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The Oxford Drinker ISSUE 59 December 2009 - January 2010 the Oxford Drinker New and award winning breweries When CAMRA was weeks converting a 200- started in 1971 there year-old stable into a were very few small local state-of the-art micro- breweries left, and those brewery. that did remain were soon swallowed up by brewing. So far they larger breweries. have brewed Baltic Night Fortunately there is a Stout (4.8%), available in resurgence of new bottled form from Millets breweries starting up at a farm shop near Marcham time when real ale sales and The Hobgoblin pub are growing in a on Cowley Road. There declining drinks market. are plans to supply it to This revival of real ale The second ale they are pubs in casks soon. A brewing is very apparent planning to brew is strong IPA at around 6% in the Oxfordshire area. named Scholar. The is being brewed at the brewery's production moment and should be The Shotover Brewing capacity is 2000 litres a available in bottled form Company in Horspath week and by the time in early 2010. The started brewing in you read this, the beers Compass Brewery aims November 2009. The first should also be available to cherry-pick ideas from brew, a 3.7% hoppy pale in The Mason's Arms in around the world and copper ale called Headington Quarry, The blend them together to Prospect, was first White Horse on Broad achieve new flavour served at The Queen's Street and Far from The profiles. For example, the Head, Horspath, and The Madding Crowd on Baltic Stout combines the Cricketer's Arms, Friar's Entry. German decoction Littleworth, where it was continued on page 3 so popular that it sold out The Compass Brewery inside this issue: on the second evening. based in Cowley, Oxford, Branch news Ed Murray spent 10 has also recently started Manchester visit Local festival reports the free newsletter of the Lovibonds Brewery trip Oxford City Branch of CAMRA Festival and branch diaries www.oxfordcamra.org.uk Kings Head and Bell reopening issue 59 page 2 the Oxford Drinker december 2009 mashing technique to a Shakespeare CAMRA CAMRA LocAle is an British Stout recipe. branch and the locals initiative that promotes evidently got through pubs stocking locally Thame Brewery , a rather quickly and is brewed real ale and micro-brewery, has been planning to follow this up builds on a growing opened by Oak taverns by brewing regularly. consumer demand for and it will supply The quality local produce. Cross Keys in Thame with beer. Mrs Tipple's The Hook Norton Ghost, a 4.2% ruby red, Brewery is one of and Ollies Return, a Britain's oldest 3.8% mildb are the first breweries founded in beers made at the 1849 and still operating Brewery and the as an independent manager, Peter Lambert, The Halfpenny Brewery family-run business. served them for the first is a 4 barrel capacity They recently had two of time on 14 November. microbrewery at the rear their beers named in There was a huge turn of the Crown in Lechlade The Independent out for the launch and which started brewing newspaper’s top 10 both beers went down last year in December beers on the planet. very well. Thame 2008. They also won 12 Brewery is a 1 barrel awards in The plant and will only supply The Loose Cannon International Beer The Cross Keys on a Brewery has been Challenge 2009 regular basis. Peter also granted planning including 4 gold medals provided Haddenham permission to convert a for Double Stout, Twelve Village Beer Festival unit in Suffolk Way in Days, Haymaker and with 10 gallon of Mrs Abingdon into a micro Old Hookey. Bronze Tipple's Ghost. So there brewery, but as yet it is awards for Hookey Bitter is hope that local beer unknown when the and Hookey Gold. They festivals can benefit from brewery will start also won 4 bronze and 2 this new brewery in our operating. silver medals for Design midst. and Packaging. It is not only new The Patriot Brewery at breweries that are of Oxfordshire Ales at the Norman Night pub in interest in our county. Marsh Gibbon, won the Whichford just outside Amazingly there are Best Golden Ale Oxfordshire between more than 15 breweries category at the 2009 Chipping Norton and close enough to the World Beer Awards Shipston On Stour has Oxford branch area to be earlier this year with recently started brewing. considered as LocAle, Pride of Oxford. John The first brew was called and many of them have Lovett and head brewer Patriot Missile, a 3.8% been winning awards for Steve Goryll have session beer, which their beers this year. signed a deal to export members from their beer to America. the Oxford Drinker page 3 issue 59 Lovibonds Brewery in November. Brewery , Best Mates , Henley, was awarded Appleford , The World's Best Honey Beer The West Berkshire Cotswold Brewery , for its 7.3% Lovibonds Brewery scooped gold Loddon Brewery , Gold Reserve when medal in the Premium Ridgeway Brewery , “Beers of the World” Beer category and Adkins and Cherwell magazine recently held Bronze of the Festival Valley Brewery . The its award ceremony for overall at the Great Masons Arms was their annual World Beer British Beer Festival recently listed in the Awards. Jeff 2009. At this year’s Guardian’s ten top UK Rosenmeier, founder Regional Beer of the brew pubs! and head brewer, was Year competition for also highly commended London and South East, We are also home to on his Lovibonds Henley Good Old Boy was the Wychwood and Dark - a 4.8% Smoked Champion Best Bitter Brakspears brewed by Porter (equivalent of and Dr Hexter's Healer Marstons in Witney. Silver medal) in the won Champion Strong Smoked Beer category. Bitter. Dr Hexter's Healer With all these breweries In Oxford, Lovibonds also won Local Beer of in the area there is little beer can be found at the the Festival at the excuse for pubs not to Oxford Playhouse and Reading Beer Festival. stock locally produced The Big Bang restaurant ales. Steven Green in Walton Street. The Vale Brewery in Brill Pitstop Brewery , set up just over the by Peter Fowler last border into year, won Beer of the Bucks was Festival at Ascot awarded the Racecourse Beer Bronze award in Festival in September the Best Bitter with its imperial-style category at the stout Sump 7%. Pitstop CAMRA national Brewery is now a ten- beer festival in barrel plant and Peter August with their brews a variety of beers 4.2% Golden which were very popular Ale, VPA. at Oxford Beer Festival in October. Among them Other good were Sump, Penelope, a breweries ruby-coloured mild at nearby include 5%, Star 3.8% and The Old Bog Monaco 5.5%. Pitstop Brewery at the Star was voted as beer Masons Arms in of the festival at Headington, The Wantage Beer Festival in White Horse page 4 december 20072009 Welcome to Stockport County Matt Bullock We’d been meaning to way to the station, at the However, the frequency visit Manchester for Arden Arms , a classic of the 192 bus service some time, and this Victorian street-corner attracted us to that mode weekend trip was pub listed in the CAMRA of transport, and we had planned whilst supping National Inventory of an enjoyable half hour in a pint in Peterborough historic pub interiors. ride through on our Beer Festival The Arden boasts some Levenshulme and helpers’ trip. The general fine timberwork, some Longsight - past several idea was to drive to well-preserved ceramic boarded-up pubs and Manchester, check into tiling, and an unusual several more that looked our hotel, visit some snug bar that can only less than salubrious - to pubs, and then to drive be accessed by going Piccadilly. home the next day after through the bar servery. a hearty breakfast and a so we sat outside! stop off for Sunday lunch. Which, on thinking about it, is pretty much what happened! Our hotel was not in Manchester, but in Stockport, quite a pleasant town with Appropriately for a visit eleven Good Beer Guide to Stockport, the pub is a pubs. The journey north Robinsons house (the From here we were ably was slowed by a lengthy brewery is just up the guided by John Mackie - breakfast stop in Stafford hill), and four beers were and also by our mobile and two accidents available from Hatters phone Good Beer Guide causing congestion, but Mild to the pale Dizzy - along Oldham Street, we arrived in Stockport Blonde. I plumped for past the newly-reopened at around 1pm, and after the Unicorn, the session Castle Hotel (we didn’t finding the hotel and brew, and very welcome stop), to the Smithfield abandoning the cars, we it was too after several Hotel . The beer range went in search of a beer. hours on the road. was impressive, with seven available including The plan was to go to We made plans for Robinson’s Dark Mild, Manchester by train, but Manchester, and took and a house beer the best laid plans rarely recommendations from a brewed by Facers. The materialise and this was number of the pub’s lasting impression is how no different. We stopped regulars, before leaving dark the pub is inside. for refreshment, on our to catch our train. The lighter front end is page 5 issue 59 dominated by a pool From the Angel it’s a the brewer’s attempt at table, and it’s just one very short walk past an original Boddingtons long, thin room with the parking lots and new flavour, and very bar halfway down.
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