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n i s e b l u b p A 0 l 5 i 4 A v r A e v o ISSUE NUMBER 128 JUNE/JULY2009 FREE PRIDE OF DERBY Assembly Rooms the only place to be July 8th-12th Beer of the moment Hop till you drop as the 32nd Derby CAMRA Beer Festival hits town (3.9% ABV) n extended welcome to those yet collection of donations from the visiting sense. SIBA Silver Award to visit the transformation of the public and volunteer staff. Councillor We winner 2007 Assembly Rooms into the Derby Barbara Jackson also received a cheque for a always A For Your Beer needs: Summer Beer Festival experience. £1,000 from festival pro - need Mobile: 07887 556788 The only annual event to cele - ceeds to the Mayors extra brate the City Charter and charity. As well help, also Derby’s largest beer & cider joining CAMRA now would be a good time, indoor event (almost our festival please be patient with our volunteer staff at 11,000 visitors last is about busy times. The evening of Wednesday July year). those like 8th sees the Festival begin and it runs This year the local minded through to Sunday July 12th, so drink safely, theme is based on the people have fun and have a great time. 300th anniversary of the who enjoy birth of Doctor Samuel the atmo - Terry Morton Johnson, the famous lexicog - sphere, meeting Summer Beer Festival Chairman rapher who married in Derby on old friends and 9th July 1735 (Beer Festival Week to making new ones, this OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE NOT us!). The official Festival logo is shown here. all adds to the feelgood factor. CAMRA PAID. NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE Charities benefit. Last year Headway faces a huge challenge from those who don’t WORTHLESS, BUT BECAUSE THEY (brain injuries), Scropton Disabled Riding understand the camaraderie of a pint down Centre, the MS society, Derby Lions and the at the local and not see us as an organisation ARE PRICELESS Royal British Legion all benefited from a promoting responsibility and common Pub of the Year Awards for Old Oak & Brewery Tap The Derby Branch Pub of the Year winners Bar while the City Pub of the Year is the both these worthy recipients. were chosen in May. The Country Pub of Brewery Tap Derby’s Royal Standard on Honourable mentions should also go the Year, and Overall Winner is the Old Oak Derwent Street, which has been open a year out to the other contenders - the Horse & Inn at Horsley Woodhouse, a Leadmill in June. Groom, Babington Arms, Barley Mow Brewery pub and now home to the RuRad As we go to press the award has been (Kirk Ireton) and Poet & Castle (Codnor). presented to the Old Oak but the celebra - tion of the Brewery Tap’s award has not yet taken place, Photographs from these evenings, plus a more substantial article on both winners will appear in DD 129 but hearty congratulations are in order for Real Ale Drinkers Love it in The Ditch The Rowditch Inn ‘The Alex’ - Derby’s true real Ale 246 Uttoxeter Road, Derby Champion, Siddals Rd Derby for a constantly Tynemill house - Derby CAMRA birthplace Good quality range of Continental Beers changing range of on draught and Bottled real ales DERBY CITY PUB 01332 293993 OF THE YEAR 2006 1 Funfair Brewing Company Launches new beer in spectacular style Those of you who have met David Tizard, During a live performance Owner and Brewer of the Funfair Brewing fearless/brave/stupid (delete as appropriate!!) Company will probably say that shyness David was honoured to be invited to sit upon has never held him back! But has he the handlebars of Ken Fox’s own 1926 Indian pushed the boundaries this time in an Scout. Hands on his Knees and not a crash attempt to promote in his own words one helmet in site the crowd were treated to a dar - of his finest beers to date? ing ride that saw Ken take David to the limits The latest brainchild beer from Funfair, of the Wall! Wall of Death is a 6%ABV, pale and yet sur - When asked to sum up the day’s events prisingly smooth ale. David Concluded that it According to David the was a privilege to meet key characteristic to with these fantastic this beer is unlike Showmen and that it was many of the other pale a truly unforgettable beers currently on the experience! market. Wall of Death The Wall of Death beer is subtly hopped thus itself was launched on cleverly allowing the 22nd May at the White biscuit flavours of the Post Beer Festival at The malt to shine through. White Post, Stanley Wall of Death has Common, Derbyshire. been in the planning David personally serving stages for the best part the beer (proudly wear - of a year and was ing his red Wall of Death Strut t Arm s Hotel inspired by Neil shirt!!) Following this Calladine, member of the Ken Fox Wall of event it will also be available to buy as bottle Restaurant & Bar Death World Tour Team. A real Ale enthusiast conditioned beer. Future plans are to incor - Milford DE56 0QW himself he made contact with Funfair after porate the Wall of Death beer into Funfair’s telephone: 01332 840240 trying Dive Bomber at The George and Core Range and to promote the newly Dragon in Belper, Derbyshire. extended range of Funfair beers now available Home-cooked meals. Cask ales After much careful consideration and plan - in bottles. (including Bass from the jug) ning the beer was finally brewed in eager See David in action on You Tube - anticipation for David to meet daredevil Ken www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5hSGR580k. 2 dinners - £9.00 Fox and his World Tour Team. The date For further information please see Funfair 5 - 7 Monday to Friday arrived this April seeing David travel to a clas - Website - 10% discount on Main Meals - Lunch on sic motorcycle show at Bingley Hall, www.funfairbrewingcompany.co.uk Monday to Friday for Gold Card holders Staffordshire where he would adequate & easy parking have to face the Wall of Belper’s George & www.struttarmshotel.co.uk Death himself. Dragon proving thirst slayer supreme A pub on the up and up is teetotal after developing an the George & Dragon in intolerance to alcohol but he Belper. Under the able does taste all the cask beer to charge of Craig Ternick, ensure quality. Craig plays who worked under John rugby for Belper and attracts Bilbie at the Holly Bush, a strong following for after Makeney the beer choice match beer, and food, which has increased to three is looked after by ex-London guests with the addition of chef Liam Blake. an extra pump(four at With all this, live jazz ses - weekends). sions and bede and breakfast The house beer is brewed coming soon the Bridge by Tower Brewery in Burton Street pub in the centre of the and is named Tower East Mill old mill town is certainly after the local landmark. This thriving, and holds its beer replaced Tetleys recently. festival of rare brews from Craig is strictly speaking 25th to 27th June. 2 recently on BBC TVs East Erewash Valley CAMRA Branch Midlands Today. Expansion plans are now well in PUB NIPS hand with two new fermenters A huge blow to Amber Valley installed, enabling the brewers to was the closure of the White brew 217 gallons a week Nutbrook Hart at Heage on 1st May, the THE LITTLE ACORN - ILKESTON is also purchasing a five barrel day after a very well attended The Little Acorn, a LocAle pub on Awsworth Road in Ilkeston has plant and installing it at another sub-branch meeting here. The recently become a mecca for real ale drinkers, with its range of fine location close by, whilst keeping Vaults in Wirksworth which kept Alcazar ales, is open from 11am daily (12 noon on Sundays). the existing kit in West Hallam to had been predominantly a This Turnstone Tavern pub is presently on a long lease to Alcazar be used for new beer development keg pub up to its closure last Brewery and now under a new management team of Phillip and Louise and the Brewing Experience. year has been bought at auc - Wills, who moved in on 22nd April this year. Phillip & Louise who pre - As well as appearing at beer fes - tion by a couple of real ale viously ran Derby’s Old Silk Mill and The Lamb in Melbourne took a tivals and guesting at numerous enthusiasts and is to reopen break from licensing, then saw an advert in the trade papers for The pubs, including local POTY final - sometime in June. A potential Little Acorn and thought it too good a chance to miss and so packed ists, The Old Oak, Horsley Real Ale Gain. The Green their bags and moved to Ilkeston. Woodhouse and Dewdrop, Dragon at Willington was Inside, this spacious single roomed pub with its quiet corners a cen - Ilkeston, Nutbrook beers are per - trading again in late May. tral bar has three hand pulls, dispensing a changing range of manent fixtures at The Riverside Four Real Ales including a Nottingham brewed Alcazar beers. Phil & Louise provide bingo, quiz, Farm, Nottingham and The Cherry Derby, are on offer at the poker and free pool nights as well as live entertainment every Saturday. Tree Farm, nr Etwall. The Cherry Morley Hayes Roosters Bar. The pub also boasts two pool teams, a skittles team, a ladies darts team Tree will also host a beer launch and is home to Acorn Athletic football team who recently won The where customers can suggest a name for a tasty new beer, brewed with Midlands Amateur Alliance Cup.