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LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 1 2 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk CONTENTS ISSUE 1 2014 15 Meet the Brewer Oldershaw Brewery 18 25 The Guests The Regulars 13 7 Guest Beers Lincoln News A look at guest beers. The pros, the cons and why they’re so A round up of Local Pub and Brewery News. popular. 10 18 What’s Brewing Small Beer National and Cider News. The Lincolnshire company supplying lots of beers to lots of 11 pubs. Members Page & Branch Diary 20 Find out what’s going on in the Lincoln CAMRA branch. Untappd 25 A review of an app that helps you keep track of what you’re Old Ale Tales drinking. Some photos of how Lincoln High Street used to look. 22 27 Bottled Beers TravAle Some unusual brews from Lincoln and Yorkshire. A trip to Willingham by Stow and beyond. 24 29 Recipe Quiz A new chef in the kitchen making Chocolate Stout Brownies. If you can’t find these beers in the pub try and find them in our word search. LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 3 4 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Welcome. The Usual? Happy 2014! You may notice providing a recipe, our usual cook Aaron has reviewed an app a slightly different face on the that’ll help you keep track of any guests beers you might find left. That’s because I’ve hung and Steve has written a piece about the Lincolnshire company up my TravAle hat and taken that helps get guest beers into pubs up and down the country. over as Guest Editor for an issue. Our usual editor Wendy We still have plenty of our regular features too, Old Ale Tales got married to Ashley, our makes a return, there’s a chance to win with our wordsearch in cider expert, at the end of last the back and we have all the local and national news you need year right in between issues. to know. When the team met to plan out what we were all going So to give her a chance to to write the first thing we did was look at feedback we’d received plan/recover I’ve taken the about the previous edition. It was all so positive the first thing I reins and produced an issue based around ‘Guests’. wrote in my notepad was “Don’t mess this up!” I’ll let you be the judge but I hope you enjoy this issue. To complete the circle Ashley has taken over from me and written TravAle, taking the 100 service through Sturton and out As usual if you have any comments please send them to me. to Willingham by Stow (I may have gone along for the ride). Wendy’s not gotten off completly either, producing an article [email protected] or tweet me @ImpAleEditor. Or about Guest Beers. The guests don’t stop there. We have a new be my friend on Facebook – Lincoln CAMRA ImpAle chef in the kitchen with the latest addition to the team Suzy Our Twitter account @Lincoln_CAMRA has nearly 2000 followers! Our friends on our Facebook account are also increasing at a steady rate! To help keep the success going we need your help! Please email Aaron 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 Guest Editor pubs and consumer rights. It is an independent, voluntary Greg Richards organisation with more than 120,000 members nationally. ImpAle magazine is published three times a year and is Design 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 its monthly newspaper What’s Brewing and a host of other Publisher membership benefits visit www.camra.org.uk Neil Richards MBE CAMRA is a limited company, run at national level by an Matelot Marketing Limited elected unpaid board of directors and at regional level 01536 358670 by volunteer regional directors, both backed by full time [email protected] professional staff. With kind help from Consumer Rights Campaign for Real Ale Steve Renshaw, Wendy Renshaw, Steve For complaints about issues such as short measures Richardson, Aaron Joyce, Ashley Sewell, contact Lincolnshire Trading Standards on 01522 782341 or 230 Hatfield Road Wendy Margetts, Dominic Jennings, Kathy Consumer Direct on 0845 404 0506. St Albans and Tim at Oldershaws, copies/images Herts from Lincoln Library with permission of Disclaimer Tel: 01727 867201 Lincolnshire County Council: Lincoln The views contained within ImpAle do not necessarily [email protected] Central Library: Local Studies Collection. represent the views of CAMRA, the editor, or the Lincoln and Louth branches. LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 5 BREWERY · RESTAURANTRESTAUAUR NT CAFÉCAFÉ BARBAR Pheasantry Pheasantry BREWERY BREWERY Brewed in Nottinghamshire by The Pheasantry Brewery 3.8% ABV 4% ABV Pheasantry BREWERY Bar · Restaurant · Tea, coffee & ice creams Gardens & space to play · Brewery Tours Restaurant available for private hire in the evenings High Brecks Farm, Lincoln Rd, East Markham, Newark NG22 0SN Tel 01777 870572 · www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk Food: Wed - Sat 10am - 6pm; Sun 10am - 4pm; Evening meals: Fri, Sat 6 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk NEWS Strugglers recognised as community asset The City of Lincoln Council has added to be and an atmosphere which has The Strugglers Inn on Westgate to its disappeared in most other pubs.” list of assets of community value. The The Strugglers is not under threat pub joins The Lawn complex on the of sale at the moment. However, Council’s list of buildings or other land high property prices mean that pubs considered to be of importance to their are being targeted for conversion community’s social well-being. The into supermarkets and housing listing, under the terms of the Localism developments. Punch Taverns, the Act 2011, provides the community with debt-laden owners of The Strugglers, IN BRIEF the power to “stop the clock” if the pub have disposed of over 1,100 non-core were to be put up for sale, earning up pubs since August 2011. New look for Batemans to six months to explore options for saving it. Aaron Joyce, the new chairman of From February, Lincolnshire’s family brewer, Lincoln CAMRA, said, “We’re hoping Batemans, will have a new look. The re- The Strugglers was nominated by a that more groups will apply to have their branding will coincide with the 140th group of twenty-one regular customers. local pubs listed as community assets. anniversary of the founding of the brewery. The nomination highlighted the special With pubs increasingly becoming a Bateman’s seasonal beers for 2014 will be kind of devotion that The Strugglers target for developers, this new power known as the Biscuit Barrel range; there will invokes among its regulars. According can provide a much-needed extra layer be five of them, the first being Springtime to the submission, “People often of protection, should they be put up for Oatmeal. The Bohemian range of craft describe it as a proper pub, which sale.” beers infused with exciting flavours such means it not only provides what it is as Belgian chocolate, orange peel, coffee supposed to - good beer, company Across the UK, over 270 pubs have now beans, cinnamon and hazelnuts are going and a haven from life’s troubles - but been listed as assets of community on sale in 330ml bottles. it also has a hint of the way pubs used value. A national celebration of British evenings of 12th and 13th March, beer is returning to Sheffield for the and all day on 14th and 15th. second year running. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) All the beers on offer at the festival successfully launched BeerX last have won regional competitions to BeerX year and is running the event again have the right to be at BeerX 2014. in March. BeerX combines SIBA’s They include cask, keg and bottled annual general meeting, the final beers - not all of these fall under returns to judging for its national awards and CAMRA’s definition of real ale. a beer festival that is open to the public. Details of session times and ticket Sheffield prices can be found at www.beerx. This year’s venue is iceSheffield, org. CAMRA members will get a £2 which is only eight minutes by tram discount on the entry price. from the city centre. The festival will be open to the public on the LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 7 News IN BRIEF Newby Wyke - by Royal (Navy) appointment Grantham’s Newby Wyke Brewery has been approached by the Ministry of Defence’s Director Ships, who is in charge of the construction of the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. As a result of this enquiry and contact with the ship’s captain, a barrel of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, their 6.0% ABV golden ale, has been requested for the launch ceremony. Brewer, Robert March, will also provide a special ceramic pump clip and other promotional material for the wardroom. Sleaford range extended Lewis and Victoria outside the West End Tap The new owners of Sleaford Brewery (Image courtesy of Richard Howes Photography) have added new beers to their range. Screaming Eagle Stout (4.8% ABV) is produced with a number of different grains and US hops, while Tropico (3.5% ABV) West End Tap is a fruity session pale ale.

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