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Wedding fever is increasing punch, an aroma of toffee malt, t s a oint idea, says axim April at Blenkinsopp Castle as Wills and ate s big day and a full body reminiscent of director ark Anderson. We gave nn, Greenhead, Cumbria. The rapidly approaches April 9, woody orange marmalade and them a list of ideas about what the pub near Brampton normally if you ve ust emerged from caramel which oozes beer should be like and they has a couple of real ales on a Russian space capsule on a out of a combination of came up with the name and the tap but this will increase to simulated mission to Mars unich and elanoidin design. We ve been talking to which will be available over The beer industry is refusing Bamberg malts and them anyway but it s nice that the weekend. There s also live to let champagne wallow in all earthy uggles hops. a big boy is willing to form a music and a barbecue. Tel the glory, so let s have a look Houghton le Spring- brewing partnership with us. for details. at some of the beers being based axim Brewery Other beers are Of course, the other big date to brewed to commemorate has come up with Royal Shepherd Neame Wedding celebrate in April is St George s the royal shenanigans Toast . abv in a Ale, Elgood s Windsor Knot, ay April . Apart from acting urham Brewery Something collaboration with Coors arston s Perfect nion, as patron saint of England, George Blue it is a abv ruby old ale Brewers. t s described Wadworth Better Half, – born in Turkey and known released in bottle which should as by appointment with Castle Rock Kiss e Kate as Jordi in Barcelona – is also actually improve with age. The the butter and a hint of Golden and Thwaites Thwaity Katy. patron saint of Greece, butchers, accent is on a traditional English Shred with the pumpclip coming A Royal Wedding Beer farmers, soldiers, Boy Scouts and Old Ale character with a winey in the shape of a piece of toast. estival takes place on riday sufferers of syphilis. So there.
pril 2011 visit www cheersnortheast co uk to have your say Love and barrelage High House arm Brewery is putting we ve even got one on New Year s Eve – plans in place to cope with an increase plus we ve ust taken our fi rst booking in wedding receptions booked at the for . Our largest guest list has Matfen, Northumberland, been and nearly all the visitor centre A couples want a special barn at the rade beer for the day, too. II listed farm is Heather also being refurbished reports that to be able to guided brewery host the actual tour bookings are ceremony High continuing to rise, House arm is as are functions in the one of two breweries fi ne, timber-clad bar, in the country to hold with a lot of repeat business. a license – the other is Shepherd A new beer has been brewed for the Neame A children s play area will Newcastle Beer estival – Pullet soon be added to the attractions Please . abv is a pale session ale, We are ust about fully booked with with a name that continues the line weddings every weekend from ay until of farmyard-themed beer as well as September, says Heather Scott, who an excruciating pun to match Top Tup with husband Gary, leases the business which Heather says is ying out . from brewery founder Steven rwin. ■ High House arm Brewery, That amounts to weddings and tel 0 9 Sunderland uiz League uestion setter Tony old told Cheers recently Out of curiosity I once asked an American Indian why his wife was called ive Hill street brews Horses He replied Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag The eathers Inn, Hedley on steep hill before making a dash to We have a blind beer tasting on the riday where the Hill, annual charity barrel the nishing line at the pub – lugging the locals take part, its lots of fun, says Helen race is almost upon us art of a cask The prize is nine gallons of reer, who runs the eathers with partner Rihan part of the award winning pub s ale – that s pints roceeds to the Cradock The couple are celebrating their fourth Easter Beer and ood estival Northumberland mountain rescue year at The eathers with a traditional farmers April , the famous race up team The record time is min sec market Easter Saturday where much of the local Billy rail s eld takes place on – and there are murmurings that it produce used in the pub will be available to buy Easter Monday Teams of three are will be beaten this time around last ■ If you think you have what it takes to oin the race, register re uired to battle up the steep, year s winning time was min sec at the pub, tel 0 0 , www thefeathers net
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pril 2011 NE S BEER FESTI AL BENEFITS Villa , Sausages too well-run pub can bene t the whole community with immediate effects writes lastair ilmour We often hear about how the pub Jesmond, and Alternative eats at the neighbouring newsagent the biggest festival is at the centre of a community, Highfi eld arm in Shropshire one had to put on extra staff and taxi in the region after hence the phrase, the pub is the of Rick Stein s food heroes . The fi rm LA Taxis took note of the the Newcastle hub We can cite innumerable most popular were George Payne s increased bookings and is eager Beer estival. The e amples, but surely the pheasant and pear, onald to help out at the next festival. choice included Brandling Villa in South osforth, Gilbert s ostrich and rosemary and Head chef Steve atthews exclusives like Newcastle, takes the biscuit – or Nicholson s lamb and apricot. oversaw the food operation with Wild Raspberrry more accurately, the sausage Nearby pubs, The illstone the help of four chefs, all of Beer from enver- INNERS D C rr ro Br li Last month, landlord ave Carr more than doubled trade and The whom were stretched to the limit, based Great ivide ill l o S ipl T ic or r l organised his second Beer working -hour days over Brewery, as well Sausage estival – and not the three days. And then as Schlenkerla only did it fi ll the pub from they made Sunday lunch. Rauchbier, a smoked beer from the riday till the Sunday, Ouseburn alley, the Bamberg, Germany. This stuff, virtually every business most local as you may in the neighbourhood felt micro-brewery know, is the sizzle. ave and his represented very rare on team served kilos of at the festival draught. specially-prepared sausage created Boggarts – around , bangers a special Rum Porter, in avour combinations Bangerade Stringers that ranged from wood . alcohol utiny pigeon and damsom am, by volume mperial black rabbit and Brooklyn which uickly Russian chocolate stout, and full disappeared, Stout, and English breakfast. despite its Summer ive butchers were strength. Wine Barista involved and all report increased ictory had a record weekend, t was so popular Espresso sales in the aftermath of the to such an extent that landlord it will be tinkered with Stout were event, says ave. The butchers John Shipley sheepishly admits to to create Grainger Special at a far and away the most well were George Payne and onald running out of ale my regulars more comfortable . abv, received, which is exciting for Gilbert from Gosforth Nicholson s, weren t too impressed . Local says ave. We served casks us as they are all dark beers. Whitley Bay Stewart Co of takeaways also reported a benefi t, of different beers, making it t was great to see how far the
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staff and have come from the and see how you can adapt and time we took over in September capitalise from a fi rm base. . Our takings for the festival Hopefully this will spur other weekend were e ual to the fi rst businesses to try something four months turnover. remember different, says ave. t s sad when used to work all day to see pubs scrimping on staff Saturday on my own and not even and swapping risky products break a sweat, times were that for better-selling mainstream tough – on the Saturday of the ones. People won t come out festival the staff numbered . for anything run-of-the-mill, The message is fairly clear, you ve really got to throw the not ust for pubs, but for every kitchen sink at them. business – look at youre offer Or an ostrich sausage. The hills are alive Among this month s beer newcomers is Stickle ike abv , the April special from ennings in Cockermouth, Cumbria It s light gold in colour with a toffee and caramel aroma and a slightly sweet, malty avour which bursts into delicious, refreshing citrus Carvery & New Spring Menu bitterness Stickle ike or ike o Stickle is a , feet NOW AVAILABLE high mountain in the Lake Our new Carvery embraces our commitment to supporting local producers District often referred to as and the very best of British Meats. Our seasonal vegetables are grown locally the perfect mountain shape at Vallum Farm and Tiptoe Farm in Northumberland. due to its conical appearance pints of Jennings along the way. Carvery available Monday to Friday 5pm to 9.30pm, Jennings Brewery site manager Pubs, such as the Sun nn Saturday 12noon to 9.30pm, Sunday 12noon to 6pm. Gaynor Green also reports that the at Swalwell, Gateshead, will Carvery ONLY £7.99, we also have a wide range of starters, house favourites company has re-launched Cocker act as stamping stations for and chefs specials available daily as well as our range of handmade desserts. Hoop in a bottle. Early signs are it bike-riders to prove they ve is going to do extremely well, she passed through. And that s says. We are also sponsoring the not all. Gaynor says Sneck THE White Mare Pool, Wardley, Gateshead, NE10 8YB Coast Coast cycle route this year Lifter has ust won a bronze Telephone: 0191 4950171 which runs from Cumbria through medal at this year s Brewing to the North East, so hopefully ndustry nternational Awards – GREEN email: [email protected] people will be able to take in a few another one to add to its list BAR & BRASSERIE www.sjf.co.uk
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There s a lot of crossover between beer and coffee That s the considered opinion of Stuart Lee Archer, from umphreys Coffee, one of the North East s most respected food and drink producers He should know, he s been working in the trade for nine years and is also partial to a drop of real ale – Hadrian Border Tyneside Blonde and Wylam Angel Ale being his two favourites t s one thing to say you like coffee, but when you experience really good coffee it opens up a whole new world, he says. We were oined by his uncle alcolm Archer who SCRATCH N SNIFF S u r L Arc r has been roasting, tasting l lcol Arc r o o and selecting coffees from all over the world for the past years Stuart fi nd this sweet at fi rst, but BROO L N BLAC CHOCOLATE and is also very clued-up, beer-wise . do like it, it s got the character you STO T 0 ABV t s terrible going for a coffee with would look for in coffee. t s uite dry Malcolm t s the talian high-roast of the me, he says, t becomes a bit of a in the fi nish and uite acidic. three. t s got lots more avour and it s bore for the rest of the company. possibly extra strong in alcohol . t s almost We re trying three beers that have coffee SAM EL SMITHS IM ERIAL STO T ABV too much – full and melts in your mouth. and chocolate in uences to see what the bean Malcolm This has so much avour and t s chocolatey, probably attractive to female experts think. But fi rst, we took a taste test of texture a lovely mouthfeel which fi lls drinkers, but perhaps too powerful. t s a Kenya AA, the highest grade of Kenya coffee, the palate. Lovely, really lovely. Lovely delight on the palate, the vindaloo of beers. plus samples from Sumatra, Guatemala, aftertaste as well. The head is like the Stuart Beautiful li uor and head. t s got a lot Columbia and Costa Rica. What a ob micro-bubbles on the crema in coffee. of alcohol, not ust in the aroma. The palate Stuart t smells sweet, almost winey in has got a bit of roasted nut and very, very dark BI LAM S MMERHILL STO T ABV aroma – but a cheaper wine. There s lots chocolate. You can taste the uality of the Malcolm The temperature is good. The li uid going on here. t s got a heavier body, ingredients. t s an espresso in its avours. d is nice and thick. t s got uite a long aftertaste. more syrupy than the Big Lamp. serve this with rich red fruits in chocolate.
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pril 2011 visit www cheersnortheast co uk to have your say Cheeky workforce With spring springing away, some people s thoughts turn to plants and gardening And nowhere more so than Battlesteads in Wark, Northumberland, where ate Slade – daughter of owners Richard and Dee – is head gardener Kate, right, and her team tend the beautiful walled garden at the award-winning pub, along with looking AT LAST Br wi o w pl after the polytunnels lo w i or r i H ill which produce fresh vegetables, salads and herbs for the ickled in Newburn hotel restaurant. The potato beds have been Hadrian Border Brewery has was supposed to do – and, ust as prepared already brewed the rst ale at its new base importantly, everybody doing what while seed potatoes in Newburn, Newcastle – a beer they were supposed to do. t marks are busy chitting appropriately called Newburn No the beginning of a new era for Hadrian – sprouting to get The former Byker based micro has Border and owners Andy and Shona ready for growth. relocated to The reserving Works, Burrows – they started up with Apparently, they use probably better known as Ross s Border Brewery in Berwick in an old gardeners trick ickle actory The Ross family rm and merged with Hadrian in , to test if the soil is was formed in 9 when ames Ross which itself had been formed into warm enough to start planting – bare backsides to gauge the developed a special pickling vinegar our Rivers. Complicated, we know. temperature. Everybody has to start from the bottom, it seems, but shut up shop in 00 when it was The fi rst brew made a steady even the boss s daughter. sold to orkshire rival reencore fermentation, says artin. t all went The fi rst batch of leeks seeds has germinated and Head brewer artin Hammill absolutely perfectly. You ve got to get winter greens Arctic King and Winter estiny are now being reports that the fi rst brew went to the fi rst one out of the way, haven t harvested. We re assured they taste great mixed with the Ruby plan with everything doing what it you. Centurion is our next brew. rills variety of mustard leaf and sprinkled with black pepper. Duke of Wellington Inn Newton | Northumberland | NE43 7UL
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"A Warm Welcome Awaits" Sheep shape and FOOD AVAILABLE 12PM - 9PM DAILY We serve real chips & traditional Sunday lunch Cask ales specialists, super chilled lagers Wednesday: Maine Street Jazzmen 1- 3pm Masham fashion & Curry Night from 6pm lack heep has tradition and heritage woven Rockliffe Way, Eighton Banks, Gateshead, NE9 6LS Tel: 0191 4878071 / 4878137 through it – and it’s not yet years old. lastair ilmour reports on progress blended The only sign to look with passion for on Hadrian’s Wall S i ow o S l Ri i cou r An old orkshire saying might go A asham and the Yorkshire ales can not i o r Di o cco o io R l Al up r wi c ll oo . black sheep never stands still But only be underestimated. As national accounts I i i l loc io o plor l o part of that would be true Certainly, manager Jonathan Bond says The more R i r Ro . Black Sheep Brewery has embarked on a prosperous Black Sheep becomes, the dynamic development programme striding more prosperous asham becomes. forward, but having been in e istence for Basically, our plans secure growth for barely 0 years, it s still a young un age future generations. Some of the events we re terms and not uite ready for proverbs involved with in the ales, like the bike ride and B r o ill H NE AN and clich s of Old Amos wit and wisdom Boots Beer are tremendously popular and all 0 Also, an in ection of youth into the running the bed-and-breakfasts benefi t. Some people info twicebrewedinn co uk w www twicebrewedinn co uk of the business in the shape of Rob Theakston even place bookings for the following year. as oint managing There s a sales and ind us on acebook, ou Tube likr director alongside marketing benefi t too – it founding father Paul, gets to be part of your life and his brother Jo in and part of your philosophy. sales and marketing, Phil Bebbington points has stepped up the pace out that where some at the asham, North brewing companies have Yorkshire, brewery. huge pub estates, Black New moves include Sheep only has one – the the development of a visitor centre at the brewery parcel of land nearby where , visitors pass which was bought fi ve through every year. years ago, and the Our success is based refurbishment of an on our distribution to ad oining warehousing customers, he says. Where facility. The elevation the likes of arston s has an of Golden Sheep Ale estate of , pubs – a ready from seasonal to market for their beer – we ve The place to meet permanent feature got one. To own your own pub heads the production estate is a huge benefi t, but it in Darlington... thrust and has prompted olden Sheep taking off like it has can be very diffi cult to manage. Traditional Ale House and Canteen. a new look at the is helping us reach people who d Pubs are having a We serve a superb range of real ales, seasonal ales market normally only drink lager tough time, but we can continental beers and wines with the occasional, change what we do easily Darlington CAMRA Pub of the year 2008 complementary one-off that will we can move ourselves around and follow carry an exclusive tag. the market – create the market, even. Food served 12 - 2pm Monday to Saturday Phil Bebbington, Black Sheep national Golden Sheep taking off like it has is accounts manager, says evelopment of the helping us reach people who d normally new site has been put on hold as we had other only drink lager it s the younger market things going on, but we ll move the offi ces, and the female market. Golden beers are warehousing and telesales over there – it s only popular at the moment, people like their yards away from the brewery. t ll also free bright crispness, they like the visual aspect. up space here we re brewing , barrels of Golden Sheep is palatable and fruity and a Coniscliffe Road, Darlington, DL3 7RG beer a year and need the fermentation space. good entry point into the cask ale market. Telephone 01325 354590 The importance of Black Sheep – As a teenager before he went to school in and its neighbour T R Theakston – to the morning and before ad started up Black 10 pril 2011 W Black Sheep is one of brewers nationally, each producing its own version of Imperial Russian Stout to take part in a grand tasting to be held in Saint etersburg in Russia The Grand Baltic Adventure will re- trace earlier, th century ourneys when British porter – a dark, rich beer – was shipped to Russia where it was a great favourite at the court of Empress Catherine the Great. t was thereafter known as mperial Russian Stout. The dozen beers will be loaded onto a -foot, former round-the- world clipper and leave Greenwich, BA-AR BA-AR BLACK SHEEP T London, on ay for a ourney which popul r i i or c r pu will take them across the North Sea and the Baltic, stopping at enmark, Sheep under a cloak of secrecy , Jo Theakton Sweden and inland before arriving in would help in the mashing-in process with his is looking at everything in the business from St Petersburg on June . When they father at Theakstons. He okes that it s because logos – a tweak here and there – to new arrive, they will be tasted by a panel of it was the only time he d get to see him. products such as a Porter and the one-off udges who will select a winning stout. t was never assumed that d Russian mperial Stout that s about to sail to Black Sheep is sending a pin of come into the business, he says. St Petersburgh via London and Scandinavia. its version – the smallest-size cask ad never forced any of us. The Porter did really well and we ll containing ust four-and-a-half gallons. Jo then went off to make his mark repeat it as a seasonal cask ale, says Jo. The brewery s traditional slate Yorkshire elsewhere in the brewing industry, We brewed barrels of Russian mperial S uare fermenting vessels were principally with Charles Wells in Bedford. Stout it s the smallest run we can do here brought out of retirement to help with He was part of that company s merger as we haven t got a microbrewery. We ve its fermentation – a method phased out with Wells Young s and, shortly after, kept some back to release in a year or so when stainless steel vats replaced them. the ac uisition of the Courage brands. and see how it develops. We want to keep Head brewer Alan unn says Suddenly, looking after Corona it really exclusive – some in bottle available We are all very excited to be taking for Charles Wells became handling only at the visitor centre and key pubs would part in the Grand Baltic Adventure or brands, he says. be a nice thing to do. t s . abv and pretty and had a team of brewers working Jo is now responsible for off-trade bloody delicious – not for the faint-hearted. night and day to perfect our recipe. business, the bottles in supermarkets We re also going to be working on We are confi dent that, had the which make up a signifi cant – and seasonals, it s a direction we have to go in, but Empress Catherine been able to taste growing – part of the whole business. we ll never lose sight of our core beer brands. our mperial Stout, she would have This sales and marketing forward line ■ www blacksheep co uk granted it her imperial seal of approval.
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HA E Tuning into a OUR SA Lo o o TV revolution c r or .co.uk s uropean lawmakers ponder the legality of screening nglish football through foreign channels ndrew ernin reports on a televised rebellion which is gathering pace in pubs across the region
It may not be played out on a y punters don t want to legality of their systems which was that it would LEGAL TACKLE Ar li c u l w ul muddy battleground shadowed by watch Wigan versus Blackburn at is happening at the moment. stop fans going shed like terraces, but it has the eight o clock on a onday night Also, the ongoing court to the games, makings of a classic giant killing and they are sick of watching case concerns viewing cards but Newcastle would televise Shooting into the wind is an nited, Chelsea and Arsenal for foreign games and will not all of their games in their own the Premier League – a global every week on Sky – they want affect the illegal streaming of pub, Shearer s Bar, anyway. footballing force with unlimited to watch Newcastle, he said. games over the internet. While Newcastle nited resources and some of the best When we showed the Wear- But there does remain a and the Premier League both players on the planet. Standing in Tyne derby, my takings groundswell of feeling that declined our offer to comment its path is a landlady with a point trebled from a normal the pub trade is heading on the issue, Sunderland A C to prove and the hopes of an army weekend, and most for a televised has been fairly vocal on the of publicans on her shoulders. games at least revolution. topic, with chairman Niall uinn But although it remains to be double the usual A Rory elap threatening to uit the game if the seen whether Portsmouth pub takings. pay throw-in from St European ruling goes in favour owner Karen urphy triumphs a month to James s Park is of the Portsmouth publican. over the sporting super-brand a proper fi rm for the Newcastle At the same time, despite the she is up against, her case has the e uipment to Arms, run by sense of legal ambiguity that already caused fallout hundreds show the games, Neil Amos. He exists among landlords, industry of miles away in the North East. and checked with admits to irting bodies such as the British Beer The pressure is off, said the brewery which with the idea of and Pub Association BBPA one Tyneside landlord on the told me was doing showing European- have also advised against the increasingly bullish nature nothing wrong. When we showed broadcasted games in use of European broadcasters of North East pubs which A licensing offi cial the Wear Tyne the past, but now has to show English football. show English football via also told me he didn t derby, my takings no interest in it. He has, espite the views expressed European broadcasters. know whether it was trebled from a normal however, witnessed an by the Secretary to the European Gone are the days of secret legal or illegal. t s a weekend, and most increasingly widespread Court of Justice, the offi cial games at least double door knocks and the muf ed really grey area. subscription to non- udgement is still awaited the usual takings buzz of Arabic commentary n fact, despite K T packages. from the ECJ, said regional behind drawn curtains on a the non-binding t tends to be secretary Lee Le Clerc . Saturday afternoon. Live televised opinion of advocate Juliane pubs outside the city centre that Thereafter a further decision football on non- K broadcasters Kokott of the European Court of advertise the games on the street will be taken in the K courts. is seemingly as widespread, Justice ECJ , who said a block and local pubs tend to do better ntil the fi nal whistle is sophisticated and visible in the on cheaper foreign satellite out of showing them, he says. blown on the ECJ udgement, region as it has ever been. T services was in breach of want people to come to landlords will continue to be The owner of a small E laws, nothing has changed my pub for the beer not the on the wrong side of the law community pub on Tyneside legally because of urphy-gate. football, but it s accepted by screening the Premier – who asked us not to reveal As att oster, head of among landlords that you are League on foreign channels. his identity – said that if not licensing and gaming at allowed to have a European However, with the referee s for the ability to show every Newcastle law fi rm incoffs satellite package within Europe. back turned, the rewards of a Newcastle nited game through warns Landlords should be very thought the rules were packed-out pub at pm on a a Scandinavian channel, he would careful about satellite suppliers never fair in the fi rst place. The Saturday will remain too great have gone bust a long time ago. making in ated claims about the argument from football clubs for many traders to ignore.
12 pril 2011 The rules of the game e plained rank Dunne is editor of sports broadcasting ost of the pubs which have been publication TV Sports Markets Here he successfully prosecuted in the K are udged e plains e actly where landlords stand to have been in breach of K copyright when it comes to televising remier laws. The Premier League has hundreds of League games on European channels outstanding copyright cases pending the ECJ The fi rst thing to bear in mind is that there ruling. irst offenders can pay small fi nes has not been any kind of ruling, so nothing but repeat offenders can be fi ned heavily. has changed legally. The Advocate General f anyone can get hold of a signal for a AG of the European Court of Justice ECJ Premier League game and watch games has expressed an opinion, which the udges without paying for it, the broadcasters lose of the court have to decide whether or not to out and, in turn, the Premier League loses follow. They are likely to provide a ruling in the out. Whether or not you like Sky or agree next two months. n practice, they tend to follow with the amount they charge pubs, nobody the AG but not always. f the udges follow the really uestions the fact that T money is opinion, it will mean that it is not illegal for the reason that top players from around a K pub to shop around in Europe to fi nd a the world have come to play in England. service cheaper than those available in the K, The big uestion is whether the K provided they have paid for a legitimate service copyright laws are too severe and restrictive and are not using fake smartcards, providing and whether they can survive in their bogus information to get it, or are connecting current form if the ECJ rules against to unauthorised web streaming feeds. the Premier League. Which doubt. We ask the Beer styles and uestions food partners TON BIN S arrasford rms How long have you been in the pub trade and how long have you been at the Barrasford Arms? What words or phrases do you most Bo i c 200 . overuse? For k . What made you do it in the rst place? Tir o i i i o r roo . After the last customer has left, do you rela with whisky or cocoa? What is the best thing about your ob? W i k . W lco i . . ul i w r wi i c To Bi k And the worst? i wi o ic r or India ale Ale I A Strong, spicy food – curry is a T o r 0.01 . B rr or Ar o o classic paired with the less hoppy, medium-strength colour 1 c ur co c i i PAs such as euchar s. iddle-of-the-road Cheddar Optimist or pessimist? Are you a pints i o o o Nor E i i cheese and perhaps Northumberland nettle cheese. or halves person? loc io wi r c io Bold, sweet desserts – try carrot cake and banoffee pie. P i i wi . H l pi ll o r i i i r i io l pu lic r w . w ri ol or loc l co u i . Witbier wheat beer Light seafood dishes – steamed T r u r pl c wo r l mussels a must. talian mascarpone or a herby cheese If you had a pet hamster what would l ri cr i wi li with crackers. Orange sorbet, or panna cotta with lemon. you call it? r r o rlooki p ur l Al ir. woo l . T pu Oatmeal Stout Rich and spicy food, barbecued beef, D i io R ur o r i Szechuan chicken with its bold pepper, chilli and Apart from The Barrasford Arms, i clu i ic li Gui Goo ginger avours. Buttery, well-aged Cheddar cheese. what s your favourite pub? Foo Gui Goo B r Gui . ark chocolate truf es, chocolate raspberry cake. T Hor S o I u l ur . The Barrasford Arms, Barrasford, Classic ilsner A perfect aperitif, but also with Who was the last celebrity you served He ham, Northumberland NE AA lighter dishes such as chicken salads, salmon or in the pub and what were they like? Tel 0 , pork. ild, white cheeses or cream cheese and Ti H l up r c p. www barrasfordarms co uk crackers. Light desserts – lemon shortcake.
pril 2011 1 April Celebration TUESDAY 19TH KATH AND COLINS 6TH ANNIVERSARY at e Grey Horse and we’re having a party Live music from 8.30pm, Free bu et Selection of Real Ales only £1.50 a pint SATURDAY 23RD ST GEORGES DAY CELEBRATIONS Live music from 8.30pm Free bu et Selection of Real Ales only £1.50 a pint Ahead of the game FRIDAY 29TH Hawkshead Brewery, based to produce 0 barrels more ROYAL WEDDING PARTY at Staveley in Cumbria, has than 0,000 pints in a week, Free bu et completed its most recent round an 0 increase in output Selection of Real Ales only £1.50 a pint of e pansion with a 0,000 The new Beer Hall has investment in a new Beer strategically-positioned windows COME ALONG AND ENJOY REAL NORTH EAST HOSPITALITY Hall – with all the trimmings to enable visitors to look into the Local Member of brewhouse, cellar and e Grey Horse arliament Tim arron fermentation room. – also president of We are investing The main bar is built HOME TO CONSETT ALEWORKS the Liberal Democrat and e panding around two new, 115 Sherburn Terrace, to keep up with arty – and eith , -litre stainless Consett, County Durham, DH8 6NE demand and further Bott, chairman of the Telephone 01207 502585 develop the Beer steel fermenting Society of Independent Hall as a showpiece vessels which rise Brewers SIBA , through the fi rst oor. of cially opened the Alex Brodie says new venture on St atrick s Day Hawkshead Brewery has had ormer BBC ournalist Ale remarkable success in its short Brodie launched the brewery in life, brewing traditional beer uly 00 near the Lake District styles with a modern twist. We are beauty spot of Hawkshead investing and expanding to keep up and trade went so well he with demand and further develop had to relocate four years the Beer Hall as a showpiece later The newly e panded for proper beer – a place of brewery now has the capacity pilgrimage for beer-lovers. Sooner have a schooner or the past few weeks, Newcastle Brown Ale has been calling on all ale drinkers in a nationwide challenge to nd canny alternative uses for its uni ue schooner glass gives fans of Newcastle Brown Suggestions such as spider Ale the opportunity to win catchers and listening devices limited-edition gift packs which are already illustrated on labels include the branded schooner on the promotional bottles but glass, a promotional bottle the challenge is to nd more and the Little Book of Canny a The winning idea could feature book full of hints and tips to get on a future Newcastle Brown Ale more from the game of life. The bottle front label, with the winner competition runs through April. receiving p for every case sold Winning codes printed on the – up to the value of ,000 inside of the front labels can be The on-pack promotion also checked at www.livecanny.com 1 pril 2011 LUNCH THE BERKELE TAVERN HITLE BA one to pot ane ikett and friend en oy a great lunch
A friend and I were ruminating on home to the pot lunch . This is, that both the demise of chicken in a basket basically, what it says lunch in dishes were the other day This could be said a pot, accompanied – in a stroke made with to be evidence of two things of brilliance on someone s part fresh ingredients including – put a rosy glow on the world, ust a our age, and b a - by a bread roll for dunking. t s oy unconfi ned - real mashed as a good pub lunch should. nostalgic taste in pub food genuinely home-made, delicious potatoes, as opposed to the re- Obviously, it is a treat to visit a which may have got stuck and costs ust constituted gastropub and graze on the best somewhere in the 9 0s a fi ver, which mush that in organic produce, but most of But basket food aside, one seems to me features the time, don t need a pub to might ask what has happened to to be very fair all-too often be a treat ust need it to be a a good home-made bar meal that value for money. these days. pub. And if lunch is home-made doesn t cost the thick end of They ve devised This was a in a pot and served with a roll for uid? There are times crave a six pot lunches very fi ne way dunking, it s entirely in keeping pub that considers anything more at The Berkeley, to spend any with what a pub should be. complicated than a cheese roll and including Wednesday f the pot is the new version of a packet of crisps to be verging on pheasant balti lunchtime the good old basket, m all for it. t the gourmet, and certainly don t and bean casserole. had a fi sh a hearty home-made lunch, also has less chance of leaking all want to spend half a day s salary pie in a pot, which was excellent, a pint of euchars PA and over your lap, which is even better. on lunch on a wet Wednesday while my friend had the steak and the company of a friend. ■ The Berkeley Tavern, afternoon in Whitley Bay. ale cottage pot, which was also t was also accompanied by a Cliftonville ardens, Marine Ave, And so to The Berkeley Tavern polished off happily and with much North East drizzle, but the pots Whitley Bay, NE , - a pub with no pretentions and praise. t s a sign of the times were warming and satisfying and tel 0 9
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pril 2011 1 FEATURE INDEPENDENT SHOPS Lotta bottle he off-trade is suffering along with the rest of the licensed industry but like the pubs which seem to have got their offer right there are little gems of outlets around which are doing KNO LEDGE Arro remarkably well writes lastair ilmour Co Copp r il
Troubled off license chain As for beer, even Oddbins the settee and gaze at the telly en oy a Oddbins has con rmed details of can t compete on price with instead of socializing in the pub. bottle of something special at a rescue plan that will see a third supermarkets – spotted recently However, small, specialist home – it s not an alternative. of its stores close The retailer was an offer on cans of retailers are managing to Tony Rehill of Rehill s Specialist wants its landlords to agree to Stella Artois pour le survive and in many ood and Wine erchants is a man an arrangement that would see fridge . Ten, ml cases, prosper. who, when he travels anywhere, 9 outlets, plus its head of ce cans were priced Perhaps it s samples the local food, drink in London, close, resulting in at , which works because they can and culture. Although he doesn t the loss of 0 obs It is also out at . a move faster as get as much holiday opportunity asking for rent on the remaining litre . a pint . trends develop – as he would like, he recognises 9 to be cut by 0 and paid Consider that a create them even that customers in the family-run monthly rather than in uarterly pint of mid-strength – or is it because store in Jesmond, Newcastle, instalments Off licenses are beer will now cost they actually listen to are of a similar outlook. becoming an endangered species around the mark, what their customers Anything new in beer, ll due to the growing power of is it any wonder the less- want? The reality is that their buy it, he says. Whether that s supermarkets, which now discerning drinker will grab the customers are those who still want for myself in a pub, for the account for 0 of wine sales cans, plump up the cushions on to go to the pub but on occasion, shop, or anywhere. What we re The Red Lion MAXIM BREWERY at Milfield
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1 pril 2011 someone to spend or on beer – one customer came in on Sunday night and spent . While the enthusiastic brothers try and concentrate on local produce – driven by consumer demand – their range of Czech, Belgian and American beers are a terrifi c surprise and a credit to ingenuity. m trying to gen up a bit on them, says Arron. t s knowledge. A rear storeroom has been earmarked for expansion with doing with our beers is offering tasting sessions and regular a good, interesting choice in events in the pipeline. small uantities. f you want At fi rst we took out the big volumes you go to Tesco. section and put shelves in for Rehill s has an astonishing beer, says Andrew. t ust range of beers from all over the snowballed from there. We ve world, with a strong presence got something for everybody – of Belgian specialities and a one guy bought two bottles of commendable line-up of British – particularly local – ales. t s a veritable Aladdin s Cave. We have a real mix of customers, says Tony. They re from all walks of life and we have lots of students around here who are regulars too. A lot of customers Easter Weekend ask if we ve got such- and-such a beer in and Beer & Cheese Festival if we haven t we ll try and get it for them. t s a similar attitude – and undoubted TR AN THING To enthusiasm – at R ill R ill o o Coppers til store in Brunton Park, Gosforth, to the north of Newcastle city Brew og Sink The Bismark , centre. Brothers Arron and Andrew one of the strongest beers in Cossey light up when beer is the the world. They re each. topic of conversation and the pair And, do you know, since are gradually giving over more of we started doing this last year, the convenience store to some of we ve only sold four bottles the most interesting examples of of Newcastle Brown Ale. bottled beers you ll fi nd anywhere. f this shows any thing, it s Like Tony Rehill, the passion that people will continue to was kindled by a curiosity seek out uality, regardless of about food and drink and economic turmoil. They also a sense of adventure. want to spend their money started going to farmers wisely, so a small dose of what markets, says Andrew. got to Arron Cossey calls knowledge mix with all different people and that gains customer confi dence started to get their produce into never comes amiss either. the shop. The local stuff ies out, both the food and the beer. ■ Rehill s of esmond, We get people in who are tel 0 9 99 21st - 25th April 2011 The White Swan, like us – passionate about Coppers til , Brunton ark, West End, Stokesley their beer. t s not unusual for osforth, tel 0 9 00 12 noon to 11pm Tel: 01642 710263
pril 2011 1 VIE FRO ABROAD NORTH WEST BOHE IA CZECH REPUBLIC Hop kiss from Zatec ibor o acek – alias ech eer an – beer promoter reporter and beer taster from eplice in the ech epublic sends his latest micro- brewery report from the beer-mad country
y dear British beer but for something very, “Zatec – mesto kde je pivo doma” one named Brewery Zatec (www. lovers, everybody very special – hops. which should be simply zateckypivovar.cz) owned, by the who is a bit Welcome now, translated as “Zatec – way, by an English guy who felt in involved in beer without any the town where beer love with this city so much that Mand brewing has heard, at least exaggeration, to is home”… and it is he decided to move, stay and do once, about Zatec, right? For the World Hop more than true. business here. Second is newly- many of you it is better known Capital. Welcome It is all about opened microbrewery called by its German name Saaz, but its in Zatec City. I tradition and “By City Astronomical Clock”, o cial name is Zatec and it is so am happy to take history. In this and the third one is a bit special, small we can say it is a forgotten you around. e small city of only it’s the Experimental Brewery city, situated in north west beer barrel on one 19,000 inhabitants, located inside the local Hop Bohemia in the Czech Republic. of the city roundabouts you can nd right now Research Institute (www.chizatec. I would say almost forgotten says in the Czech language: three breweries. One is the big cz – read it in Engish as well).
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1 pril 2011 Traditional Coaching Inn • 6 cask ales regularly changing So, what are you waiting for ? test batches before they consider • Home cooked food - Mon to Sat 6 -9pm Fri, Let’s go in! e CzechBeerMan a change of hop variety. Beers Sat & Sun 12 -2pm • Rooftop patio with spectacular views over was there for you to bring are made by traditional the Tees Valley & Cleveland Hills you some pictures. technology, using • Thursday - Quiz night e Experimental two-stage decoction • Regular live entertainment - check website for details Brewery is not a mashing. Wort The Ship Inn Low Road, Middlestone Village, DL14 8AB typical commercial boiling lasts 90 Telephone 01388 810904 www.shipinnmiddlestone.co.uk brewery focused minutes and the Open Mon - Thur 4 -11pm Fri, Sat 12 - 11pm & Sun 12 - 10.30pm on production hot wort is cooled and business. down and pitched On the contrary, with brewing yeast. this brewery is even Bottom fermentation prohibited from selling is carried out in a room its beers! e main in open stainless steel tubs. reason for establishing Libor Vo acek, above, Lagering (storing) takes it was clear; testing says cheers to place in the lager cellar the quality of Cheers with a glass for two months. After of Czech beer newly-cultivated ltration, the beer is lled Left an Hervert at at the legendary hop mutations, the E perimental into 0.33-litre glass bottles. proving the quality of Brewery also e beer is then stored at a Three Tuns, Sheriff Hill domestic and foreign below temperature of 70 C until hops, cooperating consumption. About 130 OVER 54 TYPES OF PIES! Friday 29th April including: a Royal Wedding Pie and the ever popular until Monday 2nd May with breweries batches a year are made. Haggis, Neeps and Tatties in Whisky Gravy. (mostly the industrial ones) on e brewery is not normally 2011 the development of new beer open to the public. e 16 Independant Real Ales brands, and last but not least, head brewer is a young man 23 Live Bands, Art Comedy and Magic. preparation of beers for brewing called Jan Hervert – he All proceeds to the Ladies Cancer Ward at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. congresses and seminars. he has been in charge e brewery has more than for more than 12 years. Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, NE9 5SD, Telephone 0191 4870666
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y business frequently to confuse the odd Cockney wasp NEWCASTLE ARMS presents the into believing it was already opportunity to spring and there was stinging AWARD WINNING enjoy the dubious to be done. Platform benches Mdelights of a meeting in London. were positively creaking under CASK ALE PUB Following one such recent the weight of suits mingling EVER WONDERED WHY? excursion, and reaching the with Boho artisans and sylph- point of the meeting where like lovelies asking if “Anastasia only one of the attendees self- was weekending in town?” A Real passion for Real Ale . combusting would have salvaged Inside, a central, circular bar Our 21st Beer Festival in 5 years starts 12th May. any of my remaining attention commanded the attention. Atop Around 40 different beers served on handpull direct from span, my de ating reserves were the surgically clean bar sat an our cellar each festival. uplifted by the suggestion of impressive rack of gleaming brass We remember when people asked who are they? a detour to a local and oak hand-pulls, hostelry on the way festooned with names about Thornbridge and BrewDog. to the train; allowing of ales that would A real pub with real tradition. su cient time for only hold any sort of Come on in the beer is great. said establishment appeal to a dyslexic zoo to make an adequate keeper (Melancholic 57 St Andrews St, Newcastle NE1 5SE impression, of course. My main ambition Gira e, etc). e t: 0191 260 2490 | w: www.newcastlearms.co.uk And so it was we as a gardener is to quirky character of found ourselves water my lemon the place was further trees with gin, then entering one of the accentuated by the all I have to do is many hundreds of s ueeze the uice connection between London’s glorious into a glass the bar and the “snug” “corner pubs” and which could only be WC ields on the face of it, a accessed by ducking particularly ne under a hatch. e example at that. Of all the high, vaulted ceiling looked to capital’s attractions, it’s the be suspended in space by the corner pub culture I most covet. bottle-bottom panes of the tall, Such places hold the promise elegantly arching windows. A B AUT U TRA T NA UB AB of “chance meetings”, time Even I’ve never seen Sobranie A BR W R to let embryonic ideas fully in a cigarette machine. e AWAR W NN N CA A BR W AN R form, sit malt-to-malt with Americans would doubtless N T R “someone o the telly”, and call it “Awesome”. “Man”. R A A B R T A occasionally bump into an old And then over my extremely city acquaintance and relive expensive large single malt, I 15 handpulls on tap - 10 real ales & 5 real ciders (weekends) the japes of back-in-the-day. looked further around at the Leffe, Erdinger, Tinnamans, Strawberry and Bitburger on draft Outside our pub of choice clientele and the truth of it was Excellent selection of Belgian bottled beers – and the name completely that in reality, this wasn’t a place A SUPERB MEETING PLACE BEFORE A MEAL IN THE MANY NEARBY escapes me, so let’s call it Roger’s I’d want to spend a moment more RESTAURANTS OR A LIVELY NIGHT IN THE HEART OF SOUTH SHIELDS Reward – a sub-tropical display than I had to. I was as transient Wednesday & Sundays - The Maltings Big Quiz with host Comedy Dave of hanging and insigni cant to the ambience Free entry and bar buffet baskets even of this place as everyone else I EVERY SATURDAY at this early saw. I did not believe that more LIVE ACOUSTIC ENTERTAINMENT from 9pm stage of the than 10% of them would have year was been able to tell me the name Quality Thai food served courtesy of Thai chef Bel bounteous of the bar in which Tuesday - Friday 12 -2pm & 5 - 9pm enough they were standing. Saturdays 12 - 8pm - Sundays 12 - 6pm If I’d told Including traditional English Sunday lunch and Thai fare
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22 pril 2011 visit www cheersnortheast co uk to have your say them it was indeed Roger’s Reward they would not have questioned it. In short, I was acutely reminded that the true character, the DNA, ot trained of a great bar is almost entirely constructed from the fabric of Congratulations again to the the people in that bar, not by the Boathouse, Wylam, and the Bacchus, Disney-esque recreation of what Newcastle, which represent some brewery-payrolled interior Northumberland and Tyneside designer thinks it should be. respectively in the regional nal My malt lost what little lustre it of the Campaign or Real Ale s came with, so I hastened to my train uest to nd ub of the ear ot and reached Newcastle in good time resentations will be made on Sunday to restore my faith in what a great April 0 at 0pm Winners of the corner pub should be. Now this is regional nal will eventually s uare a place where I, along with almost up with the best of the rest of the everyone else, meant something to country to nd national ub of the the experience of the other drinkers. ear – a title currently held by The e buzz here was being generated Harp in Covent arden, London by the mosaic of conversations and interactions, not by a wasp. I was greeted with the sort of smile usually reserved for tax refunds. And on taking up a suitable vantage EEH N MBERS point from where I could snatch snippets of the “crack”, or lip-read The number of insect fragments those I couldn’t, I settled back allowed per 00g of chocolate by the The percentage of alcohol by into the joy of a “real” corner bar. S ood and Drug Administration volume in Start The uture, a beer I was in the Duke of Wellington. from Dutch brewery t oelschip ■ THE D E IS ON HI H The number of calories in a The Refrigerated Ship , reckoned BRID E, NEWCASTLE 0 00g portion of grapes to be the world s strongest BLOOD,* Northumbrian Blonde 4% A new blonde ale, fresh and zesty with SWEAT� a hoppy lemon / grapefruit aroma
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pril 2011 2 Where is it? Etal is a tiny and pictures ue village sitting on the River Till in North Northumberland, nine miles north west of Wooler, not far from Cornhill on Tweed and the Scottish Border. RO ILE The A runs nearby. Etal is noted for its th century castle, its grounds and manor house THE BLAC B LL, ETAL standing in tree-lined parkland.
OVERVIEW Landlady Karen Hunter, The Black Bull, Etal, Northumberland T T t www.ford-and-etal.co.uk The Black Bull is famed as the only thatched pub in Northumbria – north of the Humber. t stands in a row of cottages in the village that once rang with battle and strife – hard to believe now. The pub s -inch thick whitewashed walls are a welcome sight, particularly if you ve walked the . miles from neighbouring ord village. A beer garden at the side gets busy on summer sunny days and internally it is long, low and traditionally laid out. The beer The food A slow local turnover of real t s all home-cooked with ales means they don t come simplicity a keynote. ish Bull will cast its into their own until Easter. and chips . and mince Look out for Hadrian Border and dumplings . are magical spell arne sland Pale Ale, a regular lunchtime specials. copper-coloured bitter with Beef chasseur, served with is is undoubtedly a distinctive pub, looking more Dorset a pleasant malt and hop parsnips . seems exotic than Northumberland. atch is the perfect roo ng material, balance. by comparison. The children s shedding rainwater quickly, though it needs replacing every Also Greene King Abbot PA, a menu features an intriguing 25 years or so. Inside, a long, narrow room is divided by a hoppy and fairly sweet bitter. Cowboy Pie. Yeeha step – beyond that is a pool table in front of a huge stone replace. Turn around and there’s another replace at the far end. Its most enduring feature, though, is the range of dolls – 200 witches on and o broomsticks – hanging all over the place. Regulars bring them back from all over the world. ey also pin foreign currency on the pub’s beams. e pub is very community-minded with regular charity events, such as an annual raft race on the river. “And you should see this place at Halloween,” says the extremely helpful young lady behind the bar.
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Right next to the station at Wylam Station Road, Wylam, Northumberland NE41 8HR tel: 01661 853431 email: [email protected] open 11am till 11pm everyday except Sun 12pm till 10.30pm pril 2011 2 10-H.shire Brewey 1/2 A4 ad:Layout 1 17/8/10 10:05 Page 1 Hexhamshire Brewery. THE DOGS A real taste of traditional ale, Blue the dog s canine adventures in beer a beer for every occasion. Delivered directly and through N I A i i l o SIBA DDS in the North of England C ci i c ll and by quality wholesalers nationally. C A I pro o r l ouri i E: [email protected] o ou l o i . T: 01434 606577 W: www.hexhamshire.co.uk or o r i r i w ll N w r i r w i ouri o i w ic i uc o o our O i i o c ll S ip I i r w r Low N w o The Courtyard T i r c ollow S o o i r i o ituated within the delightful surrounding woul wor i I ll cru l . ri Pu c o r of the Arts Centre Washington ou i i w r o or c D l i o i r pu i w ou o ll ll o l pi o Doll Eight hand pumps serving the finest ales from local and national micro propor io o cri . A p o D Dr i r ro brewers plus a real cider and a real perry. o o Bo io or w k r w r co p r . H i corr c i I coul cop wi . E i i ppr i l ou I wo r i i th Bi annual Beer esti al c o l or r o opi io i co c o c Thursday April st onday April th o kipp r or I k i o L r or woul u r . o pu p clip. Showcasing over 50 cask conditioned ales plus real cider and perry. Bu pric I p i ! T r o Bu ck o l o A selection of imported bottled beers. Quality homecooked food available. r oo i c r w il or i o ollow i r ri ou i T S ip c ll cr Arts Centre Washington atfield Washington N AB T S ip I uppi S Do ou . wic pi o S Do T: : the ourtyardbar aol om I pu i r co i u p r c ou . or ou o propor io o cri A i o oul pp Wat h out for T B R T I woul lik o r ou i . For cro uccul c ocol c k ur se ond beer festi al at The ings Arms underland S Do i o i pl w ll o w w ll w o c l ki o r . I i or io i I ru u ic ! orget the Rio Carnival, A al Gem Coast here comes Newcastle The Newcastle Beer estival gives us a lot more scope. THE VICTORIA HOTEL seems to come round faster Several North East breweries every year olicemen look are set to unveil new ales, such WELCOMES GOLFERS younger and bus drivers as ordue with Northumbrian automatically lower the step, Blonde and something fresh Bed & breakfast from £42.50, writes Alastair ilmour from the nascent Tyne Bank. Dinner, bed & breakfast even recall the festival axim is relaunching its from £60pp Guildhall days and my fi rst Swedish Blonde as a permanent encounter with Big Lamp Blackout fi xture in its portfolio. Groups of 6 or more – fondly, even, which is more There s a bit of a theme in positive than most – Blackout that a third of the beers are • SKY Sports TV has a strange effect on memory. from Yorkshire, a third local • Real ales This year, though, the grandly- for the LocAle bar, and a third • Superb food titled Campaign or Real Ale from elsewhere in the country, th Newcastle Beer and Cider says festival co-organiser an Ideal base to play Bamburgh estival heads for Northumbria oc Lee. We ve got the best Castle, Dunstanburgh, Goswick niversity s Students nion its we can get the beers are all of plus many more long-term home at Newcastle better uality than ever before niversity is being refurbished which is better for the punter. To reserve your table, or for where the space is bigger, All volunteer staff are further information, please call: 01668 214431 the outlook brighter and the raring to go we ll see you there. prospect of the best fest in years ■ The th Newcastle Beer and 36 will be no hollow promise. Cider estival is at Northumbria The Victoria Hotel stylish Front Street, Bamburgh NE69 7BP bedrooms We re also celebrating niversity Students nion email:[email protected] Camra at , says festival from Wednesday April until www.thevictoriahotelbamburgh.co.uk organiser Gordon Heal. t s Saturday April Visit www our biggest venue yet and it cannybevvy co uk for full details 2 pril 2011 EET THE TEA GILLIAN CORNE CHEERS ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP ACCOUNT ANAGER
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