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BAE 160 Prog:Layout 1 18/07/2011 08:39 Page 1 F p le Beer Around ’Ere a R se ta E k e E o n bae e Issue 160 | August - September 2011 0 ER 35 OV LES AL A T RE AUGH N DR O F AYS O V E D C FI MUSI LIVE NGE E RA RS UG E BEE ST H OTTL UGU OF B A 27th 3rd - DERS 2 CI RIES & PER Peterborough & District Branch of CAMRA | www.peterborough-camra.org.uk BAE 160 Prog:Layout 1 18/07/2011 08:39 Page 2 BAE 160 Prog:Layout 1 18/07/2011 08:39 Page 3 Chairman’s Corner | 3 Chairman’s Corner ello to all our readers. As usual in this argued that the codes had failed to deliver and edition of BAE we are highlighting all the only way forward is a statutory code with an Hthe information and details about the independent ombudsman. IPC members said 34th Peterborough Beer Festival. Once again it’s the pubcos had demonstrated a lack of progress being held on the Embankment in giant and intransigence. So this could well be the ‘last marquees. Within this edition we have made a chance saloon for pub companies’ unless they plea for more of our members to come and help can wriggle out of making improved changes. us set up and run the event, instead of just moaning about the changes that have been Less than a month before writing this piece we introduced! Many of those are not within our were getting doom and gloom messages from control entirely. Once again our admission our farming friends that due to lack of rainfall in prices include a fully refundable £3 token for the spring and early summer, the worst barley a festival glass. If you don’t require a glass crop for many years would be the result. Since you can either cash the token in or use it to then I’ve been soaked to the skin twice in the buy beer up to that value. When you leave driest region of the country (East Anglia). Yes I’m you can hand your glass in for a full refund! sure a poor harvest this year will no doubt have I bet some still don’t get it. an effect on our beer prices next year but, if the following year is a bumper harvest, will the beer With our ‘summer’ now well and truly upon us price drop! Think oil – petrol. Nah. many pubs are taking the initiative and holding beer festivals and Bar-B-Qs in their gardens. My annual camping holiday down to I have been contacted by a few licensees in the Southwold in Suffolk did not unearth any great past about holding a beer festival for the first surprises this year. An increase in beer and food time. I stick to my old theory that limited prices was inevitable, although the Adnams beer publicity, too many beers that are ‘samey’ and was as usual spot on. This year the range of not gauging your normal output of real ales to brews appeared to be greater with recently intro - your regular customers, can be disappointing on duced Ghost Ship quite popular. Look out for the day. So hats off to the pubs that have tried them at this years PBF- they’re back! That ’s all putting on a beer festival for the first time and been for now folks. See you at the PBF in August. satisfied with the result. They all need our support. David Murray - Branch Chairman. Time for the serious bit now: The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (BISC) have stated it is to look again at the need for a statu - tory code of practice to govern the relationship ARE YOU MISSING OUT? between pub tenants and their owners. We went Only the beer-stained copy left? down this road last year and the findings were in Get Beer Around Ere delivered to your door! favour of the pub owners. A debate ahead of the For a year (6 issues) send a £2.46 or £3.06 BISC meeting organised by All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group heard yet for 1st Class cheque/PO payable to again evidence of the failing relationship between tenants and pubcos. The Independent Pubs “Peterborough CAMRA” and your address to:- Confederation (IPC) – comprising CAMRA, Fair Daryl Ling, 19 Lidgate Close, Orton Pint, the Federation of Small Businesses and Longueville Peterborough PE2 7ZA the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers Peterborough Branch Website |www.real-ale.org.uk BAE 160 Prog:Layout 1 18/07/2011 08:39 Page 4 4 | Please support our advertisers Lincolnshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2009 Peterborough & District CAMRA Pub of the Year 2009 • 5 real ales • plus Ciders and Perries. 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Then if that ’s not enough we It may have come to your notice that we supply a free bus home within the city limits and organise, set up and then run a very large event to some outlying villages. If you are a CAMRA on Peterborough River Embankment each year in member and have a friend or partner that would August. Who does all this? A dedicated band of like to help, but not a member, we are happy to unpaid volunteers who give their time free. They accept them if you can assure us of their integrity. comprise local and out of town CAMRA members from all parts of the country. In fact we We have loads of tasks that need staffing as have on average around 80 volunteers from other everyone is not keen on working behind a bar. Let areas that make the journey and stay for the week us know of any special skills you have that may be to assist. Our local members seem very reluctant of use to us. The usual ‘begging letters’ will be to come forward in large numbers to do the same. dropping through the doors of our members This is in spite of us banging the drum every year soon. to try and coax them to spend a few hours with us. So when is this all happening? First date is on Again I’ll give some idea of what we offer to our Sunday 14th August when we start erecting the staff. If you can manage a whole day working we perimeter fencing. Then back on Thursday 18th provide you with a cooked proper lunch from a to start the building of the festival. This continues variable menu. We make a tiny charge for this – throughout the weekend till we are ready for and I mean a tiny – 50p! In the evening you have opening on Tuesday 23rd. We run thro’ till the choice of a hot or cold meal during opening Saturday 27th when the festival closes. Then comes the hard bit! We are always in need of many hands to help take down the festival stuff and pack it away for another year. Volunteers who come on this day (Sunday 28th) and stay all day will be provided with a three course meal after the bulk of the work has been completed, and of course any beer that needs supping. Finally let me assure anyone not convinced that the PBF is a lot of fun both for staff and customers. We can only continue to make it still being so with the help provided by our volun - teers. The more we have of them the easier it can become. Even a few hours in the evenings can make a difference. It was suggested by one of our members that we start this plea off with “Dear miserable b-----ds” Hopefully we never have to! David Murray and Richard Smith Staffing Officers PBF www.real-ale.org.uk BAE 160 Prog:Layout 1 18/07/2011 08:39 Page 6 6| Local Brewery Update Blue Bell Adrian Posnett, managing director of Oakham The brewery is currently selling to around 20 Ales said: “We don ’t have the luxury of a large outlets.