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Tyneside & Northumberland Branch FREEFREE Issue 235 • Spring 2016 LUB & C OF B T U H P E R Y E E A D I R C A , W B U A P R D E S H T • • 2016 ALL THE WINNERS INSIDE Fortieth Newcastle Beer & Cider Festival Northumbria University Students Union April 2016 Wed 6th 6.00 – 10.30 pm Thu 7th Fri 8th 12.00 – 10.30 pm Sat 9th 12.00 – 5.00 pm Hat Day Thursday The Happy Cats Saturday pm Tyneside & Northumberland Campaign for Real Ale www.cannybevvy.co.uk BRANCH CONTACTS TALKING ED Chairman: Ian Lee First there were the Golden Globes, followed by the BAFTAs, then [email protected] the Oscars and finally the one you have all been waiting for, the POTYs. Yes, the 2016 Tyneside & Northumberland Pub, Cider Pub Secretary: Pauline Chaplain and Club of the Year Awards. To see if your favourite pub, cider [email protected] pub or club has won, then turn to pages 16 & 17 to find out (but Treasurer: Jan Anderson not until you have finished reading the editorial). At present there [email protected] are only four micropubs in the branch area and two of them have won. Congratulations to The Office, Morpeth and The Curfew, Membership Secretary & Social Berwick - which was also the overall Northumberland Pub of the Media Officer: Alan Chaplain Year winner. Remarkably both micropubs have been open for less [email protected] than two years. [email protected] CAMRA has joined forces with brewing trade associations to call Editor, Advertising & Distribution: Adrian Gray for a cut in beer tax in this year’s Budget. Now the Coalition of [email protected] Consumers, Brewers and Pub Operators is urging MPs to sign an [email protected] Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for the chancellor to cut a penny [email protected] off a pint in his 16th March Budget. The UK pays the highest beer tax rate out of the top six brewing countries in the EU at 52.2p a Social Secretary: Murray Owen pint, Germany a mere 3.8p. With Britain paying almost 40% of all [email protected] EU beer tax, despite only consuming 12% of the beer, it is time Pubs Officer & LocAle Officer: Colin Anderson for change. Beer makes up 7 out of every 10 drinks sold in pubs, [email protected] so keeping pints affordable is key to supporting pubs. Britain’s 15 million regular pub-goers will be hoping for a forth beer duty cut in [email protected] March’s Budget (see page 23). Cider/Perry Officer: [email protected] 2016 is an important year for the branch, as it will be holding the 40th Newcastle Beer & Cider Festival. So to all those of you who Press & Publicity: Martin Ellis have been before and to all those of you who have not, get yourself [email protected] along to Northumbria University Student’s Union, you wont regret it. See you all there (see page 11). 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Half Page £100+VAT Quarter Page £52+VAT Email [email protected] Artworking by Apostle Designs www.cannybevvy.co.uk Email: [email protected] Next Edition No. 236 Summer 2016 Copy deadline date 9/5/2016 Advertising deadline date 13/5/2016 Printed by Print North East Publication date 2/6/2016 Email: [email protected] Issue 235 • Spring 2016 3 BRANCH DIARY Saturday 5th March 12.30pm March Northumberland Club of the Year presentation, Sat 5 Ray Stubbs RnB Allstars 8.30 Comrades Club, Haltwhistle at 12.30pm. South Sun 6 Buskers 4.30 West Northumberland Cider Pub of the Year Sat 12 The Palominos 8.30 presentation, Tannery, Hexham at 4.00pm. South West Northumberland Pub of the Year presentation, Sun 13 Some Like It Hot 4.30 Boathouse Inn, Wylam at 7.00pm Sun 20 The Hipthrusters Train at 11.22am, Central Station, Newcastle – Only Gig This Year In The UK!!! 4.30 Fri 25 Shipcote & Friends 6.00 Wednesday 9th March 7.00pm Tyneside Cider Pub of the Year presentation, Sat 26 Struggle Buggy 8.30 Free Trade Inn, Byker. Tyneside Pub of the Year Sun 27 The Mee Kats 4.30 presentation, Fitzgeralds, Newcastle at 9.00pm April Q3 bus at 6.37pm, Haymarket, Newcastle Sat 2 Ant Music 8.30 Monday 21st March 7.30pm Sun 3 Buskers 4.30 Branch Annual General Meeting, Chillingham, Heaton Sun 10 The Lounge Lizards 4.30 Metro to Chillingham Road/63 bus at 7.01pm, Sat 16 King Size Voodoo Traveller 8.30 Blackett Street, Newcastle Sun 17 Jack & The Real Deals 4.30 Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd April Fri 22 The Loft Boys 6.00 CAMRA Members’ Weekend & AGM 2016 Sun 24 The Understudies 4.30 Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool Fri 29 Shipcote & Friends 6.00 Wednesday 6th to Saturday 9th April 40th Newcastle Beer and Cider Festival Northumbria University, Students Union, Newcastle Wednesday 13th April 7.00pm Wednesday Wander Starts at Split Chimp, Newcastle Thursday 5th May 7.30pm Branch Meeting Bridge Hotel, Newcastle Wednesday 11th May 7.00pm Wednesday Wander Starts at The Office, Morpeth X18 bus at 6.13pm, Haymarket, Newcastle Saturday 21st May 1.00pm Regional Meeting The Steamboat, South Shields Metro to South Shields All events are subject to change. Please check Canny Bevvy website www.cannybevvy.co.uk for up to date details. All the above events are for CAMRA members and non members. Everyone is welcome. 4 Issue 235 • Spring 2016 BREWERY VISIT TYNE BANK BREWERY Since its inception the A new development sees brewery has won a host of Tyne Bank join the Eebria Tyne Bank is now in its awards and is particularly organisation which will 5th year of production and proud of its Great Taste deliver bottled beers direct has grown considerably Gold Awards for Silver from the brewery to your over the past few years Dollar and Monument. house via a courier service. to become one of the Other Great Taste awards (Also non-returnable kegs area’s leading brewers have been won by Cherry to pubs out of area). of innovative ales which Stout, Mocha Milk and The usual suspects combine local passion Moteuka Blonde. In 2013 A couple of years ago the with optimum flavour. The Double IPA won the brewery decided to re- founder and managing Rugby beer of the festival brand itself moving away director, Julia Austin, with and in 2014 Silver Dollar from a traditional image a background in Chemical won a SIBA gold award. which clearly showed its Engineering, was touring Numerous other awards Tyneside roots to a more brewpubs in British have also been given. modern image which has Columbia & Alaska when proved very successful in the idea of brewing to a The current range of enhancing recognition of high standard and selling beers on offer for 2016 the brewery outside of the Which one shall I have? locally led her to think is extensive. Apart from Tyneside area. about establishing her the 5 core beers, Single own brewery. Hence with Blonde 3.5%, Pacifica This very busy brewery a love of manufacturing, 4%, Monument 4.1%, with just 5 employees has beer and a desire to run her Dark Brown Ale 4.2% achieved a great deal since own business, Tyne Bank and Silver Dollar4.9%, it started in June 2011, so Brewery was born in June there are 2 seasonal much so that it needs more 2011. It was a good time to beers; for September to space. New premises have been obtained in the same start as the move towards April it’s Northern Porter real ale was gathering pace. 4.5% whereas April to part of Newcastle which A lot of bottle September sees Summer will allow Tyne Bank to Initial brews were Silver Breeze 3.9%. Then there expand and develop. Dollar (which remains are the 12 monthly Tyne Bank is an innovative its best seller today), specials; the 4 quarterly Monument and Castle brewery. It has great plans beers (a hop series based for its new site, confidential Gold, all currently on Silver Dollar) plus a available. The brewery has at this point in time but well range of 9 bottled beers. worth looking out for in the a core range of 5 beers It’s no wonder space is and also produces many months ahead. In closing now at a premium, but this brewery visit article it specials. The specials more about that later. Julia, a barrel of laughs running total is 53 to date is worth mentioning that The geographical area cover should you wish to invest in with plenty more planned. Photograph 1 above; l - r, Julia by Tyne Bank is split into the brewery, Crowd Funding Specials can be monthly, Austin (Founder & Managing several delivery patterns.