QDOLVWV IRU WKLV DZDUG between Harrogate and York. Paul Cunliffe and his wife Congratulations! Janine have opened the Dunsforth, formerly known as the Angler, following an extensive 13-week refurbishment programme. BEHIND THE BAR Queen o’ t’owd Thatch at South Milford has re-opened As the sun dipped over the newly laid beer garden at as a ‘dining pub’. They have Leeds Pale and York Suddabys the numerous ales on offer brought forward the Yorkshire Terrier. Trade seems slack despite much usual utterances which need recording for the enjoyment advance publicity. of readers during the last days of an Indian summer as we look forward to the winter festival. Hope you enjoy them. Bay Horse at Barlby: Plans have been submitted by (JR) Enterprise Inns for redevelopment as housing. There is a local campaign building against the plans to demolish • Do you think tomato juice tastes like tomatoes! the pub. • What is all the scaffolding doing in the road beside the Derwent? They are pointing up the river! Oddfellows ArmsDW&DUOWRQ0RGL¿HGSODQVVXEPLWWHG • You could do with CCCC cameras in here! by Punch Taverns for redevelopment as housing. • Were you involved in that all night rave on Saturday Unicorn, Selby: Friends of The Unicorn are night? When? delighted to report that their application for the pub to • When England play Poland there is sure to be be registered as an Asset of Community Value has trouble with the Portuguese supporters! been accepted. Assets of Community Value were • They have lamb ham shanks in the supermarket! introduced following the Localism Act, which requires • My number was my number! local authorities to maintain a list of buildings and land • How did the funeral go? It was all dead by the time of importance to the community. The decision to grant I got here! Community Asset status recognises the value of the pub • If bourbon is from America and rum is from pirates to the local community and beyond, and the Friends of the where does gin come from? Unicorn Group is committed to helping the pub develop • If we weren’t open on a daytime Wednesday we and achieve its full potential. would have to close! • I woke up next morning with a head like a sore Cochrane’s Wharf, Selby: Sign recently appeared elephant! Ouse Boozer 5 No. 118 BREWERY NEWS as pubs the length and breadth of the country wanted to get their hands on the champion beer. Martin said, Black Sheep “we had to throw away the planned brew schedule and Black Sheep BreweryKDYHUHFHQWO\RSHQHGDQHZ¿YH produce as much 1872 Porter as was humanly possible barrel microbrewery including what is believed to be the without upsetting our customers who wanted our other world’s smallest Yorkshire Square fermenter.