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CONTENTS ISSUE 2 2014

The Guests 13 Ship of Theseus All about Bass

19 WhatPub? 13 A guide to WhatPub?

20 Old Ale Tales Some pictures from Lincoln’s past.

The Regulars 7 Lincoln News A round up of local and national pub and brewery news 20 10 What’s Brewing National and Cider News.

11 Members Page & Branch Diary Find out what is going on in Lincoln CAMRA branch.

24 Recimpes Honey Beer Chutney – Yum!

26 - 27 TravAle a guide to some of Lincoln City Centre’s .

29 Quiz Quiz time.

15 Meet the 31 Membership Form Brewer CAMRA Membership form Batemans Brewery

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 3 4 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Welcome. Hello Again.

It’s good to be back! My thanks to from some old Batemans pubs and I know from the feedback Greg for guest editing and the rest I receive that these old pictures are well loved by some of you. of the team who regularly write and If you have memories or pictures of any of Lincoln’s (or indeed contribute ideas and information to pubs) please let me know. ImpAle, it really is a team effort. Aaron Joyce has a guide to using WhatPub?, a brilliant website This time the team have produced set up by CAMRA that allows you to search for pubs near to you another excellent issue (if I do say and allows you to find out information before you visit and is so myself) and we are all looking particularly useful if you are new to an area or just want to find forward to a summer of drinking somewhere new to go. Why not have a read and take a look at beer in lovely beer gardens. If the WhatPub website yourself? You never know what a gem of you come across any that are a pub you might find! particularly nice do please email or So I’ll leave you to read this issue and enjoy your summer of tweet me so I can check them out. beer drinking, and as usual if you have any comments please This issue, Steve Renshaw has gone to Meet the Brewer at send them to me at [email protected] or tweet me Batemans, they have recently had an image update and are @ImpAleEditor. Or be my friend on Facebook – Lincoln CAMRA making some exciting changes, do let us know what you think. ImpAle Steve Richardson, our resident history buff, has some pictures Cheers, Wendy

Our Twitter account @Lincoln_CAMRA has over 2000 followers! Please like our new Facebook page Lincoln CAMRA. To help keep the success going we need your help! Please email Ashley at [email protected] with your local pub’s events, be it a regular weekly quiz/food night and one off events, it’s an easy way to become active within the branch with minimal effort.

ImpAle ImpAle is the magazine of Lincoln CAMRA and Louth CAMRA branches. CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real Editor pubs and consumer rights. It is an independent, voluntary Wendy Margetts organisation with more than 160,000 members nationally. Design ImpAle magazine is published three times a year and is available free through pubs in Lincoln and Louth branch Matt Richards areas. To join CAMRA, help preserve Britain’s brewing and Art Of Matelot, Matelot Marketing Limited pub industry, get the campaigns quarterly newsletter and Publisher its monthly newspaper What’s Brewing and a host of other Neil Richards MBE membership benefits visit www.camra.org.uk Matelot Marketing Limited 01536 358670 CAMRA is a limited company, run at national level by an [email protected] elected unpaid board of directors and at regional level by volunteer regional directors, both backed by full time Front Cover professional staff. Steve Richardson Consumer Rights With kind help from For complaints about issues such as short measures Steve Renshaw, Steve Richardson, Wendy contact Lincolnshire Trading Standards on 01522 782341 or 230 Hatfield Road Renshaw, Aaron Joyce, Richard Banks, Consumer Direct on 0845 404 0506. St Albans Ashley Sewell, Greg Richards, Matt Mills, Herts Batemans Brewery, Anna, Crispin at Disclaimer Tel: 01727 867201 The views contained within ImpAle do not necessarily Ciderbods, Lincolnshire County Council, [email protected] Lincoln Central Library, Local Studies represent the views of CAMRA, the editor, or the Lincoln and Collection. Louth branches.

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Pheasantry BREWERY Real ale gem and Beer& FestiFamily Weekend val Fri 20 - Sun 22 June the best beer

£3 per adult before 6pm (includes free half pint) garden in Lincoln! £5 per adult after 6pm (includes 2 free halves) free entry for CAMRA member and children The Golden Eagle, 21 High St, Lincoln LN5 8BD [email protected] TEL: 01522 521058

High Brecks Farm Lincoln Road East Markham, NG22 0SN Multi-award-winning Tel 01777 870572 Pheasantry Harvest Pale available www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk BREWERY Friday 20 June (4pm - 11pm), Saturday 21 (11am - 11pm) Sunday 22 (11am - 4pm)

6 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk NEWS IN BRIEF Heneage Arms beer and music festival The volunteers at the Heneage Arms community pub in Hainton are holding their first beer and music festival over the weekend of 30th May to 1st June. The plan is to have around a dozen ales from local microbreweries, plus a few real ciders. Springhead Brewery in Laneham is providing support. Over the weekend they will be raising funds for CLIC Sargent, LIVES, St Mary’s Church, Hainton and Lincoln City Radio.

Nocton Social Club Nocton is a small village seven miles south- east of Lincoln. Until recently, a covenant prevented a public house opening in the Presentation evening at the Dog and Bone village. However, Nocton Social Club, founded approximately 65 years ago, provides a bar within the village hall. With the support of Dog and Bone is Cathedral Heights Brewery, the club has been running a competition to name an ale and design the pump clip. The winner was Mrs Clodagh West, who suggested the name Lincoln’s Nocton Flier and produced a design inspired by the light railway used by Smiths Crisps to Pub of the Year transport potatoes from Nocton Farms. Chequers cheer The Dog and Bone on John Street has games are popular and well-used. The been selected as the Lincoln CAMRA walls display works from local artists, Locals at Potterhanworth are celebrating Branch Pub of the Year for 2014. The and the wonderful garden is an oasis the reopening of the village pub, following a selection process started with a vote of calm. On the bar are five real ales two-and-a-half year closure. The Chequers by local CAMRA members. Then five and two handpull ciders. The pub pub/restaurant has three handpumps and judges visited the pubs that topped the belongs to Batemans so beers from the ales change regularly. New manager, poll to assess the quality of the beer, this long-established, Lincolnshire Isabelle Roe, is delighted with the support the atmosphere, service, community family brewery feature, along with she has received from the villagers. Isabelle focus and value for money. The other interesting guest ales. is the niece of owners Sara and Bob Roe, finalists were Lincoln’s Strugglers Inn who also own the Pyewipe Inn near Saxilby and Jolly Brewer, and the Dambusters Lincoln CAMRA chairman, Aaron and the Penny Farthing at Timberland. Inn at Scampton Joyce, said, “To win Pub of the Year after just twelve months in charge is The Dog and Bone is a hidden gem a fantastic achievement by Chris and It’s not all good news! among the old terraced houses off Sarah. They’ve taken this great little Riverside Brewery, the Wainfleet microbrewery Monks Road. This thriving community community pub up to another level.” set up by John Dixon in 2003, has closed. The pub was taken over by enthusiastic brewery’s regular beers were Dixon’s Major husband and wife team, Chris and The Dog and Bone now goes forward (3.9% ABV), a traditional brown bitter and Old Sarah Sorrell, in February 2013. Above to the Lincolnshire round of the Diabolical (4.4% ABV), a golden, full-bodied the bar is a collection of old valve competition, where it will be up against beer. John has returned to his previous job radios and paraphernalia that always the winners from the Gainsborough, as a pub auditor and stock-taker. sparks discussion, and the pub’s board Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Louth and Grantham branches.

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 7 News 30 years of good beer at the Vic The 2014 edition of CAMRA’s “Good Beer Guide” sees the 30th consecutive appearance of Lincoln’s Victoria. The local CAMRA branch has presented a certificate to the pub to mark the achievement. Nestling in the shadow of the castle walls, the Vic has two small rooms and a heated outdoor seating area. Batemans XB, Yella Belly Gold and Castle Rock Harvest Pale are regular beers, along with up to four guests plus a real cider and a perry. Branch chairman, Aaron Joyce, presents the certificate to Neil Renshaw. Tony Eastwood, founder of drinks wholesaler Small Beer Ltd, bought the Victoria from Whitbread and, after extensive structural former CAMRA national chairman Chris Holmes, who went on to work, it reopened in December 1983. As a free house, it was set up Castle Rock Brewery. In 2007, the Vic was transferred to an instant hit with the growing number of real-ale enthusiasts in Batemans in a deal that saw ’s Lincolnshire Poacher Lincoln, and it was included in the “Good Beer Guide” for the first move to Tynemill. time in the 1985 edition. Throughout all the changes of ownership, the beer quality has In 1998, when Small Beer decided to concentrate on the remained high. This is thanks to the efforts of manager and wholesaling side of the business, they sold their three pubs cellar keeper, Neil Renshaw, who has worked at the pub for 25 to the Tynemill pub group. Tynemill was founded in 1977 by years. All change Pheasantry at the festival returns The Pheasantry Brewery near after the Mikado pheasant, a Treaty East Markham is holding its rare species with black and second annual beer festival dark blue plumage, reflecting th The Treaty of Commerce, and from Friday 20 to Sunday the dark colour of the beer. 2nd the Batemans’ pub close to tables up 2 June 2014. Over 20 local Lincoln High Street’s notorious on the real ales will be available, The brewery and restaurant level crossing, has new wall, and including six of the brewery’s are on the A57 just minutes tenants. Gillian Butler has we’re hoping to get some big own beers. There’s also live from the A1, on the previously worked at the Dog screens in over the summer for music, children’s games and Lincolnshire and Bone. Along with her the World Cup,” said Gillian. a barbeque in the garden. border. Entry for the festival partner Andrew McKinley, she is £3 per adult, including a plans to redecorate the interior, The Treaty’s unique name Mark Easterbrook set up free half of beer, up to 6 pm, improve the beer garden and refers to an Anglo-French the brewery and restaurant and £5 per adult after 6 pm, introduce a new food menu. free trade agreement signed with wife, Mary, whose family including two free halves of in 1860. There are tables for has farmed in the area for beer. Entry is free for CAMRA Building on the popularity diners towards the back of the generations. Mark said, “We members and children. of the pub with Lincoln City pub, where there is an unusual now have six real ales in the supporters, Gillian and Andrew barrel-vaulted ceiling. Previous Pheasantry range, including hope that the Treaty will tenants, Paul Learoyd and bitter, pale, amber, golden and become a hub for local sports Sandra Battle have taken over dark ales and our recently- fans. “We want to get behind at the King’s Arms in Boston launched Mikado Mild, so we the local sports teams. We’re have plenty to choose from!” going to have all the scores The Mikado Mild is named

8 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk News As reported in the last edition of Newby Wyke - ImpAle, Newby Wyke Brewery has IN BRIEF been approached about providing a barrel of its 6.0% ABV golden Poachers at the by Royal (Navy) ale, HMS Queen Elizabeth, for the naming ceremony of the Royal Wheatsheaf Navy’s new aircraft carrier. The Wheatsheaf Inn in Dry Doddington, appointment on the border of Lincolnshire and HMS Queen Elizabeth is the Nottinghamshire south-east of Newark, largest warship ever built for the has been taken on by Stephen and Royal Navy and is capable of Joanne Mcleod. Joanne is the daughter carrying up to forty aircraft. Her of George Batterbee, owner of Poachers Majesty the Queen will attend a Brewery in North Hykeham. Under celebration in Rosyth on Friday 4 the previous owners, the pub’s four July, where she will name the ship handpumps carried national brands. in a momentous ceremony. With George’s help, this has changed to one national, two beers from In advance of the event, Chief Petty microbreweries and a specially-brewed Officer John Moult, who leads the house ale (from Poachers, of course). ship’s air weapons team, visited the Grantham brewery. During the visit, Newark news Nick Boles, the MP for Grantham Exciting times for real ale drinkers and Stamford, presented CPO in Newark, as two new outlets have Moult with a framed display which opened. The Horse and Gears on included a pump clip and the new Portland Street has been bought and Nick Boles MP makes the presentation to CPO John ship’s crest. refurbished by the Nottingham-based Moult. Head brewer, Rob March, looks on. Blue Monkey Brewery. It has reopened as the brewery’s third Organ Grinder pub. The others are in and Nottingham. The Flying Circus, formerly the Crown and Mitre on Castlegate, is Sebastopol scoops owned by Dan Derry, owner of Newark Brewery. It is run by Heidi and Tony Yale, who were managers at the Castle awards and then the Prince Rupert.

The Sebastopol Inn in Brewer opens real ale bar Minting recently won the Aaron Taylor, assistant brewer at Grafters Best Dining Pub in the Brewery, has teamed up with friend and Lincolnshire Life’s 2013/14 former workmate, Dan Wilkinson, to Taste of Excellence open a real ale bar in Gainsborough. award and the Pub of the The premises on Lord Street have been Year in the 2014 Select given a retro makeover and renamed Lincolnshire Love Food The Taphouse. They are serving eight awards. The Reed family real ales, including Grafters Traditional reopened the historic pub as the house beer, along with real cider in the summer of 2011. and perry. CAMRA members receive a Dad, David, is usually 10p discount off the price of a pint. found behind the bar while son, Nick, is head chef. Welbeck wins Welbeck Abbey’s 4.5% porter, Portland Although predominantly Black, was named the Champion a food-led pub, the Diane and David Reed with son, Nick, at the Sebastopol. Winter Beer for the at the Sebastopol serves two real local microbreweries, and never have National Winter Ales Festival in . ales. Batemans supply one and guest ales the same guest ale twice. So far, we’ve Portland Black will now go forward to are sourced direct from microbreweries. had 124.” As proof, the pump clips are porter category of the Champion Beer As with their food suppliers, they try to displayed in the bar. of Britain, to be judged at the same keep it local (in Lincolnshire) but do festival in 2015. Meanwhile, the brewery occasionally venture over the border is increasing its capacity from 15,000 to to brewers in Nottinghamshire and 18,000 pints per week. . David said, “We work with 16

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 9 WHAT’SBREWING NATIONALLY

ImpAle rounds up CAMRA’s news from the last three months

March May > According to CAMRA research, two pubs were converted into > The perception that wine is healthier than beer is a myth, supermarkets every week during 2012 and 2013, despite local according to a US professor. Research shows strong evidence opposition. Supermarkets are continuing to exploit a loophole that moderate consumption of any alcoholic drink is linked with in planning law which allows pubs to be converted to other uses a lower risk of heart disease and that most of this protection without planning permission. comes from the alcohol rather than any other component in the > The Swan with Two Necks in Pendleton, , has been drink. crowned CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year. Described as a > New CAMRA research shows that 38% of British adults never “hidden gem”, the Swan is much more than just a pub - it’s at visit a pub, and more than a third of pub-goers visit the pub less the centre of village life, often than they did twelve months ago. And, worryingly, pubs > A porter has been named CAMRA’s Winter Beer of Britain, are not marketing themselves to potential customers. making it two wins in a row for the style. Dunham Porter > The troubled Growler Brewery has been bought by a consortium (5.2% ABV), brewed by Dunham Massey Brewery in Greater formed by one of its co-founders, Dick Burge. The , was named top winter beer at the National Winter brewery, established nearly thirty years ago as Nethergate, was Ales Festival in Derby. struggling financially even though it has a turnover of more than £1.7 million.

April If you’re not a CAMRA member, you won’t be getting all > Campaigners and lobbyists were celebrating after the the latest real ale, pub and brewing news delivered to your Chancellor abolished all remaining alcohol duty escalators door every month. Join, using the form on page 31 and get and announced a penny cut in beer tax. George Osborne also What’s Brewing and Beer delivered free, plus a host of other announced a duty freeze on real cider. membership benefits. > The latest data from CGA Strategy and CAMRA shows the number of pub closures in the UK has risen from 26 to 28 per week. Now CAMRA is pressing the government to implement its plans for a pubs watchdog to protect licensees. > A village cricket club has been crowned CAMRA’s National Club of the Year. Barnton Cricket Club, near Northwich, , has been finalist in the competition organised with industry magazine “Club Mirror” twice before.

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Some of the local members who visited Scarborough Brewery Beer Festival whilst attending the CAMRA AGM 2014, held in Scarborough.

Lincoln Beer Festival Branch Diary At the time of writing, we’re working through all the staffing forms for the beer festival. A big ‘Thank you’ to everyone who has May volunteered to help run the event. We’re really lucky to have so 22nd - 24th Lincoln Beer Festival. many local members who turn out year after year. And it’s good Sunday 25th Festival Workers’ Social - Dog & Bone, Lincoln. to see new faces too. We couldn’t do it without you. (Booking required.) June Branch Pub of the Year competition Sunday 1st Committee Meeting - Green Man, Norton For 2015, we’re planning some changes to the branch Pub of Disney - 8pm. the Year competition. Instead of just having one award, we’re Saturday 7th East Midlands Regional Meeting - Malt Shovel, going to have two, one for city pubs and the other for country Ashby, Scunthorpe. pubs. We’ve yet to finalise the details, but we’ll probably have Tuesday 3rd Branch Meeting - Tempest, Coleby - 8pm. a members’ ballot to select a short list in each category. Then Saturday 14th Beer Festival Workers’ Trip to Stamford. we’ll have volunteer judges to score the finalists against the (Booking required.) criteria used in the national rounds of the competition. The pub we put into the Lincolnshire round will be the better of our two July award winners. For full details and voting form, look out for the Sunday 6th Committee Meeting - Treaty of Commerce, September newsletter. Lincoln - 8pm. Weds 9th Branch Meeting - Butcher & Beast, CAMRA - the next 40 years Heighington - 8pm. The Fit-for-Purpose Review reported to the 2011 National Check out the branch website for up-to-date details of trips and Annual General Meeting and made 57 recommendations to socials. ensure that the Campaign remains relevant in a changing UK beer environment. You can view the report and check on the progress on implementing the recommendations by visiting www.camra.org.uk/FFPRupdate.

Keep your personal details up to date If you move house, or change your phone number or e-mail address, please let CAMRA headquarters know. The HQ membership database is our only means of staying in contact with you. You can update your personal details via the CAMRA website (www.camra.org.uk) or by calling membership enquiries on 01727 798440.

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Greg Richards considers whether Bass ale is the same beer it once was.

In this age rich of new breweries and and tested pints, established beers that House, i.e. a pub tied to the Bass Estate, more guest beers than the most devoted are going to be the same tonight as they and when Anna took over as the landlady beer hunter can keep up with there are were last week and the week before that. there were seven beers available, but still a great many drinkers out there that But how many of these beers are actually unlike today’s ever-changing interesting prefer to stick to ‘a pint of the usual’. the same brews they used to be? mix it was always the same seven. Many of these drinkers will go for tried The Strugglers Inn used to be a Bass Unsurprisingly Bass was one of them and it still features regularly on the pumps. Is this because it’s retained its quality over the years? ‘No. It’s a nice drink but not the beer it was’ according to the landlady herself. She told me that whereas a barrel used to have to settle for 7-10 days prior to serving it can now be ready in 2 and half. Some would say that’s progress but that type of difference can’t happen without some change to the beer itself.

A good piece of pub trivia is that the Bass red triangle was the first trademark to be registered in the UK. While it still appears on the bottles and pump clips what’s going on behind the label has changed drastically. It’s no exaggeration to say Bass was once one of the biggest beers in the world. Bass & Co brewery was set up in Burton upon Trent in 1777 by William Bass. From the very early days the beer was exported all around the globe passing through the shipping port of Hull. In 1877, one hundred years after it was formed, it was the largest brewery in the world with an annual output of one million barrels. A quote from Fortunes Made In Business, published in 1884, puts this into perspective ‘A household word amongst Englishmen, it is one of the first words in the vocabulary of foreigners whose knowledge of the English language is of the most rudimentary description....It would, indeed, be a difficult task to say in what part of the earth that vivid triangle does not gladden the heart of man.’

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 13 I don’t know if you’ve tried a pint of Bass company that also brews Hardy and This suggests to me that the younger recently but I don’t think it gets such Hansons and Morland beers. Similarly crowd just see it as another ale and praise these days. Obviously a lot has Marston’s, as well as brewing Bass for don’t find it as interesting as others and changed since 1884. The biggest brewer InBev, owns Bank’s, Jennings, Ringwood the beery types know that Bass isn’t the in the world in the 19th Century, Bass’ and Wychwood breweries. beer it once was. The people that do still fortunes continued into the 20th Century drink it have probably drunk it all along when it acquired a number of other Often these breweries buy up smaller and haven’t noticed the slight changes. breweries. This was when Bass was to breweries to get hold of the rights and Does changing the alcohol content by become one of the ‘Big Six’, the major recipe of a particular beer. When Molson 0.1% make it a different beer? If a different national breweries of the 1970s that didn’t Coors bought Sharp’s in 2011 it didn’t company owns the rights how does that think the future was in Real Ale but in keg talk about the brewery it talked about the affect the taste? If it’s the same recipe beer. It was around this time and for that Doom Bar brand. You could argue that then surely it’s the same beer wherever reason that CAMRA was formed. Whilst this is a good thing that these beers would it’s made? These are all perfectly logical CAMRA has grown and grown a number disappear completely if the breweries arguments. But beer’s not logical and I of bad decisions saw Bass end up being simply went bust. It’s true that there is a feel that all these little changes may go sold to Interbrew (now AB InBev), the growing trend for brewing historical beers unnoticed individually but added up you company behind Stella Artois, Becks and based on original recipes, so wouldn’t it end up with a different beer completely. Budweiser amongst others and whilst it is be better to keep a beer brewing rather still brewed in Burton upon Trent it’s now than try and resurrect it in 100 years time? produced by Marston’s and is currently a 4.4% ABV beer, although it has previously These are clearly still popular beers today been brewed to 4% and 4.3%. as Greene King and the like wouldn’t invest money buying up these breweries Now tell me how that can still be the if it didn’t think it could sell a fair few pints same beer? However it is not the only of the stuff. However the customers they beer with a similar story. Ruddles County sell to are the ones who have always is a beer that you will see in a lot of real drunk those beers and will always order a ale pubs. Ruddles Brewery began in 1858 pint of them. Anna confirmed this for me. and traded independently until 1986 until ‘Bass has a base of core drinkers. But the it was bought up by Watneys, another younger drinkers and the people who are one of the Big Six. Since then the name really into their beer don’t really drink it at has been owned by three other breweries, all.’ most recently Greene King. This is the

14 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Meet the Brewer Masters of their Craft

We sent Steve Renshaw to Wainfleet to find out how Batemans, Lincolnshire’s oldest surviving brewery, is celebrating its 140th anniversary. (All photographs courtesy of Batemans Brewery.)

Bitter for Lincolnshire Day and Victory Ale for Trafalgar Day (although it was originally brewed in 1987 to celebrate the saving of the brewery). And, of course, for Christmas there’s Rosey Nosey, with its distinctive pump clip featuring flashing red nose, furry beard and bells.

The new look Batemans However, the rebranding isn’t just about style. The substance comes from the If you’ve been into a Batemans’ pub fact that Batemans has extended the recently, you’ll have noticed that something maturation time for its beers to give them has changed. The Wainfleet-based an even more satisfying body and flavour. family brewery has celebrated its 140th And they are adding new beers to their anniversary with a rebranding. The first portfolio. Black & White, which joins XB, thing you notice is the new, contemporary XXXB and Yella Belly Gold on the list of design for the XB and XXXB pump clips. Classic Beers, has been described by And there is a key-ring-style tag on each renowned beer writer, Roger Protz, as “a clip describing the beer and featuring the sensation”. brewery’s QR code. The Batemans’ beer calendar includes With new microbreweries appearing all no less than seventeen beers that are the time, long-established companies produced on a periodic basis. A number Vintage Ale is available in November and may be seen by younger drinkers as old mark significant annual events - Hooker December. This beer is brewed from the fashioned. Batemans’ last rebrand was in celebrates the Six Nations rugby, England recipe of an old barley wine, bottles of 1979, so it was probably time for a new Expects (and the inevitable We’ve Blown which were found in the brewery cellars. look. It) the football World Cup, Lincolnshire The beer had originally been laid down

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 15 Meet the Brewer Batemans Brewery

in the late 1970s by George Bateman, to The Craft Beer debate “You’ve never had it so good.” Harold be enjoyed in April of 1981, to celebrate Macmillan’s 1957 remark could easily be Stuart Bateman’s 21st birthday. However One of the most interesting aspects of applied to today’s real ale drinkers. There the bottles were forgotten about and only the rebranding is the new strapline, “Craft are more breweries in the UK than at any rediscovered 30 years later. brewers since 1874”, on the brewery’s time in the last 70 years and they are logo. The term ‘craft beer’ is a hugely producing thousands of different ales. Two beers, the well-known Salem Porter contentious issue among brewers and and the completely new Golden Swallow, drinkers. It has been coined by young, The vast majority of these are small outfits appear under the Salem Bridge Brewery trendy brewers to describe their beer, that have appeared since the introduction brand, in honour of the ancient bridge that whether it is dispensed from a cask or a of Progressive Beer Duty in 2002. the brewery windmill overlooks. There is keg. The microbrewers have rejuvenated no mention of Batemans on their pump the industry through innovation and clips, and it will be interesting to hear One of the most prominent examples experimentation. Hop varieties from whether drinkers view this as misleading. is Brew Dog Brewery in . across the globe have been introduced According to managing director, Stuart On their website, Brew Dog give the and old recipes revived. It is now common Bateman, the aim is to show customers following definition of craft beer: “For us for pubs to have a choice of at least six what the brewery looks like and provide the distinction should be as simple as different and ever-changing ales on offer, variety on the bar. beer brewed for taste versus beer brewed meeting the demand from drinkers for for volume. Regardless of dispense style exciting flavours. The brewery continues to produce of production method, craft beer is beer specialist, limited-release beers. Last year, brewed for taste.” Those drinkers can be forgiven for they introduced their Bohemian Brews forgetting or, in the case of younger infused with flavours such as Belgian Batemans is fighting back against this drinkers, not being aware of the bad chocolate, orange peel, coffee beans, new wave by defining craft beers as beers old days. At the beginning of the 20th cinnamon and hazelnuts. And this year, that come from a craft brewery. That is, “A century, every town would have at least they are brewing Biscuit Barrel Beers, brewery run by the fourth generation, on one brewery, owned by a prominent local which combine the flavours of classic the same site for over 140 years, using family. In 1904, there were over 11,000 biscuits with the traditional brewing the same traditional brewing techniques, breweries but, by 1950, this number had recipes. Beer and biscuits share many where many of those working at the halved. common raw materials such as barley, brewery have done so for over 30 years, oats, malt and cane sugar, and these having had their craft passed down to The 1950s saw many mergers and beers will feature subtle biscuit flavours. them from father to son.” takeovers and the first signs that brewing was becoming big business. Batemans’ multi-award-winning bottled This is hardly a snappy definition, but it In the 1960s, a group of large powerful beers are in great demand from reflects the passion that Stuart Bateman breweries emerged, who controlled a supermarket chains. They have won has for the business, his pride in the large percentage of the industry. Many the Sainsbury’s Great British Beer Hunt family heritage and his wicked sense of smaller local and regional brewers were for the last two years with the coffee and humour. caught up in this fight to control as many chocolate infused Mocha and B Bock, an pubs as possible and were swallowed up English interpretation of a famous German and lost. By the mid-70s, the number of beer style. There’s even a new bottled Keeping it in the family breweries stood at just over 100. Family beer that is claimed to be a completely brewers, which numbered around 80 in unique beer experience. Black Pepper the 1970s, have continued to come under Ale is a strong pale ale to which drinkers pressure. Today, the number stands at can add some ground Asian black pepper just 30. from an attached sachet, to enhance the flavour. The situation in Lincolnshire was, if anything, even bleaker than the national Summarising the rebrand, Stuart Bateman picture. In 1950, there were family brewers said: “This year marks a momentous in Alford, Brigg, Grantham, Grimsby, occasion for us as we celebrate our Stamford and Wainfleet. However, by 140th anniversary. In recognition of this 1975, only Batemans clung to existence. achievement, we’ve evolved our branding, And in the 1980s, this last remaining and also introduced a range of new beers brewery looked destined for the history which demonstrate the heritage and books. expertise of our brewery while offering tastes and flavours that are incredibly Majority shareholders, John and Helen modern. We’re extremely proud of these Bateman, wanted to sell up and retire. A new beers, and hope our customers number of competitors were keen to buy enjoy them.” the company. Ironically, two of the bidders were Home Ales and Mansfield Brewery, George Bateman, the brewery’s founder both of which were subsequently bought

16 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Jaclyn and Stuart Bateman

out and no longer exist. Campaign for Real Ale to appeal for help, The return from the brink was confirmed in and found many people in brewing, local 2002 with the opening of a new, state-of- However, chairman, George Bateman, farmers and even children wanting to the-art brewhouse, named “The Theatre his wife Pat and their children Stuart and invest. One local farmer knocked on the of Beer”. Today, Stuart and Jaclyn are at Jaclyn, were determined to keep the door to offer £3,000. And, by February the helm, bringing a shared passion to business. For two years, George battled 1987, George was the “happiest man this family concern. to raise the funds to buy out his brother alive” after securing a deal to buy his and sister. He toured branches of the siblings shares back into the brewery.

XB (3.7%ABV) Yella Belly Gold (3.9% ABV) Batemans’ Beers Classic, amber, English pale A golden colour, refreshing ale crafted by the fusion of beer, brewed with Lincolnshire We haven’t enough room to feature all luscious English Golding lager malt and American Batemans’ beers, so here are their cask and Challenger hops with Chinook and Cascade hops, ales that are available all year round. crisp Lincolnshire pale and giving a lovely citrus flavour chocolate malts, slowly matured to create and aroma, which is quite dry and very Black & White (3.6% ABV) a grainy, quaffable beer. moreish. Dark, rich and creamy, brimming with fruity flavours and nutty XXXB (4.5% ABV) Salem Porter (4.7% ABV) overtones from the charred Classic, English tawny pale ale, Full of fruit, hazelnuts, almonds, and black Yorkshire malt. A full- brewed with pale, chocolate, liquorice flavours combined with spicy bodied beer packed with a crystal and wheat malts, English Challenger hops, gently fused roasted, crunchy biscuit character and blended withspicy English with roasted Yorkshire grains to create a subtle hop flavours from the Challenger Challenger, Golding and flavour explosion of warm buttered toast hops. Styrian hops, to create a fruity beer with a and crunchy nut biscuits. peppery aroma and fruity,biscuity flavour.

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1874 George and Suzanna Bateman sold their Friskney farm and rented a brewery in Wainfleet.

1880 George bought Salem House, a Georgian building close to the original brewery. A new brewery was built in the coach houses. The damaged sails of the accompanying windmill were removed, leaving the landmark we see today.

1919 George’s son, Harry, took over full control of the business. At that time, the brewery owned two pubs.

1928 Harry decided to turn the business into a private limited company.

1948 Batemans’ tied estate had grown to 68 pubs.

1950 Harry’s eldest son, George, joined the brewery.

1957 Batemans added 29 pubs to their estate, at a cost of £50,000.

1970 Following the death of his father, George Bateman took the reins of the company.

1985-87 Jaclyn and Stuart joined the brewery. George spent two years trying to find the money save the business from sale. In 1986, XXXB was judged Best Premium Bitter at the Great British Beer Festival and, a year later, the same beer was Champion Special Bitter of Britain.

1998 Carlsberg Tetley purchased Batemans’ free trade, giving them the opportunity to develop their pub estate.

2002 The new brewhouse was opened.

2007 George Bateman died.

2009 Batemans was judged Pub Company of the Year by “The Publican” newspaper.

2010 Batemans was judged Regional Brewer of the Year by “The Publican” newspaper

18 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk What’s WhatPub? Lots of members now use the internet For those without web access on a mobile or their smartphone to stay updated device, the website is also available on with what’s going on in pubs, Aaron home computers and laptops. Joyce, explains why he likes to use WhatPub and why you should too! The search function allows users to look for a particular pub by name. You I never set off on my travels without the can also search for a place name and current edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer WhatPub will list the pubs in that city/ Guide in my pocket. But what do I do town/village. You can limit your search to when I get to a pub that’s not in the pubs that serve real ale. guide? I start thinking to myself, “Is this a real ale pub?”, “Does it serve food?”, and The facilities section is excellent for users will be able to add comments and “Do I risk not going in and missing out on finding out those details that may help reviews. a potentially great pub?” you decide whether to visit the pub. For example, do you want to take your family Want to be a part of the website? The A few years ago, I may have just carried out for a meal? It’ll tell you if it serves Campaign for Real Ale would like to invite on down the road and stuck with my pre- lunchtime and/or evening meals, and you to help us improve the site. This can be planned route and pubs. Not anymore! whether children are welcome. Taking done this by rating beer quality or carrying What I do now is reach into my pocket, your dog for a walk? Find out if the pub out a survey for your local CAMRA branch. pull out my smartphone, open its web is dog-friendly and if it has a garden you Your first step is to join the Campaign. A browser and type in www.whatpub.com. can enjoy in the summer. You and your membership form can be found towards This opens up access to WhatPub, the friends want to watch the big football the end of this magazine. most up-to-date, comprehensive guide match? Find out which pubs have a TV to the pubs of the UK. Pubs featured on for you to enjoy it on. The NBSS is open to all CAMRA members. the website are independently surveyed, It uses a 0 to 5 scoring scale to judge added and updated by thousands of If you notice any incorrect or missing the quality of the pint you are drinking. CAMRA volunteers across the country. It details, you can use the ‘Send an email CAMRA branches use the scores to assist currently includes over 96% of Britain’s to the branch link’. The details will then in the selection process for the Good real ale pubs. be checked and updated by the relevant Beer Guide. If you don’t have internet CAMRA branch. access, you can pass your scores to your With one click, the mobile web page will branch committee and they can enter the use my phone’s GPS to locate all pubs The aim of WhatPub, is to get every pub scores on your behalf. It’s a great way of in the area I’m in. By clicking on a pub, in the UK listed with complete and up- becoming active within your branch with I can access information about it. It to-date information. In future, we hope minimal effort. includes the basic information you’d expect like address, contact details and opening hours. But it also allows you to see a list of regular ales and facilities of the pub. There are also photographs of the pub. If you are a CAMRA member, you can even log in using your standard CAMRA access details and submit scores on the National Beer Scoring Scheme (NBSS).

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 19 Old Ale Tales

Steve Richardson, our history enthusiast has some more pictures of Lincolnshire’s pub life from the archives. This time with a games and garden theme.

The Blue Anchor Hotel (now The Anchor), 133 High Street

Showing a charabanc football match outing about to set off Lincoln manager, David Calderhead. Charabancs were used from the hotel; from the period 1910-18. The hotel may then mainly for day trips, as they were not comfortable enough for have been owned by Bass, Ratcliffe & Gretton of Burton-on- longer journeys. The charabanc offered little or no protection for Trent, as Bass signs are prominently displayed by the door. passengers in the event of an overturning accident; their high Most likely the outing would have been to a Lincoln City away centre of gravity when loaded (or overloaded!) was the cause of game. Lincoln turned professional in the 1891-92 season, some fatal accidents. They were phased out in favour of motor when they helped form what was then the Second Division. buses in the 1920’s. The premises of C B Brimlow - tailor - next The Imps achieved their highest ever position in the 1901-02 door are now part of the pub. season when they finished fifth in Division 2. In January 1907, The Imps knocked Chelsea out of the FA Cup, after a replay won in injury time. Chelsea must have been pretty impressed because at the end of that season they poached the winning

20 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Quoit throwing, The Adam and Eve Inn

This picture shows a game of quoits in progress in the paddock Richard II to encourage archery instead. By the 15th century, it behind the Adam and Eve, probably taken around 1912. In was a well-organised activity, although there were apparently earlier days The Adam and Eve was called The Angel, and numerous attempts to eradicate it from pubs and taverns due there are records dating back to the early 1700s. In 1760, it to its deemed “seedy” character. The official rules for quoits was renamed The Adam and Eve. By 1810, the inn also had a first appeared in the April 1881 edition of “The Field”, having bowling green. It became part of the Winn Brother’s estate of been defined by a body formed from pubs in northern England. inns and public houses, and then in 1860 the inn passed to W Indoor versions of quoits allowed pubs and taverns to maintain H Brook (later of the Crown Brewery, Waterside South). In 1892 their quoits teams through the winter months. that estate in turn was acquired by A & B Hall (of Hall’s Ely Ales); and much later was swallowed up by Watney Mann. It is said Thanks to Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln Central Library, that quoits was so popular it was prohibited by Edward III and Local Studies Collection for permission to print these photographs.

LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 21 Bottled Beers Review

The Wild Beer Co

Richard Banks from The Real Ale Store Newark is back with another bottled beer review.

The Wild Beer Co was the brainchild of Andrew and Brett after a visit to the Great British Beer Festival. With a desire to brew beers and use barrel ageing and wild yeasts to create beers not often brewed by British Brewers the Wild Beer Co was born. After completing their first brew on the kit at Arbor Ales, Andrew and Brett began brewing at Wild Beer HQ at Westcombe Farm near Shepton Mallet, . Since the first brew they have quickly gained a reputation for brewing top quality exciting beers winning many awards along the way, including a silver and two bronze medals at the International Beer Challenge awards in 2013.

Their beer range includes such exotic offerings as Cool as a Cucumber (infused with cucumbers and mint), Ninkasi (using wild yeasts, New Zealand hops and a Champagne fermentation method) and Madness IPA (a West Coast style IPA) – no one can accuse this brewery of not pushing boundaries and being afraid to experiment.

Scarlet Fever, the first beer we sample is a 4.8% Ruby red ale. With this beer they have taken a traditional English style and brewed a beer packed full of flavour. It pours a rich ruby colour with a large white frothy head. Aromas of citrus and floral notes hit you as soon as the beer is poured. When you taste this beer one sip is just not enough. The rich flavours are beautifully balanced with the New World hops complimenting the traditional English malts creating an extremely moreish beer.

The second beer we sampled was a completely different animal. Solero (4.4%) is a Saison (Saison is a light, refreshing ale originally brewed in farmhouses in the French speaking regions of Belgium for field workers. Originally this was a seasonal beer brewed in spring to last through summer and into autumn.) created by the blending of a young crisp beer and a barrel aged wild beer which results in a complex blend of aromas and flavours. This beer is definitely more of a sipping beer, although not a strong beer the flavours are so complex that it really is one to savour. Anyone having tried a classic Saison (Saison Dupont probably being THE classic Saison) will recognise a lot of the flavours in this beer. The beer pours a hazy golden amber colour with a light yeasty aroma with some citric and grassy notes. The flavours are malty, fruity with, orange peel, spicy yeast and earthy hops in the finish. Solero refers to the method of continuous blending the brewery use which is most often seen in Sherry. The aim is that within every bottle there is a portion of their very first brew. That continuous blend is what they are aiming to use - barrel aged mature heady old beer blended into new young crisp fresh beer.

If you are looking for something a little out of the ordinary then these beers, in fact any beers from the Wild Brew Co are well worth seeking out.

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This recipe is very straightforward and the results have been enthusiastically received by everyone who has sampled it so far. Normally, I would store chutney for around a month before using it, which lets the flavours develop. However, once we had tried the small, left-over amount which didn’t make it into a jar, that rule ceased to apply.

Ingredients 450ml cider vinegar 225ml honey beer 200g Demerara sugar 150g chopped dates 150g chopped dried apricots 150g raisins 2 small red onions, chopped 2 Bramley apples, peeled, cored & chopped 2 pears, peeled, cored & chopped 1/2 teaspoon mixed spice 1 tablespoon pickling spice tied up in muslin Juice of a lemon

Method Put the dried fruits and the beer together in a bowl to soak for half an hour, while you prepare the apples, pears and onions. Heat the cider vinegar and the sugar in a large, heavy-based pan, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Tip in the fruits and all remaining ingredients, and then bring the mixture up to the boil. Simmer over a lower heat for about an hour, stirring occasionally, until the chutney is thick and glossy. Remove the bag of pickling spices. Put into warmed jars (this quantity fills 3 or 4) and store for a month - if you can!

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Members can also buy additional cases of ciders they like. CAMRA Approve Frozen Cider Former journalist Crispin Slee set up CiderBods and travelled CAMRA has welcomed the Government’s decision in the Budget the UK to select the ciders on offer. “If you know your sweets to freeze cider duty. from your sharps and your Dymock Reds from your Dabinetts then this is the club for you!” says Crispin. “You won`t find these Making the announcement, the Chancellor highlighted that ciders in the off licence or supermarket, and it’s more than just some cider producers in the West Country had been hit hard by a shop” recent weather conditions so needed additional support. Visit ciderbods.co.uk and enter APPLES14 at the checkout to This duty freeze will apply to cider with a juice content of 35% or get your £5 discount on the £45 price. higher, and will not apply to sparkling cider between 5.5% and 8.5% abv. For more information on real cider and perry, visit www.camra.org.uk/cider This is a welcome move which will support Britain’s real cider and perry producers – a vital traditional British industry. Andrea Briers, Chair of CAMRA’s Apple Committee commented:

“Cider is a traditional British product and I welcome the Chancellor’s decision to freeze cider duty to help those who keep this tradition alive. I would encourage you to help real cider or perry makers thrive by visiting a pub and trying some.” THE REAL ALE STORE CAMRA has cautioned that small cider producers (making below for the finest Local, British & Imported Bottled Beers 70 hectolitres each year) already pay no duty, so the benefit of this duty freeze will primarily be felt by slightly larger producers.

CAMRA is continuing to campaign for a new cider duty system to support real cider with a considerably higher juice content. Discount for Cider Lovers A new online club designed to support small cider producers and get their drinks to a wider audience is offering CAMRA members a £5 discount.

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LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 25 TravALE

Our intrepid trav-aller – Greg Richards takes a tour around some of the

Lincoln City Centre Widow Cullens Well The city centre obviously has a higher percentage of pubs than If you’re struggling to get my usual routes and as such has far too many to pick for a up Steep Hill it’s always single issue of ImpAle. Many people visiting the city for the first good to know you don’t time might check the Good Beer Guide for a place to get a have to get all the way to decent pint and they would find many worthy of a visit. But the the top to get a decent pint. numbers of entries to the Good Beer Guide allocated to each Widow Cullens is the first branch are limited and it takes a lot of us a long time to decide pub you’ll come across as which pubs make the cut. So I thought this issue I’d visit my you approach the summit. choices for best city centre pubs that didn’t make last year’s Being a Samuel Smith’s Good Beer Guide. They may have featured before and I’m sure pub means theirs are the some will feature in future editions. only beers available. But whether draught or bottled The Dog and Bone they’ll have a beer to suit Some would say everyone’s taste and at it missed out on some of the lowest prices a technicality as in Lincoln. Just watch out the Dog and Bone for the well on the way to has always had a the loo! reputation for good ale and recently proved Strait and Narrow this by being named A bar with a drink to suit everyone’s tastes, not just the beer Lincoln CAMRA Pub of drinkers, this could easily be the jack of all trades and master of the Year. A Batemans none. But the handpumps bring in an ever changing selection pub the current of well-kept ales, mainly from local breweries, and their range of landlords have been international bottled beers are the best you will find anywhere there just over a year in the city. More a bar than a traditional pub the stylised but and achieved the comfortable interior is an easy place to relax away a few hours. rare feat of making The bar holds frequent music nights featuring performers that changes that aren’t range from acoustic folk to international rappers. disruptive, maintaining a pubs atmosphere whilst building on it. Vinyl nights, a book exchange, pub quizzes, regular social events and a suntrap beer garden all help to make this a friendly and interesting place.

Horse and Groom Just past the Brayford to the west of the city is this pub that many see as food centric, but it always has a good numbers of ales on which are served in their peak condition. It might not be the most interesting selection and the prices aren’t the lowest but you’ll get a good pint served well and in comfortable surroundings. If you are looking for food it’s one of the best pub meals you’ll get in the city centre.

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the pubs in Lincoln’s city centre.

West End Tap One of the city’s newest pubs and most interesting in terms of the beer on offer, a renovation of the former Vine Inn this new pub is a vast improvement on the former. Describing itself as a World Beer Free House the five handpumps have always got a beer you won’t find elsewhere in Lincoln, kept in excellent condition. Four taps in the wall feature Belguim and American beers and there is also a good selection of international bottled beer.

The Forum While its sister Wetherspoons pub The Ritz makes an appearance in The Good Beer Guide this year, The Forum missed out, although personally I prefer it as I think it’s just as good and much closer to my flat! Not everyone loves Wetherspoons but few could argue that they don’t have a wide choice of ales and they keep them well. Meet the Brewer nights are a regular occurrence, the staff are friendly and knowledgeable and it’s such a large pub you’ll usually get a table if you want one.

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LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 27 28 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Quiz Wordsearch Hidden in the wordsearch are the words listed. We want you to find them, but the prize can be won by finding an extra hidden word that links all these names together. Please send this word along with your name and contact details to [email protected] or by post to ImpAle Quiz Issue 2 May 2014, 4 Squires Place, Nettleham, Lincoln, LN2 2WH. The closing date is 25th August 2014 and the editor’s decision is final. The winner will be announced in the next issue.

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Apologies Several people noticed the mistake in our last quiz, the Dancing Dragonfly and Elderberry Porter which were supposed to be in the wordsearch were not there. Please accept our apologies, the editor and the team who produce ImpAle try their best to ensure these types of mistakes do not happen.

We did receive some entries for the previous quiz and have decided to pick a winner from amongst them. Our winner for the January 2014 issue is Neil Armstrong of Lincoln. Congratulations!

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