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ISSUE 12 JANUARY-MARCH 2016
A branch visit to Betteridge’s Brewery in early November 2015. The brewery is located in a restored barn and is part living room, part brewery. More on page 16. Photo © Jim Turner
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2 www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk 3 JANUARY-MARCH 2016 12 | JANUARY-MARCH Issue If you value your local then all you need to The immediate post-Christmas period Speaking of which, a Hoppy New Year to all Editor’s Shout Editor’s you to welcome A warm n case anyone is in any doubt about the fragility of the British Pub, one than need on our own look doorstep. Last no year the Lamb further (Magazine Editor, North Hampshire CAMRA) North Hampshire (Magazine Editor, do is to gather together just 21 like-minded local people and apply for the pub to be listed as an Value Asset of Community (ACV). Visit http:// www.camra.org.uk/information-for-community- groups. An ACV is not an end in itself, In the event though. of a pub owner wanting to sell off a pub it gives local interested parties a six-month window in which to maintain the building as a pub. Don’t secure wait for the a buyer pub to who be you sold do before this as often buyers will that if building, the demolish to fast very move can is their plan. a represents very lean time for many of our pubs. It is vital we give as many our full of support. So please, on them a cold dark as winter possible night, pop down to your local and help it survive the coming year. our readers. Cheers! Jim Turner in Hackwood Road Basingstoke was sold by PubCo Enterprise itsowner, Inns, and closed down. There are plans to erect another flats piece on of the Basingstoke’s site. pub So, heritage to be is ground into the dust to satisfy the a lust rapacious of developer. Whether or not you liked the Lamb, or even if you never used it, this pub was one of the few truly local-style pubs the left town. in Every person reading should this be aware magazine that no pub type of is vandalism. safe Elsewhere in from Basingstoke the this Hammer & Tongs remains empty at the time of writing having been only partly was Railway the converted Whitchurch In mini-market. to from pub demolished without permission and is now a car- park, the Harvest Home is now houses. Andover anow is Inn Lamb the – losses of share its had has and Monk Merrie the company, local a for canteen The list just goes on. no more. Bishop Blaize are I [email protected]
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4 www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk 5 Upham - EPA Wren Jenny - Betteridge’s - Radicale Vibrant Forest Stout Oat & Coffee Irving - Captain B Porter M’s Red Cat - Mr. Red Cat - Kairos Cider - Whitehead’s Mr. Apple Toffee JANUARY-MARCH 2016 12 | JANUARY-MARCH Issue A big “thank you” to all the volunteers the all to you” “thank big A Mike Hodson Over the three days of Octoberfest we almost sold out of all the beer with very little cider, left and over at the end! The 8,000 visitors had consumed between around 16,000 them pints of beer and 4,500 pints of cider. who gave their time, and effort to make the 2015 Octoberfest the best one yet. For Octoberfest 2015 we were very pleased This brought the number of Hampshire As usual, we asked the Octoberfest visitors to welcome fivethe new event: Hampshire brewers Dancing Art to Cows (Bentley), Island Urban and (Lymington), (Portsmouth) Good Staggeringly Southsea Hop Brewing (Portsmouth). (Southsea), brewers represented at Octoberfest to 31, the and total number of respectable different 165. On the beers cider front we to supplied a 32 verydifferent ciders and perries from 16 suppliers, region. mostly located in the Wessex to vote for their favourite beers and ciders of the are: The results show. Overall winner: Joint runners-up: Honourable mention: Cider Winner: help with the erection of the stillage and the beer tent. day-to-day operation of
volunteers volunteers army of CAMRA and a small main beer tent, supply of and beer cider to the manages the CAMRA branch North Hampshire North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA CAMRA of Branch Hampshire North he 7th annual Hampshire Octoberfest took place at the Basingstoke Sports October11th – 9th of weekend the on Club & Social
Hampshire Hampshire Octoberfest is organized by the
Wessex Heritage Trust, and Wessex Heritage is Trust, a showcase for the foods. and wines, ciders, beers, Hampshire of best The event is also an excellent weekend for whole with family, theplenty of rides and attractions The bands. regional and local from music live plus
2015. This year successful event was yet, and coincided with the one of the biggest most exciting weekends and of the 2015 Rugby most beer and numbers Visitor tournament. Cup World sales were both significantly up on 2014, despite performanceofpoor the of!) because perhaps (or the England rugby team. The weather was kind as well, with plenty of sunshine although it was rather cool at times.
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like black and dark real ales, (notably porters what is a Porter? Technically a Porter is and stouts) so when the winter nights draw in made with brown malt, whereas a Stout is made Imy beer consumption usually increases as they with roasted barley. Simple, but in the brewing art start to appear in pubs. But wait – one local dark what happens after that can result in a blurring of beer is available all year round, and to date it has the two styles of beer. won 19 awards in the four years since it was first How did Porter appear as a distinct beer style? brewed, making it the most acclaimed beer of all It has a long history, having been brewed first in the breweries in the CAMRA North Hampshire London in the 18th century. The first recorded use Area. Its first award was Beer of the Festival at of the term was in 1721. The name is believed to the Hampshire Downs (Overton) Beer Festival have been derived from its customer base – the 2011, just two months after its introduction and market and river porters of the day. Basically it most recently it was awarded Gold in the Porter developed from the brown ales already being category of the CAMRA London and South-East brewed, and by all accounts it was stronger. Porter Region Champion Beer of Britain [See Awards, was the first beer to be aged at the brewery and page 16]. sent out ready to drink straight away. Before this What beer is this? Most of you will have the beer was delivered as young beer and aged at guessed it is the 5.0% ABV Lamplight Porter, the pubs or the dealers. Early strength variations brewed by Phil Robins at his Basingstoke-based of Porter had names like Single Stout Porter, Longdog Brewery, situated just off the B3400 at Double Stout Porter, Triple Stout Porter and the Moniton Trading Estate, west of the town. Imperial Stout Porter. The use of the word ‘Stout’ However, as a drinker of any real ale that is just meant strong. Guinness brewed the Double dark enough that you can’t see through the glass, Stout version. Later the Porter bit was dropped, I really cannot tell the difference between a Stout and Stout came into its own. and a Porter. Generally Stout tastes dryer and less As so often happens in history, taxation during sweet than Porter, to my palate, but this concept the Napoleonic Wars resulted in a reduction of is challenged when I drink variations like Oatmeal the strength of beers. Later, during World War I, Stout and stronger beers like Russian Imperial the grain shortages led to another beer strength Stout and Milk Stout, which have a similar sweet reduction, and by now the separately brewed and smooth consistency to Porter. Different Stouts became more accessible and popular, producers’ beers vary and Porters began to decline. Most famously, a lot, so the taste Guinness grew their former London Stout Porter characteristics of the into the ‘black stuff’ stout familiar to all today two styles can seem and began their domination of Irish, and world to cross over. brewing. Phil assures The Porter revival has been quite recent, me there is a (allegedly from 1978) when the growth of simple brewing microbreweries with a desire to brew different www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk explanation. So and interesting real ales and the willingness of 6 www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk 7 JANUARY-MARCH 2016 12 | JANUARY-MARCH Issue North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA CAMRA of Branch Hampshire North
Stout or Porter? Try them all and see if you can you if see and all them Try Porter? or Stout Cross Brenda Where Where did the recipe for Lamplight Porter
tell the difference. I will happily continue with my extensive sampling research. come from? Phil used an old 19th century London century 19th old an used Phil from? come modernfit to slightly it adapted and recipe Porter ingredients. He uses English hops disclose his ‘mix’ or but malt details. The only change will not since Phil firstproduced the beer has label been the and pump clip designs which redesigned. have Lamplight been Porter represents about 18 per cent of all his sales so to continue, and production it is hoped is it will win even setmore awards as it becomes better known. You can try it out in a number of local pubs and regularly it in appears Wetherspoon’s outlets in Alternatively our area. ‘phone Phil on check 01256 if 324286 Lamplight to is available, then Longdog go to brewery the on Saturday morning and buy it a direct. It is found in Friday bottles and on draught. afternoon or consumers consumers to try them, occurred. Such varieties now include Plum Ruby Porter, Chocolate Porter, Porter, Breakfast Porter and Cherry porters – all the taste buds.worthy of tempting lines beer beerlines North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA Issue 12 | JANUARY-MARCH 2016
Online Beer Lines: www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk Bar Chat News & gossip around the North Hampshire branch area
f you have any information about your pubs Farnborough had never been a CAMRA Pub (closures, openings, changes of owner and so of the Season. Apologies to the Surrey Hants Ion), please contact the editor at beerlines@ Borders Branch for this error. camrahantsnorth.org.uk . Niall and Linda of The Waggon & Horses, Hartley The newly refurbished Mole, Monk Sherborne, Wintney are retiring and at the time of writing the near Basingstoke is now planned to open in lease of the pub was up for sale, free of tie. They January, initially for wet sales only. Food should are possibly the longest serving licensees in our be available from February. (GT) area, having put in around 35 years pulling pints The new licensees of the Four Horseshoes, in this very special and welcoming former Branch Sherfield on Loddon, is Jan Holden (assisted by Pub of the Year. Beer Lines wishes Niall and Linda daughter Lyndsey Ruby). Jan is a resident in the well in their retirement – they’ve earned it! (MA) village and is well known in the area. The plan is to The Southampton Arms, Winchester Road, revert the pub to a no-nonsense village ‘boozer’ Andover is under the new management team and it will be a bit less ‘gastro’ and a bit more of Sean and Kaylee Curtis and Joel Kirby and ’pub’. This should differentiate the establishment Natasha Hookings who took over the pub on 27th from the White Hart a short distance away. There October 2015. Sean is currently the only one of will be food available but it will be pub favourites, the team working full time in the pub. They are at nothing fancy. Beers available at the time of present serving two real ales: Greene King Abbot visiting were Charles Wells’ Poppy and Sharp’s and Old Speckled Hen but do plan to increase this Doom Bar. (MH) to three as trade demands. (MB) Beer Lines has been asked to point out that The Wyke Down Inn near Andover is now under the recently-demolished Ham & Blackbird in new ownership. Beer Lines understands that the chef, Gary Everett and staff remain as before.
Quick Quiz For answers see page 11 Each clue has a double meaning with the CAMRA Discounts same one-word answer. Rearrange the first letter of each answer to find a ‘Call Future issues of Beer Lines will list pubs in the tree’ brewery (8 letters). the North Hampshire branch area that offer 1. Demand to be lined up a discount to CAMRA members. 2. Clean the river basin If your pub currently offers a real ale discount 3. Tell on an animal to card-carrying members, or if you wish to 4. Act with a title offer a discount, please email the editor at 5. A woman who is green [email protected] before 6. £1000 is splendid the end of February stating your pub name 7. Assassinate the cubes and the discount you are offering. 8. Measure the Nog CAMRA will provide promotional material to all participating pubs. Brenda Cross www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk
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Trails & Tales Three days & nights in the Black Country
t was a cold, wet, dark night. I had two choices including the stained glass windows and hand - stay in the hotel with an oven chip supper and pumps against the wall. Imediocre beer or venture out on public transport Stop number three was a 15-minute walk and sample a few local hostelries. Armed with my to the Black Bear, where the unobtrusive CAMRA Dudley Borough Real Ale Trail Guide, I Bombardier Gold was supported by three beers fancied my chances on the buses and went from of over 5.0% ABV, the top one being a 6.9% Oldbury to Upper Gornall via Dudley. Salopian Boomerang. As much as I was tempted to stay I decided to walk along the road and try DAY 1 - The first stop was the Jolly Crispin an excellent pub with a brewery at the rear of the out the Fountain. This pub also had several beers premises. On my visit I tried two of the Fownes on hand pump and a couple of European keg Brewing Company beers which, though were beers. After a lovely chat with the landlord and potentially not as exciting as their award winning a complementary sandwich, I decided if I was to Korvak’s Rise Coffee Porter, were excellent. make my last bus home I needed to get moving Three minutes down the road brought me to and went to my final stop of the evening, the Old , which was Black Country Ales’ brewery the Britannia affectionately known as ‘Sally’s’, a Bull’s Yed Bathams’ pub where I was treated to a cellar tour tap where I tried Fireside and the limited edition to show me the difference between a nine-gallon Oakham The Burglar before running for my last cask of Mild and eight 32-gallon casks of Bitter. bus. This sums up the change of attitude in the Black This is the point that I found out that there are Country for Mild that I found disappointing. I was numerous bus operators in this area and my £4.20 then taken into the lounge by the landlady to all day ticket wasn’t valid so a further £2.20 was show me how it still retained its original features required. Lesson learned, my future trips would require a £4.60 N Bus ticket. Visitors beware. DAY 2 - The weather had been horrendous all day so I decided to stay close to the main bus route and so headed to the Park Inn, tap to the Holden’s Brewery. My plan was to try the nearby Banks’ pub en route and then head to Sedgley, but the Summergarden wasn’t open and the next bus was 20 mins away, so a quickie in the Park [eh? – Ed.] then off to the Beacon Hotel, home of
www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk the delicious Sarah Hughes. 10 www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk 11 , Stump Red Cat? , By George Britannia, but as I , Arundel Flower Pots, the George to find my JANUARY-MARCH 2016 12 | JANUARY-MARCH Issue on. The evening was cut short by another perfect Dudley as connection I stepped straight onto at did not disappoint, I also planned to revisit the got to the bus stop the bus came hopped I so and corner the around intention intention was to go to the but a comfort break requirement persuaded me to hop off Jolly Crispin at again, a decision that the Brindle or Winchester The pub was clean and tidy with an David Allen Having seen the “UK’s 200 best local Two buses and ninety minutes later I Cheriton Decisions: Phil Myatt For the guide and transport information: Sussex Dark, Charnwood Longdog I sampled three condition. There which was also a were small range bottled of in beers. Lunch perfect was of a stone-baked large portion dark wheat brie sourdough and of bacon homemade coleslaw. The with prices weren’t the parsnip crisps cheapest, and but very acceptable, as and door next pub a with competition, heavy there is the corner. around a new Wetherspoons eclectic mish-mash of bric-a-brac. The loos were very clean, although overhaul. in Soft jazz, need 1960’s pop and of country an music played gently in the background and wasn’t intrusive. The excellent friendly staff experience. made for an overall good day’s Sir, pubs” article on the CAMRA HQ website I decided to try and visit those within striking distance of my bus pass. market a is (which Tuesday on Alton in arrived day) and headed for justified. expectations were Letter to the Editor the to Letter www.dudleycamra.org.uk/drat.html the 126 home. Five buses and a maximum two minutes wait, now that’s what I call an service. evening
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8. [on page Quick Quiz [on to 8] Answers 1. Amber, Dudley and onwards towards Gornall again. The and company. and company. new 79-year-old friend for your recommendation complemented the great Thank beer. you to my order order some food. Excellent faggots and mash on the bus, leaving an opportunity for me to 45min pit stop finished they all hopped back hitting three pubs and finishing on a Their curry. bunch of folks from a local company on a social punters from a private Beer Bus charter. Lovely the contents promptly filling the bar with eager comfy when a double-decker pulled up outside, and travelled to Netherton and the joys of the bar rather than the lounge, I was just getting whilst waiting for my connection. Pardoe’s again. This time I headed straight to Dudley and time for a swift half in the in half swift a for time and Dudley chips from across the road before the bus back to back bus the before road the across from chips lines beer beerlines North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA Issue 12 | JANUARY-MARCH 2016
What’s Happening? North Hampshire Branch Diary & other events
Saturday 9th January Friday19th – Saturday 20th February CAMRA North Hampshire (West of Area) initial CAMRA Gosport Winter Ales Festival (a.k.a. selection meeting for 2017 Good Beer Guide. Portsmouth Winterfest XXIV). Details from www. 12.00 noon at the Clatford Arms, Goodworth pc-bf.uk/winterfestxxiv Clatford. Contact John Buckley on 01256 892650 Friday 18th - Saturday 19th March for details of this and second meeting. Winchester Real Ale & Cider Festival at the Friday 15th January Guildhall. Details from www.winchesterbeerfestival.org.uk ‘Nightrider’ Walkabout. No.76 bus, 19:10 hrs Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd April from Basingstoke train station, 19:20 hrs from Bus CAMRA Members’ Weekend and National AGM, Station. Travel to Whitchurch via Newfound and Liverpool Guild of Students, Mountford Hall, Overton, then onto Whitchurch Prince Regent. Liverpool. See www.camraagm.org.uk Walk downhill to Red House, White Hart, Kings Arms and Bell. Nightrider valid on all Stagecoach Sunday 1st May buses in Hampshire after 19:00 hrs, so also Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) Running valid from/to Andover. Return 22:20 hrs, arrive Day consisting of free vintage bus services, Basingstoke 23:00 hrs. stopping at a variety of pubs, plus the customary transport bazaar in the Winchester Guildhall. All Tuesday 26th January the operational King Alfred fleet will be on the White Hart, Overton, 8.00 pm, branch meeting road, together with a variety of other heritage plus CAMRA North Hampshire (East of Area) buses and coaches dating from the 1950s, 1960s initial selection meeting for 2017 Good Beer and 1970s. Programmes & full timetables £10 & Guide. OctoberFest Beer of the Festival £2 will be available to purchase in Winchester presentation to Upham Brewery. on the day. More info from www.watercressline.co.uk/ Friday 29th - Saturday 30th January product.php/31/vintage-bus-days Salisbury Winterfest XIX at British Legion, Endless Beer Lines Street, Salisbury. Details from www.salisburycamra. Events may well have changed since org.uk went to press. For up-to-date information please contact [email protected] or visit Friday 5th - Saturday 6th February our main website www.camrahantsnorth.org. Dorchester Beerex at the Corn Exchange. Details uk. If you would like to have your real ale-related from www.camrawdorset.org.uk event published here please contact the editor Saturday 6th February at [email protected] for Branch trip (train) to Vibrant Forest Beer Festival. magazine deadlines. Contact [email protected] Wednesday 17th – Saturday 20th February Did you know Beer Lines is online? CAMRA’s National Winter Ales Festival at the
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The Cider Binn How is Real Cider made?
he original CAMRA definition of real cider apples or is already in the air was ‘nothing added and nothing taken in the form of natural wild yeast Taway’. So what does this mean in practical spores. Cider fermentation is a two- terms? Well, the ‘nothing’ includes water, sugar stage process, the first being the action of the wild and yeast. These are the normal ingredients of yeasts on the sugars in the apple juice. Sugars are beer production but are not allowed for ‘real’ mainly fructose, about 85 per cent, with some cider. The main ingredient is freshly pressed apple sucrose and glucose. Fermentation usually starts juice. In practice, ‘nothing taken away’ means no within two or three days after pressing. Unlike artificial clearing which includes processes such beer, cider brewing will often take up to three as filtering and fining to remove haze. Racking, or months for the first stage of fermentation. settling, is acceptable though. After the first fermentation when all of the To make a ‘real’ cider we start with cider sugars are converted into alcohol (ethanol) there apples. There are four basic flavour types of is a second stage. This, again, is different from cider apples: Sweets, Sharps, Bittersweets and beer brewing and is closer to wine production. Bittersharps. This second fermentation is called Malolactic Eating apples are rarely used as a primary Fermentation. This is where the Malic Acid from ingredient in cider making as they lack the tannin the apple juice is converted into Lactic Acid. This that is so important for the complexity and depth process reduces the sharpness caused by the of flavour of traditional cider. Cider apples are natural high acidity of fresh apples and softens not very good to eat as they tend to have a very the taste. sharp and bitter taste. The main reasons for the At this point the cidermaker can start to taste difference in these classes of cider apples weave his or her magic and ingredients such as is the sugar content, tannin content and acidity. pure fruits, vegetables, honey, herbs and spices Cider taste inevitably depends on the blends of can be introduced. The new batch can be further these types of apples. A classic starting point matured in casks used for rum or whisky. Aging in for a farmhouse cider is to use one third each of new oak casks can add a vanilla flavour. Quantities Sweet, Bittersweet, and Sharp apples blending of aged cider from previous years can be added in in a mixture of varieties according to recipe and order to improve the taste of the finished product. availability. Cider can be aged in barrels for up to eighteen The apples are given very little preparation months before being ready for drinking. apart from removing obvious dirt, twigs and To summarise, real cider is made from real leaves. The first process is to pulp the apples in pressed apple juice and its production is very a ‘scratcher’ and then put this in a cider press much a rural craft to ensure a consistent taste from between layers of hessian. This is called a ‘cake’. year to year. Let us hope that this craft is carried The cake is pressed to produce the fresh apple on. juice which is stored in oak barrels for fermenting. www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk No yeast is added as it is either present on the Tony Binns 14 www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk 15 to see the JANUARY-MARCH 2016 12 | JANUARY-MARCH Issue www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk Barley Mow, OakleyBarley Mow, Valley Mary Bourne Bourne Inn, St Upton Inn, Crown The Warnborough North Derby, Ann Eagle Inn, Abbotts Waltham North Fox, The Herriard Feathers, and Fur near Hook Mattingley, Bottle, Leather Warnborough North House, Mill Arms, East Stratton Northbrook Club Cricket Odiham & Greywell Grateley Plough, near Silchester London Inn, Little Plough Whitchurch Regent, Prince Lion, Overton Red Basingstoke Rising Sun, Inn, Dummer Sun Inn, Freefolk Down Watership Alley Hart, Charter White Scotney Sutton Arms, Wonston, Wonston Inn, Totford Woolpack The near Hook End Inn, Water Y Knot For more opening times, including food Jim Turner latest list with a map link Visit Visit • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Current Pubs Current area in our availability please visit WhatPub CAMRA’s (www. whatpub.com) or the pub’s own website 01264 710751. theblackswanmonxton.com. Tel: www. I had homemade a Pumpkin soup delicious followed grilled Hake. A by wonderful lunch and some great beers that set me up well for the murky weather. back to Andover in the long trek
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Gem and Upham North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA CAMRA of Branch Hampshire North few miles west of Andover sits the pretty village of Monxton, reputed to have more than population of head per roofs thatched
On my visit on a very wet day in late Dating from 1662 with later additions Dating such from as The current licensees, Rosy Locke and Michael and Locke Rosy licensees, current The
The Black Swan, Monxton Swan, Black The Pub Focus Turner Jim © Photo: All restaurant that serves beer. that serves beer. restaurant Duck’ as a pub that offers good food rather than a than rather food good offers that pub a as Duck’ to point out to me that they regard the ‘Mucky Food is very important here, but Rosy was keen popular and may well become a regular feature. were in very good condition. The Ringwood is very is Ringwood The condition. good very in were A Boondoggle, Bath October there were three beers on – Ringwood attention to detail. The overall impression is one of homeliness with original sketches by local artist Charles Littleworth. Charles artist local by sketches original adorned with old photos of the pub and some a garden a and garden some original beams. The walls are the dining areas, the Black Swan boasts a real fire, fire, real a boasts Swan Black the areas, dining the diners alike, many of whom live in the area. diners alike, many of whom live in the area. They run a chatty pub, popular with drinkers and publishing background and is ‘front of house’. Vineyard in Newbury. Vineyard Partner in Rosy Newbury. comes from a Michael formerly worked at the Roux Café and the and Café Roux the at worked formerly Michael and refurbishing this very welcoming old inn. Chef inn. old welcoming very this refurbishing and have spent the last year sensitively redecorating Pasque, took over the pub in October 2014 and attractiveness. tiled roof but this does not detract from its overall its from detract not does this but roof tiled (as it is known locally) has a more conventional anywhere anywhere else in the country. The ‘Mucky Duck’ lines beer beerlines North Hampshire Branch of CAMRA Issue 12 | JANUARY-MARCH 2016
Awards Congratulations to all concerned
Mark and Jenny Betteridge with their Octoberfest Joint Runner- Up award for Jenny Wren Bitter Andy Mansell (far left) in the living and Iain McIntosh (far room of their right), with team at Red unusual and Cat Brewery, Winchester, comfortable with their OctoberFest brewery in Honourable Mention Phil and Lisa Robins from Longdog Brewery with their Hurstbourne award for Mr M’s Porter award for Lamplight Porter which won Gold in the Tarrant. A great and Kairos. Wonderfully London and South East Champion Beer of Britain, Porter day out. sunny day, plenty of category. The presentation was made at the Plough Inn, Photo: © Jim excellent ales. Photo: © Little London. Photo: © Jim Turner Tur n er Robert Street
IT’S YOUR VOTE – USE IT All CAMRA members are eligible to vote to get local breweries into the 2016 Champion Beer of Britain. In North Hampshire there are nearly 800 branch members and we have lots of great brewers so please support them by VOTING. Visit www.cbobvoting.org.uk To log in you will need to enter your CAMRA Terry Brown of the Plough Inn, Little London (right) receiving his award for Regional membership number and the same password Pub of the Year (top 16 in the country) from you use to login to the members’ area of the from local branch Pubs & Clubs Officer, John CAMRA National site which is your postcode Buckley. Photo: © Jim Turner without a space. www.camrahantsnorth.org.uk
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Brewery News Local brewery updates
Andwell Brewing Company who owns Elusive Brewing, was looking at other possible options for the location of the new 01256 761044 www.andwells.com brewery - Camberley and Finchampstead. All the brewery equipment has already been purchased Trade has been good towards the end of 2015 and the final decision on this new brewery’s with beer finding its way into Costco and BHS. premises should have been taken by the time you Andwell’s Porter has been selling well both in read this. Brewing is now estimated to start around trade and through the shop. February if all goes well. As the new location may 2016 looks like it will be a fun year at Andwells, not be within the Beer Lines catchment area, there they have exciting plans ahead with the building will be no further regular reports in Brewery News. of the ‘Brewhouse’, part of it being operational Beer Lines wishes Andy good luck in his new in March, and the shop, cafe and function space venture. being ready towards the summer.
Betteridge’s Brewery Little London Brewery 07771 966058 01256 533044 www.betteridgesbrewery.co.uk www.littlelondonbrewery.com
Betteridge’s had a good autumn and After finally receiving HMRC duty registration Christmas in which sales continued to rise, and in November, the brewery is now free to trade bottle sales are doing a booming trade. The Inn commercially. Their first event was a charity at the at Home, Newbury and the Londis in Hurstbourne end of November where two casks of their Red Tarrant stock all of their beers in bottle. Mark Boy session bitter (3.7%) were available. Some and Jenny Betteridge were delighted with joint firm enquiries have been received from local pubs second place for Jenny Wren at OctoberFest this and clubs to stock Little London beers. Other year and received their award at a small event held beers being brewed all year round are Hoppy in the brewery to coincide with a very pleasant Hilda, Pryde, Doreen’s Dark and Ash Park Special visit from North Hampshire, South Hampshire and Bitter, named after the industrial estate where the West Berkshire CAMRA members. [see front cover brewery is located. Present capacity is over 4000 and page 16 – Ed.] Private Sector Best Bitter has pints, weekly. been re-worked and is a big improvement and proving extremely popular. Betteridge’s continue to sell beer to many markets in and around Longdog Brewery the Test Valley. They are providing the beer at 01256 324286 the Sparsholt Lambing Weekend on 30th/31st www.longdogbrewery.co.uk January 2016 where all four ales will be on sale so Phil’s wife, Lisa, now has a crew cab pick-up hope to see you there. so that deliveries can be increased by using two Elusive Brewing vehicles rather than just one. Being a 4x4 also means that if the snow does come they will still [email protected] be able to make those urgent beer deliveries. [email protected] Longdog is currently looking at the hop availability
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