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HILLSIDE BREWERY FRONT COVER COMPETITION WINNER: On the edge of the Forest and thebanks of the mighty River Severn, Westbury on Severn’s very own Lyon Inn. Photograph by Stephanie Leibbrandt. THE BEER THAT contents: SCREAMS THE SUPERIOR Letters to the Editor page 4 25 Years of Goffs page 34 ‘SUMMER!’ NAME IN PREMIUM The Hunter’s Column page 8 Hillside Front Cover Comp. page 37 REAL ALE Cheltenham News page 10 View from the Brewhouse page 38 North Cotswolds News page 16 The New Inn - Willersey page 40 Cheltenham News page 14 Bushel+Peck - Cider & Perry page 42 Cirencester Beer Festival page 18 Real Ale Ramble page 44 The Ups and Downs of Exeter page 21 Seven Tuns - Birthday Party page 46 News from Gloucester page 23 Dodgy Ticker - Naming of Beers page 48 Pub News page 24 The Woolpack in Slad page 52 Stroud Summer Pub Focus page 28 Gloucester Prize Wordsearch page 57 Competition - Name that Pub page 31 What’s Coming Up? page 60 Brewery News page 32 CAMRA contacts page 62 THE SMOOTHEST, THE WISE CHOICE SILKIEST OF OF CLASSIC CONTRIBUTION DEADLINES: STOUTS CASK ALE these have now changed to SECOND FRIDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER 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: The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 5TX [email protected] 01684 439767 wyevalleybrewery.co.uk 3 LETTERS to the EDITOR a look at the competitions, if you time it right you could certainly win yourself a place on one of the brewery tours. Hi Chris

I was forwarded the email below by the guys Whenever my at Gloucester Brewery: travels around the country present I have corresponded with you recently me with the me regarding what I consider to be a misleading the opportunity form of wording in the Prize Word Search to visit a local competition in the Tippler. establishment, I know you replied that you would raise the I also seek out matter with the editor. Having obtained a copy the local Camra of the latest (summer edition), I thought you magazine. might like to know that the competition advert One that LETTERS still retains the misleading wording, i.e. stood out for “You have a chance to win 4 brewery tour me was tickets”. (The reason why I was expecting to CamrAngle to the receive four tickets). from the Surely it would be less misleading to say: Slough, “You have the chance to win ONE of four prize Windsor and tickets available to tour the brewery”. EDITOR Maidenhead branch. I’ve posted you the copy that I took as I thought it may be a Just a small observation, I will not pursue it good opportunity to include an article on further. LocALe pubs (pg13) and also something perhaps on the breweries that we’re fortunate Some of us old codgers are still happy to use the services of Thank you, to have in the region (pg13) (summarised the Royal Mail, and we actively encourage all forms of (preferably printable!) rather the spreads such as the recent excellent communication. So get writing letters, sending emails and get your news, views and Brian Ogden article on Inferno). comments published! I also thought that if you needed a longer article (Beer on the Catwalk) that the 4 page Dear Chris, Chris replies: Chris replies: description (pg15) on the many different types of beer was quite a fascinating read. I would like to take Dear John, Hello Brian, out a subscription in I don’t know about copyright hence why respect of your Many thanks for your letter of 16th Many thanks for the email that has been I’ve sent the magazine to you so you have the excellent magazines, July, which really made me smile. It’s not forwarded to me. You are quite right of contact details needed. beginning with your often I get a letter so really appreciated course, and the fault for this lies entirely at Really look forward to each edition of The summer issue and, it, along with the kind comments. my door. The guys at Gloucester Brewery are Tippler, keep up the good work. if this is acceptable, It’s good to know that the Tippler is blameless here, indeed they continue their will you please let making its way around the country, I have generous support of the magazine ensuring Regards me know if you a couple of chaps in Yorkshire who also get that many readers get the opportunity to Laurence Morton want me to send a their magazines sent to them. I am sure the attend a really interesting tour of their facility. cheque or postage local CAMRA magazines are equally interesting Having been on one of the tours I can see Chris replies: stamps in respect of to read, but it’s good to know that ours is why you were disappointed, they’re well the above. travelling. worth it! Hello Laurence, Thanking you in anticipation. The best thing to do is go to the post office I have taken your sage advice on the and buy some of the big 1st class stamps and wording of the competition page that ensures Many thanks for the email and the kind Yours faithfully, send them to me, then I’ll make sure you get there are no further disappointments. Thanks words, always a guaranteed way to get in the one soon after they’re published. for bringing this to my attention and s also letters pages. John Phillips If you’re coming down this way, then have for the big-hearted you have dealt with it. Thanks also for the magazine CamrAngle, the 4 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 5 LETTERS to the EDITOR LETTERS to the EDITOR production of the magazine. I always like to have a look at the ‘competition’ dedicated to I make no apology for creating a magazine around the country. advertising food and that has ‘lavish’ articles, I am sure there are The Locale lists have featured for quite a wine at The Seven Tuns at CAMRA members who quite like a lavish read few years in the Tippler, but space restraints Chedworth. Whilst I accept that the pub is in every now and again. Surely CAMRA is about have led to it being removed in the last few the current edition of the Good Beer Guide, being inclusive and broad minded? Just look at editions. Keeping the list up to date is always my complaint is that the article and advert all the differing styles of beer that we are now CAMRA a bit of an issue, but, like you, I think they are does not mention at any point Beer and Cider. currently enjoying, that couldn’t have happened a valuable resource for the membership. To rub salt into the wound the lavish article is without a modicum of tolerance from members. Subscription You’re right about the feature on the beer also accompanied by a picture depicting an On a asimilar vein, there is nothing wrong styles, I may well get in touch and see if we expensive bottle of wine with the meal. with ‘high-end’ pubs, indeed, I suspect that our could use that feature, I’d probably have to This is clearly something I would expect fabulous county of Gloucestershire and the Increase break it up into a couple of features, as four to see in Country Life rather than the Tippler. wider environment of the Cotswolds have more pages of text can get a bit irksome to read Whilst I note Simon Wilson-White’s comments than their fair share of these establishments, and Reminder through, particularly for those readers who in the letter to the editor page the establishment without them, the pub going environment of the are not hardcore CAMRA beer buffs. is clearly at the high end of the market and county would be a poorer place. It does sound The National Executive have Keep in touch, it’s always good to get gauging by the article I doubt that the average like, despite Simon Willson-White’s invitation increased membership subscriptions some positive feedback and proposals for drinker would be able to afford a round of to “Come and visit and put us to the test!”, you from 1st July 2019. how I could improve things. drinks in the pub. If the beers and CAMRA have decided not to, which is a shame. feed back is so good why isn’t mentioned in Standard rates have increased Dear Chris the article/advert. (This is the last of the critical correspondence I for one will not be visiting or booking a that I will be publishing about the Seven Tuns - £1.50 and £1 for concessions. table at the Seven Tuns in Chedworth. Thanks for your email - I thought I’d seen Ed.) something on LocAle’s in the past but not for regards, a while, hence the thought about including an this publication is edited, designed and created by updated version. Martyn I found the beer styles very interesting so hopefully it makes a future edition(s) of The Chris replies: Tippler - perhaps a two-parter would work as you’ll see the CamrAngle magazine is a full Many thanks for the email and also many blown A4 size. thanks for letting me know about the purpose Will keep a look out and let you know of of the magazine, which was very informative. anything else I come across / ideas to improve. I presume that you did read all of the correspondence in the last magazine where a Best Regards whole page was dedicated to this subject and detailed responses made to the concerns that Laurence were raised. Despite that coverage, I will do my best to answer your concerns. You have asked me to Chris, explain why two pages have been dedicated to advertising the food and wine at the pub. The Tippler is the magazine of the This is very simple: I asked the managers of Gloucestershire branches of CAMRA designed the pub if they would send us in a seasonal to inform members and the general public recipe as a regular feature (their chef is one CHARISMATIC MARKETING LIMITED about beer and cider related activities within one of the top chefs in the county), I like the county. good food and we all need to eat, after all. So To find out about our design, advertising, sales and promotional I would therefore be grateful if you could that is one page. The right hand page of the literature services, and how we can help your local business explain to me why 2 pages (50 and 51) within two is an advertisement, which I presume is the latest edition of the Tippler have been OK with you as it helps to pay for the regular call Chris on 07977 157050 the [email protected] 6 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale 7 ’, The Bailiff’s stands next door to the Three Pigeons, which is

THE HUNTER S also in the 2019 GBG: a 17th century coaching inn with a thatched roof topped off by straw finials of said birds, although I COLUMN didn’t see any on the menu. Not many Heading east, not on a cock-horse to Banbury Cross, but on people eat straw some decent radials, our intrepid hero visits Banbury’s these days. With first ever, micro-pub asking the question: the road junction WON’ T YOU COME HOME BILL BAILIFF?... developments over the years, access is now Ian said that he doesn’t think by steps leading that he’ll be in it this year: down into the bar, something to do with “The the window sills CAMRA lot round ’ere”. Well it being at ground can’t be anything to do with his level. BT Ian knew encyclopaedic knowledge of his stuff about beer tyres, their treads, fittings and too, but just a slight applications, which he reeled off word of warning about at speed and in incredible detail, one of the ales that was spurred on by partner Sheila, on, New Bristol Brewery’s who was sitting at the table next (NBB) Stand & Vanilla - to us. I’m not sure how we got wordplay on a classic opening was on to the subject, but he knew gambit for both bailiffs and previously his stuff alright and Sheila, a highwaymen alike. The Urbane a bailiff’s office, qualified science teacher Space-gorilla on the pump clip looks as was Banbury’s first with an enquiring mind, was bemused as I was after my first taste. micro-pub. prompting him into a display of Described as a 5% Milkshake IPA, NBB enlighten We also visited the Exchange, Wetherspoon’s erudition that was worthy of a us further: an “amplified mouth tickling sensory presence in the town but, had no conversations; residency on Mastermind, or at overload winner of a beer. Brewed with heavy no detailed analysis of the ales and absolutely least a letter of commendation amounts of luscious malted oats for that big no sign of anyone who seemed to, or at least from the pioneer of the pneumatic mouthfeel. Intensely hopped and dry-hopped would admit to, know anything at all about tyre in Birmingham in 1889, John with Melba, Equinox and Citra and finished off reconditioned tyres or even John Boyd Dunlop. Boyd Dunlop, (pictured here) with a touch of delicious Madagascan vanilla. The Japanese tourists seemed to turn their if he hadn’t died in 1921. More Incredibly pungent and desserty…..a real heavy back on us too; after they’d taken millions of recently, in the 1980’s the Japanese whipper.” So if you are into heavy whipping… photographs. This is an omission that Tim Martin company Sumitomo acquired It looked and tasted like a mango milkshake, surely must rectify, when he has stopped the rights to manufacture Dunlop not like a beer as we know it. That is, if we can banging on about Br*x*t. Actually, he does tyres, so all the locals started still call beer beer. Our traditional words are seem to have stopped banging on about it referring to the iconic building disappearing. Banks’s turned their back on after appearing at one point, to be occupying as Fort Dunrop. One shouldn’t mild years ago. They still brewed it but called the driving seat. It did make me smile when mock the afflicted; Brummie or it Original – mild was an old man’s drink! It his own staff were “refusing to distribute beer Japanese. looks as though the same marketing revamp is mats, leaflets, magazines or menus that promote It was the 2020 Good Beer happening to bitter, now rebranded as amber Martin’s politics”. Ah well, it will all come out in Guide that Ian didn’t think that he ale. We’ve already got red ale, so I suppose The Wash; The Irish Channel or… now, why are would make it into. He and Sheila are mine factor for entry they would have won hands the next in sequence is going to be green, or they repairing that Hadrian’s Wall? hosts at the Bailiff’s Tap in Banbury, Oxfordshire. down, no doubt about it – first in line; picture am I making light of the matter? If tyre knowledge had been the qualifying on the front cover, and re-treads on the back. The Bailiff’s Tap, securely residing in what The Hunter the 8 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 9 NEWS FROM THE CHELTENHAM BRANCH Vegan Friendly Beer for the

fining agent – either Irish Moss (an algae), This year’s Cheltenham CAMRA festival seaweed or pea protein. The alternative will have a vegan flavour. Breaking with the is simply not to fine the beer at all. This usually common practice of choosing real ales from produces a haze in the final product, but the a specific UK region or county, Cheltenham popularity among craft brewers for unfined CAMRA will instead showcase the growing beers has made this more mainstream in vegan beer sector. recent years. “Veganism, and an interest in vegan food “All vegan friendly beers will be clearly and drink, is taking off – particularly in places marked in the programme, and we will have a like Cheltenham”, said festival committee good selection of vegan food and snacks to member Grant Cook. “So this year we have complement the beers”, said Grant. “We will decided to make things easier by having a also have twenty plus real ciders and perries, specific bay dedicated to vegan beers. This which are all naturally vegan-friendly. will give more focus on vegan beers and save “If there are any vegans who would like to people having to hunt round the hall to track volunteer to man the vegan beer section, or down compatible ales from among the eighty to help promote and explain vegan beers and or so available”. food, then please contact [email protected] with your contact details, and we’ll get back Why is vegan beer different? to you”. Once again the venue is Cheltenham Ladies’ The majority of real ale in the UK is fined, College, with the wonderful Princess Hall as producing the bright and clear beer we see the centrepiece. Festival dates are Friday 1st in every pub. However, traditionally this has and Saturday 2nd of November. Friday will see been achieved by adding Isinglass (this has the festival open from 4pm to 11pm, Saturday nothing to do with Lord of the Rings - Ed.) to will be 11am to 11pm, and there will be live beer casks. Isinglass is made from the swim entertainment on both days. bladders of fish and, although it sinks to the bottom of the cask and is not consumed, its More detail about CRAF19 will appear on the use in producing real ale breaches vegan ethical Cheltenham Branch Website - principles. Vegan compatible real ale can be produced www.cheltenhamcamra.org.uk/craf in two ways. The first is to use a vegetable the 10 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale NEWS FROM THE CHELTENHAM BRANCH Cheltenham Beer Week 2019

September is Cheltenham Beer Week

Cheltenham Beer Week is back again, with a whole host of events from Friday September 13th to Sunday September 22nd. Information on venues, Ale Trails and events can be found on:

http://cheltenhambeerweek.co.uk

Look out for this year’s collaboration beer, available at Beer Week venues. It is a 4.4% ABV, unfined, organic IPA. It has been brewed at the new Stroud Brewery, in collaboration with eight Gloucestershire brewers. Profits from the sale of this beer will go to National Star College, whose students (once again) designed the graphics for the collaboration beer. Last year’s Beer Week raised £7,700 for National Star.

The Aviator Cheltenham Summer Pub of the Year which is served from breakfast until 8.45pm The Aviator, set within the grounds of (7.45pm Sun), the bar is decorated with pictures Gloucestershire Airport, is Cheltenham CAMRA’s of planes, cars, music and Americana. Large choice for the relaunched seasonal pubs award. model planes hang from the ceiling. “These awards recognise pubs which offer a The real ale range is served from three great seasonal experience”, said Branch Chair handpulls, which includes at least one local ale, John Crossley. “The Aviator is tucked away plus a bag-in-box real cider. A 10% discount on next to the runway at Gloucestershire Airport, ales is available to CAMRA members. so on a sunny day you can sit back in the The pub has a large car park. The only large grassed garden and patio and watch the public transport option is to get a 94 bus to planes come and go. There’s a play area for Staverton crossroads (traffic lights), and walk Beer Week Collaboration Beer children and a dedicated non-smoking area”. about half a mile down Bamfurlong Lane. Or, if This year’s collaboration beer is being brewed at the new Stroud Brewery. Collaborating brewers The Aviator’s L-shaped bar also has great you are a keen cyclist, this would make a great (drawn from across Gloucestershire) include Corinium, Cotswold, DEYA, Gloucester, Goffs and views across the airfield. Popular for food, ride out. Prescott breweries. In keeping with Stroud’s principles, the Beer Week brew will be organic. Feedback from the brewers suggest that this will be a golden, unfined IPA of around 4.4% ABV. Aroma hops are likely to be El Dorado and Simco with an English variety for bittering. This beer [email protected] will be available in cask and keg versions at participating venues during Beer Week. Profits from the sale of this beer will go to the ground breaking National Star College, whose The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, students will (once again) design the graphics for the collaboration beer. Last year’s Beer Week raised £7,700 for National Star. Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. GL20 5TX the 12 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 13 Sandford Park Alehouse Changes Hands

During September ownership of Cheltenham’s continue to enjoy the pub after I have moved on. Sandford Park Alehouse will change. Licensee “I intend to relocate to London to join my Grant Cook said: wife Heidi and enjoy a better work/life balance.” “A sale of the Sandford Park Alehouse, to Cheltenham CAMRA Chair, John Crossley said: the independent group Burlison Inns, has been “Grant has made an invaluable contribution to agreed. We believe that the Sandford Park Gloucestershire’s beer scene. After running Alehouse will fit into the Burlison Inns Group two highly regarded pubs in Leicester, Grant without substantial alterations. The Marlborough built a new pub in Cheltenham in 2013. From Arms, Cirencester, is a Burlison Inns pub and, scratch he built a reputation for the pub that as a local CAMRA Pub and Cider Pub of the resulted in the Sandford Park Alehouse winning Year winner, it has a great reputation. the coveted 2015 CAMRA National Pub of the “The understanding, with Group Owner Year award. Gary Burlison, is that no substantial changes “The Sandford is a destination pub which are planned in the ethos, style or philosophy of attracts beer lovers and CAMRA members to the Sandford Park Alehouse”, said Grant. “So customers need not worry about losing the visit Cheltenham and discover our great pubs uniqueness of their local. and breweries. “All current staff will have the option to “Grant was also the driving force in getting transfer to the buying company and management Cheltenham Real Ale Festival started, often of the pub will be undertaken by Andrew acting as Festival Organiser. The Cheltenham Coates and his team at Bath Road Beers. CAMRA committee, and I am sure all CAMRA “I would like to thank our regular customers members, would like to extend our thanks for for your support since our opening in 2013. everything Grant has done for CAMRA and for Many a pint has been enjoyed and many making great real ale available to Cheltenham’s friendships made. I sincerely hope that you discerning beer drinkers.” the 14 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 15 NEWS FROM NORTH COTSWOLD BRANCH MONTHLY PUB WALKS MONTHLY PUB WALKS THE CRAVEN ARMS in BROCKHAMPTON We have now completed 92 We have 86 pubs in the area and North Cotswold Branch awarded its walks around our pubs in the each one will eventually figure in Summer Pub of the Year to the Snowshill Arms. the process. Reports on all walks North Cotswold area. Generally The branch were impressed by this is a traditional Country 4 or 5 miles easy walking these are are available on our website www. Pub in the heart of the Village of Snowshill and its undoubted held monthly on the first Saturday of the northcotswoldcamra.org.uk together with popularity as a summer destination. month starting at 10:30 am from the pub car the route and photographs. It is an unspoilt 15th Century Inn owned by Donnington park returning at 12:30 pm for lunch. Brewery and run by sisters Izzy Barr and Jackie Spear. Serving an The next walks are as follows:- call Roger Price on 01451 810305 or just turn up. Dogs welcome excellent pint of Donnington Beer is a good start but then the popularity of the pub is another challenge and the excellent on leads. customer service for the many walkers, tourists and regular Corner Cupboard, Winchcombe for the first time. No 93 Sat 5th October - customers who flock to the village in the summer is a credit to No 94 Sat 2nd November - Hare and Hounds, Fosse Cross following major refurbishment. Izzy, Jackie and their staff. No 95 Sat 7th December - New Inn, Willersey to welcome new management. The sun trap of the terrace along with the children’s play equipment in the garden make it an all-round summer pub worthy of our Seasonal award. BEER FESTIVALS 2019 12th Moreton Beer Festival 13 - 14th September NEWS FROM THE Planning for Moreton is well advanced with this Festival running for TEWKESBURY BRANCH two days with speciality beers from Liverpool and Ireland that will supplement the normal national offerings. An advertisement Planning begins now for the appears in this issue with details and further information on our

website: www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk 25th Tewkesbury Winter Ales Festival Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 February 2020. It’s our Silver Jubilee event and its going to be a cracker. Face Book Weekend Away A link to this site is on our web pagehttps:// The destination is Bournmouth on 27th to After a little while co-ordinating diaries, 16 Tewkesbury www.facebook.com/North-Cotswolds-CAM- 30th September. The weekend is mainly a GBG CAMRA members trundled down to Mitcheldean on the RA-the-Campaign-for-Real-Ale-in-the-North- micro-pub tour plus walks on Sat and Sun. Most ‘Bill Bus’ to present the TWAF Cider of the Year award. Cotswolds-1022351584505679/?fref=nf members are staying at The Savoy. (Coast and Pictured left is Martin Raven (in blue) presenting the Country Hotel Group) award to Pat Lock owner of Jolter Cider, for his Medium Real Ale Trails Blended Cider. Summer Pub of the Year We are continuing the Real Ale Trails.Details Afterwards, several pints of the excellent range of to follow or check the website: Perry’s and Ciders that were on offer that evening were Awarded to Snowshill Arms. See article right. consumed and then few of us popped over the way and www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk had a cheeky Pint or two at the Bespoke Brewery Tap, This seasonal award will apply to our branch well it would have been rude not to. Day Away 2019 area’s most improved pub irrespective of whether or not it is in the current GBG guide. A great time was had by all and thank you to Pat and Visited to Bewdley and Kidderminster by Bespoke brewery for their Hospitality. Train on 18th May 2019. Ian Mence the 16 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 17 C N E ENC S E R I IR ES T C C T E BEER E E BEER E R R H H

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Not just for Arcade, Diversitea Cafe, located in the Corn SATURDAY 28TH sept beer and ale lovers, the festival will also provide Hall and the Kings Head Hotel, right next to 11.30AM11.00PM TILTIL 11.00PM11.30AM a good selection of ciders as well as a gin bar the hall. 11.30AM11.30AM TILTIL 11.00PM11.00PM and great food from by Made By Bob, the ever 11.30AM TIL 11.00PM popular restaurant near the Corn Hall. For further information please contact us via "We are loving having Beer Festivals in the Entrytankard, £5.00beer to include commemorativecommemorative include to beer£5.00 tankard,Entry email or facebook: Entry £5.00 to include commemorative beer tankard, Corn Hall and thank everyone for their support. beerEntry tokens £5.00 available to include to commemorative purchase via websitebeer tankard, or on the day. We have an amazing selection of beer barrels day. beerthe Entry tokenson or £5.00 available to website include via to purchase commemorativepurchase viato website beer oravailable tankard,on thetokens day. beer Email: [email protected] beer tokens available to purchase via website or on the day. lined up and a great live music itinerary for beer tokens available to purchase via website or on the day. both Friday and Saturday including the Facebook: Facebook@cirencesterbeerfestival Seeoffers See websiteAle website Early for Earlyfor for Early Ale website offers AleSee offers Shadow Monkeys, the Will Blake Band and See website for Early Ale offers Twitter: Twitter@cirencesterbeerfestival the very local Mitch Potts," Augusta Wreay See website for Early Ale offers Instagram: @cirencesterbeerfestival explained. “We look forward to welcoming you FORFOR FURTHER FURTHERINFORMATION INFORMATION INFORMATIONFURTHER FOR to the Corn Hall.” FOR FURTHER INFORMATION www.cirencesterbeerfestival.co.uk Email : [email protected] the www.cirencesterbeerfestival.co.ukwww.cirencesterbeerfestival.co.ukFOR [email protected] : EmailEmail INFORMATION Email : [email protected] : info@cirencesterbeerfestival.co.ukwww.cirencesterbeerfestival.co.uk Facebook@cirencesterbeerfestivalFacebook@cirencesterbeerfestivalTwitter@cirencesterbeerfestival Twitter@cirencesterbeerfestival Twitter@cirencesterbeerfestivalFacebook@cirencesterbeerfestival 18 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.cirencesterbeerfestival.co.ukFacebook@cirencesterbeerfestivalinstagram@cirencesterbeerfestival Email Twitter@cirencesterbeerfestival : [email protected] Facebook@cirencesterbeerfestivalinstagram@cirencesterbeerfestivalinstagram@cirencesterbeerfestival Twitter@cirencesterbeerfestivalinstagram@cirencesterbeerfestival instagram@cirencesterbeerfestival 7500 customers believe Ups DRINKS LWC makes the dierence The and s Down Exeter is one of our favourite cities (somewhat enhanced by reading the The Uk’s largest cask ale supplier with over 50 Crowner John books of of Exeter Bernard Knight, a brilliant dierent casks in stock at any time. series of medieval murder mysteries set in 12th century Devon – a quick Access to cask ales from all over the country through recommendation there). We caught the 10.51 our network of 15 depots. Last year we listed and sold train from Totnes to Exeter St. David, travelling along over 1500 dierent cask ales. one of the most interesting rail lines (not heritage), in the south west. After Designated cask coordinator at each depot. Newton Abbot, the line follows the northern bank of the River Teign to the coast at Teignmouth Ocial supplier to CAMRA (and if the tide is out, the bird-spotting – waders mainly – is an added bonus to the journey). After We are much more than just the UK’s largest and Teignmouth, the line turns most extensive cask supplier, we are a composite north and along the notorious Dawlish sea wall – wholesaler of beer, wines and spirits who pride an experience in itself! NEWS FROM THE But, hey – away from your ourselves on our product range (over 5000), suggested reading list and TEWKESBURY BRANCH the geography and wildlife high levels of service and industry knowledge. info, let’s recommend some pubs. First we had to negotiate the climb from King Inn. So of course, you had the expected the station to the city centre, and then… ales (no more than you would expect at a To find out more about LWC and our products We had decided to try some different Spoons), but we headed for the guests, starting hostelries this visit, and at noon, started at with an excellent Hanlon’s Port Stout, 4.8%, please phone: 01568 616193 the Ship Inn (above) situated at end of the rich, dark and in very good condition. Next or visit our website at: extremely narrow St. Martin’s Lane, where it was Quantock QPA, a 3.8% amber ale with a opens on to the Cathedral Green, with the good balanced hop flavour, and again very www.lwc-drinks.co.uk Cathedral taking centre-stage and many acceptable. Finally, it was Exeter Avocet, a medieval ‘clerical’ buildings along Cathedral golden, smooth bitter at 3.9%, again a good ale. Close. Sorry to bore you again, but St. Martin’s As you would expect, this being a Greene Lane is where the home of Crowner John is King Inn, the food was off their national set. The Ship is one of the oldest pubs in menu, and we both chose a very good baked Exeter, reputably visited by Sir Francis Drake, camembert with very fresh crudités, red onion and the décor is in keeping with its age; it is a chutney, salad and toasted ‘soldiers’ – come sprawling pub with a long bar down the right- on you oldies, you must remember ‘boiled egg hand side. Now; don’t panic – this is a Greene and soldiers for tea!’ This set us up for the day. service product knowledge www.tewkesbury.camra.org.uk 21 disappoint. Independence, at 4.6%, has hops us – having the dominating at first, both in aroma and bitterness, reputation of not but this is edged off by a gentle sweetness to knowingly passing Ups a well-balanced ale. To finish we chose one of a pub with The and our favourite tipples, BBF’s Milk Stout, a 4.5% an open door wns dark ale, black, creamy, with a gentle chocolatey (thanks Steve!) o sweetness, and finishing with a coffee bitterness. – and we went But the ‘star of the day’ was the gaffer/bar (mosaic) D Quite special! In 2017 it won Gold in the S.W. straight down manager, who was asked for a pint of some smooth, CAMRA Stout Category, but has been constantly the hill to… non-specific, chilled, dark ale; indicating the golden winning award since 2006. As you can see The Great Port Stout he asked “Is it chilled?” The customer ale with of Exeter from the ale selection, they specialise in Western Hotel, was answered by a full and proper explanation of the malt west-country ales. a good decision, real ale, which is served at 11 degrees C. Bless giving a slight sweetness. Both ales were very We chatted with one of the owners, while seven cask ales him, the guy had a taster and then bought a pleasant and in above average condition. A commenting on the lack of customers at this on the bar, a pint – a CAMRA convert perhaps? CAMRA members’ discount of 30p off a pint time. She admitted that it had been hard going pleasant number We had been lucky enough to get a seat is offered. This was a quieter pub, but steadily to build the business, but they were getting of customers to give a good atmosphere, by a window, and were people watching both busy and everyone was very friendly. And so, there. Friday and Saturday nights were busy and attentive, knowledgeable staff. Dating inside and out. By 1.00, there were no seats with more research to do, we walked the short as the students descend on the city centre from 1840, the hotel bar has a cosy feel to to be had, the place was really buzzing with distance to Fore Street and… (thought so! Good venue for the youngsters). it. First choice was Goldbine from Pitchfork. locals and tourists alike, and the customers The Little Drop of Poison, which opened To try to increase trade on the quieter weekday This is brewed by Epic Beers, established in and bar staff where wonderfully chatty and evenings, they organise theme nights such 2017 by former employees of RCH who brew friendly. This pub offers a CAMRA members’ as quizzes and poetry readings, which seem in the same premises and on the same plant, discount of 25p off a pint. But we had to move quite popular. A CAMRA members’ discount but under the name of Pitchfork (from RCH’s on to… of 30p per pint is offered. Being aware of the famous brew). This light golden ale comes The Beer Cellar, situated just in South Street time, and with further pubs on the agenda, in at 3.8%, and is pleasantly refreshing. Next we moved away from the city centre – it’s all up was Dartmoor Legend, a little stronger at downhill from here – and took the short cut 4.4%, it has sweet notes of caramel offsetting (allegedly) through the Georgian residential the hops, but still providing a bitterness on the area towards… finish. The third of the south-western ales was The eponymous Iron Bridge, situated on the Salcombe’s Devon Amber, a 3.8% amber bitter, Iron Bridge. We did not stay however, as we but with the malt taking the edge from the felt that it was not a welcoming/comfortable bitterness. Also on offer from the south western pub – not our style – and the ales were not area, was Skinners Betty Stogs, Exeter Avocet interesting, so a quick exit. We checked the and Dartmoor Jail Ale, but we just had to try time, had a quick discussion, and made our Orkney’s Dark Island which has won CAMRA way down St. David’s Hill towards… Champion Beer of Scotland twice. This ale in July 2018, in the former Mint pub, which The Imperial – a superior Spoons pub that is has fruity flavours, delicately balanced with had been closed for many years. It is a double always worth a visit for the quality and choice dark chocolatey notes, and with an ABV of fronted pub, it has a large single room, of ale, its setting on the lawned hillside, plus 4.6%. It was marginally better in condition than with laminated floor and modern furnishings, the brilliant conversion that had been made of the other three ales we tried, but only just. All which is just a slow amble across the Cathedral with a long bar down the left-hand side. It the building, with the focal point of ‘that window’. ales were above average condition. A CAMRA Green, passing, to the right, the ancient buildings was mid-afternoon by the time we arrived members’ discount is given at 30p on a pint still covered in scaffolding and plastic sheeting and we were the only customers, and in this and, unusually, 15p on a half. and slowly being repaired/reconstructed large room with the lack of customers and And now our time was up, and a quick dash following the disastrous fire of October 28th the quietness there was no atmosphere at all. across the road to Exeter St. David’s station for 2016. The Beer Cellar was opened in 2014; it is There were four cask ales, ten keg ales, two our train back to Totnes. That was a good trip, a deceptively large building, but small enough ciders and two fruit ciders on offer and from but next time we must allow time for the to be cosy; it is light and airy and the furnishings that selection we pondered that this may be a Imperial. None of the pubs we have mentioned are basic – scaffolding poles supporting the student venue. The barman was attentive, and have appeared in the last two editions of table-tops and benches. It also has an outside we began our tastings of the cask ales, starting seating area. with Speak Easy, a dry hopped, golden session CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide (2018 and 2019), There were four real ales, seven on keg, IPA brewed by Powderkeg Brewery, this came but they are worth seeking out. The 2017 issue two ciders and a selection of bottled ales. We in at 4.3%, and was of average quality. We then lists the Imperial and the Beer Cellar. There are chose Rebel Pale Ale; now brewed at Dynamite followed that with Hop Wire, an unfined IPA at many other excellent pubs in Exeter, it’s worth Valley, this comes in at 4.3% and is hoppy with 4.8% from Tapstone Brewery, which had slightly a visit. Sadly, time was pressing, we tossed a coin a fruitiness (of maybe peach?), and Optimist more flavour. The last two ales were both resulting in a decision to pass by, unusual for at 4.4% from Bristol Beer Factory, a single hop from Bristol Beer Factory, and they did not Lillian Sermon the 22 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.tewkesbury.camra.org.uk 23 whether there is a pint sold, half a pint or from nothing, there is still the staff to pay, and the heating of the building, the electric, and the Gloucester... washing up. Surely it is better to sell a half than nothing at all, and why would a publican want to make their customers feel they are being ripped off? Many women now drink pints, and quite rightly nothing is thought to be unusual or distasteful about it. But there are still a significant number who prefer a half. Women need to be made welcome at a time when the pub has been recognised as an essential social centre where people can go to meet, talk and help deal with loneliness, and be able A Glass Half Empty? to drink responsibly and at a rate comfortable Half Pint Discrimination! for them. Now call me old fashioned, but unless you For those of us old enough to remember, this are at a beer festival, there is still a greater has nothing to do with Captain Hurricane’s likelihood, despite all the equality, of more half The Dick Whittington sidekick, Margaret Wilkins takes a tongue in pints being ordered by women. So should cheek look at the price of a half... there be a review of half pint prices and does Reopens! charging more than half of the pint price mean When I was a lass, coming from up’t North, that women are more likely to be discriminated The Dick Whittington, 100 Westgate Street, it was frowned upon for a woman to go into against when ordering beer? Discuss! Gloucester, has a new landlord, Tom Bull, the a public house unaccompanied, never mind award winning cider and perry maker from Margaret Wilkins drink pints. When they did visit the pub, they Severn Cider, Awre, Gloucestershire. Tom also sat in the lounge where the posh drank runs a successful events company, Severn sherry out of a schooner, and the rest drank Events, this should be a winning combination to bring the life and soul back to the historic halves of beer or (heaven forbid) lager and Full of character and charm, the Grade I pub. lime! The cost of these halves, just as it was Listed pub dates back to the C13th and is of The Dick Whittington is now serving Severn half a pint, were half the cost. (Blimey, that’s national significance. The building was the Cider’s whole juice ciders and perry alongside some kind of complicated maths! - Ed.) family home of the famous Dick Whittington the best real ales in rotation, craft beers and More recently I have noticed the tendency who travelled to London to become four times real lagers. Arriving in October is a range of Lord Mayor of the capital. It is said that Queen of many publicans to charge a premium for imported speciality drinks from the Continent, Elizabeth I stayed at The Dick Whittington ordering a half. In one establishment, the many of which will be unique to The Dick in 1574 and the paintings that decorated the house beer was on offer for a pint at £2.50 Whittington in the UK. house for her visit are still in the accommodation but they charged £1.75 for a half of the same The aim is to keep a traditional feel to the above. There are free guided tours are being beer. Most people will accept a 5p difference, ground floor space of The Dick Whittington, offered on Saturday 14th September via but 25p or more? Really? I do know some host regular live music on the weekends and Gloucester History Festival. couples who when ordering a pint and a half introduce exhibitions of local artwork. The Dick Whittington is now open regularly The Black Cat Bar underneath The Dick and have been ripped off, sorry charged an with some great offers and live music. Whittington is a unique and historic venue excessive amount, for the half, have decided to For regular updates of live music and available for private parties, functions and order only a pint at the next round and share it events at The Dick Whittington. Please find events. – who can blame them and who is the loser? and follow the new pages: The pub has a large beer garden nestled The arguments for charging a higher price Facebook: @thedickwhittingtongloucester, behind St Nicholas Church with views to the seem to stem around still having staff to pay, Instagram: @the_dick_whittington Cathedral beyond providing a sheltered space and washing up to do. But irrespective of Twitter: @dickwhittglos to enjoy the great range of refreshments outdoors. the 24 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 25 within 20 miles and delivered straight from the If you’re looking for an old school pub from barrel along with ciders, perries, spirits and experience, then this pub has to be on your wines.” Gloucestershire agenda. Opening hours are Tewkesbury... The settles in the back room are particularly 12pm to 9pm on Monday to Saturday, and impressive and complement the meticulously 12pm to 6pm on a Sunday. restored fireplace, cast iron Victorian range and oven. The middle room features a large You can check out The Cross House Tavern’s photograph and information panel about the voyage to completion on their website: pub and the front room is where you buy your drinks. You’re cheek by jowl with other visitors www.thecrosshousetavern.pub which means you can hardly help but engage in friendly banter. Settle in for a Session at the If you’re looking for an old school pub experience, then this pub has to be on your Gloucestershire agenda. Opening hours are 12pm to Cross House Tavern 9pm on Monday to Saturday, After a summer of trading at both the Cross revealed another hidden gem of real historic and 12pm to 6pm on a Sunday. House Tavern and the Berkeley Arms, Laurence interest. Mills, veteran of the pub trade has made his “Rather than make the job an easy one and move to concentrate on the Cross House Tavern, sweep these features into a skip, we soon realised Tewkesbury’s only micropub. that they’re the sort of things that, these days, Laurence’s journey to exclusively running money just can’t buy. They’re not only really this intriguing venue began 40 years ago in valuable as assets, but they would also make from around the Liverpool, managing a bar owned by a famous the tavern so much better because these are local boxing family. Things moved on and real Tudor and Victorian features. As an example county in brief... after 20 years he found himself managing of our attention to detail, the tiling in the front Wadworth pub, the last 18 being at the iconic room involved a trip to one of Stoke-on-Trent’s Berkeley Arms. traditional factories to source tiles that are an “I first had the idea of running a wet, beer exact colour and glazing match with the Cheltenham... Gloucester... and spirit only pub over three years ago and originals, and that cost a few bob! The Five Alls, Bath Road, is undergoing a The Dick Whittington has reopened. More have been working towards this since then,” “These features just enhanced the furniture £400,000 revamp and will reopen in September. information can be found in this issue of the he said. “The Tavern has taken longer than that we’d already moved in and as visitors will The Railway, New Street (behind Waitrose), Tippler. expected to open as it became not only a find out, there are three distinct rooms that formerly Marston’s is now ‘free of tie’. New labour of love, but discovery too. It seemed offer different levels of comfort. beers, wines and soft drinks are also being that every move we made inside the venue “This is a real pub, with real ales sourced introduced as Marston’s stocks are depleted. On the beer front expect to see Bristol Beer Factory, Arbor, Lost and Grounded, Stroud and Tewkesbury... DEYA. The Berkeley Arms (another Wadworth The Swan and the Vine pubs, High Street, pub) has new landlords in the form of Ron are sister pubs to the Railway and will also go and Trish Winwood who will be taking over ‘free of tie’. For the Swan this will be the end as landlords of from the end of August. All in of August (beer range not yet known). The Tewkesbury CAMRA wish them well in their Vine will follow suit within six months. new venture. This is great news for Cheltenham as it The Tewkesbury CAMRA Spring Pub of introduces more choice and high quality to the the Season was awarded to the Black Dog, local beer scene. Newent. Congratulations to Mark Hodges who The Sandford Park Alehouse has been sold has worked hard to bring what was a closed to the Burlison Inns Group. More information pub back to life after a extensive but sympathetic can be found in this issue of the Tippler. refurbishment in December 2018.. the 26 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 3527 village football, cricket, table tennis, darts teams Lajos has adopted, who produce very interesting and the Revellers who perform a play every year and flavoursome ales - Tileys. He says: and eat there every Friday. Local bikers use the “I really like the brewer as a person and really pub 2-3 times a week for drinks and sometimes like what he’s doing, and I want to support him. I food and they have a lot of walkers many of do not want to support big alcohol companies or whom return time and time again. It is a thriving anything big. They like Stroud and its connections village pub closely connected to the church who with local produce and local businesses and use the pub regularly for meetings. One of the want to support that. ‘The other week I bought a villagers is a music teacher in Gloucester and Jacob Hogget from just over the hill and I buy my twice a year he brings a whole band playing jazz. cheeses locally.” Their footfall is growing year by year and they He also studied wine for a year in Hungary get regulars from the local villages adjacent and is a qualified sommelier and sells high quality to Randwick and some from the nearest town Hungarian wines. - Stroud - which is growing because of the “I visited the vineyard and met the owner from popularity of their food and ales. whom I purchase them”, said Lajos. “He is a lovely Lajos keeps his menus short to maintain person who has a good reputation in Hungary. quality and because he uses all fresh food, for We converse regularly by email discussing his example the fish comes directly from Cornwall wines. I enjoy talking to customers about them and south coastal waters. Customers can now and they have become popular with those that pre-order fresh oysters. He sources everything now drink wine here regularly.” locally with meat coming ‘from the other side of Lajos and his family have settled into the local the hill’. community easily, he commented: “I don’t over prep and make everything fresh We have nominated the Vine Tree Inn at Friday night was busy and went well and they “It is a lovely community and a lovely place to Randwick as our Summer Pub Focus. It is a pub expect a good crowd tonight for the music at and meals may take a little longer. There is just bring up our children. My two children attend the with stunning views over the Stroud Valleys, 8pm which may well permeate the garden, but one chef – me – and a small team and sometimes school and nursery and parents have got to know interesting ales, many from the Tileys brewery in quietly and supported by locals and visitors who we struggle but I would rather put up with us well. We have lots of friends in the village and South Gloucestershire and excellent food cooked value interesting cask ales, good food and good challenging times in order to prepare everything many now are parents just like us. It is a wonderful by the leaseholder with an emphasis on local company. fresh. I try to keep my meals simple. I include green environment and has a lovely school.” produce and everything made fresh. The pub some Hungarian dishes such as goulash. I make This pub is Lajos and his family. He is the only recently held a weekend Beer Festival with all the Fulfilling a life-long ambition and becoming the all the desserts myself and try to teach my chef and his values concerning local products are ales from Bristol. A flavour of one of those days village pub: Lajos and family at the Vine Tree Inn kitchen staff how to prepare them to keep them inimitable to the culture of the pub, as his family’s is provided here: a written description of the Lajos had always wanted to have a little interested and involved which helps the speed commitment to the local village and environment. Saturday afternoon. We also include a profile of business since he was a child. He had been a of presentation, ‘My chef never lets me down by He is the pub when he offers his Hungarian pork the family from Eastern Europe, their values and chef since he was 14, working in Budapest since not turning up’. Customers often mention that and when he prioritises flavoursome ales from a their commitment to life in the Stroud Valleys. he was 19 and then in a successful business in the meals are always the same consistent high local brewer whom he respects. These publicans Cheltenham for 8 years. When he was living in quality. I pay more than usual for my meat so Summer Beer Festival Cheltenham he used to cycle round these lanes reflect a tradition of the village pub, which exists that the quality comes through into the product. to support the people, the traditions of the It's 4 pm on a breezy, cloudy but warm Saturday and villages, he comments: I think this is crucial for our survival; to be known afternoon in late July. The Vine Tree Inn Bristol “I felt comfortable in them and liked the village and local area. as a high-quality establishment.” Beer Festival contains 10 ales. There is a full environment. I like these Cotswolds village pubs. I Many of the customers value the local brewery Bob Jeffrey menu today and again from 12 till 4 on Sunday. like village communities and the old character of One lone accordionist and mouth organ musician them, so we were looking for a pub anywhere in sings folk songs adjacent to the main bar with the area and this pub came up on a 15-year lease. only a couple at the bar for company as the rest We drove through the woods to get to it and of the customers are outside in the garden of found it in a lovely setting and fell in love with this pub with wonderful scenic views across the it. I had never run a business before and was not Stroud Valley. Two young children play very familiar with leases or management or business, creatively in the sandpit engrossed in their so I went with my heart.” deliberations and games. A babe utters a short They leased the pub, firstly in 2012 from a cry and is immediately comforted and then PubCo and then from the current freeholder, a rocked in a buggy by its dad. The dogs sit quietly private property owner who has other pubs but while their owners chat and sample some wonderful lives in London. They have 8 years left on the ales from great breweries from Bristol - Moor, current lease. His wife, who is from Slovakia New Bristol, Arbor, Bristol Beer Factory and others. originally, ran the pub with him in the early days Cheesy chips are delivered quickly and gratefully and now they have two children who were born received and one customer is told by Lajos, the here. publican, that there is a dark ale available. He The pub has stunning views (above) from its knows his regulars’ preferences. rear over the Stroud valleys and is a centre for the 28 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 29 BREWERY

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www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 31 KEEP IT DOWN KEEP IT DOWN PSST! WHAT’S HE DOBBIN, I’M straight from the horse’s mouth... DOBBIN, I’M PSST!SAYING? WHAT’S HE POSING FOR THE SAYING? POSINGTIPPLER… FOR THE TIPPLER… Big River Brew Co’s extra pale brewery news 4% All About Citra was voted increase production by almost 10 times over Highly Commended at this year’s the next decade. The site chosen is adjacent Cotswold Life Food & Drink to the existing brewery on the Lansdown Awards. Nominated in the ‘Free Industrial Estate, near Cheltenham Spa railway From’ category, station. like all of their The new brewery will include seating for beers, it is gluten free. 250 in a new 2,000-square-foot taproom, with With the closure of the additional outside space. brewery at the 12 Bells in The expansion includes a new, 34-BBL brew Cirencester, they have found a kit, meaning that the high demand for DEYA’s flagship Steady Rolling Man (which comprises new home with Artisan Ales, 40% of DEYA’s total production) can be satisfied. Minchinhampton. The existing 10-BBL brew kit and fermentation Commencing brewing in early September vessels will move over to the new site. The they’ll be ready to supply cask and bottles of LISTEN intention is to use it to produce small-batch MATE,LISTEN I’VE our range of gluten free beers. Look out for seasonal beers, as well as increase the brewery’s MATE, I’VE GOT SOME new beers over the winter months including a new mixed-fermentation and barrel aged GOT SOME NEWS silky smooth Porter! programmes. The new brewery is scheduled to NEWS be up and running in time for Christmas. straight from the horse’s mouth... Brythonic Beer, the Forest of Dean’s microbrewery has been Uley Brewery is looking brewing since summer 2018and at the end of an era. Chas now regularly supply the Forest Wright, who founded Uley brewery news Deli, the Dog House in Coleford Brewery back in 1985 on the and the Dog House in Bristol. derelict site of the Samuel Whilst not directly affecting Gloucestershire’s brewing business, it is interesting They supply in firkins, pins and bottles. Price brewery in Uley, has to read that another huge brewery and pub chain, Greene King has been sold to Look out for Raven Porter, a lovely smooth, retired. Chas is a character and visionary who indulgent porter that slips down easily, with a another Far Eastern buyer CK Asset Holdings, a Hong Kong-based property developer saw a market for high quality real ale in intriguing complexity and depth. Brewed with for cash offer valuing pub group at £4.6bn Gloucestershire and always insisted on using Maris Otter, crystal and chocolate malts. On This follows hot on the heels of Fuller’s the iconic west London family brewing the highest quality ingredients including malted the other end of the colour scale, Spark Pale barley from traditional floor maltsters. He saw business sold up to the Japanese brewing giant Asahi. Whether these two sales will is a refreshing pale ale with a zesty bite. the potential of reopening the brewhouse and involve the sales of assets, in particular, real estate is yet to be seen. Brewed with Maris Otter malt, Citra and Columbus worked ceaselessly with his wife Mary to get it hops. up and running again, complete with its spring Bespoke Brewery’s new owners, in cask stock, with Beware the Bear as the new water that provided perfect brewing liquor. Matt and Milly Hughes, are working addition to our range. We are also bringing out Bushel + Peck cider and perry His desire was to keep Uley beers as local as hard on two things, namely a new IPA called Beast of Dean. makers have a new innovative quality and product development. “Our Taproom in the Mews, Mitcheldean, scheme for owners of apple possible. He had exacting standards and has They have brought brewer Josh has had transformational work done to it, new trees or orchards that can’t shift their bounty. always said “We do not brew to the lowest Clayson into the Head Brewer decor sets a relaxed but inviting tone, the bar Simply collect sacks form the cider makers, common denominator of taste.” The great role and he has proven himself in has new beer lines and equipment throughout pick the ripe apples just a few days before news is that his son-in- law, Martin Brooks has every aspect of his role and has had massive along with a cellar refurbishment to ensure our collection day and then deliver. They weigh taken the reins and fully intends to continue success with their newest beer Beware the cask and keg products are served in the finest and record the sacks and you collect the free the quality and tradition synonymous with Bear - a 4.2% Chestnut Coloured Ale. condition, and the new offering of spirits, juice in the autumn or free cider in the spring. Uley. “Our range of ales is ever changing we wines and draught products has pulled in new They keep 80% of the juice and you get your On that note the Uley Bitter Harvest Special have, however, kept customers from all around. free drink. Brilliant! See their website for more is a available from mid September. This once a a core range of our “We continue to push our innovative corporate details: www.bushelpeck.co.uk year brew features an aroma hop that is a fresh familiars,” said Matt. labelling service hard, and are producing beers green variety harvested and used immediately. “We still regularly for people to use in all kind of ways. From DEYA Brewing Company We don’t know what it will be until we pick stock Saved by the weddings, christenings and funerals, to product has started work on a it up on the day. Look out too for this year’s Bell, Golden Rule, launches and Christmas gifts our beers have 35,000-square-foot brewery Christmas/New Year Special which will be the Money For Old Rope probably been involved in almost every aspect expansion, which will allow the wonderful Severn Boar abv 6% late hopped and Over a Barrel all of life. Cheltenham brewery to with Bramling Cross. Heaven! the 32 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 3533 North Cotswold CAMRA & Moreton CC 12th BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL

at Moreton in Marsh Cricket Club

Celebrating 25 years of Brewing 13th & 14th September 2019

A lot has happened in the beer world over and bring in a little fun to our range so have the last 25 years. Here at Goffs Brewery we have introduced the Jester Brews. These are one off always placed quality and consistency at the beers that have included a New Zealand Pale Ale, top of our brewing agenda which is key to our a Mango IPA and later on in the year a Skinny 45 Beers, 20 Ciders & Perries longevity in a hugely competitive industry. From Latte Stout. It’s been great to showcase some the wonderful Cotswold water, to the best malts single hop varieties and to keep the brewing Food & Soft Drinks, Live Bands include: and interesting hops from both here in the UK team on their toes! and abroad, every element is vital to creating To celebrate our 25 year anniversary we have wonderful beers that we love to drink and share brewed an extra special version of Black Knight with beer lovers far and wide. Grand Reserve, a 7% Ruby Red Porter. To truly Eden Bay, Wired, Good Intent & Marcus (top left) and Alison Goff started the keep it in the family on the brew day, Marcus’ brewery back in 1994 after a family move from father Brian (top right, with Sam, centre left and Essex. Marcus used to work in the City of London, Colin, centre right) also came along to keep a The Dropouts but became disillusioned with the corporate world watchful eye. Staying with tradition we wanted to and so with the help of his father Brian, who was use a heritage malt and discovered Chevallier. It a Master Brewer, the journey began. was the first true malting barley and was select- From the very start we have believed in ed by the Reverend John Chevallier of Suffolk, Camping & Parking - See website for details keeping traditional brewing methods alive, from England in 1824. Sadly, in the 1930’s, this barley milling our grain to emptying the mash tun, ceased being grown as it was taken over by faster Friday 11am to 11pm Entry £3 www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk everything is done by hand. A big part of what growing varieties. Thankfully, Crisp Maltings we do is quality control which involves regular resurrected it a few years ago and harvest a very Saturday 11am to 11pm £4 sampling, it really is a tough job! limited quantity each year. Black Knight Grand The very first pint of Jouster, a 4% All English Reserve will not be available to pubs until the CAMRA members receive beer token allowance hopped Best Bitter was poured in August 1994, autumn, but we shared it at both Postlip for the and went on to win multiple awards including Cotswold Beer Festival and at our open day twice being a finalist in CAMRA’s Champion at the beginning of August. It was a great day, Beer of Britain. Jouster is still brewed today and people travelled from far and wide to share a pint is a firm favourite amongst the traditional beer with us and mull over the future of the beer world. drinker. Our flagship beer Cheltenham Gold, a Thank you to all the publicans and beer drinkers 4.5% US hopped golden ale, was originally just that have supported us for the last 25 years, brewed for race week. It soon became so popular we’re really looking forward to featuring on bars we took the decision to add it to our core range for the next 25! Cheers to that! and now it can be found as a permanent fixture

on many a bar. Libby Elswood

Over the last year we’ve wanted to diversify Goffs Sales Manager the * 34 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 35 well, if he is, he needs to take it in portrait format, and high resolution…

is he taking a picture of us for the new competition?

Now, the technical part, most images in cameras that are made for digital work are set in 72dpi (dots per inch) of colour, which is great for Facebook, texts etc. It’s not, however, much use for printing on paper, where you need to use 300dpi. So set your cameras and phones to the biggest number of pixels you can, FHD 1280 x 1080 or WQHD 2560 x 1440 and take your pictures. That’ll give you the best chance of winning and appearing on the Tippler’s front cover. Sponsored by HILLSIDE BREWERY

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Main sponsor The original10th and Year the best iew from the rewhouse V B (& Kitchen) n a series where brewers, from around the county discuss a Ivariety of issues that affect them and their art. It can focus on anything that is of concern or interest. It may be about their brewery, their people, beer styles, craft beer, fashions, seasonal beers and even the interesting topic of craft, keg or cask dispensing, in fact - anything goes! 2019 In this edition, Dave Quinn, Head Brewer at Brewhouse and Kitchen in Gloucester gives us a run down on what’s on his mind... you can always rotate (like the beers) but for those who can’t then we have been working The days when a head brewer spent their on the solution to the problem. We have time brewing a handful of core beers is for increased our focus on low-abv offerings – Big The Farmers Club - Agricultural House, Sandhurst Road most of us these days, a thing of the past. Drop Citra IPA at 0.5% is available on draught We have a yearly beer line-up change and works well to satisfy any beery cravings! occurring in May at Brewhouse and Kitchen, Another addition is Brooklyn’s Special Effects Friday 20th September 2019 this means that each brewer has gained two Lager at 0.4%, alongside our old favourite more in-house brewed beer lines. In our case Erdinger Alcoholfrei, both of which are available 1:00pm to 11:00pm down at the Gloucester’s quayside this sees in bottles. Batsman, our Tropical IPA, 4.5%, become a How things have changed is epitomised in permanent line and a brand-new beer, late August, early September when our new Saturday 21st September 2019 Rhapsody IPA, 6.0%, become available on Guest Choice opens up, this is where people keg. Keg beers, do of course get some beer can vote on different beers for our head brewers 12:00 noon to 11:00pm drinkers hot under the collar, but there are to create, our current option, a Led Zeppelin many benefits, one of them being keeping homage - Dazed and Confused, is a 13 Hop them in good condition. During beer festival Session IPA, that’s proven very popular. In season, where keeping the said beers can be September we feature the return of our Autumn Over 50 Beers and Ciders an issue, it can be a big benefit especially if seasonal, Nevensis, a 5.5 % Saison. the cellarmen are new to the game of cask The final point of note for the upcoming period see website for full list beer conditioning. Each of B & K’s sites has is the return of our Veteran’s Brewday on 11th www.gloucesterbeerfestival.co.uk TICKETS two rotational keg lines, one dedicated to Tiny October, where veterans are invited to join us Rebel and one which has so far seen the likes brewing a beer, with lunch and beer tastings £5.00 FREE of Yeastie Boys, Wild Beer and Thornbridge included. A percentage of the profit made with a pass through. from the sales of the resultant beer will be All proceeds go to Charity Souvenir Speaking of beer festival season, it always donated to a local associated charity. Glass seems a bit unfair when a designated driver organised by misses out. If it’s a festival over several days, Dave Quinn Order tickets online at www.gloucesterbeerfestival.co.uk the or buy directly from these Gloucester outlets: 38 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale The Pelican or The Farmers Club the pub so asked about them. “We have two acres of land at the back of the pub; we took out a hedge and laid new grass for the pub garden, I expect that you spotted my chickens?” There are two chicken runs in the garden which provide eggs for the pub kitchen which Jessie is very proud of. The pub has always been noted for its locals, Martin Jones’ tour of the so I asked her about them. “They are great, and we have become firm Donnington pubs of the friends, we have the Donnington Heroes skittles North Cotswolds finds team and men’s and ladies’ darts teams, the ladies being league winners recently.” him at very northern The New Inn has diversified its offerings as edges of the county at they hire out the back bar and skittle alley for functions. The day I visited it was being used The New Inn at for a training course so the car park was full at Willersey... 10.30 in the morning. “We also allow overnight stops for campervans as long as they eat in the pub. We have team building skittles nights that have proved popular with local businesses; and a very successful bikers’ night.” Jessie loves working with the Donnington The outside of the pub has very colourful Brewery “George and I visit regularly as he hanging baskets and flower beds which were loves feeding the fish and Roger in the office in full bloom, they all add to the welcoming is a great help, John has also helped us out image of the pub. There’s a nice new pub sign, with new lines for the beer in the pub” This has Jesse explained: proved a great success as The New Inn has just “I was woken a three in the morning by a achieved a Five Star rating from Cask Marque huge crash to find a lorry had smashed into which Jessie is very pleased about. the old sign, so did us a favour!”

The Village of Willersey sits at the very Balls Pond Road, so learnt the ropes running a north of Gloucestershire and is easily mistaken city pub.” I asked her if there were any famous as being in Worcestershire due to its proximity pubs that her mum ran. to Broadway and WR postcode. “She had the Pied Bull at Angel, Islington The oldest part of the Inn is thought to date which was an historic inn, sadly it’s now a from the seventeenth century though it was branch of Halifax Bank.” much extended in the early twentieth century. “One day, mum decided to retire and just It has a large traditional bar with flagstone play golf, so in 2009 I made the move to the floor .a smaller bar with a pool table and a Cotswolds and retrained in dementia care. I back bar with a skittle alley. fell in love with the New Inn when Cliff and I Since January 2018 the New Inn has been started coming in regularly, but when the lease run by Jessie May Rooke and her partner Cliff. I came up a few years ago I was pregnant with spoke with Jessie as she has just finished my son George, so did not pursue it.” mopping the fine flagstone floor of the bar. “When the lease came up in January last I noted her London accent (nothing wrong year we took it on even though Cliff still runs with that! - Ed.) so ask the obvious question: his Mobile Tyre Fitting Business. I have super how is she now running a Cotswold pub? She staff of Belinda, who helps me run the pub and explained: Becky, who is our chef. We live on site with “I was born and bred in pubs as my mum George, who is four and my older son Alfie, ran nine of them in the Islington area of London, who is 15, he has already learnt to pull a better so I grew up in the trade. When I was 18 I was pint than any of us!” put in charge of the Duke of Wellington on the I noted some changes to the rear garden of the 40 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale Finally, ‘Fresh & Crisp’, a Medium Dry Cider made “We’re keen to see additions to our range – with from a variety of eating apples, plus a few cookers, more single varieties appealing to slightly sweeter with a pleasing appley aroma and a clean, crisp tastes, building on our rich heritage. We may well be flavour. Best served cold, it has all the attributes (and looking at maturing our ciders in oak barrels for even attractions) of a Dry Cider. more flavour. David is firmly committed to upping the sustainability “But fruit-flavour additions are really not us!” he agenda. “We source our materials close at hand, as adds, in a reference to the recent trend to add fruit natural as possible as our apples are unsprayed and flavourings to ciders in an attempt to appeal to result in no environmental damage. We are certainly Generation Z. not carting stuff all over the globe as all our apples Cautiously spreading his wings, David has been come from Gloucestershire. negotiating with top Bristol garden centre co-operative, “Quality is critical - we want to create handcrafted Riverside, to produce a ‘Taste of Bristol’ cider for “A cross between a Yarlington Mill and a Lord decent products from people’s backgardens and thirsty Bristolians, based on the same principle of Lambourne.” traditional orchards.” local sourcing. He modestly adds: “We might not be the best, but That’s how Gloucestershire cider and perry producer An enthusiastic member of Gloucestershire we are learning all the time. In fact, we have more David Lindgren of Bushel+Peck unhesitatingly describes Orchard Trust, David comments: “It would be really fruit at times than we can cope with!” himself, when asked how he would rate himself in cider good to see a greater appreciation of all endangered One concern on David’s part is drinkers’ limited apple terms. as well as older apple varieties – and to put it very range of experience opportunities. “The UK has In fact, David’s achievements with Winchcombe based become a monoculture land for many reasons. There simply, orchards are nice places to be.” Bushel+Peck and its parent Cotswold Fruit Company mirror the attributes of these apple varietals are fantastic apple varieties out there simply being For thirsty CAMRA members, Bushel+Peck can surprisingly closely. ignored.” arrange visits, their website is :www.bushelpeck.co.uk. For Yarlington Mill is ‘medium bitter-sweet with a good flavour and strong aroma, a high Just who are Bushel+Peck’s real competitors then? ‘The Tippler’ is also planning to play its part in yielder’, and Lord Lambourne is ‘juicy, sweet-sharp pleasantly strong-flavoured, excelling at “We don’t see small cider producers as competitors promoting Gloucestershire cider and perry. We’re delighted to announce that we will be carrying a being an excellent all-rounder’*. in any way. The giant cider producers are our effective regular column from Bushel+Peck in future issues. “It’s good to know that we’re valued by a lot of people in the community - and we’ve realised competition.” David has been successful in getting his products out Cheers and ‘Wassail!’ that drinkers are missing out on a whole variety of experiences’, says David. ‘In fact, 50% of there, however. “We’re in a mix of pubs and supermarkets: (*Long Ashton Research Station cider classification drinkers don’t ever consume cider!” Warners Budgens has been very supportive, and also system) The story of Bushel+Peck goes back to 2015 when David, then a top executive with UK soft local farm shops and Midcounties Co-operative.” drink producer Britvic Ltd, was told by his brother-in-law about a Surrey cider business relying Where would David like to see the business going? Nick Waloff on free produce from people’s gardens. “I decided it was time to work for myself, after 30 years of corporate life,” he says. It was certainly a challenge. “Some 70% of Gloucestershire’s orchards had been lost, and here I was trying to resurrect them. However, it had the unforeseen benefit that there were fewer competitors!” David’s first action was to go on a cider making course at The Cider & Perry Academy at Hartpury, Gloucestershire, with legendary cider doyen Peter Mitchell. “I was able to find out about the process and the equipment I’d need,” David says. “I remember I felt hugely excited, almost overjoyed at what I was doing.” Within 6 months of starting up his cider making business, David found himself with batches of three types of cider and handcrafted perry on the shelves. in gloucestershire “My family helps me out now,” he says. “My son bottles the cider, my daughter likes labelling, and I’ve persuaded my mother to wash the apples. Even my father-in-law, an electrical engineer, installed the 3-phase electricity supply.” Available in So what ciders and perries does David produce? There’s 500ml bottles something for everyone. First, there’s ‘Rich & Mellow’, a Medium Dry Cider, made from a mix of Bittersweet, 20 litre bag-in-box Bittersharp and Sweet cider apples. ‘It’s a typical 30 litre keg West Country cider with depth provided by tannins.’ Then there’s ‘Sweet & Smooth’ Perry, its delicate pale colour mirroring its subtle flavour, and the natural

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B+P Advert 148x105mm.indd 1 08/08/2019 15:49 FAT GOOD CHANCE.. these days. Bath Ales Prophecy and St Austell Tribute The Tufthorn Inn at Milkwall is a rare example of GRIEF!!! A 30:1 were also available. a true locals pub. Silver trophies and cups on display HILL, ARE YOU Not so long ago it would have been possible to are testament to the fact that the locals have frequently SURE? drink in the Wyndham Arms at the cross but today won darts, football and skittles leagues over the the building is used as a corporate wedding venue years. After the excellent choice of beer in the owned by Clearwell Castle and the only visible reminder previous four pubs it was generally felt that the one of it being a pub is the ‘West Country Breweries – beer on offer – the nationally available Old Speckled YES, Best in the West’ ceramic plaque. A short walk up Hen – would fail to inspire. Admittedly, it was not the APPARENTLY IT’S the High Street leads to the Butchers Arms. Now most interesting beer tasted during the day, but the SUPPOSED TO STOP primarily focusing on fine dining in a comfortable condition of the Greene King brewed beer was very THE DOGS FROM softly lit and rustic restaurant area, the Butchers quaffable and enjoyable. The Tufthorn usually has two GETTING AMOROUS Arms does retain a bar area to enjoy your drink away real ales on offer, the second usually being sourced from those dining. There is also a large outdoor from a smaller independent. However, those on the drinking area, with the reassuring sound of water ramble were to miss out on choice on this occasion. constantly cascading into a water feature For those of you familiar with the Dean Forest dominating the garden. There were two beers on Railway you will be aware that the line ends at Parkend. offer at the Butchers Arms, Sharps Doom Bar and A branch line once extended from here to Coleford. Gloucester Brewery Gold. A quick look at the colour The route is now a dedicated cycle and footpath and of beer in peoples’ glasses seemed to indicate that meanders up the valley towards Milkwall. Walking or the preference was for the gold rather than the amber. cycling up the old track you are immediately struck From Clearwell the real ale walk continued up the by the severity of the gradient, and it is amazing to hill, through Clearwell Meend (once an area of intense REAL ALE RAMBLE industrial activity, but now verdant woodland), to think that little tank engines used to huff and chuff emerge opposite the Miners Arms at Sling. Behind laboriously up this 1 in 30 incline. The real ale ramble the pub is a large garden mostly laid to grass. An ideal joined the course of the old railway at Milkwall and proceeded up the gradient towards Coleford. No On Saturday 18th May a band of ramblers and and then down the lane to Newland which afforded opportunity for the dogs to run around, play, and get doubt somewhat tired by the consumption of a few imbibers , accompanied by their faithful canine magnificent views across towards the Brecon Beacons. to know each other. The befriending of two dogs in afternoon beers, the steady upward slog had the pooches, embarked on a leisurely stroll through the The first call was the Ostrich Inn, which boasts a the ensemble however, progressed from play to the effect of separating those in front with the mindset picturesque lanes, tracks and woods south of Coleford truly magnificent unspoilt interior worthy of regional initiations of amorous physical activity which was of express engines and the stragglers at the rear who in search of good beer in unspoilt Forest of Dean importance. Since the sad loss of both the Red both amusing and embarrassing in equal measure. pubs. The walk was part of the organised programme Lion at Ampney St Peter and the Five Mile Inn at The beers on offer were Clavell & Hind Wicked Lady could be likened to plodding heavy goods trains. of the annual Coleford Walking Festival, a collaborative Duntisbourne Abbots, the Ostrich Inn must qualify – (4% Amber Ale) from Birdlip and Kingstone Brewery It certainly felt that way after a few beers. Cresting project by Coleford rea Partnership and Coleford Town perhaps alongside the Mill Inn at Withington – as the from Tintern Tewdrics Tipple (3.6%). the summit near Coleford it was an easy jaunt back Council. Greg Daniel, owner of the Good Beer Guide most unspoilt country pub in Gloucestershire. However, A short walk down the B4228 road for a quarter of through the town to the Dog House for the chance of listed Dog House Micropub in Coleford, led the walk. with muddy boots and seven dogs to contend with, mile then deviated into the woods at Ellwood. A sampling some more of Greg’s superbly kept beers. The six-mile anti-clockwise route started and the wonderful landscaped and mature garden to the surprise find was a bandstand nestling in an open glade A big thank you for Greg at the Dog House Micro finished at the Dog House in St John Street. The rear of the Ostrich was chosen to sample the well- of trees. It was covered over by dense vegetation and Pub for planning the walk and Coleford Town Council participants met at the pub at 11 am and those keen kept beers on offer from Wye Valley and St Austell. forgotten about until a few years ago but has since for organising the Coleford Walking Festival. The to start the ale tasting at the earliest opportunity The pub overlooks the impressive church, known as been restored and will host brass bands this summer. Festival was a great success and will be held again were rewarded with Titantic Brewery Lifeboat – a the Cathedral of the Forest, which served the parish An idyllic way to spend a lovely summers’ evening. next year in May. lovely rich smooth malty dark brown 4% ale, the ideal of Newland which included Coleford. warmer to start the late morning perambulations. The The walkers then proceeded along the Clearwell Geoff Sandles beauty of visiting rural pubs these days is the pure road, and then deviated onto a public footpath which pleasure of finding unexpected beers sourced from far took them through quiet backwaters to reach the and wide, and the real ale trail certainly did not village of Clearwell itself. The Lamb Inn is another disappoint with one pub offering Enville Ales Porter classic. Check the opening times though as the pub from the Black Country. Indeed, throughout the day now only opens on Fridays to Sundays. With no pub there was a chance to sample both local beers and sign you could easily walk straight past when it’s interesting guest ales. All the beers were in good to closed during the week without even noticing it. But excellent condition. The positive endorsement of during the weekends it comes to life. The gardens are quality even extended to an unexpected opportunity planted with shrubs and bedecked with a dazzling array – with no other choice available – to sample Greene of flowers. The selection of ales was commendable, King Old Speckled Hen. with Enville Ales Porter being the choice of many, but From Coleford the route took the ancient burial Branscombe Vale Brewery Golden Fiddle was also path up through the Angus Buchanan Recreational found to be in excellent condition. The beers were Ground, skirting the top of the old Whitecliff Quarry, drawn straight from the cask, itself quite a rarity the 44 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 45 The gastro pub that prides itself in menus that reflect the best in seasonal produce that showcases an impressive a la carte and bar menu complete with locally sourced ingredients and complemented with a great selection locally crafted beers and ales (seen here) and also international wines to suit all budgets and palates. Tom Conway, of Nobu, Criterion on Piccadilly and The Potting Shed fame, and Simon Willson-White, formally of The Ivy and The Ritz, together converted this once run down and mediocre 17th century place at the pub throughout the year. Cotswold pub into a Mecca for fine dining and The Seven Tuns is simply brimming with wholesome pub grub. character and over the year has proved to be a Tom’s passion for sustainability and sourcing firm favourite with the locals and connoisseurs seasonal produce has seen him working with of the gastro pub scene. As a dog-friendly pub local suppliers, using every part of the animal it’s also on the radar for walkers, ramblers and with a genuine ‘field to fork’ ethic. horse-riding fans alike. Food and wine pairings have been championed For more information visit: THE SEVEN TUNS CELEBRATES ONE by Simon which plays a key part in the pub’s www.seventuns.co.uk YEAR OF SUCCESS WITH ITS’ VERY OWN ethos with various international events taking or to make a reservation call 01285 720 630 OKTOBERFEST-STYLE BIRTHDAY PARTY

This autumn, The Seven Tuns in Chedworth “Our aim was always to bring a little bit of Only four natural is bringing a little bit of Oktoberfest festival London’s gastro pub magic to the Cotswolds ingredients... magic to the Cotswolds with a mini Oktoberfest and put Chedworth back on the pub map. Water drawn from our own (a la Cotswold) to celebrate the gastro pub's We now pride ourselves in being not only an one-year anniversary. award-winning pub but also through word of Cotswold spring, The four-day event starts on Thursday 17th mouth the friendliest pub in the Cotswolds.” UK malted barley, hops and runs through to Sunday 20th October and A special selection of beers will also be and yeast. will include live entertainment from various provided by the Cotswold Brew Company local bands, a special BBQ specialising in all throughout the Oktoberfest-style weekend. manner of locally sourced produce and meats (Bavarian tankards at the ready). from across the South West, and access to Over the four-day event, there will be a an Oktoberfest themed outdoor seating area special Cotswold-style Oktoberfest menu for complete with heaters and traditional pub the pub’s a la carte restaurant which prides games for guests to enjoy the warm autumn itself on its 30-mile radius menu as well as an evenings. impressive bar menu which offers quirky pub Simon Willson-White, co-owner of The Seven favourites such as pulled beef chilli tacos and Tuns, explains: black pudding sausage roll. “Our Oktoberfest-style birthday celebration The Seven Tuns, located in Chedworth, is certainly going to appeal to lots of you. It’s finally opened its doors on 19th October 2018 not just about speciality beers and ales, it’s after an extensive renovation programme also about celebrating good wholesome food and since then has grown from strength to made with local and seasonal produce. The strength greeting no less than 50,000 visitors perfect combo for a great pub and a great through its doors and serving no less than birthday knees up! 18,000 covers in that time. the DONNINGTON BREWERY 46 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ESTABLISHED 1865 numbers I had tried – and if anyone out there has ever tasted XT7 I would be very interested to hear about it. I have a feeling it is still yet to be brewed! These examples of numbered beers are rarities, though. Most brewers give their beers names and a great many of them go further than simply ‘mild’, ‘best’, ‘gold’, ‘porter’ etc. Some breweries have a clear theme. Cotleigh (Somerset) have brewed a great many beers named after birds, e.g. Tawny, Albatross and Honey Buzzard. Hesket Newmarket (Cumbria) name their beers after Lakeland fells, e.g. Skiddaw and High Pike. Beat Ales, which started life in Somerset, but is currently brewing in the West Midlands, has musical inspiration with beers such as Metal Head, Rocka and Funk. The vast majority of breweries, however, have no discernible theme and often the names are wild and whacky. A few are particularly renowned for weird names and it almost appears as though they are in competition with each other to come up with the most outlandish. Here are a few of my favourites:

Sharks Against Surfers (Hopcraft, Llantrisant, Wales) A World Without Dave (Weird Beard, London) Fight Like A Cow (Wild Weather, Silchester, Hampshire) Nothing Rhymes with Orange (Three Blind Mice, Little Downham, Cambridgeshire) Eye of the Duck (Deya, Cheltenham) Three Headed Monkey (Elusive, Farnborough, Hampshire) DODGYThe continuing TICKER tales of a beer collector? Cheeseburger Cavalry (Left Handed Giant, Bristol) Intergalactic Spacehopper (Hardknott, Cumbria) Juice Springsteen (Alphabet, Manchester)

In this edition our hero considers the naming of beers These examples are all from my beer list, but you only have to glance in the back of the Good Beer Guide to find other equally baffling names. Are you the sort of person who rants and good memory for the names of beers that I One or two of them do have a vague connection with beer (the hop in Spacehopper, for raves quietly inside when faced with a beer have already added to the collection, but I example) and so you can almost see the thought process that went into creating the name, but with a ridiculous name? Or maybe you’re the must admit that it gets harder as I get older type who will only remember a name if it has and I find myself referring to the ‘beer list in something memorable about it – just calling the cloud’ more often these days to check a beer ‘blonde’ or ‘citra’ is not enough for it whether a beer is new or not. to lodge in your brainbox for more than a few A few breweries have no need of names minutes! Perhaps you expect the name to tell and use numbers instead. Brew By Numbers, you something useful about the beer, in which a brewery based in Bermondsey, brew beers case ‘blonde’ or ‘citra’ is exactly what you are such as 01/06 and 08/03. In their system the looking for. first two-digit number refers to the beer style Clearly the brewer is simply not going to (e.g. 01 is saison, 08 is stout) and the second get it right for everyone all the time when two-digit number refers to the recipe within choosing a name for a new beer. Someone this style (e.g. 01/06 is a motueka and lime somewhere will say it is too complicated or saison, 08/03 is a chocolate and orange stout). too long or too simple or too short or simply The new Artisan brewery in Minchinhampton doesn’t relate to the beer in the glass in any also has a number system for its beers. Although way. still a little elusive, I have found a few of these I have no idea if brewers even think about on my beer collecting trips in the Stroud area beer names for more than a few moments – it – PA01, DB01 and PA04. PA here refers to pale sometimes seems as though they may have ale and DB refers to dark beer. One of my fa- had a few pints themselves when making their vourite breweries is XT, who are based at Long decisions! And to be honest, there are probably Crendon in Buckinghamshire, but whose beers plenty of drinkers who couldn’t care less about regularly find their way westwards to us here the name of their beer either, as long as it in Gloucestershire. They started off by simply tastes good. calling their beers XT1, XT2, XT3 etc. I found However, for a beer collector names are this very difficult to get used to at first and important. I pride myself on having a pretty would regularly get confused about which the 48 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 49

DODGYThe continuing TICKER tales of a beer collector? most do not seem to have any link at all. But (this, of course, is not always the case!). But if you are now expecting me to go all stuffy I’m a little different. When I spot a new brew and say what utter nonsense it is and isn’t it at the bar, I’m going to choose it whatever it about time the brewers got a grip, then you’ll is (the only thing that will put me off is the be disappointed, because I think weird names price – over-priced beers I try to avoid if at all are great. possible). I know that I like pretty much all beer You may not agree with me, and that of styles (I do struggle with rauchbier!) and there course is just fine, but I have a number of reasons are only a few added ingredients that put me why I like the modern trend for strange beer off (too much ginger or honey can be quite names. Firstly, they are fun! Why not put a over-powering), so part of the game for me is weird name on a pump clip if it puts a smile to take a sip and work out for myself what I am on the beer drinker’s face? Who could resist drinking. This also avoids the internal confusion ordering a half of Juice Springsteen (or even that can result from ordering something called Brew Springsteen from the Rock and Roll a cherry porter, which then arrives in your Brewery in Birmingham)? A World Without glass quite clearly as a stout! Dave sounds almost poetic and Dave is clearly This article has probably only reinforced a popular name amongst brewers as you your view that I am a strange creature indeed. The Seven Tuns could also drink Dangerous Dave by Empire But I urge you to ignore my quirks and take (Huddersfield), Dave’s Waterloo Sunset by the plunge – don’t avoid that new beer with Naylor’s (Keighley) or simply Dave by Great a crazy name, but order a half (or a third if Heck (another Yorkshire brewery!) you’re in a pub that serves them) and give it The Seven Tuns Weird names are also very good for beer a go. Those first few sips may be a journey of Award-winning pub in the collectors as they are so memorable. I have 29 discovery – but more often than not, you will Award-winning pub in the heart of the Cotswolds beers in the collection with Citra in their name be pleased you went for it. heart of the Cotswolds – all very unmemorable apart from Et Citra offering fine dining, Et Citra from Brewsters (Grantham). I have Cheers, offering fine dining, collected 138 beers with blonde in the name, locally sourced and seasonal so how am I supposed to remember if I have Peter Searle locally sourced and seasonal already tasted the next blonde that turns up pub grub and an extensive pub grub and an extensive at the bar? Weird names make my life a little This article has brought up one of my pet wine list to suit all budgets easier as they make it more likely that I will subjects, and one question in particular: when wine list to suit all budgets actually remember what I have drunk before. is a beer blond, and when is it blonde? One of and palettes. My last reason for liking strange beer names the only words in common English usage that and palates. is that I quite like not being told what I am is (or should be) gender specific, it leads me to drinking. This will be a foreign concept to most wonder when is a beer a he-beer and when is a readers, I suspect, so it will need a bit of beer a she-beer? Or is beer hermaphroditic? For more information visit explaining. When you order a pint of Cheeseburger Friends of mine glaze over at this point, 01285 720630 Cavalry, unless the landlord has written tasting rightly pointing out that only OCD pedants notes on a board for you or you Google it www.seventuns.co.uk there and then in front of the bar, you do not could give a fig about the answer. Despite For more information visit know what you will be drinking. For most their rather unhelpful dismissals, and having drinkers, therefore, this means asking the asked some of the keenest brewing minds www.seventuns.co.uk person serving, who hopefully will be able to out there I have still to find out. Does anyone regale you with all sorts of useful information know? - Ed.

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Advertising - 01285 720 683 1 It was for sale for so long that the not overly modernised, not overly sanitised. past in small intimate dining areas. For Sale sign rusted off its hinges and Sometimes you go into an establishment and Everybody lives their current, present life crashed into the ground in the winter of you feel it just doesn't have any soul, whereas on the back of the past and the spirit still lives 1998. There were only two or three of there are dusty corners here and I think it has a here. In lots of pubs the spirit no longer lives us in the pub and one of them was the homely feel, (Lucas). because they have no real history. Our village daughter of our famous author Laurie It is the culture of the pub that dominates pub is like going into a museum. It's living the Lee and I drunkenly said, ‘Oh, I’ll buy it. not any individual, ‘It doesn't change, no matter past as well as the present. And people feel I’ll do it’. I loved the quiet pub with the who is the publican. They seem to fit into the warm because the pub is important to them; it’s clock ticking and that’s why I bought way of things rather than imposing themselves. people's roots and it leaves then feeling secure. it really because I wanted to protect it’ They fit in’, (Alan). The pub, for William, the I think the spirit carries forward (Walter). (Owner). chef for the last six years and Co-Director The main bar and the Common Table The villagers recognised his commitment, for four years, is, ‘authentic, not trying to be outside the front of the pub are populated ‘a lot of it is due to the owner. He takes anything it’s not, no frills, no gimmicks. It’s very by drinkers. Everyone who knows the pub is a lot of interest in the place and he honest and not necessarily trying to be the aware that these areas are for drinking and not makes you feel part of it. He resisted best or trying to do everything perfectly, it’s for meals. No meals are allowed in the main any change. I think it's important to just comfortable in its self’, (William). bar and although the odd starter or pizza is him, not just as a way of earning an The Woolpack Inn also began to attract seen occasionally on the Common Table both income but I think it is the place that’s regulars from the nearby town, as a place keen are mainly drinking areas. The main bar and important to him and that comes to retain a drinking culture; a place where the Common Table maintain a space for the through’, (Alison). In the owner’s case conviviality was unavoidable in its small regulars requiring conviviality due to the small it is even more of a commitment when, spaces; where one could immerse oneself in space available in the bar and the unavoidable ‘these pubs are never going to make the past and where social relations across the contact with someone else or as one sits a great deal of money. So, once you classes and cultures were evidenced in the opposite each other on the Common Table The realise that, you’re okay. They just need main bar and outside on the ‘common table’ benches. Space and place merge into the to be treated like pandas; they need to but it still a collection of small bars where welcome one gets, ‘It’s the type of pub that be protected and nursed along a bit’, friends and family groups could experience the you can come into on your own. If you’re on (Owner). Woolpack The Woolpack Inn, although clean, has an air of domesticity about it with newspapers left untidily on a dilapidated wooden chest, pictures sloping on the walls, window frames filled untidily with in Slad filler to prevent draughts, scratched marks on the settles showing the tan Bob Jeffrey continues his wood beneath the black paint, the odd paint smudge on the walls, cobwebs series of articles about the attached to the international bottles survival of the contry local of ale in a glass case, a broken optic, unexplained brick-a-bat on window sills, an old fashioned dial telephone and a general air of it being a homely The Woolpack Inn – An historical village pub environment. Two ceiling lights in the embracing a wide range of cultural identities. snug have flickered on and off for years and were only fixed recently, however, The past plays a large part in the attractiveness all of them now fade from time to time of the village pub and even more as it is a famous and then brighten as if by magic. author, who lived in the village, ‘I liked that pub and I I like the fact that it doesn't have TVs used to come and see Walter here sometimes on all over the walls and a carpet. It keeps Sunday evenings. And I just fell in love with it’ it real. We have a pale ale but it's not an (Owner). Being attached over time creates a wide American pale ale, it's not too floral. All variety of narratives that hold the pub’s history. For the drinks are not too fussy, but people the owner of the Woolpack, buying into the seem to enjoy them. It's just not community was also about maintaining a past pretentious in any way. There's community as well as the current one. something about the fact that it’s the 52 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale your own and just wanted to have a drink and know who they are; it’s very clear, they don’t honest as in what you see is what you get, spaces, but customers cannot escape intimacy you walked into the bar, it doesn’t go quiet change really. I also found that the women that unpretentious. It’s also honest, a place where unless it is a quiet cold time in January when with everyone thinking, “who’s this guy”? come down here are generally quite independent people can be honest with each other and one can, occasionally, have a bar to oneself People say hello and smile and they would women like me, (Emma). speak their mind, (Lucas). but this is rare. advise you what to drink and ask where you’re Women now are accepted and hold their The pub also attracts TV personalities, So, how does it survive? It is lucky to have from’, (Jack). own in the general mix at the common table. ‘Such a unique pub; ramshackly; and the décor the patronage of its owner who has a close The Common Table and the Main Bar You can’t help but join in when you’re sat hasn’t been changed for years’ (C. Life 2018) personal connection to it and the village. It attracts a wide range of: drinkers; artists, on a big long table can you; it’s like the family and other well-known people as well as locals is fortunate that it is only two miles from a reflecting the owner’s heritage; young people style in Italy and France when they’re all sat at with high incomes. It has become a unique good- sized town, which has a wide range of who don’t like the corporatist and commercial long tables having meals and it’s everybody; space, attractive to a wide set of regulars. classes, users and supporters. It is fortunate character of many town pubs, a place where it doesn’t matter who you are, from whatever ‘There's such a wide mix; everyone from the that this small village pub with an ancient feel they can mingle with other generations and walk of life you just talk to each other, (Fay). guy who doesn’t have much money to the has become valued as a means of getting classes and trades people who provide an However, during busy periods, from multi-millionaires who use this place. There away from the consumerist world, with its endless source of practical advice and a wide Wednesday to Sunday the dining room, are some very, very wealthy people in there never-ending discourse of insatiable consumption. range of services. ‘You get all different types of Cathy’s bar and the snug usually have reserved and there are some very poor people in there’ The Woolpack Inn is an exciting place to eat, people in here from professional people to notices put on them in the early evening and (Whitney). That mix of characters includes for a picturesque and unique place to explore, an tradesmen, employed people to self-employed some at lunch time if a party have booked. As the Woolpack Inn, ‘your locals, your London invigorating place to be social and a unique people. There’s always somebody who knows the owner acknowledges, the pub could not lot, your trendies and walkers’, (Thomas). overall experience. Long may it be so. somebody that can get something so if want cover its costs just as a drinkers’ pub or just To summarise the main bar and the common some decent meat or just eggs or if you as a village pub and so it was necessary to table are places of inescapable conviviality Bob Jeffrey wanted your central heating fixed or whatever, encourage customers from across the county whereas the other bars are places a closed (Emma). to make this a destination pub for fine dining. group can ‘own’ for a few hours or where A short book containing the full WP case study plus For many regulars at the WP buying into Those that reserve tables often expect to be smaller intimate couples and groups own a ‘Year in the Life of the Woolpack’ can be purchased community is based upon historical connections waited on and the staff are encouraged to only the table and they often share their life’s from the pub at a reasonable price and all the Case that go back generations, create the impression of the pub being a good stories with other couples or small groups as Studies have been published in ‘The English Village Well, my dad’s lived in Slad now for 30 odd dining room and hover ready to take orders a background to their intimate conversations. Pub: Survival Stories’ available at Amazon or directly years, so this is his local, so he’s been bringing from those sitting at the tables. The customers One may be able to escape the convivial from: [email protected] me in since before I could walk. So, this is the take over ’their space’ for the time that they kind of place where everyone knew me well are there and often take little notice of those in and I felt more welcome. When I first started very close proximity in this small pub, taking working in the bar here…because I knew everyone ownership and focused inward to their party. A from my father, it just felt more of a home, village pub’s survival today relies very much on really and I knew everyone and it’s my second making the customer feel welcome and effectively home; I just felt welcome here. I get on with renting out a space for a an hour or so, the locals and regulars, so it didn’t really feel However, all conversations are overheard, to gloucester brewery’s like work, to be honest. It just felt like I was some extent, in each of the small rooms, creat- chatting to friends and friends of the family ing an intimacy that people appear not to find and just giving them a few pints here and daunting and again arts and culture are often there, (Anna). the subject matter. In the distant past in the WH, there, was ‘a On a much quieter night the pub turns into women’s bar. The snug used to be where the space where people move slower and the women were allowed, and apparently in the chatter is more monotoned with varied subjects old days, there used to be a bench at the far discussed, ‘A group of six women are discussing friday october 4th end and it was the only room to be carpeted, literature - a book club. In the opposite corner and (Walter). However, as times have changed, sat a trio enjoying a pizza and adjacent to they are more integrated nowadays in pub them is an arts group who are talking quietly saturday october 5th cultures, about their university programmes. A pleasant I’ve got to know a lot of people and a lot of quiet atmosphere lit by dimmed lighting and them have become really close friends. There’s candles full of people generally talking quietly, always the banter. It’s nice hanging out with except for the occasional enthusiastic comment men because they’re easy and straightforward. and laugh from the reading group, (FN-19 Aug, What you see is what you get. If they have a 2016). £10 tickets little falling out with each other, it’s over by the Intimacy leads to an authentic experience next day. 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