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Smiles Brewery Closed Shock News Recently Has Been the Closure of Bristol’S Been Transferred to the Highgate Brewery in Walsall AWARD-WINNING No. 65 Spring 2005 CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN FOR FOR REAL ALE REAL ALE www.camrabristol.org.uk PPPIIINNNTSTSTS WWWEEESSSTTT PPAward-winning newsletter of the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign forTT Real Ale Smiles brewery closed Shock news recently has been the closure of Bristol’s been transferred to the Highgate Brewery in Walsall. famous Smiles Brewery following a short period in The future of the brewery site in Colston Yard remains administration. Staff have been unceremoniously dis- uncertain, though the Brewery Tap seems to be safe. missed, and production of the Smiles beer range has Richard Brooks takes up the story inside on page 5. Join our fight to save top local real ale pub THE Campaign for Real Ale, concerned local residents, The Rose & Crown has been recognised for many and former pub regulars, need your help. Suddenly years as an outstanding example of a freehouse, a pub and without warning, following a normal evening’s strongly supporting real ales from independent brew- trading, the Rose & Crown in Iron Acton closed. By eries, and a regular entry in the Good Beer Guide. morning a notice had appeared in the window. It Now a local action group, with support from CAMRA, simply stated: “We have now closed, thank you for your is attemping to save their pub. Can you add your voice? custom over the years.” See inside for further details. ...............................................................................................................................PINTS WEST ....................... CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale brewing industry. ! Preserving the British pub. What is it? ! Seeking a fairer tax system for smaller brewers. CAMRA is an independent, voluntary, ! Seeking fuller information about the beer we consumer organisation. Membership is open drink, such as ingredients labelling. to any individual, though corporate entities ! Reform of licensing law. such as breweries and pubs are not members. ! Fighting take-overs and mergers. Most of its work is done by volunteers at a ! Encouraging higher standards of pub design. local level, reinforcing national drives. ! Encouraging brewers to produce a wide The Campaign was founded in the early money. range of beer styles such as porter, mild and seventies with the aim of restoring drinkers’ ! Support the public house as a focus of stout, in addition to their bitters. rights and promoting consumer choice. A great community life. Real ale, real beer, traditional beer, cask ale, deal has been achieved over the years and ! Campaign for greater appreciation of cask-conditioned beer — whatever you prefer CAMRA has made a major contribution to traditional beers, ciders and perries as part of to call it — this is of course the Campaign’s getting a fairer deal for pub users. national heritage and culture. top priority. It is no exageration to say that CAMRA is financed through membership ! Seek improvements in all licensed premises CAMRA saved real ale, and as a result saved subscriptions, sales of products such as books and throughout the brewing industry. many independent breweries. No new ale and sweatshirts, and from the proceeds of beer ! CAMRA also seeks to promote real cider breweries were set up in the UK for the fifty festivals. We are a not-for-profit company, and perry through a sub-organisation called years before we were founded. There are now receiving no funding from the brewing industry APPLE. Like ale, these are traditional British around 300 new brewers producing real ale, other than a limited amount of advertising in drinks and, like ale, the traditional product is part of a massive real ale revival. our monthly national newspaper What’s very different from the ‘dead’ version. In total there are currently around 75,000 Brewing and local newsletters such as this. While CAMRA is a single-industry group, CAMRA members, from all walks of life. If CAMRA’s mission is to act as champion it has a very wide area of campaigning you haven’t already, why not add your voice of the consumer. It aims to: interests. At present, campaigns we are to that of the most successful consumer ! Maintain consumer rights. actively pursuing include the following: organisation Europe has seen? Fill in that ! Promote quality, choice and value for ! Improved competition and choice in the membership form inside the back page now. And what is Real Ale anyway? Definition ‘Real ale’ is a term coined by CAMRA in resulting from the fermentation process to and dispensed using the same gas pressure; gas the 1970s to describe draught or bottled beer escape. As with home-made beers and wine, tends to dissolve in the beer in these condi- brewed from traditional ingredients, matured real ale is truly a living liquid; the live yeast tions, and to emerge in the drinker’s stomach, by secondary fermentation in the container cells will continue working to convert the causing discomfort and embarrassment. from which it is dispensed, and served without natural sugars into alcohol, and develop the the use of extraneous carbon dioxide. It may flavour, long after it has left the brewery. Real ale without a barrel! also be called ‘cask conditioned’ or ‘naturally After the barrel has been on the stillage for Bottled beers can be ‘real ale’ if they have conditioned’. a day or two, it should have cleared and be been allowed to mature in the container Real ale is a living thing, and therefore ready for serving. The landlord needs to without filtration or pasteurisation. Some of requires some care and attention, unlike keg exercise skill here, for if the beer is sold at the these will carry on improving in flavour for beer (and most commercial lagers) which are peak of its condition it will taste like nectar, years. Brands include Worthington White generally pasteurised, chilled and filtered to but if sold too soon, it will have little body or Shield (although some say this is not the beer make them chemically inert, and can be flavour, although it may be clear in appearance. it once was), Gale’s Prize Old Ale, and locally handled by anyone with a minimal amount of numerous beers from Wickwar and RCH. training. Distinction from other beers The most easily recognised differences Strength Ingredients between real ale and other beers are: It is a common fallacy to think that all real The traditional ingredients of real ale are ! Taste – traditionally brewed beers can ale is very strong; at every CAMRA beer malted barley, hops, water and yeast; dispense produce an amazing variety and range of festival, we have some customers whose first is usually via a handpump, or occasionally flavours; keg ones, and lagers in particular, question is “what’s your strongest?”, and who straight from the barrel (“gravity dispense”). have a much more restricted range of tastes. are not interested in drinking weaker beers Electric pumps or air pressure systems can ! Diversity – real ale covers a panoply of until there is nothing else left. Strong beers also be used, but are often hard for the styles, with names like mild, bitter, pale ale, have their place, and indeed some of the most customer to distinguish from the ones used for strong ale, brown ale, stout, porter, barley renowned examples of the brewer’s art are high keg beers and lagers. wine – and that’s only the British ones! Cross in alcohol; but the great majority of drinkers the water and you can find Irish red ale, wheat are not out to get as drunk as possible as Dispense beer (made with wheat instead of barley), quickly as possible, and the typical brewer’s Real ale is usually delivered to the pub black beers, Bavarian smoked beers, beers range of real ales reflects that. Social drinking cellar in either metal or wooden casks. The fermented with wild yeast… I could go on… can be refreshing and enjoyable, and even cask is placed on a ‘stillage’ in a horizontal ! Fizziness – real ale should have enough of nutritious. Well kept real ale will accompany position to allow the hops and other sediment this to give it a sparkle, but not so much that any social occasion, and need not break the which results from fermentation to settle in its you start burping after the first mouthful. bank. belly. A wooden bung on the side of the cask Other beers are usually stored under pressure, If you haven’t ... try some! is pierced to allow excess carbon dioxide gas to prevent contamination by airborne bacteria, Norman Spalding 2 Local CAMRA web site : www.camrabristol.org.uk ......................................................................................................................................................PINTS WEST The fight to save the Rose and Crown The Bristol & District branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has joined forces with con- cerned local residents and former pub regulars, to attempt to save the well known and much loved Rose and Crown in Iron Acton. The pub – an inn since 1680 – closed suddenly and without warning after 11 p.m. on Tuesday, 23rd November, 2004. A notice appeared in the window overnight saying “We have now closed, thank you for your custom over the years”. Allan and Gail Didcott had run the Rose and Crown as a free house since buying it in 1985. It was a strong sup- porter of independent real ales, especially from Uley brewery – indeed it was the two other pubs in Iron Acton but they are advice or support, please do email the only regular outlet for these fine beers in very different in character. above contacts, and keep an eye on the our area. It has now been decided to hold a Bristol & District CAMRA branch web It had appeared in each of the last 12 public meeting to establish how much site at www.camrabristol.org.uk.
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