AWARD-WINNING No. 90 Summer 2011 www.camrabristol.org.uk INTS WES Multi-award-winning magazine of the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale P (incorporating the Bath & Borders Branch) T Images from the 2011 Bristol Beer Festival See centre pages PINTS WEST Brewery presence at the Lansdown festival t was an ambitious undertaking for their first ever beer festival. Charles London to Bristol railway through a hillside close to the brewery. The beers and Amanda Yaxley of the Lansdown in Clifton decided that for their at the festival were Steam Porter, Tunnel Vision and Derail Ale. Ifestival, they wouldn’t just put on beers from nine of our local breweries, Tel: 01255 858383, email:
[email protected] but they would invite the brewers themselves to showcase them. And so it was that, on the afternoon of 30th April. the brewers (or if not Great Western Brewing. Great Western is a 12-barrel brewery set up in 2008 available, brewery representatives) from Severn Vale, Arbor Ales, Cheddar by Kevin and Sandra Stone in a former bakery in Hambrook. The property Ales, Box Steam, Great Western Brewing, Cotswold Spring, Braydon has been renovated resulting in a bespoke showpiece brewery retaining many Ales, Ashley Down and Avon Brewing Company set up their casks in the of the building’s original features. A number of regular and seasonal beers pub’s marquee for the Lansdown’s inaugural festival. are produced. On offer at the festival were Classic Gold, HPA (Hambrook The idea was that, as the brewers would be selling their own beers, this Pale Ale) and Maiden Voyage.