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Looking for a Beer Festival? SCARCELY a Month Goes by Nowadays When There Is Not a Beer Festival to Be Had Somewhere Or Other AWARD-WINNING No. 66 Summer 2005 CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN FOR FOR REAL ALE REAL ALE www.camrabristol.org.uk PPPIIINNNTSTSTS WWWEEESSSTTT PPAward-winning newsletter of the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign forTT Real Ale Looking for a beer festival? SCARCELY a month goes by nowadays when there is not a beer festival to be had somewhere or other. So popular can real, traditional, cask-conditioned beers be that everyone seems to want to get in on the act. (When did you last see a festival promoting “smoothflow” beers?) Such festivals come in all shapes and sizes, from small real ale promotions in pubs, though charity events held in marquees on the village green or in the village hall, to large-scale events such as CAMRA’s annual Bristol Beer Festival at Temple Meads in March or the mammoth Great British Beer Festival held each summer in London. The coming months are no exception with much to choose from. For a round-up of such festivals you need look no further than page two — so take a look inside now. ALSO — what’s happening to the Rose & Crown in Iron Acton? Who has won this year’s Pub of the Year award? What links Gulliver’s Travels to Bristol’s pubs? Who makes the best beer? What gets us hopping mad? Just what has Janet gone and done again? Step inside now to find out the answers to these questions, and much, much more... ...............................................................................................................................PINTS WEST ....................... Beer festival round-up Pucklechurch June 17-18 beers. Wickwar’s other pub, the White Lion in evening sessions. Exclusively, CAMRA In Pucklechurch there is the Revel Beer Bristol city centre, has run a few very members can reserve tickets by calling Nigel Festival, organised by a committee of villagers successful mini-beer festivals in recent years, Carson on 01934 838899. and now in its 29th year. This has been a main and it was decided that this practice should This event is set to raise £3,000 and will feature of the Pucklechurch Revel since 1976, extend to the Princess of Wales as well, partly be used by the Yeo Valley Lions to support making it one of the longest running real ale to raise the pub’s profile as it seems to be “off the local communities. festivals in the country. It is being held on the the beaten track” for some people. evenings of Friday 17th and Saturday 18th We hope it will prove as popular and Chipping Sodbury July 8-9 June in a marquee near the Star Inn on Castle successful as the White Lion’s have. The weekend of the 8th and 9th of July Road. It promises 28 real ales and five sees the return of the South Cotswold Beer farmhouse ciders, along with live music and a Claverham July 1-3 Festival. In its tenth year now, this is organ- barbecue. Tickets are available from the social The enlarged Claverham Village Hall (just ised by the Yate and District Rotary Club in club (above the village hall), the post office and off the A370 at Cleeve) will welcome this association with the Chipping Sodbury Rugby the Star Inn. All proceeds go to village clubs year’s beer festival over the weekend of 1st to Club. and charities. 3rd July with sessions on Friday evening, This is a big event held at the rugby club’s Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening and grounds with lots of real ales available in the Bedminster June 24-26 Sunday afternoon. Being the third such event marquee and plenty of entertainments laid on. A newcomer to the festival scene is the there they’ve dubbed it the Claverham “Slurd” There is even free camping available, so those Princess of Wales in Westbourne Grove, Beer Festival. It should prove a bigger event of you who live some distance away can stay Bedminster. This pub was acquired by than the previous two, with around 30 real ales overnight, or even make a weekend of it. Wickwar Brewery a number of years back, and mostly from Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire Tickets, which will not be available on the has been selling Wickwar and changing guest breweries, and a selection of ciders, plus a door, should be on sale at Any Sports in North barbecue and live Walk, Yate Shopping Centre; David music. The organisers Hebblethwaite & Co Solicitors in Chipping say they have “strived Sodbury High Street; the Tourist Information to select a variety of Centre also in Chipping Sodbury; Calalier The Bag O’Nails types, strengths and Print in Soundwell Road, Staple Hill; and from 141 St. George’s Road, Hotwells, flavours so there will the Beaufort Hunt pub in Hawkesbury Upton Bristol BS1 5UW Tel: (0117) 9406776 be lots to suit even the High Street. You can also write off for them at most assiduous tastes.” the address in the advert below. Visit their web From around site at www.bs37.com/beer for further A Real Ale Pub 4.30pm on the Sunday information. session you will have The annual beer festival is the club’s main Bristol & District CAMRA the chance to take fund-raising event. Plenty of organisations are home five pints of your sponsoring the event this year, including Uley Pub Of The Year 2000 chosen beer or cider in and Wickwar breweries, with profits going to a free container for £5, worthy charities. Host to two beer festivals a year that’s £1 a pint. Tickets are on sale Nailsea July 15-17 At least 12 different real ales a week at the Claverham post Chipping Sodbury is not the only rugby Imported German wheat beers office and village hall, club to be hosting a beer festival in July. Pullars of the Precinct, Nailsea and Backwell Rugby Club are also English bottle-conditioned beers and AB Motorcare. getting on the act with the Nailsea Beer and Unpasteurised imported bottled lagers Pre-purchase of tickets Cider Festival over the weekend of Friday Web : www.bagonails.org.uk is advised for the 15th to Sunday 17th July. This too promises Email : [email protected] Friday and Saturday lots of entertainment, and should be offering YATE & DISTRICT ROTARY CLUB in association with CHIPPING SODBURY RUGBY CLUB are pleased to announce that they will be holding their TENTH SOUTH COTSWOLD BEER FESTIVAL at the Chipping Sodbury Rugby Club on FRIDAY 8 JULY 2005 & SATURDAY 9 JULY 2005 6.00 pm to 11.30 pm 12.00 noon to 11.30 pm Advance ticket admission only @ £6.50 per person OR at £5.50 if applied for by post before 1st June, by writing to: YATE & DISTRICT ROTARY CLUB, PO BOX 1141, YATE, BRISTOL BS37 6YA enclosing P.O. or cheque made payable to Yate & District Rotary Club indicating which day (Friday or Saturday) also enclosing a S.A.E. Visit www.bs37.com/beer for further information. 2 Local CAMRA web site : www.camrabristol.org.uk ......................................................................................................................................................PINTS WEST over fifty different beers and ciders. Devizes July 2 Cotswold Beer Festival, 59 Welland Lodge They organisers mention that this is a cider The seventh Devizes Beer Festival will be Road, Cheltenham, Gloucs, GL52 3HH. Note as well as beer festival and say they “intend held at the Wharf in Devizes on July 2nd, that there will be no tickets available on the this to be a massive festival right at the very opening from 11.30am to 11pm. door. Send a stamped, addressed envelope and heart of cider country.” They have sought the This event comprises a beerfest, under a cheque made payable to “Cotswold Beer advice from us at CAMRA (thanks to Laurie canvas, beside the Kennet and Avon canal, Festival” to arrive by Friday 24th June. Gibney) on putting together this their second with over 50 real ales, cider, and food available. event, so we hope it will be a great success. It is a mainly out-of-doors, family-orientated THE BIG ONE! Advance tickets will be available from the event with various entertainments all day Great British Beer Festival Aug 2-6 Grove Stores, Nailsea; the Corner Stores, including live music and children’s entertain- The really big one happens each year in Kingshill; Samuel Bird TV and Video, Nailsea; ment. August. The Great British Beer Festival is a or from the Rugby Club itself. See their advert Admission is only by advance ticket at £5 celebration of beer from around the UK and elsewhere in Pints West and visit their web (includes souvenir glass, and £1 worth of around the world. It is Britain’s biggest beer page at www.appelfest.ik.com for further tokens for CAMRA member). Send a festival and attracts around 45,000 beer information. Profits will help worthy causes, stamped, addressed envelope and a cheque drinkers. They come to London Olympia with 25 per cent going towards Babe’s Big made payable to “Devizes CAMRA” to David because of the unparalleled choice – where else Appeal. Rapley, 9 Walden Lodge Close, Devizes, could you find a choice of over 450 real ales as Wiltshire, SN10 5BU. well as foreign beer, cider and perry? Last CAMRA BEER FESTIVALS year’s festival was one of the most successful Cotswold July 29-31 ever with over 46,000 visitors who between Plymouth July 1-2 The 29th Cotswold Beer Festival will once them drank 210,000 pints of beer! The CAMRA Plymouth Beer Festival will again be held at Postlip Hall, near Great British Beer Festival 2005 be held at the Plymouth Pavilions Main Arena Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, where you can The festival takes place between Tuesday in Millbay Road, just a five-minute walk from enjoy an extensive range of beers and ciders in 2nd and Saturday 6th August.
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