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OUR MAN IN HAVANA THE VIEW FROM cheersA CUBAN BAR THAT TIME AGAIN NEWCASTLE BEER FESTIVAL NO36

THE BAND PLAYED ON TITANIC SET TO GO DOWN WELL

DRY, DRY, DRY DROUGHT, BARLEY AND RISING PRICES

BACK TO SCHOOL IT’S RIAN’S GIG BRITISH BEER’S AMERICAN ACCENT INN-SIDE PUBS !// NEWS // IDEAS // OPINION // NEW PUBS // OLD PUBS // BEER FOR LUNCH // BEER FOR TEA // BEER FOR DINNER // PUBS!

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Jad and I were in the beer garden, making the most of an unseasonably hot summer’s day. The landlord kept a brood of bantams, to which Jad gleefully offered his roast hiden crisps. A bantam clucked appreciatively. “Moments“ umb u s” I observed. “ o you think D o d D that thi makes them cannibal bantams?” retorted Jad. I took a mouthful of Theakyons and paused to think for a later he moment. And a moment after that, as the brewer’s art played hopyicks on my palate. “I’m was feeding not sure about the cannibalism, but they certainly are what they eat” I quipped. “So,” said Jad, “If you are what you eat…and drink, then what does that make the hens you?” I consulted my pint once more, and ruminated. “Are you suggeying, that I am Old and Peculier?” “Well, it had crossed my mind” Jad replied. hiden “Oot as peculiar b a man who feeds hens hiden flavoured crips, I think.” flavoured “Point takeN” said Jad. [[ crisps.”

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www.cheersnortheast .co.uk // April 2012 Editorial OUR MAN IN HAVANA THE VIEW FROM 01661 844115 cheersA CUBAN BAR THAT TIME AGAIN NEWCASTLE BEER Alastair Gilmour FESTIVAL NO36 THE BAND PLAYED ON [email protected] TITANIC SET TO GO DOWN WELL malstersmalsters will reject will reject it. They it. They are are very very specific on the size and quality of grain specific on the size and quality of grain that they that they want.” want.” “In dry years the crop is less productive and the grains are smaller, which could mean the DRY, DRY, DRY DROUGHT, BARLEY Advertising AND RISING PRICES 01661 844115 BACK TO SCHOOL Gillian Corney As the cover line reads, it’s that time IT’S RIAN’S GIG [email protected] of year again. It’s not only the return of BRITISH BEER’S AMERICAN ACCENT INN-SIDE PUBS !// NEWS // IDEAS// OPINION // NEW PUBS // OLD PUBS// BEER FOR LUNCH the Newcastle Beer Festival which pops // BEER FOR TEA// BEER FOR DINNER Philippa Gibson // PUBS! [email protected] up annually alongside da odils and gambolling lambs, but also the spirit of Cover: Rian Van Nordheim, Alastair Gilmour, editor Brewlab student. See page 16 Website: new beginnings and fresh hope. www.cheersnortheast.co.uk e chancellor of the exchequer did the pub industry no good at all in his Budget, despite calls to scrap the INSIDE Designed & Published by: beer duty escalator, and the announcement of a minimum price for alcohol units was not only a cynical de ection from the economy’s ills, but only added confusion to an industry overburdened by government NEWS interference. 4 Would you like ice Unit One, Bearl Farm with that? But, on to new beginnings. It’s encouraging to see pub investment Stocksﬁ eld with news of a new opening in Durham – e John Duck – plus the 6 Prince of Wales gives Northumberland royal approval NE43 7AL Northumberland Arms at Felton in Northumberland is under new ownership, as are the Cross Keys Inn at Esh in County Durham and Directors: e Miners Arms in Acomb, Northumberland. FEATURES 10 The worrying times Gary Ramsay ese are pubs that deserve to succeed but will survive only through for farmers and beer [email protected] regular use – you and me both. drinkers that come Jane Pikett Of course, it’s more than just sitting supping a half and munching with a drought [email protected] a pack of dry-roasted; it’s joining in with initiatives such as the 16 Sunderland’s Brandling Villa Sausage and Ale Festival and the Titanic centenary “beer school” has Website: events at Head of Steam group pubs. It’s listening to live music, taking www.offstonepublishing.co.uk an international part in the weekly quiz, and enjoying every level of conversation and reputation – we meet Photography: social interaction that your fellow pub-goer can provide. the latest American Peter Skelton is is the Campaign For Real Ale’s Community Pubs Month, so do student www.photo-psp.co.uk your bit in April – and May and June and… 18 Newcastle Beer Whilst every effort has been made Cheers, Festival celebrates to ensure accuracy, the publisher number 36 this cannot accept responsibility for Alastair Gilmour, editor month omissions and errors. All material in this publication is strictly 20 Cristal clear: The copyright and all rights reserved. drinks scene in DROUGHT AND Havana 10 ABOUT Hosepipe bans and dry PUB WATCH weather forecasts 24 The Newcastle Arms, could have a signiﬁ cant Newcastle effect on the price of our pint, say the barley FUN STUFF growers and maltsters. 31 Blue’s canine A lot of businesses are adventures, Photo Quiz, Pub Quiz and at stake OUR The Pickled Egg SPONSORS Ice time ahead Pub crawl Panda Frog launch The prince and the pint Titanic effort A-Z pub guide Two heads better Charles takes a quaff

Brew school Newcastle Our man in 16 Sunderland’s 18 united 20 Havana Brewlab is a magnet The city’s annual Cuba was a place for beer students beer festival has Martin Hammill had Wylam Brewery worldwide. We meet reached its 36th longed to visit – now the latest from San anniversary. It’s a he has and he tells Diego who, despite mammoth logistical us about it. He sets the culture shock, task – all done by the scene of lively is learning fast and volunteers – so nightlife, colonial

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Intro.indd 3 10/04/2012 18:30 NEWS Want ice with that? Look out for a unique series of pub events to commemorate the sinking of Titanic, 100 years ago

pril 2012 celebrates the Customers are given a collector rst and last voyage of RMS card which will be a replica of the actual Titanic – if “celebrates” is boarding pass used on the trip with all the right word for a disaster the beers listed on the back and those Athat claimed 1,514 lives, that is. who sample 12 di erent beers from the e “unsinkable” ship left Belfast on range will get a special Titanic polo shirt, April 7 1912, where it had been built, whilst those sampling a pint of every to pick up passengers in Southampton, one of the 18 beers will get the polo shirt, then on to Cherbourg in France and a Titanic glass and a bottle of a Pier 54, Queenstown in Ireland, before it headed a special beer commemorating Titanic’s out into the Atlantic, west towards New expecting landing berth in New York. Titanic schedule of beers York. And, as we all know, fate collided During the period April 7-14, food will with it in the shape of a whacking great be available based on the menus that April 7: Titanic 1912; White Star; Slipway. iceberg not far o the American coast. were on the ship (modi ed to modern-day April 8: Steerage; First Class To celebrate this important – and tastes), including special puddings that April 9 (noon): Captain Smith most memorable – slice of history, were being served just before the ship sank. April 10 (noon): Maiden Voyage (the actual time Titanic Brewery of Stoke on Trent has Additionally, Tilleys Bar in titanic set sail from Southampton to Cherbourg) produced a series of special beers named Newcastle, which shows lms April 10 (6.30pm): All Aboard (the actual after individual events in the course regularly, will be featuring the lm time Titanic docked in Cherbourg) of the voyage and e Head Of Steam Titanic, of course, as well as other April 11 (as soon as pubs open): Last Porter Call group of pubs (in Newcastle, Gateshead, lms about the fateful voyage. (time of arrival in Queenstown for its fi nal pick-up) Durham and Hudders eld) has entered “We think this may be the most April 11 (1.30pm): Full Steam Ahead (ship weighed into the “centenary spirit” with a well interesting promotion for our customers anchor at this time from Queenstown) thought-out programme. e majority that we have ever put on,” says Ian April 12 Chocolate & Vanilla Stout; Cappuccino Stout; of the company’s pubs is stocking the Taylor, Head of Steam operations and Plum Porter (the three ales are based on items served entire range of Titanic beers available marketing manager. “ is has taken on the menu on the fi nal night of Titanic’s voyage) – some in limited quantities – and an enormous amount of time and April 14 (1.45pm): Lookout (when the fi rst warning of putting them on sale as near as possible e ort to put together and we really ice in the area by SS Amerika was received by Titanic) to exactly 100 years after the calamity. hope our customers have a great time April 14 (7pm onwards): Iceberg; Lifeboat; 9/10 Below. “Our customers will be able to sink a trying to sample as many Titanic 2.20am - Titanic sank. Titanic and come out smiling,” says Julian Brewery beers as possible – hopefully Ive, manager of the Cluny in Newcastle. without getting a sinking feeling.”

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News.indd 4 10/04/2012 18:35  visit www.cheersnortheast.co.uk to have your say Nike puts its foot in it Nike’s latest Dunk Low sneaker was launched in time for last month’s St Patrick’s Day – a beer-themed trainer with a black leather upper, tan trimmings, creamy “whoosh” and the image of a pint inside. So far, so Guinness. But the company made the mistake of calling it the Black and Tan – which was actually the nickname of the Royal Irish Constabulary reserve force, a particularly violent British paramilitary unit that conducted brutal reprisals during the Irish Wars of Independence in the 1920s. One Irish-American observer likened it to calling Police hacked off a shoe “the al-Qaida”. Nike has since apologised. At risk of being accused of going for the purpose. Estimates for the “all-ice”, this story is well worth market value of the yield are around a show. Bartenders have been the £4,000 mark, which shows known to go to extreme lengths in there’s money in frozen water. Cheerio Chaleo the quest for the purest, clearest Environmentalists have warned ice to serve with cocktails, but a that bars’ use of millennia-old Chaleo Yoovidhya, the Thai billionaire controversial new source for the glacial ice is shocking evidence of who created the Red Bull energy perfect cubes has emerged. how man-made climate change is drink 30 years ago, has died aged 89. It’s apparently become contributing to global warming – the Chaleo founded TC commonplace for tourists to drink Jorge Montt glacier, for example, is Pharmaceuticals in the 1970s which their spirits cooled by ice hacked retreating by half-a-mile every year. formulated an energy prototype from glaciers in Chile. Police in The charge is expected to called Krathing Daeng (Red Bull in Patagonia have arrested a man for be one of petty theft, but local English). It was popular ﬁ rst among allegedly having stolen some ﬁ ve media suggest prosecutors are Thai truck drivers and labourers and tonnes of glacial ice in an apparent investigating whether charges can went on to become a global brand. bid to sell it direct to bars and be brought under the National The American Forbes magazine restaurants in the capital, Santiago. Monuments Act on the basis of ranked Chaleo among the richest It is thought he was part of a a crime having been committed men in the world with assets company regularly harvesting ice against Chile’s national heritage. worth several billion pounds. New Cheers NE Advert final 85x190_Layout 1 12/08/2011 10:43 Page 1

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News.indd 7 10/04/2012 18:36 BEER NEWS Jennings brews ROLL OUT morale-booster THE BARREL ennings of Cockermouth has handed Keswick Jazz Festival (May 3-6). It’s number • Newcastle Arms, St Andrew’s Street, over the proceeds from its initiative of 21 and coming of age in style with more Newcastle, 7th Anniversary Beer Festival, April donating 10p from every pint sold than 100 events packed into the four festival 12-15. Anything up to 40 beers which regular for improvements to days. Nearly 100 di erent bands and visitors will know will include some rare and J the town following the star guests include an impressive unusual examples from the likes of Full Mash, 2009 oods that ripped international contingent. London Fields and Offbeat breweries. It’s what through it. e £25,000 American pianist Butch your Arms is for. www.newcastlearms.co.uk raised will help improve ompson, along with top New • Newcastle Beer Festival April 18-21. See signage in Main Street. Orleans drummer Frank Oxley feature on page 18. www.cannybevvy.co.uk e brewery’s April and Canadian trumpet star Patrick • Cumberland Arms Spring Beer Festival, “seasonal” ale is Slap Tevlin, join forces to launch April 23-25 with 30 beers from local breweries & Stickle (3.8% abv) Brian Carrick’s International plus cider galore (James Place Street, and not only is it light Band. Returning by demand is US Byker). www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk gold and malty with trumpet supremo Duke Heitger, • Oddfellows Beer Festival, Albion Road, North a caramel lick but the as well as fellow Americans Je Shields, May 4-6 with 20 ales and cider “from pumpclip is rather saucy. Barnhart, Jim Fryer and Joan Viskant the back of the pub”, which sounds terriﬁ cally Better not serve it in the plus Europe’s leading reedsman decadent. www.oddfellowspub.co.uk House of Commons where Matthias Seu ert. Alongside • Gateshead Beer Festival, May 4-6 with Slaters Top Totty received these will be a Who’s Who’ of British 100-plus ales, 25 ciders/perries and a cava a mouthful from feminists. talent in traditional and mainstream jazz. bar. www.gatesheadbeerfestival.co.uk And, Jennings is again supporting the www.keswickjazzfestival.co.uk

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News.indd 8 10/04/2012 18:37  visit www.cheersnortheast.co.uk to have your say Oliver’s armful Home-brewer Ken Oliver, left, is running workshops at his small brewhouse in Newcastle – and he’s got a new website. He’s hoping his enthusiasm for beer and brewing will rub off on the general public and he has been invited to take part in several projects – a demonstration at Gateshead Beer Festival, brewing beer with the world’s hottest chillies, and conducting Andy talks rot the trial brew for the well-received Tyne Bank Piccolo Black, among them. Regular readers will recall our article on brewery Visit www.kenolivermicrobreweries.co.uk waste disposal and Andy Davenport’s fascinating account of how he composts spent hops, amongst other things (pictured left). Andy is running a composting workshop on Sunday April 15 at Gardener’s APRIL 1992: WAS IT REALLY Cottage, Bingﬁ eld, Northumberland NE19 2LE. It commences at 2pm, costs £20pp (including light 20 YEARS AGO THAT… refreshments) and will last for around two hours. Visitors are given an informative talk about Andy’s Sunderland’s Vaux Group bought 85 pubs from Inntrepreneur Estates and a QR compost-making system, theories and virtues, 28 from Whitbread, bringing the number of pubs run by the expanding group followed by a practical workshop. Advice and help is to approaching 900, with some operated by its Shefﬁ eld subsidiary Wards. given on types of bins, materials and their preparation, information about herbs and how to use them in compost. The Tap & Spile chain, a division of the Hartlepool-based Pubmaster Details: www.qrcompostingsolutions.co.uk company, opened its 22nd outlet – at Glasgow Airport. The Duke of Wellington Inn The Duke of Wellington Inn in Newton is the perfect place from which to explore the Tyne Valley. Whether it is a weekend away, family meal or popping in for a pint, you can be sure of a warm welcome.

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News.indd 9 10/04/2012 18:37 FEATURE: FROM GRAIN TO GLASS

The wind that bakes the barley

Even in the North East we need a lot more rain to keep the price of a pint down. We get plenty of the stuff, but Alastair Gilmour explains the signiﬁ cance of prolonged dry spells

here’s a North-South divide nation’s barley crop which would a ect Guy Gagen, chief arable adviser for the NFU, right enough. While we in the the brewing and distilling industry. says: “Winter barley has traditionally been North East can still feel the Research by the company found that the seen as a crop tolerant of summer drought as it chill swirl of winter despite a drought last spring a ected two-thirds ripens from early summer. With another Tgloriously sunny March, the South East of barley farmers and a further yield dry winter, crops are at risk again.” and South West of the country are under reduction is expected because of ose sentiments and fears a hosepipe ban. ey’re parched. this year’s dry spell. Brewers and are as true in Northumberland, Nationally, the month of March was distillers use 1.7 million tons of County Durham, e Borders the second warmest on record and the malted barley a year, of which and e Lothians – prime fth driest, and even if it drizzles from Molson Coors uses 150,000 tons, barley-growing regions – as Abingdon to Basingstoke there won’t be so a shortage of barley could they are in the likes of East enough water deposited to replenish major push up prices, adding to the cost Anglia. Andy Frater, from Tynely river sources. Water, as far as the South is of a pint, and companies might Farm, Chathill, Northumberland, concerned, will become a huge problem have to buy the raw materials from produces prime barley speci cally by 2020 (maybe we could hold them to abroad – adding more to the cost. “We can’t tell just for the brewing industry, which ransom; swap a Kielder-full for dualling the Jerry Dyson, raw materials by looking at it. At is malted locally by Simpsons A1, for example. But that’s another story). manager at Molson Coors, says: the end of the day it of Berwick – partly germinated Closer to home, and before long, this dry “Weather conditions always play will affect the price and kilned to convert starch into period is going to a ect the price of our pint. a major role in the availability and of your pint.” fermentable sugars to enable yeast e stu that grows in the elds to make the quality of malting barley (the to turn it into alcohol. He, too, is our beer – the cereal crop – isn’t going to crop that goes into beer-making) concerned about the lack of rainfall. perform as it should due to lack of moisture, and this was brought into sharp focus Andy says: “Prolonged drought will a ect and it’ll have a bearing on every brewer, from most recently with the winter malting the yield of the crop and the size of the grain. the smallest micro to the global giant. barley crop of 2011. Last year’s very dry Maltsters are very speci c on the size and the Molson Coors, the brewer behind spring meant that the winter barley crop quality of the grain that they want. Our winter Carling – Britain’s biggest-selling lager – has had a very high nitrogen level, which barley, which was sown last September, won’t be warned that the dry weather could hit the signi cantly reduced its value for brewing.” a ected too much as it has had a long growing

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10-11.indd 10 10/04/2012 18:43 “Weather conditions always play a major role in the availabilty and the quality of malting barley (the crop that goes into beer-making) and this was brought into sharp focus most recently with the winter malting barley crop of 2011. Last year’s very dry spring meant that the winter barley crop had a very high nitrogen level which signiﬁ cantly reduced its value for brewing.”

SUPPLY CHAIN:Barley grower Andy Frater

season – although this year we haven’t had moisture levels; he outlines the contributor to the economy – as James any snow which is a good supplier of water. di erence between winter barley and Paice, minister for food and agriculture, “But in dry years the crop is less productive spring-sown; he elaborates on Pearl, and Euan Macpherson, managing and the grains are smaller which could Casatta and Concorde varieties and director of Crisp Maltings, agreed at a mean the maltsters will reject it. en, praises Golden Promise, grown almost meeting in Westminster. e Crisp group more than likely, the grain will be bad exclusively for the Scotch whisky operates in prime barley-growing areas inside and they’ll get less malt out of it.” industry. He describes fertilisation regimes of East Anglia, Su olk and Scotland. Without going too much into science and sheds light on farmers’ contracts “Given that malted barley is the and agriculture, the end result everybody is with maltsters – three-year deals at main ingredient for beer and whisky – looking for is the right amount of moisture speci c prices that can see a producer our national drinks – and is therefore in the grain plus optimum nitrogen levels. signing up to £98 a tonne and watch as absolutely crucial to the pub trade, Too much one way or another is bad news. the market hits £160. And vice-versa. it’s strange that people give it so little “For real ales you need a low nitrogen en there’s fuel for bigger and heavier thought,” says Euan MacPherson. “Britain content and for lagers it tends to be higher,” tractors and greedy combine harvesters is the third largest producer of malt, says Andy. “In very dry weather there’s less which is going through the roof (“you supplying the world’s biggest brewers as grain produced on the plant and the grain is can spend £200 on fuel in one day, so it’s well as 800 micro, regional and national smaller. e nitrogen content will be higher now a serious consideration”) and always brewers across our own country.” – you want the best yield, but you don’t want at the end of it there’s the weather. Barley accounts for roughly 3.5% too much nitrogen – so you’re struggling. “It’s like going to a casino,” Andy says. of the cost of making beer. e dry “If it doesn’t go to the maltsters, it’ll go “It’s sometimes a big gamble. It’s very much weather is also thought to have already for animal feed – there’s nothing in between. customer-driven. Brewers want to attract a ected this year’s hop harvest, and It’s not until it’s through the gate that we’ll the pubs to buy their beer and they in turn the Government has decided not to know what the quality is like – we can’t demand particular barley varieties from the scrap the beer duty escalator which tell just by looking at it. At the end of the maltsters, as it’s their unique selling point.” is about to add ve pence to a pint. day it will a ect the price of your pint.” en farmers like him sow 18 months e rain will arrive one day, but At his farm ’twixt A! and North Sea, Andy in advance. Malted barley is a crucial part the rising cost of a night in the Frater explains nitrogen percentages and of the beer supply chain and a massive pub is just around the corner.

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We Now haveMake 6 Real Centurion Ales on yourtap and meeting a handpull cider place before or after your Christmas Party C & C Hudson’s SnugOpen Bar dailyavailable 6am for - 7pm private functionsBreakfasts including menu 7am Christmas - 11am Hot meals served 11am - 5pm in the Cafe parties& Grand room SnugPrivate Bar, Meeting Meeting & & Mayall acquaintance Function rooms available Functionfor private Rooms hire ells Bombardier of Bombardier have increased has announced a by double digits, with nearly 700 record investment new stockists over last year’s. in advertising “ e Bombardier character – Bar & Deli asW it becomes the o cial William Charles Bedford – is your Grand CentralGrand Station, Central Neville Station, Street, Newcastle sponsor of UK entertainment dashing hero on the battle eld, UponNeville Tyne, Street,NE1 5DG channel Dave during its prime- with a caddish twinkle in his Newcastle Upon Tyne, time weekday evening slot. eye” says Chris Lewis, marketing NE1 5DG e sponsorship will launch director of Wells and Young’s. “We Tel: 0191 2616611 on Dave on April 16 with adverts believe our adverts enhance the www.centurion-newcastle.com running weekdays from 9pm – witty banter of the programme Tel: 0191 2616611 midnight, ve days a week for 12 that they sit alongside on Dave www.centurion-newcastle.com months. e 10-15 second adverts and will become as popular as

Hexham build upon the success of the 2011 the programme content itself. Battle Hill Eastgate advertising campaign staring Rik “While Bombardier is an Mayall as the “English, ever reliable iconic ale with distinct English Dipton

and damned tasty” Bombardier. character, we have once again Slaley e 2012 campaign is worth £5m creatively shaken up the category

and is the biggest-ever investment and shown how sponsorship Dipton Mill Road

Blanchland HGV into the brand – and in the ale idents can not only be fresh, Hexham Mill Inn category as a whole. Since the funny, clever and sharp, but Racecourse All you want a country launch of the 2011 campaign, sales also topical and engaging.” West Dipton Burn pub to be... Dipton Mill Inn Home of Cycle the Dales Hexhamshire Beers Following the success of the Black Sheep Firkin Challenge in 2011, the Masham, North Yorkshire-based brewery is again offering two exhilarating rides to raise valuable funds for Wooden Spoon, the children’s charity of rugby. Taking in the beautiful scenery of the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday May 19, this year’s Firkin Challenge offers two circular rides with something for everyone, whether a seasoned cyclist or more of a weekend rider. Prizes will be awarded for best single riders, teams, and also for the most money raised for Wooden Spoon. Both rides will be fully supported with checkpoints, support vehicles and refreshments along the way. Details at www. DiptonDipton Mill Mill Road, Road, Hexham Hexham NE46 NE46 1YA 1YA blacksheep.co.uk Tel:Tel: 01434 01434 606577 606577 www.hexhamshire.co.uk www.hexhamshire.co.uk

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BABY CORNEY New BABY HANOVER Call to Arms The Northumberland Arms at Felton in Northumberland has changed ownership. arrivals The previous operators left after only 18 months in charge apparently due to Excuse us for a piece of self- excessive overheads and declining trade. indulgence – the past few months However, new licensee Peter Mailer – who have been a busy time for the also owns the Black Bull at Warkworth and folks who bring you Cheers – the Burnside at Longhoughton – says he is and their families – and we’d conﬁ dent the pub can be turned around. like to show off a wee bit. “There is a lot of local support and a We welcome new and newish lot of history attached to the pub, so it arrivals Dylan Josh Skelton (now six cannot be allowed to die,” says Peter. months old), son of photographer The plan is to focus on a range of real Peter and Nicola; Sarah Blackie ales, with good quality traditional pub food, (now ﬁ ve months), daughter of BABY SKELTON whilst also encouraging darts and pool teams designer Stuart and his wife Lisa; – plus any other groups –to re-establish Flynn Andrew Corney, son of David the place as the hub of the community. and Tasha and fourth grandchild for The Northumberland Arms was originally Gillian (advertising supremo) and Paul a coaching inn on the Great North Road Corney who was born on March 21, – when the A1 went through Felton – and and Robert Alastair Hanover, son of hopefully will continue to provide a high Jennifer and Michael and grandson level of hospitality for years to come. of editor Alastair Gilmour and his wife The Northumberland Arms, West Thirston, Felton, Veronica, who arrived on April 1. Northumberland NE65 9EE. Tel: 01670 787370. BABY BLACKIE Cheers to them all!

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Camra’s angle April is the Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) Mike Benner, Camra chief executive, fi rst Community Pubs Month, launched says: “Pubs are the beating hearts to highlight that pubs are invaluable of countless communities across the assets and their integral role through the land, and without their existence, lives of people in local communities. society would be a lot worse off. Pubs are vital meeting places for “Camra’s research shows people turn young adults, with just under nine in to their local pub during meaningful 10 of them using their local to meet events, so whether you are a real ale friends and to socialise. Further, in a lover, or someone who enjoys the weekly poll of regular pub goers, one in four quiz down your local, pubs are a core currently married couples said they fi rst part of our identity and heritage.” met their spouse/partner in a pub. Visit www.camra.org.uk Keys to the door The Cross Keys Inn at Esh in County Durham – leased by Trevor Hudspeth and Gwen Varley for the past six months – has a new owner in Signs of the times Michael Webster (The Victoria, Durham City). The couple, who also run the Barley Mow at Birtley, This vehicle was spotted in will continue to operate the pub and now feel they Gateshead – obviously a driver who can put some of their experience and knowledge into the new venture with complete confi dence. It likes his music on the rootsy side seems like a result all round – with Esh winning! (and maybe a bit grumpy, too). The Cross Keys Inn, Front Street, Esh, County Durham DH7 9QR. Tel: 0191 373 1279.

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14-15.indd 15 10/04/2012 18:44 FEATURE: BEER SCHOOL Full marks for top beer students Brewing beer is a simple process – but it’s a complex subject. Fortunately in the North East, we have one of the world’s best places to study it. Alastair Gilmour talks to one American student on a three- month course

ood old Google. Enter the bare bones of whatever you want into the search engine and bingo, a whole new world opens up. G at’s what Rian Van Nordheim (pictured right) did anyway. She was mulling over a new career with a burning desire to learn how to brew beer and, though she is based in San Diego, California, she homed straight in on Sunderland and the Brewlab courses that can take successful students anywhere in the business. Rian is now halfway through a three-month diploma in British brewing technology which suited her down to he ground – and because there’s one signi cant word in the course title. “I’m interested in British-style beers ‘studying beer’ he said, that’s di erent.” will squeal, is “foreign” terminology. Back and it’s what I see myself doing when I get Rian also found that Brewlab’s courses home in San Diego she’ll be on safer ground. back to San Diego,” she says. “What we tend to be much more hands-on than But before that, she’s planning on a short tend to do is take British styles and change those she scrolled through – which European beer tour during the Easter them into something more American. lean much more towards the technical. break – Paris, Copenhagen and BrewDog’s “I basically Googled ‘beer school’ and started Plus, accommodation is provided in Aberdeenshire base are on her agenda. from there. I didn’t particularly want to go to Sunderland in the all-inclusive fee. “I want to absorb it all,” she explains. Germany and learn about German-style beer “I just didn’t know where Sunderland “Coming from San Diego I’m used to very and I don’t speak a lot of German, so it was going was,” she says. “It’s interesting and almost hoppy beer and I’m more interested in brewing to be tough enough to start with, so I thought a culture shock. I’m used to hot weather IPAs but I kind of like to experiment – not I’d do a whole lot better by coming here. in San Diego, driving a car, having a beach, necessarily pushing any envelopes, but just see “I could have gone to UC Davis (University and not getting run over. People are a little what interesting avours I can come up with. of California), but there’s a two-year waiting bit di erent here, but actually I expected “No-one in my family has ever done list for that particular programme and it was everything to be a bit more di erent. anything like this. I like it a lot, it ts who that or get a job in a brewery and start at the “I just thought, ‘OK I’m here, I’m just I am. All my friends and family are really bottom. I thought three months in Europe going to make the most of it’. ere are supportive and really excited about me would be much better and while I’m here I ve of us go round all the time, so I feel coming here – that was the best thing. ey can visit microbreweries in Denmark and con dent and safe and the course is all said ‘you’ll do well’ which helped me a lot. Sweden. I didn’t want to be restricted at all very practical and not like real work.” “I’ve been to Jarrow Brewery and Mordue. and wanted to see what other people were At Brewlab, Rian often lips into calling When you get sent out on a placement you doing. My dad kinda looked at me one day – casks “kegs” which, as any real ale a cionado get the knowledge from the people there and

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learn about mash-tuns and spent one of the breweries back home, grain – all that fun stu . And get about ve years’ experience LEARN TO BREW they answer all my questions. I’m and some knowledge on their Brewlab in Sunderland provides professionals who are seeking to working more than I did at school. systems, then go o to start training and analysis services keep their skills and knowledge “In San Diego breweries tend my own brewery or brewpub. for the international brewing updated. They range from to be on industrial parks for the “I’m the beer drinker in the industry. It was established one-day workshops to three- space they need, but it’s cool to family – my mother’s really into in 1986 at the University of month diploma courses. The see small breweries in England wine and very knowledgeable Sunderland and became course Rian Bergheim is on is squished into really small rooms.” about it and really keen on it, and independent in 2008, moving the Brewlab Diploma in British Rian rst caught the beer my brother’s just a binge-drinker, to a new training facility Brewing Technology, an all- bug through “chilling out”, so we’ve got everything covered.” on the Enterprise Park encompassing study of the key getting immersed in beer Sunderland also has near the city centre. aspects of brewing techniques. culture, and starting to think everything covered – the The range of training courses Half of the course time is devoted Brewlab offers are relevant to to laboratory about running her own bar. epicentre of world beer study the ﬁ rst-time brewer, through to Details: www.brewlab.com.uk She says: “I plan to get a job in being a major advantage.

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brewlab.indd 17 10/04/2012 18:43 FEATURE: NEWCASTLE BEER FESTIVAL

FULL HOUSE: Newcastle Beer Festival revellers create quite an atmosphere Ale well at number 36 The highlight of Newcastle’s season is upon us and it’s not football, writes Alastair Gilmour

n the year the Campaign For Real Ale from last year – particularly from people can’t please all of the people all of the time. (Camra) Newcastle Beer Festival rst who don’t normally give you feedback.” Ian Lee says: “One of the problems is appeared, Harold Wilson resigned e festival was a long-term that we had quite a lot of beer left over after as prime minister and e Eagles xture on the other side of the city’s last year’s festival, mainly from the local Itopped the charts with Hotel California. Haymarket at Newcastle University, breweries. is has had an impact on a A “large silver object” was spotted over but a total refurbishment of that whole lot of things. We believe people often Tyneside which was investigated by venue last year forced a change. want to try something else, so we reduced the British UFO Research Association. Ian Lee says: “ e hall at Northumbria the beer order slightly this year – which is Presumably all events were unconnected. is light and it’s airy, bigger and better more to do with the number of breweries at was 1976, and this month we usher all round, and much better for the sta (invited) rather than the choice of beer.” in festival number 36, which establishes as well, which is really important.” Gordon Heal stresses there’s a year-round the Newcastle bash as one of the country’s Access is much quicker, too, with stewards demand for indigenous beer products, but also longest-running. At the inaugural event, able to clear the inevitable opening-night a desire among festival-goers to look over the held at Newcastle’s Guildhall, there were queue inside 18 minutes, whereas it took city wall, so to speak. And, with only a limited 12 beers represented – most of which have 45 minutes at Newcastle University. But number of festival handpulls, bar space and disappeared – and one cider (Bulmers “in organising an event that will attract up to stillage available, it’s a bit of a juggling act. natural condition”). But from April 18-21, 134 5,000 customers isn’t without its problems “We’re trying to adapt to a di erent beers from 60-plus breweries – local or its critics. ere’s a natural focus on changing market,” he says. and nationwide – backed up by more than 30 North East-produced ales, but there’s also One highlight is a Battle of the Beers ciders and perries, will be worth sampling. the argument that people can sample those competition where 10 local microbrewers “We’re back this year at Northumbria beers most days around the region’s pubs and have been invited to enter a beer brewed University Students’ Union which works at the regular beer festivals they now host, with one grain variety, no restriction on very as a venue,” says Gordon Heal, co- so why not give them something di erent? the number or variety of hops, and in a organiser of the annual celebration with It’s a decision fraught with di culties that range of 4.0%-5.0% abv. A panel of judges Ian Lee. “We got a lot of positive feedback inevitably comes down to the fact that you will select the winner, which should ensure

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bragging rights for the next 12 months. was on the jukebox, but what they’re doing “Camra nationally splits its northern region there with their beers and festivals now is into the North East and Yorkshire and also at fantastic. It’s had a positive e ect on e Kindling the festival we’ve got a tasting to choose the Victory across the road and e Millstone beer that will go on to eventually challenge nearby – so that’s three pubs in a small area for Champion Beer of Britain,” says Ian Lee. that have been transformed by real ale.” interest “Again we’ve got 10 beers from 10 breweries. e 36th Newcastle Beer Fstival will “Big Lamp Brewery is 30 be o cially opened by the Beer Lover’s Britain, a comprehensive years old this year and we’re “It’s got the brewers lord mayor of Newcastle, Geo guide to enjoying beer in the UK, celebrating that as well. It’s rubbing their hands O’Brien, with this year’s charity written by award-winning beer writer a great achievement.” with glee and a lot being St Oswald’s Hospice. Jeff Evans and published by insidebeer. Gordon Heal says the local of them are very “ is is in memory of two of our com, is now available in Kindle format. breweries have really got behind pleased with the members – and festival volunteers The thoughtfully-compiled e-book the Battle of the Beers idea. outcome.” – who died in the last 12 months,’ unravels the mysteries and wonders of “It’s got the brewers rubbing says Gordon. “Bill Case and Ian the great British pint and the glorious their hands with glee,” he says, “and a lot of Tulloch were real characters and lovely pubs in which it can be enjoyed. Aimed, them have said they’re very pleased with people who really knew their beers.” it appears, more at the foreign visitor, it the outcome of their special brews.” In 1976, the rst Newcastle Beer reveals how to make ere’s also a sub-plot to competitions Festival shared the Guildhall with a the most of them with like Battle of the Beers, as Ian Lee explains. Friends of the Earth event and Camra was information on pub ey’re designed to accentuate the positives. described by one large brewing concern food, games, gardens, ” e competition brings more attention as “consisting of a few cranks”. Whitbread opening hours, on the brewer and on local beer which is Trophy Bitter was also one of the featured children’s facilities available in local pubs,” he says. “I want beers. e times they have a’changed. and entertainments, people to drink in the pub and not at home.” along with Gordon Heal agrees wholeheartedly. “It’s recommendations for having an e ect too,” he says. “Just look at Newcastle Beer Festival, Wednesday April the best pubs to visit. the likes of the Brandling Villa in South 18 to Saturday April 21. Details, including It even tells you Gosforth. I remember it from its John Smiths beer list at www.cannybevvy.co.uk how to order a pint! and Fosters lager days and when Maggie May www.insidebeer.com

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newcastlebf.indd 19 10/04/2012 18:42 VIEW FROM ABROAD: HAVANA, CUBA

Our man in Havana

Martin Hammill made a point of investigating Cuba’s bar scene on a recent trip. It made such an impression, he’s already got his return ticket planned

hen the plane was dropping to be imported, but we managed a bottle of Cristal. The two beers are brewed by the down into Havana Chilean Merlot over our three courses. government, as you would expect. and I looked out of the It was opulence in the extreme with smartly Many Cubans drink a malt beverage from window, I was amazed dressed waiters and background music from cans which is similar to a dark Scottish- atW the sheer size of the place – it’s vast. a grand piano. I was Sinatra for a moment. style 80/- or 90/-, but it was alcohol-free. Havana was somewhere I’d long wanted I then got a bit concerned about what this lot Rum is big business, in both production and to visit and when Anthony Bourdain’s No might cost but it worked out at an unbelievable in consumption. Havana Club, the renowned Reservations series on Sky Atlantic went 101.50 Cuban Convertible worldwide classic is available there it only con rmed my own desires. Pesos – £72.00 in real money. everywhere, and I mean everywhere. The bars and eateries and general hustle and We digested this with a People are poor in Havana and bustle are wonderful; the place and the people daiquiri on the bar’s balcony do what they can to make a little just seemed so welcoming and Cubans – to a and marvelled at the hotel’s extra, but wealth is frowned upon. man – are the happiest I’ve ever encountered. rich and decadent past. Name Walk passed a house and there will Our hotel was modern and high-end, a statesman, actor, sports star be a small window or opening where which was in stark contrast to the domestic or musician from the golden you can buy cans of beer, homemade dwellings and shops we passed en route. era of the Fifties and they’ve sauces, cigars and the ubiquitous It was darker than I thought it would sipped Cristal beer or downed Havana Club. A litre cost £2.85; back be but things like power, petrol and other daiquiris and margueritas here. home I saw it in shops for £29.95. such commodities are expensive and Cristal (4.9% abv) is the national I was in Cuba for two weeks, highly prized and people are paid very little. brand, a pale lager-style ale, and and only saw one man drunk. There Oh, and there is no unemployment. very drinkable too – ideal as a were no signs of drink-related social Along the famous Malecon – the long regular refresher in the warm problems; crime is minimal, with no promenade you see on any Havana scene on sun – and I certainly became a threat of robbery or mugging in the telly – there are colonial-style buildings in various fan of the stuff. It’s everywhere tightly-packed streets and you feel safe. states of repair, from crumbling to derelict, to – its distinctive green livery is on Tourism is the second-largest restored architectural jewels. The city is a Unesco font heads or in the shops and earner for the Cuban economy – World Heritage site (as is Hadrian’s Wall). on the street markets in cans. behind medicine and medical issues Up on top of a hill is the magniﬁ cent Hotel The cost of a can is about 50p, “Rum is big – and so the authorities would take Nationale, where Old Blue Eyes would wine, or a draught version in a typical business, in both a dim view of any troublemakers. dine – and whatever else – with Ava Gardner. Havana bar is about £1.20 at most. production and We came home late one night Of course, we went for a nose around and Interestingly, the hotel staff told consumption.” along the Malecon and couldn’t believe ended up staying for drinks in the famous me they love beer but consider it the number of young people out – Churchill Bar – Cuba Libre, of course – and expensive, so they drink rum. tens of thousands of them drinking, then dinner. Wine is expensive in Cuba, as The only other beer I saw available was playing music, socialising and enjoying each they don’t produce it themselves and it has a 5.4% Bucanero Beer, similar in style to other’s company. And no litter, no ﬁ ghting,

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viewfromabroad.indd 21 10/04/2012 18:41 PUB NEWS Quacking new place urham has a new pub and one that has dug deep into local history for a name to hang above the Helen Towns. “It will be a sensible pub door. D e John Duck in Claypath – once for sensible people. It’s looking good.” was part of the O’Neill’s chain of “Oirish” John Duck was elected mayor bars before trading as e Castle Inn of Durham in 1680. He was one of – has undergone major refurbishment the wealthiest men in Durham, but after being bought by local businessman it’s unclear how he rst made his Andrew Ward, who also owns the fortune. He had arrived in Durham Elm Tree and e Angel in the city. in 1655 but suspicions arose when e John Duck’s lessee is Andy he was unable to give details of his Hughes who also runs the Elm birthplace. He eventually came to Tree and the Angel. Like the others, own land and collieries and built a the focus is on cask conditioned mansion in Silver Street as well as beer – with 10 handpulls o ering endowing a hospital for the poor at a particularly good choice. Great Lumley in 1686. He died in 1691. “It is a local tale, we are a local business, and we thought it was an The John Duck, 91A appropriate name for the pub,” says Andy, Claypath, Durham. pictured above with assistant manager

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“If you don’t drink alcohol, start. If you do drink, drink EEH! regularly – don’t 10 out of 10 festival NUMBERS 27 binge drink – and Sunday 6th May 12pm till 12am inside and outside make sure you An all day folk extravaganza •The alcohol by celebrating 10 years of the From the end of volume of Samuel BMus in Folk & Traditional music. April we will be enjoy what you Also to celebrate 10 years of the having a week to Adams Utopia IPA Cumberland Arms as we know it showcase the best drink. Drink with now. Featuring Monster Ceilidh beers from different •The shelf-life in months Band, Rob Heron and the Teapad friends, drink Orchestra, Rona Wilkie (Scottish regions, starting of a tin of peaches Young Musician of the year), Walsh with Yorkshire from sociably and don’t & Pound, The Benwell Project, Monday April 23rd. •The number of moons Dogan Mehmet plus many more. drink to get drunk.” around Uranus Telephone: 0191 2656151 email: [email protected] www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk •The number of bones Dr Malcolm Kendrick: The Great facebook.com/thecumby @thecumby in the human hand Cholesterol Con (2007). The Miners takes big step forward

The Miners Arms at Acomb, Last year the Miners Arms Northumberland, has new invited prospective investors owners – although it’s not to form a group that would via the co-operative idea that buy and run the pub. Several was ﬂ oated last year. Elwyn similar co-operatives have and David Greenwall intend been formed in recent years, to run the traditional pub in rather than seeing a pub Good Beer Guide New menu much the same way as it has being closed for ever or being now being always been – very much part turned into apartments. 2012 - 13 Real Ales served of the local community. Considerably more than A new emphasis on food half the asking price for the on at all times is on the menu, too. It’s the pub was pledged by local Home cooked food served Monday to Friday 11 am till 9 pm, couple’s ﬁ rst venture into pub supporters and enthusiasts Saturday 11 am till 7 pm & Sunday 11.30 am till 4 pm ownership although they ran a from all over the country, restaurant some years ago. plus some from abroad. SPECIAL OFFERS “We’re really excited,” says Now is the time to rally Elwyn. “It’ll be better when round and give support – and Monday to Saturday: 2 meals for £8.00 (12 pm - 5 pm) we get everything in place also continue to frequent Monday Nights: Curry + pint £5.99 – it’s a bit like one of those The Sun Inn just down the Wednesday Nights: 2 Rump Steaks for £13.00 60-minute makeovers at the hill. A day out in Acomb Live Music every ursday and Saturday minute. We’re keeping it as a sounds like a jolly fine idea. traditional pub with a focus on The Miners Arms, Main Street, real ales and we’re about to Acomb, Northumberland NE46 BARLEY Durham Road, Birltey, Tyne & Wear, DH3 2AH get the food up and running.” 4PW. Tel: 01434 603909. MOW Tel: 0191 4104504 april 2012 cheers 23

22-23.indd 23 10/04/2012 18:39 Where is it? A corner kick’s distance from St James’ Park, home of Newcastle United, and at the Chinese Arch end of the city’s Stowell Street which throbs with the bustle of China Town. St Andrew’s Church nearby is Newcastle’s oldest, PUB PROFILE dating from the 12th century. Closest Metro station is St James’ (one minute’s walk). THE NEWCASTLE ARMS, NEWCASTLE

OVERVIEW Landlord: Neil Amos The Newcastle Arms, St Andrew’s Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5SE t: 0191 260 2490 www.newcastlearms.co.uk

The longer-in-the-tooth drinker still refers to the pub as “The Top Arms” but it’s been a lot of years since there was another pub of the same name (near the Quayside and nicknamed “The Bottom Arms”, surprisingly). It’s a multi award-winning pub and rightly so with as fine and creative range of cask ales as any city-centre pub in the country. It’s now a one-room traditional bar, though it was originally divided into separate areas. Its handsome façade deserves architectural study.

The beer The welcome A regular Camra pub of the A pub stands or falls on Delightfully elbowed year winner says it all – you the quality of its staff. Here, have some demanding palates they’re knowledgeable and and highly polished and adventurous drinkers ever-willing and there’s to satisfy, so it isn’t easy. always someone available Newcastle has a dearth of virtually-untouched traditional Rather than list beers, it’s to talk customers through bars which, for a city as proud of its heritage, is a real shame. enough to mention that they’re the more unusual beers. No But e Newcastle Arms represents that spirit admirably extraordinarily well kept and food, but there’s a sandwich and, thanks to landlord Neil Amos’ enthusiasm and long just as the brewer would shop next door, China experience, it is a popular watering hole for a real cross- expect. Regular “visitors” Town nearby, and a handy section of customers. It dates from 1902 (designed by include Thornbridge Jaipur. Ladbrokes across the road. the same architects as designed the long-gone Hydraulic Crane on Scotswood Road) with features such as the huge mirrors an absolute delight. Although it’s well-trodden and delightfully elbowed with use it’s highly polished, neat and extremely welcoming. Four festivals a year attract ale a cionados for beers rarely seen in Newcastle but it’s the core range of permanent and ever-revolving choice that’s the regular star billing – seasonal “specials” from Big Lamp are

A pub of Champions’ League status. an utter joy, while Deuchar’s IPA remains a popular pint. is a pub of Champions’ League status. 24 cheers april 2012

Pub Profile.indd 24 10/04/2012 18:41 NEWS Swing to low Sales of low-alcohol are up more Letter to than 40% nationwide over the last year and supermarkets are rushing the editor to stock more varieties, encouraged by tax breaks on beers containing MARCH 31 2012: Today marks a year to the 2.8 per cent alcohol or less. day since you came into the new brewery What’s more, the beer tastes just and watched me mashing in the fi rst brew of as good as some beers with more the new era for Hadrian Border Brewery. alcohol, according to recent tests by Newburn No1 sold like hotcakes, It makes it a pleasure to come to work. the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra). and now, 114 brews later, and with all Our vans are all decked out in the new Brewers have been encouraged to the niggles ironed out, the business is livery and easily spotted on our delivery routes launch low-alcohol beers since the going from strength to strength. which include all the usual areas of the introduction last October of a tax break We have brewed Newburn No1 (pictured North East, and now fortnightly to York, North of 50% on beer containing 2.8% alcohol right on day one) on two further occasions, Yorkshire and the Dales. We now have two or less – a tax saving of 35 pence a mainly because of demand and requests we sales staff covering these areas, and despite pint compared with 4.2% abv beer. were unable to ignore. We have managed to the recession, they continue to consolidate Jon Howard, Camra press offi cer, continually produce quality ales at a very high regular customers and bring in new ones. said: “Low-strength beers are a standard, and that has been the overwhelming Our beers are selling well as a result, great selling point for licensees. feedback from the customers who drink and brands such as Tyneside Blonde and “Brewers have already proven that it them. Our beer is complimented not only on Farne Island continue to reach almost is possible to brew a low-strength beer its taste profi le and fl avour, but on the way it iconic status in some areas of the trade. packed with fl avour and aroma. “ behaves – the ease with which it settles, its So, it’s thanks to you the drinker and you the He added that the lower rate of absolute clarity and easy-to-care-for nature. publican, the people we rely on week in week out, duty on low-strength beers was “a This is down to the dedication of all and thanks to the lads and lasses who make up win-win scenario” for the industry and the staff in the brewery. Each task is the staff at Hadrian Border Brewery. Oh, and me. Government. “We hope to see more of undertaken enthusiastically and I enjoy Martin Hammill, Hadrian Border Brewery these low-strength thirst-quenchers their overriding good nature and interaction. www.hadrian-border-brewery.co.uk unveiled by brewers in the near future.”

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Pub Profile.indd 25 10/04/2012 18:42 SPIRITS: SUZANNE LOCK AND BILL OSWALD  visit www.cheersnortheast.co.uk to have your say theBestof Highland Both coup The vagaries of Customs Worlds and Excise laws are highlighted by small- batch distilling, as Town & Country Suzanne Lock and Bill Oswald discover

nterested as we are in all things left on the land and that large quantities to do with new developments in of whisky distillation were not viable, wines and spirits, the news that small batches were allowed to be made. Queen’s Su olk-based Adnams – brewer of Clotworthy and partner Frances Oates, I24 million pints of traditional English with help from local MP Charles Kennedy beer annually – has branched out into used this loophole to apply for a small still greatest hits distilling spirits, required investigation. licence for the Loch Ewe Whisky Distillery at 10 Handpulls plus ciders always on tap It seems it is normal practice for many Aultbea, Wester Ross – and it was granted. Maxim Brewery’s spring Snacks & Sandwiches served everday The Scottish Beer Party other European and American brewers On the same day, however, the loophole was seasonal ale, the chocolate- Friday 4th until Monday 7th May to distil spirits in the same building closed, so Loch Ewe is the country’s one influenced Boxing Hare (4.1% Live Sport shown on big screen tv’s as brewing and it is logical for large and only artisan distiller, selling to mainly abv), has prompted a doubling over 40 Real Ales plus ciders fro great Scottish concerns to make spirits as well as beer. American visitors, the majority of whom are of customer demand on last Pool table - wi fi brewers including Harviestoun, Brewdog, So what has been preventing British descendants of the long-gone highlanders. year. The Houghton-le-Spring LIVE MUSIC Stewarts, Tempest, Fyne Ales etc brewers from doing it? Laws – customs ere are now calls for the law on brewery has also developed and excise regulations, of course. Beers distilling to be reviewed and whisky Queen of Diamonds (4.2% Friday April 27th Food available 12 noon - 6 pm and spirits have been taxed di erently for specialists feel we need small artisan abv) to celebrate the Queen’s Great rock & roll band more than 200 years; brewing and distilling distillers in the same way as microbrewers Diamond Jubilee. It uses Sovereign hops and Mid Life Crisis - starts 8pm Karaoke Saturday & Sunday night are highly regulated and in Britain we are have developed. ere is no doubt that pilsner malt to produce a very pale, mid-strength, not allowed to distil grain in the same microbreweries are popular, but no- diamond bright ale for a crisp, melon fruity and Saturday May 5th building where brewing beer takes place. one can say that about micro-distillers, easy drinking character. Recent blind tastings Fabulous local band Idyllic Location In the past it would have been very simply because there aren’t any. from visitors on brewery tours convinced Maxim Maverick Rejects - starts 8pm dicult to keep check on how much e specialist and premium range directors – and the beer’s creators – Alan Appleby grain was used for beer and how much for spirit market increases annually as the and Glen Whale, that they were on to a winner. It will distillation and e Revenue felt it would large rms expand their portfolios and be available throughout May, while JD Wetherspoon In the hub of have inevitably lost out. ese days, the we wish Adnams well as their rst run has snapped it up for its national beer list over Newcastle amount of spirit you can distil is highly of vodka, gin and even whiskey (in three the next two months. And, it’s also featuring at regulated – distillers are discouraged years’ time) hit the retail outlets. the Newcastle Beer Festival (April 18-21). from making small amounts; in fact there is a minimum size to a still. KINGS However, the rules were challenged a year Suzanne Lock and Bill Oswald are Camra 2011 North East Regional Pub or two back in the North West Highlands Advintage. Their wine holiday this year QUOTE of the Year Winner where John Clotworthy, owner of Drumchork is to Bordeaux and Bergerac, July MANOR Lodge, has become renowned for capitalising 7-12 2012 – flights from Newcastle, “Put it back in the horse.” on a long-forgotten law to make very small seven nights DBB, five days with wine Hadrian Border Brewery Tap Station Road, Wylam, Northumberland NE41 8HR batches of whisky. e ancient ruling visits, £749pp. Visit the website for Humourist H Allen Smith after his first taste of one particular brand of American beer. 132-140 New Bridge Street, tel: 01661 853431 email: [email protected] recognised that after the “clearances” in the details: www.Advintagewine.co.uk Newcastle, NE1 5SZ www.boathousewylam.info 18th century when there were few people TELEPHONE: 0191 2321618 open 11am till 11pm everyday except Sun 12pm till 10.30pm 26 cheers april 2012

wine.indd 26 10/04/2012 18:36 theBestof Both Worlds Town & Country

Queen’s greatest hits 10 Handpulls plus ciders always on tap Snacks & Sandwiches served everday The Scottish Beer Party Friday 4th until Monday 7th May Live Sport shown on big screen tv’s over 40 Real Ales plus ciders fro great Scottish Pool table - wi ﬁ brewers including Harviestoun, Brewdog, LIVE MUSIC Stewarts, Tempest, Fyne Ales etc Friday April 27th Food available 12 noon - 6 pm Great rock & roll band Mid Life Crisis - starts 8pm Karaoke Saturday & Sunday night Saturday May 5th Fabulous local band Idyllic Location Maverick Rejects - starts 8pm In the hub of Newcastle KINGS Camra 2011 North East Regional Pub MANOR of the Year Winner Hadrian Border Brewery Tap Station Road, Wylam, Northumberland NE41 8HR 132-140 New Bridge Street, tel: 01661 853431 email: [email protected] Newcastle, NE1 5SZ www.boathousewylam.info TELEPHONE: 0191 2321618 open 11am till 11pm everyday except Sun 12pm till 10.30pm

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A-Z.pp.indd 28 10/04/2012 18:34 THE SUN INN CUMBERLAND ARMS ROSIES BAR THE CENTURION THE KEEL ROW THE ROBIN HOOD Acomb, NE46 4PW 12 Front Street, Tynemouth, 2 Stowell Street, NE1 4XQ Neville Street, Newcastle, The Gate, Newcastle, NE1 5RF Primrose Hill, Jarrow, t: 01434 602934 NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2328477 NE1 5DG, t: 01912299430 NE32 5UB t: 0191 2571820 t: 0191 261 6611 t: 0191 428 5454 THE SUN INN www.cumberlandarms.co.uk SHIREMOOR HOUSE FARM THE KINGS ARMS High Church, Morpeth, Middle Engine Lane, North THE CHILLINGHAM Beech Street, Deptford, SR4 6BU THE SIR WILLIAM DE NE61 2QT DELAVAL ARMS Shields NE29 8DZ Chillingham Road, t: 0191 567 9804 WESSYNGTON t: 01670 514153 Old Hartley, NE26 4RL t: 0191 2576302 Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1RQ 2-3 Victoria Road, Concord, www.sunninn- t: 0191 237 0489 e: [email protected] t: 0191 265 3992 THE KINGS ARMS Washington, NE37 2JY northumberland.co.uk e: [email protected] West Terrace, Seaton Sluice, t: 0191 418 0100 CROWN POSADA SUN INN NE26 4RD THE SWINBURNE ARMS THE CLARENDON t: 0191 2370275 31 Side, Newcastle, NE1 3JE Market Lane Swalwell, The Thee Tu 31 North Side, Stamfordham, t: 0191 2321269 Gateshead NE16 3AL 143 High Street East, NE18 0QG, t: 01661 886707 e: [email protected] t: 0191 442 9393 Sunderland, SR1 2BL THE KINGS MANOR Sheri ighwa, e: [email protected] t:0191 5103200 32-140 New Bridge Street, atehead, NE 5S FITZGERALDS TILLEYS BAR Newcastle, NE1 2SZ t: 011 70666 THE TANKERVILLE ARMS 60 Grey Street, 105 Westgate Road, THE CLOCK wwwthethreeto 22 Cottage Road, Wooler, Newcastle, NE1 6AF Newcastle, NE1 4AG Victoria Road, East Hebburn, THE LAMBTON ARMS Great range of real ales NE71 6AD t: 0191 2301350 t: 0191 232 0692 NE31 1YQ, Eighton Banks, Gateshead, and pies t: 01668 281581 e: [email protected] t: 0191 424 1134 NE9 7XR www.sjf.co.uk TWIN FARMS t: 0191 487 8137 Live music 7 nights a week THE TAP & SPILE 22 Main Road, Kenton Bk Ft, THE CLUNY Comedy Club - 1st Sunday of Eastgate, Hexham, NE46 1BH FITZGERALDS NE13 8AB 36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, THE LOW LIGHTS TAVERN every month. t: 01434 602039 10-12 Green Terrace, t: 0191 2861263 Newcastle, NE1 2PQ Brewhouse Bank, Sunderland, SR1 3PZ e:[email protected] t: 0191 230 4474 North Shields, NE30 1LL THE TRAVELLERS REST t: 0191 5670852 www.sjf.co.uk t: 0191 2576038 Slaley, Hexham, NE46 1TT e: [email protected] THE COCK CROW INN THE TOWN WALL t: 01434 673231 www.sjf.co.uk TYNEMOUTH LODGE Mill Lane, Hebburn, NE31 2EY THE MALTINGS www.travellersrestslaley.com Tynemouth Road, North Shields, t: 0191 428 5730 9 Claypath Lane, South Shields, FITZGERALDS NE30 4AA NE33 4PG, t: 0191 4277147 THE WELLINGTON 2 South Parade, t: 0191 257 7565 THE COPT HILL Main Road, Riding Mill, NE44 6DQ Whitley Bay, NE26 2RG Seaham Road, THE MARQUIS OF GRANBY t: 01434 682531 t: 0191 2511255 THE ALETASTER Houghton le Spring, DH35 8LU Streetgate, Sunniside, e: [email protected] 706 Durham Road, t: 0191 5844485 NE16 5ES THE VICTORIA HOTEL www.sjf.co.uk Gateshead, NE9 6JA t: 0191 4880954 1 Front Street, Bamburgh, NE69 7BP t: 0191 487 0770 THE COTTAGE TAVERN t: 01668 214431 FREE TRADE INN North Street, Cleadon, SR6 7PL THE MID BOLDON CLUB St Lawrence Road, Byker, THE BARLEY MOW INN t: 0191 519 0547 60 Front Street. 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Snooker Roker Terrace, THE BRIAR DENE East Rainton, DH5 9QT, 7 Albion Road, North Club, Brewstar, Sunderland, SR6 9ND Shields, NE30 2RJ 71 The Links, Whitley Bay, THE GREY HORSE t: 0191 5840944 t: 0191 5671786 t: 0191 257 4288 NE26 1UE Front Street, East Boldon, NE36 0SJ Durham, High House e: [email protected] e: [email protected] t: 0191 2520926 t: 0191 519 1796 THE PACK HORSE www.oddfellowspub.co.uk e: [email protected] Crookgate, Burnopﬁ eld, Farm, Hadrian BLUE BELL www.sjf.co.uk THE HARBOUR VIEW NE16 6NS Border, Lindifarne Fulwell, Sunderland SR6 9AD Listed in CAMRA Benedict Street, Roker, t: 01207 270283 t: 0191 5494020 Good Beer Guide 2012 THE BRANDLING ARMS Sunderland, SR6 0NU Mead, Holy Island, Bottle conditioned range 176 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HD t: 0191 5671402 THE PORTHOLE BOWES INCLINE HOTEL Air conditioned, Sky Sports t: 0191 2854023 11 New Quay, North Shields, Mordue,Tyne Northside, Birtley, THE HEAD OF STEAM NE29 6LQ Bank and Wylam Gateshead, DH3 1RF THE BRANDLING 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Class+fun.indd 30 10/04/2012 18:31 FUN STUFF THE DOGS Blue the dog’s canine adventures in beer One day you’re panting on for about an hour then has several taking my lead from the hook the patio and the next you’re games of patience. Then it’s a check and off we trot to the pub. shivering in the shrubbery. on a weather website (which I could He orders a pint and a toastie You’re left to fend for yourself tell him about just by looking out of and tells the barman “you ain’t fruity, but I don’t mind; it must be when the tribe is packed off to the window ’cept I’m outside chasing seen me, right?” and the barman something to do with the brewers’ school and the Master and Mistress snowfl akes), and after that it’s an does that “shshsh” thing to me and dark arts – or that barman’s go off to do whatever they do for analysis of last night’s football from they giggle like schoolboys stealing warped sense of humour. several hours every day. Both of his newspaper, then Jeremy Kyle on goosegogs. Best of all though, I get Back home two hours later, them call it “work” and I’m not so the telly, and another pile of toast a bowl of Slops. It’s a really special minutes before the Mistress trundles sure about her as she roars off and jam. Mind, he does do another beer I’m told and it tastes different up looking work-weary and shell- in the car every morning – “late, 15 minutes’ “work” after that. each time we come into the pub. I shocked, he gives me that “shshsh” late, late,” she screeches – but He knows I’m watching him don’t know which brewery makes fi nger/lip action once more and calls if that’s what he calls hard graft, because he does that human thing Slops but I’d recommend it highly. from his desk: “You OK darling? I wouldn’t mind some of it. of putting one fi nger to his lips and Some days Slops is light and What a day, I’m ready for a pint.” He stares at the computer screen does a “shshsh” sound, before golden and others it’s dark and A dog’s life is… ruff. PUB Picture Quiz The Dirty Dozen QUIZ Where are they? Locate the animal-friendly Twelve stinkers to make your brain hurt pubs in the North East. 1 Which royal estate was bought by Prince 10 What does “lager” literally mean in Albert in 1852 for £31,000? German? 1. 3. 2 Where in London would you fi nd the 11 Who was the producer of Tom and Jerry sculpture of Prospero and Ariel? until 1956? 3 What did the American Hamilton Smith 12 Which super-group members had invent in 1858? individually belonged to The Hep Stars and The Hootenanny Singers? 4 What did the Polish doctor Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof invent? 5 In which country did the card game bridge

4. originate?

Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle. Byker, Arms, Cumberland Warkworth.

6 How many consecutive No1s did The Beatles 4

Black Bull, Bull, Black Alnmouth. Lion, Red Durham. Cow, Dun 3 2 1 2. have between 1963 and 1966? ANSWERS QUIZ PICTURE 7 By what name is Portuguese West Africa

now known? Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (Abba). Ulvaeus Bjorn and Andersson Benny 12

Fred Quimby. Quimby. Fred store. To family. Carrot India. 11 10 9 8

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BBC Broadcasting House. House. Broadcasting BBC Estate. Castle Balmoral 2

national symbol? 1 QUIZ ANSWERS ANSWERS QUIZ 9 To which family does parsley belong?

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Class+fun.indd 31 10/04/2012 18:30 The Three Tuns, Sheriff Hill Gateshead (one of The Guardian Newspaper’s top 100 FRI 4TH secret venues) to MON 7TH Are proud to MAY announce our third and BIGGEST International Pie Festival

58 varieties of pies including Swordﬁ sh, courgette and balsamic onions, Gruyere, Emmenthal and brandy shallots, Welsh Lamb with scotch bonnet and not forgetting our famous ‘ Mad House’ which is the hottest curry pie in the universe (it’s ofﬁ cial ) plus many many more!! We have 18 guest ales including 2 making their debut Over 40 live performances including The Legendary Bessie and the Zinc Buckets plus Terry Thomas, Ireland’s favourite Storyteller Children welcome until 6 pm each day.

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