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The free magazine of Bae Ceredigion CAMRA Cwrw Ceredigion Spring/Summer 2016 1 CROESO! Welcome to Cwrw Ceredigion, the It seems 2016 is set to be a record year Tafarn gwrw a seidr o fri newsletter produced by the Bae for beer festivals, too. So far, we’ve Dewis eang o gwrw a seidr o Gymru a’r Gororau. Ceredigion branch of the Campaign for enjoyed the Beer and Cider Mwynhewch ein bar llawn awyrgylch a’n gardd Real Ale (CAMRA). Festival and the Spring Beer Festival at Yr Hen Orsaf. We can now look forward gwrw drawiadol. Our aim is to promote local to festivals at the Ship and Castle in April, Bwyd rhagorol a llety ar gael hefyd. breweries, cider the Glengower in May and a new event at the Pentre Arms in in July Ar agor 11yb –11yh, 7 diwrnod yr wythnos makers and the best places to (see page 4 for information about these drink real ale and and other local festivals). Award winning ale and cider pub cider in the area. As the days get longer, and hopefully warmer, it’s a great time to venture out to Extensive range of ales and ciders from and I’m pleased to say that the local real a pub you don’t know or haven’t visited the Borders. ale scene is going for a while. If, like me, you enjoy taking Enjoy our atmospheric bar and stunning beer garden. from strength to your four-legged friend along, check out our feature about dog friendly pubs on Excellent food and accommodation also available. strength. I keep spotting new beers on the bar at many page 8. Open 11am –11pm, 7 days a week Ceredigion pubs and a new brewer Many thanks to the advertisers who has recently set up locally – find out make it possible for us to produce Cwrw more about Oast House Brewery on Ceredigion. The next issue will be FREE page 13. Earlier this year, we had the published at the end of October so, until 01974 298208 | [email protected] | www.ytalbot.com toughest competition ever for the award then, please continue to support our local of Bae Ceredigion CAMRA pub of the pubs and breweries. year – see page 5 for the full story (and Iechyd da! congratulations to the Glengower Hotel!). 3703_YTalbot_Cwrw_Ceredigion_Advert_FIN.indd 1 09/03/2016 16:49 Mary Galliers, Editor OPEN ALL DAY Cwrw Ceredigion – issue 4 Contact us EVERY DAY The Druid Inn © Published by the Bae Ceredigion branch of Email: [email protected] CAMRA, April 2016 Website: www.baeceredigion.camra.org.uk * Wye Valley Bitter and three guest ales Facebook: www.facebook.com/CeredigionCamra Front cover: The Monachty, * Great Orme Snowdon and Celt Experience House craft lagers Twitter: @CeredigionCAMRA We try to ensure that information is correct * Menu of up to 30 bottled ales and ciders when we go to press. If we get something * Real draught cider wrong, let us know and we’ll print a correction. Please note that opinions expressed in Cwrw This issue is dedicated Ceredigion are not necessarily those of to Bae Ceredigion Delicious Sunday lunches CAMRA either locally or nationally. (voted Britain’s best by CAMRA member Ian Guardian Travel) Advertising Scott who died in We rely on income from advertising to fund December. Ian worked Food served 12-2.30 production costs. Space is limited and is sold for our publisher Sprint & 6-9 (not Tuesday) on a first come, first served basis. We can design your advert, free of charge, or you and helped establish may supply your own artwork. Contact Liz Cwrw Ceredigion. Cookson on [email protected]. Listed in CAMRA Good Beer Guide Trading standards If you feel you have been treated unfairly in a for 41 years pub, contact Trading Standards. See www.tradingstandardswales.org.uk. Goginan, SY23 3NT Am nad oes llawer o le gennym, cyhoeddiad 01970 880650 www.goginan.com/druid-inn cyfrwng Saesneg fydd hwn, ond mae croeso i chi gyfathrebu gyda ni yn y Gymraeg.

Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 2 3 TIPPLE TATTLE NEWS Revamp for local pubs Brewery round-up The Glengower Hotel was closed earlier Two local breweries are growing their Glengower wins top pub award this year for renovation. The Aberystwyth operations. Cader Ales will soon be opening The Glengower Hotel in Aberystwyth has last few years which has resulted in an pub reopened in early February with the Unicorn in Dolgellau while Cardigan- been selected as Bae Ceredigion pub of improvement in beer variety and quality.” refurbished bar and dining areas based Mantle Brewery has installed an the year for the first time. (pictured) and the first dedicated cider additional fermenting vessel and recruited The Glengower always offers beers from bar in Ceredigion. Down the coast in a new brewer to increase production. The Welsh breweries and the beer pole behind Llangrannog, the bar at the Pentre Arms bar at Penlon Cottage Brewery just outside the bar promotes beers that are coming has been refurbished and there are plans will open at 4pm every Friday soon. Following a major refurbishment in for a covered outdoor seating area. The evening from 29 April until the autumn. January, a separate cider bar has been new owners at the Rhos yr Hafod in Cross Two cask ales plus the full bottled beer opened to offer a better choice of real Inn () have been busy smartening range will be on offer (please ring to check cider and perry. up this traditional pub. As well as new opening hours if making a special journey). Pubs are nominated for the pub of the flooring and seating, there are some cosy year award by CAMRA members who touches like cushions, candles and a Cheap beer! then visit and judge each one to evaluate stack of retro vinyl from which customers There’s no such thing as a free pint, but them against set criteria. The quality of the can pick tunes to listen to. if you join CAMRA you benefit from some beer and real cider is the most important handy discounts. Every year, CAMRA Bae Ceredigion CAMRA Chairman Tristan Robinson (left) single factor in judging a pub for a CAMRA presents the award to Glengower landlord Ian Richards members receive £20 of discount coupons award. Other criteria are value for money, to redeem in any Wetherspoons (most atmosphere and décor, customer service local members use their coupons to try Presenting the 2016 award to landlord and the role a pub plays in its local the great range of beers at Yr Hen Orsaf Ian Richards, Bae Ceredigion CAMRA . Chairman Tristan Robinson said, in Aberystwyth). Card-carrying CAMRA The runner-up was Y Talbot in “This award recognises the effort and members also now get a 5% discount on all which won the award last year. The other enthusiasm demonstrated by Ian and draught real ale and cider at the Glengower two finalists were the Druid Inn in Goginan his team to champion real ale over the Hotel. See page 15 for how to join CAMRA. and the Ship and Castle in Aberystwyth. Dates for your diary Friday 15 to Sunday 17 April: beer festival, First Oakademy of Excellence in Ceredigion Small beer Ship and Castle, Aberystwyth The Fronfelen Arms in Temple Bar has Friday 27 to Monday 30 May: beer festival, Drinkers at the Ship and Castle have started to sell an additional barrel on Glengower Hotel, Aberystwyth a good chance of enjoying one-off gravity dispense. brews from Oakham Ales now that Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 June: Llanfair the Aberystwyth pub has become an A third hand pump has been added at the Clydogau Beer Festival Cadwgan in Aberaeron to increase the Oakademy of Excellence. Saturday 23 July: Lampeter Food Festival interesting range of guest ales. “This award means that, as well as always Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 July: beer The Red Lion in Machynlleth was having one standard Oakham beer on festival, Pentre Arms, Llangrannog recently taken on by new tenants and the bar, we can now offer some of the sells two regular ales (Banks’s Bitter and Saturday 6 August: Cardigan River and brewery’s unusual one-off ales, too,” said Wychwood Hobgoblin). Food Festival landlord Ian Blair (pictured), who had to pass an independent quality test to There is now an extensive menu of bottled Saturday 13 August: Aberaeron Beer receive this accreditation. beer and cider as well as four real ales Festival (featuring Bae Ceredigion tombola and a real cider on draught at the Druid stall with beer-related prizes) Ian received his certificate at an Oakham Inn in Goginan. See www.baeceredigion.camra.org.uk for Ales tap takeover at the pub. The evening was hosted by a brewery representative The in Machynlleth is dates of Bae Ceredigion CAMRA meetings Wynnstay Arms who gave customers free tastings and currently closed. and social activities. other Oakham’s goodies.

Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 4 5 NEWS INTERVIEW WITH THE CHAIRMAN In 2007, well-known real ale campaigner People often ask what a CAMRA branch Time to discover real cider and perry Rhys Jones established the Bae does and Tristan is keen to explain. ”Our May and October are the months when The range of real cider in pubs is growing. Ceredigion branch of CAMRA. Rhys was most high profile job is selecting pubs CAMRA promotes real cider and perry. Y Talbot has been voted Bae the branch’s Chairman until his death last to appear in CAMRA’s annual Good May is when the orchards bloom Ceredigion CAMRA’s Cider Pub summer, following which Tristan Robinson Beer Guide,” he said. “We also choose and begin producing the of the Year for the second year was elected as his successor. Cwrw a branch pub of the year and the winner fruit which will be harvested running. The Tregaron pub Ceredigion has been finding out a bit goes forward to the next round of the in October. It is also when has expanded its range with more about the new Chairman, (pictured national pub of the year competition. cider and perry produced in new names appearing on on left below). Behind the scenes, we lobby politicians on the previous year reaches the board (pictured left). In issues such as beer tax and planning law.” maturity and can start being Aberystwyth, the recently “Most CAMRA meetings are held in a enjoyed. refurbished Glengower Hotel pub and we make sure there’s time to So, what is real cider? has a dedicated cider bar enjoy ourselves, plus a beer or two, Put simply, it is produced offering five ciders and as well as getting the business done,” from apples, not apple juice perries. Many other pubs offer he added. “Like any club, a CAMRA concentrate like many well- real cider on draught - you can search for branch organises social events – the known ciders in the UK. The natural fruit them on www.whatpub.com. There’s also Bae Ceredigion branch has an annual yeasts start the fermentation and, several an increasing range of cider and perry at programme of pub crawls, brewery visits months later, you have cider. Perry is the local beer festivals. The Aberaeron event and weekends away in Britain’s great beer equivalent drink made from perry pears. has a particularly good choice. Born in Pembrokeshire, Tristan Robinson destinations.” Both can be served direct from a plastic Now that it is easier to find the real stuff, lived in the county until he went to It’s fair to say that real ale is enjoying its cask, from a “bag in box” (similar to wine), why not try some real cider or perry and university in Wolverhampton. He highest ever profile with more and more in a bottle or from a handpump like real discover the variety of flavours these sheepishly admits to being a cider drinker people joining CAMRA. There is often ale. traditional drinks offer? in his early student years due to “a few debate amongst members about how the bad experiences with home brew in the organisation should move forward. Tristan Young Farmers!”. is of the view that the focus should be on Tafarn y Cadwgan However, whilst in the West Midlands supporting the businesses that make up Aberaeron he started to drink Banks’s Mild and his the real ale industry. interest in real ale was sparked. “I got “I think we should support pubs, especially a taste for different real ales by going those at risk of closure or of falling into to beer festivals,” he said. “I was so a developer’s hands, as well as the impressed by the variety of beer styles at producers of real ale and real cider,” he the Lichfield Winter Beer Festival that I said. “I have seen how CAMRA members joined CAMRA on the spot.” Traditional can act as a vital link between brewers OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY atmosphere At first, like many new members, he only and drinkers, for example by providing FOOD SERVED 12 - 9PM got involved in the social life of the local feedback on which beer styles are Three real ales branch. “I enjoyed the trips to breweries popular.” Dog friendly and pub crawls,” he recalls. “Then I These days, Tristan is a keen home Sky and BT Sport started to attend meetings and saw at brewer himself and our interview finished Teledu Lloeren first-hand how members play a part in with a tough question – which beer would developing their local real ale scene.” be on the bar at his dream pub? Since those early days, Tristan has “To be honest, my answer would vary from become a Life Member of CAMRA and, day to day,” he grinned. “But today I’ll go

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Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 6 7 PAWS FOR A PINT TOP PUBS FOR TOP DOGS Dogs are regarded as man’s best pub pooch as does the Tafarn Dwynant up Here’s our pick of the pubs with the warmest welcome for you and your pooch. friend but their owners can find it tricky the road in Ceinws (see opposite). Tafarn Dwynant, Ceinws Sea Horse Inn, New Quay sometimes to take their pet to the pub. In Aberystwyth, the Glengower Hotel Cwrw Ceredigion has investigated Pub dogs Clive and Dylan offer a Not many pubs in New Quay allow dogs (see opposite) and the Ship and Castle warm welcome to fellow canines at inside but this friendly pub is doggie which local real ale pubs extend a warm are the best places for a great pint with welcome to your four-legged friend. this cosy pub which is just off the heaven. Dogs are allowed in both bar your four-legged friend. A bit further afield, A487 near Machynlleth. Dogs are areas and they are greeted with a treat the Tynllidiart Arms in Capel Bangor and allowed throughout the pub and there is and a fuss. On the bar there’s a Dogs the Druid Inn in Goginan are well-known always water available and sometimes Trust collection box alongside a choice of for great food which you can enjoy in the homemade treats, too. Purple Moose’s Evan Evans beers, Westons draught cider bar with your dog. Snowdonia and another ale are usually on and a selection of filled crusty rolls. If you are heading for the hills around the bar. Tregaron, Y Talbot in the town square (see opposite) and the Black Lion Hotel in both serve good food and welcome canine guests overnight, too. How to find a dog friendly real ale pub There are miles of great dog walking on CAMRA produces two main directories of the Wales Coast Path and lots of pubs pubs, both of which can help you find a along the way welcome thirsty walkers dog friendly pub. The online pub directory with their four-legged friend. These www.whatpub.com includes every real ale include the Victoria Inn in and pub in our area (and most real ale pubs the Cadwgan Inn and the Monachty in in Britain) and is free to use. It is updated Aberaeron. Further down the coast, regularly by local CAMRA members and head for the Sea Horse in New Quay (see the advanced search function allows opposite) and the Pentre Arms and the you to look for dog friendly pubs. Every Ship in Llangrannog. September, CAMRA publishes the Good Staying overnight with your dog Beer Guide which features the best pubs Glengower Hotel, Aberystwyth Y Talbot, Tregaron serving real ale. Last year, a new pawprint Why not make a night of it and enjoy the symbol was added to the guide to indicate beer in a pub where your dog can stay Dogs are welcome on the seafront terrace There’s a warm welcome for man’s best which pubs welcome well behaved dogs. overnight, too? and in the bar with its huge woodburner friend at this ancient inn. After a walk in and wooden floors. A jar of dog treats sits the hills, enjoy a pint of Welsh ale or real Local dog friendly real ale pubs These pubs have dog friendly accommodation: White Lion, Machynlleth; on the bar alongside a menu of doggie ice cider by the fire in the flagstoned bar or Many of our local pubs welcome dogs with Glengower Hotel, Aberystwyth; Pentre cream. Thirsty owners can choose from on the sheltered rear patio. Dogs are not the reasonable proviso that they behave Arms, Llangrannog; Hafod Hotel, Devils five real ales, often from Welsh breweries, allowed in the upmarket restaurant but themselves. There isn’t room to mention Bridge; Black Lion, Pontrhydfendigaid; and five real ciders plus good value food from the same menu is served in the every one of these pubs here (go to www. and Y Talbot, Tregaron. homecooked food. bar areas. whatpub.com for a comprehensive list) but we’ve highlighted a few of the best below. If you’re in your campervan, dogs are Some have resident pooches of their own welcome at the Penrhiwgaled Arms and all have a bowl of dog water or will near New Quay where the car park is a give you one on request. Before you head licensed stopover for motor homes. for the bar, make sure your dog is clean The information in this article was correct (and dry!) and keep him on a lead, off the at the time of going to press. Please furniture and away from other customers. advise us of any changes to information Most pubs in Machynlleth welcome dogs about local pubs via the “submit update” and the White Horse has its own friendly option on www.whatpub.com.

Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 8 9 REAL ALE RAMBLE REAL ALE RAMBLE Aberystwyth is the biggest town in Bae Yr Hen Orsaf (Welsh for “the old station”) our visit was Purple Moose Calon Lân (a perry, plus a couple of craft beers on Ceredigion CAMRA’s area and there are is a Wetherspoon’s conversion of the pleasant amber bitter with fruity hop finish) keg and a good selection of bottled plenty of pubs to choose from. Tristan original 1924 GWR railway station. which was well kept and served. and canned beers. The ale range can Robinson was joined by Alex Vokes on a Spacious inside, it also has outside be sampled in the form of a “five pump tour of some of the best real ale outlets. seating which looks onto the platform. In platter” (five one third pint measures). We Our ramble around Aberystwyth started on addition to the regular offerings (Abbot tried Bragdy Twt Lol’s Cwrw’r Afr Serchog the outskirts of town at the Black Lion in Ale, Ruddles Best and Doom Bar) they /Horny Goat Ale (a golden malty ale) Llanbadarn Fawr. This pub has a main bar serve up to six guest ales, often from local which had an interesting musk and lemon in its wide front room, a function room and breweries such as Mantle or Bluestone. flavour and very dry finish, and Spitting We opted for a couple of halves each; Feathers Special Ale (a very malty brown Ruddles Best Bitter (well kept, light in ale). taste but thin mouthfeel), Upham’s Punter For our last pub, we headed to the (a light and lemony mid-range bitter), seafront via nearby Pier Street and walked Abbot Ale (really well served and a very along the promenade towards the cliff moreish combination of banana and malt railway until we reached the Glengower notes) and, the best of the bunch, Orkney Hotel, Bae Ceredigion CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2016. The Glengower is popular with locals, holidaymakers and students alike and offers a range of ales including regulars (Mantle Rock Steady and Wye

The Castle Hotel The Black Lion a secluded beer garden at the rear which After our swift halves we were fortified overlooks the village’s historic church. On enough to brave one of Aberystwyth’s the bar for our visit were regular beers Yr Hen Orsaf many hills. We turned right out of the Banks’s Bitter and Wychwood Hobgoblin, entrance, then immediately right uphill, plus Jennings Red Rascal and Wychwood Brewery’s Dragonhead Stout (smoky with turning left at the junction and right at the Dirty Tackle. The Red Rascal, a copper- bitter chocolate, smooth coffee and a hint next one. We continued along Vulcan coloured bitter with floral aroma and of spice). Street until its junction with High Street, toffee malt flavour, was clear and served Leaving the old station, we turned left and where we found the Ship and Castle. well, as was the Banks’s Bitter, which headed down Alexandra Road, crossed The Ship and Castle is Aberystwyth’s took me back to my university days in by the roundabout and continued straight flagship real ale pub, serving a constantly The Glengower Hotel Wolverhampton. past the petrol station until we reached changing range of ales from local and Suitably refreshed, we walked through Heol y Bont next to a stone bridge. We regional breweries, draught cider and Valley Butty Bach) and three guests from the churchyard towards the town centre. crossed the road, turned right then took regional breweries. Our final beers were We continued down Heol y Lan, past the next left and continued along South Salopian’s Treasure Trove (a golden ale the roundabout onto Llanbadarn Road, Road towards the sea until we found the with aroma of tropical flowers and a citrus followed by a left turn onto Plascrug Castle Hotel on our right. finish) and Bragdy Twt Lol’s Glog (a malty Avenue. We followed this road until it The Castle is an impressive terracotta session ale full of red fruit flavours). As we became a footpath at the roundabout next brick building designed in the style of a relaxed looking out across Cardigan Bay, to Plascrug School and continued through traditional gin palace with large we contemplated how these two excellent the park until we reached gates next to liveried windows. The interior is a single beers made a fitting end to our tour of this another roundabout. Turning left we used open space with a long bar and plentiful seaside town. the pedestrian crossing and proceeded seating. Three handpumps adorn the bar, Please note: if you follow our tour during through the bus station to our next usually serving two changing beers and the week, we recommend a reversal of watering hole. a cider (this time Henry Weston’s Family the route as the Black Lion does not open Reserve). However, the only ale option on The Ship and Castle until 4pm on weekdays.

Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 10 11 VIEW FROM THE BAR BREWERY NEWS The Pentre Arms is set right on the Which beers are the most popular on Ceredigion Coast Path in the pretty village the bar? And what’s your favourite? Aberystwyth graduates set up brewery of Llangrannog. Cwrw Ceredigion enjoyed Real ale has always been popular with the a day at the seaside finding out more locals but I’ve noticed more young people John Dyer and Steph Revely hatched about this cosy pub and the man who opt for beer recently. St Austell Tribute is their plan to set up Oast House Brewery has owned it for the last seventeen years, our most popular ale (and my personal when they were studying at Aberystwyth Mike Rutherford. favourite!) and it’s on all year along with University. The brewery takes its name Seafarers by Gales. We add an extra from the old maltings in the Trefechan handpump during busier months and we area of Aberystwyth and, having settled on often then sell a Welsh beer. a name, they have been seeking premises where they can brew in the town. Do you hold any regular events? “We liked the idea of resurrecting a bit There’s live music on Saturdays in July of Aberystwyth’s ale past,” said John. and August, and we support local events “That’s why we named the brewery after like the Gŵyl Nol a Mlan festival and the the harbour building where they used to village fireworks. We are also looking dry and roast barley to create malt for John Dyer and Steph Revely at the launch of Aber Dabba Doo forward to holding our first beer festival on brewing.” 23 and 24 July. John and Steph have not let their current John told us he is planning “something And finally, if you could run a pub lack of premises hold them back - they light and refreshing” next so, if you spot anywhere in the world, where would it Mike Rutherford recently brewed their first beer, Aber the distinctive Oast House Brewery be and why? Dabba Doo, using the kit at Brecon pump clip, take the chance to try a beer Why did you decide to run the Pentre In Llangrannog! I love it here – I missed Brewery (an activity known in the trade as from the latest in the wave of new Welsh Arms? the village when I was away at sea and I cuckoo brewing). breweries. I’m originally from Liverpool and, as a am lucky to work in a beautiful place with “We looked into basing our brewery in child, I used to come to Llangrannog on such a friendly community. the old oast house but unfortunately, it holiday every year with my family. My was not for sale,” explained John. “The parents liked to visit the Pentre Arms process of cuckoo brewing means we can and I told them that one day I wanted to develop our beers while we continue the own the pub. I worked in the merchant hunt for premises.” navy for over twenty years but I missed Aber Dabba Doo was launched at the Bae Llangrannog. When the pub came on the Ceredigion CAMRA Christmas social in market, I jumped at the chance to buy it. the Glengower Hotel. Made with British Who tends to visit the pub? hops, this 4.2% amber ale has soft hoppy We have a good local trade all year round aromas and a caramel flavour. from Llangrannog and nearby villages. Since then, Aber Dabba Doo has been on Lots of our summer visitors are regulars, sale in several other local pubs including too, as they have been coming here on Hand Crafted Y Talbot in Tregaron, Rhos yr Hafod in holiday for years. Cask Ales Brewed in Cross Inn (Llanon) and Fronfelen Arms in Why do you think people enjoy coming Cardigan, Ceredigion Temple Bar. It is also available in bottles. to the pub? The brewery’s second beer, a ruby ale named Roses are Red, was launched There can’t be many pubs with such a 01239 623898 just after Valentine’s Day, at a “meet special location - the big window in the bar [email protected] overlooks the beach just a few feet away. the brewer” event in Rummers. This Also, many of our staff are local people www.mantlebrewery.com triple hopped beer has a touch of fruit to who have known our customers for years, balance the bitterness and create a red and our traditional menu remains popular. glow.

Cwrw Ceredigion Cwrw Ceredigion 12 13 I LOVE MY LOCAL Bae Ceredigion CAMRA member, Lindsey like to enjoy a beer on the decking after a Male from Aberystwyth, tells us why she walk on the beach and watch the beautiful loves The Victoria Inn in Borth. Borth sunset. If it gets a bit nippy, there are blankets on the sea view terrace upstairs that you can wrap up in and still From as little as £24 a year, enjoy a beer watching the sunset or the that's less than stars. a pint a month! Does the pub serve food? What’s your favourite dish? Yes, it serves good, hearty homemade food made with locally sourced ingredients. I like to order something from the specials board as the choice changes often. There’s also an outside grill from Easter to October. Lindsey Male in the Victoria Inn Does the pub hold any regular events or activities? Benefits include: Membership starts from: How to join: What’s the pub’s history?  monthly newspaper There are live music events and quiz £24 per year (individual) Online at www.camra.org.uk/joinus The pub was built in the 1870s and there  quarterly magazine £29.50 (joint) nights and they even hold a ladies’ Ascot  free or discounted entry Telephone 01727 867201 is a rumour that it got its name as Queen Concessionary rates for day. Judith encourages local people to to beer festivals Pick up a CAMRA leaflet in a local pub Victoria owned Ynys-hir Hall nearby. It younger, older and life members organise events like art exhibitions and  money-off deals in pubs was recently refurbished and there are she supports some of these by donating a two bars downstairs with a decking area room for them to take place in. leading onto the beach. Upstairs there is a restaurant and a maritime themed bar with What are the regulars like? Rhos yr Hafod THE WHITE LION HOTEL a sea view terrace. The pub attracts a mix of locals, visitors Cross Inn (Llanon) TALYBONT Tell us about the landlady. and holidaymakers. It’s the type of place that brings everyone together as it Judith has run the pub since 2012. She accommodates everyone’s needs. can often be seen interacting with the locals and she works hard to maintain the Sum up in one sentence why our pub’s friendly atmosphere. readers should visit your local? What real ales and ciders have been on The Victoria is a friendly pub for all the bar recently? weather and moods, whether you want OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY to lounge by the fire, sit on the terrace or There are normally five real ales on offer Elin welcomes you to this FOOD SERVED 12 - 9PM watch the sport with a good beer in hand. refurbished cosy pub and recently these have included Wye THURS NIGHT CURRY & PINT £8.50 Enjoy constantly changing ales from Valley’s HPA, Sharp’s Doom Bar and TUE NIGHT PIE & PINT £8.50 Welsh Breweries <> Check the beer Atlantic, and Hobson’s Old Prickly. There Victoria Inn, High Street SUNDAY LUNCH 12-3PM FROM £7.95 is a guest ale, too. Judith always seems board for what’s coming soon <> Borth, SY24 5HZ Relax on the sunny patio or in our AWARD WINNING ALES FREE WIFI keen to change the selection and recently 01970 871417 large Garden <> Pick your tunes from she had Happy Daze cider from Gwynt y the vinyl collection Beer garden children’s play area Ddraig on cask as a trial. Open every day from 11am. Open Mon-Sat 5-11, closed Sun There is an excellent train service from IN THE CAMRA GOOD BEER GUIDE 2016 Where’s your favourite place in the pub “Hapus i ddeilo yn y Gymraeg” Aberystwyth and Machynlleth to Borth. 01970 832245 Talybont SY24 5ER to enjoy a drink? 01974 272644 [email protected] When the Welsh weather holds back, I

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