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NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 1 Fe Sp sti ec * va ia see l l pa s ge ec s 5 ti 3 - on 65 && CACACASKSKSK FFFORCEORCEORCE No.156 Spring 2011 NORWICH ‘CITY OF ALE’ EVENT LAUNCHED THIS SPRING! Also inside: EE BEER FESTIVAL DIARY FR NORFOLK’S TRUE HERITAGE PUBS part 9 PUB AND TRADE NEWS NeWsletter of the Norfolk Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 2 Tr af ford Arms YOUR PUB, OUR COMMUNITY our nominated charity this year is the Downs Syndrome Society Chris and Glynis invite you to the Trafford Arms - 61 Grove Road, Norwich 01603 628466 www.traffordarms.co.uk email: [email protected] NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 3 Norwich & Norfolk Branch Chairman: Graham Freeman NeW FestiVal to be Tel: 01603 687495 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Warren WordsWorth opened bY Roger ProtZ Tel: 01603 665557 Email: [email protected] Social Secretary: Tim MacDonald landlord of The Murderers. Tel. 01603 865505 There Will be a programme, Email: [email protected] Which Will be on sale soon. This Pubs Officer: Mark Stimpson Email: [email protected] Will giVe full details of the Pubs West Norfolk Branch and BreWeries taking part, Chairman: Phil Buffham Which beers are aVailable, and Secretary: Ian BaileY Where plus listings of eVents, Contact: Bruce Ward including BreWerY Open daYs, Tel: 01485 609107 Branch websites: Meet the BreWer eVents in WWW.norWichcamra.org.uk This Year, the Year in Which Pubs, BBQ’s, QuiZZes, LiVe WWW.camra.org.uk/Wnorfolk CAMRA is fortY Years Young, Entertainment, etc. Branch mailing list web page: NorWich Will haVe not one, but groups.Yahoo.com/group/ tWo Beer FestiVals. It is hoped that The Eastern CAMRA_NorWich Counties Transport Collection Published eVerY 3 months In addition to the 34th Will be aVailable to proVide bY the NorWich, Norfolk & West NorWich CAMRA festiVal Which some transport for the eVent. Norfolk branches of the Campaign Will be held at St AndreWs and There Will also be a BreWers’ for Real Ale © N&N CAMRA 2009 Market outside the Forum on Norfolk Nips is produced and Blackfriars Halls in October, distributed bY members of the there Will be another, running 28th MaY, Where local BreWers branch in their oWn time. from 26th MaY – 5th June. This Will be selling bottled beers eXciting neW addition is VerY and other merchandise. Edited by: Mike BaldWin different from the CAMRA Email: [email protected] FestiVal, but is intended to The eVent Will kick off With a complement it, both then launch partY on the 26th MaY Chris Lucas Email: [email protected] promoting NorWich as The and Will be officiallY opened bY CitY of Real Ale. Roger ProtZ. It Will end With a VieWs eXpressed in Norfolk FestiVal AWards eVent, With Nips are not necessarilY those So hoW is this festiVal priZes for Beer of the FestiVal, of the editor or of CAMRA Pub of the FestiVal, etc as Voted Design & Production: different? for bY the public. Daniel Speed - Tamoko Design FirstlY, It is the coming together Email: [email protected] of local Maltsters, BreWeries In essence, it is LocAle, but and NorWich CitY Pubs to Distribution: not as We knoW it, and is a 12,000 copies / four times a year promote real ale. There Will be golden opportunitY for local Norwich and Norfolk District: at least 20 BreWeries and 30 BreWers to get qualitY, local Tony Miles [email protected] Pubs participating. West Norfolk District : ales into qualitY local Pubs. Ros Harre [email protected] That can onlY be good for the SecondlY, the eVent Will take real ale scene in NorWich and Advertising: place in the Pubs themselVes, Norfolk. Compare that to the For adVertising enquiries please so there is no single Venue. contact Chris Shilling on: scene 40 Years ago. Tel: 01778 421 550 Mike Baldwin Email: [email protected] A committee has been set up to organise the eVent, co- Steve Whadcock FRONT COVER PICTURE: Tel: 01778 420888 / 421550 chaired bY DaWn Leeder from courtesY of The NorWich Mobile: 07736 635916 PintPicker and Phil Cutter, EVening NeWs [email protected] SPRING 2011 | 3 NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 4 NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 5 NORFOLK NIPS | Chairman’s Bits Springing into Action With the 40th AnniVersarY of to the local press on matters the FestiVal AWards Which coin - CAMRA coming up on 16th relating to the GoVernment's cided With the opening of the March, WhY not celebrate With betraYal on the minimum Fat Cat BreWerY Tap. It Was a a pint of Real Ale in Your local pricing of alcohol and the grand night out. We also Pub. There haVe been manY effects of the smoking ban on presented a cheque to our successes oVer the Years and our Pubs. You Will haVe noticed Branch CharitY 2010 – NorWich We still campaign for manY that our Branch members are Door to Door for oVer £5000 issues relating to promoting Working With the local media Which alloWed them to order a Real Ale. NationallY We haVe to encourage Various neW bus. We haVe Yet to Won a major VictorY in campaigns and if You Would like choose our neW CharitY and I persuading the Pub’s Minister to help then please contact me. hope theY Will as successful this to begin public consultation Year. into banning restrictiVe Our neW Committee Will be coVenants. ManY of our local elected at the AGM in March FinallY I Would like to thank communities Will benefit from and I’m pleased that more Mike BaldWin and Warren remoVal of this anti-competi - members are becoming WordsWorth for assisting on tiVe practice and hopefullY inVolVed and are prepared to the Committee for the forth - Pubs Will remain Pubs. Work for the Campaign. It’s not coming NorWich CitY of Ale all about trips to Pubs and FestiVal although for some We haVe also seen local Pubs BreWeries although We do all reason it Was mY quote theY being demolished Without find these VerY enjoYable. used in What’s Brewing . Fame planning permission and that at last. must change. RecentlY I spoke We recentlY held our Beers of Graham Freeman Difficult DaYs Another Years gone bY, and gling and leases are up for sale. good VarietY of Ales. Reepham 2011 is here, A Year Which is Add to this that I’Ve just been RailWaY Beer festiVal is the first going to be a difficult one for informed Tom Woods BreWerY Weekend in March, and Easter manY Landlords. and Beer distribution haVe promises numerous FestiVals gone bust; it makes it a poor around the countrY. OnlY tWo months haVe passed start to 2011. and alreadY four pubs in West I hope to see You at some of Norfolk haVe shut. The Beding - On a brighter note haVing them. All the best for 2011. field Arms at OXborough, the got oVer mY ailments, it Was CroWn at Middleton, the good to get back into some Buff Rampant Horse at GaYton and social drinking at the Trafford West Norfolk chairman the Queens Arms kings LYnn, Arms Beer festiVal on SaturdaY three others look like becoming 9th FebruarY, A good collection priVate residential dWellings, of Ale’s along the bar plus a and seVeral others are strug - marquee at the back With a SPRING 2011 | 5 NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 6 NN#156:Layout 1 28/02/2011 13:20 Page 7 NORFOLK NIPS | Words from the Editors The Ed’lines “From the ArchiVes” delVes into The second celebrates the VerY old copies of Norfolk NIPS and best in real ale, cider, and perrY highlights the burning issues of from the UK, plus eXquisite the daY. It Would appear that beers from around the World, something’s neVer change! all in the magnificent surround - ings of St AndreWs and Welcome to the Spring 2011 We haVe said before that Blackfriars Halls. edition. NorWich can claim to be the UK CitY of Ale and With the CAMRA haVe asked Branches to This bumper Beer FestiVal number of real ale Pubs in the do something to celebrate their edition has more pages and CitY and BreWeries countYWide, 40th BirthdaY on 16th March. some neW features. no one can denY that the real We are going one better; We ale scene in the citY is Vibrant. are celebrating all Year! We haVe introduced our neW “Whiteboard”. Here You Will And noW, NorWich has tWo So, neXt time that You are in a find details of important Beer FestiVals. great local pub, drinking a upcoming neWs and eVents, decent pint of fresh real LocAle, With the Branch Calendars The first, Which Will be opened raise Your glass and saY “HappY conVenientlY arranged on the bY Beer Legend Roger ProtZ, BirthdaY CAMRA!” preceding page. celebrates LocAle in our eXcel - lent CitY real ale Pubs. Words from The Stig So 2011 is here, tWo months good real ale pub We don’t old bY the time You read this. knoW about please tell us. Much has been going on in As I said last Year surVeYing is West Norfolk, With pubs an onerous task Which We coming on the market as pubs steadfastlY carrY out on behalf for a change. Plus A GBG pub of real ale drinkers eVerYWhere! from another culture, under neW management, and read on to find out What it Was! some WorrYing neWs on If it sounds like something another.