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THe MAGAZINe OF WeST CAMrA S UMM ER 2019 www.westberkscamra.org.uk @WBCAMRA @WBCAMRAcider @UllageBeer @WBCAMRA CAMRA Berkshire Pub of the Year 2019 On 8 May, announcing that The Bell Inn, is CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 2019, branch chairman Andy Pinkard said ‘This year, the CAMRA selection criteria for the Pub of the Year put equal emphasis on both the quality of beer and the pub’s role at the centre of a community. Great beer is a given for The Bell, as evidenced by its continuing presence in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide and the pub also stands out for its inclusive nature and is welcoming to all.’ The unspoilt interior of the renowned

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: o Some of the heat escaped through the front door t o h as new arrivals waited to enter. Soon they could P squeeze inside to reach the small bar counter. The Bell Inn, Aldworth - Heather (with award), Hugh & Maryjane Macaulay Visiting for the award evening, regular suppliers were represented by Tim Wale (Tutts passing through the pub to serve wicker trays The Bell Inn has featured in every CAMRA Clump Cider - Traditional Farmhouse), Nick bearing plates of hot and cold food to share and Good Beer Guide since 1979 and has now won a Arkell (Arkell’s Brewery - 3B) and Kevin Brady pouring beer from brimming four pint jugs to Branch Pub of the Year award nine times, most (Indigenous Brewery - Baldrick and Nosey Parker those with empty glasses. recently in 2010 and 2013. It was also CAMRA mild ales). The Bell has been in the Macaulay family for National Pub of the Year 1990. In addition to locals and regular customers, generations and anyone wanting stories about the As the recent winner of the Berkshire wide a good helping of CAMRA members from West pub before Hugh’s time has only to ask Heather, contest against the Nag’s Head, Reading; the Berkshire and Reading branches were also there who remembers the days when visitors could rely Craufurd Arms, Maidenhead and the Crispin, to see Andy Pinkard present the branch’s Pub of on regular bus services passing outside. Sadly, Wokingham, it now reaches the Central Southern the Year award to landlord Hugh Macaulay buses no longer serve Aldworth but the Bell is region stage with the Fleur de Lys, East surrounded by his family and staff. often visited by ramblers, hikers and cyclists. Hagbourne and the Rising Sun, Haddenham. Hugh said ‘Thank you so much. It was an The use of mobile phones is banned at the absolute team effort’. Responding about the young Bell but soon after his visit Reading pub blogger opens team, Maryjane Macaulay added ‘ When you start Quinten Taylor tweeted ‘Amazing evening at the globe working here you become part of the family’. The Bell ... Top 10 UK pub without a doubt’. Wearing striped aprons, the kitchen team West Berkshire Brewery, the supplier of Old included James, Rubi, Beth, Jacob, Kate and Izzy. Tyler to the pub, tweeted ‘This is incredible news, The bar team included Iona, Dani and Emily. well done to The Bell Inn, very well deserved, one of After a group photo outside, they were busy our favourite spots’.

ON OTHER PAGES Ian Batho - Cow & Cask micropub Swift Halves - Pub , brewery & cider news 2-4 Locale 3 Beer Festivals 5 Pub Profile: White Hart, 6 Gig Guide 7 The Snooty Fox closed on 28 January 2018, it to Aldworth Hike 8 reopened as The Globe on 28 May 2019 with Cider Profile: Pang Valley Cider, The Globe 9 Colin and Katie Martin as the new owners. Ullage on Tour, Porto & Belgium 10 Dave, their Border Terrier, has been getting used Boak & Bailey, Curmudgeon columns 11 to the move from SW London to his new home Diary Dates, CAMRA Contacts & Festivals 12 in Newbury and sharing it with two and four- legged visitors. [continued on page 9]

Ullage June - August 2019 1 Swift Halves ■ Andy Pinkard will lead a group of walkers and cyclists from Newbury via the canal towpath to visit Caroline and Les at Two Cocks Brewery, on Saturday 15 June (Beer Day Britain). The group will leave the Market Place entrance to the Hatchet Inn at 11am. As numbers are limited, register (by 10 June) to attend the brewery visit from the diary entry on www.westberkscamra.org.uk

■ On Saturday 6 July , meet at Marlow station at ■ The White Hart , , reopened 12 noon before visiting the Royal British Legion on 25 March with Ben as manager and three cask Marlow. Chris Reynolds will lead an ale amble, Kevin Brady ales on the bar - Saviour Boozer, Saviour Tipple mainly on footpaths, to KEG, Bourne End. and Fuller’s London Pride. There will be a stop at the community owned ■ West Berkshire CAMRA members volunteering The Saviour Brewery beers are brewed by Craufurd Arms, Maidenhead on the return. on the bars at Reading Beer & Cider Festival John Trueman in a Meet Newbury station 10am for 10.16 train, included Andy Pinkard (chairman), Richard converted outbuilding. changing at Reading and Maidenhead. Marshall (Hermitage Brewery) and Kevin Brady Gas burners are used (Indigenous Brewery). to heat both the ketttle ■ On Saturday 27 July , meet at the White Hart, and the hot liquor Hamstead Marshall from 12 Noon for beers from (water) tank which is Saviour brewery. Andy Pinkard will lead an ale mounted above. amble, mainly on footpaths, to the Red House, Saviour Gold is the Marsh Benham and then back via Hamstead third beer to be Park to the Craven Arms, Enborne. brewed for the pub. Kennections bus 3 from Newbury Wharf bus Members of the station at 11.50am serves the White Hart. Return Kevin scored an impressive triple success at Saviour Pennies club journey at 5.25pm from the Craven Arms. Reading with his Indigenous beers brewed in can drink pints of the house beers for £2 or take . Silly Moo, 4.2% ABV milk stout away 3 litres for £10. saviourwhitehart.co.uk won overall LocAle of the festival. In the two ■ Arkell’s Bowled Over is the regional Champion Beer of Britain categories ■ The Pot Kiln , , is expected to reopen in Swindon brewery’s seasonal judged, Ammo Belle, 5.6% ABV American pale mid-July after renovation work. www.potkiln.org beer for the summer. The 3.8% ale was the Gold strong bitter and Double Warp, ABV amber / red ale has citrus 5.8% ABV brown stout was the Gold stout. Branch Chairman, Andy Pinkard writes: and caramel flavours. In April, Indigenous Brewery won beer of the As we head towards our AGM at the Lamb festival at Newbury Racecourse for Chinwag, (Newbury) on 11 June, talk turns to finding the 4% ABV Best Bitter. officers required to maintain our Branch as a Look out for Indigenous Gigglemug, 8.5% going concern. However, while there is a degree ABV Double IPA and Black Ram, 5% ABV dark of formality, this is a great time for meeting lager, brewed for the summer. other members. www.indigenousbrewery.co.uk I encourage all branch members to attend, you may even like to become more active in the The Bowler’s Arms ■ New Wharf Brewing , campaigning or social aspects. You may like to ■ Enjoy a drink from the Bowler’s Arms while based near Maidenhead, offer support to an existing incumbent or take a watching cricket at Falkland Cricket Club in won CAMRA’s KeyKeg role directly. Please don’t feel that just because . Sunday fixtures include: LocAle of the festival at someone already has a role that they wouldn’t 16 June - (Twenty20) Berkshire v Herefordshire Reading with DIPA, an enjoy help. and 7 July - Berkshire v Wales. 8.5% ABV Douple IPA brewed with Simcoe, ■ The Hare, Woodlands closed Mosaic and Centennial permanently in April. The closest pubs on Ermin hops. Kevin Black Street are the Pheasant Inn , During the festival, brewer Kevin Black was CAMRA Discounts (3.2 miles south east) and the Red Lion , Baydon, kept busy, serving and talking about New Wharf’s Members enjoy discounts at Wiltshire (2.8 miles north west). cask and keg beers, at the brewery bar. CAMRA beer festivals, newwharfbrewing.co.uk Wetherspoon pubs ■ Wadworth Horizon, the 4% (* with voucher) and pubs below: ABV tangy golden ale, has a ■ Loddon Brewery Ferryman’s Gold was the : new pumpclip. It was first LocAle winner in the middle ABV category at Hind’s Head brewed to celebrate Henry CAMRA’s Reading festival. : Alfred Wadworth’s hot air Three Horseshoes balloon adventure that Newbury: ended in a crash landing on Catherine Wheel the beach in Poole. Cow & Cask Gun, Wash Common ■ Visit the Rowbarge , for Mikron Hatchet Inn* Theatre Company outdoor performances in the King Charles Tavern Old London Apprentice tranquil setting by the canal: Wednesday 17 July ‘All Hands on Deck’ ; Monday 22 July ‘Redcoats’ . New brewer Jake Bartleet-Perry, is shown Woolhampton: 7.30pm start, no tickets required, a cash collection Rowbarge above with brewery owner Chris Hearn at is taken after each show. Bring a camping chair Loddon brewery’s taproom. Jake’s first new beer, or blankets. Citra Quad, was so successful that it is now a

2 The Campaign for Real Ale West Berkshire 2019 West Berkshire CAMRA Outstanding Community Pub (previously unrecognised) There are now 39 LocAle pubs in our branch serving beer from breweries within 25 miles. In 2018, the Cottage Inn, Cow & Cask [email protected] and Old London Apprentice shared the See also the LocAle page on our website: Outstanding Community Pub award. www.westberkscamra.org.uk For 2019, the branch is looking for a new ■ The Cow & Cask looks smart after redecoration LocAle Pubs - EAST of A34 pub to gain this award and receive valuable (see also photo on page 1). The micropub's crib The Bell Inn Aldworth publicity. Any previously unrecognised pub team, was the winner of the & District in our area can be nominated. crib league 2018/19. Andy Love won a cup and The Bladebone Inn Factors influencing the award include trophy for most singles wins. Dickie Hayes won the The Castle Inn charity support, team games, noticeboards, Les Black runner up trophy. tdcrib.co.uk The Castle Donnington group meetings and activities like beer or The Catherine Wheel Newbury cider festivals, quizzes, live music and ■ The application for conversion of the The Coopers Arms Newbury performances. Winterbourne Arms to a single dwelling was The Cow & Cask Newbury Anyone, including the publican, can refused after 231 letters of objection were lodged. The Cottage Inn Upper nominate one or more pubs. Please send The refusal notice for 19/00346/FULD mentions The Fox Inn Hermitage details, by 30 June, to Mike Avery, Branch that ‘… in the light of the advice contained in the The Hatchet Inn Newbury Secretary, whose contact details are on the West Berkshire Council’s Supplementary back page or by using the online form at Planning Guidance 19 – Public Houses and the The King Charles Tavern Newbury www.westberkscamra.org.uk/nominate commissioned viability review, the Winterbourne The Old Boot Inn Arms PH is potentially viable for use as a licensed The Pot Kiln Frilsham permanent beer. The next monthly quadruple- premises in the future.’ The Rowbarge Woolhampton hopped session IPAs (4.4% ABV) from June are The Royal Oak Jester Quad, Dragon Quad and Mystic Quad, ■ CAMRA is encouraging pub The Six Bells MME each named after the distinctive single hop visits during the Summer of U R The Three Horseshoes Brimpton S varieties used. Pub . Based on PUBlic Bank O West Berkshire Brewery Taproom Yattendon Holiday dates, it runs from F B Outdoor decking for the taproom (open P U The Woodpecker Thursday - Saturday), gives more sunny seating 24 May to 26 August. Find or space for the summer. Arriva 800 bus serves submit summer pub events Locally Brewed Real Ale Dunsden Green from Reading. using www.camra.org.uk/summerofpub THE OLD LONDON APPRENTICE COTTAGE INN UPPER BUCKLEBURY

We pride ourselves on being a traditional community pub where there’s always a warm welcome from Ken & Caroline

Bingo - :ursday Live bands - Saturday A West Berkshire CAMRA Community Pub Karaoke - Sunday of the Year: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Families welcome - Outdoor Play Zone Private parties and bu;ets catered for + Paddock with hens, goats & rabbits Private function room for hire Great circular walks from the pub to the Pang valley & Bucklebury Common Sunday lunches every other Sunday Lounge and separate bar with Sky Sports & BT Sport (check with pub for dates) 5ree Cask Ales including Good Old Boy Four real ales including Harvey’s Sussex Best, Tue-Fri 12-3 & 5-11 Food 12-2 & 6-8.30 Fuller’s London Pride & Wadworth 6X Saturday 12 - late Food 12-2.30 & 6-8.30 CAMRA discount Sunday 12 - 8 Lunch 12 - 3

2 Hambridge Road, Newbury, RG14 5SS | Tel: 01635 41483 26 Broad Lane, Upper Bucklebury RG7 6Q 01635 864544 www.oldlondonapprentice.co.uk www.thecottageinnupperbucklebury.co.uk

Ullage June - August 2019 3 are cash prizes and money is raised for a different local charity each month. Tuesdays 11 June - ‘90s music, 16 July - General Knowledge, 20 August - ‘70s music. Quiz entry is £3 with start at 7pm. Booking is advised. www.theredhousepub.com k c o

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P Saturday 10 August for a charity event in aid of On 16 April, Andy Pinkard presented the West Diabetes UK. Berkshire CAMRA Club of the Year 2019 award to the Club . ■ Rick Wyatt offered samples of freshly bottled ■ The new WBB sign shone out from above the Bar Steward Marie McConnon has been Pang Valley Cider from his trade session stall West Berkshire Brewery bar at the Reading Beer instrumental in getting the bar refurbished and at Reading Beer & Cider Festival. Rick’s new & Cider Festival. maintains the highest cellar hygiene standards. Cold Ash premises have been licensed. See The Grapes , the She thanked Dave Broderick who suggests all Cider Profile, page 9, for more details. brewery’s first pub in the guest ales that are served alongside Fuller’s Oxford, also features new London Pride. ■ Four ciders from Green Shed Cider were branding. Tom Lucas, served at the Reading festival including Big Managing Director at Iain Clarke Tony and Wheel Cider which was launched at WBB, said ‘We’ve kept our the (Newbury) Catherine Wheel’s Easter iconic gentleman character and he’s been given a festival. www.greenshedcider.co.uk facelift with a new bold graphic …’. The Grapes, across ■ Tutts Clump Rhubarb was the George Street from the 2019 Wantage Cider of the New Theatre, was Festival, a 4% ABV medium previously operated by sweet cider infused with rhubarb Bath Ales before a Beerd juice. revamp. The City Pub Further congratulations to Company restored its Tim Wale for Tutts Clump traditional look in 2017. ■ Iain Clarke constructed a temporary bar for the Cider gaining first place in the WBB made further trade session at CAMRA’s Reading festival and CAMRA South of Perry improvements before served two of Wild Weather’s fruited lactose competition, judged at Reading the latest reopening on sours from casks. Cucumber and Blueberry sours Beer & Cider Festival. 26 April. The deep and narrow pub with a long were available from 440ml cans. bar has plenty of seating including wooden Iain and others have been involved in booths with tables. The new lighting system uses collaboration beers with other breweries dimmable spherical shades. The menu offers including Glen Affric (Birkenhead), New Lion exclusive dishes to attract discerning diners. (Totnes) and Wettre Bryggeri (Oslo). The next date for West Berkshire Brewery On 18 April, Wild Weather Ales announced tours is Saturday 6 July. on their Facebook page that ‘… Mr JD (Jamie

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p Inn at Home in February, Newbury beer writer events. See Matt Lawson’s April post with more i l i h Jeff Evans will present details and photos on www.wbbrew.com/blog P Five Best Beer Styles for Summer at the Newbury store on Friday 12 July ■ Elusive Brewing’s Andy Parker at 7.15pm. Jeff will provide background for the was busy at the brewery bar styles and a fine example of each will be poured section of CAMRA’s Reading for tasting. Tickets (£15) from the shop at 151 festival serving two KeyKeg Bartholomew Street or www.innathome.co.uk AWARD-WINNING BEER beers. Elusive’s cask ales hand cr aft ed fr om our o wn R amsbury E sta te malt Happiness Dragon (3.8% ABV ■ Also a quiz enthusiast, Jeff Evans is hoping to fr om eas y- drinking tr aditional golden ales , Simcoe & Mosaic pale) won the lower ABV organise a new pub and club quiz league for West LocAle of the festival and Morrisman (5% ABV Berkshire this autumn/winter. The league will to an IPA bur sting with hops or chocolate stout) won Bronze in the regional operate similar to existing darts or pool leagues, a smoo th cr aft lag er , Champion Beer of Britain stout category. with each venue nominating a team to play on its our br ewery has a tast e f or The brewery has recently leased an adjacent behalf in home and away matches, probably on every pala te. unit at its Finchampstead base to provide space Monday evenings (approximately 8.30 - 10pm). for a cold store and additional fermentation Any pubs or clubs interested in entering a team capacity. www.elusivebrewing.com should contact [email protected] for more details. Any keen quizzers who would like to get www.ra msb ur y.co m ■ New hours for Siren Craft Brew Tap Yard are involved and join a team, please get in touch. 01672 541407

Wed-Sat 12-8pm, Sun 12-6pm. Hogwood ST OCK CL OSE F ARM, ALDBOURNE, WIL TSHIRE, SN8 2NN Industrial Estate, Finchampstead is served by ■ There is a monthly quiz at Marsh Benham’s Reading Buses Leopard 3 service from Reading. traditional thatched pub, the Red House . There

4 The Campaign for Real Ale West Berkshire Beer & Cider Festivals ■ The new location for Twyford Beer Festival on 7/8 June, with 70 real ales, food and live music, is Stanlake Meadow Rec Ground, Waltham Road RG10 0AB, uphill from the station's southern exit. twyfordbeerfest.co.uk

■ Saturday 8 June - The Catherine Wheel , Newbury, 5th birthday party / beer & cider festival + live music. Contact details as advert below.

■ The annual White Hart , Hampstead Norreys, returns from Thursday 24 - Sunday 30 June. See pub profile on page 6 for all contact details. ■ Pallet Stage Presents Cider is at Crazy Dave’s Cider, Holyport on Saturday Sa tur day 29 June from 2pm with live music, cider, beer and food. Tickets via eventbrite or Facebook @crazydavescider. 14th S ept emb er 2 019 ■ The annual branch visit to the Great British Beer Festival (GBBF) at NORTH CROFT F IELD S Olympia will be on Friday 9 August . There will be over 1000 British and 12 n oon O NWARD S international beers, ciders and perries. This year there will be a wine and gin bar and more brewery bars. There are discounts for advance booking and CAMRA members. gbbf.org.uk/tickets # • LIV E MUSIC nr af 19 ■ The annual Rowbarge Summer Festival at Woolhampton on 16-18 August with live music features 35 real ales, craft beers and ciders.. Meet up with • DELICIOUS FOOD CAMRA members, in the pub’s riverside garden, on the afternoon of Y • OV ER 100 BEERS & CIDERS BU Saturday 17 August . www.brunningandprice.co.uk/rowbarge OU R • A GREAT LOCAL DA Y OUT Y TS ■ The annual Hungerford Club Real Ale Festival at 3 The Croft is free and CKE TI N E open to all from 24-26 August. On each day there will be 12 real ales and NLI O QUEUE! two ciders, a barbecue and live music. Meet up with CAMRA members there EAT THE on the afternoon of Saturday 24 August. B NEY! SAVE MO ■ See page 12 for details of CAMRA beer festivals: Ealing (10-13 July), Woodcote (13-14 July), Maidenhead (25-27 July), GBBF (6-10 August). Further details of CAMRA and other festivals can www .ne wbu ryrealale .co.uk /Ne wbu ryRe alAleFe stiv al  /Ne wbu ryAleFe st  /Ne wbu ryAleFe st be found on our website: westberkscamra.org.uk

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Ullage June - August 2019 5 Pub Profile #66 The White Hart Hampstead Norreys Set in the attractive North Wessex Downs, Hampstead Norreys was narrowly beaten in the final of Channel 4’s Village of the Year 2018 competition. The White Hart played a large part in establishing the close-knit nature of the community that led to this notable outcome. Mine hosts, Tracey Clemson and James Stanley, have run the Greene King pub for 11 years making it a successful, welcoming establishment. On the visit day, the beers on offer were the regular Morland Original together with Hogs Back T.E.A. (Traditional English Ale) and Bath Ales Gem as guest ales. Landlord James is the head chef and is responsible for the extensive menu that is mainly Modern British, but with plenty of dishes inspired from further afield. A good value separate children’s menu makes life easier for young families and a lunchtime bar menu has soup, a selection of light bites, a traditional ploughman’s and extends to ciabattas and have a railway station until baguettes, available with various fillings. Regular the line was closed after Dr specials are on offer to further tempt diners. The Beeching’s 1963 report. pub is particularly proud of its wine list, which is Walkers with dogs are augmented by a Wine of the Month selection. welcomed in the bar and The spacious and light building is cleverly on dry days there are also organised into areas with tables for small groups plenty of tables for sitting and larger tables suited to family gatherings. outside. Blackboards in the bar and in the entrance reveal The pub is roughly a large number of regular events. The first halfway along the B4009, Sunday of the month is Quiz night (from 20:00), which goes from Newbury the second Saturday of the month is Open mic to Streatley and there is a night (from 20:00) and every Wednesday is Steak constant but light flow of The White Hart night. All their steaks are dry aged by a local traffic in both directions. On the day of the visit Church Street butcher for 35 days in a Himalayan rock salt there were some people who had travelled from Hampstead Norreys chamber. An annual Beer festival is held on the Reading and had visited the nearby Living RG18 0TB last weekend in June. Rainforest attraction, which features tropical The pub is popular with walkers because the plants and animals. Others had come to explore Tel: 01635 202248 area is crisscrossed with footpaths, one of which, the river Pang and the village, with its noted Email: [email protected] on the hill beside the pub, leads up to a former Community Shop and St Mary’s church - with Website: www.goodfoodatthewhitehart.co.uk World War II RAF Wellington bomber base, stepped cast iron Lowsley family memorial Facebook: @TheWhiteHartHN where there is still an airstrip. Some walks follow behind. Whatever your reason for dropping in at Twitter: @WhiteHartHN the dismantled Didcot – Newbury - this pub, you are assured of a warm welcome. Opening hours Southampton railway line. The village used to Chris Reynolds Closed Monday Tue-Fri: 12:00 - 15:00 & 18.00 - 23.00 Sat: 12:00 - 23:00 Sun: 12:00 - 22:30 Kitchen hours Tue-Fri: 12:00 - 14:30 & 18:00 - 21:00 (21.30 Fri) Sat: 12:00 - 14:30 & 18:00 - 21:30 Sun: 12:00 - 15:00 & 18:00 - 20:30

6 The Campaign for Real Ale West Berkshire Gig Guide Ace Space , St. Nicolas Road, Newbury. Tickets: Hogan Music, Newbury. www.acespace.org.uk 7 Jun, 5 Jul - Unplugged Open Mic 14 Jun - Edgelarks + Blánid Vox 20 Jul - Dan Webster + Richard Cox-Smith Chequers Hotel , Newbury – 3pm Sundays Jazz - Pay at the door on the day 18 Jun, 14 Jul, 18 Aug - Pete Allen & his band Enquiries: 01635 44806 Newbury Jazz Platform FB: @NewburyJazzPlatform at The Lamb , Newbury Jazz with Gavin Wilkinson’s house band. 3rd Wednesday of each month 7.30pm: 19 Jun, 17 July, 21 Aug. Entry £2 The Angel , Woolhampton Jazz from 8pm Saturdays www.jazzangel.co.uk 29 Jun - Claire Jones Quintet LOCAL P UB S POTLIGHT Oppo rtunity i s o n t ap i n 27 Jul - Fleur Stevenson The Queen ’s Head, 31 Aug - Judy Vaughan Quintet Wiltshire & W est B er kshire. Wiltshir e The Monument , Newbury - Fridays & We’re i nviting y ou t o d iscover a n a rray o f p ub l etting o pportunities Saturdays • £ 287k i nvestment p lanned in t he W iltshire & W est B erkshire r egion. F rom c osy a nd t raditional, 14 Jun - BeatleJuice • E xcell ent l ocat ion 20 Jul - JJ & the Jukes to m odern a nd r efurbished, e ach o f t hese b rilliant p ubs n eed a Open Mic night with Oli Hill on Thursdays • F ant asti c f ood o pportu ni ty passionate l icensee t o d rive t he b usiness f orward. • U niqu e s ecre t g ard en a re a Lock Stock & Barrel , Newbury When y ou p artner w ith u s, w e w ork t o e nsure y ou g et t he p roper 15 Jun - Pink Mac funding, s upport, a nd e xperience t o g uarantee y our p ub’s s uccess. 6 Jun (2pm) - Jon Walsh EST IMATE D Plus, a s t he p ub b usiness o f H EINEKEN, w e’ll g ive y ou a ccess t o 29 Jun - The Soultones LESSEE P ROFIT £36, 89 6 the U K’s l eading c ider a nd b eer p roducer a nd t he n ame b ehind a Document House , Newbury superb p ortfolio o f i conic b rands. 5 Jul, 30 Aug - Roadhouse The Newbury , Newbury An o pportunity a waits – a ll y ou n eed t o d o i s g et i n t ouch. Weekly on Thursdays - Sion Whiley presents Open Mic night on the roof terrace Call u s o n 0 8085 9 4 9 5 9 6 o r Old London Apprentice , Newbury vi sit s tarpubs.co.uk t o g et s tarted. 8 June - Wardour Street 6 Jul - Iron Lotus 3 Aug - Iron Lotus (acoustic) 2nd Friday of each month is Folk Night The White Hart , Thatcham – Saturdays 22 Jun - Blue Hayz 6 Jul - JJ & the Jukes 27 Jul - No Way Out 10 Aug - Fubar 31 Aug - The Difference Fox Inn , Hermitage NEWBURY’S FIRST MICRO PUB 15 Jun - Nicole & the Papas Old Boot Inn , Stanford Dingley 15 Jun (2pm) - Bootfest (£5 incl. drink) 7 Jul (5pm) - Acoustic Blues 28 Jul (5pm) - Open Road Cow & Cask is available for 1 Inches Yard More pubs with live music: private hire, and Market Street Hungerford area : Railway Tavern, given enough notice Newbury Wheatsheaf we will try very hard RG14 5DP to have “Your Newbury area : Catherine Wheel, Lion, Favourite Micro Nags Head, Starting Gate Brewery Ale” Thatcham area : Taste of England on the stillage. Although we are a “Micro Opening Hours Pub” we can Mon Closed Tue 5-9 Squeeze, Jimmie, Wed 5-9 Social Squash or Thu 12-2, 5-9 Media Shoehorn Fri 12-2, 5-10 20-25 persons in Sat All Day 12-10 @WBCAMRAcider West Berkshire and make them Sun Closed @WBCAMRA Campaign for Real Ale comfortable. Discount @UllageBeer for CAMRA @WBCAMRA We can also card holders @BerkshirePubs CAMRA provide a Tel: @insidebeer @campaignforrealale few seats!!! 07517 658071

Ullage June - August 2019 7 Theale to Aldworth Hike Alan Haselden On a dry, sunny, April Saturday my three friends / colleagues and I set out on foot from Theale to explore the Berkshire Downs and a few of their fine hostelries, following a cross-country route as far as Streatley. The Castle Inn· Cold Ash Ⅲ West Berkshire CAMRA Community Pub of the Year 2010 Ⅲ Good Beer Guide 2011-14 & 2016-19 Ⅲ Cask Marque accredited since 2002 Ⅲ 25+ gins & 6 real ales including one from West Berkshire Brewery comprised three areas. There Ⅲ Open all day - every day is also an extensive rear Ⅲ Family and dog friendly garden with benches. The Ⅲ Good value food cask ale selection was Doom Ⅲ Quiz on Mondays at 8.30pm Bar, St Austell’s 4.5% Proper Charity meat raffle on Fridays North Street Meeting early at La Baguetterie, Theale’s High Job and West Berkshire’s 4% Cold Ash Hill ·Cold Ash ·Thatcham ·Berkshire RG18 9PS Street cafe, we stopped to enjoy bacon and Good Old Boy. Happily, the Tel: 01635 863232 ·www.thecastleatcoldash.co.uk kitchen was open and so we Follow us on Facebook sausage baguettes before venturing north out of town along footpaths into the meadows of ordered a large pepperoni pizza to share between parish where many trees and hedgerows us and also a round of Good Old Boy, which was were in blossom. served on admirable form.

CAMRA member Chris Reynolds is also Membership Secretary of West Berks Ramblers and will be leading the following walks: Sun 30 June: 9.30am: Park in Theale's main car park (RG7 5AN). 9.6 mile walk, lunch at The Red Lion, The Greyhound, . Following Adder’s Lane, a shady, wooded Thu 11 July: 9.30: Park considerately in Chapel Our first stop, Fuller’s Greyhound in byway and onward through Greenaway’s Copse St, Compton (RG20 6QH). 10.3 mile walk, lunch Tidmarsh, is a thatched building and is mainly a and the grounds of St Clement’s church in at The Bell, Aldworth. smart restaurant with three rooms, replete with , we arrived at Aldworth’s The Bell Inn by late afternoon. Thu 18 July: 9:30: Park at Hampstead Norreys sturdy woodwork and low ceilings. It was offering village hall car park. 9.9 mile walk, lunch at London Pride and Dark Star’s 3.8% Hophead and The Bell, Aldworth. 4.1% Partridge. Pints of Hophead were served to Contact Chris on 01635 226826 or us in good condition by the friendly bar manager. 07979 804637 about a trial ramble. We were first in, but soon families and walking groups began to pour in and the place was a happy hive of busy-ness by 1pm.

We are in the The Bell Inn CAMRA Good Beer Guide Being West Berkshire’s only pub with a 2019 (11th year running) Heritage Pub interior, it is the hike team’s favourite and between us we leisurely savoured a couple of Meals served evenings and lunch times four-pint pitchers of West Berkshire Brewery’s (except Mondays) finest, the 3.8% Maggs’ Magnificent Mild, which Closed Sunday evenings was served in perfect form. The Bell Inn’s home-made bread rolls with fillings such as Traditional Sunday Roast lunches Stilton, the sponge puddings soaked in hot En Suite Guest Rooms & custard, the golden sunshine beaming through the Function Room available front windows together with the Aldworth locals, The Greyhound, Tidmarsh Choice of 3 Cask Ales former locals, other visitors and pet dogs all ‘Pie and Pudding Club’ Veering west from Tidmarsh, we traced a conspired to make the perfect evening in this rural every Wednesday! lengthy zig-zagging footpath, defined by the corner of Berkshire. It was, by far, the pinnacle of hedgerows dividing the rolling, chalky, flinty our day out. However, even the short two mile trek West Berks CAMRA Pub landscape of Gregory’s Hill. After traversing of the Year 2008 and 2015 down through Streatley’s tranquil valley, in the College premises and following a chilled twilight glow, to Goring & Streatley rail minor road, we arrived at the Red Lion in Upper station was a pleasant experience too. The Six Bells, The Green, Beenham Basildon by mid-afternoon. This light-filled, Finally, some of us visited Reading’s Alehouse, Reading RG7 5NX Tel: 0118 9713368 spacious, open-plan pub with white-washed for a swift round of Slater’s 5.2% Smoked Porter, Email: [email protected] ૽૽૽૽ www.thesixbells.co.uk interior walls and robust wooden beams, to break up the home-bound rail journey! AA Inn

8 The Campaign for Real Ale West Berkshire Cider Profile #5 the globe opens Pang Valley Cider [continued from page 1] Nestled amongst fields and trees with Abbey and orchards The original Globe Inn lettering was revealed by ravens swooping overhead, leverets passed down from the removal of the Snooty Fox frontage. However, skipping across fields and keenly observant Roy Bailey. That first as there are no letting rooms the pub is now farm cats, is where Pang Valley Cider can year of pressing has simply The Globe. Keeping the old lettering fits be found. produced just under with Colin and Katie wanting to give the pub a 6000 litres of pure new lease of life without erasing any history. apple juice which then fermented slowly over the winter and spring months. The first public serving of the new cider was at this year’s Reading Beer & Cider Festival in May when Midway, an 8.1% ABV blend of Hereford, West Berkshire and Kentish apples, was available. Midway is aptly named because the cider is made at roughly the midway point of the sourced apples’ origins. Inside, the extensive refurbishment by Further blends will be made available Heineken’s Star pubs & bars, features a ground throughout the year including Royal County, level cafe style area that can open up onto given the same name as the former flagship Bartholomew Street. This front area has a hard Lambourn Valley cider to recognise Roy floor and a high ceiling giving extra natural light Bailey’s help for Rick when he started from the first floor windows. Greenery and the producing cider. Rick’s old favourites - spoked light fitting break up the tall space. Rick Wyatt Berkshire Gold and Abbey Gold – will A ramp from Formerly known as Wyatt’s Craft Cider, also return. the main entrance, cidermaker Rick Wyatt made the decision to Looking to the future, Rick & Gary are on the right, leads move production from his family home to a looking to broaden the range that they can up to the central new site. Together with Gary Wickens, his offer by producing 100% pure apple juice and bar area with high lifelong friend, they formed Pang Valley Cider an apple cider vinegar. They also plan to offer tables. Uneven in the late summer of 2018. The first reason for people the chance to visit the cider house to renovated the change in name was due to the fact that learn all about the cidermaking process and floorboards lead Rick was no longer a one-man band. Secondly, sample some ciders whilst marvelling at the through to the he and Gary both wanted a more local identity surroundings. Ciders will also be made rear, furnished for their product and as the new premises available to purchase. with sofas and low overlooks the stunningly beautiful River Pang, To keep up to date will news from Pang tables. Framed the new business name fitted nicely. Valley Cider, outlets for their cider and details photos decorate Pressing commenced in the autumn of 2018 of forthcoming cider releases, please follow the grey painted walls here with books and games using a variety of specific cider apple cultivars @PangValleyCider on Twitter. available from a shelf. The front of the old bar from Herefordshire including Michelin, counter now features black and white tile Browns and Dabinett as well as culinary Wassail! patterns. Handpumps supply up to four cask ales. varieties from Kent. Food waste and fuel use Rod Holmes There are beers from Beavertown and Brixton are minimised by also using locally sourced West Berkshire CAMRA Cider Liaison Officer breweries in the keg and canned ranges. apples from West Berkshire including Douai Twitter @WBCAMRAcider www.theglobenewbury.com Facebook & Instagram: theglobenewbury

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Ullage June - August 2019 9 Ullage on Tour In 2019, Ullage editor Tim Thomas took the magazine with him on trips to Liverpool, Porto and Belgium. Tim’s photos, featuring Ullage, illustrated some posts on Twitter and Instagram with hashtag #UllageOnTour.

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Quinten Taylor visited bars in Porto in visit u s online January 2018. His article, mentioning A Fábrica loddonbre wer y.c om da Picaria brewpub, was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Ullage . This was a useful calling card when Tim visited the brewpub and met Marta. Membership subscriptions shown below include rate increase effective on 1 July 2019 She remembered Quinno visiting from his photo on the cover of Reading CAMRA’s Mine’s a Pint. A Fábrica is Porto’s first brewpub and offers two Join u p, jo in in, beers brewed on the premises and served direct from the tank. The other draught beers available are from the Super Bock Selecção 1927 range. jo in the cam pai gn Tim recommends also visiting Catraio Craft Beer Fr om as little as Pr ot ect the tr aditions of gr ea t Shop, Letraria Craft Beer Garden and Cálem Port † British pubs and e verything tha t wine lodge when in Porto. £26.50 a y ear . T ha t’s les s goes with them b y joining t oda y

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10 The Campaign for Real Ale West Berkshire and the rise of lager greatly reduced the amount of beer they were producing from their own mudgeon breweries. But, at the same time, the rise of The up-market dining provided an opportunity for some of the pubs in their tied estates, and many Citra as Brand Squeezed of them bought more as cast-offs from the Middle debt-ridden pubcos. This essentially turned Every now and then we’ll reach a point in a them into pubcos with an under-utilised conversation where the person opposite The sale of Fuller’s brewing interests to brewery as a sideline. Fuller’s reckoned that 85% wants to know, ‘What’s a good beer I Asahi underlined the exposed position in of their profits came from their pubs and hotels, should be looking out for, then?’ which many of the established, so it is perhaps understandable that they medium-sized firms find themselves. This used to be fairly easy to answer, but decided to concentrate on that part of their As a mid-sized brewer, Fuller’s said, it was with more breweries, and more beers, and business and accept an attractive offer for the being squeezed between the global giants and what feels like a tendency away from the brewing side. the 2,000 smaller brewers across the UK. The concept of the core range or flagship beer, it’s It’s also debatable whether you can make tax breaks given to microbrewers and the power become tricky. such a clear distinction between the brewing of the big global drinks firms have left little There are beers we like but don’t get to and pub sides of the business, as to some extent space at the bar for those in the middle. drink regularly enough to say we know, and they support each other. If you separate them, Progressive Beer Duty was introduced in others that we love but don’t see from one year both will be diminished and their viability 2002 by Gordon Brown with the aim of to the next. undermined. A brewery produces a unique, stimulating the number of small breweries in Last time someone asked, though, it just so identifiable product that is recognisable to the UK. It has certainly succeeded in this happened that we’d reached a conclusion: customers and may command a great deal of objective, with over 2,000 now in operation. ‘Well, not a specific beer, but you can’t go loyalty, but a pubco is, well, just another pubco, However, as with many such well-intentioned wrong with anything with Citra in the name.’ and in the long-term that must make them measures, it has had unintended consequences. We were thinking of Oakham Citra, of course more vulnerable to takeover. Fuller’s stood out The 50% duty relief on offer starts to be clawed – the beer that effectively owns this unique from the crowd both because of the high profile back above an annual production of 5,000 American hop variety in the UK, and has done of their beers and the valuable redevelopment hectolitres, and entirely disappears at 60,000 hl since 2009. potential of their site. But the announcement of (1 hl = 176 pints). Many of the established Citra was very much the hot thing in UK this deal will certainly have given many family brewers are above this figure, or only just brewing about six or seven years ago. It was a directors of family brewers cause for thought below it. Fuller’s, who were one of the biggest, sort of wonder hop that seemed to combine about their long-term future. were producing about 200,000 barrels a year. the powers of every C-hop that had come It’s often the case that people attract warm In practice, many of the new small brewers before. It was easy to appreciate – no hints or tributes when they die while having a much have used the duty relief not to bolster the notes here, just an almost over-vivid horn blast more equivocal reputation during their lives, finances of their business, but to sell beer more of flavour –and, in our experience, easy to and it’s hard to avoid the feeling that some of cheaply, putting the established brewers at a brew with, too. those shedding crocodile tears over the sale of severe price disadvantage. The overall market Now, with the trendsetters having moved Fuller’s were happy a year before to dismiss share of these small brewers is relatively small, on, Citra continues to be a sort of anchor point London Pride as ‘boring brown beer’. Maybe if and to the likes of AB InBev they are no more for us. If there’s a beer on offer with Citra in we want to help the prospects of the family than a pinprick on an elephant’s backside. But the name, even from a brewery we’ve never brewers, beer enthusiasts should give them a bit they have a much higher share of the market for heard of, or even from a brewery whose beers more love as upholders of a unique British cask beer in the free trade, and if you go in any we don’t generally like, we’ll always give it tradition, rather than constantly chasing after pub that is able to buy beer on the open market a try. the novel and trendy. it is likely that most of its cask lines are from Hop Back Citra, for example, is a great microbreweries. Some of these beers are very beer. It lacks the oomph of Oakham’s flagship The Curmudgeon column appears in good, but the main reason many of them are and bears a distinct family resemblance to Opening Times , Stockport & South Manchester there is that they are cheap to buy. many of the Wiltshire brewery’s other beers CAMRA’s bimonthly magazine. Comments on The mid-sized brewers found that the but Citra lifts it out of the sepia. It adds a pure, his articles can be left on the website general decline of on-trade beer consumption high note; it electrifies. curmudgeoncolumns.blogspot.com Since concluding that You Can’t Go Wrong With Citra, we’ve been testing the thesis. Of course we’ve had the odd dud – beers that taste like they got the sweepings from the Citra factory floor, or were wheeled past a single cone on the way to the warehouse – but generally, it seems to be a sound rule. We were recently in the pub with our next door neighbour, a keen ale drinker but not a beer geek, and a Citra fan. When Hop Back Citra ran out before he could get another pint his face fell, until he saw that another beer with Citra in the name had gone up on the board: “Oh, there you go – as long as it’s a Citra, I The live beer don’t mind.”

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Beer Festival Diary CAMRA run or supported beer festivals provide excellent opportunities for sampling a wide range of real ales, from all over the UK and overseas. Here are some of the major and most accessible festivals for West Berkshire drinkers. See page 5 for more festival details. 10-13 July 30th Ealing Beer Festival Walpole Park, Mattock Lane W5 5BG www.ebf.camra.org.uk 13-14 July Woodcote Festival of Ale 56th Woodcote Rally Diary Dates 2019 8 miles NW of Reading on A4074 www.woodcoterally.org.uk The following is a list of all forthcoming meetings of the West Berkshire branch of CAMRA. Some are ‘social’ meetings, lively and friendly occasions where we enjoy a few beers; others are ‘branch’ meetings, which are 25-27 July slightly more formal and where we discuss beer and pubs issues. Unless stated, our meetings are open to 7th Maidenhead Beer & Cider Festival all-comers – and new members are particularly welcome! Desborough College SL6 2QB www.maidenheadbeerfest.camra.org.uk Tuesday 11 June Saturday 6 July Friday 9 August Branch Annual General Meeting Marlow Ale Amble Great British Beer Festival Social 6-10 August All members welcome as page 2 Details: page 2 1pm Details: page 5 1pm Great British Beer Festival The Lamb, Newbury 8pm London Olympia W14 8UX Saturday 27 July Saturday 17 August www.gbbf.org.uk Saturday 15 June Hampstead Marshall Ale Amble Afternoon Social Beer Day Britain #CheersToBeer Details: page 2 12 Noon Rowbarge Summer Festival, Cow & Cask, Newbury 7pm Woolhampton Details: page 5 Wednesday 7 August Two Cocks Brewery Visit Branch meeting 8pm Saturday 24 August Registration details: page 2 Old Boot Inn, Stanford Dingley Afternoon Social Hungerford Club Real Ale Design | P rint | W eb Festival Details: page 5 A unique mix of in house cr eativ e Further details on our website: www.westberkscamra.org.uk and prin t pr oduc tion

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