Inside : AWARD WINNERS BELGIAN BEERS PUBS NEW S. SHIELDS PUB N YORKS PUBS And much more CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 2 Branch Contact Information Chairman Michael Wynne [email protected] Secretary Lynn Dobson [email protected] Treasurer Steve Drummond [email protected] Membership Keith Lakeman [email protected] Magazine Editor Ken Paul / Sid Dobson [email protected] Webmaster & Social Media. Ian Monteith-Preston [email protected] Pubs & Clubs Ken Paul [email protected] Cider Rep. Steve Clough [email protected] Social Secretary Robin Sanderson [email protected] Darwin/ Brewlab BLO Michael Wynne [email protected] Maxim BLO Ian Monteith-Preston [email protected] Pubs Preservation Dave Craggs [email protected]

PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION DIARY DATES JUNE Some useful contact details for Tyne & th June 8pm , Harbour Wear Metro and local bus services. BRANCH MEETING Wed 13 View, Roker, Sunderland Arriva - www.arrivabus.co.uk TYNEDALE BEER 14th- 16th June, Corbridge 0844 8004411 /north-east/ FESTIVAL Go North East - www.gonortheast.co.uk 0845 606 0260 DURHAM BRANCH Thu 14th June 7.30pm, Station Nexus ( Metro & Buses) - www.nexus.org.uk/ MEETING House Durham. 0191 2020747 BEER BRITAIN DAY 15th June from 7pm Stagecoach - www.stagecoachbus. 0191 5675251 com/about/north-east TYNESIDE & NTHUMB Wed 20th June 7.30pm, Millstone Traveline North East - www.travelinenortheast. BRANCH MEETING Sth Gosforth. 0871 2002233 Info JULY SPBW NATIONAL 5th - 7th July, The Exchange, TRADING STANDARDS WOODFEST North Shields. If you have any complaint about your beer or BRANCH MEETING Wed 11th July - 8 pm Grey Horse cider, such as poor quality, short measures or East Boldon TBC no price list displayed, you should mention it to the pub management in the first instance. If you TYNESIDE & NTHUMB Tue 17th July 7.30pm, need to pursue the compliant further, we BRANCH MEETING Chillingham Heaton recommend contacting the local Trading AUGUST Standards Office. Contact details are given ASHBROOKE BEER 3rd and 4th August, Ashbrooke below :- FESTIVAL Sports Club GREAT BRITISH BEER Tue 7th Aug- Sat 11 Aug. SOUTH TYNESIDE 0191 4247887 for FESTIVAL Olympia, London. residents or Citizens REGIONAL MEETING Sat 25th Aug 1pm, Tap & Spile Advice Consumer Framwellgate Moor. Durham. Service on 03454 DURHAM BEER NEW VENUE :- 30th August - 1st 040506 FESTIVAL Sept. Durham City Rugby Club

SUNDERLAND Contact Citizens BRANCH MEETING NOT HELD THIS MONTH Advice Consumer Service on 03454 040506. www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 3 Welcome to the Summer Edition of have reopened and a new micropub , CAMRA Angle. This time of year its great The Cask Lounge has opened recently. to get out and about, enjoying what we hope will be great weather and sipping a If you like real cider its good to report an few beers in a pub garden. There are increase in availability in 3 pubs. This some great events to look forward to this may be a summer thing but still welcome. summer and are depicted on the front cover. This issue recognises the achievements of local pubs, and further afield we have There is annual Sunderland Air show, the been out and about in London and North Tall Ships Race and the (eventual) Yorkshire, reporting on some interesting opening of the Roker Pier Tunnel and historic hostelries. Lighthouse Tours ; - the photograph of the lighthouse was taken through An excellent new Good Beer Guide to perfectly lined up aperture in a sculpture Belgium is reviewed along with two of the on Roker Beach. country’s beer styles.

Now its interesting that as CAMRA are The 2nd Society for Preservation of Beer reporting the closure of 18 pubs a week, from the Wood National Festival is we appear to be bucking the trend with coming soon to North Shields. real ale pubs. We have lost the Cross Arms in South Shields forever due to So enjoy the read and the summer ! demolition, however two closed pubs Ken Paul.

EDITOR Ken Paul/ Sid Dobson In this issue… [email protected] Features FANCY YOURSELF AS A WRITER The End of The Cross Arms 6 WE are always on the lookout for The new Cask Lounge 7 real ale related stories to be used in CAMRA ANGLE. They can be 4 Harrogate Pubs 10 historical or current, locally-based or involving travel to exotic locations And the Winner is 16 such as Middlesbrough, Montreal, Good Beer Guide - Belgium 18 Moscow or Morpeth ! Lambics & Trappist 19 The deadline for Issue 53 is Hammered in Hammersmith 20 August 31st 2018 2 London Historic Pubs 23 CONTACT US HAVE you got opinion on the pubs North Yorks Gem 25 or beers available in our branch Regulars area, or on any other matter? Get writing now, and let our readers Pub News 5 know what you think. We also Brewery News 8 welcome comments about the magazine. Please email us at News from the Wood 13 [email protected]. **** Locale & CAMRA Discounts 27 CAMRA ANGLE is published by the Pub Quiz 29 Sunderland & South Tyneside Branch of CAMRA © 2018 . Views Memory Lane with CAMRA Angle 30 or comments expressed in this publication may not be necessarily Quiz Answers 30 those of the Editor or of CAMRA.

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Sunderland & South Tyneside branch membership is 658. . Other branches in the region : - Cleveland 910, Darlington 452, Durham, 829, Tyneside & Northumberland 2145.

Nationally as of end of May, membership stands at 191593. ( 190812 in March) See page 31 for details of how to join..

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Many thanks to The Marine South Shields, Fitzgeralds, Sunderland, and The Stags Head , South Shields for their hospitality in hosting recent Branch Meetings. For details of future meetings, see our Notice board on page 2.

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Hebburn. South Shields contd

The White Lead, which The Fountain. An closed earlier this year, additional handpull has has reopened and it is been added for real cider. hoped that real ale will be available soon. The Maltings in the town centre now offers CAMRA Houghton - Le Spring. members 15% discount Springwell Village off real ale. Another reopening :- The Now the only pub in the Copt Hill now has three Real cider is back on at village , The Guide Post handpulls with ales from The Steamboat. A 10th has real ale in the form of Working Hand Brewery handpull has been two handpulls, Strongarm squeezed in. & Theakstons Black Bull South Shields. at time of visit.

The Bamburgh on the coast now offers 25p a pint discount for CAMRA members.

The Cask Lounge new micropub (above) has opened with 4 handpulls and 15% CAMRA discount.( More details on page 7)

The Cross Arms Hotel, in the town centre, closed for 3 years, has now been demolished. (See page 6)

The Grey Hen near Temple Park has reopened and is still selling real ale with Doom Bar & Hobgoblin Gold www.sst.camra.org.uk reported. . www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 6 THE END OF THE CROSS ARMS, SOUTH SHIELDS. Formerly known as The Dougie Vaults, The Cross Arms Hotel closed in 2015 to make way for the new South Shields Town Centre redevelopment. Demolition began earlier this year.

Thanks to Terry Ford for the demolition photographs. (Picture right taken just after closure).

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Sunderland. The Ivy House now sells Brewery pub in three cask ales and three Huddersfield. real ciders. Ratmageddon, Ratella, The Ship Isis has had Rat Fink, Bohemian two tap takeovers Ratsody and recently. April saw the visit Schrödinger’s Rat Pale of Two by Two Brewery of Stout were all available. Wallsend. Beers included New England Blackberry Due to low sales of real Porter, American Pale ale, The Typsy Cow has and Vanilla Milk Coffee restricted its availability to After an internal and Porter. Sunderland match days external refit, Borough only . has reopened with 2 The 1st weekend in June handpulls with Doom Bar saw a RAT infestation with Washington. The Ox and & Timothy Taylor’s more rodent themed beers Plough in Oxclose no Landlord. from the Rat & Ratchet longer sells real ale.

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At the same time as the a leather Chesterfield demolition of The Cross sofa, which looks very Arms Hotel was taking difficult to get out of, and place, about quarter of a four swivel barstools. mile away the fitting out of The large windows give a new pub was taking the place a light and airy shape. feel..

The Cask Lounge There are four cask ale opened up in mid May and handpulls on the bar, is the first micropub in dispensing three beers South Shields, indeed in from the Marston range, the Sunderland & South and one guest handpull. The Cask Lounge makes Tyneside CAMRA branch. The pub offers card a handy stopping off point carrying CAMRA if doing a Shields pub members 15% discount crawl, being close to The off the real ale. Maltings and the pubs nearer the town centre Owners Jill & Paul wanted bus stops and Metro. a pub that would encourage conversation More information, without the intrusion of TV including opening hours, screens gambling can be found on machines or children, Whatpub.com and the although non intrusive online CAMRA South background music is Shields Real Ale pubs played. leaflet . Located in former council rent offices opposite The “facilities” at the back South Shields Town Hall, of the bar are shared with the premises is shared next door, there being an with Goldie's café and inside entrance to the vinyl album shop; the pub shop. In fact, it is possible is on the right. if you so wish, to go next door and take your drink It has a homely muted in with you. décor with a fireplace and By a strange coincidence, this is the 2nd pub mentioned in this issue with a similar http://sst.camra.org.uk/ arrangement; read wordpress/?page_id= the article about 130 Harrogate on pages 10 & 11. Ken Paul

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Maxim report breaking to Molson Coors At the brewery: their highest ever weekly distribution nationally. cask sales record in April - Brewery “Open Bar a fantastic achievement. Due out now/soon: Nights”. The first Friday of Seasonal/special beers the month, well received available locally since last ● Topaz 4.4% a new by local Houghton-Le- issue :- “South Pacific Pale Spring real ale drinkers & Ale” members of Sunderland & ● Scrumdown, 4.7% ● Maxim Wheat Beer, South Tyneside branch. IPA {Was also new 4.1%, naturally available at the cloudy, using German The Brewery shop is CAMRA Winter Great & Czech hops. usually open Tues-Friday, British Beer Festival 12:00-17:00. With a in Norwich} Recent Awards: selection of bottles, mini ● 7 C’s, a new 4.2% casks & other branded pale ale. @ SIBA X: gifts, beer gift packs etc. ● Ruby Max, 4.5% ruby (Worth ringing in advance ale. · Maximus: Silver to check exactly what is ● Raspberry Porter medal winner in available: Brewery 5% National “Small Pack telephone number for ● Vienna 4% lager, Champion Strong enquiries is 0191-584- using Vienna malts & Bitters & Pale Ales” 8844} Ukrainian Klon 18 · Samson: Gold medal hops. winner in NE regional ● All English, a new “Keg Standard Mild & Ian Monteith Preston 4.2 % Golden Ale Brown Ales” brewed with English malt & hops exclusive

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www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRATHE Angle AVENUE. 52 - Summer 2018 - 9 Zetland Street, Roker, Sunderland, SR6 0EQ Tel :- 0191 5677412. Website : theavenue.pub. Facebook : theavenueroker

● 8 handpulls serving real ales & ciders. ● 20p a pint discount for card carrying CAMRA members ● We are in The 2018 Good Beer Guide. MONDAY - Poker Night. TUESDAY - Bingo. WEDNESDAY - Free Pool & Jukebox. THURSDAY - Quiz Night. SUNDAY - Domino Handicap. Function Room , Beer Garden, Upstairs Games Room SKY SPORTS and BT SPORT WE ARE HERE

Forthcoming events :-

. June 23rd. Jamaica day from 2pm. Loads of fun & games, steel drum band and BBQ - weather permitting. Aug 24th- 27th August Annual Ale & Bus Stops for Sunderland - South Shields Cider festival. Service E1 are nearby on Roker Avenue. See Facebook page for more info

www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 10 FOUR PUBS IN HARROGATE The Wild Boar in rattled off a list of pubs Houghton le Spring are including the first one we this year planning several would visit, about 50 yards coach trips, the first of away, Hales Bar - below which was just before left. Easter – to Harrogate. Now surprisingly this is a Not being in the GBG it place I have never drunk wasn’t on my list but was in before so it was time to persuaded by the fact it redress this. was the oldest pub in so left with the aim of town. Allegedly some reaching the Little Ale After the usual traditional scenes for the film House. Harrogate is hillier breakfast my wife and I Chariots of Fire were shot than I thought it would be joined about 30 others for and there is randomness the journey down to North to the street layout, Yorkshire. I had already making the map we were researched a list of pubs given useful. in the Good Beer Guide (GBG) that looked Even so, we arrived at the interesting and worth a place where this micropub visit. The idea was to should have been and combine touristy and couldn’t find it, until the retail therapy stuff with a wife pointed behind me few beers. and said, “Is that it there?” in here in 1981. Sure enough it shared its An unusual feature of the entrance with an Indian bar was two burning gas Restaurant, the latter lamps (see photo above) being upstairs.

Supping a pint of the Inside was a small but house beer, Daleside comfortable bar with seats Hales Bar, we were soon and tables obviously joined by three couples bought from second hand from who were shops and a bar with 5 visiting the town then handpulls. heading up to South Shields! One guy was The “cellar” was actually reminiscing about and to the side of the bar hopefully visiting The behind sliding panels. The Arriving before noon and, County, The Marine, The Elland 1872 Porter, one after a very brief visit to Harbour Lights and the of my favourite UK beers, the town’s Wetherspoons, Beacon (sorry mate that was spot on. The pub was - the huge Winter one’s closed). the local CAMRA branch Gardens; we found the pub of the year for 2017. tourist information office We could have easily for a free map and any chatted away for much Continued opposite other tips that would be of longer but needed to see use. This very helpful lady some more of the town,

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plenty to choose from, including my second dark beer of the day, Northern Whisper Beltie, a brewery in Rossendale I had not heard of before. The majority were local beers and not a national ale in sight.

By now the Wild Boar breakfast had worn off so we sought out a quick snack (and more retail therapy ) before the next, last and best pub of the Little Ale House Cellar day. Major Toms Social ( right ) . In shared staff the music playing Next up, after some retail premises with other was for all tastes and just therapy, was the businesses, this quirky before we were ready to Harrogate Tap, at the café bar is housed leave, one of my all-time railway station. This pub is upstairs alongside a vinyl favourite’s records came part of the Pivovar group album shop. on, from 1973 - The Free who also own the Electric Band by Albert Newcastle Tap, York Tap Along with real ale, they Hammond. What a way to and Sheffield Tap have bottled beers and end a Harrogate pub tour. amongst others. pizzas (shame we had already eaten!). The stout I believe we picked the I had was from best pubs for beer quality another new brewery and something different. for me, Turning Looking back now, the bar Point in areas of all of them could Kirkbymoorside. easily fit into the aforementioned Winter There was a very Gardens Wetherspoons. friendly, relaxed family atmosphere There are dozens of pubs with board games in the town and it’s This long bar is next to available to keep kids and impossible to do them all. platform one and from the adults busy alike . We sat Worth another visit then! small snug near the on a wobbly bench and entrance trains can be just enjoyed the seen through a small atmosphere and the Ken Paul window. background music.

With two banks of 6 Although the place was handpulls there was run by young enthusiastic

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NEWS FROM THE WOOD- SPBW NORTH EAST.

March’s meeting for the Again two beers from the Society for the wood from Hadrian Preservation of Beers Border: Farne Island Pale from the Wood (SPBW) and Secret Kingdom. A had been planned for the further beer from the first Saturday of the month wood; Hadrian Border at The , Swalwell but the Beast from the Northumbrian Gold was East intervened so we available at Hugo’s By decided to put it back until The Coast, part of the the weather improved. Fitzgeralds chain. The rearranged meeting After leaving Tynemouth; on Saturday 24 March we left to visit The Dog & saw Big Lamp Prince Rabbit micropub in Bishop on sale from a The decor is Mexican in Whitley Bay. On leaving wooden cask. theme and there are six the Metro station; you handpumps, a similar pass the former After the meeting; we number of keg fonts and Fitzgeralds pub on South made the short journey up real ciders. the bank to Whickham to Parade. This now called one of the areas many April took us to the The Brewery and is the micropubs; the One Eyed Comrades Club in new home of the Whitley Stag; which is another Haltwhistle close to our Bay Brewing Company. shop conversion. Four boundary with . Three of their beers are cask ales were on offer Two beers from the wood on sale at £2.80 a pint. including a beer from from Hadrian Border were Three Kings from the on sale, Farne Island Pale More news. wood. The pub also has a and Secret Kingdom. The June’s meeting is at the small bottle shop. club is friendly, welcoming northern extreme of our and open to the public. After a pleasant couple of territory; The Brown Bear hours in Whickham, we After the meeting, it was in Berwick upon Tweed headed back to Newcastle back on the train to The second National where we visited the city’s Newcastle and another Festival of Beer from The newest micropub, the visit to the Mean- Eyed Wood will take place from Mean-Eyed Cat. Cat. This is rapidly 5th - 7th July at The becoming my favourite Exchange on Saville The Cat opened in March Newcastle pub. and is in an old shop in St Street in North Shields. Thomas Street opposite Our most recent May Michael Wynne Haymarket bus station. meeting took place at Tynemouth Club.

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Close to The Tall Ships Race, Sunderland Air Show and the new Roker Pier Tunnel.

GOOD BEER GUIDE REGULAR FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS. Only Roker bar in CAMRA top 5 for 2018. Six changing cask ales - chosen by regular drinkers. We aim to serve over 600 different real ales every year - in 2017 we reached 672 ! Our current total ( mid May) is 290 Join our Cask Ale Club every ● Function Room available Wednesday night , £2.80 a ● Speakeasy Thursday night. pint. ● Outside drinking area. 10% Cask Ale discount Monday - Friday up to 7pm ● Sky Sports

The Harbour View 1 Benedict Road, Roker, Sunderland SR6 0NU 0191www.sst.camra.org.uk 5671402 CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 16 AND THE WINNER IS - 1

THE STEAMBOAT - BRANCH PUB OF THE YEAR 2018.

Kath Brain & Joe Mooney are presented with their award by Branch Chairman Michael Wynne, along with bar staff Hannah and Donna

Did you know the Steamboat has won this trophy a record nine times?

Other recipients include the Ship Isis, Fitzgeralds Above - the Pub of the Year and the Kings Arms ( all Sunderland ), The Dolly Trophy beneath the pub boar. Peel & the Riverside ( both South Shields.

Branch Chairman Michael Wynne presents Chris Taylor ( left ) of The Ship Isis with Runner Up Pub Pub of the Year” and Alex Chandler ( right) of The Marine with “South Tyneside Highly Commended Pub of the Year”

Congratulations to all recipients. .

www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 17 AND THE WINNER IS - 2 Branch Cider Pub of the Year Awards

Branch Chairman Michael Wynne presents Chris Taylor ( left ) of The Ship Isis with “Sunderland Cider Pub of the Year” and Alex Chandler ( right) of The Marine with “South Tyneside Cider Pub of the Year”

Congratulations to both recipients. .

Best Cider & Perry Awards 2018. Each year at the Reading Beer & Cider Festival, held in early May, CAMRA judges present awards for the best cider and best perry in Britain. The winners, both from Somerset were :- Cider of the Year - Harry’s - Scrummage

Perry of the Year - Nempnett Cider Company - Piglets Choice

Other Awards

Also each year, at the CAMRA AGM the Best Branch Website and the Best Branch Magazine are announced,

Branch website of the year - Leicester - https://leicester.camra.org.uk/

( There’s always next year…..…) Branch Magazine of the year - Ayrshire & Wigtownshire. https://awcamra.org.uk/publications/full-pints/

( Again -there’s always next year………)

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BOOK REVIEW – the UK, but for different useful. For instance we CAMRA’S Good reasons found the aforesaid Brugs Beertje, is closed every Beer Guide Belgium Then there are chapters Wednesday, so one guess 8th Edition - Joe on the beer making on which day we looked Stang & Tim Webb. process and a look at the for it ?. particular styles available in the country.

The bulk of the book is then taken up by Belgian Breweries (245) and Bars and Cafes (nearly 800).

It’s interesting that the authors have taken the trouble to rate each brewery that is over 2 years old with a 1-5 score, Still, another bar listed in 5 being “Among the the book is Cambrinus world’s best breweries”. ( above) which became £14.99. (£11.99 CAMRA Similarly each beer listed our “local”, serving over members). is given a star rating, with 400 beers and as the 5 being “Among the best guide correctly describes The idea behind this book, in the world”. “The meandering beer first published in 1992, menu is bible thick with was born in late 1988 in a I spotted at least one helpful tasting notes”. bar in Bruges called the brewery, Orval and one of Brugs Beertje, a back its beers also called A minor issue that I have street cafe bar. What has Orval, were awarded top with the book is that there resulted from that is this marks. Some may be are two indices which I essential beer guide. familiar with the beer, it found confusing ; a beer having a symbol of a trout brands index and a The authors start this well with a wedding ring in its general index. I personally presented full colour book mouth. (Read the book to feel it would have been with a brief history of the find out more). easier navigating the book country then look at how if they were combined. to get there and get There are also useful town around. Then there is a plans of the larger cities Aside from that this is an guest contribution from a which show the locations excellent piece of work, local author, Regula of recommended bars, very well researched. It’s Ysewijn, who points out bottle shops and obviously a labour of love that there has been a breweries. and often enhanced with demise in the number of wry humorous comments, café bars in Belgium in In 2015 we had a short which make this a very part due to ageing owners family break in Brugge. readable guide. No one and a decline in heavy Unfortunately I was not in visiting Belgium should industry and its thirsty possession of this book at be without it. workers. This is a striking the time and looking back, parallel to pub closures in it would have been very Ken Paul

www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 19 LAMBICS AND TRAPPISTS As the book reviewed This is where Lambic a mild fruity aroma and a opposite will tell you, there Beers differ from other tart fruity taste. are several styles of beer beers as no yeast is available in Belgium and TRAPPIST BREWERIES so here are two that are worth a closer look. Trappist Monasteries became a religious order Lambics because of the in 1892 and up until 1962 way they are brewed and anyone could claim to Trappists because a brew Trappist beer. A law Trappist brewery has just was passed that decreed started up in England . that it could only be More on that last one brewed in a Trappist later. Monastery.

LAMBIC BEERS Until recently there were only 11 Trappist The term Lambic has breweries in the world, many interpretations, one with 6 being in Belgium. being it is taken from the The twelfth is about to town of Lembeek, south of start brewing in the Brussels. This is where pitched in at all ! Mount St Bernard Abbey the Boon Brewery is at Whitwick, based, brewers of several After the boil, the wort is . Lambic beers. run into a shallow open fermenter and the The brewery can brew So what is special about windows of the brewery 2000 litres ( app 3500 Lambics ? Well, on a are left open, allowing wild pints) at a time The new brewery tour in the UK airborne yeast to enter beer will be bottled in 330 they go through the and ferment the beer. On ml bottles and sold in the process of how beer is maturation, the beer is monasteries own shop as brewed. You are told the stored in oak casks for well as being distributed grain is cracked in a mill to months or even years. nationally. The beer will make grist which is then be 7.4% ABV, is yet steeped in hot water in the Some beers have cherries unnamed but should be brewery. This has created or raspberries added , available at the start of the wort which is then which give the beer a sour June. boiled with added hops. taste. The example in the . There then follows the photograph - Mort Subite Ken Paul fermentation process with Kriek- has cherry juice the addition, or pitching, of and cherries added to the the yeast. maturation casks . It has

SOME LAMBIC EXAMPLES SOME TRAPPIST EXAMPLES Boon-Geuze. Chimay - Rouge/Blanche/Bleue. Cantilion-Rose de Gambrinus/Foufoune. Orval - Orval. Girande-Geuze Black Label. Rochefort - 6/8/10. Lindemans- Kriek. Westmalle - Dubbel / Tripel. www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 20 HAMMERED IN HAMMERSMITH

Four days of staying at my to see the Oxford recently redeveloped for a cousin's allowed me to do Cambridge Boat Race. younger audience than a good few pub crawls in myself. Hammersmith, a fairly It has always been a trendy area of West Fullers pub. I had a pint London. of ESB and London Pride which was lovely, well it is Close to the river Thames only a few hundred yards and down a back alley is from the brewery! one of the most famous bars in London, The One of the best attractions Dove. It was built in of the area is the large about 1740 and has been amount of good pubs in a visited by dozens of small area. My first port of celebrities including: Alec call on the main street Guinness, Graham was The Salutation at Greene, Ernest 154 King Street, a former Hemingway and, 1727 coaching Inn rebuilt allegedly, Rule Britannia in 1910. Its beautiful The 6 beers were the was penned here! usual Young's fayre including Young's Bitter, A CAMRA Regionally Special and the rarely Important Heritage seen Winter Warmer (5%) Interior, the tiny front bar I opted for the this as I hadn't tasted it in years it was deep ruby red in colour , very malty with a light bitter finish, very pleasant.

faience tiling is one of the best in London. Lovely double doors lead into an area of stained glass windows, wooden floor was at 33 square feet in boards, large open area the Guinness Book of and an attractive bar. Records as the smallest Beer is the usual Fullers bar in the World! range of London Pride, ESB and Gales. In the summer this place Continued opposite. is packed and with its Next at 81 King Street wonderful views of the was The Hammersmith Thames is the best place Ram, a Young's pub only

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Next off was The Hop I skipped the panelling with a very large Poles at 17-19 King Wetherspoons' opposite ornate wooden staircase. Street. Lit up like a Xmas and went to the corner of tree this Grade II listed King Street to The Swan There were at least 8 real pub dates back to 1857 a Grade II Nicholson's pub ales on and I opted for the and has a lovely granite London Pride. Being right exterior. Inside has been near the tube it gets a lot fully opened up and is of tourists but it is a grand enormous. pub.

The beers I remember Loveliest pub of the night were London Pride and was The Dove but The Sharp's Doom Bar. Most Salutation was so good I of the trade I was later spent a 9 hour informed happens during session drinking in there - the day, and looks geared built in 1901 in the Hammered in towards younger diners Jacobean style. Hammersmith! having a drink. Inside there are huge arches and tons of wood Terry Ford

After the Revitilisation launched the Mild Magic Slight diacetyl meeting in Newcastle, I pub trail Craft Beers &(toffee/butterscotch) Ales, Wines & Spirits was asked if I was (http://www.ssmcamra.co.Local , Nationalflavours and are notInternational interested in going to the uk/campaign.htm) in inappropriate. Alcohol Town Mouse. After annual celebration of an Bottleslevels are& Canstypically low. thinking for about a micro- endangeredFIND US beer AT style :- OPENING TIMES :- Pale milds tend to have a second I said yes. This which113 branches Cleveland promote Road Noon - 10pm Mon- Sat. lighter, more fruity aroma basement micropub was throughoutHigh BarnesMay. 2pm - 10pm Sun. with gentle busy but cosy and it had 4 Sunderland SR4 7JT What is mild? hoppiness. handpulls on, one of A short walk from BeerandAles which was North Riding MildsChesterare black Road. to dark Dark milds may Coffee Bean Mild. This brown to pale amber in have a light roast malt or was a nice quaffable 4.3% colour and come in a caramel character in dark beer. variety of styles from aroma and taste. Fast forward a few days warming roasty ales to and a post on Whatpub light refreshing lunchtime Scottish cask beers may appeared entitled ; thirst quenchers. Malty have mild characteristics Delivering the Magic of and possibly sweet tones with a dominance of Mild across Stockport and dominate the flavour sweetness, smooth body Manchester. The local profile but there may be a and light bitterness. CAMRA branches have light hop flavour or aroma.

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Best Cider & Perry Awards 2018.

www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 23 TWO LONDON HERITAGE PUBS - Visited by Terry Ford. 1 - THE STAR very popular pub with TAVERN tourists and locals alike. It is also a CAMRA BELGRAVIA. Historic Pub Interior of some Regional On the 8th August 1963 a Importance. The hanging train was robbed of £2.6 baskets outside are a million - that robbery was renowned feature. planned in this pub!

Those of us old enough drawing rooms with tons to remember the Great of dark wood panelling Train Robbery will also and a real fire. recall some of the pub's more famous frequenters: The upstairs has a library Diana Dors, Peter room and eating area O'Toole, John Profumo, (below). Princess Margaret, Liz Taylor and Bing Crosby? Overall an interesting etc. A Fuller's pub, three beers were on, Red Fox It is probably better known a 4.3% autumnal red ale, to most CAMRA members ESB and London Pride - as one of the “famous five” pubs ** to be in every edition of the Good Beer Guide and it was also CAMRA West

place to visit with reasonable beer but too food orientated for a real bar fly like me.

my London session beer **The rest of the Famous Five of choice. are :- The Buckingham Arms, London, London Pub Of The Year At the right behind the bar The Roscoe Head, Liverpool, last year... a real star - is a lovely oak panelled The Square & Compass, The Star Tavern!! dumb waiter ( above) The Queens Head, Cambridge which is still in use. Built in 1848 this Grade II listed building is situated A popular place for eating, in posh Belgravia. It had a the rooms to the left of the Continued on page 24 makeover in 2008 and is a bar look like Victorian

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2 - THE VICTORIA was crowded when I place. A spiral staircase PADDINGTON. visited. leads to a library and a theatre bar. The Victoria in The library ( below) is very Paddington is a Grade II exquisite and seemingly listed pub built in 1837, David Bowie had a gig the same year as Queen here in 1966. Vicky first sat on the throne. I was so impressed with this pub I came back the A CAMRA historic pub I ordered a London Pride interior of national which The Guvnor started importance, seemingly a pulling then stopped after favourite with Dickens, a second or so saying he Churchill and The Dracula would not serve the beer as it looked like it was going off, I was impressed.

I ordered ESB instead which was gorgeous. I next day and bumped into then sat down with The a lad who works at Bairn and about 5 minutes Nissan! I drank all the later he brought me a free Fullers range here the of London Pride, doubly Pride, ESB and Oliver's impressed! Island and all were excellent examples. Society! So should be a good place for a bite! The A much better pub than outside looks particularly The Star Tavern. This is a impressive on a dark really friendly local pub evening. with a beautiful interior, great beers, good food, shame it's in West London!

For more information on CAMRA’s Real Heritage We ate here and the food Pubs use this link was excellent though a bit pricey - well it is West http://www.camra.org. London! The crescent shaped bar uk/pub-heritage is very ornate with lovely There are lots of mirrors gilded mirrors and lots of and lights all over the original features. The bar

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I have been visiting the forgotten to bring his North Yorkshire Moors for branch magazines many years now and something I usually do ! thought it was time to visit a pub that has been on Adjoining the stream, my list for a while – The called the Murk Esk is an Birch Hall Inn in the tiny excellent pub garden, hamlet of , just which was probably larger outside Goathland. than the two bars combined. Above, at the So why this pub in top of a steep wooded particular ? Well as the Above - door to the bank, passes the North Good Beer Guide sweet shop on the left, Yorkshire Moors Railway. describes it, “an unspoilt door to the little bar on family run rural gem”. It the right. While sitting enjoying a also features in the Real pint of Black Sheep Bitter, Heritage Pub Guide. The big bar is not really one of three Yorkshire big, probably enough beers they sell, a steam It is nestled in a steep seating for 30 people , train passed with valley floor next to a small who are served through a occasional glimpses of it stream and as you can as it headed south from see from the photograph Grosmont to Goathland. below, it is two buildings joined together. There are So what a great place, I two bars, called the Big suppose we were lucky Bar and Small Bar with a with the weather and I sweet shop squeezed in understand there are the middle. restrictive opening hours during the winter; this could easily be a “snowed hatch which is actually in place” like Tan Hill Inn ! the link between the two bars. I can’t think why on earth we have not been before. A micropub surely ? It is out of the way and is There was no TV, music not really on the way to or gambling machines – anywhere and a mile from there was no room. any civilisation and public transport, but I On the day of our visit While ordering the beer, recommend seeking out if under a cloudless blue sky which was in excellent you are in the vicinity and in May, the small right condition, I asked if it was have a designated driver. hand bar was closed so OK to leave some entrance was gained into CAMRA Angles. The guy More details, including the big bar through the left behind me in this two opening times and hand door. ( In the white man queue was also a location can be found on fronted part of the pub) CAMRA member, from Whatpub. Nottingham. He had Ken Paul www.sst.camra.org.uk THECAMRA Angle STEPS 52 - Summer 2018 - 26 Real Ale, Real Pub, Real People. 5 CHANGING REAL ALES - WE ARE IN THE 2018 GOOD BEER GUIDE.

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CAMRA LocAle is an initiative that promotes pubs & clubs stocking locally brewed real ale. Below is a list of those in the Sunderland & South Tyneside branch that sell beer brewed in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham. If you have any updates please email the branch Pubs Officer, [email protected].

East Boldon South Shields ( contd) Sunderland ( contd) Boldon Cricket Club Steamboat Kings Arms Mid Boldon Club Springwell Village Museum Vaults East Rainton Guide Post- NEW Oak Tree Farm Highfield Hotel Sunderland Poetic License Houghton le Spring The Avenue Port of Call Copt Hill - NEW Chesters Promenade Ryhope Dun Cow Ship Isis Guide Post Fitzgeralds Washington South Shields Grannie Annies- NEW Courtyard Marine Ivy House Sir William de Wessyngton

Below is a list of pubs that offer a discount off real ale for card carrying CAMRA members. Again, if you have any updates please email [email protected]

The Avenue, Sunderland - 20p off a pint Grey Horse, East Boldon - 10p off a pint

Bamburgh, South Shields - 25p off a pint Guide Post, Ryhope - 20p off a pint

Cask Ale Lounge, South Shields - 15% disc. Ivy House, Sunderland- 10% discount NEW Chaplins, Sunderland - 10% discount Longship, Hebburn - 10% discount

Chesters, Sunderland - 10% discount Maltings, South Shields - 15% discount NEW

Dun Cow, Sunderland - 10% discount Peacock, Sunderland - 10% discount

Engine Room, Sunderland - 10% discount. Ship Isis, Sunderland - 20p off a pint

Fountain, South Shields - 10% discount Washington Arms, Washington- 10% disc. The following take 50p discount vouchers for real ale and cider. Cooper Rose, Sunderland. Sir William De Wessington, Washington. Wild Boar, Houghton le Spring. William Jameson, Sunderland. Wouldhave, South Shields.

Real ale loyalty card for members and non members :- Chaplins, Chesters, Fitzgeralds, Guide Post, - All Sunderland. Grey Horse - East Boldon. www.sst.camra.org.ukwww.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - SummerTHE 2018 DUN- 28 COW Four real ale pumps ever changing! Always a choice of two light and two dark ales, including locally brewed as well as established favourites. Family and Dog Friendly OPENING TIMES Monday - Thursday open from 4-00 Friday open from 3-00 Saturday & Sunday open from 12-00 Live Music Friday in the lounge BUSKERS from 9-00 PLUSDun Cow ad How to find us We’re in Seaton Village, just west off the A19. Take the Seaham exit and head west into the Village. Turn left into Hillside Crescent, and then take the second left. We are at the end of the cul de sac.

Dun Cow,Seaton Village, Seaham, Co.Durham SR7 0NA Tel: 0191 5131133www.sst.camra.org.uk Facebook: Duncow Seaton-Village CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 29 PUB QUIZ 1 Which actor refused a Best Actor Oscar after the treatment of American Indians by the film industry ? 2 In terms of capacity, which is the largest cricket ground in England ? 3 What was the first creature to appear in Alice in Wonderland. ? 4 What was the stage name of David Tynan O’Mahony / 5 How many contestants are there at the start of Pointless ? 6 UNESCO granted which country’s beer culture the Status of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2016 ? 7 Only 2 Americans have birthdays observed as National Holidays in USA. Name both. 8 Neunundneunzig Luftballons translates into what hit song title ? 9 Crossword Clue :- Polytetraflouroethylene (6) 10 Who preceded Theresa May as Home Secretary ? 11 Music teacher Alun Renshaw of Islington Green School took his class, without any permission, to record back up vocals on which 1970’s Xmas no 1 ? 12 In which city is The Roodee racecourse ? 13 There are 30 jumps in the Grand National. All but 2 are jumped twice ; these 2 are the Water Jump and which other ? 14 Whip-Ma-Whap-Ma-Gate is one of the smallest streets in which city ? 15 With Yentl in 1983, name the first woman to star, produce, direct and co write a film 16 “Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet.” What is a tuffet ? A 17 What are the next letters in this sequence and why? COA, CAB, JS, AOC, CH ? B C 18 What are the first words spoken at the beginning of “Your So Vain” by Carly Simon? 19 Who was the BBC football commentator when Sunderland won the FA Cup ? 20 What is the literal translation of the German phrase at the bottom of this pump clip ? F

www.sst.camra.org.uk CAMRA Angle 52 - Summer 2018 - 30 DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH CAMRA ANGLE 5 years ago. The 10 years ago in issue 18, branch of CAMRA in Summer edition reported it was reported that Bull 2007. Locale promotes that a documentary film Lane Brewery in pubs that sell locally called The Vaults had Sunderland had brewed a produced real ale. been made in The lemon & ginger beer. Museum Vaults Nowadays flavoured 15 years ago in 2003, the Sunderland. This 30 beers such as this are not front cover of Issue 3 minute film was about the so much big news, but at reported that Fitzgeralds pub and the people who the time this must have in Sunderland were drank there. been quite a novelty. As presented with North East you may know, the Pub of the Year. The edition also brewery has now closed. announced the launch of This 16 page edition also Whatpub with instructions The Kings Arms proudly recorded that CAMRA had on how to use it. At that advertised that it was released the results of a time there were 100 real “Branch and Regional price survey, concluding ale pubs in the branch, Winner of Pub of the that real ale remains good there are now 112. Year” for 2006, 2007 & value for money at under 2008 and that it was “just £2 a pint ! On the brewery front there a short walk to the were reports from the then Stadium of Light”. Last There was also mention of four breweries in the time I checked, there was the fact that the licensing branch ; Darwin, Maxim, a river in between ! bill was close to Royal Temptation and Jarrow Assent, getting rid of and that the latter were The CAMRA Locale Britain's archaic licensing just starting work on their initiative was launched laws and allowing flexible new brewery premises in nationally, having been opening. Bede Industrial Estate, created in the Nottingham Jarrow. Quiz Answers

1 Marlon Brando 11 Another Brick In The Wall Part 2- Pink Floyd. 2 Lords 12 Chester 3 White Rabbit 13 The Chair 4 Dave Allen 14 York 5 Eight 15 Barbra Streisand 6 Belgium 16 A small footstool 7 George Washington & Martin 17 Catherine Parr ( 6 wives of Henry Luther King 8th 8 99 Red Balloons ; Nina 18 Son of a gun 9 Teflon 19 David Coleman 10 Alan Johnson 20 Is very good.

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