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• WINCHESTER GATE VOTED PUB OF THE YEAR • WINTERFEST • ASSETS OF COMMUNITY VA LUE • SAVE THE GAINSBOROUGH ARMS 10% OFF REAL ALES for all CAMRA members FOOD SERVED ALL DAY (with a valid card) Good English pub food is freshly cooked to order using produce sourced from local suppliers. Sunday roasts are a speciality View our menu online at www.thewigandquill.com • QUIZ NIGHT ON SUNDAY • Come and enjoy our attractive, secluded courtyard garden and roaring log fires. We are a traditional pub and welcome children, families 1 New Street, Salisbury and dogs Wiltshire, SP1 2PH t. 01722 335 665 LIVE MUSIC AT e. [email protected] WEEKENDS www.thewigandquill.com Including jazz, blues and A PUB acoustic. 4 REAL CASK ALES Wadworth’s - 6X, Swordfish, Horizon, Henry’s IPA & 1 GUEST ALE

2 - March - May 2016 ury & South sb W li i a lt SALISBURY & S s SOUTH WILTSHIRE FROM THE CONTACTS CHAIRMAN - DEREK BLACKSHAW EDITOR e: [email protected], t: 07770 767455 SECRETARY - ANDREW HESKETH elcome to the spring edition of our new look e: [email protected] Barrel Organ magazine. A quick thanks to all SOCIAL SECRETARY - PAUL SIMPSON e: [email protected] those who have submitted articles and helped distribute the magazine, we would not be here without MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY - PETE MATTHEWS W e: [email protected] our dedicated volunteers. As readers, let us know what www.salisburycamra.org.uk you think of the magazine and its content and I look forward to any suggestions and ideas for future articles. Our next issue is due out on the 1st June 2016 but please HEART OF WESSEX note that our deadline for articles is the 1st May. CONTACTS Winter has welcomed cosy socials, Salisbury CHAIRMAN - PAUL SMITH e: [email protected], t: 01747 823574 Winterfest, good beer guide selections and pub of the year announcements; with spring comes Mild month, PUBS OFFICER - PETE SYMES e: [email protected] Cider& Perry Month and the anticipation of the MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY - PAUL REEVES Salisbury Beerex (17th & 18th June at the Salisbury Arts e: [email protected] Centre!). BRANCH EMAIL [email protected] Whether you are a CAMRA member or not, we www.heartofwessex.camra.org.uk hope that you enjoy this free copy and take some time to read up on who we are and what we are doing in EDITORS KATHY PASCOE, NEIL BEAGRIE the local area. If you feel inclined to join up and join & PAUL SMITH us, please contact the membership secretary or complete e: [email protected] the CAMRA membership form that can be found in the e Editor reserves the right to amend or shorten contributions for magazine. publication. All editorial copyright © Salisbury & Heart of Wessex CAMRA 2016. Views expressed in this publication are those of their And nally, a big thanks in advance to Neil Beagrie individual authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Editor, who will be taking on the job as primary editor for the branch committee or the Campaign for Real Ale nationally. Salisbury next two issues whilst I will be busy looking after a new & Heart of Wessex CAMRA accepts no liability in relation to the member of the next generation of real ale drinkers! accuracy of advertisements; readers must rely on their own enquiries. It should also be noted that acceptance of an advertisement in this Kathy Pascoe publication should not be deemed an endorsement of quality by Editor, Barrel Organ magazine Salisbury & Heart of Wessex CAMRA.

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March - May 2016 - 3 SALISBURY ASSETS OF COMMUNITY VALUE

List Your Local November 2015 the branch f you love your local pub and want to protect it from became aware that there demolition or change of use, make sure to list it with was a strong possibility your local Council as an Assets of Community Value of the premises being I(ACV). You can nominate as a CAMRA Branch, as an sold with a view to being informal group of 21 local people, or as a Parish Council. converted to housing.  e In this article we provide an update on our local ACV application pointed Salisbury and South Wilts CAMRA branch campaign out that this was the only to list local pubs as ACVs. Working closely with local pub left in the Lower Bemerton area and if it were to councillors, Salisbury branch has been able to secure close or be redeveloped an important community asset the status of Asset of Community Value for 2 pubs in would be lost that would be unlikely to be able to be Wilton Road Salisbury: replicated in the vicinity. e Village Freehouse in Wilton Road close to With these two applications having been successful Salisbury railway station has been a favourite with the branch have had an invitation from Salisbury City CAMRA members for many years and has featured Council to work with them to identify and present an consistently in the good beer guide. Unique amongst argument for further premises to be designated as Assets licensed premises in Salisbury it is the only one that of Community Value. If you think your local should be guarantees a traditional dark beer or mild will always on the asset register do get in touch with us and help us be on pump. It has been a pub for over 150 years and put the case together. has been voted Salisbury and South Wilts’s pub of the For more information from CAMRA on ACVs see year no less than 3 times, last in 2014.  e Village www.camra.org.uk/list-your-local has also been awarded LocAle status as it always has on at least one beer from a local brewery.  is practice of promoting the local economy was one of the points SAVE THE made in the ACV application. Also identi ed was the fact that the pub is home to both football and cricket GAINSBOROUGH teams as well as more traditional pub sports such as cribbage. T h e ARMS Halfway House, at the A New Campaign other end of Wilton Road in he Gainsborough Arms, Milborne Port had Salisbury, has been a public house and trading since 1866 and had a number is a place for the community to meet, greet, eat, of changes of drinkT and play. tenants and In December 2013 New River Retail acquired 202 managers Marston’s pubs for £90 million with the intention of in the last converting the majority of the ‘assets’ to convenience stores. e Halfway House, Salisbury few years. In As part of the deal Marston’s entered into a minimum

4 - March - May 2016 4 year lease-back during which time it will operate the Portfolio as public houses.  e Gainsborough Arms formed part of this sale. In January 2015 a change of use application was submitted to South Somerset District Council to demolish the pub and replace it with a Class A1 convenience store for the Co-op.  is prompted a  ood of individual objections submitted to the council from local residents and others (including Heart of Wessex CAMRA) and a petition was organised locally.  is had over 50 pages of signatures from people who wished to save the pub. A local group (Gainsborough Community Interest Group) successfully listed the pub as an Asset of Community for the pub and we will keep Value and the listing will remain until March 2020. monitoring change of use  e current status of the pub is that all is going applications. well at present.  e Landlady, Sandie, has managed to For more information negotiate to manage the pub directly through Marston’s from CAMRA re ACV for 2 years (From end Nov 2015) with a possible 5 year please visit www.camra.org. extension after that. We wish her and the pub well. uk/list-your-local  e building is still owned by New River Retail and Should you be the 4 year minimum lease runs out 2017 / 2018 so it is interested in visiting the important to consider the options for what may happen pub it is o the A30 in in the future should Marston’s not renew their lease Gainsborough Road at the western end agreement..  e ACV will provide additional protection of Milborne Port.

March - May 2016 - 5 THE DUKE OF YORK - A TRADITIONAL PUB -

A traditional locals’ Open Every Evening: pub offering 5 ever Monday - Friday changing, reasonably from 6:30pm, priced cask ales and Saturday from 4pm traditional cider & Sunday from 1pm

The Duke of York | 34 York Road | Salisbury | SP2 7AS

6 - March - May 2016 WINCHESTER GATE VOTED PUB OF THE YEAR Salisbury & South Wilts Branch

he members of Salisbury and South Wilts branch of CAMRA have, and not for the rst time, voted the Winchester Gate on Rampart Road Salisbury as their town pub of the year. T his love of good beer by o ering CAMRA members a Bill and Anne Duncan took the pub over as a discount of 20p a pint. Freehouse at the end of 2007, their rst-ever pub, Chair of the branch, Derek Blackshaw told Barrel and soon began building up a reputation for an ever- Organ that those who know the Winchester Gate changing and eclectic range of real ales and real ciders. be aware of the welcome given by Bill and Anne, the By 2010 Winchester Gate was in the Good Beer changing range of beer and its excellent quality. He also Guide where drew attention to pub’s beer and cider festivals through branch the year (the next beer Festival is 27th -30th May-Ed) members  ere is been an Inn on these premises since at least have voted the 17th century when it was a coaching inn known as for it to  e Dragon Inn. Sometime in the late 1800s the name remain ever was changed to the London Road Tavern and then again since. Bill is to the Winchester Gate in the 1970s. a CAMRA An unusual feature at the back of the pub there is a member pétanque terrain, something that most of us would call a and shares French bowls pitch.

REGIONAL & NATIONAL EVENTS

MARCH 10th - 12th APRIL 8th - 9th CAMRA BRISTOL BEER FESTIVAL WICKHAM CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL Brunel’s Old Station, Temple Meads, Bristol.  e Wickham Centre, Mill Lane, Wickham, www.camrabristol.org.uk/festival Hampshire (non-CAMRA event). www.wickhambeerfestival.co.uk MARCH 18th - 19th CAMRA WINCHESTER REAL ALE JUNE 2nd - 4th & CIDER FESTIVAL CAMRA SOUTHAMPTON BEER FESTIVAL Guildhall Winchester,  e Broadway, Winchester, O2 Guildhall, West Marlands Road, Southampton. Hampshire. www.winchesterbeerfestival.org.uk www.southamptonbeerfestival.org.uk APRIL 1st - 3rd JUNE 17th - 18th CAMRA MEMBERS WEEKEND & AGM SALISBURY BEEREX Liverpool Guild of Students, Mountford Hall, Salisbury Arts Centre, Bedwin Street, Salisbury, Liverpool. www.camraagm.org.uk SP1 3UT. www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

March - May 2016 - 7 NEW YEAR SOCIAL

At the Rai d’Or, Salisbury

hanks to Simon and sta at the wonderful Rai d’Or in Salisbury for hosting the branch winter social on Saturday 16th January. Great  ai foodT and superb beer was available - a selection of Red Cat Smoggy or Prowler, Downton Honey Blonde, and Vibrant Forest Flying Saucer.  anks also to Paul for brilliantly organising the event and to the 50 members who came along and enjoyed it.  is is probably a branch record for a social event turnout (other than the beer festivals) so Paul has set a high bar for next year…

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8 - March - May 2016 FINE BEER BREWED IN SOUTH WILTSHIRE Regular Beers Bedrock 3.6% Gold Hill 4% Gold Spice 4% Large One 4.2% Seasonal Beers Ruby 4.8% Very Pale Ale 4.6% Born To Be Mild 3.8% Christmas Pale Ale 4.6% Cornerstone 4.8% Porter 4.5% www.keystonebrewery.co.uk e: [email protected] t: 01747 820426 / 870307 The Old Carpenters Workshop, Berwick St Leonard, Salisbury SP3 5SN

A warm welcome awaits at THE WHITE HORSE AT QUIDHAMPTON • GREAT QUALITY CASK ALES Regular real ales plus ever-changing guest ales A proper village pub, with a village pub atmosphere • FABULOUS HOME COOKED FOOD including delicious Sunday Roasts Join us for our Enclosed beer garden Ample parking with a decked seating ANNUAL BEER FESTIVAL area and covered patio Family & Dog friendly 3rd, 4th & 5th June 2016 Lower Road, Quidhampton, Salisbury, SP2 9AS * 20p OFF A PINT OF REAL ALE t. 01722 744448 with production of a current CAMRA membership card whitehorsequidhampton quidhamptonpub * Terms & Conditions: 20p o is only available on pints of Real Ale. O er runs 01.03.2016 to 31.05.2016 . Current CAMRA Membership Cards only. www.whitehorsequidhampton.co.uk

March - May 2016 - • GREAT QUALITY CASK ALES 9 Regular real ales plus ever-changing guest ales • FABULOUS HOME COOKED FOOD including delicious Sunday Roasts • ENCLOSED BEER GARDEN with a decked seating area and covered patio • AMPLE PARKING • FAMILY & DOG FRIENDLY reweries within our branch areas are Blackmore Ales, Downton, Hop Back, Keystone, King BREWERY Alfred Ales, Sherborne, Sixpenny, Small Paul’s NEWS Band Stonehenge. We provide news and updates for all our local breweries and a more in-depth focus feature on one brewery in each issue of Barrel Organ.

FEATURED supply beer from many of the region’s best small and medium sized breweries including Yeovil, Wessex, BREWERY - Hanlons, Coltleigh, Isca Ales, Bude, Abbey Ales, Box KEYSTONE Steam, Moles, Downton,  ree Castles, Plain Ales, Keystone Brewery Ramsbury, Townmill, Milk Street and Liberation as was set up in July 2006 by husband and wife team well as cider from Lillys Cider. Alasdair and Charlotte Large, taking the beautiful Locally their beers are to be found at Lamb, Fonthill arch as inspiration for the brewery name. Hindon and Beckford Arms, Fonthill Gi ord and  ey are based in Berwick St Leonard, near Hindon, of course at their own Benett Arms Tisbury. within the Fonthill Estate. Around 150 other Alasdair assesses every business and brewing outlets are also supplied. decision in terms of environmental and local Beers are also available sustainability. Not just barley grown in the elds direct from the brewery, around the brewery, English hops and water from please phone Charlie on a local borehole, but also pumps and brewery 01747 870307 for trade equipment sourced locally. Every pint of Keystone sales. beer is produced in the most sustainable way possible. Please see website  e regular beers are: Bedrock Bitter (3.6% abv), for full details www. Gold Spice (4% abv), Large One (4.2% abv) plus keystonebrewery.co.uk a wide range of seasonal beers. Keystone can now

BLACKMORE ALES: No further news on this • NEW! Melony Sippit (May and June). ABV 4.5. A brewery following their restart a few months ago. series of fortunate events has produced this golden ale that showcases one of the new German hop varieties DOWNTON:  e brewery is open bred for distinctive  avourings; Hull Melon which to the public on the last  ursday of promises honeydew melon on the palate along with every month from 6pm – 9pm (“ e hints of strawberry.  irsty  ursday Club”). KING ALFRED ALES: Production is temporarily HOP BACK:  e brewery has suspended in this part-time brewery.  e owner is released online the seasonal beers currently working away. for 2016.  ese are expected to run for two months at a time following SHERBORNE: Production has now ceased and there customer feedback that one month is no information as to when and if it may start again. often gives customers little time to obtain and appreciate each one: • Hooking Good (February SIXPENNY: the Brewery was the and March). ABV 4.6. Ruby coloured with a deep malty winner of the Best Brewer category  avour. • Spring Zing (March and April). ABV 4.2 A in the “Taste of Dorset Awards fantastic beer made from maize, wheat and barley malts. 2015”.  e award was presented • Yakima Blonde (April and May). ABV4.2. A qua able by Kate Adie, the former BBC ale bursting with sweet nectar and citrus fruit. • NEW! news correspondent at the Awards’ Hop Back will brew a special bitter for the Salisbury Ceremony at the George Albert Hotel in Dorchester Festival which begins in May.Like the festival it has a on 3 November. Sixpenny’s current winter beer, 6d New Zealand theme and will use local “Waimea” hops. Black, was chosen for two local beer festivals Salisbury

10 - March - May 2016 Winterfest and Dorchester Beerex. In early March, it will be replaced by the spring seasonal beer, Cranborne Chaser 3.9% (OG1041), which is a copper coloured ale, distinctly hoppy with a slight to ee caramel  avour derived from crystal and pale malts. Other seasonal beers to follow: Rushmore Gold ( June – August) and then Dorset Ruby (September – November).

SMALL PAUL’S: Production was down in 2015, a deliberate decision on the part of the owner. However bespoke beers continue to be produced and beer festivals and local pubs and clubs supplied.

STONEHENGE: Trading conditions remain challenging but sales are still fairly good, helped by contracts with JD Wetherspoon for the last few months and on into 2016. Sales over the festive period were in line with expectations, while sales in the Salisbury city area have improved, with more pubs taking occasional deliveries. Plans are in hand to update the brewery website and to strengthen the e orts to market the brewery and its products. Sales of bottled spring water remain encouraging; with sales at the Stonehenge visitor centre buoyant and plans to market the products to new outlets are in hand.

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 e following is a list of local pubs that o er a discount to CAMRA members. Please notify any errors or new additions to the editors at barrel. [email protected] THE BELL, Amesbury: WINCHESTER GATE, Wetherspoon CAMRA Salisbury: 20p per pint, member voucher 50p per 10p per half pint (T&C apply) WIG & QUILL, THE KING’S HEAD, Salisbury: 10% discount Salisbury: Wetherspoon on real ales CAMRA member voucher NOG INN, Wincanton: 50p per pint (T&C apply) 10p per pint RAI D’OR, Salisbury: 1st pint full price, subsequent pints 50p o Members need to be in THE VILLAGE, possession of a valid Salisbury: 20p per pint, CAMRA membership card 10p per half on Real Ales to claim the discounts.

March - May 2016 - 11 Presents An ‘Open Music’ Night Every third ursday of the month - from 8.30pm Bring an instrument, play along or sing - join in the fun with Tim Madden & friends Open All Day • Food Served from 12 noon - 9pm Blandford Rd, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP5 4LE • 01722 718437 www.foxandgoose-coombebissett.co.uk A warm and friendly atmosphere where all are welcome even well behaved dogs get spoilt!

12 - March - May 2016 SALISBURY’S 36TH BEEREX

Save the Date, June 2016

n 2015 BEER magazine picked out Salisbury’s Beerex as one of the top 10 beer festivals in wonderful places. No wonder they did. It is set Iin the Salisbury Arts Centre which was formally St Edmund’s Church where the pillars and high vaulted ceiling along with the stained-glass make this a unique setting. Where the altar once stood is now performance If you would like to advertise in the Beerex stage for the live music that accompanies the festival. Programme or sponsor one of the casks of beer In ne weather those attending to be found sitting in please contact the Arts Centre or email hilary.bird@ the large churchyard where, according to Salisbury salisburycamra.org CAMRA’s festival organiser Hilary Bird, “some people have their favourite tomb to use as a table. I kid you Salisbury Arts Centre, Rotary COGS not”. & Salisbury CAMRA bring you Derek Blackshaw, chair of the CAMRA Salisbury branch told Barrel Organ that this is a very popular BEEREX 36 festival with over 50 beers and ciders.  ese come from FRIDAY 17th & SATURDAY all over the country but will be predominantly from Wessex and the West Country. Also featured this year 18th JUNE 2016 will be beers from the North West. Over 50 real ales • Music both sessions Tickets go on sale in April and those for the Tickets on sale in April Saturday lunchtime session will often sell out early. Box office 01722 321744 Tickets are available from the Salisbury Arts Centre, call www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk 01722 321744 or visit www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

MARCH 2016 MAY 2016 3rd OPEN COMMITTEE MEETING - 4th OPEN COMMITTEE MEETING - White Lion, Bourton (7.30pm). Trooper, Sourton Caundle (7.30pm). 16th BRANCH SOCIAL - To the Fountain Inn, 18th BRANCH SOCIAL - to the Half Moon, Shaftesbury(8.15pm) followed by the Two Horsington (8:15pm) followed by the White Brewers, Shaftesbury (9.30pm). Horse, South Cheriton (9:15pm). APRIL 2016 JUNE 2016 6th OPEN COMMITTEE MEETING - 1st OPEN COMMITTEE MEETING - Plough, Manston (7.30pm). Red Lion, Kilmington (7.30pm). 20th BRANCH SOCIAL - To the Angel (8:15pm) then the Lamb (9:00pm) in EVENTS - Proposed brewery trip to Wadworths Hindon. Brewery, Devizes.

March - May 2016 - 13 WINTERFEST

It’s 19th year!

ver three hundred real ale enthusiasts came from far and wide to enjoy Winterfest at  e Royal British Legion Club in Salisbury. Now Oin its 19th year, Winterfest, organised by the Salisbury and South Wiltshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), is a winter beer festival. Twenty three very di erent real ales from around the country along with two ciders were available over the three sessions Tiny Rebel Brewery’s Cwtch 4.6%.  e Savernake 29th - 30th January. Stout, a full-bodied beer with aromas of liquorice and Some came all the way from Germany to enjoy co ee, is certi ed gluten free. Cwtch, a Welsh Red Ale, the occasion and beers. John Golda of Nebraska is currently Champion Beer of Britain.  e name Cwtch joined CAMRA while based at RAF Molesworth in means an a ectionate hug, or also a cupboard! Cambridgeshire. Now based in Germany, he travelled Attendees also had the opportunity to join to Salisbury with his wife and two friends especially for CAMRA at our membership stand and to learn about Winterfest. the work of the branch. Festival goers voted for their favourite beer.  is Money raised at the festival will go towards year the Beer of the Festival award was shared between CAMRA’s work campaigning on issues a ecting pubs Kennet & Avon Brewery’s Savernake Stout 5.3% and and breweries.

Various photos from the Winterfest

14 - March - May 2016 THE SHIP INN

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March - May 2016 - 15 the farm for the nal Q and A session MAKE YOUR and afternoon tea and cake. To take part, go to www.empirefarm.co.uk/ OWN CIDER cider-making However, Alan will take individuals on separate days if required. With Blackmore Vale Cider Alan’s Blackmore Vale cider is sold through pubs and clubs and does n the previous edition of Barrel organ we gave some well at local shows; most recently at the Mid-Somerset pointers to those who perhaps hadn’t tried cider but Show 2015 where he was named Somerset Cider thought they would give it ago and recommended Champion. Whilst in 2014 at the Bath and West Show Ispeaking to Richard at the Unicorn. An ideal time to his medium farmhouse cider gained a second prize; his go would be to his forthcoming cider festival from 29th sweet farmhouse cider was very highly commended and April to 1st May. his cider was voted the People’s Choice from a blind Having tried it perhaps you would like to have a go tasting by members of the public. Alan Berry is an at making it yourself for home consumption or indeed active member of South west of England Cider maker’s selling it on. It’s perfectly legal and small producers Association (SWECA). don’t have to register for duty payments. If you’re still Editor’s note - May & October are Cider & Perry Month! interested then read on... CAMRA promotes real cider and perry all year round but You may have already come across a few strange May & October, given their relationship to the traditional names – Tom Putt, Kingston Black, and Harry Master’s production cycle, are focal points. Why not take the Jersey. Well here’s a few more – Brown Snout, Knotted opportunity to visit some of the many pubs which now o er Kernel and Yarlington Mill. However there are real cider or perry and give them a try. And remember, at hundreds of varieties and categorised into Bittersweet most CAMRA beer festivals you can usually  nd a range of Apples, Sharp or Bittersharp Apples and Sweet Apples. cider & perry to sample. However, to nd out more about the varieties and what you actually do with them to produce your cider elixir you really should seek some professional advice and hands-on experience. It’s a tad more than 1) pick, 2) crush, 3) extract, 4) ferment, 5) drink; although I’d like to think is wasn’t. Unlike brewing, whose courses tend to be expensive and not available in our locality (although Home Brew groups exist and would be pleased to help), you can probably pick up enough information by going on a short cider makers introductory course. With that in mind Alan Berry of Blackmore Vale Cider (email: [email protected]) runs just such a course from Empire Farm in Templecombe, Somerset.  is is happily within walking distance of Templecombe station if you have access to the Waterloo/Exeter line. Alan runs a three-hour afternoon session in October (on the 15th this year).  e session starts at Empire Farm, where he introduces you to the basics of making cider – the di erent types of apples, and the equipment you will need.  en you move to Alan’s workshop on the other side of the village, where you can see his orchard and equipment. He will demonstrate the whole process including the preparation of the fruit, followed by milling and pressing. Everybody will get a chance to join in and help. Afterwards you return to

16 - March - May 2016 “It’s very hoppy American style beer styles and can SO WHAT IS be from cask, keg, bottle or can” “It is always keg but is produced by small producers CRAFT BEER? with a lot of care and thought - not like mass produced keg bitters and lagers” “It is pale hoppy American style keg beer” The jury is out...  e brewers say something di erent. A lot of small cask beer producers now claim the word Craft on their his is one of the latest drink styles to hit our pump clips and publicity for beers of all di erent styles. pubs but what is it and where does it t with So do some of the larger producers, Greene King IPA CAMRA? I have a big problem answering this one of the country’s biggest cask brands claims to be as no-one seems to know what Craft Beer is. If that was Craft. T How about the pubs and craft bars? Some craft clear I could at least have my own opinion of where it ts with CAMRA. bars have no cask beer others have cask and keg as well I know what cask beer (also called Real Ale) is – beer as bottles and cans.  ey mainly tend towards the idea which has had a second fermentation in its container of small producers, carefully produced products and (cask) and any slight zz in it is from its own generated ltered rather than pasteurised for the keg products. gas not gas added as it is served. I know what keg beer Wetherspoon’s advertises Craft beers in bottles and cans is – beer which has not fermented in its container and and is also now promoting ‘Craft on Draught’ – which is has gas added as it is served to give it a bit of zz.  en all keg and mainly foreign. bottled beer can be like cask beer with fermentation in So What is Craft Beer? It seems to be whatever you the bottle or like keg beer with no fermentation but gas want to claim it to be so it is impossible for CAMRA to added as it is bottled. Canned beer is occasionally like state a position related just to the term Craft. cask (such as in the 5 litre cans confusingly called mini- I hope this has made you think - and enjoy a drink kegs) but more often like keg with gas added as it is while debating what Craft means to you. To nd out placed in the can. what it means to me and what I think it ought to mean Where does Craft Beer t in with this? Is it Real to CAMRA you’ll have to wait for the next edition of Ale or not? Is it a threat to our traditional beers? Barrel Organ… I have looked around as asked a few of my beer A personal view from Hilary Bird, member CAMRA drinking friends and got these answers. Salisbury and South Wilts branch

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MARCH 2016 APRIL 2016 2nd OPEN BRANCH MEETING - Wyndham 6th OPEN BRANCH MEETING - Salisbury Arms, Estcourt Road, Salisbury (8.00pm). Rugby Club, Castle Road, Salisbury (8.00pm). 16th BRANCH SOCIAL - Salisbury City Crawl. 20th BRANCH SOCIAL - Amesbury: Bell, starting at the Royal George (8.00pm), Antrobus Arms, Kings Arms, George and the followed by the Cycling Club, Wig and Quill, New Inn & Deacons. MAY 2016 25th MINI BUS TRIP : White Hart Bishopstone, 4th OPEN BRANCH MEETING - Village Queens Head Broadchalke, Fox & Goose Freehouse, Wilton Road, Salisbury. (8.00pm) Coombe Bissett, Yew Tree Odstock & Radnor Nunton. 18th SALISBURY CITY CRAWL - Chapter House, Grey Fisher, Old Mill, Rose & Crown For more info on socials and to book for minibus trips please contact Paul Simpson [email protected]

March - May 2016 - 17 The Winchester Gate The Gate is one of the few pubs in Salisbury that is completely free of tie. We offer an ever-changing range of real ales from around the country. LocAle accredited • Salisbury & South Wilts CAMRA Pub of the Year 2010, 2013 & 2016 Discount for card-carrying CAMRA members. Dates for this year’s Beer Festivals: Spring, 27th – 30th May Summer, 18th – 21st August 113-117 Rampart Road, Salisbury, SP1 1JA 01722 322834 www.winchestergate.co.uk

THE DEVIZES INN Community Local Freehouse 3 permanent Real Ales + guest THE PARISH LANTERN Weekly Food Specials Tuesday - Steak Night Combo to share + 2 steaks £20 Wednesday - 2 course special £9.95 Thursday Thai Night 2 courses £9.95 Senior citizens 10% off main menu Mon-Fri 10P OFF ALL REAL ALES excluding bank holidays for CAMRA Members - Fri 25th - Mon 28th March (only with a valid membership card) Easter Beer Festival Romsey Rd | Whiteparish | Wiltshire | SP5 2SA 53-55 Devizes Road, Salisbury, t. 01794 884392 | e. theparishlantern@gmail .com SP2 7LQ • Tel: 01722 416630 www.theparishlantern.co.uk

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