Tippler Please Take One the Magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale Discoverour OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTIES
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the Autumn 2017 FREE tippler Please Take One The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale DiscoverOUR OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTIES Britain’s best brewery by a country mile* *A mile in any direction from 52.149300, -2.551226 wyevalleybrewery.co.uk wyevalleybrewery @wyevalleybrew wyevalleybrewery tipplerthe The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2017. Opinions expressed need not represent those of DiscoverOUR OUTSTANDING CAMRA Ltd or its officials FRONT COVER: The fabulous Fleece at Hillesley this NATURAL BEAUTIES contents: year celebrates five years of community ownership. Letters to the Editor & Editorial page 4 Naunton’s Hot Favourite page 32 The Hunter’s Column page 8 Brewery News page 34 Cheltenham News page 10 Cornish Born and Brewed page 38 North Cotswolds’ News page 15 Lost and Found in Awre page 40 More Beer in the Village A Round at Barrow Hill page 42 on the Hill page 16 Gloucester Prize Wordsearch page 45 Scarborough Fair page 22 What’s Coming Up? page 50 Scraping the Barrel page 25 CAMRA contacts page 52 Pub News page 28 CONTRIBUTION DEADLINES: these have now changed to SECOND FRIDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER have you any pub news? More details are posted regularly on the Facebook group 'Gloucestershire Pubs', an ideal forum to keep other people informed of the latest pub developments in the county. We value feedback and news from around the county, so, if you’ve got something to say, want to make a contribution, compliment or criticise, then get in touch: Britain’s best brewery by a country mile* The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 5TX *A mile in any direction from 52.149300, -2.551226 [email protected] 01684 439767 wyevalleybrewery.co.uk wyevalleybrewery @wyevalleybrew wyevalleybrewery 3 www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk for goodness LETTERS sake jeremy, can’t we just send an email like to the all those FRIGHTFULLY modern chaps? EDITOR Some of us old codgers are still happy to use the services of the Royal Mail, and we actively encourage all forms of (preferably printable!) communication. So get writing and get your news, views and comments published! [email protected] The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. GL20 5TX this publication is edited, designed and created by CHARISMATIC MARKETING LIMITED To find out about our design, advertising, sales and promotional literature services, and how we can help your local business call Chris on 01684 439767 4 [email protected] www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk LETTERS to the EDITOR Dear Editor, We at the Little George micro-pub in Stroud were Cheers, disappointed to read that your members had found us shut on their recent trip. Like most micro-pubs we Rob Tough do open less than macro pubs but, for future reference, we are open Wednesday – Friday from 4pm until 10 pm and on Saturdays from noon-11pm. Chris replies: Thanks for your email Rob, I’ll try We have three to six beers on at any one time, and cut out the typos for the future. It’s great and our beer is mainly sourced from Clearwater (who have an interest in the pub), Gloucestershire, to get such positive feedback from concerned Hal’s, Stroud and Kennet & Avon breweries with members, I look forward to your next pithy nationwide guest beers. Our ciders, usually four on chastisement with eager anticipation. plus bottles, come mainly from Beard and Sabre. Additionally we have a good gin menu, fine wines and high quality soft drinks. We have recently started Hello Chris, an off license selling ale and Belgian beer. We operate a CAMRA discount and will soon be selling I have been delivering Tipplers in Dursley area Gloucestershire brewery’s craft beers. today. We are available to open for other times with Very disappointed to yet again be throwing older notice. Please telephone 01453-750300. copies away. I have binned many more older copies Hope to see you soon. than ever before. Verdict from punters is no appeal from a usually dark and a boring front cover. Barry Raynes Also this time elastic bands from packing is tearing Managing Director the pages. We only need four boxes instead of eight www.clearwaterbrewery.co.uk for Dursley if this is going to carry on. Below: All for the bin in Wickwar, and treble that Chris Replies: for Wotton, whereas in previous times they would be Thanks Barry, I am sure it can be difficult to all taken. please all of the people all of the time, in fact it’s Dave Hedges sometimes difficult to please anybody at any time, as you’ll read in the next few letters. I’m glad that you got in touch and cleared things up, and trust you’ve had a great summer, although the weather has been anything but helpful! Dear Chris, I would like to complain about your sneaky and underhand attempt to pad out your letters pages by miss-spelling the name of our glorious organisation in your centre pages. For more than 40 years I have struggled to explain to the uninitiated that Camra is nothing to do with photography. This has now received a serious set back. I would be grateful if you could revert to your usual tactics of offensive covers, etc. www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk " On 16 Jun 2017, at 09:22, Dave Hedges <[email protected]> wrote: LETTERS to the EDITOR Chris Replies: Many thanks for the feedback, interesting this VIA EMAIL one. Not sure what ‘boring’ means in terms of front covers, but we can always try and change I have just read the summer edition of the Tippler that. I’m sure Neil and Grant will be pleased to and I must say that I am very disappointed with it. find out they’re boring. Of the 48 pages approximately 18 are adverts. I I hope the excess Tipplers go in the recycling know that you have to cover your costs but punters bin! want content not adverts. Interestingly, the cover is the only thing I get The front cover which is important shows the complaints about and in the four years of putting Worcester beer festival which is not in our area. this together I have had only one sent in by a Why could you not have used one from the recent CAMRA member. Perhaps you know someone Gloucester beer festival? Again a major articles on St Austell brewery and who has some non-boring images, and if they Marston’s which are not based in our area. You have, maybe they’d send them to me. should be majoring on Gloucestershire breweries. On the same theme (and I know it is a submitted Hello Chris, article) three of the limited pages have been devoted to ‘Inn search of Devon cider’. What about where to I would be more than happy to get out and about find Gloucestershire cider? I have just found and with my new Fuji camera. I have lots of time to spare visited Severn Cider at Awre following an excellent in full retirement. Are there any particular topics pint of Kingston Black at the Old Spot in Dursley. anyone can suggest. A nice looking pub has gone I have already spoken to the Gloucestershire down well in the past. CAMRA chairman about this poor edition and I understand that he will be discussing it with you. I Cheers, look forward to a better issue next quarter. Dave Hedges Regards. Martyn Genner Chris Replies: Excellent news, good looking pubs are always Chris replies: good, just remember portrait format and high Many thanks for the recent rather curt email. resolution! I’m sorry to hear that you are disappointed with my efforts, and I see that you have some positive views on what I should be featuring in Hello Chris, the magazine. Content is always a problem of Looking forward to working with you on this one. course, simply because I am the editor, rather I would enjoy that. I am no expert photographer than a contributor and this magazine relies on mind, but you have used images of Gloucester and contributions, I note that you have been a Winchcombe beer festivals from me. contributor in the past, so thanks for that. I also note that you have visited Severn Cider Cheers, at Awre and the Old Spot in Dursley, perhaps Dave Hedges 6 they could be photographed for the front cover ? www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk a story told about the cider works, I’d be very of the editor’s job. Despite all of the complaints happy to publish news of your travels around from members, who are obviously concerned the county. and animated enough to write in and complain, As you have already contacted the Chair of my requests for them to send in ‘appropriate’ the Gloucestershire CAMRA, it certainly appears (or, indeed, any) cover images, none have been that you would be willing to help, I know that forthcoming. there is always room for a volunteer, maybe you I rest my case. could help us with commissioning articles from within the county. As for being solely Gloucestershire-centric, EDITORIAL... personally, I’m not a great fan of populism and The summer, such as it has been, will no doubt, localism can create unnecessary division if not be fading from our memories as the chill and misty well handled. But, we are talking here about mornings of the autumn close in around us.