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Meet the pubs Pally with American 10 minister 12 the Caley BRANDON LEWIS MP 16 dreamers Maxim Brewery Caledonian Brewery A Northumberland invited community in is one of -based company is pubs minister the few that continues designing T-shirts Brandon Lewis to use direct fl ame for using classic to see life on the heating its coppers. American advertising ground fl oor and Other traditions live images. We look to discuss the on, while the company at the most casual problems the embraces technology of casual wear. industry faces. Did wholeheartedly. We It’ll certainly get he get it? Mmmm… take the tour. you noticed.

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Good news stories are always regular customers and we welcome from pubs – and sell more real ale than any of The power of the protest it makes a change from all the other beers and lagers.” the “18 pubs a day closing” The 300-year-old roadside pub It’s heartening to know listened to sound sensible moans that organisations like (now three months into freedom that at least one North East advice and scrapped the Duty the Campaign For Real Ale from “a Punch dictatorship” as brewer had chancellor Escalator,” says Martin. “It and the British Beer & Pub Ian puts it) is as traditional as George Osborne running was also interesting that in Association love to perpetuate. they come, with an open fi re, scared. the week that Hadrian Border Gray and Karen Burnett games room and beer garden. Hadrian Border brewing Tyneside Blonde went on sale have been running the Fox & It’s child- and dog-friendly and manager Martin Hammill (in the Strangers’ Bar) a fi ght Hounds at Coalburns, near features regular traditional- – along with many other broke out with a couple of Greenside, for the past seven inspired music, while the small beer-trade representatives MPs. They obviously couldn’t years, but bought the pub in restaurant – which discerning – headed to Westminster wait to get their hands on it.” January and now operate as a diners have discovered via last December to lobby MPs Martin also reports free house. Everyone, though, word-of-mouth – offers home- over the unfair deal the that the -based calls the country inn “Coalies”. cooking using fresh, local industry was getting from the brewery – transferred there “Things are going really produce. People who take on Government. And, he may two years ago this month – well,” says Karen. “We’ve now a business such as Coalies have had his tongue fi rmly continues to be very busy. got six handpulls and deal and are prepared to work hard in his cheek when Cheers He says: “Orders are with all the local breweries at what they believe in are caught up with him, following coming in steadily from such as High House Farm, worth supporting. Just do it. the Budget announcement. existing customers, and we Mordue, Hadrian Border and Coalies, Lead Road, “It was good to see that are still picking up our share Gundog. It’s through demand, Coalburns, Greenside NE40 after going personally to of new business for both they go very well with our 4JN. Tel: 0191 413 2549. Parliament the Government cask and bottled beers.”

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CHE29 News 4-7.indd 4 03/04/2013 08:56 Ale at heart of pub revival The Glenside in Mickley, near The chef’s creativity features the usual Stocksfi eld, has been taken over by roasts – beautifully done – but also beer enthusiast Alan Veitch, who extends to drunken beef in a giant has been involved in barwork Yorkshire pudding and salmon PINT OF for 20-odd years, although in a lemon butter sauce, this is his fi rst leased with starters that include CUBISM PLEASE pub. He’ll forgive us black pudding topped with for saying that the pub Stilton and deep-fried Who says beer lacks culture? This painting by on the A695 Main Road Brie wedges in a port Fernand Leger, painted in 1921, is titled Still Life is an odd-looking thing and cranberry sauce. with Beer Mug and hangs in the Tate Gallery in (being a former cinema But put a date in the diary for London, so it doesn’t get much more cultural than means it has no windows, for The Glenside’s Northumbrian that. Argentina-born Leger was a contemporary instance), but he’s been transforming Beer Festival on Friday May 10 (6pm- of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, founders it into quite a delight with four ales 11pm) and Saturday 11 (3pm-11pm) of the Cubist movement, who also chose beer as from Wylam Brewery and regular with 20 ales from Allendale, High subject matter in some of their greatest works. live music. Wednesday is Quiz Night, House Farm, Wylam and Hexhamshire, This is one of a whole set of postcards and Thursday is Steak Night (two steaks among others. Live bands, hot food posters – and lots of books – on the Beer-Inn and a bottle of wine, £21.50) while too; £6 on the door includes a festival Print stand at the Newcastle Beer Festival this Sunday lunches are proving extremely glass (bus stops between Newcastle month (April 10-13). Make sure you bring your popular – as is the function room for and Hexham are right outside). beer print collection up to date. And if you’re too weddings and other special occasions. Details: 01661 843060. busy sampling ale, visit www.beerinnprint.co.uk Julia’s Bank on top Join the club Tyne Bank Brewery’s team have had a busy start to The new Cheers Pub & Brewers’ Club the year, as many North East microbreweries have, is offering some fantastic commercial despite dire economic – and weather – warnings. opportunities on series advertising. “We’ve just launched Pacifi ca Pale at 4% abv,” Advantages include an enhanced listing says owner Julia Austin. “It’s a blend of four hops in our A-Z pub guide, a new brewery that gives it a light citrus fruit characteristic. guide, a minimum of 30 copies delivered, “This month sees the return of Heavenly Porter which monthly editor’s email, online link to your we are ageing this time in a Heaven Hill whiskey own website, social media promotion, cask from Kentucky. A small number of bottles plus vehicle and window stickers. Contact will be released once the maturing process has Gillian Corney or Philippa Gibson on taken place. And we have a special launching at the 01661 844115 (other details on page 3). Newcastle Beer Festival – Jamaican Mild, a 3.8% dark mild aged on rum-soaked fruit and spices. APRIL SPECIALS IN STOCK NOW

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4 # B&B Accommodation now available to book online Homecooked bar menu served: And there goes Wednesday - Sunday 12pm til 2pm and 6:30pm til 9pm also available ever popular specials board Roast dinner available every Sunday 12pm till 2:30pm Mr Laverstoke Wednesday: OAP Lunch Special The Independent Complaints the change but the loss Live sports shown • Large beer garden • Free Wifi available Panel which reports on of our brand identity. • Large parties catered for behalf of The Portman “Our product is not sold as Group – a trade group an alcopop and I contest formed to monitor the social that teenagers would fi nd responsibility of alcohol the branding hip or trendy producers – has ruled that enough to purchase. Main Street, Acomb, Hexham, Laverstoke Park Farm’s ale “I am angry that a body Northumberland, NE46 4PW and lager packaging has with no legislative power Tel: 01434 602934, breached responsibility rules can just come along and email: [email protected] for using a drawing that make arbitrary decisions www.sun-inn-acomb.co.uk could have particular appeal that we, a small producer, to young children. are then left with the One member of the public consequences of ill-informed submitted the complaint. and unjustifi ed views. THE PERCY ARMS However, former Formula “So, until the alcohol One world champion Jody companies which sponsor Scheckter, who owns the the Portman Group – an Open 7 days a week Laverstoke brands, refuses independent structure – and serving delicious home cooked food to comply with the Portman the multiples put pressure on Mon - Sat 12pm-9pm, Sun carvery 12pm - 3pm Group’s ruling on labelling. them to remedy their rules or TRADITIONAL SUNDAY CARVERY “We have been selling interpret them in accordance 12PM - 3PM Laverstoke Park beer and ale with the Advertising Standards for over fi ve years,” he says. Authority regulations, and HOME COOKED FOOD “During that time we also in accordance with the £5 DAILY SPECIALS have only had one single original aims of Portman OAP SPECIALS complaint; this was received Group, I believe they will carry £4 MONDAY - FRIDAY by the Portman Group. on making decisions that have THE PERCY ARMS “After several meetings, nothing to do with promoting a lot of debate and over responsible drinking. Queens Rd, Walbottle, NE15 8JB £30,000 spent on legal fees, “If the multiples stop Like us on we decided that to change selling our beer as a Telephone: 01912648071 our ale and lager label was consequence, I respect and www.thepercyarms.co not a viable option for us. accept their position.” “It is not just the cost of 6 cheers april 2013

CHE29 News 4-7.indd 6 03/04/2013 08:56 Big in America I say, I say, Isis This graphic shows the rise of craft The & Branch ale in the US – up 15% 2011-2012 – so of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has there’s little wonder the phenomenon announced the winner of its 2013 pub of has been copied enthusiastically the year is the Isis on Silksworth Row, by the UK beer market. However, just off the city centre. according to the Brewers’ Association, Runner up is the Steamboat in the defi nition of “craft” in the and last year’s States is: “Small, independent and winner – Fitzgerald’s, Sunderland traditional with an annual output – claimed third place. of less than six million barrels”. The Isis, reopened in October 2011 after a major refurbishment that saw it restored to its original Victorian splendor, is owned by multi award-winning Brewery. The Whittonstall Action The pub offers nine traditional cask ales – Group is encouraging three from Jarrow Brewery – and six ever- COAL PUT ON THE everyone who feels strongly changing guest ales from around the UK. to send letters of objection Michael Wynne, chairman of Sunderland BACK BURNER to the council (Mr John & South Tyneside Camra branch, says: The Dowson, planning offi cer, Isis has been the driving force behind a real Cheers understands that genuine fears that, should Northumberland County ale renaissance in the city. It is unusual for the planning application permission be granted, Council, County Hall, a pub to win the award on its fi rst attempt by UK Coal for opencast this will substantially affect Morpeth NE61 2EF). Letters and to win by such a large margin.” mining at Whittonstall business at the Anchor inn, will be accepted right up The Isis now goes forward to the in Northumberland, will Whittonstall; the Feathers to a few days before the regional round where it goes up now be discussed by Inn, Hedley on the Hill, committee sits, but the group against the winners from Cleveland, Northumberland County and the Manor House recommends that they should Darlington, Durham, and Tyneside & Council on July 2. There are at Carterwayheads. be sent by the end of May. Northumberland Camra branches.

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CHE29 News 4-7.indd 7 03/04/2013 08:57 FEATURE: BEER BRANDING Message in a bottle You’re not just drinking a pint, you’re associating with a brand, as Alastair Gilmour discovers

An awful lot of thought goes into time. Designer James Hanson and your pint of beer long before you I got involved in a really big way sit and sip it in your favourite because we’re massive beer fans. pub. It’s not only the carefully- chosen ingredients that have been JAMES HANSON, DESIGNER pondered over – and argued about You’re creating something – but big decisions as to the style, that people believe in. From a its name and marketing direction, design point of view, most things plus that source of influence went really well with Sonnett 43, called branding. but some people come in with A brand resides within the preconceived ideas and it can be a hearts and minds of customers. A constant battle trying to convince strong brand is invaluable as the them, so you need something to battle those customers intensifies back up what you’re saying. People by the day, so it’s important are so commercially aware these to spend time investing in days, they’re bombarded with researching, defining, and building advertising so tend to see through it – after all, it can be defined as shallow and hollow statements. If your promise of quality. you want people to be loyal to your The Sonnet 43 Brew House, brand you’ve got to be honest and based at Coxhoe, County Durham, apply who you really are to it to not only agonised over every make it marketable. For example, step of building a microbrewery there’s no point in being small and and constructing a terrific telling people you’re huge – people range of ales, the six month-old can find out about it within ten brewery and its director Mark seconds, so it’s about finding the Hird understood perfectly the good points within what you’re importance of getting the branding doing and accentuating them so right. And, it’s not just choosing a they stand out. colour and a fancy bit of lettering, as account manager Tom Lamb TOM: The next stage is to carry out and graphic designer James the research, which is a lot to do Hanson from Houghton le Spring- with the imagery and what you’re based Surreal Creative describe: trying to achieve. We use what we call mood boards – we go online TOM LAMB, ACCOUNT MANAGER or look in magazines and find The brand is the story behind images that resonate within the the design. Mark Hird from community who would be buying Sonnet 43 Brew House wanted this. What you’re trying to do is his beers to appeal to a different get a snapshot of who your target sort of marketplace – the newer audience will be. We run through drinker getting into craft ales. this for quite a while, picking out And basically that was the brief. beer brands we particularly like But before we touch any design and images we like. work we go into a whole lot of TARGETING MARKETS background so we researched JAMES: The important thing is it’s Tom Lamb, left, and James the marketplace to see what not just ‘this looks nice’, there’s got Hanson of Surreal Creative was successful and what really to be a reason to reach your target appealed, visually, plus any back market. And sometimes we’ll do a stories. That all takes a fair bit of mood board with some things > 8 cheers april 2013

CHE29 feature-sonnet 8-9.indd 8 03/04/2013 08:57 in it you don’t want it to look JAMES: We looked at Brooklyn the top. Stripping it back, Sonnet like – it’s about getting everybody Brewery and its style, but the 43 was a poem; it’s the art of the involved in the project. It’s really problem we had was it has that written word and the natural thing important to engage the client, cool New York association across I felt to do was a nice calligraphic they’re piecing the journey along the world. Coxhoe I don’t think style of the logo. We needed it to as you’re going along and it makes would have worked that well. be iconic as well and needed a for a much smoother project. The colour that could stand on its own, smoother it runs the better the TOM: It leaves it open to tell people its own identity. We used turquoise design tends to be. all about the brewery and what which is nice and fresh and crisp it’s trying to achieve. It helps to – nobody in the beer world was TOM: With Mark Hird we needed a engage. We have even been writing doing anything like that. Everyone back story – he himself didn’t have our own sonnets as research. in brewing uses red or blue but a rich brewing history to go on, but It’s not just a rip-off of Elizabeth Brooklyn uses green which works being based in Coxhoe was a good Barrett Browning, it’s our take on really well for them. start. We looked into Elizabeth it, it’s about the way the beer’s Barrett Browning’s connection with made and the spirit behind how TOM: Mark Hird was very open and Coxhoe Hall and her most famous the customer drinks it. Elizabeth took us on board from the start. He poem Sonnett 43 about ‘let me Barrett-Browning’s family were went with it, but wanted the final count the ways’ which is all about involved in sugar plantations so the say, of course. When someone is love and tenderness. We took from next lot of beers will involved a rum totally on board with what you’re the craft beer movement that the beer in homage to that, trying to doing it makes a big difference to core values were genuine love and build on it. being creative. He had a fire in his affection. Mark’s doing it because belly about the whole thing and he he loves what he’s doing. There JAMES: We wanted to tie it all was involved very step of the way. were other names that came up together. You have to keep the From initial research we probably but none of them seemed to have thread running throughout, the came up with about 100 names the same weight behind them. story that people can be part of, and whittled them down. not just ‘buy from’. You’ve got JAMES: The key phrases were people like Jamie Oliver to thank JAMES: I wanted the style of text ‘taking care’ and ‘having a for a lot of this – people are more to tell you something about the passion’. We ended up taking interested in what goes into things, beers. The colours help identify Sonnet 43 as a name and also they’re more clued up. the beers – you’ll get someone the thought that people would who might not remember the start asking for ‘a Sonnet’ or ‘a TOM: Food and drink are really beer name but says he likes the 43’ and decided it works either coming together. It’s become red one. way. If you like a Sonnet 43 Steam a cool thing to know your food Beer in your pub and that’s the and drink. TOM: But at the end of the day, it only one they’ve got, you might go could be the best-designed brand to another pub where they’ve got JAMES: I was keen to create a in the world but if people don’t like one of the others in the range and design that was really confident the taste of the beers it’s going you’ll drink that. You’re introducing and that could stand up beside to fall by the wayside. Luckily, people to the concept. your Budweisers, nothing too over they’re great.

TOM: If our brief was that there was going to be a real ale brewed THE NEXT STEP in Coxhoe in Durham and it was Sonnet 43 Brew House’s latest End (6.2% abv), a rum-infused the ambition of the brewer to be range, which is to be released ginger inspired by the very focused on the region, then intermittently throughout the Barrett family’s sugar plantations we might have been more inclined year, will see new ingredients in Jamaica, and named after the to have gone down that route. But and brewing techniques being estate in Hertfordshire which they when you’re outside of Durham, used to create a number of bought with the resulting fortune. Coxhoe becomes a bit of a nothing limited edition ales based on It will be made without the word and the name would just different aspects of Elizabeth use of the finings normally disappear. Our brief was to develop Barrett Browning’s prose used to clear the beer for an a brand that would work on a and personal experiences. intentional hazy look in the glass. younger generation and also on a Each beer in the range – Brewery founder, North East national scale. collectively entitled How Do I love restaurateur Mark Hird, said: Durham Brewery is one of the Thee? Let Me Count the Beers “The new range, which will be best at doing that local history – as a twist on the first line of made available in much smaller thing, but we tried to move out of Sonnet 43, will be brewed with a numbers, is our chance to there. Their beers look as though maximum of 40 casks and sold on not only experiment with new they’ve been made in Durham a first-come, first-served basis. flavours and higher abvs but to Cathedral and I think it works The first in the new line, pay homage to the rich literary for them. available this month, is Hope history of the North East as well.”

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CHE29 feature-sonnet 8-9.indd 9 03/04/2013 08:57 PUBS: GOVERNMENT POLICY

like to see a 50p minimum per unit, was one of a ditherer. He said: “Mr Lewis shouldn’t be sitting on the fence but supporting publicans in the North-East. Seven out of ten support minimum unit pricing. They’re suffering at the hands of cheap supermarket alcohol.” Meanwhile, Labour accused Theresa May of hiding from her responsibilities, as ministers refused to confirm whether the plans had been scrapped. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said both Mrs May’s reputation and prime minister David Cameron’s authority were in tatters amid reports of Cabinet in-fighting over the policy. Mrs May is alleged to have led opposition to the policy, which comes under her department, and “overruled” the prime minister, Ms Cooper said. Brandon Lewis also spoke YES MINISTER Brandon at SIBA BeerX in Sheffield, the Lewis MP, left, and day after his visit to Maxim Maxim’s Mark Anderson – where he announced he had been impressed by their resourcefulness and determination to making their brewery, and their four pubs, a success – and he called on communities to “get Beer is more than together and list your local”. He said: “Listing a pub as a community asset is a simple process, requiring support carrot and stick from just 21 local people on the electoral register. Already, Does one hand of the Government know what the other hand more than 40 pubs have been registered as community assets.” is doing when it comes to pubs, asks Alastair Gilmour Lewis described the community pub as “more than just a place It has been reported widely But confusion reigns. The Even if people drink sensibly at to grab a pint and a packet of that plans to ban cheap beers Government’s community pubs home, I’d rather have them in crisps – they are the heartbeat and spirits by imposing a minister insisted during a visit a pub, supporting jobs and the of the communities they serve. minimum price on units of to the North-East that the economy. A minimum price would “Every publican is an alcohol are to be shelved by consultation process was still probably help pubs and I can see entrepreneur and they pack a the prime minister following a ongoing and that he and fellow why the industry is keen on it. powerful economic punch locally. Cabinet row over the moves. politicians were taking their time “But I’m not a fan of the Like Laurel and Hardy and other Under the proposals, which to look at all the facts closely ‘stick’ – education and the great partners, good pubs and are strongly supported by David and would come to a considered ‘carrot’ is the best way to do it. good beer go hand in hand. I’m Cameron and Jeremy Hunt, the conclusion in due course. I think it’s a good thing that the delighted to see that more pubs health secretary, a minimum Speaking during a visit to Maxim Government is taking its time to are selling local beers and reaping price of 45p per unit would have Brewery, Houghton-le-Spring, look at all the facts carefully.” the rewards of offering their been set in England and Wales Conservative MP Brandon Lewis At the time, that sounded to customers something different. in an attempt to reduce binge- said: “The brewers I’ve spoken Cheers ears more like he was so “Throughout our country’s drinking and curb alcohol-fuelled to are unanimously supportive far out of the loop he didn’t have history, pubs have shown a crime. This has been opposed of minimum unit pricing. a clue what was going on. And desire to adapt and innovate. by home secretary Theresa “Anything that promotes the impression of Colin Shevills, No matter what guise they May and her Liberal Democrat being in a pub drinking rather director of Balance, the North take, communities across the deputy Jeremy Browne. than pre-loading is a good thing. East Alcohol Office, which would UK rely on their local pub.” 10 cheers april 2013

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We’re in the Traditional family G d B­  Guide... again run pu since 1975 (2013) STEAM AHEAD Tour guide Ross O’Hara at Caledonian Dally at The Caley Regula Music & Folk Night Mon - Fri: from 4pm • Sat: from 12pm One of the country’s best-loved breweries has an Sun: 12pm - 3pm & from 7pm amazing history, writes Alastair Gilmour BRIDGE END INN, Ovingham 01661 832219 Ask a tour guide which are Edinburgh’s inspect ingredients, talk production and, most recognised landmarks and they’ll of course, taste beer. Our guide, Ross point to the castle and Arthur’s Seat. A O’Hara, originally from on beer afi cionado might do the same, then Tyneside, talks us through each stage his or her third item would not be the Royal from the grinding of the malt in the mill Observatory or the , but the to the beer being racked into casks. chimney at Caledonian Brewery. Ross is a current BSc brewing By rights the red brick totem- and distilling student at Heriot- pole should have disappeared Watt University in Edinburgh and from the city skyline long ago as, graduates shortly. He has been ravaged by fi res and threatened on industrial placements at the with closure over its 144-year Royal Brewery in Manchester history, any ordinary brewing and previously at The Caley enterprise would have given up. and he’s back there combining Caledonian – The Caley – is, tours with valuable experience. however, is made of sterner In the brewhouse, an stuff; it’s a survivor – the only illuminated central panel one of Edinburgh’s original 40 illustrates the fl ow of beer and what breweries and still producing is happening at all times in each part remarkable beers with a blend of “We just said of the process. Recipes are keyed in The only sign to look for on Hadrian’s Wall modern enterprise and Victorian ‘tell us what and as long as various receptacles Scores on the Doors: equipment that was certainly built you want and contain their allotted amounts, away Set in the shadows of Steel Rigg this country inn offers to last. Five generations of brewery we’ll do it’.” she goes. Although this is high-tech 3 Diamond accommodation, Real Ales, workers wouldn’t let it go, anyway. to the extreme, the whole process superb wines and excellent food. It is an ideal location to explore the land of Reivers, Caledonian has been part-owned is still hands-on – only the back- Romans and Myths. by Heineken since 2008, following four years breaking part of the work has been removed. under the Scottish & Newcastle banner, Three copper kettles are direct- and a spell of independence after Vaux’s fi red, a method unique in the UK. At involvement from 1919 to 1998. The Heineken one time they were fuelled by coal, but family have all visited, they liked what they now it’s gas and when a trio of burners Bardon Mill, Hexham, NE47 7AN saw, invested in what needed to be invested are in full belt, it can get pretty hot. t: 01434 344534 in, but allow the company to run more or less “When we needed to replace one after e:[email protected] w: www.twicebrewedinn.co.uk as its directors see fi t. They know the market. the 1998 fi re, we went back to the company We’re on a tour and off to see mash that originally made them,” says Ross. “They Find us on Facebook, You Tube& Flikr tuns, coppers and fermenters and to still had the plans. The brewery is in good 12 cheers april 2013

CHE29 caledonian brewery p12-13.indd 12 03/04/2013 08:58 nick for its age, it’s very fl exible in that it can cope with varying amounts of production.” BUSY TIME FOR WYLAM There’s an almost overpowering aroma of fresh greenery in the hop store. Several varieties are used for different beers, Wylam Brewery has produced a one-off, but Styrian Goldings is the core variety, short-run brew to mark the early retirement a versatile hop used widely for its aroma of Tim Gatenby, director of branded contracts capabilities, delicate bitterness and spicy at Simpson’s Malt in Berwick. Wylam has fl avour. Caledonian is one of the biggest been a customer of Simpson’s since the brewers in the country using full-leaf brewery’s fi rst day in 2000. hops rather than pellets or hop oils. Tim intends to do a farewell tour over the “It’s useful to have Heinken’s buying power,” next few weeks to present customers and old admits Ross. But this means retaining fl avour friends with the commemorative bottling – profi les is challenging – hops, like any crop, which is about as appropriate as it can get for a can vary from year to year, depending on man who knows beer from top to bottom. their growing conditions, or, as operations “The beer’s called Parting Gift,” says manager Craig Steven puts it more earthily: Wylam’s business development manager Matt “Mother Nature can kick you in the arse.” Boyle. “It’s been brewed to Tim’s own recipe Further on, 15 open square fermentation – he was production manager at Federation vessels are numbered three to 17. Numbers Brewery at one time and formulated the recipe one and two are no longer used and brewers for our Gold Tankard all those years ago. It’s  Matt Boyle, Wylam Brewery didn’t want to change anything. Superstition still our best seller.” goes hand-in-hand with technical progress. Matt also reveals a new monthly event in Wylam Brewery has also been invited to “We’re brewing a summer ale for Heineken conjunction with street food trader Riley’s Fish supply the beer for the Sage ’s new called Newcastle Bombshell for the American Shack, starting on Friday April 5 at the Boiler Concourse Bar, which was formerly the ticket market,” says Ross. “Doing that sort of thing House in the Stephenson Works in Newcastle. offi ce. Two handpulls will operate fi rst of all gives us a bit of extra volume. We just said The Steamer event will then take place on the with room for another pair, while behind the ‘tell us what you want and we’ll do it’. fi rst Friday of every month (4pm till late) and counter a neatly planned, well thought-out “The hardest part of this job is the tasting will feature the best in beer, food and music. solution to beer dispense has emerged from on a Friday – unfortunately you need to “There’ll be craft beers – keg and real close collaboration between Sage and Wylam swallow beer to get the taste receptacles ale – all kinds of food and drink with people staff. at the back of the throat working and to like James Burton, the MasterChef fi nalist all “We’re pleased with the way things like detect characteristics in the beer that you’d involved,” says Matt. “Adam Riley from Riley’s that are going,” says Matt Boyle. “We’re doing expect to fi nd in the pint in the pub.” Fish Shack saw a similar thing in London and very well and everything’s going to plan. We’re So, it would be rude not to help him out we got our heads together because we can see putting a lot more keg beer out into the trade in the Heritage Centre through Deuchars it working here. We’ll also have wine tastings, since the recent success of our Cascade, a IPA, Flying Scotsman, Caledonian 80/- and a whisky bar, and cocktails from The Geordie hoppy beer which suited the style very well. Golden XPA. We’re too early to sample Miners, a group of local mixologists who do “Spring and summer events are in the diary April’s seasonal, Brewers’ Passion, but some amazing things.” – with Hot Stuff Chili and the EAT! Festival it’s called “a beer to fall in love with”. Music on the fi rst session comes via the among them, so it promises to be a busy Aren’t they all? wonderful, the sensational, The Baghdaddies. old time.” www.caledonianbeer.com

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CLUB AWARDS Escape to ale upon Tyne HONOUR STEWARD Newcastle Cricket Club has good reason to be offer several weather hopefully gets a feeling pleased with itself. Its new title, Camra cruise options – Quay to bit warmer we’ll also have Tyneside Club of the Year has come hot on the City, Quay to Countryside polypins of cask beer heels of the national Club Awards Cricket Club and Quay to Sea, as well “We’re also looking at of the Year. The Jesmond-based, 125-year-old as private functions, dance Anarchy Blonde Star club, which faced extinction fi ve or six years cruises, barbeque cruises and to extend the range ago and owes its revival to a public campaign, and monthly themed trips. according to demand. It’s community involvement and – in a smaller but River Escapes is an And, for the fi rst time, very exciting and we’re signifi cant way – supporting real ale, has also unrivalled way to they will include some all looking forward to it.” been shortlisted for several other awards. experience one of the locally-produced ales for Wylam Collingwood is a All this is testament to retiring club nation’s greatest cities beer lovers to enjoy. particularly appropriate steward Allan Knaggs (pictured above), through its history, River Escapes’ Ian choice as the Quay who has not only overseen Jesmond’s industry, heritage, Smith says: “We have a to Sea cruise passes revival but regards it as the pinnacle of his landmarks – and its beer. couple of ales in bottles the statue of Admiral 52-year stint in the club and pub trade. The two boats moored at the moment, including Collingwood, hero of Club secretary Olwyn Hocking says: “It’s near the Pitcher & Piano Wylam Collingwood. In Trafalgar, at . fair to say Allan has overseen a revolution on Newcastle’s Quayside the summer when the www.riverescapes.co.uk – and been an inspiration himself.”

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Cheers North East has teamed up with Edward Theakston Associates to offer another training and advice session for publicans and staff. This unmissable event will take place on Wednesday April 17 at The Schooner, Gateshead NE8 3AF. The day (10am-4pm) will feature strategic planning, cellar tips for optimum efficiency, staff training techniques, operational improvement, and piles of advice and initiatives. Regardless of whether a licensee WC FIELDS David Porter, Eco Ad is just starting out on a new career or reeling off the decades, there is always something A North East company is not only Eco Ad managing director David to learn that will help make money at one helping pub customers to save money, Porter says: “We sell the advertising end and stop it running out at the other. And, but to earn it – by taking the pee. space and pay a percentage of Edward Theakston – a man who is passionate Stockton-based Eco Ad Ltd has the revenue back. Customers will about quality – does exactly that. It’s basically secured the rights to supply pubs, see a return of 55%-103% on their a day well spent on improving the bottom line universities, businesses and sports investment and get far better return and at a Cheers-subsidised £95 per delegate, and shopping centres with Falcon than they would get at a bank.” is a real investment. Lunch is included. porcelain urinals which never need Not only are the urinals energy To register an interest for the April flushing – saving water and drastically efficient, but they are also five times 17 session, or for further details, reducing bills. The models also more hygienic than the traditional, please contact edward.theakston@ feature a panel which can be used by flushable type.The waterless urinals edwardtheakstonassociates. companies to advertise their products contain a removable, recyclable cartridge co.uk or tel 01677 460171. or services, with part of the proceeds which collects uric sediment, so only the Cheers editor Alastair Gilmour is also going straight back to the client. fluid gets passed into the waste pipes. happy to advise (07930 144 846).

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CHE29 news hexhamshire 18-19.indd 18 03/04/2013 09:02 Ditte Elly, Richard Dawson and Bridie Jackson and the Arbour from 7.30 till HEAD OF STEAM, NEWCASTLE late. Seasonal food made fresh from A regular Hoppy Mondays session the kitchen includes roast lamb stotties will feature the obvious – hoppy plus a visit from Riley’s Fish Shack. beers on Mondays, including Details: 0191 265 1725 some exclusive to the Neville Street pub. A Star Wars beer Fox and Hounds Coalburns festival is in the diary for May the Traditional family run village pub Fourth (geddit?).Details: serving 6 ever changing hand pulls from local brewers. 0191 230 4236 Fox & Hounds, known locally as Coalies, is situated in the small village of Coalburns. Huge log burning stove for those cool winter days, once summer arrives a beautiful beer garden awaits. Weekdays: 4pm - 11pm daily • Sat: • Sun: Sunday lunch served 12pm-4pm, booking advisable Fox & Hounds, Coalburns, Greenside, Gateshead, NE40 4JN Tel. 0191 4132549 • www.coalies.co.uk THE CENTRAL, GATESHEAD A Burlesque evening is pencilled in for Friday April 12 – an esay decision since the previous one sold out. A St George’s beer festival will start week commencing April 22 (the day before St George’s Day), TILLEYS BAR, NEWCASTLE with lots of truly English ale and Three Hambleton Brewery beers traditional food. will celebrate the Grand National Details: 0191 478 2543 on Saturday April 6 (Hambleton is in the heart of Yorkshire horse-racing THE HEAD OF STEAM, DURHAM country). The pub’s St George’s Day Sunderland & South Another St George’s Day food festival (from April 22) will not only Tyneside CAMRA special. The pub’s Belgian beer include proper English ales but St Georges Day - 23rd April pub of the year, 3 theme continues with a Delirium traditional food such as chicken tikka Erasmus Bottle, South Shields alternative years running promotion, right across the full masala, kebabs and jerk chicken. historian talk about St George and the dragon. range – buy four, get one free. Grilled cheese sandwich day is on 7:30pm prompt £4 per ticket includes buffet. Ongoing Man v Pizza is a April 12 with toasties to tempt the Dragon curry and themed ales available throughout the evening challenge where customers have palate – blue cheese and pear? 45 minutes to eat a 1.5kg pizza Why not? (£19.95) – a 15’’ giant with a May the Fourth will see a run of The Steamboat DOG FRIENDLY mozzarella and pulled pork Galacatic fi lms (except Star Wars, 27 Mill Dam, South Shields, NE33 1EQ PUB stuffed crust, topped with a foot- which can’t apparently be shown (0191) 454 0134 long hotdog, two Toulouse dogs in public). Food will be things and loads of bacon – and if they like Boba Feta salad and Han manage that they’ll get it free with Solo sandwiches. their photo posted on the pub’s Details: 0191 232 0692 big screen. “So far, fi ve people have tried to MASH-UP BEER AND MUSIC eat one and all have failed,” says FESTIVAL Head of Steam manager Simon Anarchy Brewery is sorry to Ritson. “But they all said how announce its planned festival delicious the pizza was.” has been cancelled due to poor Details 0191 383 2173 weather forecasts for April. Keep an eye on , NEWCASTLE www.anarchybrewco.com A St George’s beer festival from April 22 with all-English food, ODDFELLOWS BEER FESTIVAL Craft Brewers in Morpeth, plus a Cosmic beer festival with May 2-6. 7 Albion Road, North more than 20 ales from the likes Shields, NE30 2RJ Northumberland. of Dark Star and Black Hole, plus Around 20 beers, plus ciders. Cluny2 on April 26-28 with ciders and perries. Music on Tel: 01670 789755 live music. the Saturday. Details: 0191 230 4474 Details: 0191 257 4288. Email: [email protected] Dipl. Brew certified.

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CHE29 news hexhamshire 18-19.indd 19 03/04/2013 09:01 NEWS HEXHAMSHIRE BREWERY Twenty and counting for Hexhamshire

Geoff Brooker used to be an had a lot of success on the accountant, but even he has way, plus plenty of disasters, diffi culty in remembering especially in the early days,” how long his Hexhamshire says Geoff (pictured right). (4.1% abv), Devil’s Elbow (3.6% says Geoff. “I’m not sure it Brewery has been in “We won the Durham Beer abv), Shire Bitter (3.8% abv), and makes economic sense but existence. Festival with Shire Bitter Whapweasel (4.8% abv). All are it keeps us in touch with the We agree on 20 years this year, a few years ago and got a named after local beauty spots. beer festivals further south. although work had already gold medal from SIBA.” Geoff also brews Old Humbug We’re selling more beer close started in December 1992. A one-off beer, Lightside, (5.5% abv), a winter ale which to home than ever before – the Two decades, though, won a Battle of the Beers he has considered stocking Red Lion at Newbrough has is a signifi cant span for competition at the 2008 all year round. “That one’s us on permanently; we’re on a tiny, fi ve-barrel plant Newcastle Beer Festival. named after me,” says Geoff. every month in the Tap & Spile originally constructed from “We’ve just done a special beer Blackhall English Stout, in Hexham; regularly in the Rat redundant milk storage called Tyde Marque for local based on Banks & Taylor’s at Anick, and Tynedale Rugby vessels, so it’s reason band Tyde Folk (described Extra Stout, has also become Club has been great for us, enough for congratulations. by Mike Harding as ‘the best a permanent feature as it bringing a lot of people into The brewery is situated young band I’ve ever heard’).” sold more than the Guinness contact with what we’re doing.” near Dipton Mill Inn, near There are normally four before it was taken out. The Dipton Mill Inn, Hexham Hexham, the pub he runs Hexhamshire beers on Dipton “We take beer to be distributed NE46 1YA. Tel; 01434 606577. with his wife Janet. “We’ve Mill Inn bar – Devil’s Water by Flying Firkin in Burnley,” Visit www.hexhamshire.co.uk

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CHE29 News p20-21.indd 20 03/04/2013 09:07 CHE29 News p20-21.indd 21 03/04/2013 09:04 WINE THE RISE OF LOW-ALCOHOL When is a wine not a wine? In March 2011 the Government there are exceptions. German handed the drinks trade the task white wine often has alcohol levels of removing one billion units of of 8.5% and sparkling moscato alcohol from the UK as part of the from Italy is 7.5% abv. The “new” Public Health Responsibility Deal. wines on the supermarket shelves It was an attempt to reduce describe themselves as “reduced THERE’S the alcohol intake of the general alcohol wine-based drinks with public for individual health reasons fl avourings”. At the present they ALWAYS ONE for and savings to the NHS. tend to be white or rosé with one One response was large wine or two sparkling offers. Lower Home-brewing has been effectively legalised fi rms coming up with a range of low alcohol red wines are hard to fi nd in Missouri, US, the 49th state to do so. alcohol wines of 5.5% abv or lower as they are more diffi cult to make. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant has signed a – and the latest fi gures show that What has made these wines bill that was passed in early February then voted on sales of these wines are booming. In popular is the price, around £4.99 by the State House of Representatives in March. 2012, just under one million 12-bottle as they attract lower excise duty. The 21st Amendment predominantly leaves cases worth £38m were sold. *Suzanne Lock and Bill Oswald regulation of alcohol to individual states, therefore, even However, at those alcohol levels are Advintage Ltd. The pair host though home-brewing is federally legal, it is still up to they cannot be technically called regular wine tastings, and dinnerss, individual states to legalise it in state codes. It leaves wine and anything lower than 8.5% with wine holidays to Europe a Alabama as the only state not to allow home-brewing. abv is not classed as wine, although speciality. www.advintage.co.uk

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CHE29 gigs-wine p22-23.indd 22 03/04/2013 09:06 WINE THE WAY FORWARD Quality wines for austerity times Far too often the quality and range of Some are more expensive than others but wines in our pubs doesn’t come anywhere we found one, Palazzo del Mare, at £5.99. near what their indigenous ales, foreign Our third choice is a Spanish Macabeo beers and exotic spirits can offer. Chardonnay (Centelleo £6.99), people Thankfully, it’s a bit more than “red or tend to think of chardonnay as big, fat white”, but they can be unadventurous, and buttery, but actually the grape tends downright dull and pretty boring. In this to take on the character of the place in new series, we’ll be asking North East which it is grown, so this one is lighter wine merchants what is the way forward than you would expect and together with and how they can help our pubs – and the the macabeo in the blend, creates a really general public – get the best out of a bottle nice soft spicy mouthful. Normally you and why we deserve to. Pulling out the would have sherry with tapas, but this cork on the new feature is Mo O’Toole from would be a totally respectable alternative. Carruthers & Kent in Gosforth, Newcastle. Among the reds, one of the most North East pubs and breweries have interesting grapes at a reasonable price done a great job in recent years to promote is the carignan (La Cadence £6.49) this quality regional and individual beers – but southern French bottle is fruity, spicy and of course this is harder to do with wines. light and actually goes with well with curry. We have few vineyards up north (though Looking to Australia, we found a blended you might be surprised to red using grenache and tempranillo, learn that there are now fi ve in a well-known combination in Yorkshire) but the dominance wine circles, often found in Rioja. of well-known labels means This one is a little smoother, that smaller vineyards can fi nd “One of the most gives off a hint of coffee, notes it diffi cult to break through. interesting grapes at of strawberry and a touch of a reasonable price Times are changing, vanilla (The Inquisitor, £7.99). is the carignan (La however, and independent Cadence £6.49)” Our fi nal red is from Southern wine merchants are on the Italy. Southern Italian Reds until increase and eager to supply very recently have been a bit rustic, handpicked wines from small but they have sharpened up their EEH! NUMBERS and select producers. As with food, act, and both negroamaro and primitivo 37 people are now more choosey about taste particularly well at the moment. Our their wines and independent merchants negroamaro (Lamadoro, £9.99) is a gorgeous The numerical sequence are well placed to cater for this. sumptuous luscious bowl of cherry red We at Carruthers & Kent love nothing fruits and plums, with a little pepper. of this month’s Newcastle better than being able to say we have Finally there is fi zz – and there are been to the vineyards, have met the alternatives to prosecco. Cremant from Beer Festival (April 10-12) grower and tasted the wine, so along with France is made in the champagne method and The normal human looking to regions which offer exceptional is lovely and dry, slightly creamy and light – quality at a good price – Argentina and and a lot cheaper than a bottle of champagne. body temperature in Chile are always a good bet – we can also Portugal is producing some fabulous seek out wines made from lesser-known whites; Cave St Joao is one of our favourites degrees Celsius grapes with reasonable price tags. because it is crisp, bone dry, but utterly The international dialing Top of the white wine list at the refreshing (£12.49). But if you want to try moment is viogner. This is a slightly something a little different, go for a fabulous prefi x for the Vatican City fl oral wine with a hint of peach stone red sparkly lambrusco from Northern Italy. and apricot. Viogner is dry, but it has Yes, it is coming back into fashion and no, The number most people body, backbone and suppleness. It’s it does not taste like it did in the 1970s. pick when asked to give a great on its own but amazing with roast All of these are slightly off the beaten pork and rosemary. Ours start at £7.99 track – but not too far off – and well within random number between (Mont Rocher Viogner, Languedoc). the price range of the average buyer. The cattarato grape from Sicily is crisp Carruthers and Kent, 3a Elmfi eld Road, 0 and 100. and fl inty with a balanced acidity – great Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE34AY. Tel: for a hot summer’s day, if we ever get one. 0191 2131818. www.carruthersandkent.com

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CHE29 gigs-wine p22-23.indd 23 03/04/2013 09:06 SUNDAY LUNCH THE TRAVELLERS REST

The Travellers Rest is situated Sunday lunches are very popular 4 miles south of Hexham and with a choice of roasts served has panoramic views over the with seasonal vegetables and Sunday Lunch Tyne Valley. Food served daily, scrumptious yorkshire puddings. lunch time and evenings, all We serve real ales and offer 4 It’s the most rewarding meal of the week. Sunday lunch day on Sundays in either the star accomodation. Children simply hits the spot when it comes to sit-down satisfaction, bar or our cosy restaurant. All are always welcome and we family togetherness and old-fashioned contentment. meals are freshly prepared have a large beer garden with Is there a better highlight to the weekend than sitting using local produce wherever an excellent rustic outdoor play in a pub with friends and family with a delicious array of possible, we even make our own area and giant boucy castle to roast meat, vegetables and rich gravy being brought to your home made ice cream, which is keep them entertained while you table – and not forgetting creative vegetarian options. available to take away (proud to can relax and enjoy the beautiful These days the Sunday lunch offer is hugely impressive with a support local businesses)! Our Northumberland scenery. whole range of combinations to tempt the fussiest of diners. We are all looking for quality and value for money in our food and drink and the two invariably merge over Sunday lunch, particularly among discerning LOCATION: pub-goers who know where the top places are – like those on this page. Slaley, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 1TT And, best of all, when the plates are cleared, Tel 01434 673231 someone else does the washing-up. www.travellersrestslaley.com • [email protected]

ANCHOR INN THE GARDEN HOUSE THE GOLDEN LION RIVERDALE HALL HOTEL

Overlooking the Cheviot Hills, Located on Durham’s Located in Corbridge, Located in Bellingham, the The Anchor Inn serves delicious Framwellgate Peth, The Garden The Golden Lion has now Riverdale Hall Hotel’s restaurant food daily from noon, including House is a family run, pub, established a great reputation provides a relaxed setting to Sunday lunch which offers a restaurant and B&B serving for home cooked food as well sample award-winning cuisine. variety of roasts with all the cask ales and killer merlot, as quality ale and fi ne wines. Sunday Lunches are a must, trimmings. You can dine in the home cooked fresh food with All food is made fresh on the using quality local meat with lounge or in our cosy restaurant. proper puddings.Our Sunday premises using the best local fresh seasonal vegetables and A “Dine in the Country” two- Lunches are not to be missed, produce possible. Sunday some of the biggest home-made course special for £10 is served from 12pm – 6pm every Carvery is served from 12pm Yorkshires you’ll ever see. Once available from noon until 7pm. Sunday, using the fi nest meat, and great value at your meal is settled then take We also have four luxury en- and fresh seasonal vegetables, only £7.95 for 2 courses. advantage of our free swim for suite rooms. Open seven days rich gravy and our infamous Booking advisable - diners offer. Two courses £10.50 from 11.30am till close homemade Yorkshire puddings. hope to see you soon. and three courses £13.50.

LOCATION: Whittonstall, LOCATION: The Garden House LOCATION: Hill Street, Corbridge, LOCATION: Riverdale Hall Country Northumberland, DH8 9JN Inn, Framwellgate Peth, Durham Northumberland, NE45 5AA House Hotel, Bellingham, Tel 01207 561110 DH1 4NQ Tel: 01434 632216 Northumberland, NE48 2JT Tel: 0191 386 3395 [email protected] Tel: 01434 220254

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CHE29 sunday lunch p24-25.indd 24 03/04/2013 09:25 NEWS THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Rumour has it that the Newcastle Arms in Newcastle will not be included in the 2014 Camra Good Beer Guide. Landlord Neil Amos (right) found out after a committee member of the Tyneside & Northumberland Good things made branch let slip that it was “to give someone else a chance”. The Newcastle Arms was Tyneside to be shared Pub of the Year in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and has never come The new Bishop Langley pub blend of gravy, or soup for starters; lower than fourth in voting, so it is has been closed for an extended on Framwellgate Bridge, North a joint of meat with full vegetable staggering that such a well-run, period. The pub’s landlord has Road, Durham, has introduced a accompaniment plus potatoes, and traditional town-centre pub with changed. The beer has fallen family Sharing Patter for Sunday for desserts, home-baked classics the beer choice, quality offering below the standard expected for a lunches. that will vary between the likes of and friendly welcome that it has in Good Beer Guide entry. It’s “dining at home with a little fruit crumble or apple pie. gallons will – according to rumour None of those can be applied bit of elegance” where a family An alternative menu runs – not be included in what is often to the Newcastle Arms. The local can have a joint carved at their alongside this initiative and plans described as “the beer-drinkers’ Camra branch insists that the table or Dad can do it himself. So, are in place for summer months to bible”. Normally a proposal for selection process is a democratic if someone wants three slices of offer a cold option on the terrace. deletion or non-inclusion must one and that details of the new beef and another family member The Bishop Langley – formerly be made to the local Camra entries are under embargo until only has room for one, everybody is the Coach & Eight – opened in late committee either in writing to the September launch of the 2014 happy. The three courses (£48 for March and the gastro-pub/pub/ the secretary, or in person at a guide. Until then, the chairman, four with a sliding scale depending wine bar has already made its mark committee meeting. Possible vice chairman and secretary will on numbers) include a giant among Durham’s discerning diners. reason for review are: The pub insist: “It’s only a rumour”. Yorkshire pudding with a special Details: 0191 386 4779.

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CHE29 sunday lunch p24-25.indd 25 03/04/2013 09:09 Where is it? Right on that odd set of roundabouts and traffi c lights in South Gosforth that are confusing enough to drive you to drink. It’s offi cially Haddricks Mill Road meets PUB PROFILE Road meets Station Road with two bits of Benton Park Road thrown in for extra confusion. Take the THE BRANDLING VILLA, GOSFORTH Metro to South Gosforth – much easier.

OVERVIEW Licensee: Dave Carr The Brandling Villa, Haddricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, Newcastle NE3 1QL t: 0191 284 0490 www.brandlingvilla.co.uk

Famous the world over for its dog-friendly beer which was all over the planet’s media a couple of years ago. Much loved pub run by enthusiasts and genuinely good guys which offers far more than a gimmick or two. Regular themed beer festivals make it a “must-visit” (German-themed, sausage-friendly, pie-eyed, the offer is all-consuming) but music and quiz nights are also a terrific draw. The pub could hardly be friendlier and over the past four-and- a-bit years has helped transform this part of Newcastle’s outskirts into a real attraction for beer aficionados and food lovers with a sense of adventure. The beer The rest A haven for top Six and more handpulls Chef Sammy Dee believes offering everything from local implicitly in good produce musicians and stand- beauties to visiting crackers cooked from fresh. All up comedians and national favourites, all in suppliers are based in a 20- e Brandling Villa was built in 1900, originally as a hotel prime condition. Regular “tap mile radius, chips are from as well as a pub. e sandstone exterior is described by take-over” events show great Maris Piper spuds and the Gosforth-based author Lynn Pearson in e Northumbrian initiative and it’s one of the gravy has never seen a box. Pub: An Architectural History as “reminiscent of a small best places for foreign beers to Tuesday is gourmet burger scale baroque town hall with its balcony and decorative seek asylum. night, Wednesday is pie night.  nials and gablets”. ese days the ground  oor has been knocked through into one huge room with clearly – and cleverly – de ned seating areas such as a comfy settee corner that complements the more traditional tables and chairs combination. Six real ales, a choice of ciders and a healthy-looking wine rack are a  ne and welcoming sight, as is a well thought-out menu. e Brandling Villa is also a haven for talented musicians and stand-up comedians. A real attraction for attraction A real cionados and beer afi with a lovers food sense of adventure 26 cheers april 2013

CHE29_A-Z.indd 26 03/04/2013 09:23 A-Z BREWERS GUIDE  Cheers supports great local breweries When looking for a great local brewery, this should be a good place to start...

ALLENDALE BREWERY DURHAM BREWERY MAXIM BREWING COMPANY ONLY HERE Allendale, Unit 5a Bowburn North Houghton le Spring Northumberland Industrial Estate, Bowburn, County Durham NE47 9EQ County Durham, DH6 5PF www.maximbrewery.co.uk t:01434 618686 t: 0191 377 1991 MORDUE BREWERY GELTSDALE BREWERY Units D1-D2 Narvic Way, FOR THE BEER ANARCHY BREWERY Old Brewery Yard, Craw Hill, Tyne Tunnel Estate, Unit 5, Brampton, Cumbria, North Shields, Whitehouse Farm Ind Est, CA8 1TR NE29 7XJ The 37th Newcastle Beer Festival IPAs and a whole variety of Stannington, t: 01697 741541 t: 0191 296 1879 Northumberland, looms large this month with its styles,” says Gordon Heal, NE61 6AW GUNDOG BREWERY NORTHUMBERLAND t: 01670 789755 2 Castle Island Way, BREWERY four-day foray into all things real one of the festival organisers. e: [email protected] North Seaton, Accessory House, www.anarchybrewco.com Northumberland, Bedlington, ale. More than 5,000 visitors will “Battle of the Beers is a way of NE63 0XL NE22 7AP t: 07707 703182 t: 01670 822112 sup 108,000-plus pints of 130 stimulating the local brewing SHIP INN BREWERY different beers (plus ciders) at market, as they’re all new HADRIAN & BORDER The Ship Inn, BIG LAMP BREWERY BREWERY Low Newton by the Sea, Northumbria University Students’ beers. At the festival itself we Newburn, Unit 11, Hawick Cresent Northumberland, Newcastle, Industrial Estate, NE66 3EW Union from April 10-12. fi nd the local beers are all-too NE15 8NL Newcastle, t:01665 576262 t: 0191 267 1689 NE6 1AS It’s such an occasion that many readily available throughout t: 0191 276 5302 THE STABLES BREWERY BLACK PAW e: [email protected] Beamish Hall Hotel, of the 94 staff – all volunteers – the year and people are looking Unit 4 , Westgate Road, www.hadrian-border-brewery.co.uk Beamish, Bishop Auckland, DH9 0BY take a week out of their annual for something different. DL14 7AX t: 01207 2337333 t: 01388 602144 holiday entitlement to be involved in “But, Maxim Brewery TYNE BANK BREWERY BULL LANE BREWERY Unit 11 Hawick Crescent, the setting up of bars, manning the has produced Spice Hopper 43 High Street, HEXHAMSHIRE BREWERY St Lawerence Road, Sunderland, Leafi elds, Ordley, Newcastle Upon Tyne, festival itself, then dismantling the specially for the festival SR1 7BL Hexham, Northumberland, NE6 1AS t: 0191 510 3299 NE46 1SX t: 0191 2652828 scaffolding, units and staging. They and Tyne Bank has gone for t: 01434 606577 CAPTAIN COOK BREWERY will be joined by a group of students Jamaican Mild which has been White Swan, 1 West End, HIGH HOUSE FARM BREWERY WYLAM BREWERY Stokesley, High House Farm, Matfen, South Houghton farm, from Northumbria University’s made with rum and sultanas. TS9 5BL Northumberland, NE20 0RG Heddon on the Wall, t: 01642 710263 t: 01661 886192 Northumberland Real Ale Society who will be taking There are lots of specials and NE15 0EZ CONSETT ALE WORKS HILL ISLAND BREWERY t: 01661 853377 a break from studying Jeremy seasonals on the list and a Grey Horse, Unit 7, Folers Yard, e: [email protected] Sherburn Terrace, Back Silver Street,Durham, www.wylambrew.co.uk Kyle (that’s a cheap shot, editor). cracking range of ciders too.” Consett, DH1 4RA DH8 6NE t: 07740 932 584 Beers featured will run across The Saturday session – t:01207 502585

every range and through every previously regarded as a bit BREWERY JARROW BREWERY 17 St Oswins Avenue, Robin Hood, YARD OF ALE BREWERY strength, from 2.0% abv to 11.0% of a wind-down – has been Cullercoats, Primrose Hill, Surtees Arms Chilton Lane, NE30 4PH Jarrow, Ferryhill, abv (the mighty Blackout from Big given a new lease of life with t: 07895 692881 Tyne & Wear County Durham, NE32 5UB DL17 0DH Lamp, which will only be served in accompanying live music. DARWIN BREWERY LTD t:0191 483 6792 t:01740 655724 63 Back Tatham Street, e:[email protected] third-pint measures). Students from Some of the beers are old Sunderland, www.jarrowbrewing.co.uk Tyne & Wear, Sunderland-based Brewlab will favourites – Fyne Ales Jarl, for SR1 2QE t: 0191 549 9450 be showing off a couple of the ales instance, and Roosters Yankee. e: [email protected] YOUR BREWERY www.darwinbrewery.com NOT LISTED? they’ve created – as yet unnamed Then there’s Hook Norton Old LEAMSIDE ALE CO LTD Call us on 01661 844115 DELAVALS Three Horseshoes, to be in the next edition other than Student Special 1 and Hooky and Highland Orkney 26 Windsor Gardens, Leamside, County Durham, , NE26 3BG DH4 6QQ Student Special 2 – but they’re Blast – and that’s before we get t: 0844 5042214 t: 0191 5842394 expected to be exceptional. to the likes of Mrs Simpson’s Kicking off the event is Thriller in Vanilla which we’ll The Battle of the Beers, now expect an accompanying an annual fi xture which has explanation sheet as to its name. PUB & attracted 20 of the North East’s The 37th Camra Newcastle microbreweries, enticed by the Beer and Cider Festival, challenge of producing a new Northumbria University BREWERS CLUB beer, this time using two hops Students’ Union, Wednesday Wanting to join the club or fi nd out more information? please and two malts with a strength of April 10 (6pm) until Saturday call: 01661 844115 or email: [email protected] between 4.5% and 5.0% abv. April 12 (10pm) Details at or [email protected] “So far there are wheat beers, www.cannybevvy.co.uk april 2013 cheers 27

CHE29_A-Z.indd 27 03/04/2013 09:10 YE OLDE ELM TREE LION & LAMB THE BURNSIDE 12 Crossgate, Durham City, Horsley, NE15 0NS Longhoughton, NE66 3JQ DH1 4PS t: 01661 852952 t: 01665 577303 t: 0191 386 4621 NEWCASTLE HOTEL THE CARTS BOG INN A-Z PUB GUIDE NORTH YORKSHIRE Front Street, Rothbury, Langley on Tyne, NE65 7UT Hexham, NE47 5NW  You can pick up your copy of cheers at any of these great pubs... t: 01669 620334 t: 01434 684338 THE CROWN INN Cheers is all about pubs in the North East Vicars Lane, Manfi eld, OLIVERS THE CRASTER ARMS DL2 2RF 60 Bridge Street, Blyth, The Wynding, Beadnell, and this should be a good place to start... t: 01325 374243 NE24 2AP NE675AX t: 01665 720 272 t: 01670 540356 THE CROSS KEYS THE PLOUGH THE DOG & GUN THE CROWN COUNTY DURHAM Front Street, Esh, DH7 9QR Mountsett, Burnopfi eld, Coopers Lane, Potto, RED LION INN Allendale Road, Catton, t: 0191 3731279 NE16 6BA DL6 3HQ Stanegate Road, NE47 9QS t: 01207 570346 t: 01642 700232 Newbrough, Hexham, t: 01434 683 447 BISHOP LANGLEY THE DERWENTSIDE NE47 5AR Framwellgate Bridge, 101 Durham Road, Blackhill, THE PUNCH BOWL INN THE WHITE SWAN t: 01434 674226 THE CROWN INN North Road, Consett, DH8 8RR Edmundbyers, DH8 9NL 1 West End, Stokesley, www.redlionnewbrough.co.uk Humshaugh, Hexham, Durham, DH1 4PW t: 01207 590919 t: 01207 255545 TS9 5BL NE46 4AG t: 0191 386 0056 t: 01642 710263 RIVERDALE HALL HOTEL t: 01434 681 231 THE DUN COW THE QUAKERHOUSE Bellingham, NE48 2JT • Real ales Primrose Hill, Bournmoor, 2 Mechanics Yard, CUMBRIA t: 01434 220254 THE DIAMOND INN • Top class menu DH4 6DY Darlington, DL3 7QF www.riverdalehallhotel.co.uk Main Street, Ponteland, • First class attitude t: 0191 385 2631 t: 07783 960 105 THE BEER HALL NE20 9BB Hawkshead Brewery, THREE HORSESHOES t: 01661 872898 THE DUN COW THE QUAYS Mill Yard, Staveley, LA8 9AR Hathery Lane, Horton, BUTCHER’S ARMS Front Street, Sedgefi eld, 5 Tubwell Row, t: 01539 825260 Cramlington, NE24 4HF THE DYVELS INN Middle Chare, TS21 3AT Darlington, DL1 1NU t: 01670 822410 Station Road, Corbridge, Chester le Street, DH3 3QB t: 01740 620894 t: 01325 461448 NE45 5AY t: 0191 388 3605 NORTHUMBERLAND THREE WHEATHEADS t: 01434 633 633 THE FLOATER’S MILL THE RED LION Thropton nr Rothbury, NE65 7LR CROXDALE INN Woodstone Village, North Bitchburn Terrace, ADAM & EVE t: 01669 620262 THE FEATHERS INN Front Street, Croxdale, , DH4 6BQ North Bitchburn, DL15 8AL Prudhoe Station, e: [email protected] Hedley on the Hill, DH6 5HX t: 0191 385 6695 t: 01388 763561 Low Prudhoe, NE42 6NP www.threewheatheads.co.uk Stocksfi eld, NE43 7SW t: 01388 815727 t: 01661 832323 t: 01661 843 607 THE GARDEN HOUSE INN THE ROYAL OAK 3 WISE MONKEYS DUN COW North Road, Durham, 7 Manor Rd, BAMBURGH CASTLE INN 24 Fenkle Street, Alnwick THE FOX & HOUNDS 37 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 4NQ Medomsley Village, DH8 6QN Seahouses, NE68 7SQ NE66 1HR Main Road, Wylam, NE41 8DL DH1 3HN t: 0191 3863395 t: 01207 560336 t: 01665 720283 t: 01661 853246 t: 0191 386 9219 TWICE BREWED INN THE GEORGE & DRAGON THE SCOTCH ARMS BARRASFORD ARMS Military Road, Bardon Mill, GREENBANK HOTEL 4 East Green, Blackhill, Consett, DH8 8LZ Barrasford Hexham, NE47 7AN THE GOLDEN LION 90 Greenbank Road, Heighington Village, t: 01207 593709 NE48 4AA t: 01434 344534 Hill Street, Darlington, DL3 6EL DL5 6PP t: 01434 681237 e:[email protected] Corbridge, t: 01325 462624 t: 01325 313152 THE SMITHS ARMS www.twicebrewedinn.co.uk NE45 5AA Brecon Hill, Castle Dene, BARRELS t. 01434 632216 HEAD OF STEAM THE GREY HORSE Chester le Street, DH3 4HE 59-61 Bridge Street, Berwick, THE ALLENDALE INN e: [email protected] 3 Reform Place, Durham, 115 Sherburn Terrace, t: 0191 3857559 TD15 1ES Market Place, Allendale, www.goldenlion-corbridge.co.uk DH1 4RZ Consett, DH8 6NE t:01289 308013 Hexham, NE47 9BJ t: 0191 3832173 t: 01207 502585 THE SHIP t: 01434 683246 • Home cooked food Low Road, BATTLESTEADS HOTEL • Real ales NUMBER TWENTY-2 THE HALF MOON INN Middlestone Village, Wark, Hexham, NE48 3LS THE ANCHOR HOTEL • Entertainment every 22 Coniscliffe Road, 86 New Elvet, Durham, Middlestone, DL14 8AB t: 01434 230209 Haydon Bridge, NE47 6AB weekend Darlington, DL3 7RG DH1 3AQ t: 01388 810904 www.battlesteads.com t: 01434 688121 t: 01325 354590 t: 0191 3741918 e: [email protected] THE SPORTSMANS ARMS BEADNELL TOWERS HOTEL THE ANCHOR INN THE GOLDEN LION www.twenty2.villagebrewer.co.uk THE HONEST LAWYER Moor End Terrace, Beadnell, NE67 5AY Whittonstall, Nr Consett, Market Place, Allendale, Croxdale Bridge, Croxdale, Belmont, DH1 1BJ t: 01665 721211 DH8 9JN NE47 9BD OLD MILL HOTEL DH1 3HP t: 0191 3842667 t: 01207 561110 t: 01434 683 225 Thinford Road, Metal Bridge, t: 0191 3783782 CROSS KEYS Coxhoe, DH6 5NX THE SQUARE & COMPASS Thropton, Rothbury, NE65 7HX THE ANGEL INN THE HADRIAN HOTEL t: 01740 652928 THE JOHN DUCK 7 The Green, West Cornforth, t: 01669 620362 Main Street, Corbridge, Wall, Hexham, NE44 4EE 91A Claypath, Durham City, Ferryhill, NE45 5LA, t: 01434 632119 t: 01434 681232 SUN INN DH1 1 RG DL17 9JQ CROWN & ANCHOR INN Houghton Road, Newbottle, t: 01740 653050 Market Place, Holy Island, THE BAY HORSE THE HERMITAGE INN DH4 4EG THE LAMBTON WORM TD15 2RX South Side, Stamfordham 23 Castle Street, t: 0191 584 1019 North Road, THE STABLES t: 01289 389215 NE18 0PB, t: 01661 855469 Warkworth, NE65 0UL Chester le Street, Beamish Hall Hotel, t: 01665 711 258 SURTEES ARMS DH3 4AJ Beamish, DIPTON MILL INN THE BLACK BULL Chilton Lane, Ferryhill, t: 0191 3871162 DH9 0BY Dipton Mill Road, Hexham, Middle Street, Corbridge, THE HORSESHOES INN DL17 0DH t: 01207 233 7333 NE46 1YA NE45 5AT Rennington, Alnwick, t: 01740 655724 THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL t: 01434 606577 t: 01434 632261 NE66 3RS The Green, West Auckland, THE STABLES e: [email protected] t: 01665 577665 THE AVENUE INN DL14 9HW West , www.diptonmill.co.uk THE BLACK BULL Avenue Street, t: 01388 834834 Houghton le Spring, Bridge Street, Warkworth, THE JOINERS ARMS High Shincliffe, DH1 2PT DH4 4ND DOCTOR SYNTAX NE65 0XB Newton-by-the-Sea, NE66 3EA t: 0191 386 5954 THE MANOR HOUSE INN t: 0191 584 9226 New Ridley Road, Stocksfi eld, t: 01665 711367 t: 01665 576 239 Carterway Heads, NE43 7RG THE BAY HORSE Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LX THE THREE HORSESHOES t: 01661 842383 THE BLACK BULL THE LINDISFARNE INN 28 West Green, Heighington, t: 01207 255268 Pit House Lane, Leamside, Matfen, NE20 0RP Beal, TD15 2PD DL5 6PE, t: 01325 312312 Houghton le Spring, DUKE OF WELLINGTON t: 01661 886330 t: 01289 381 223 THE MARKET TAVERN DH4 6QQ Newton, NE43 7UL THE BEAMISH MARY INN 27 Market Place, Durham, t: 0191 584 2394 t: 01661 844446 THE BLACK BULL INN THE MANOR HOUSE No Place, Nr Beamish, DH1 3NJ Etal, TD12 4TL Caterway Heads DH9 0QH t: 0191 3862069 THE WHITE LION DYKE NEUK t: 01890 820200 Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LX t: 0191 370 0237 Newbottle Street, Meldon, Nr Morpeth, t: 01207 255268 THE MILL Houghton le Spring, NE61 3SL THE BLUE BELL THE BLACK HORSE Durham Road, Rainton DH4 4AN t: 01670 772662 Mount Pleasant, West Mickley, THE MANOR INN Red Row,Beamish, DH9 0RW Bridge, t: 0191 5120735 Stocksfi eld NE43 7LP Main Street, Haltwhistle, t: 01207 232569 DH5 8NG t: 0191 5843211 GENERAL HAVELOCK INN t:01661 843146 NE49 0BS THE WHITEHILLS Haydon Bridge, NE47 6ER t: 01434 322588 THE BLACK LION THE MINERS ARMS Waldridge Road, t: 01434 684376 Wolsingham, 41 Manor Road, Chester le Street, DH2 3AB THE BOATHOUSE THE OLDE SHIP INN Bishop Auckland, DL13 3EN Medomsley, DH8 6QN t: 0191 3882786 JOINERS ARMS Wylam, NE41 8HR 9 Main Street, Seahouses, t: 01388 527772 t: 01207 560428 Wansbeck Street, t: 01661 853431 NE68 7RD THE WILD BOAR Morpeth, NE61 1XZ t: 01665 720 200 THE BRITTANIA INN THE NEWFIELD INN Frederick Place, t: 01670 513540 • 14 Real ales on tap 1 Archer Street, Darlington Newfi eld, Chester le Street, Houghton le Spring, • CAMRA 2013 THE PACKHORSE INN County Durham, DL3 6LR DH2 2SP DH4 4BN JOLLY FISHERMAN • Northumberland Pub of Ellingham, Chathill, NE67 5HA t: 01325 463787 t: 0191 3700565 t: 0191 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The Master is jumping around the cards right I’ll get invited along with the bar, The Mistress does all the on. The Master continues his kitchen wearing headphones. He him – and The Mistress, of course, “mwah” stuff with about 20 other kitchen capers as they all get up on calls it dancing. According to my who’s upstairs “putting on my slap”. people, and I wriggle under the the dance fl oor. It’s gonna be a long lugs – and we canines have very Now The Master’s Movin’ All table. Luckily that sexily-accented night. good hearing, don’t forget – it’s Over in front of the Aga, oblivious Weimaraner is there too – ooh, how Under the table, Vilma the One Bourbon One Scotch And One to everything, before suddenly I love the way she whispers: “Vat Weimaraner snuggles closer. I put Beer and, look, he’s now giving it downstairs sweeps Her Majesty and do you vant to do tonight, Bluesy my paw around her back. the whole air-guitar thing. off they go, giggling like teenagers. I Woosie?” “Know what you are Blusey He’s getting ready for the pub traipse a long, even though I haven’t Lots of dribbled beer later – Woosie? You’re BBBBad To The tribute band – George Thorolygood had the usual formal invitation: which we lap up – and amid much Bone.” Sigh. It’s not only The Master And The Destroyers. Can’t say I “Come on mutt, let’s be ’avin’ ye.” guffawing, the “adults” all head for and Mistress who are about to have know them myself, but if I play my The Master heads straight for the other room where the band’s a thoroughly good night. Ruff! Picture Quiz The Dirty Dozen PUB Which breweries are these? QUIZ Twelve teasers to question your sanity

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