Tippler the Magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale
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Winter 2014 the FREE Please Take One tippler The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2014. Opinions expressed need not represent those of CAMRA Ltd or its officials tipplerthe best wishes The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the for the Campaign for Real Ale festive season ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2013. Opinions expressed need not represent those of CAMRA Ltd or its officials Hopping Mad page 32 contents: A Trip to Dawlish page 36 A Monster Pub Crawl page 38 Letters to the Editor page 4 Brewery News page 40 The Hunter’s Column page 6 Locale page 46 County & Local News page 10 Prize Wordsearch page 48 Cheltenham News page 18 What’s Coming Up? page 52 Sally Forth page 22 CAMRA contacts page 54 Trouble Brewing? page 24 Pubs of the Black Country page 28 Front cover: The award winning Salutation at Ham CONTRIBUTION DEADLINES: THIRD FRIDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER have you any pub news? More details are posted regularly on the Facebook group 'Gloucestershire Pubs', an ideal forum to keep other people informed of the latest pub developments in the county. We value feedback and news from around the county, so, if you’ve got something to say, want to make a contribution, compliment or criticise, then get in touch: The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 5TX [email protected] 01684 439767 3 www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk for goodness LETTERS sake jeremy, can’t we just send an email like Notes to contributors... all those FRIGHTFULLY to the I am delighted that, in my first year’s tenure to the printers. I can do this as a courtesy when modern chaps? of designing and editing The Tippler, every issue asked, if I do send a copy, however, it shouldn’t I am in receipt of more and more articles, letters be seen as permission to begin any protracted and emails from contributors. correspondence on style or editing. As I like to EDITOR There are, however, a few tips and advisory say, there’s only one lead guitarist in this band, notes to our contributors that will help us all to and that’s me. I can only apologise for this, and if publish a better magazine. it creates issues, then voting with your feet, and Some of Just as a bit of background, I have been a not contributing at all may be the only course of us old codgers copywriter, contributor and paid writer for over 20 action open to you. I certainly hope not! Indeed, are still happy to use years and am of an age where I was taught formal you should take into account that your contribution the services of the Royal Mail, and we actively English. Indeed, it was so long ago, that the has made the pages of the magazine in the first encourage all forms of (preferably printable!) ending of a word in the sound ‘ize’, meant that place, so well done, and thank you for that. communication. So get writing and get your formalize, specialize, fertilize for example, were So, after that bit of hectoring, now for some news, views and comments published! still considered correct English. Nowadays, and small requests that will make all of our lives, as nearest pub is the-not-very inspiring Bayshill Tavern. somewhat confusingly, it is seen as incorrect, contributors and editor, easier. The Sandford Ale House has become a real asset our American chums having claimed this style My first request is to just get me the copy, Dear Chris, and I must try to get in there more often! for themselves, and over the 40 years since I left even if you don’t think you’re the best writer in I hadn’t realised you were so hard up for letters! school, eroded that law. the county, I can help with that, the main thing is Congratulations on one of the chunkiest and Our own London Drinker magazine could have twice So, one could say I am a bit of a stickler for to join in. As for how I receive the contributions, most interesting editions within memory. as much material if we had the pagination. sentence construction and correct grammar. I don’t really mind, hand written, typed, or preferably, Bad news today wearing my Pub Preservation Punctuation is something that, when done email, is all fine with me. If you use email, please try and use either Microsoft Word, or Mac Pages David Ashbee Officer (PPO) hat. The last remaining pub on Oxford well, you don’t really notice. As the editor, it as your word processor, try and steer away from Street looks as though it’s going under. Westminster can sometimes be necessary to adjust and edit any desktop publishing or design programs. Sent from my iPad Council couldn’t care less about our heritage. the copy I receive. There may be a number of Now, this is issue where I sound ungrateful, reasons: it can be merely a case of a better read, and I know you are trying to help, but please, Chris replies: Cheers, or, more usually, space constraints. Mostly, it will don’t design the article for me. Please send the Paul Charlton mean small reductions in story length, sometimes, images separately, not embedded in the article, Many thanks for that David, great to hear, and I CAMRA West London branch committee however, I will add a sentence, comment or as all that happens when I get an article with am hoping that your memory is elephantine! On a annotation or two in order to clarify the text. embedded images is I have to ask you for them serious note, it couldn’t be done without the Sent from my iPad Possibly the biggest issue I have is with two as separate files, so best to do that in the first contributors, so we should all be thanking them for little bits of punctuation that creep in, seemingly place. One thing about images, try and get the their efforts. I only put in what I get! Chris comments: everywhere. The first, and probably most annoying, settings on your camera or phone adjusted to the is the ampersand, that is, the & sign. This is fine largest number of pixels you can, if you can The next ‘letter’ is, in fact, the result of some email I was curious to establish how the fame of the in formal titles and names of companies etc., it make that 300dpi, that’s brilliant. I always do correspondence and taken from three emails that I Tippler had spread so far afield, but Paul is a regular is not, however correct to use it instead of ‘and’ what I can with images, but sometimes, they strung together to form one letter: visitor to Cheltenham, it says it all. Interesting that when writing. The second is the ellipsis, this is can be beyond improvement, so my apologies pub preservation is an issue even in the very heart the use of ... the three dots (as in the title of for some of the rather grainy images that you Dear Chris, of the capital. CAMRA is such an essential organisation this piece, although strictly speaking I have used see, particularly of beaming publicans receiving working to preserve not only real ales, ciders and that as an aposiopesis). Please note, if you are awards in dimly lit pubs! May I have your permission to create a .pdf of perries, but also the whole pub visiting way of life, using an ellipsis, please make sure the dot count If you have managed to reach this far into Leigh Norwood’s article in this edition for circulation putting pubs and the ales at the heart of city, town stays at just the three! this, may I thank you for your perseverance. I to my active members? Craft beer is a hot topic at and rural communities. So, if you find that your article isn’t reproduced know most of it sounds like I am being a school the moment. I realise the mag is available via link If you think you could help CAMRA and want to word for word, please be assured that it is for master, for that I can only apologise, but now but I think they are more likely to read an attachment. get involved, contact the relevant Branch Secretary, very good reasons. For the most part, I assure and again these things have to be said. I can, I visit Cheltenham frequently but unfortunately my contact details are at the back of the magazine. you all that I try and leave them as they are however, assure you is that it is said to improve sent, colloquialisms, idioms and anachronisms the whole reading experience of the Tippler included. magazine, something with your help, is improving [email protected] I am sometimes asked to send the author with every issue. the published version before the magazine goes Chris Leibbrandt - Editor The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. GL20 5TX www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk Do THEY know it’s Christmas? amateur astronaut, it would be very important to that’s got to be the winter temperature, so, when it limit your units of alcohol, in order to be both fit for swings around to summer (+153°C?), any discerning purpose and for the welcome party awaiting you, if ‘outa spacer’ is going to be looking for a Golden; and when you finally arrive.