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north east raise a glass to pubs, people and news from your local Free ISSUE 04 www.cheersnortheast.co.uk // October 2010 cheers pubs and pints r Flip, dip dry, serve the view from Bruges pubs and cheese the big match Food and beer pairing is the new black the Good Beer Guide’s new faces revealed the battle of Budweiser a feast of festivals pubs and tradition rapper tap swashbuckling and foot-tapping to a 200-year-old tune inn-side bEEr // whISky // wInE // CIDEr // nEw pUbS // OlD pUbS // bEEr fOr lUnCh // bEEr fOr tEa // bEEr fOr DInnEr // pUbS! A4 Ad Original Draught 20/9/10 16:40 Page 1 BUDWEISERBUDWEISER BUDVARBUDVAR ORIGINALORIGINAL An ABV 5 craft lager brewed only at the Budweiser Budvar brewery in Southern Bohemia. Enjoys the EU PGI (protected geographical indication) giving it the same status as Champagne, Parmesan cheese or Melton Mowbray pork pies. Created in a 100 day natural brewing cycle using only the finest locally sourced ingredients These include whole Czech hops, Moravian barley malt, natural spring water from an ice age lake located 330 metres under the brewery and the same strain of yeast in use since 1895. Great to enjoy on its own and excellent with many different dishes from fish to tapas. Pours to a medium gold colour with a deep but light head formation giving a hoppy bitterness in the finish that makes this beer eminently drinkable and refreshing. n o r t he a s t raise a glass to pubs, people and news from your local I S S U E 0 4 Free www. cheersnortheast .co.uk // October 2010 c pubs h and epints e r s F l i p ,d i p r d r y ,s e r v e t h e v ie w f ro m B r u g e s pubs and cheese t h e b i g mind benders editorial m at c h p u b Q u i z ” te s t in g t e a s e r s t o m a k e y o u r b r a in b le e d 0191 488 4756 in this business.” all encapsulated It’s the environment. for the concern and service lovely accommodation, our wine, food, ale, us was our cask it for What won Fo o d a n d b e e r p a ir in g i s t h e n e w b l a c k Beer, whisky, pub alastair Gilmour the Good Beer Guide’s news and pub people. new faces revealed all human - and dog - This issue of Cheers is our the battle of Budweiser life is here... Cheers! [email protected] a feast of festivals biggest yet – 36 pages of pub pubs and tradition r a p p e rt a p n ni d esi life, great beer, affordable s w a s h b u c k li n g a n d f o o t - t a p p in g t o a 2 0 0 - y e a r - o ld t u n e E n it ,v e n im z z r it v e le n ib h e x e s s is e a f a c il is s it p r a e s s e d e n it w is it lu tw is n u m m o lo r p e rc il iq u is im d o lo r p e rc il is a d ia m il u p ta t. Iq u ip e ro o d ig n is advertising m o lo b o re e te u m m y n im v o lu m ip e ti n g e a fe u is a d io o d io n s e n is a m v e r a lis c il q u a t,c o m m o d e u fe u fa c c u m s a n d io n s e n im n o n s e e r s e n te a fa c i e u is a li s d o lo r a li s n o s t in ib h e u f a c c u m v e ro o d d o lo r ir iu re m o d inn-side b E E r wines and terrific food. We’ve / / w h I S k y / / w I n E 0191 221 2277 / / C ID E r / / n E w p U b S / / O l D p U b S / / b E E r f O r lU n C h / / b E E r f O r t E a / / b E E r f O r D I n n E r / / p U b S ! Gillian Corney expanded our coverage no alastair Gilmour, editor [email protected] Cover: rapper dancer end since the magazine first neil Carter see p20 saw the light of day in July (was it only website: July?) and extended distribution as we try to keep www.cheersnortheast.co.uk up with the demand from our readers. inside Designed & published by: Cheers is for you, the pub-goer; it’s for you, the publican, and it’s for you, the brewer, the wine merchant and the pork scratchings neWs 6 Spamalot has its supplier. Cheers is aimed at pubs because – as the logo on the left own beer supply says – we’re passionate about pubs. We are keen to get people in the North East back into the pub habit and to discover the joys that 8 budweiser budvar Media Exchange One lurk in a pint of good beer and a cheese toastie. continues the fight Coquet Street A lot of pubs are doing very nicely, thank you, even in such belt- for quality newcastle upon tyne tightening times – we report on two new entries in the Campaign 12 a vintage time for nE1 2QE For Real Ale Good Beer Guide, for instance. The Barrasford Arms beer festivals near Hexham manages to attract 46 diners on wet and windy photography: Monday nights, while, in the words of Dean Henderson at the Old FEATUres Kevin Gibson Red Bull in Morpeth, “turnover is going vertical”. 16 beer and cheese: www.kgphotography.co.uk Cheers can’t claim any part in those particular success stories, two partners in a nicky rogerson long marriage but word of mouth tells us that a lot of pubs are seeing new faces, www.nrphotography.co.uk guided by what they have read in our pages, and we’ll continue 18 bruges: beer’s Barry Pells fairytale capital www.barrypellsphoto.co.uk to do all we can to support our favourite pastime – the Great British Pub. 24 Girls wanna have whilst every effort has been And, thank you for your support, we are constantly encouraged by fun, too. the rise made to ensure accuracy, the daily stream of goodwill messages. of the fem-ale the publisher cannot accept Please feel free to use Cheers to plan your next pub visit – our responsibility for omissions FUn stUFF and errors. all material in this commercial partners would love to see you. publication is strictly copyright 34 the quiz, the and all rights reserved. pickled Egg and We’Ve GOT blue the dog the Best PUB WATCh 04 Battlesteads in Wark, 23 twice brewed Inn, Northumberland, bardon Mill has been voted Britain’s Best 29 Rose & Crown, Pub. Read how it romaldkirk happened Last WorD 35 David banks praises the our country pub sponsors holy Grail Pub crawls roman the Wall Listen to the blend Beer and laughs A-Z pub guide Oasis in the wilds RICHARD SLADE, BATTLESTEADS Whisky’s other half Guiding for Cheddar Dapper 10 suppers 16 gorge 20 rappers The influential Cheese and wine They tap their Good Beer Guide parties have had feet, they whirl Wylam Brewery 2011 has been their day – and and spin – and published. We anyway, beer is a they do it with take a look at two far more versatile swords. Rapper new North East partner to cheese. dancers perform entrants and ask Devise your own 200-year-old, what it means to pub cheese and traditional dance be included beer parties routines in pubs news Village green It’s been our opinion all along, from scratch at the Magnesia but it’s nice to have official Bank in North Shields with confirmation that Britain’s Best ambitions to build a successful Pub is in the north east. We “green” enterprise and have have a particularly fine bunch since introduced a number of contenders for such a title of environmentally-friendly but Battlesteads in the village measures. Battlesteads was of Wark-on-tyne has taken the the first in the country to be crown – coming up trumps at powered by a carbon-neutral the Great British Pub of the Year biomass boiler, which took almost awards 2010. What’s more, £20,000 off the annual heating the popular pub-hotel also costs. Gardens and vegetable picked up the title of Best Green patches are irrigated naturally Pub 2010 for its commitment using rainwater collected in a winner: richard Slade at to environmental issues. huge tank and food and drink are battlesteads, voted britain’s best pub by the Morning advertiser.