In the Sticks April 2012 Free Copy
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LEADMILL BREWERY and BOTTLE BROOK BREWERY . Producers of Traditional Hand Crafted Real Ales. In the Sticks April 2012 Free Copy Welcome to the latest issue of “In the The Duke of Clarence on Mansfield Road, Mansfield & Ashfield CAMRA Sticks ” the newsletter of RuRAD , Ru ral Real Derby has been purchased from Greene King 2nd Mini Beer & Cider Festival th th Ale Drinkers. We hope you enjoy reading it. by an unknown buyer and is now trading as a Fri 13 and Sat 14 April free house, the pub closed for a week from Function Room If you want to receive a copy electronically e- th th the 28 February until the 6 March whilst Rufford Arms mail [email protected] bar and cellar work was carried out. The pub Chesterfield Road South, Mansfield. Or for current & previous issues log on to itself only needed a lick of paint as Greene Approx 25 real ales, cider & perry. King had spent money on a new layout and "Pronto" bus stops outside door. http://www.mansfieldcamra.org.uk/RuRAD.html refurbishment quiet recently. There are Preview Session Thursday 7 – 11pm Follow the RuRAD page on Facebook plans to serve food in the near future and Open ALL-DAY = 11-11 also to hold beer festivals as there are out- Clare welcomes you to the FREE admission! building to the rear of the pub. Host Scott, Entertainment on PATTENMAKERS ARMS partner of Clare at the Patternmakers in 4 Crown Street Duffield Saturday evening! Duffield hopes to steadily build up trade Tel: 01332 842844 www.mansfieldcamra.org.uk again which was lost under Greene King 4 Real Ales Available. ownership due to the ever-changing Bass, Pedigree & Landlord plus up Amber Valley CAMRA Update management. Scott offers 2 regular ales to 2 guest beers from the SIBA list. st Bass 4.4% and Taylors Landlord 4.3% and at April 1 - Social at Talbot Taphouse, Ripley from In the 2012 Good Beer Guide. the moment 1 Guest which when I called was 1pm onwards, cask of beer & buffet. April 14 th - Home cooked food available Woodfordes Once Bittern 4%, future guests Survey trip to Pentrich, South Wingfield & everyday 12pm – 2pm. include Coastal Faeries Old Ale 4.4% & Oakerthorpe bus picks up at 7:30pm, Ripley Friday – Meat Raffle, Sunday – Quiz Night Leatherbritches Dr Johnson 4.1%, the pub 12 – 2, 5 – 12 Mon – Thu Market Place, contact Jane Wallis to book. April has its own car park and a outside drinking & th Fri,Sat & Sun Open All Day 19 - Beer Festival Meeting at Black Bulls Head, seating area Openwoodgate 8pm. April 26 th - Branch Meeting FUNCTION ROOM FREE TO HIRE at the Victoria, Alfreton 8:30pm. Soc Sec Jane The Furnace, Derby has been bought by a Wallis 01773 745966 Beer and Pub News private investor for £95.000. This used to be a cracking community pub but has been in Bump Mill Brewery is a new venture next to the The Waggon & Horses in Alfreton regularly decline for several year’s, let’s hope the new Shoulder of Mutton at Hallfield Gate near features at least 2 traditional ciders alongside a owner can bring it back to life Shirland. The man responsible is Mick McMasters range of real ales, including a regular LocAle. Card who, we are told, hopes to have his beer at the carrying CAMRA members continue to receive a erby CAMRA Pub of the Year the Five D Barrow Hill beer festival in May 20% discount on main meals also Lamps is to increase the amount of pumps on the bar from 11 to 14 in early April due to After a long running battle with Punch Taverns Nicky from the Tavern , Belper informs us that the demand for real ale and popularity of the Dave Mountford has finally called it a day at the “we now offer for any function, a 'do your own pub, well done to Graham and the team Rising Sun at Middleton by Wirksworth and taken food' policy or we can provide food for £4.95 a over the Boat Inn at Cromford head. We also provide a free party tent, for The Three Horseshoes at Wessington has extra space, also we have the facility for an been de-licensed and sold to a builder We have received reports that another outside bar, for anyone who wants a summer microbrewery could be starting up in Clay Cross event. London Pride is definitely a regular at the Nicky & Pete Foster Tavern: serving at £2.95, Pedigree £2.85, other welcome you to the The Wine Vaults in Eastwood is up for sale, as is real ales serving at £2.80” TAVERN the Red Lion at Fritchley There will be a festival special ale from Welbeck Derby Rd, Belper The White Hart at Moorwood Moor shut on 11th Abbey Brewery available exclusively at the Tel: 01773 826956. March and is believed will be turned into a private Mansfield CAMRA Mini-Festival being held in 3 Changing Guest Ales. dwelling Function Room at Rufford Arms from Thursday £2.30 a pint Sundays 4 – 7 on one he St Georges Day beer festival at the George 12th April to Sunday 15th April inclusive. Get guest ale of our choice, T yourself down there for your one and only chance Carlsberg & Mansfield Smooth. & Dragon , Belper will feature 20 real ales and 5 to try it!!! Entertainment from a local artist will Bookings taken for functions ciders with live music on Thursday, Friday & also be available on the Saturday evening at £4.95 per head. Saturday, home made pies and pork cobs also Undercover Mediterranean available. Starts 19th April through to 21 st Ever wanted to Meet The Brewer? - You can at style heated smoking area. ndy at the White Hart , Bargate plans to hold the Devonshire Arms in South Normanton on Sky & ESPN Sports available. A Wednesday 4th April from 8pm, when Claire Monk Clean well-behaved dogs welcome. his 1st beer festival from the 26th to the 28th from Welbeck Abbey Brewery will be giving a talk Children welcome until 8.30pm. April were there will be 15 ales and 4 ciders with etc. www.thetavernbelper.co.uk 7 more on the main bar. There will be music Friday & Saturday night. He also plans to start serving food, which will be pub grub, on the 7th change we didn’t get lost. From Denby Village Olive, Sally, Jean & Steve welcome May. Future plans are to have 2 gravity fed we took a footpath but we couldn’t figure out you to the firkins on the bar why there were “No public right of way” signs on it…until I realised we’d taken the ROYAL OAK WIRKSWORTH BREWERY wrong path. I was having a bit of a bad map 55 Green Lane Ockbrook, Derby Quality Derbyshire Ales day. Mind you it didn’t help that some of the CORE BEER RANGE: paths had been re-routed. We crossed over Tel: 01332 662378 Cruckbeam 3.9% the main road at Denby Pottery and took the Country Pub of the Year 2011/2012 Sun Beam 4.0% path to Marehay where our first port of call Bass & 3 Constantly Changing Guest First Brew 4.2% was the Kestrel . I wasn’t expecting this pub Ales Available. Lunches Served to even be open so was quite pleased, which Tow'd Man 4.9% Everyday 12.00 – 2.00 was doubled when I saw a Cask Marque Seasonal Beers Also Available. Evening Meals: sticker in the window. The beers on offer Contact Jeff Green Mon & Wed to Fri 6.00 – 800 Telephone: 01629 824011 were Abbot, OSH & Harvest Pale with both Anniversary Beer Festival 4 – 7 May Mobile: 07967134180 of us going for the latter, which was perfect [email protected] for such a sunny day. We then took a The trend for pub re-openings seems to be www.wirksworthbrewery.co.uk footpath, which brought us out opposite the Member of SIBA Direct Delivery Scheme Holly Bush where we had a choice from Blue continuing when last month saw the Black Bulls Monkey BG Sips & Infinity, GK IPA, Abbot & Head at Openwoodgate (another ex Greene king Brewery News Old Golden Hen. The Blue Monkey brews pub) welcoming customers through the doors once Ashover-Ashover were sampled and again were a perfect for again into this refurbished free house, the pub is semi open plan but with separate seating areas www.ashoverbrewery.com the weather. We walked down the road to where there were 2 pubs marked on the map, either side of a two sided bar complemented by 2 Shortly to become a limited company some new houses looked to be were where open fires. The beer choice is excellent which on Falstaff-Derby one of them should have been and the other my visit was Oakham Hare & Hedgehog 3.9%, Bishops Farewell 4.6%, Abbott 5%, Coppice Side www.falstaffbrewery.co.uk was Lumb Farm , which had Worthington Red Shield and Abbot with the former deemed to Light 4.5%, Castle Rock Black Gold 3.8%, Jaipur The Falstaff Brewery “Name the Band” series be the best drink of the day. From there we 5.9%, Worthington Red Shield 4.2%, & Hartington continues with the latest ales being Dappy 4.2%, took the footpath across to Denby Common Bitter 4%, all beers are £2.70 a pint – Sooty Frankie Sandford 4%, Limahl 5.9%, Freddy and called in the Bulls Head to find Abbot The last time I went in to the New Zealand Mercury 4.5%, Morrissey 4% & Nick Heyward (yet again!) and Harvest Pale, guess which Arms on Langley Street Derby, a stones throw 4.2% one we had? We actually managed to have a from Ashbourne Road, was in the late nineties kip when we stopped for lunch, this has to be Rowditch/Middle Earth-Derby when it was an Ind Coope owned Festival Alehouse, a good sign to put the soup away for a few which was an excellent pub before it was sold to Twelly informs us “ We’ve brewed a 5.9% IPA months…….here comes summer Punch Taverns.