THE DUKE of CAMBRIDGE 19 Queens Road, Marlow, Bucks
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FREE Issue 72 JUNE/JULY 2009 ON THE VERGE OF A REAL ALE BONANZA! A quick glance at this magazine will Could it be that this interest in real reveal the great number of pubs, ale is also down to the fact that social clubs and others running beer people still want to go out and festivals. enjoy themselves in good company, but feel that they might as well get This is part of a resurgence in interest something that supermarkets can in real ale which is reflected in the never offer. boom in sales from local breweries, most of whom have recently been The local beer festivals will give extended to deal with the demand, people the opportunity to try more or are planning to do so. of the seemingly endless variety of tastes of beer that are available. Promotions like Cask Ale Week which featured Melanie Sykes The number of seasonal beers from (pictured), famous for being the face of Boddingtons, have also our local breweries will also feature at many of these festivals so helped raise the profile of our national drink. it is possible to feel virtuous as the beer miles travelled by your tipple are reduced! So despite the credit crunch and the ever increasing tax burden that beer seems to attract along with diatribes against binge So, even if the weather lets us down, get out there and support drinking in the newspapers,there is still demand for good quality as many festivals as you can - you never know, they might be traditional cask ale in traditional British pubs. tempted to hold them again next year! THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE 19 Queens Road, Marlow, Bucks. SL7 2PS Tel: 01628 488555 BBQ and Cheese Stall Beer Garden Sunday Lunch Roast Summer Solstice Mini-Beer Festival Friday 19th - Sunday 21st June A weekend not to be missed! All Real Ales @ £2.50 a pint Micro-brewery beers from Borough Arms, Art Brew, Dorset Piddle and many others plus Whiteheads Cider Only two minutes walk from the 800/850 bus route between High Wycombe and Reading Find us in the 2009 Good Beer Guide A newsletter with a print run of 5000 for the discerning drinkers of Aylesbury Vale and Wycombe Swan Supping Local News ASTON ROWANT LACEY GREEN the pub on www.derehamsinn.co.uk. The Lambert Arms has been voted CADMORE END The Black Horse has now joined one of the top twenty pubs in Britain the Cellarmans Reserve guest ale The Tree Hotel (formerly the Blue by the Morning Advertiser. programme and serves three such MARLOW Flag) is offering a wide range of foods guest ales, changing monthly, plus The refurbished Carpenter’s Arms from all over the world along with its usual Brakspears Bitter. Recently reopened in April as O’Donoghue’s their cask ale Marstons Pedigree. The AYLESBURY the three guest ales were: Camerons Irish Ale House. No sight yet of pub is now part of a small group which The Hobgoblin is currently sticking Nimmos XXXX; Bath Ales Golden any Irish Craft microbreweries beers includes the Tree Hotel in Iffley. with Wychwood beers and the two Hare and Brains Rev James. They but the three handpumps have been on offer recently were Rye Smile and now also serve excellent breakfasts retained , thankfully , with Greene Hobgoblin, both at a very reasonable GREAT KIMBLE (sampled by the local CAMRA rep) King IPA , Abbot and Hardy & Hanson Olde Trip spotted on a recent visit. £2.10 (after 7pm it goes up to £2.80). The Bernard Arms continues its from Tuesday to Saturday 9 till 11:30. It is still planned to offer food in the occasional evenings of live music future and to have a seating area in with another session on 26th June. A ‘Celebration of Local Beers’ was Kingsbury Square. LANE END held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel over The Old Sun was closed for nearly a the Spring Bank Holiday weekend The Towersey Morris Men will be week during May, but this Enterprise towards the end of May. A choice of The Hop Pole was voted one of the performing outside the Swan on 1st Inn’s pub is now being run by Lee ten beers were available, some draught top twenty pubs in Britain by the July. The Swan will also be holding Hulstaert who is a temporary manager. and some bottle-conditioned, from Morning Advertiser and is now being an Italian evening on 24th June and Tring Jack O’ Legs was on offer there local breweries Chiltern, Loddon, managed by Richard Prest and his will be re-instating its summer ball on when last visited. Lovibonds, and Rebellion. Here’s to partner Lisa Dunbar. They used to run 29th August, after an absence of three their next beer celebration! the Goat & Tricycle in Bournemouth years. which was a regular Good Beer Guide LOUDWATER entry, so as expected the pub’s ten The Derehams Inn will be holding Summer Solstice weekend will be beers are in good hands! We enjoyed HIGH WYCOMBE its third ‘Fag and Firkin’ beer festival beer festival time again at the Duke a superb buffet there after our recent The Bell is closed! This Fullers pub from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th of July. of Cambridge so make a note in your trip to Vale Brewery, so many thanks shut suddenly with no explanation There will be entertainment this year as diary now for Friday 19th to Sunday to Richard and Lisa. about in early May. Its web-site says well as some ace beers and the theme 21st June and we will have our social that it has closed ‘due to the economic for the festival is ‘An independent there from noon on the Saturday. Amy Close, landlady of the climate’ which doesn’t make much pub supporting independent local Expect more than one or two goodies Rockwood, gave birth to a baby boy, sense as the town centre pubs appear breweries on Independence Day’. They rare to the usual Marlow imbibing Patrick Dennis, on the 24th of May. to be doing reasonably well at the also have a brand new website with all scene. We wish both mother and baby well! moment! the details of the beers at the festival as well as the usual information about (Continued on page 23) MOWCHAK Finest Bangladeshi & Indian Cuisine Wycombe Road, Stokenchurch BUFFETS Tel: 01494 485005 Why not try our SUNDAY LUNCH SPECIAL Try our Special Balti Night BUFFET Balti with Nan £5.95 per person From 12pm to 3pm Every Tuesday 5.30pm - 11.30pm Menu Chicken Tikka Onion Bhaji Restaurant & separate bar Fuljury Chicken Tikka Delight Lamb Balti with Real Ales Vegetable Curry Open 7 days a week Sag Aloo Pillau Rice, (including Bank Holidays) Nan and Green Salad Adult .....................£ 7.95 12.00pm - 2.30pm, 5.30pm - 11.30pm Child (under 12) ..... £ 4.95 2 Please contact the editor if you have any news regarding our local pubs Swan Supping THE WHIP INN: BRANCH PUB OF THE YEAR 2009 The Whip Inn is a directly from the port. worthy winner of the The Whip is located branch Pub of the next to a rare example Year 2009. Over the of a working smock last few years, Nick windmill and is Smith, the landlord, positioned on the top has steadily built-up a of the Chiltern ridge in dedicated following of great walking country, real ale connoisseurs. with great views A blackboard in the pub down to Oxfordshire shows how the number and Aylesbury Vale. of different real ales has However, it can easily steadily risen from 199 be reached by public in 2005, through 452 in transport as the 300 2006, 700 in 2007 and Aylesbury to High a phenomenal 770 in Wycombe bus stops 2008 – which works right outside. The out at an average of bus service runs until two different real ales 11pm on weekdays and changing per day. 2009 Saturdays so there’s has seen 321 so far, predominating. plenty of reason to stay longer to sample each which matches the 2008 rate. Maybe the Pub The pub holds two beer festivals per year, ale from the five handpumps. of the Year accolade might help push the total usually in May and October (the alternative over the 800 limit? Oktoberfest) which are popular events in the The picture, taken by Alex Wright, shows the presentation of the POTY certificate by the A few years ago, the pub featured a choice local branch calendar. Some festivals have chairman of the Aylesbury Vale & Wycombe of well-known brands of ale with a few been held in association with the Wheel in CAMRA branch, David Roe (right) to the microbrewery beers for variety. However, Naphill down the road (also a finalist in Pub landlord, Nick Smith. in the last couple of years, the selection has of the Year). become ever-changing with beers from While the beer is superlative, the pub does The Whip will now enter the Central Southern micros and small regional and family brewers a good trade in food, including fish brought Regional Pub of the Year competition. THE WHIP INN TRADITIONAL ENGLISH COUNTRY PUB Aylesbury Vale & Wycombe CAMRA Pub of the Year 2009 FIVE REAL ALES AVAILABLE PLUS A RANGE OF CIDER & LAGER SOAK UP THE BEER WITH HOMEMADE PUB GRUB Food Available lunchtime 12 - 2.30 Evenings Mon. 6pm to 8pm, Tue-Sat. 6.30pm - 9pm Sunday Lunch 12-3pm OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY The 300 bus from Aylesbury & Wycombe stops at the Pub! WHIP INN FOR A PINT THE WHIP INN, PINK ROAD, LACEY GREEN, BUCKS.