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FREE DWA E Y M Beer Belly Summer 2019 Issue 84 The FREE magazine issued by the Medway Branch of CAMRA ON THE RIGHT TRACK FOR SUCCESS FIND OUT THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 MEDWAY CAMRA BRANCH AWARDS www.medway.camra.org.uk Medway CAMRA @medwayCamra 22 STATION ROAD, STROOD Regular Live Music Pool League & Table Real Ales change weekly Live Sports on 5 HD Screens Premium beers, wines & spirits Beer Garden with heated Smoking Shelter Children & Dog friendly Open 7 days a week www.facebook.com/steampacketpub 22 STATION ROAD, STROOD, KENT, ME2 4BG, 01634 718195 MEDWAY BEER BELLY No. 84 SUMMER 2019 Published Quarterly by the Medway Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. (CAMRA). Circulation - 2,250 © 2019 Medway CAMRA. CONTENTS Editor: Ben Gurney E-Mail: [email protected] Index / Branch Details ................................................................ 3 All contributions to this magazine are Editorial ............................................................................................ 4 made on a voluntary basis. Branch Diary / Pub Events and Beer Festivals.................. 5 Views expressed by contributors and Pub News ........................................................................................ 7 advertisers do not necessarily reflect those of the editor, CAMRA or any of its officials. Breweries Update / Member Discounts............................... 8 Branch Details: Medway CAMRA Branch Awards 2019 ................................ 10 Chairman: Tony Page Secretary: Tony Smith Wandering on Wight .................................................................. 13 Treasurer: Kae Mendham Branch Social Meeting Round-up........................................... 14 Membership Secretary: Ian Howard Branch Contact: Wayne Coveney Drinking in Vilnius........................................................................ 17 e-mail: [email protected] The New Pubs of Rochester...................................................... 21 Trading Standards Office It’s The Beer Talking..................................................................... 22 If you want to contact the Trading Standards Office, perhaps to report a short Crossword........................................................................................ 23 measure, or a pub not displaying a price list etc, they can be reached at :- Spitfire Dave .................................................................................. 25 Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Where To Obtain Your Beer Belly .......................................... 27 Chatham, Kent, ME4 4TR Telephone: 01634 333555 [email protected] CAMRA, 230 Hatfield Road, St. Albans AL1 4LW Telephone: 01727 867201 ADVERTISERS Fax: 01727 867670 Website: www.camra.org.uk Angel, Rainham.............................................................................. 22 CAMRA ............................................................................................ 24 Cover illustration Dead Pigeon, Rochester ............................................................ 28 10:50 From Victoria Frog and Toad, Gillingham ....................................................... 9 Original Image Credit: WhatPub.com Gin & Tap Room, Gillingham .................................................... 11 Graphic Design by Great British Beer Festival 2019 ............................................. 26 Ben Gurney Kings Arms, Upper Upnor ........................................................ 19 Musket Brewery ............................................................................ 6 Copy Deadline for issue 85: Nelson Brewery ............................................................................. 9 Monday 5th August 2019 RAMS Micropub 12 Degrees, Rochester................................ 12 Steampacket, Strood .................................................................. 2 Thomas Waghorn, Chatham .................................................... 16 Three Tuns, Lower Halstow ...................................................... 20 Who’d Ha Thought It, Rochester ........................................... 16 3 EDITORIAL The summer is here, so it is time for the Medway Beer Belly to come out of its hibernation and step once more into the beer garden. It’s been a while - we want as much user-generated content as since the last possible! issue, but whilst the Medway Beer Of course the highlight of the ‘Summer of Belly may have Pub’ will be the ‘Beer Day Britain’ event on been in a state Saturday June 15th. ‘Beer Day Britain’ is an of torpor, the annual celebration for all beer lovers and it Campaign for celebrates all beer including traditional ales, Real Ale never limited edition craft beer and everything in sleeps. between no matter where it is brewed or who owns the brewing company. CAMRA has designated this June 15th is significant because that is also summer as the the date Magna Carta was sealed in 1215. The ‘Summer of Pub’. great charter mentions ale in Article 35: A play on ‘Summer of Love’, the campaign ‘Let there be throughout our kingdom a single aims to rely on positive, feel-good vibes to measure for wine and a single measure for ale remind people why they love their local. and a single measure for corn…..’ Up and down the country CAMRA will be working with licensees create opportunities to Ale was so head down to the pub to boost the trade and important in demonstrate the overwhelming support for England in our nation’s pubs. 1215 that it was cited in one As a CAMRA member you can help by of the most speaking to your local pub about the significant campaign and ask them to put on events, legal such as screening the Women’s World Cup documents in or hosting a celebratory comedy night. These history. Today events can then be listed on the CAMRA beer and pubs are still central to British life ‘Summer of Pub’ website and promoted on and seven out of 10 drinks sold in a pub are social media if they contact summerofpub@ beer. camra.org.uk The hope is that wherever you are at 7pm You are also on June 15th, you’ll join with millions of encouraged to people across the country to raise a glass, say take photos or ‘Cheers to Beer’ and post a message on social MME videos when media with the hashtag #CheersToBeer. U R socialising at S the pub over Remember, Summer of Pub runs right the Summer throughout the summer O and put it so you have plenty of F P U B on social time to get involved. I media with hope you have a great the hashtag time and I’ll speak to you #summerofpub again in the Autumn. 4 MEDWAY CAMRA - BRANCH DIARY Anyone is welcome to join us at any of our varied socials and trips. Any changes will be shown in “What’s Brewing” or on our Website: www.medway.camra.org.uk Thur 24th Apr: Faversham Social - 7pm. Tue 4th June: Medway CAMRA Open Business Meeting at the Bear Inn, 3 Market Place, Meeting - 8pm. Kings Head Hotel, 58 High Faversham, ME13 7AG for 7pm, then on to Street, Rochester, ME1 1LD. All members Furlongs, Corner Tap and the Elephant. welcome to attend. Sat 18th May: Kent CAMRA Regional OBM - Fri 14th June: Rochester Social - 7pm. Meeting 11:30am. Bradstow Mill, High Street, Broadstairs at the Coopers Arms, 10 St. Margarets Street, CT10 1NG. All members welcome to attend. Rochester, ME1 1TL at 7pm, then Who’d Ha thought It, Good Intent, Man of Kent and Sat 25th May: Sheppey Micro Tour - 3:45pm. Golden Lion. Meeting at Queenborough Rail Station 3:45pm, then a bus to the Heritage, 17-19 Minster Sat 6th Jul: Kent CAMRA Regional OBM - Road, Halfway, Sheppey, Sheerness, ME12 3JE 11:30am. Sturdee Club, Gillingham ME7 2HN. All followed by the Flying Sheep and A Y’s Man, members welcome to attend. finishing at the Admiral’s Arm. PUB EVENTS AND BEER FESTIVALS Fri 19th Apr - Sat 20th Apr: 14th CAMRA Fri 24th May - Sun 26th May: Crabble Corn Thanet Easter Beer & Cider Festival - Winter Mill Beer & Cider Festival - Crabble Corn Mill, Gardens, Fort Cres, Margate CT9 1HX. Further Lower Road, River, Dover, Kent, CT17 0UY. details @ www.thanet-camra.org.uk Further details @ https://www.facebook.com/ events/294394324506440/ Mon 6th May: Kentish Beer Festival & Family Fun Day 2019 - Priestfield Stadium, Fri 15th Jun - Sat 16th Jun: 11th CAMRA Real Redfern Ave, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 4DD. Ale & Cider Festival at The Kent & East Sussex Further details @ https://www.facebook.com/ Railway- Tenterden Town Station, Station events/358387891445808/ Road, Tenterden, Kent, TN30 6HE. Further details @ www.camra-afrm.org.uk Thurs 9th May - Sat 1th May: 14th CAMRA Bexley Beer Festival - Old Dartfordians, War Fri 21st Jun - Sat 22nd Jun: The Oast Beer & Memorial Clubhouse, Bourne Road, Bexley, Music Festival 2019 - The Oast, Granary Close, Kent, DA5 1LW. Further details @ www.bexley. Rainham, Kent, ME8 7SG. Further details @ camra.org.uk www.facebook.com/oastfestival Fri 24th May - Mon 27th May: Waggon Thur 18th Jul - Sat 20th Jul: 45th CAMRA At Hale Beer Festival - Waggon At Hale, Kent Beer Festival - Canterbury Rugby 179 Capstone Road, Chatham, ME5 7PP. Club, Merton Lane North, Nackington Road, Further details @ www.waggonathale.com/ Canterbury, CT4 7AZ. Further details @ https:// forthcoming-events www.facebook.com/CAMRA-Kent-Beer- Festival-988285844531180/ 5 MEDWAY PUB NEWS Railway, Rainham: Local press reports that Royal Oak, Frindsbury: After a second work on Medway’s newest Wetherspoon’s buyer pulling out, it was reported in is due to start on April 8th with a projected early April that the current owners of the opening date of September 24th. property have put it up for auction.