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SPRING 2019 FREE - PLEASE READ HERE OR TAKE AWAY INSIDE THIS ISSUE • • Brewery News Brewery in Focus - Yeovil • • Pubs in Focus - Glastonbury Forest of Dean Trip • • Festival News Meet The Brewer • • Beer In Gibraltar Festival of Winter Ales Trip • Pub News • A Trip to Inverness And much more “A pub that serv food, not a rtaurant pretending to be a pub” • Open All Day Regular Quiz, • Seasonal Menu Theme Nights, • Local Produce Events and • Specials Board Live Music see website and boards • Ales, Cider & all sorts of Gins for more information • Dog Friendly Party Venue Sco • Discounts for parties and of 20 or more! Lizzie • Themed Menus • Live Entertainment Tel: 01935 823 239 Email: [email protected] www.wyndhamarms.com The Wyndham Arms Limited, Folly Road, Kingsbury Episcopi, Martock TA12 6AT Website: www.somerset.camra.org.uk Trading Standards Officers: contact for problems such as pubs Facebook: www.facebook.com/somersetcamra failing to serve full measures, or to display price lists, strengths... Email: [email protected] SOMERSET CAMRA BRANCH Post: Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards, County CONTACTS Hall, Topsham Road, Exeter, Devon EX2 4QD. or visit www.devonsomersettradingstandards.gov.uk or Chairman: Mick Cleveland www.tradingstandards.gov.uk [email protected] / 01984 634 126 Alternatively you can contact Citizens Advice consumer service Vice Chairman: Kevin Woodley / 07768 861352 on 03454 040506 or visit their website at: www.adviceguide.org.uk Branch Secretary and Contact: Katie Redgate [email protected] / 01823 279962 Cider and Perry: Steve Hawkins DIARY DATES [email protected] / 01984 634998 Branch meeting Monday 11 March / 20:00 Discounts/Locale promotions: Rob Dingle [email protected] Iron Duke, Wellington Festival Organiser: Glen Willis Branch meeting [email protected] / 07900 076649 Monday 08 April / 20:00 Membership Secretary: Stephen Walker George and Pilgrim, Glastonbury [email protected] / 01823 413988, 07974244769 Branch meeting Newsletter Advertising Coordinator: Jody Grabham / [email protected] Monday 13 May / 20:00 Duke of York, Shepton Beauchamp Newsletter Editor: Jody Grabham [email protected] If interested please refer to website. Press, PR and Social Media Officer: Jody Grabham [email protected] If anyone wishes to organize a minibus from any other parts of our branch please let us know. Public Transport Officer: Phil Emond [email protected] / 01823 277038 Pubs Campaign Co-Ordinator: Andy Jones [email protected] Pubs Protection Officer/Preservation: Barrie Childs [email protected] /01823 323 642 / 07951 514 439 Social Secretary: Phil Emond [email protected] / 01823 277038 Tasting Panel Coordinator: Ian Flower ian.fl[email protected] Treasurer: Colin Beck [email protected] Webmaster: Steve Hawkins [email protected] / 01984 634998 WhatPub Coordinator: Andy Jones [email protected] What’s Brewing Coordinator: Phil Emond [email protected] / 01823 277038 Young Members Officer: Jody Grabham [email protected] 3 Pints Of View I am sure everyone is looking forward to the EDITORS VIEW ale trail, at time of writing the pubs on the trail are still to be confirmed but I am sure it will be Welcome to the Spring 2019 edition of Pints another great event like previous years. I wish of View. Hopefully everyone had a good you all well in your quest to visit as many pubs Christmas and New Year with plenty of as possible. ale consumed over the festive period. This Christmas I did an ale advent calendar for Have a great Spring full of great weather and the first time. A homemade affair with 24 well zing! known crisp tubes which my other half filled with beers from my beer store to keep me Cheers guessing until I opened each day. The 24th was a fine Somerset Christmas ale, Cotleigh Red Jody Grabham Nose Reinbeer. Before Christmas we had our Somerset CAMRA Christmas Social meeting at the Crossways What’s Inside Inn, West Huntspill. Steve, the landlord, put on a smashing buffet and had some great Page 5 / Chairman Mick ales on including some from Somerset. I had Page 6 / Forthcoming Festivals Fine Tuned Pitch Perfect a hoppy amber ale, Page 7-9 / Brewery News Yeovil Ales Night Train a porter, an ale from Page 10 / Pub News Firebrand Brewery in Cornwall and a delicious Page 11-14 / Brewery in Focus Chocolate Santa Porter from Pitchfork Ales. Page 15-17 / Pubs in Focus Many thanks to Steve, Abi and their team for Page 18 / Beer In Gibraltar being great hosts. Page 19-20 / Farmers Arms Page 22-23 / Tony goes to... Inverness Speaking of Pitchfork Ales, Graham Dunbavan Page 25 / Forest of Dean Trip from the brewery accepted the Somerset beer Page 27-28 / Exeter & East Devon of the Somerset CAMRA ale festival 2018 for CAMRA Festival their 3D Beers Zero Fux, as pictured on the Page 28-29 / Exmoor National Park front cover of this issue. 3D Beers is the more Page 29 / Beer Santiago craft beer orientated arm of the brewery set up Page 29 / CAMRA 4 Pint Takeaways whereas Pitchfork Ales is the more traditional Page 30-31 / Join CAMRA British hopped arm of the brewery. Somerset Pints of view is published in February, May, Advertising August and November. Pints Of View has a print run Quarter Page - £85.00, Half Page - £145.00, Full Page - of 3,000 and is distributed to some 160 pubs and clubs £260.00, Inside Front/Back - £280.00 & Back Cover - around Somerset plus a few outside our borders. The final £300.00 copy date for the next edition is Friday April 12th. Neil Richards MBE at Matelot Marketing Tel: 01536 358670 / 07710 281381 Pints of View Email: [email protected] Somerset Pints of View is published by the Somerset Printed by CKN Print Limited, 2 North Portway Close, Branch of the Campaign For Real Ale Ltd. (CAMRA) The Round Spinney, Northampton, NN3 8RQ views expressed therein are not necessarily those of either the Campaign or the Editor. Contributions/Letters are always welcome. 4 THOUGHTS OF CHAIRMAN MICK Ashcott TA7 9PZ 01458 210232 I hope you all had a great Christmas and a happy new year. Thanks to all the CAMRA members who took the time to vote for Somerset Pub of The Year. Six very good pubs -RKQ(ODLQHDQG-RKQ made it to the final vote, with two of those taking 75% of the vote between them. The two DUHSURXGWRKDYH licencees of those pubs made a great effort to QRZFRPSOHWHG talk to their customers and garner votes, so if \HDUVDWWKHSXE your pub makes it to the finals, don’t just sit back, you will have to talk to CAMRA members and try and win their vote. Without further ado, 5HDODOHVIURP let me congratulate Crossways Inn in winning the 2019 Somerset Pub of the Year, the third PDLQO\:HVW&RXQWU\ year in succession. PLFUREUHZHULHVDQG DZDUGZLQQLQJIRRG Last year I was approached by the people who run the Diesel Gala for the West Somerset Railway, and asked if I could do a beer festival ZZZULQJREHOOVFRP at Washford. I only had two weeks to set it up and I put on eighteen very different ales. I have been asked if I could do it again this year. With the help of Barrie Childs and a few others, under the Somerset CAMRA banner, we will increase the beers to twenty four and also add ciders. The event will be known as West Somerset Railway Washford Beer Festival, in partnership with Somerset CAMRA. If you would like to help, the event takes place on Thursday 20th, Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd of June. Get in touch with either me or Barrie. Keep propping up the bar, Your chairman, Mick Cleveland 5 Pints Of View 20th April FORTHCOMING 4pm-11:00pm - Live Music with Phil Short FESTIVALS from London & BBQ. FREE ENTRY. All proceeds to Tatworth Playing Fields a February Registered Charity - number 308115. Great British Beer Festival Winter th 19th–23rd February. Norwich – Free entry for 7 Yeovil Beer Festival th th CAMRA members 26 April and 27 April Westlands Entertainment Venue, BA20 2DD Yeovil, Somerset. March Inaugural Wrington Beer Festival – Friday June 8th and Saturday 9th March. Memorial Hall, Inaugural Wembdon Beer, Cider and Music Wrington. Festival 7th–9th June. The Green, Wembdon, Homberg April Way (A39), TA6 7BY. Tuckers Maltings Festival WSR Washford Beer Festival th th Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 April. in partnership with Somerset CAMRA Newton Abbot. Thursday 20th, Friday 21st, Saturday 22nd of June – 24 real ales plus ciders – more details th 8 Tatworth Beer Festival to be held at in Summer edition of POV. Tatworth Playing Fields (TA20 2QW) - 19th April 4pm-10:30pm - “Vinyl Night” QUIETLY SUPPLYING THE WEST COUNTRY FOR 40 YEARS 1979-2019 6 TTEL:EL: 0019841984 662424 008686 EEMAIL:MAIL: [email protected]@COTLEIGHBREWERY.COM The brewery is in the process of coming up BREWERY NEWS with a new beer. The following news is based on Brewery Glastonbury Liaison Officer report’s received as well as anything more found on social media. The brewery intend moving to Glastonbury but are currently brewing at their old plant in Somerton which is now home to Parkway Bason Bridge Brewing Company (see below) The brewery has now set up a Facebook page www.facebook.com/BasonBridgeBrewery Odcombe Hardings Somerset Best Bitter is now available to order in 18 and 36 pint boxes to A pub manager (Rhys) has recently been enjoy at home. A hoppy India Pale Ale called appointed, with the intention to also recruit an Hardings Somerset IPA has been produced Assistant Manager. This will leave Drew more which has been well received.