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north east raise a glass to pubs, people and news from your local FrEE ISSUE 03 www.cheersnortheast.co.uk // September 2010 cheers PUBS AND MUSic iDoL MoMENTS the magical music tour PUBS AND iDEAS wE cAN Swig TogEThEr ray Laidlaw gets creative the view from Prague In praise of pies and pints swedish Blonde revealed all walking, all talking PUBS AND PoUriNg iN ThE Mix add ice, shake hard and strain into a cocktail glass for a Chicago-influenced, al Capone experience iNN-SiDE bEEr // whISky // wInE // CIDEr // nEw pUbS // olD pUbS // bEEr for lUnCh // bEEr for tEa // bEEr for DInnEr // pUbS! CALLTIMEONYOUR GLASSWASTENOW Premier Waste Management is encouraging all licensed premises across the North East to call time on the amount of glass waste to landfill sites across the UK Premier Waste Management is encouraging all licensed premises across the North East to call time on the amount of glass waste being PLEASE CALL: generated by revellers at your establishment. 08450 178 688 Durham-based Premier’s collection service will pick up mixed coloured glass from a variety of pubs, clubs, restaurants and hotels in the region and recycle it. TO DISCUSS YOUR Unlike other recycling services that rely on the various colours of glass being separated, this GLASS RECYC service collects co-mingled glass. The colours are separated as they are being re-processed into LING glass ready to be re-melted. NEEDS Premier realises that staff at depending upon the volume of bottles, which in their turn can to Glass’, over 600,000 tonnes pubs and clubs are very busy glass being generated and the be recycled into glass bottles. of glass bottles are thrown and need to concentrate on location of the premises. The Did you know that recycling out from pubs, clubs, hotels, serving their customers, so the glass is recycled at various sites glass reduces the demand for restaurants and cafes in the UK thought of separating brown, in the UK. Once it is separated raw materials, and for every every year and up to 90% of this green and clear glass bottles into by colour, it is crushed and made tonne of recycled glass used, is currently being sent to landfill different containers is the last into cullet ready to be melted 1.2 tonnes of raw materials are sites across the UK. thing on their minds. Premier’s back into glass. preserved and it reduces the Therefore, why not do your service therefore makes it easier, The good thing is that glass energy required in packaging bit for the environment and as all the glass goes into one is infinitely recyclable and is a manufacture by over 35%? save money in the process by container. great example of closed loop According to WRAP’s diverting your establishment’s Waste containers in recycling. The waste glass bottles (Waste and Resources Action glass waste from landfill and various sizes can be provided, can be used to make new glass Programme) ‘Publicans Guide recycle it instead? For more information about this service, contact Jennifer or Kirstie at Premier Waste Management on: 08450 178688 or visit: www.premierwaste.com n o r t he a s t raise a glass to pubs, people and news from your local I S S U E 0 3 FrEE www. cheersnortheast .co.uk // September 2010 c PUBS h AND MUSice e r s i D o L M o M E N T S t h e m a g ic a lm u s ic t o u r PUBS AND iDEAS w E c A N MiND BENDErS editorial Swig P U B q U i Z te s t in g t e a s e r s t o T o g E T h E r m a k e y o u r b r a in b le e d 0191 488 4756 r a y L a id la w g e t s c re a t iv e Beer, whisky, pub ” the view from Prague news and pub people. alastair Gilmour brilliant.” at a time. The pies are of Red Dust gallons nine supply we try in their pies. Now of our beer to samples sent six-litre We In praise of pies and pints all human - and dog - swedish Blonde revealed life is here... Cheers! [email protected] On the third issue of all walking, all talking Cheers North East and PUBS AND PoUriNg i N T h E M i x n ni d esi a d d ic e ,s h a k e h a rd a n d s t r a in in t o a c o c k t a il g la s s E n it ,v e n im z z r it v e le n ib h e x e s s is e a f a c il is s it p r a e s s e d e n it w is it lu tw is n u m m o lo r p e rc il iq u is im d o lo r p e rc il is a d ia m il u p ta t. Iq u ip e ro o d ig n is advertising with summer receding, it’s m o lo b o re e te u m m y n im v o lu m ip e ti n g e a fe u is a d io o d io n s e n is a m v e r a lis c il q u a t,c o m m o d e u fe u fa c c u m s a n d io n s e n im n o n s e e r s e n te a fa c i f o r a C h ic a g o - in fl u e n c e d, a l C a p o n e e x p e ri e n c e e u is a li s d o lo r a li s n o s t in ib h e u f a c c u m v e ro o d d o lo r ir iu re m o d iNN-SiDE b E E r / / w h I S k y 0191 221 2277 / / w I n E / / C ID E r perhaps time to reflect on / / n E w p U b S / / o l D p U b S / / b E E r f o r lU n C h / / b E E r f o r t E a / / b E E r f o r D I n n E r / / p U b S ! Gillian Corney a hectic few months. alastair Gilmour, editor [email protected] Front: tom walker, Cheers has lived up to our expectations cocktail man, see p23 and in many areas, exceeded them. The support and goodwill from website: the licensed trade and the general public has been tremendous www.cheersnortheast.co.uk and heartwarming and we will continue to publish the best in iNSiDE pub information to ensure that the North East’s pub-goer is highly Designed & published by: informed, well entertained, educated, and kept up to date with neWs everything that’s happening in the region. 5 the north East’s Our readers’ willingness to get involved has been overwhelming best pub revealed and we have lots of anecdotal evidence that suggests customers are 6 a feast of fests. Media Exchange one using Cheers to decide where to go next, either for a change, the upcoming Coquet Street a special occasion, or for discovering somewhere new. beer festivals newcastle upon tyne Cheers is aimed at pubs, pure and simple. As the message on the 9 next stop Central. nE1 2QE left says, we are “Passionate About Pubs” and it’s no idle boast (we the latest on the even hold editorial sessions and sales meetings in the pub). We are Gateshead pub photography: eager to get people back into the pub habit and to rediscover the FEATUres Kevin Gibson joys of great beer, good food and decent conversation. Like you, www.kgphotography.co.uk 14 beer and pies: we love pubs and what they stand for and want to preserve and nicky rogerson a marriage made protect them. Pubs are about people and Cheers is about people www.nrphotography.co.uk in Consett and pubs. Barry Pells 20 View from www.barrypellsphoto.co.uk What you can do for the pub is try and visit them a little more abroad: Czech out often, encourage others to do so, and seek out the ones you don’t prague pub life whilst every effort has been know from these pages – as well as your old favourites. We might made to ensure accuracy, 25 Q&a: we ask the the publisher cannot accept even see you there... responsibility for omissions questions and errors. all material in this Cheers is yours and it’s in your hands. publication is strictly copyright FUn stUFF and all rights reserved. 30 the quiz, the stInG, raY pickled Egg and 04 anD MUsIC blue the dog Lindisfarne’s PUB WATCh Ray Laidlaw talks 11 the Dun Cow, about pubs, beer bournmoor and their lasting RUFUS THOMPSON, CONSETT ALE AWORKS influence on 27 The red lion, his creativity Milfield Last orDers 31 Sir Donald Curry oUr makes a point SPoNSorS Drink Lokál Pub crawls Pie chart the Jury’s In Beer and food A-Z pub guide Lifting the crust Cider in the dock swede and needing Walk the 09 ours 12 glasses? 18 walk Swedish Blonde Long, short, We take a stroll from Double curved, straight.