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Tasting Notes and Ale List Fri 11
40. BANKS & TAYLOR’S INTERNATIONAL BREWER LITTLE SHEFF 5.0% ABV 46. BROUWERIJ ’T IJ B&T Brewery, Bedfordshire. Est. 1981 AMSTERDAM BLONDE 5.5% ABV This blond seasonal beer has been brewed only Brouwerij ’t IJ, Netherlands. Est. 1985 once before and is brewed again especially for Fred de Bruijne has travelled to Banks’s Brewery, this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. The pleasing in the West Midlands, to brew this beer especially aromas of spicy lemon and berries lead into a for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. This golden fruity flavour, culminating in a delicate orange, beer has a balanced blend of fruit and hops in herbal finish. FOR THE PRICE* OF A Hops: Epic, Minstrel the aroma and flavour, with a developing boost FESTIVAL PINT Style: premium bitter from lightly roasted malt, plus a fresh, sparkling, long-lasting finish. 1/3 -PINT TASTING GLASSES Hops: Perle 41. GREENE KING Style: strong ale BENJAMIN’S 5.0% ABV TRY 3 Greene King Brewery, Suffolk. Est. 1799 47. HILDEN This rarely seen ruby-coloured beer has been MILL STREET 5.5% ABV ALES brewed again especially for this Wetherspoon Hilden Brewery, County Antrim. Est. 1982 real-ale festival. It is rich and full bodied, with This new, amber-coloured IPA has been brewed a fruity hop character, while the infusion of exclusively for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. cardamom, cinnamon and coriander add a It has been generously late-hopped to provide pleasing fragrance, along with sweet molasses a full hop experience, with a sweet citrus aroma, imparting a delicious treacle flavour. -
Beer of the Festival
Welcome to the 25th Shrewsbury Real Ale Festival The first Shrewsbury CAMRA Beer Festival took place 26 years ago. As we missed one year, that means that this year is our “silver” anniversary festival, an occasion for more than usual celebration. We’ve also brought the festival forward towards the more drinker friendly month of September. We are proud to showcase Shropshire beers. Almost every local brewery is represented, and will be in the Shropshire Brewers’ Challenge competition. We are also hosting a regional CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain competition, involving the top six Old Ales and Strong Milds nominated by West Midlands CAMRA members. This year’s “away” focus is on beers from the North East, with many from new breweries or those rarely seen in this region. The final group of beers consists of those we just couldn’t resist and could come from anywhere the UK. All our 80 real ales will be served through had-pulls as intended by the brewer or brewster. The earlier date means we’ve included more ciders and perries this year, and we have an even wider selection f country wines, so there should be something for everyone. As in previous years, the Festival is quiet in all sessions, so you can concentrate on beer and conversation. Please relax and enjoy yourself drinking responsibly. Festival Coordinator Thanks to our printers, PrintFast Shrewsbury. Any mistakes in the text are our own, not theirs. What is CAMRA? And why should I volunteer to help out? CAMRA is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to support the key British institutions of pubs, and traditionally brewed drinks. -
[email protected] Print Run 11000 Merseyale CAMRA Liverpool and Districts Branch Merse Yale
Merse yAle CAMRA Liverpool & Districts Magazine Spring 2017 FREE 37 Not Out for Liverpool Beer Festival ! Punch PubCo Sold BLO - All you need to know Incorporating: ISLE OF MAN NEWS WIRRAL NEWS PUB NEWS www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk [email protected] Print Run 11000 MerseyAle CAMRA Liverpool and Districts Branch Merse yAle MerseyAle Editor Dave MacBryde Liverpool Branch Chair Sonia James-Henry [email protected] MerseyAle Contacts Comments/news/letters/photos [email protected] MerseyAle Advertising Manager Howard Perry howard.perry@liverpoolcamra. org.uk Distrubution Manager Andre Fu [email protected] MerseyAle - Read online at Message from the Editor www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk Welcome to the Spring edition of MerseyAle. With lighter nights and warmer weather just around the corner, the Liverpool and Districts CAMRA outlook is a positive one as we bring you our first issue of Main Branch Contact Sue Daniels the year. [email protected] 2017 has certainly been an eventful year to date. A storm Contact for Coach trips only named Doris called briefly to batter large swathes of the Ian Macadam 07521 741 586 UK, whilst across the pond, the inauguration of seemingly by email the most unpopular US President in many a year drew [email protected] huge global interest. Web Sites Closer to home, the Liverpool Beer Festival took place in Liverpool and Districts February and was a great success. As previously, CAMRA Branch attendance was healthy, the beer range excellent and a www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk good time was most definitely had. Huge thanks to the wwwfacebook.com volunteers and organisers, without whom this fantastic /CAMRAliverpool event would not be possible. -
Winter 2009 What's Yours Then?
What’s Yours Then? Highlands & Western Isles CAMRA Free Newsletter Contains Full List of Highlands & Western Isles Real Ale Outlets Time to VOTE Pubs-of-the-Year Beers-of-the-Year All members voting for their Pubs of the Year will be entered in a prize draw. For the Winner: Food & Drink at your Favourite Pub-of-the-Year Winter 2009 Welcome… to the Winter edition of our Thank-you! quarterly newsletter. In this edition: As 2009 comes to a close we must thank our > Updated Branch Diary advertisers for their support. These are very > Tasting Panel Update challenging times for the industry and their > Socials & Outings - Reports continued support is greatly appreciated. > Festivals Update Branch Matters > Focus on - Allan Pearks Our AGM in November was held at the Glen > Your Letters and E-mails Mhor Hotel in Inverness, where we enjoyed a > Real Cider News private boardroom-style facility for our meet. > Pub & Brewery News It is no secret that it has been another difficult > Updated Real Ale Pubs list year for publicans and the brewing industry, with the financial downturn and lack of help We welcome your letters, news, views and from the Government regarding tax breaks, opinions. Let us know what is happening at but we were able to note that in the Highlands your local, or tell us about pubs you have & Western Isles real ale outlets seem to be visited. Thanks to all who have taken trouble weathering the storm, and that our breweries to send in pub and beer reports, or articles, have reported increased sales during 2009. -
Langford Beer Gin & Cider Festival
IN & CI Welcome to the 19th R, G DER E FE BE S T D I R V A O LANGFORDLANGFORD BEERBEER L F G N A L 18 GINGIN && CIDERCIDER 0 2 14 ER FESTIVALFESTIVAL - 15 SEPTEMB Welcome Live Acts - Friday Welcome to the 19th edition of our wonderful Beer, Gin and Cider Festival. As • The Underdogs - Set 1 always we have a superb range of beers, spanning the taste and colour spectrum. • Meet the brewer - Not only do we have brews from local Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset brewers Declan from Yeovil Ales but also further afield such as Manchester, Essex and Cornwall. Holly & Ryan have • The Underdogs - Set 2 again curated a cider line up capable of quenching any thirst, and following the successful introduction of last year’s Gin Bar, head over and see Gary & Phil for a Live Acts - Saturday botanical taste infusion! • Afternoon - Open Mic Session It is with great sadness that this is the first festival without our inspirational • Parachute Drop chairman, Steve Wyre, who very sadly passed away earlier this year. Please raise a glass, whilst you’re enjoying whatever there is in it, to Steve. Cheers Steve! • Evening - Reloaded Entry, Glasses & Tokens What’s it all for? Please collect a free 2018 edition glass on entry. This acts as your receipt for your All profits from the Festival entry and beer, gin and cider will only be served to you in a 2018 glass. For Gin, you go towards a fund to build will be able to exchange your tankard for a more suitable tumbler at the Gin Bar. -
ALE the Quarterly Magazine of the Thanet Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale
Spring 2019 Free ALE The Quarterly Magazine of the Thanet Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale Inside this issue: Prague revisited Festival Volunteering AoT closer to home Social secretary’s blog A long lunch in Chelmsford Monday ………….…… Closed Tuesday - Thursday …… 11.30am - 2.30pm 5.30pm - 9.00pm Friday & Saturday ….…. 11.30am - 2.30pm 5.30pm - 9.30pm Sunday ………….……. Midday - 3.00pm On the Thanet Loop bus route ALE of Thanet A view from the new chair As many of you will know Jo Wallbank has passed the Gavel on after two years in the Chair and my introduction to Thanet CAMRA was arriving at the Winter Gardens on a Tuesday morning to help set up last year’s Beer Festival. The following day I had beer spraying in my face as I spiked the barrels with Dennis and knew I was going to enjoy it. Here’s the view I had before I was Chair. With the jackets on and everything finished I was totally impressed, not least by the efforts of so many volunteers but also the amazing view with everything set up. Now almost a year later I’m the Chair of Thanet CAMRA Branch and finding out just how much we do. Because of this I have to express my thanks to Jo and everybody else for the work they’ve put in over the years to make this a great branch to be involved with. We have recently announced our Pub of the Year competition winners and I hope you agree with how good all the entries were this year, especially the winners and runners up. -
Festival Fun
STOCKPORT - - AND SOUTH MANCHESTER CAM RA CJI No: 158 FestiVal Fun s this issue of Opening Times went to press, the A 11th Stockport Beer & Cider Festival looked set to be yet another roaring success. Early indications were that more beer and cider than ever before was likely to be sold although careful management and a slightly increased order ensured that supplies lasted until late on Satur day night. Thursday night was a particular success with attend ance and sales well up on the previous year. On the beer and cider front several treats were on offer- the first commercial cider from Cheshire for many years was well received and the beer quality, despite the hot weather, held up until the end. OT's particularfavourite was a wheat beer, White Dwarf, a last minute appearance from the well-regarded Oakham Brewery - a view shared by many as this was one of the first to sell out on the Thursday night. The award-winning local guide, Viaducts & Vaults 2 was also selling well and the festival programme included a cut-out-and keep update in the same format as the guide itself. Look out for future similar updates in Opening Times. Look out, too, for the V& V2 commemorative T-shirt- a very limited edition for those A recent visit to the Beartown Brewery in Congleton enabled OT involved in producing the guide was launched - and worn to to catch up on the latest developments at this local micro. great effect!- by the guide's production editor Paul Hutchings. The brewery is now 21f2years old and is still run on a part-time basis The last word must go to Festival Organiser Jim Flynn who told us by founders Ian Burns and Andy Millican who have kept their day "We were hoping that this festival would be the best ever and so it jobs. -
Crouch Vale – Tuning in To
Brewery profile Crouch Vale – tuning in to The 2005 and 2006 GABF Champion Brewer Recently we looked at Rudgate and Hobsons, both winners of CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain trophy. Crouch Vale’s Brewers Gold won that Crouch Vale accolade twice in two Brewery years – 2005 and again in 2006, both of them during 23 Haltwhistle Road, the period of moving to a South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, brand new brewery on the Essex CM3 5ZA. other side of town. Tel: 01245 322744 www.crouchvale.co.uk by Roger Putman Right: Inside the own is South Woodham Ferrers Crouch Vale retail shop. T in deepest South Essex, close to the muddy creeks of the Crouch river estuary with the occasional sight of a preserved Thames sailing barge, yet only a dozen or so miles from the busy M25 around London. The town was expanded in the 1970s and two industrial estates were established to create local jobs so that people would not simply hop on a train and work in the City just 34 miles away. Crouch Vale Brewery has brewed on both estates, the first in 1981 and the second from 2007. The brewery developed from the love of cask conditioned beer by two ardent CAMRA buffs. Colin Bocking and Rob Walster took camping holidays at such places as Henley on Thames and Devizes in looks after the Prince of Wales pub, Micro partners order to sample beers that never a couple of miles away. Colin Through an innovative business travelled far in those days. They met remembered the first brew well, on model, Crouch Vale finds itself one a kindred spirit who ran the now 3rd October 1981, the keen pair of the largest beer wholesalers in defunct West Riding Brewery in arrived at 0500 but the liquor was East Anglia for it operates a Huddersfield from 1980. -
Small Brewers Relief: Technical Consultation
Small Brewers Relief: Technical consultation January 2021 Small Brewers Relief: Technical consultation January 2021 © Crown copyright 2021 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open- government-licence/version/3. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at: www.gov.uk/official-documents. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected] ISBN 978-1-911680-23-9 PU 3064 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 2 Chapter 2 How SBR works 8 Chapter 3 The review of SBR to date 15 Chapter 4 Reforming SBR 38 Chapter 5 Summary of questions 64 Annex A Statistical data 66 Annex B The 2019 survey of brewers 68 1 Chapter 1 Introduction Background 1.1 Small Brewers Relief (SBR), as its name suggests, provides for reduced rates of beer duty for small brewers. It was first introduced in 2002 and was later adjusted in 2004. The relief is sometimes referred to in the industry as “progressive beer duty”. 1.2 Following requests from brewers to look again at the scheme over a number of years, the Treasury announced at the 2018 Budget that it would review the scheme “to ensure it is supporting growth in the sector”. 1.3 Since then, the Treasury has received submissions and engaged with a wide range of brewing groups to understand their views about reforming the relief. -
Chapter 2: Literature Review 19
Value impact of social media: a perspective from the independent brewery sector GODSON, Mark St John Available from the Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/25371/ A Sheffield Hallam University thesis This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the author. When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given. Please visit http://shura.shu.ac.uk/25371/ and http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html for further details about copyright and re-use permissions. Value impact of social media: A perspective from the independent brewery sector Mark St John Godson A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Sheffield Hallam University for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration December 2018 ii Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction 1 1.1: Introduction - What is this Study About? 1 1.2: Why is this of Interest from a Research Perspective? 3 1.2.1: Background to the independent brewery sector 3 1.2.2: Topicality of social media 4 1.2.3: Personal interests of the researcher 5 1.3: Research Aims, Objectives and Questions 6 1.4: Conducting the Research 8 1.5: Expected Contribution to Knowledge and Practice 8 1.6: Supporting Literature 14 1.7: Structure of Thesis 16 Chapter 2: Literature Review 19 2.1: Introduction 19 2.1.1: Literature review method -
Newsletter 1
Wigan CAMRA Branch Newsletter ey up !! October 2015 Welcome Welcome to ‘Ey up!!’ - the 2nd edition of our monthly branch newsletter which we are producing for a 3-month trial period. We would appreciate any feedback about this newsletter whether it be good, bad or indifferent, via e-mail to [email protected] Local Brewery News ALLGATES BREWERY: The brewery is running to absolute capacity at present selling beer sometimes before it is brewed. A new beer, called Nellie Melba (4.3%), has been brewed from a recently acquired Australian single hop Melba. Monthly beer ‘Patchcroft’ has been well received and is a personal favourite of the head brewer, Jonny. Look out for the ginger- infused ‘Hardybutts’. ‘Dairy Pit’ and ‘Blue Sky Tea’ have recently been bottled. PROSPECT BREWERY: A double dose of bad luck and bad news during September. Firstly, thieves brazenly stole two Karcher pressure washers (worth over £3000). The theft happened at lunchtime whilst brewing was in operation and three members of staff were working in the adjoining unit. Then, notification was received from the landlord terminating the lease on the brewery on November 8th 2016. The need to relocate the brewery is now of primary importance. On the beer front, sales of core range beers has remained very strong over the summer months and additional brews are now being undertaken to facilitate bottling of beers ahead in readiness for the Christmas rush. Bottling is now being done locally by Morrow Brothers in Buckshaw Village, near Chorley. HOPHURST BREWERY: All 3 beers in their ‘specials’ range have had great feedback and will be brewed again. -
Thirsty Times 020 Winter 2017
FROM THE EDITOR t’s common knowledge that regular of this piece. Only a ‘vox pop’ of MAD, NWE drinkers only suffer two side-effects: and CME footsoldiers is going to do justice to poor short-term memory and poor the cask vs. craft keg, cider vs. beer, pub vs. short-term memory... home barneys currently happening locally IThus hoping that I can make it to the end and nationally. of this editorial and still remember where Please do read your What’s Brewing and I am, it’s my pleasure again to bring you a Beer magazines, and update yourselves round-up of articles from the three branches on the state of play with the revitalisation of Maldon and Dengie, North West Essex project, which has just closed its third and Chelmsford and Mid-Essex. consultation. This edition ranges far and wide, in all On a lighter note, congratulations to the senses of the phrase; for far, take Barry Stanford Arms, Lowestoft, winner of East Plumridge’s report on the delights of the Isle Anglia Regional Pub of the Year. David and of Skye brewery, or Mick Allen’s insightful Samantha Burd received their award in mid- summary of the beer and brewery situation October from Andrea Briers, CAMRA East in Malta, or even the round-the-coast Thames Anglia Regional Director, and now join the 15 barge trip summarised for us by Richard other finalists for National Pub of the Year. Atkinson of MAD. Offering 12 real ales and five real ciders For wide I give you the stories gleaned on normally from local producers, Andrea the latest LocAle runabout, including tales of commended the “good range that would suit a spectral pub cat, haunting the bar-top at most tastes”.