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CAMRAswale SWALE ALE WINTER 2018 THE FREE MAGAZINE OF SWALE CAMRA The Australian Dream Being Bombarded Desert Island Beers SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR MEMBERS THE GOLDEN HOPE 1 Park Road, Sittingbourne, KENT, ME10 1DR, TEL: 01795 476791 GREAT RANGE OF QUALITY REAL ALES AVAILABLE Featuring ales such as 2018 from £2.25 £2.55 £2.29 3.7% ABV 4.0% ABV pint pint pint Open from 8am for breakfast Available on iOS and Android WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE Subject to local licensing restrictions and availability at participating free houses. Photography is for guidance only. MAXIMUM FOOD HYGIENE J D Wetherspoon PLC reserves the right to withdraw/change offers (without notice), at any time. RATING OF 5 IN OUR PUB See main menu for additional details of our terms and conditions. 7343ADVERT18A5 J100556_7343ADVERT18A5_P7343 CAMRA Advert_A5_2018_V1.indd 1 30/05/2018 09:26 CHAIRMAN’S CHOW Hello and welcome to the Winter 2018 edition product that provides a constant taste and THE GOLDEN HOPE of Swale Ale. satisfaction – namely a keg beer or lager 1 Park Road, Sittingbourne, KENT, ME10 1DR, TEL: 01795 476791 from one of the larger brew companies. It disheartening to say the least that sales That is another potential cask drinker lost. of cask ale are on the decline in the UK this Furthermore that person could sway the year, despite Swale having more cask outlets opinion of friends and others. These things GREAT RANGE OF QUALITY REAL ALES AVAILABLE than for many years previously. There are lead to a decline in sales of cask beer. many reasons for this but in my opinion, temperature is one of the main reasons for Enough of the in-depth analysis. In this, the the demise. Let me explain more. winter edition of Swale’s magazine there is plenty to keep you amused and entertained Featuring ales such as Real ale should be served at a cool, not 2018 during your visit to the pub. Why not take chilled, 11 to 13 degrees centigrade. That’s a copy of this edition and pass it around cooler than red wine, but not as cold as your friends and family. There is much to lager or keg ales. Recent research though take from such a fine publication. Our series by cask marque and other respected bodies about venues to visit in Swale continues with has shown just over two-thirds of pubs three more pubs from around our region. (69%) were selling pints at above 13º C in Why not take a trip out to one or more of the summer. The reports also found that them. You could even leave a “what pub” just under two-thirds (64%) of cask drinkers review on these or any of the other fine would prefer their beer served even colder venues throughout the borough. Don’t forget than the recommended 11º. also that “WhatPub” is where we take out Paul Nunny, of Cask Marque, says this finding reference from when looking to choose what is worth exploring, but that the first step is goes into the following years good beer for pubs to get their beer to recommended guide. Indeed from these reports we narrow specification. “If people could trust every down the top six for our pub of the year. It from pub serving cask to serve it at 11º to 13º C, is your votes that make up this list over the even on the hottest day of the year, it would course of a year so make sure that if you £2.25 £2.55 revolutionise perceptions. People would get visit a venue and deem the beer worthy of the full refreshment value, and realise that a vote then log into what pub using your £2.29 3.7% ABV 4.0% ABV membership number, password and get far from being ‘warm’, real ale is cool — and pint pint pint delicious. He says that Cask Marque will be voting. Any CAMRA member can do this and launching a ‘Making Cask Cool’ campaign to it takes only minutes. get licensees and bar staff to become beer Now it just leaves me to wish you all the best temperature aware. “It might take only one for the winter season and all that it brings. warm pint to put someone off cask ale for life. am Pubs need to support each other by having Cheers! Open from 8 all their staff working to the highest standards all the time, presenting cool cask and brilliant John Sissons for breakfast beer each and every time.” Fortunately, many of Swale’s better pubs have sufficiently trained staff to deliver cask in the manner it should be served however we have WHAT’S HAPPENING a duty to let pubs know if the beer does not seem as it should be – and landlords should AT YOUR LOCAL PUB be sufficiently savvy to know if a beer has either ‘turned’ or has reached the end of a OR BREWERY? tub when they hear the words “this doesn’t taste right”. How that phrase is handled from Any beer-related stories to tell? behind the bar is paramount to the future of the industry. Imagine if the person who had Send them to us at [email protected]. been served an inferior drink was tasting their Available on It’s your magazine! iOS and Android first ever pint of cask. The chances are that he or she would then turn to an alternative WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE Subject to local licensing restrictions and availability at participating free houses. Photography is for guidance only. MAXIMUM FOOD HYGIENE J D Wetherspoon PLC reserves the right to withdraw/change offers (without notice), at any time. RATING OF 5 IN OUR PUB See main menu for additional details of our terms and conditions. 7343ADVERT18A5 [email protected] CAMRAswale www.camra-swale.org.uk 3 J100556_7343ADVERT18A5_P7343 CAMRA Advert_A5_2018_V1.indd 1 30/05/2018 09:26 SWALE BREWERY NEWS The brewery have also recently launched a new quarterly magazine titled Oast, which will replace Master Brewer. Oast will celebrate everything that’s great about beer, pubs and all things related. Issue 1, the Autumn edition, is already available with the Winter edition due around the end of November. The magazine, which is free, will be available in all Shepherd Neame pubs, in addition to selected SHEPHERD NEAME bars across London and the South East. An Shepherd Neame’s legendary Christmas online version is also available at: https:// Ale will be available throughout the festive issuu.com/shepherdneame/docs/shepherd- season. neame-oast-magazine-16pp-2 The cask version, at 5%, will be available And finally a number of new pubs have been throughout December. It is bittered with acquired over the past few months. These Target hops, has Hallertau Hersbruker added are the Wheatsheaf at Farnham in Surrey and to the copper for aroma and is then dry three new London pubs. The London pubs hopped with Styrian Goldings. The bottled are all rich in history. They are: The Savoy Tap version, which comes in at a heady 7%, (formerly the Savoy Tup) in Savoy Hill, just features Challenger and Target for bitterness off the Strand; The Cheshire Cheese in Little with East Kent Goldings added for aroma. Essex Street, close to Temple; The Samuel Pepys in Stew Lane, beside the Thames in the Senior Brewer Stewart Tricker said: “It’s a City of London. golden ale with warming alcohol notes and a subtle hop aroma derived from the dry Matt Deller hopping with Styrian Goldings.” MADCAT Peter Meaney reports that Mad Cat’s Jet Black Stout is going very well and is currently available at the Minster Working Man’s Club on Sheppey. Other places serving Mad Cat beers at the moment include, in Sittingbourne, the Long Hop, Donna’s Ale House and the Yellow Stocks, and, in Faversham, the Elephant. Outside our area but within easy reach are the Dead Pigeon and the 12 Degrees in Rochester. He is currently brewing a strong dark bitter, Educated Guess, at 7% and is planning a Christmas Ale. In an interesting arrangement, Mad Cat are doing a brewery ‘swap’ with the Gloucestershire brewery Goffs, as a result of which Mad Cat beers will be available in Gloucestershire pubs and Goffs beers in Kent pubs. 4 www.camra-swale.org.uk [email protected] CAMRAswale ARE YOU MISSING OUR UPDATES? Every month we update our branch members with all the latest updates from across the branch, including brewery, pub and social news. There are still a number of you who will not be receiving these email updates so we would urge you to login via the CAMRA website and check your settings to allow us to contact you. ADVERTISE WITH TRADING SWALE ALE AND REACH OVER 2000 STANDARDS REAL ALE DRINKERS If you believe that you have been treated unfairly in a local If you own or manage a pub, bar or pub or bar you can report it to restaurant and serve real ales, it’s never been easier to get your business in Kent County Council Trading front of more than 2,000 people. Standards by calling 03454 040506. FULL HALF 1/4 Sign up to receive alerts PAGE PAGE PAGE www.kent.gov.uk/tradingstandards Like ‘Public Protection’ on Facebook £80 £40 £25 Follow Public Protection on Twitter To book your place, email @kentprotect [email protected] Wed 12 December, 8pm BRANCH The Vaults, Faversham Wed 9 January, 8pm Flying Dutchman, Sheppey Wed 13 February, 8pm DIARY Three Hats, Milton Regis www.camra-swale.org.uk [email protected] CAMRAswale 5 UK Brewer of the Year 2017 & 2018 Supreme Champion Design and Packaging Trophy A LOCAL WORK OF ART THE RETURN OF CLOUDWATER CASK Cloudwater Brewery has announced that it IPAs, Bitters, and Porters, and find ourselves was bringing back production of cask beer.