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www.+hecoast'guord.coiik At St Margaret’s Bay Between the bottom of the hill and the deep blue sea GADD’S of Ramsgate and HOPDAEMON regularly on alongside other award winning Cask Ales from further a field. Microbreweries are our preference The beer from the beach - Britain’s nearest pub to France - Keeping our reputation for excellent Cask ales and Great fresh food complimenting Kentish Ales In a location renowned across Kent for its beauty, The Coastguard lives up to its reputation for excellent food and drink served with a pleasing informality, the ideal location to relax and drink in the views out to sea. Award winning British V French Cheese board to compliment beer as j y l i s n P weJJ as wjne 4r / j n 1» fro’K' Q i J StMargaret’sBayTd: 01304 8S3176 Printed at Adams the Printers, Dover FREE - PLEASE The Newsletter of the Deal Dover Sandwich & District TAKE A COPY branch of the Campaign for Real Ale CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE Issue 26 Winter 2005/06 INSIDE HK| PUB PROFILE The White Horse Dover The White Horse, Dover RING A RING WINTER All TIME OF v LONDON AdAINS * WITH THE The White Cliffs Festival BEERY BOATERS of Winter Ales Channel Draught is the Newsletter of ISSUE 26 the Deal Dover Sandwich & Winter 2005/06 District Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. elcome to 2006 and the Winter edition of Chan nel Draught. With Christmas out of the way Editorial Team W most people can look forward to, a less hectic couple Editor & of months. No such respite, though, for your local Advertising CAMRA branch who some years ago took the per Martin Atkins haps foolhardy decision of running a winter ales festi Editorial Assistant val, and have being doing so annually ever since. This Anne Mcliroy year will be our 13th and, keeping fingers firmly crossed, is set for the Friday and Saturday the 3rd and Design & Format 4th of February. We’ve made a few alterations this Steve Bell year, particularly to try and avoid having to turn so many people away as we did last year (see page 26). Editorial Address As always we would welcome any assistance, espe You can write to the cially on Friday night which is always particularly Editor c/o busy, but you will need to be a CAMFRA member. 2, Eastbrook Place, Dover CT16 1RP The survey of local real cider pubs in our last edition E-Mail seems inadvertently to have left a few sore heads and [email protected] several pubs felt they had been left out. However, the [email protected] survey was just confined to our branch area, so any advertis- [email protected] cider pubs in the adjoining areas who receive Channel Draught were not included. We did mention this in the Channel Draught article but obviously not clearly enough. Our apologies is Published and and for the record then, real cider is also available at ©2006 by the the Red Lion, Stodmarsh, and in Folkestone at Cham Deal Dover bers and the East Cliff Tavern. If there are any others Sandwich & District please let us know. Branch of the Campaign for Real As always our newsletter tries to provide an accurate Ale. picture of real ale and pubs locally and nationally, and Please note that we hope that it is interesting and informative. If, how views expressed ever, you feel there are areas we have neglected, or herein are not you have any comments on anything we have pub necessarily those of lished we would be pleased to hear from you. We al this branch or ways welcome any correspondence or contributions CAMRA Ltd. and will publish all we can. Please drink sensibly! JMwUin Gifting (Ediim) Page 2 CONTENTS 3 Events diary 37 Beer Across the Border 4 Local News 40 Pub Profile - The 16 National News White Horse Dover 19 Kent Small Brewery 42 Ring a Ring of London News with The Beery Boaters 23 Cider Matters 48 Last Knockings 26 White Cliffs Festival of 51 Local Information Winter Ales 2006 53 CAMRA Info 30 Channel View 54 Advertisers Index 33 A Tale of Two Walks 54 And Finally EVENTS DIARY Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th February WHITE CUFFS FESTIVAL OF WINTER ALES, Town Hall (Maison Dieu), Dover. Friday 3pm to 11pm, Saturday 10.30am to 11pm (or until the beer runs out, whichever is the sooner) Saturday 18th February Walmer Walkabout. Details from John Pitcher on Dover 214153 or e-mail [email protected]. Monday 20th February White Horse, St. James Street, Dover - Branch Meeting & Beer Festival Wash-Up Discussion. Monday 20th March Royal Oak, Capel le Feme - Branch Meeting. Monday 10th April Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING followed by Branch Meeting. Branch Meetings start at 7.30pm The branch normally meets on the third Monday of each month. If you are interested in joining CAMRA please come along to one of our meetings! Page 3 The Local News Contributors - Martin Atkins, Anne Mciiroy, Roger Marples, John Pitcher, Tony Wells, etc. Castle is having another go with real DOVER ale. A handpump was reinstalled in Blakes, Castle Street: Once again the autumn, and has been providing Blakes leads the news in Dover. Pe draught Bass. Management too has ter and Katheryn, who took over the changed and seems to be making a pub last spring, took the decision just determined effort to move away from before Christmas to completely ban the alcopop/lager market which keg. Now all their draught beer and seemingly held sway for so many cider is either on stillage or hand- years in this pub, and which seems pump. Peter had calculated that keg more than adequately catered for had fallen to about 2% of sales and it across the town anyway. However, a wasn’t worth the bother of continuing return to the glory days of Richard with it. Guinness and lager are avail and Opal Crocker is perhaps some able in bottles for those who want what over-optimistic. While speaking them and Thatcher’s cider is always of our former hosts, those of us who on handpump. However, they have were hoping they would get back into been helped in their new approach the business and take one of our by Goacher’s decision to start deliv local pubs will be disappointed. They ering directly to our area (see Kent are back in the business, but in Small Brewery News), and whose Sevenoaks as managers of the Com Crown Imperial Stout is more than a passes. Although a Greene King pub substitute for draught Guinness. So it does provide guest ales and Har far it has proved tremendously suc veys is a regular. It’s also, dare I say, cessful and sales have exceeded Cask Marque, but Richard assures Peter’s expectations - of four firkins me he will be able to keep the beer of stout delivered in mid-December, at a decent temperature. three had gone in nine days. And Blakes has been concentrating on The Flotilla, Bench Street: As re Kentish brews in general of late with ported in last issue the Flotilla has other beers from Goacher’s as well been offering a revised ale range for as Hopdaemon, Gadds and Whitsta- the last few months with new addi ble all making regular appearances. tions Greene King IPA, Bombardier Admittedly, this has not been without and Adnams Broadside appearing grumblings from some of the regu regularly. The Broadside was in ex lars who prefer a broader selection. cellent form just before Christmas. The Castle, Russell Street: Just The Eagle, London Road: Closed round the corner from Blakes the since late summer the pub re- Page 4 HEATHER & CHARLIE welcome you to y e z j o BanfRjBstone Four Real Ales plus Mild 3 from local microbrewers and 2 from microbrewers from other areas 3 Real Ciders Good home-cooked pub food Fresh Fish always available Good Vegetarian selection Food from 12pm to 3pm & 7pm to 9pm Wednesday to Saturday Sunday Lunch only £5.50. Cooked fresh the same day. Booking advised LIVE FOLK MUSIC EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT Join the Afternoon Club and get up to 5Op o ff your pint - Monday to Friday 3pm to 7pm OPEN 12.00 - 11.00 MON. TO SAT. 12.00- 10.30 SUNDAY Telephone 01304 831619 www.barfrestone.com Page 5 opened just before Christmas. At The Prince Albert, Alfred Square: present no real ale but there is talk of Along the road from the Ship more putting on one of the more widely excellent real ales at the Prince Al available bitters such as Greene bert, where a continuingly changing King I PA. range is on offer. One of our mem bers was particularly impressed by The White Horse, St James’ St: the Wolf Coyote in November, al Good selection of real ales including though he is (understandably) a fan regularly Landlord and Ringwood of Wolf beers. Another visitor found a Fortyniner, and quite often Brakspear delicious Burton Bridge Dark Mild, Special. In December Brakspear Bit Gale’s Trafalgar Celebration and ter also made an appearance, seem Young’s 7.2% Old Nick. The total of ingly every bit as good as the Special different ales is now approaching and, from what I can recall, both are 300 and there is talk of installing a pretty good representations of the fourth handpump. brews from the original Henley brew ery. Other frequently represented The Saracen’s Head, Alfred Square: breweries are Hopback, Dark Star New tenants now at this busy Shep and Titanic.