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IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:49 Page 1 LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 1 IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:49 Page 2 All of our crisps have won great taste awards Crisps as they should taste. www.piperscrisps.com @Piperscrisps Piperscrisps IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:49 Page 3 CONTENTS ISSUE 2 2013 eer Festiv n B al ol 20 c 1 in 3 Lincoln Beer L Festival Campaign For Real Ale 7 23rd May - 25th May 2013 at the Lincoln Drill Hall Free School Lane, Lincoln LN2 1EY Over 100 Real Ales Ciders, Perries & International Bottled Beers 17 3rd The Regulars 4 7 5 Lincoln News A round up of Local Pub and Brewery News 11 Lincoln Members Page & Branch Diary Also food & live music in the Drill Hall Café Find out what’s going on in the Lincoln CAMRA branch. For more details see:- www.lincolncamra.org.uk 24/25 www.lincolndrillhall.com Recimpes What’s cooking in the CAMRA kitchen? 24/25 Bottled Beer Review 15 A selection of beers from Hobsons Brewery 31 Membership Lincoln Beer Sign up to CAMRA The Guests 17 Festival 2013 Meet the Brewer - Tom Woods Brewery 20 Lincoln Beer Festival 2013 Pull Out Dambusters History LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 3 IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:50 Page 4 4 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:50 Page 5 Welcome. Hello Again May is ImpAle’s 2nd birthday and I am exceptionally grateful to the small team of contributors who work hard to put this magazine together. This dedicated team spend their spare time meeting brewers (it’s a hard life), drinking beer (again it’s a hard life), testing recipes (do I need to say it again?). A small network of people go out in all weathers to ensure that 3 times a year over 3000 (that’s over 9000 a year) copies of this magazine are distributed to Jerry Gale Steve Renshaw Steve Richardson Lincolnshire pubs. Please enjoy this issue of ImpAle and as usual if you have any So let’s hear it for some of our regular contributors. comments please send them to me. [email protected] Or tweet me @ImpAleEditor. Or be my friend on Facebook – Lincoln CAMRA ImpAle Wendy PS – In January’s issue we printed an article about micro pubs. The article incorrectly states that Health was a licensing objective. This is incorrect and we apologise for the error. Aaron Joyce Ashley Sewell Greg Richards Our Twitter account @Lincoln_CAMRA now has over 1480 followers! Our friends on our Facebook account are also increasing at a steady rate! To help keep the success going we need your help! Please email Aaron at [email protected] with your local pub’s events, be it a regular weekly quiz/food night and one off events, it's an easy way to become active within the branch with minimal effort. We are also on Instagram too @Lincoln_CAMRA ImpAle ImpAle is the magazine of Lincoln CAMRA and Louth CAMRA branches. CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real pubs and consumer Editor rights. It is an independent, voluntary organisation with more than Wendy Margetts 140,000 members nationally. ImpAle magazine is published three Design times a year and is available free through pubs in Lincoln and Louth Matt Richards branch areas. To join CAMRA, help preserve Britain’s brewing and Art of Matelot, Matelot Marketing Limited pub industry, get the campaign’s quarterly newsletter and its monthly newspaper What’s Brewing and a host of other membership benefits – Publisher visit www.camra.org.uk Neil Richards MBE, Matelot Marketing Limited Tel:01536 358670 Mob:07710 281381 CAMRA is a limited company, run at national level by an elected unpaid [email protected] board of directors and at regional level by volunteer regional directors, Front Cover both backed by full time professional staff. Picture by Sean Taylor landlord at The Bluebell, Tattershall Thorpe Consumer Rights With kind help from For complaints about issues such as short measures contact Lincolnshire Trading Standards on 01522 782341 or Consumer Direct Steve Renshaw, Wendy Renshaw, Steve Campaign for Real Ale Richardson, Phil Kempton, Aaron Joyce, on 0845 404 0506. 230 Hatfield Road Ashley Sewell, Jerry Gale, Greg Richards, St Albans, Herts. Richard Banks, Peter Warner, Tony Howkins, Disclaimer AL1 4LW copies/images of Lincoln Library with The views contained within ImpAle do not necessarily represent the Tel: 01727 867201 permission of Lincolnshire County Council: views of CAMRA, the editor, or the Lincoln and Louth branches. Email: [email protected] Lincoln Central Library: Local Studies Collection, Sara Basquill, Lincolnshire Echo. LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 5 IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:50 Page 6 NEWS IN BRIEF Family fun at Pheasantry The Pheasantry Brewery, near East Markham, is holding a beer festival and family weekend from Thursday, 20th June to Sunday 23rd June. Six of their own beers, including Pheasantry Pilsner and the summer special, Dancing Dragonfly, will be available, plus numerous guest ales and ciders. The Pilsner has recently been launched in the Pheasantry bar and is proving to be a great success. It is a smooth but well-hopped pilsner-style lager brewed and conditioned over a 3 month period. The weekend will have Pic - Landlady Emma Chapman celebrates the Brewer’s success. something for everyone, with a barbecue and live music on Friday and Saturday nights, and a bouncy castle and children’s Jolly Brewer is games in the beer garden. Full details can be found on the brewery’s website. Pub of the Year www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk The Jolly Brewer on Broadgate has profile of the pub and we've had a lot of Lincoln CAMRA chairman, Bob Foulger, been selected as the Lincoln CAMRA new custom because of it. So, all in all, said, ‘The branch pub of the year should Branch Pub of the Year for 2013. This we're delighted!’ tick all the boxes. It should offer a range of is the second time in three years that quality real ales, real cider and perry, provide landlady, Emma Chapman, has won the The selection process started with a vote events and services for the local community, award. by local CAMRA members. Then five and have a strong identity that will often judges visited the pubs that topped the reflect the tastes of the licensee. Any of Reacting to the news, Emma said ‘It’s the poll to assess the quality of the beer, the the four finalists would have been a worthy best thing that could have happened for us! atmosphere, service, community focus winner, but the Brewer just edged it this It’s a real honour anyway, but for it to come and value for money. The other finalists year.’ at the end of a very difficult year trade-wise, were Lincoln’s Strugglers Inn, the Butcher is such a boost for morale. The award is and Beast at Heighington, and the very good for trade as well - it raises the Dambusters Inn at Scampton. Lincolnshire’s Best Pubs Here are the finalists in the Lincolnshire round of CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2013. The Jolly Brewer - Lincoln The Gas Lamp Lounge - Louth The Royal Oak - Snitterby The Five Bells - Claypole The Yarborough Hotel - Grimsby The Half Moon - Willingham by Stow 6 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk IA 7_Layout 1 08/05/2013 20:50 Page 7 News Oldershaw’s lives up to Great Expectations Oldershaw’s Great Expectations as it is the first of her own took silver in the Best Bitters beer recipes to pick up an section in the Society of award. Independent Brewers (SIBA) National Beer Competition Great Expectations was beaten 2013, which was held as part to the gold by Quantock of SIBA’s first ever BeerX Brewery’s Will Neck (4.3% event in Sheffield. The 4.2% ABV), which went on to be ABV golden ale, featuring named Supreme Champion the Galaxy hop, was first Cask Beer. Quantock Brewery, brewed as a special for last a small, family-run business year’s Leicester Beer Festival. based in Wellington, Somerset, Kathy Britton, who owns the was set up in December Grantham brewery with her 2007. Pic - Kathy Britton receives her SIBA certificate from Neil Morrissey. husband Tim, was delighted, Finalists, sponsors and guests Sebastopol Inn at Minting was gathered at the DoubleTree highly commended. Lincolnshire by Hilton in Lincoln for the announcement of the winners In the Taste of Excellence of this year’s County Cuisine awards, Lincolnshire Life readers Pub Food Awards Awards. The Select Lincolnshire vote for their favourite café, tea project came together with room, pub, bistro or restaurant Lincolnshire Life magazine to in Lincolnshire. The top three present the Lincolnshire Food nominated establishments in and Drink Awards 2013. each category are visited anonymously by a judging The Village Limits at Woodhall panel between to decide the Spa won the Pub of the overall winners. Year category of the Select Lincolnshire awards. This is The winner of the Best Pub the seventh consecutive year Food category was the Hare that landlords, Billy and and Hounds in Fulbeck. This Sonia Gemmell, have won an family business impressed the award from Select Lincolnshire judges with every dish and (formerly Tastes of Lincolnshire). course served. The runners- Billy said, ‘We owe our success up were the Sebastopol Inn at to our ethos of supporting great Minting and the Carpenter’s local suppliers, coupled with Arms at Fiskerton. our fantastic team of staff.’ The Pic - Bill and Sonia Gemmell of the Village Limits, Woodhall Spa, celebrate their award.