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CAMRA Liverpool & Districts Magazine Spring 2014 FREE www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk email [email protected] Circulation 11,000 The MerseyAle CAMRA Liverpool and Districts Branch Welcome to MerseyAle Editor John Armstrong MerseyAle 67 Moorfields Liverpool L2 2BP Telephone 0151 236 1734 MerseyAle Contacts and Comments/news/letters/photos The Lion Tavern (Grade II Listed) is Liverpool’s [email protected] ManxAle finest Edwardian Pub. It is an extravaganza of FOOD etched glass, carved wood and beautiful tiling. See the board for MerseyAle Advertising selection of good It has a wonderful ornate wood carved bar plus Cost - Full page £200 value food two cosy side rooms one with a fantastic Half page £100 stained glass dome. The Lion Tavern is an Contact QUIZ NIGHT [email protected] award winning pub serving excellent cask every Tuesday at 9.30pm conditioned ales, cider and a large selection of MerseyAle - Read online at 40th Anniversary Edition the British Pub. The Coalition the finest malt whiskies. You can also enjoy a www.merseyale.com Anniversaries are coming thick has failed to act as promised on fine selection of tasty food from our food menu. ACOUSTIC and fast at the moment. In the PubCos that own nearly Liverpool and Districts CAMRA NIGHT November we celebrated the half our pubs, see page 31. We Second Thursday of the Main Branch Contact tenth anniversary of the launch ask you to spend a few minutes Month 8pm Jean Pownceby of the new redesigned to sign the online petition, [email protected] MerseyAle with a special www.pubscandal.org.uk and HANDPUMPS anniversary ‘10’ edition. Now just a few minutes more to Tell Contact Coach for trips only supply a varied selection of prize BOB DYLAN this edition marks the landmark Your MP- see page 29 for list of winning Real Ales (including at least one SOCIETY Ian Macadam 07521 741 586 of the 40th Anniversary of MPs - that action is needed Meets first Thursday of the by email Liverpool CAMRA, (which was urgently to save our pubs. locally brewed ale) plus hand pulled Cider Unless action is taken now Month 8.30pm [email protected] called Merseyside CAMRA 8 when established on 18th another 1,456 pubs are Liverpool Branch Chair January 1974). The inaugural expected to close before the MEET THE BREWER Geoff Edwards meeting took place in the General Election in 2015. Over 80 Malt [email protected] Third Thursday of the Globe in Cases Street and you Month 8pm can see the commemorative Women, Real Ale and CAMRA Whiskies Web Sites plaques on the wall in the A campaign success is the The Lion Tavern has one of the largest Liverpool and Districts back room. increased number of women selections of malt whisky on Merseyside POETRY GET CAMRA Branch On pages 9 to 15 you can read who are drinking real ale and TOGETHER www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk about the 2014 event at the are also joining CAMRA. Fourth Thursday of the wwwfacebook.com Globe which marked as near as Women now account for 22% Month 8pm /CAMRAliverpool possible the exact date of the of CAMRA’s 160,000 plus membership. And not only @LiverpoolCAMRA inaugural meeting. This is the drinking real ale but an QR Codes page 55 start of twelve months of V6 Adventure commemorative celebrations increasing number of women BAGUETTES Club Isle of Man CAMRA Branch and on the back cover you can are now brewing real ale in Ham breweries across the country. Cumberland sausage Meet every Wednesday www.isleofmancamra.org.uk read about the next event on Hot beef & fried onion at 8.00pm Wednesday 16th April 8pm at Read about Liverpool CAMRA’s Beef & raw onion Beef & tomato CAMRA national site the Philharmonic Hotel Hope successful Snowball campaign Cheese (Please choose from www.camra.org.uk on pages 36 and 37. our cheese menu) Street. We hope you will feel that OPEN SANDWICHES Cover Liverpool CAMRA has not just Homecooked ham served as an open Take 10 Minutes to Save the sandwich with mustard mayo & salad WEEKLY LOCALE Photo by Neil Lloyd British Pub talked the talk but walked the HAND RAISED PORK PIES See Board for future Celebrating 40 years of Liverpool This edition highlights the walk over the past 40 years Served with mustard or brown sauce Real Ales CAMRA at the Globe, Jean Pownceby, many campaign issues that Laurie Hughes, Sue Johnson and SOUTHPORT POTTED SHRIMPS CAMRA DISCOUNT CAMRA is currently involved Served with salad & toast Card carrying the cake! with. CAMRA may have won SAMOSAS MEAT OR VEGETABLE CAMRA members 10 pence the battle to save real ale and Served with mango chutney & Tzaki off pint of real ale have been described as ‘the most effective consumer group The opinions expressed in MerseyAle John in Europe’, but as we say on are not necessarily those of the Editor, Armstrong “One of the Hundred Best Pubs in the country” pages 9 and 10 we haven’t won the CAMRA Liverpool Branch or Editor Daily Telegraph CAMRA Ltd. the war. Now the war is to Save PUB OF EXCELLENCE 2012 CASK MARQUE CAMRA NATIONAL INVENTORY PUB 3 Loss of Liverpool’s he was leaving the brewery in February. It Wapping Brewery Plans to Go Only Brew Pub Label really was going to be The withdrawal from brewing will “the End”. mean that the Baltic Fleet will lose Jean Pownceby and I set its unique selling point of being, forth on the 15th January “Liverpool’s Only Brew Pub”, but to learn what we could Mad as a Hatter hopefully the continued supply of about brewing and felt the most popular of the Wapping that the best way to do are possible later additions to the The original December plan beers by Mad Hatter will mean this was to do it! Now I 2. supply agreement. There would was for the last brew at the Baltic that the pub continues to attract could baffle you all with be an agreement with Mad Hatter Fleet to be in February, with the people to its dock road location to technical terms, and for the use of the Wapping trade Stan, Jan and Jean brew plant to then be dismantled seek out those well known beers. write at length of the name and the use of the Wapping by Stan for sale to Mad Hatter. So major change for what for over Sparge, late hopping, steamed the night before or it beer names, with the likely Mad Hatter would then install the twelve years has been Liverpool’s seaweed and sleeping yeast, but would have been even warmer in addition of ‘Brewed by Mad Hatter plant in new premises they were only brew pub. there are numerous books and there and it did get warmer once Brewery’ on the pump clips. negotiating for in the Baltic On pages 6 and 7 we present an articles which will say all this, so I the Copper was lit. Triangle area. Prior to closure and appreciation of the work and won’t. Instead I will write of the 4. As part of the sale agreement the dismantling it was intended achievements of Wapping brewer unusual view you get of Wapping So what did we do? Angus would move to the that Stan would brew a large Stan Shaw and an account of the employment of the Mad Hatter when you are putting hops into We mixed the liquor and malt and last new beer to be brewed at the Surprise Move to Sell Brewery and would be the brewer the Copper and your head is just it was a good mix with no lumps Baltic Fleet, the special Festival Ale above pavement level veiled in according to Stan, we weighed Wapping Brewery to of the Wapping beers. The plan envisaged that the Wapping beers for the 2014 Liverpool Beer steam and surprising passers by. hops, we put hops in the Copper, Mad Hatter would be brewed by Angus on the Festival, fittingly named, ‘The End’. People thought we were just going we dug out the Mash Tun, all of it John Armstrong Surprise news in December former Wapping Brewery brew to turn up, have our photos taken not just a few shovelfuls and we and then retire to the comforts of tried not to get in the way of Stan was that Simon Holt, the owner plant once it has been installed in the new premises. Simon’s Liverpool One, but we turned up and Angus when they were doing of Wapping Brewery, had Wapping – “The End” expectation was that the use of When you are having a few friends at 8 and left at 2. “important stuff”. I admit we decided to cease brewing at his the brew plant from Wapping plus As the brewing area is a tad tight didn’t take our wellies so didn’t pub the Baltic Fleet by February round, you have to make a few Angus’s experience of brewing the preparations don’t you? Organise and the ceilings a bit low. I did take part in the clearing up, but 2014 and to sell the brew plant Wapping beers under Stan Shaw’s the catering, buy the drinks, wonder if Stan was 6 feet tall that is a small oversight on our supervision, should help maintain to Liverpool’s recently perhaps even make some of it before he moved to Wapping and part. And we learnt the the style and taste of the beers established Mad Hatter yourself. Well Liverpool CAMRA is the low ceiling and pipes knocked importance of temperature and despite the change of premises.

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