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Newsletter for the Tayside Branch ‘let’s keep it flowing’ Tay Ale Issue Eleven Summer 2013 Pitlochry Brechin Aberfeldy Forfar Blairgowrie Arbroath Dundee Perth Crieff Kinross Inside This Issue Tayside Pub News Craft Keg: A Complex & Moving Picture Historic Pubs - A Personal View South Perthshire Road Trip (Branch Outing) Tayside Pubs List Support Your Tom’s Foreign Travel Tips And as always much, much Local more……. 40 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 2 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 39 Atholl Arms Hotel Blair Atholl, near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Tel : 01796 481205 There are few more imposing sights in the Scottish Highlands than the superb façade and highland grandeur of the Atholl Arms Hotel in Blair Atholl. In our adjoining ‘Bothy Bar’, locals and visitors alike can un-wind and swop tall- tales in cosy, informal surroundings, where food is available all day alongside fine ales from nearby Moulin Brewery Moulin Inn & Brewery 11 - 13 Kirkmichael Rd Moulin Perthshire PH13 5EH Tel: 01796 472196 Four great ales:- Light (3.7%), Brave- Fax: 01796 474098 heart (4%), Ale of Atholl (4.5%) & Old Remedial (5.2%) A 315 year old former coaching inn full of character in picturesque Moulin village attracting locals and visitors alike. Open 365 days per year serving great food and refreshments all day. Hotel accommodation provides 15 ensuite, clan themed bedrooms plus a 3 bedroom self catering unit. Relax in our peaceful lounge & lounge Winner of numerous awards including bar and dine in our fine restaurant AA Scots Pub of Year 2007 & Tayside overlooking the gardens and Moulin CAMRA Pub of the Year. burn. Recommended in many guides. WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 38 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 3 Tayside CAMRA Pub of the Year 2011 The Cherrybank Inn 210 Glasgow Road, Perth PH2 ONA THE CORN EXCHANGE Booking and Information Market Place Tel: 01738 624349 Fax: 01738 444962 Arbroath The Cherrybank Inn, with its large car park, can be found easily. When entering Perth from the A9 down Tel. 01241 432430 the Glasgow Road, take the 2nd right then immediately Located just off the High Street, this well- left - and there it is! managed Wetherspoon pub occupies a 19th-century former corn exchange. Two guest beers are always available in addition to the two regular offerings. Although largely open plan there are a number of booths offering some privacy. A wide variety of food including some pub classics is served from 8am until 10pm by pleasant, enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff. Children are welcome until 9pm. Situated at the western entrance to Perth (from the A9), The Cherrybank Inn has been a popular venue for passing travel- lers for over 200 years. Featuring well appointed rooms with en-suite facilities, good food, excellent staff and a high standard of service, suitable for tourists or business people alike - also ideally situated for golfing parties. The Corn Exchange won the Tayside CAMRA “Pub of the Year” award for We are regularly listed in the Good Beer Guide and always Angus in 2009 and has been a regular entry in CAMRA’s “Good Beer have a minimum of five real ales on draught including several Guide” from the award winning Inveralmond Brewery in Perth. To find out more about our real ale festivals visit : Ample car parking available. www.jdwrealale.co.uk WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 4 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 37 A warm welcome to the latest issue of Tay Ale Tay Ale's 3 Reasons to be Cheerful 1. The number of real ale establishments in Tayside territory continues to rise... now above 125 for the first time (and other branches are also seeing 13 Wellmeadow, Blairgowrie, PH10 6ND increases). 01250 872469 [email protected] 2. Following CAMRA's success in getting 100,000 signatures, the Beer Duty Tayside’s Premier Real Ale Pub Escalator was dropped by George Osborne... giving some price relief to hard- pressed publicans. Six beers on hand pump plus real cider. 3. The Westminster government is making further noises about forcing the big brewers and pubcos to give better terms and conditions to their tenants, in Tayside CAMRA Pub of the particular the right to buy outside of the tie. The detail of this will be hard to Year 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, negotiate, but it's worth lobbying your MP to get them to support what is being 2007, 2008 & 2010 attempted. Alan Lawson Tayside CAMRA Branch Chair This year’s Great British Beer Festival Beer Festivals will take place between 13th – 17th August at London Olympia. Scottish Real Ale Festival, Corn Exchange With over 800 real ales, ciders, perries Edinburgh 11 - 14th July and foreign beers to choose from we are Harley Davidson Weekend, Caledonian Hotel, sure there will be plenty of choice to suit Brechin 12 - 14th July everybody’s taste buds! It is not all about the beer though. There is also plenty of Glen Clova Hotel, Glen Clova 19 - 21st July food, live music and pub games to enjoy. Bankfoot Inn, Bankfoot 1 - 5th August Tickets can be bought by calling 0844 Great British Beer Festial, Olympia London 13 - 17th August 412 4640 or visiting www.gbbf.org.uk/ tickets Alba Real Ale Festival, Royal Tay Yacht Club Dundee 23 - 25 August If you are feeling lucky then visit Alloa Real Ale Festival, Alloa Town Hall 18 - 19th October www.gbbf.org.uk/competitions where For more information about these and other beer festivals there are plenty of great prizes to win. visit our own or CAMRA websites WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 36 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 5 TAYSIDE PUBS NEWS The Bank Bar What Makes a Good Pub? The Phoenix, Dundee, was presented with 7/9 Union Street our POTY award for 2013: long-time DUNDEE “I like a pub with a bit of character, owner Alan Bannerman is pictured with old and with a proper wood burning manageress Shelagh Matthew, with social Tel: 01382 205037 open fire, making you feel welcome Convenor Kenny Smith looking on. right away. In a perfect world there The Town in Commercial Street, Dundee, will be at least four different real ales has been bought by Park Leisure (Marr with at least one local brew to choose brothers), owners of the Hawkhill from. With a gentle whiff of home Brewery (Discovery Ales). Renamed cooking teasing you to order something Nicoll’s, 3 handpulls are in place, usually 2 with their own beers, plus a guest from the menu, I will feel right at Local Real Ales (often from Burnside). home. To top it all, a good atmosphere Out past Lochee, the Park House Hotel has now got 1 handpull with the Hawkhill Homemade Food Available with some live ceilidh music and the brewery ale. Hawkhill beers are also now available in the Playwright Restaurant *** chance to meet some friendly folk… beside the Rep Theatre. what more can you ask for?” Free Live Music The Capitol (Wetherspoons) in Dundee has recently increased the number of Steve Flack Fridays & Saturdays handpulls substantially, with 6+ different ales on offer during their beerfests. The Star and Garter in Union Street, Dundee (which had been closed for a long “The best pubs are places where the time) has re-opened with real ale on the counter (2 handpulls); it is being bar-staff are willing (and able) to operated by the same owners as the nearby McDaniels. engage with their customers. “ Karen Kennedy, operator of the Osnaburg in Forfar, says that real ale is going Alan Lawson (Branch Chair) well there, having increased the handpulls to 3, and is even thinking about a 4th. The Perth Arms, Dunkeld, were awarded our “When you walk into a pub and being ‘Best Newcomer’ award for 2012: owners A WARM WELCOME TO A SPECIAL surprised by the choice of beer on Ewan & Karen Alcorn are pictured at their HOTEL! offer…then to be served by welcoming bar. A new fire has recently been installed to So much to offer from wonderful meals, and knowledgeable staff.” fine wines, real ales and whiskies. keep customers cosy. Woodlands Bistro Now Open - Extensive Lee Campbell The Losset Inn in Alyth has recently added a Menu Using Local Produce handpull in the public bar, complementing the existing handpull in the lounge. For more details of what we can provide to “Good company, good beer, and staff make your visit special, contact:- that passionate about what there are The Old Smiddy in Errol has had a complete makeover, and is now Rattray’s ROYAL DUNKELD HOTEL Restaurant, with 1 handpull in the drinkers’ area; varying beer selection. selling and have a understanding of real Atholl Street, Dunkeld PH8 0AR ale.” The Atholl Arms Hotel in Dunkeld now has 3 handpulls in their bar, and are Tel: 01350 727322 considering quality cider as well. www.royaldunkeld.co.uk Alex Faulds Car Parking Available at Rear of Hotel WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 6 WWW.TAYSIDECAMRA.CO.UK 35 Real Ale Pubs throughout Forth Valley Trading Standards Offices: For Tay Ale could not be produced Scotland www.camra-forth-valley.co.uk issues such as consistent short measures or no price lists, without the support of our If you are travelling around the (listing by town/village, with photos & contact: advertisers many who have country and looking for real ale pubs, notes) the websites of all the Scottish Angus – 01241 435600 Glasgow & West of Scotland continued to support it since CAMRA branches have full listings, Perthshire – 01738 476476 our first issues in 2008 as indicated below. www.glasgowcamra.org.uk Dundee – 01382 434000 Aberdeen Grampian & Northern Isles (list of outlets by sub-area) If you want to raise the www.aberdeencamra.co.uk Highlands & Western Isles profile of your pub, hotel or (list by sub-area, with short notes on www.highlandcamra.org.uk Advertising - If you would like to brewery amongst Tayside each) (all pubs named from