Brewery Boost for Banbury
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Issue 47 – Winter 2011 FREE – Please take one Newsletter of North Oxfordshire Branch of CAMRA Brewery Boost For Banbury Great news for real ale drink- and national breweries. A Director of White Horse ers in Banbury after the White range of Belgian beers Brewery, said: “This is Horse Brewery contacted us to will also feature and a an excellent move announce they’ve purchased the new food menu will for the brewery Buck & Bell on North Bar Street. offer a selection of and emphasises Work to re-brand the pub as the homemade dishes our commitment White Horse at Banbury Cross is with locally sourced to bringing quality expected to begin in December ingredients. ale to people across with the opening planned for The brewery opened the region. Our exist- early in the New Year. its first pub, the Royal ing pub in Oxford The pub is to be completely Blenheim, in St Ebbe’s has gone from strength refurbished and will soon boast Street, Oxford in 2008 and to strength by selling top a patio garden area to the rear it has been a regular entry notch ales and locally sourced and 10 real ale hand pumps sell- in the Good Beer Guide ever food served in a friendly envi- ing a variety of ales from local since. Andy Wilson, Managing ronment. We are very excited to bring our philosophy and 25 Years In The Guide For quality beers to The White Horse at Banbury Cross.” Tom At The Rose & Crown These are exciting times for this area of Banbury as Parsons Charlbury, with Tom Street itself has seen the Old Page at the helm, Auctioneer re-open this year appearing for the 25th with four handpumps, the consecutive year. Vaults hopes to get another Tom – pictured left handpump on their bar to with Mel Painter, one extend its range of real ales of the regular R&C (hopefully more in the next barmaids – took over Beer on Tap) and the Olde the pub in May 1987 (it Reinedeer continues to serve had been a regular in its great selection of Hooky the GBG even before Beers. Rumours have it that that date, but Branch the nearby Three Pigeons has records from that been bought and may operate period are very hard to as a freehouse (but this has not find) and it has been been confirmed). Now with the a consistent source of White Horse at Banbury Cross quality ale ever since, opening at the top of Parsons winning the Branch Street, the area is set to become In the fast-changing world of Pub of the Year four times. the place to go for ale connois- the pub trade, it is a rarity for The GBG was first published seurs. North Oxfordshire a pub to be listed in CAMRA’s in 1974 (though an 18-page CAMRA looks forward to wel- Good Beer Guide (GBG) for stapled ‘beer list’ was offered coming the White Horse team even 10 years on the trot – but for sale to CAMRA members in to Banbury and of course to 2012 sees the Rose & Crown, Continued on page 3 sampling their wares! Visit the CAMRA North Oxfordshire Branch website – http://www.northoxfordshirecamra.org.uk THE BELL ADDERBURY High Street, Adderbury • Unspoilt traditional village pub, in one Oxon OX17 3LS of Oxfordshire’s prettiest villages • A good range of award winning, well 01295 810338 kept, cask ales www.thebelladderbury.com • ‘Proper’ home made pub food Email: [email protected] • Secluded, walled, garden • Two letting rooms at reasonable rates Under the new • Walkers and dogs welcome management of • Regular music nights David & Lynne • Quiz every Sunday night Opening hours: Monday–Thursday 12–2:30 & 5–11 Friday–Saturday 12–2:30 & 5–Late Sunday 12–3 & 7–11 Church St, Stratton The Red Lion Audley, Bicester, PUB & RESTAURANT OX27 9AG Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire Tel: 01869 www.redlionstrattonaudley.co.uk 277225 A warm and inviting thatched country pub and restaurant. The open log fires and traditional pub fayre create a homely atmosphere for casual or formal dining in the main dining area or in one of two private rooms seating up to 16 or 45 (more if buffet style). We have an enclosed traditional courtyard garden with facilities for barbeques in the summer and dining outdoors which can be booked for private functions with the use of a marquee. Most of our food is locally produced and everything on our menu is cooked freshly to order so we are able to accommodate any special requests for variations. Our Specials board is updated on a daily basis. Our range of drinks includes traditional cask ales – Ruddles, Deuchars and Spitfire – along with other beers and a wide range of wines (see our wine list online for more details). The Red Lion has regular Live Entertainment events – check the special events section of our website for further details. Opening times: 12 noon until late every day. Food times: Noon–2.30pm and 6.00pm–9pm Mon–Sat, Noon–4pm Sunday. Proprietor: Frank O’Neill 2 Beer on Tap – Winter 2011 Pubs Update: Good News And Bad News It has been an up and down few Off the Beaten Track so we’ll though thankfully a new land- months with the good news out- see what occurs here. Then lord is now in place and reports weighing the bad for once. the recently re-opened Fox in we hear are very favourable – It started as soon as we’d gone Leafield had its landlord walk but Leafielders need to use their to print with the great news that away citing lack of footfall, pubs or they’ll be gone for good. the White Lion, Steeple Aston was not closing (as we’d been led to believe), but was instead in the very capable hands of Mark Book Review & Lorraine. Then the fantastic Oxford, Witney and for which I give my strongest news that the Buck & Bell had Abingdon Pub Guide recommendation. It is a great been acquired by one of the pleasure to read, is handsomely area’s best microbreweries fil- Edited by Matt Bullock printed and designed. Full marks tered in to us and that they were CAMRA Ltd, St Alban’s, 2011 to Matt and his team. already refurbishing the pub. 112pp, £5.99 The maps mark the position This has been balanced by Hot off the press is this excellent of each pub and the pages are rumours that the Woolpack, new guide to all the pubs in the designed to provide extra inter- once one of the top real ale pubs Oxford CAMRA Branch area … est, most having a side column in the Branch, has suffered a not just those that sell real ale. with details of special interest partial collapse at the rear and The guide last appeared in 2004, and historical facts. Did you is in a desperate state needing and Matt makes a point about know, for instance, that Oxford tens of thousands of pounds all the pubs which have closed in has only one pub listed in the to bring it back to its former those seven years, but now lists National Inventory of Historic glory. Meanwhile in Bicester it those still existing with enthusi- Pub Interiors? The answer lies seems that the Old Pioneer is to asm and an eye for detail. on page 48. There, now you’ll become an Indian restaurant – Matt has shown a remarkable have to get hold of a copy! whether it will have a proper bar range of skills and expertise. A There’s a comprehensive is still to be seen. well known character on the index, a guide to local breweries, In Chipping Norton a ‘sold’ pub scene in Oxford, and in explanations of beer styles, and, sign has been seen outside Charlbury where he currently of course, info about CAMRA lives, Matt not only edited the and how to join. If it doesn’t get book, he also designed it, pro- on your Christmas list, order Tom’s 25 Years duced the many maps, took it from your local bookshop or most of the photographs, and from CAMRA. It’s a must for In The Guide also visited all the pubs listed! any local real ale enthusiast. Geoff Clifford Continued from page 1 The result is a superb book 1972). Since then it has grown to 908 pages containing over 4,500 CAMRA North Oxon Branch Contact List pubs, as the number of real ale Email addresses are followed by northoxfordshirecamra.org.uk outlets increases year on year. CHAIRMAN Lynne Baldwin- BEER ON TAP EDITOR North Oxon, like all branches, Kramer Tel: 07790 118341 Steve Lympany bot@ has a limit to how many pubs chairman@ Tel: 07811 667507 we can put forward for each edi- VICE-CHAIRMAN PRESS & PUBLICITY CONTACT tion, so consistent quality and a John Harle vicec@ Position vacant press@ good range of ales are the major BRANCH SECRETARY PUBS OFFICER Dick Palmer criteria for inclusion. Bearing in Caz Jewell secretary@ & Brian Wray pubs@ mind that pubs with a change of TREASURER PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER landlord have been automatically Nick Faulkner treasurer@ John Bellinger public@ excluded in at least one edition YOUNG MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY for quite a few years now, this COORDINATOR has made Tom’s achievement all Yvonne Hallows membership@ Position vacant the more noteworthy. WEBMASTER BRANCH CONTACT Chris Darke Congratulations to Tom and webmaster@ the Rose & Crown team and let’s Chris Darke contact@ Tel: 07852 251300 hope there are many more years Trading Standards: Oxfordshire SOCIAL SECRETARY in the GBG still to come.