We are the 20th - 22nd ONLY CAMRA February 2020 Beer Festival Metropolitan in Liverpool Cathedral Crypt
PROGRAMME Liverpool & Districts CAMRA 40th Beer Festival
A warm welcome to this our 40th around the area in the latest edition of Liverpool CAMRA beer festival, a MerseyAle, copies of which can be milestone of which we are immensely found on the table at the bottom of the proud. In an era when beer festivals are a stairs near the ladies’ toilets. regular occurrence it is quite an Last year we made an appeal for more achievement to continue consistently members to join our organising selling out this flagship event. We would committee and I would like to thank love to hear from anyone who has been those people from our branch, and other with us from the beginning and attended branches within our region, who came our very first festival way back in 1974. forward offering to help. And, of course, The theme for this year is ‘War of the all the CAMRA members who kindly give Roses’ , pitching the breweries of the red up their time to work during the public rose of Lancashire against the white rose sessions of the festival. We are always of Yorkshire. As well as voting for your looking for more volunteers for all sorts beer of the festival you are also invited to of duties from bar work to stewarding. If vote for your favourite beer from you would like to volunteer to either Yorkshire and from Lancashire, the become a member of the organising winner in each category will be committee or work at the festival details announced after the festival on social of how to do so can be found in the media and in the next edition of volunteer article on page 12 Merseyale. Finally, stay safe and enjoy the festival. As with previous years we have 6 beer bars, with both local and regional breweries being represented. Again, we will have brewery staff manning their respective bars so if you have any Sonia James- questions regarding the beers please Henry don’t be afraid to ask. Branch Chair and Staffing Officer A visit to Liverpool beer festival would not be complete without sampling a pint or two in one of our fantastic pubs, many of which are advertised in this programme. There is also a pub crawl
Printed by The Printroom UK, Kingfisher Business Park, Hawthorne Rd, Bootle. www.theprintroomuk.co.uk © 2020 The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd Liverpool and Districts Branch 2 3 LIVERPOOL BEER FESTI VAL USERS GUIDE BEER FESTIVAL FLOOR PLAN Your Glass* Beer Pricing BROWNLOWBROWNLOW HILLHILLL One is provided free for Selected beers at £1.00 per Membership Desk MAINMAIN everyone half (see cask ends for 'If you join here EXIT GLASSESGLASSESES AND CIDER PRPROGRAMMEOGRAMMEM attending the i PROSECCOPPROSECCO today not only BEERBEEER & PERRYPERRY BBARAR prices). Up to 5.5% £1.50 per HANDPUMP MERSEYSIDEMERSEYSIDE WINE GENTENTSS VVOUCHEROUCHERCHER OTHEROTHER BREBREWERIESWWERIES festival and TOPTOP OF BABARR BREBREWERIESWERIES SOFT will you receive DESKSK half per half, 5.6%-6.9% £2.00 THE DRINKS STAIRSTAIRS MERCHANDISEMEERCHANDISEANDISESE should you the usual CRISPS so wish it per half, 7% and above £2.50 CRYPTCRRYYPT HALL membership offers, such as ACCESSIBLEACCESSIBLE TTOILETOILELET EXIT per half AND LADIESLADIES is yours to £30’s worth of CAMRA real keep. If you ale and cider vouchers, but want to take Cider Pricing also £6 worth of beer NEAL it home , 5.5% and below £2.00 per half, DDAWSONAAWWSONON vouchers per member or please put 5.6% and above £2.50 per half. PENINSULAPENINSULA S PIES T CONCERTCONCERTO ROOMROOM T A A joint member for today's A G it in your pocket or in a AND SEATINGSEAATINGTING AREAREA G OUTSIDEUTSIDE STRIPED E Allergens session, plus a free coach GENTENTSS PIG COCO E CLOAKROOMCLOAKROOM bag, openly carrying glasses TOILETOILET Please contact a member of AND in Liverpool city centre is trip worth £13. See page 14 SMOKING DISABLED AREA EXIT illegal. staff on the voucher desk if for list of pubs that accept ACCESSCCESS LIVERPOOL BEER FESTIVAL LIVERPOOL No refund will be given. you have any food or drink the CAMRA vouchers. CHEESE COMPANYCOMPANY PLAN *We use over size glasses. intolerances or allergens Please be aware that by law bar staff including Gluten. can only fill legally approved drinking glasses displaying the CE Mark and Unfined Beers half pint or pint measure. We have some unfined beers £30 Peninsula Pies Neal Dawson We do not accept any responsibility if worth of real ale and at the festival. These beers cider vouchers Hand raised pies and pasties Artist and documentary you then empty the contents into a photographer based in Merseyside, different vessel for drinking. are meant to be cloudy. Striped Pig producing photographic artwork Please read description for Hog roast specialists Beer Vouchers printed onto Travertine stone vegan suitability. Liverpool Cheese Co. These come in sheets with a £6 Large selection of cheeses and Pickles coasters value of £10. Towards closing Colour coding worth of beer Cash only time smaller amounts will be The Cask ends will have one of festival vouchers available. All vouchers are the following colours only valid for the ‘session of Wine, soft drinks and crisps I Yellow Golden/Pale/Blonde issue’, however any unused available at the Prosecco and vouchers are fully refundable I Red Amber/Red FREE at the cash desk up to 30min I COACH TRIP Wine counter Brown Brown worth £13 Prosecco £2.50 for 100ml glass. after the session closing time. I Please note we use marker Black Dark Mild/Stout/Porter Wine £3.50 for 175ml glass. pens to invalidate your I Green Fruit/Flavoured Offers worth £49 vouchers after use. Please (these are placed according don't try and tear off We have pump clips to style) Please do not leave individual vouchers. bags unattended. available from the Voucher desk for a FE STIVAL T SHIRT’S Help Desk Toilets: donation to our on sale from voucher Ask at the membership desk, or at less busy times, the beer Ladies at the foot of the stairs, Gents at the top of the stairs festival charity KIND £ desk from one hour voucher sales area. and temporary urinals outside the concert room back door. 40th and Generic design on sale The accessible toilet is at the foot of the stairway. after opening Smoking: Tshirt colour may vary Smoking, including electronic cigarettes, and vapes is not Please leave for disabled use only 10 permitted anywhere within the building. Glasses can be rinsed outside by If you wish to smoke you may do so outside the concert room back door. back door
There is a cloakroom run by KIND. You are welcome to leave coats/belongings here for @lbfCAMRA @LiverpoolCAMRA /CAMRAliverpool liverpoolcamra the duration of the session, for a £1 donation to the charity. Please see the plan above for location. Photos will be taken in all sessions by CAMRA Liverpool & Districts photographer and may be used for publication. 4 5 FESTI VAL FOOD in the Concert Hall Jubilee Stompers
Striped Pig They will be available at the Sidney Bechet and Bix Beiderbecke. Brew House Platter Liverpool beer festival served Striped Pig black pudding and both hot and cold for your Whilst the band is relatively new the sausage with onions, crisp enjoyment players have each been active in crackling, slabs and roast Liverpool’s music scene for more than ten vegetable crisps years and are individually well known £5.50 Liverpool Cheese Co from previous projects. Striped Pig Vegetarian/Vegan Options Playing Friday and Saturday evening sessions. Starts 7:30 pm, with three sets, Hogshead Roast Vegetable Brioche Our signature hog roast served Our own roast vegetables each 45 minutes. with sage & onion stuffing and topped with cheese, salad leaves apple sauce and hummus The line up- £5.00 £5.00 Parabhen Lad – double bass Hogshead Amigo Catalan, Galician Chickpea & Our musical performers at this years Nick Branton – clarinet / alto sax Our signature hog roast, chipotle Butterbean Stew The Liverpool Cheese festival are local band the Jubilee ketchup, roasted onions, chorizo Topped with roast Company is Liverpool’s finest Charlie Mckeon – guitar and flamed cheese Stompers. The Stompers repertoire is Mediterranean vegetables, purveyor of specialist and Lucy Mercer – drums £5.50 hummus and roast vegetable inspired from the ‘Jazz age’ (1919-1929) crisps artisanal cheeses, and with and you may well recognise tunes from Martin Smith – trumpet The Whole Hogshead £6.00 such a wide and varied Our signature hog roast, own recipe pork sausage, black selection they have Sauces... pudding, sage and onion stuffing, something for everybody’s Apple ketchup, BBQ, Tomato crisp crackling and apple sauce taste. You’ll find them in the Support KIND the Festival Charity £6.00 Ketchup, Sweet Chilli, Mustard, Chipotle Ketchup, Brown Sauce perfect setting for such a The Beef Barrel company: a Grade II listed In this our 45th year, KIND is delighted once again to be Our special quarter pound beef dairy in Woolton Village. This the nominated charity for the CAMRA 2020 Beer brisket burger in a rich beef stock, Peninsula olde-worlde setting would roast onions and sauces Luxury Pies Festival. The support of CAMRA Liverpool & District is £5.00 make you think that you were far away from Liverpool and very much appreciated and needed if our work with Add cheese 50p extra instead in a little farmer’s those disadvantaged children and families from within Add bacon 50p extra shop in Cheshire – in fact, the our Merseyside community is to continue. Funds raised Striped Pig Sausage older generation who live from this year’s beer festival will be used to help fund Our own recipe price 'porker' nearby will probably with roast onions and sauces our 2020 11-week Out of School programme, which £4.00 remember the cows being also includes our Summer Residential project. The Out walked up the road for of School programme provides our children with the Add pulled pork £1.50 extra milking. This perfect setting Peninsula Luxury Pies have only adds to the authenticity opportunity to take part in a wide range of fun, exciting All Day Breakfast Barm been baking hand raised and education activities all designed to show them that they and life do have more to offer. Bacon, sausage and black pudding of the love and passion the £5.00 pies and pasties for over 30 team has for a foodstuff It also allows our children to create some very happy and positive memories of childhood years using only the finest which predates recorded - memories that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. With the support of our Cumbrian Turkey ingredients. The Cornish history. Liverpool Cheese friends such as those at CAMRA Liverpool & District we can continue making a real Prime Cumbrian turkey, sage and pasties and steak pies are onion stuffing with cranberry have 80 different cheeses difference in many, many young lives. On behalf of all the children who will benefit from sauce made with Aberdeen Angus available. You can purchase and enjoy our programme, thank you for your support. £5.50 beef. All pies are baked by weight or buy platters for fresh every morning for each Stephen Yip, Chief Executive, KIND Christmas Day £7 (you choose any 3 cheeses, event to ensure a perfect Prime Cumbrian turkey, sage and biscuits or bread, pickles etc.) Further information can be found near the voucher desk. Unused beer tokens may be donated onion stuffing, own recipe product. or cheese and pickle to help this worthy charity, at the voucher desk. We will also be taking collections during the sausage with cranberry sauce Veggie option: Cheese & £6.00 sandwiches for £3.50 festival. Money raised at the beer festival last year £1,100. Please give generously to support a onion pasties and cheese LOCAL charity. quiches.
6 7 LIVERPOOL BEE R FESTI VAL Message from the festival organiser Doug Macadam Join up, join in, join the campaign Welcome to the 40th Liverpool Beer Festival !
Welcome to this details of all the committee members ...and enjoy the 40th Liverpool concerned. If you are interested in Beer Festival. This becoming part of the organising committee for ** year we have next year’s festival then please contact the brewery bars from, branch chair Sonia James-Henry at 2 FREE PINTS Big Bog, Howzat, Liverpool Brewing Co, [email protected]. Ossett, Parker and Rock the Boat . We would like to thank the brewers for sponsoring their The festival raises money for local charity KIND on us! Joint bars. At times some of the brewery bars will be via all your unused beer tokens that you don’t membershipembeership staffed by their respective brewers so if you cash in. Kind will also be running a cloakroom SingleS fromfromm want to know any details about the breweries and raffles during the festival. and their beers, they will always be happy to membershipmemmbership * ** £31.50£31.50 answer questions. We do ask you to support The festival is staffed by CAMRA volunteers, so fromfrom £6£ a yyear...eaar... all the festival sponsors and programme thank you to them for the time they give this of beerb * advertisers. includes all the staff helping at the festival voucvoucherschers £26.50£226.50 when we are open and also on the set up and at thiss beer a year...year... The theme for this take down days. If you are interested in joining festfestivaltival year’s festival is War CAMRA at the festival, then please visit the of the Roses, more Membership stand for more information. details of which can Please don’t forget to vote for your favourite FREEE Join here today be found in the beer beer of the festival from both our Lancashire list introduction. and Yorkshire beers, as well as your overall Coach TripT i.e. Where joint membership is purchased you enjoy 1 pint each. favourite for the festival as the brewers do Worth Please visit membership stand in This year the festival appreciate the feedback they receive. concert room for further details. organising committee £13 has been increased by members from other branches in the We don’t mind if you drink us dry Free coach trip only for new members affiliated to Merseyside and Cheshire region of CAMRA Liverpool CAMRA Branch and so I would like to thank them for all the Doug Macadam hard work they have put in, bearing in mind Liverpool Beer Festival Organiser that they are all volunteers. Please see the *Price for single and joint Beer Festival Programme credits page 47 for membership paying by Direct Debit
8 9 Thank you for visiting the part of the Localism Act 2011 and are price of the beer in your glass down. used by pub regulars and community Since introduction in 2002, SBR has led 40th Liverpool Beer groups as a way of protecting pubs to the founding of many diverse and from closure, conversion or innovative breweries, the creation of demolition. All you need then are the thousands of new jobs, and has Festival 2020 signatures of 21 people from that area, increased choice for the beer drinker. a bit of evidence of the value of the Just by being here and sampling our pub to the community, send the forms in, the council does the rest. All range of beers and ciders from many You don’t have to attend beer councils will have an ACV link on their parts of the United Kingdom, you are website. Add your favourites now. taking part in the largest and most festivals or CAMRA meetings successful consumer campaign in the to get involved in • Write to your MP about beer duty. country. You are also supporting the campaigning. You can do Not just the 1p reduction or tax freeze people who produce those drinks, the much of it from home or in that the media make such a fuss over, brewers and cider makers, many of this just gives more money to the big whom are small, local, businesses. We your local pub. multinational companies, but remind hope you will go home and tell others • Contact your local council or them about Small Brewers’ Relief about the different beers and ciders you councillors and ask them to give better (SBR). SBR is a scheme that allows tried, and perhaps get a friendly licensee protection to pubs so that it is not easy reduced rates of duty to for smaller to try some of them in your local pub. to close a good pub and convert it to brewers. It’s a form of Progressive Beer Duty (PBR) and is available to brewers Your licensee may have a “guest beer” another use. producing up to 60,000 hectolitres of list. Ask if you can see it and find a beer • Get your favourite pubs listed as Assets beer in a calendar year (around 2727.3 to recommend to them. of Community Value (ACVs). ACVs are gallons of beer). Under SBR, some very Tony Morgan small brewers can pay only 50% of the Public Affairs Officer Duty Rate, which helps to keep the [email protected]
10 11 YOUR BEER FESTIVAL Neil Lloyd 1958 -2019 In the last couple of years he started NEEDS YOU! videoing his various trips to interesting places (plenty of pubs a must!) all over the UK and these can be found by visiting accommodate all requests, and you can Youtube and typing in ‘Neil Lloyd volunteer to help at as many sessions as you Liverpool’ like. Well travelled, some of Neils favourite Many people who begin volunteering at our places were Amsterdam, Brugge, Brussels, beer festival get the ‘volunteering bug’ and go Antwerp, Berlin, Isle of Man, Krakow, New on work at other festivals around the country York. He was looking forward to visiting including the CAMRA ‘Great British Beer USA again this year, alas it was not to be. Festival’ making lots of new friends along the way. He learned he had bowel cancer in late As well as volunteers to help at the beer festival 2018 he then started on a year of we are also always looking for CAMRA radiotherapy and chemotherapy. members to get involved in the organising The last Beer Festival he was to work at committee. The committee meets regularly was the Great British Beer Festival in from around the end of July on a monthly basis London, August last year. He went down and organises all aspect of the festival from there with Joel, his beer festival co worker ordering the beers to managing the budget. If you are a regular at beer festivals in the and friend. Unfortunately when there, Have you often wondered what goes on behind The amount of time the organising team devote area such as Liverpool, Wirral Port Neil was not fit to work because he had the scenes of our beer festival? Would you like to the festival depends on the role, and roles Sunlight, Waterloo, St Georges Hall the only just finished another session of to spend an afternoon or evening with like can be split, spreading the workload. Beer Bombed Out Church and further afield chemo the day before he went down to minded individuals, working as a team to help ordering for example is shared by the beer the London Beer festival for example, you work. The treatment left him exhausted run the festival (and sample a free beer or two ordering team rather than being the will have probably seen, met or have been and too tired to work. along the way!) We are always looking for new responsibility of one individual. Being a served by Neil. Always cheerful, Neil He died a few weeks later leaving most of volunteers, in order to ensure the festival member of the organising committee means loved these events. It gave him the his friends in shock as they had no idea he survives well into the future, we need help from you can help shape the festival, if you feel we opportunity to do the two things he liked was ill. Neil only told a few close friends as CAMRA members. should be doing something differently, join the most in his life, socialising with old he did not want anyone worrying about All volunteers receive support in their committee and have your voice heard. friends and making new ones whilst him. respective roles from members of our If are a CAMRA member and you feel you sampling new ales. Neil will be sorely missed by all his organising committee, they also get a free beer would like to either volunteer to help at The festivals also gave him the chance to friends. He was a cheerful, outgoing festival t-shirt, a hot meal during their shift and next year’s festival or join the organising take photographs as well. This was Neils person with a love for life. He was always the opportunity to go on a free thank you trip. committee you can contact me via full time job working mainly for the looking on the bright side even when he In addition to this you do, of course, get free [email protected]. I can answer Wetherspoon magazine and Liverpool became very ill. He was always hopeful entry into the festival and are welcome any questions you may have, add you to the City Council. that his treatment would work and was to sample the beers and ciders (within sensible staffing list for next year’s festival or give you Many of Neils photographs were taken for planning for the future. He was an limits!) details of the organising committee. the Liverpool and Districts CAMRA optimist to the end. Roles vary from, for example helping setting up Any time you could give to help out would be magazine MerseyAle. You can find back the stillage, to working behind one of our three much appreciated. copies of MerseyAle on the Liverpool By Dennis Jones brewery bars, to giving out glasses and CAMRA website. Neils friend for over 40 years programmes. You can choose which role you Sonia James-Henry feel would suit you best, we always try to Staffing Officer
12 13 CAMRA LocAle is an initiative that promotes Free point of Sale (POS) materials are available Where to pubs stocking locally brewed real ale. including window stickers, leaflets and pump Find LocAle The scheme builds on a growing consumer clip toppers. demand for quality local produce and an You can find more information on LocAle on in Liverpool increased awareness of 'green' issues. our website www.liverpoolcamra.org.uk or scan the QR code. Old Bank, 301 Aigburth Road, Liverpool launched its scheme in 2009. This City Centre Outside City Centre year we are celebrating ten years of LocAle. We Jonathan Hall Augustus John Barkers Brewery , Archway Aigburth, L17 0BJ have been putting on events throughout the LocAle Coordinator [email protected] Baltic Fleet Road, Huyton, L36 9UJ Punchbowl, Lunt Road, Sefton year, which started with a celebration in Stamps Belvedere Too, where the scheme was first launched. Full Barbacoa, 47-51 Mersey View, Village, L29 7WA Blackburne Pub & Eatery details of forthcoming events can be found on L22 6QA Queen's Picturehouse, 47 our diary page. Black Lodge Brewery 74 Venture South Rd, Waterloo, L22 5PE Tap Room Big Bog Brewery, If you think your pub should be included in Que Pasa Cantina, 94 Lark Bridewell Point West, Speke, L24 9PB this list, please email: Lane, L17 8UX [email protected] with details. When you visit a pub please submit a beer Bundobust Restaurant Butchers, Booker Avenue, A LocAle beer is a REAL ALE BREWED WITHIN Raven , 72-74 Walton Vale, score using whatpub.com. Scores are used to Caledonia L18 4QZ 30 miles of the pub by road. NB: Other terms help select pubs for the Good Beer Guide and Central Childwall Fiveways, Walton, L9 2BU and conditions apply Pub of the Year. Courtyard Bar & Kitchen 79 Queens Drive, L15 6XS Royal Hotel, Marine Terrace, Crown Cobden, 89 Quarry Street, L22 5PR Dispensary Woolton, L25 6HA Stamps Bar, 5 Crown Fall Well Beer of the Festival 2020 Buildings, Crosby, L23 5SR Flute Corner Post, 25 Bridge Road, As this year we have as our theme the “War of the Roses” it has been Thomas Frost, 77-187 Walton Gibberish Brewpub Crosby, L23 6SA decided that we will have as well as our usual overall Beer of the Grapes Edinburgh, 119 College Rd, Road, Kirkdale, L4 4AJ Festival competition to also have a best Lancashire and Yorkshire beer. Dickens and King (previously L23 3AS Volunteer Canteen, 45 East So this year everybody gets a 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice and your 1st Hard Times & Misery) Four Ashes, 23 Crosby Road, Street, Waterloo, L22 8QR choice gets 3 points and 2nd choice gets 2 points and 3rd choice gets 1 point and all of these will be added up and the highest overall scored beer will be Dr Duncans (St Johns Ln) North, Waterloo, L22 0LD Waterpudlian (previously Head of Steam chosen as the “Beer of the Festival” and similarly the highest Lancashire or Yorkshire Frank Hornby, 38 Eastway, Stamps Too), 99 South Road, Lime Kiln beer will win the title for “War of the Roses”. All beers can be scored including the Maghull, L31 6BR Waterloo, L22 0LR Lion Tavern rest of the country as well as the Lancashire and Yorkshire beers. Willow Bank Tavern, 329 Love Lane Bar and Kitchen Handyman Supermarket, 46 Smithdown Road, Wavertree, Voting forms can be picked up at the Membership stand or Mackenzie's Whisky Bar Smithdown Road, L15 3JL North Western Liver, 137 South Road, L15 3JA Voucher desk. Philharmonic Dining Rooms Waterloo, L22 0LT Pumphouse Liverpool Pigeon, 14 Endbutt Richard John Blackler Lane, Crosby, L23 0TR Sanctuary Masonic, 35 Gladstone Road, Ship & Mitre Garston, L19 1RR Sphinx Vernon Arms Navigator, 694 Queens Drive, Victoria Cross Old Swan, L13 5UH Welkin Neptune Brewery Tap Room, Ye Hole in Ye Wall Unit 1 Sefton Lane, Maghull, L31 8BX You can find all these pubs on www.whatpub.com or scan the QR Code.
14 15 Liverpool Pubs Discounts available on production of New CAMRA Voucher CAMRA Discount CAMRA are replacing the current Wetherspoon Voucher scheme with a new ‘CAMRA Voucher Discounts on production of a valid CAMRA card Scheme’. The new vouchers will be valid in JD Wetherspoon, Stonegate, Brains, Castle Rock and Amber Taverns managed pubs. Stonegate Pubs are replacing their current discount with the • Ale House, 674/676 Prescot Rd, Old Swan: • Love Lane Brewery, Bar and Kitchen, 62-64 new voucher scheme. 20p off a pint (pints only). Bridgewater Street, Baltic Triangle: • The Baltic Fleet, 33a Wapping, City Centre: 25% Mon - Thur 5pm - 7pm. The New CAMRA Voucher Scheme entitles members to a discount of 50p off a pint of Real Ale, Cider or Perry. See www.camra.org.uk/vouchers for full terms and 20p off a pint, 10p off a half. • Ma Egerton’s, 9 Pudsey Street, conditions. • Bear & Staff, 24-26 Gateacre Brow, Gateacre: City Centre: 10%. 10% (closed for refurbishment). • Netherton Hotel, Church Road, Litherland: Pubs accepting New CAMRA Voucher Scheme • Black Bull, Gateacre Brow, Gateacre: 20p off 10%. Albert, 66-68 Lark Lane, Aigburth. Navigator, 694 Queens Drive, Old Swan. a pint (pints only) except Mon & Thur when • Pen Factory, 13 Hope St, City Centre: 10%. Barkers Brewery, Archway Road, Huyton. North Western, 7 Lime Street, City Centre. all cask is £2.79/pint.* • Pumphouse, The Colonnades, Albert Dock: Childwall Fiveways, 179 Queens Drive, Old Bank, 34 South Road, Waterloo. • Cambridge, Mulberry St, University 25p off a pint (pints only). Childwall. Queens Picture House, 47-49 South Road, Campus, City Centre: £2.30 a pint Sat and Sun. • The Punchbowl, Lunt Rd, Sefton Village: Crafty Chandler, 48-50 Bold Street, City Waterloo. • Central & Commercial, 31 Ranelagh St, City 20p off a pint, 10p off a half. Centre. Raven, 72-74 Walton Vale, Walton. Centre: 20p off a pint (pints only). • Richmond Tavern, Church Rd, Wavertree: Fall Well, Roe Street, City Centre. Richard John Blackler, Units 1 & 2 • Courtyard Bar & Kitchen, 89 Roe St, City 20p off a pint (pints only) except Mon & Thur Flute, 35 Hardman Street, City Centre. Charlotte Row, City Centre. Centre: 10% (pints only). when all cask is £2.79/pint.* Frank Hornby, 38 Eastway, Maghull. Thomas Frost, 177-187 Walton Road, • The Crown, 43 Lime St, City Centre: 20p off • Royal Standard, Deysbrook Lane, West George, 1 Moor Lane, Crosby Village. Kirkdale. a pint, 10p off a half. Derby: 10%. John Brodie, Unit 1 Allerton Road, Welkin, 7 Whitechapel, City Centre. • Endbutt, 63-65 Endbutt Lane, Crosby: 10%. • Sanctuary, 72 Lime St, City Centre: 30p off a Allerton. William Gladstone, 18-20 North John • Fletcher's Sports Bar , Allerton Road, pint, 15p off a half (Loyalty card available, buy Lime Kiln, Fleet Street, City Centre. Street, City Centre. Allerton Manor Golf Club: 10%. 6 get 1 free). • Hare & Hounds, 53 Liverpool Rd North, • Sefton Arms, 1 Mill Lane, West Derby: 10%. Maghull: 20p off a pint (pints only) except • Victoria Cross, 1-3 Sir Thomas St, City All discounts are at the discretion of the pub and can be as little or as large as the Mon & Thur when all cask is £2.79/pint.* Centre: 20p off a pint (pints only) except Sat. pub feels suits their business needs and maybe withdrawn at any time. • Head of Steam, 85-89 Hanover St, City • Willow Bank Tavern , 329 Smithdown Rd, Please remember discounts should never be expected. Centre: 20p off a pint. Wavertree: 10% except Tues after 6pm. • Jolly Miller, 176 Mill Lane, West Derby: 10%. Discount available all day every day unless Message to licensees / real ale drinkers • The Liver, 137 South Rd, Waterloo: 20%. stated otherwise. This list is not exhaustive, so if we have left anyone off OR if the discount no longer applies, please let me know by emailing: [email protected] with details. Discount Days which are available to anyone* • Black Bull, Gateacre Brow, Gateacre: Mon • Love Lane Brewery, Bar and Kitchen, This list is correct as of 20 January 2020 & Thur ONLY £2.79/pint. 62-64 Bridgewater Street, Baltic Triangle: • Flute, 35 Hardman Street, City Centre: Mon-Thurs 5pm - 7pm 25%. Tues ONLY £2.10/pint. • Richmond Tavern, Church Rd, Wavertree: • The George, 1 Moor Lane, Crosby Village: Mon & Thur ONLY £2.79/pint. Tues ONLY £1.95/pint. • White Star, Rainford Gardens, City Centre: • Hare & Hounds, 53 Liverpool Rd North, Mon-Thurs selected beer £2.50. Maghull: Mon & Thur ONLY £2.79/pint. • Willow Bank Tavern, 329 Smithdown Rd, • The John Brodie, Unit 1 Allerton Road, Wavertree: Tues ONLY from 6pm £2.25/pint. Allerton: Tues ONLY £1.95/pint.
16 17 BAR SPONSORS You can find 8 Light Meter 4.3 Pale BEER LIST introduction Brewed using extra pale malts with New Zealand these beers on the bar Green Bullet hop for bitterness and loaded with With a little under 200 beers on the list and a wide Saturday Evening beer choice will be reduced Pacific Gem for a very forward hopped flavour range of styles we do ask that you be patient if any (although we normally still have well over half the Big Bog Brewing Co mistakes creep in with regards to ABV.s etc. All the beers left), so we apologise if a beer your Liverpool, Merseyside 9 Night Watchman Stout compiling work is done by volunteers and is particularly wanted to try has run out. We do run Big Bog started life in Waunfawr, Wales in 2011, sharing its 5.0 Stout site with the Snowdonia Parc brewpub. Due to growth and checked from various sources, if you so spot any a strict policy of if a beer is ready it goes on sale Brewed using pale roasted and chocolate malts, expansion in 2016, the brewery moved to its present single hopped with Comet. No thrills traditional mistakes please let us know so that they can be and stays on sale until it has run out or goes off. location in Speke, Liverpool, into a custom-built plant with a creamy full-bodied stout. corrected for future lists. 10-barrel brew length. Some of the staff may be as unfamiliar with the We have beer from most of the local breweries beers as you are, and we realise that sometimes 1 Quagmire 6.5 Strong Bitter 10 Sight Screen 2 4.9 IPA within the Merseyside CAMRA branch area. Our you may be unsure of whether a beer will be to A strong but easy drinking six percenter! Mid- Brewed using extra pale malts and Rakau hops main theme this year is ‘War of the Roses’, beers your liking, so you are welcome to ask for a taster brown in colour with a medium to high with grapefruit sensation extract. bitterness from the Wye Challenger and Fuggles from Yorkshire are identified on the barrel ends before you buy a beer but please be aware that hops. and in the programme with a white rose and those our bar staff are warned to look out for serial 11 The Duckworth Lewis Method from Lancashire with a red rose. The counties of tasters. We will not swop a beer if you don’t like 2 Bayou 5.0 Pale 4.3 Best Bitter Lancashire and Yorkshire are defined by the pre the taste, style etc. so please ask for a taster first if Crafted from Extra Pale Ale and Crystal Rye Brewed using pale malts, wheat and 150 Crystal malts, this beer is light in colour with a slight malt, green bullet hops for bittering and Kent 1974 county boundaries, meaning it includes part you are not sure. But if you do think that a beer red hue. An intensely hoppy ale that some Golding hops for flavour. This really is a of present-day Merseyside, Cheshire, Cumbria has gone off then please see the bar staff so that it would describe as the ultimate Hop Heads beer traditional best bitter and Greater Manchester. We also have a selection can be taken off sale. If any beers have notices on from the generous use of USA Citra hops. This of beers from Kent, and a selection from i.e. “Naturally Cloudy”. “Taste before You Try” we beer is dry hopped with USA Amirillo to further Liverpool Brewing Co breweries spread all over the country from ask you to bear these in mind when purchasing add orange, citrus and floral notes. Liverpool, Merseyside Scotland to the South Coast. your beers. 3 Hinky Punk 4.1 Pale Liverpool Brewing Co purchased the brewing As well as our normal ‘Beer of the Festival’ vote set-up of what was the Liverpool Organic Finally, I would like to thank the beer ordering A well hopped beer with a secret blend of no Brewery including the recipes, names and branding. this year, just for fun, we will also be asking you to team Steve Downing, Pete Elloy, Phil Firth and less than 7 different hop varieties! Intense citrus It is owned by seven local businessmen. vote for your favourite beers from ‘Yorkshire and Pam Hadfield for the extensive choice of notes and its incredibly pale colour makes this a A 12.5-barrel plant is used with six fermenters. Lancashire’. beers available. truly unique ale. 12 Cascade 3.8 APA Although we start with just under 200 beers this 4 Padi 3.7 Pale A hoppy, citrus taste that punches way above its Doug Macadam A Pale ale brewed using extra pale malts, flaked will gradually decrease over the festival so by weight. rice & wheat with plenty of Citra hop. All beer cider and perry lists are correct at time of printing. However please remember that they are subject to last minute 13 Cherry Porter 4.6 Speciality changes, and to products selling out. There is no guarantee of availability of a beer/cider/perry throughout the festival. 5 Peat Bog Porter 4.9 Porter A dark, rich Porter made with Brown, Chocolate A light mouth feel with smooth chocolate and Black malts with the inclusion of something darkness and a subtle sweet cherry finish. quite special: Real liquorice root! A great tasting 14 Dark Session Ale 3.5 Mild BEER FESTIVAL code of conduct Porter beer Initially sweet with coffee, chocolate notes and dry finish. Liverpool and Districts All the rest of the festival staff are for your protection and to help 6 Swampy 4.7 Best Bitter Branch of CAMRA consider volunteers who give up their time you when necessary. Please note Ruby red in colour with a robust bitterness that 15 Liverpool Pale Ale 4.0 Pale to make this a pleasant that any trouble could result in is offset by a slightly sweet finish owing to the A clean, sharp ale with dry hoppy notes and a themselves extremely lucky inclusion of Muscovado sugar in the recipe. experience for you the customer. the loss of licence, both for the floral complexity giving way to citrus tones and to have this wonderful a bitter finish. So please try to make the festival personal licence holder and the venue for our ever venue. This could result in us expanding beer festival as safe and enjoyable as possible, Howzat Brewery use the bins provided, leave being unable to use the crypt St Helens, Merseyside The Cathedral staff are very tables as tidy as possible and again. A new brewery started in summer 2019 based Liverpool helpful and work overtime in report broken glasses and We have the greatest respect and at the Cricketers Arms the former National Brewing their efforts to keep the crypt and CAMRA Pub of the Year 2017 using a four- spillages immediately to one confidence in you our festival barrel plant. Company toilet facilities as clean and tidy as of our staff who will clean it up 'customer' so enjoy your beers possible. The security staff also for you. and ciders and have a happy and 7 5 For 47 4.3 Pale PROUD SPONSORS OF LIVERPOOL BEER help and are there for your Brewed using extra Pale malts, green bullet for FESTIVAL Don't be daunted by the safe festival. benefit just in case there are any bittering and a large amount of Nelson Sauvin [email protected] presence of our marshals and problems with over boisterous for flavour. security staff, they are only there Liverpool CAMRA 0151 933 9660 customers.
18 19 colour and with moderate bitterness, aromas of BAR SPONSORS You can find spice and citrus fruit come from German and these beers on the bar Slovenian hops.
Team Toxic Rat Brewery Liverpool, Merseyside Huddersfield, West Yorkshire The Rat & Ratchet was originally established as Team Toxic led by Gazza Prescott and Sue a brewpub in 1994. Brewing ceased and it was purchased by Hayward, produces a range of one-off beers, those from Ossett Brewery (qv) in 2004. Brewing started in 2011 with a Gazza will appear under the name ‘Mission Creep’ and those capacity of 30 barrels per week. A wide range of occasional from Sue will continue to use the ‘Waen’ identity. Most of brews with rat themed names supplement the regular beers. the beers are brewed at Liverpool Brewing Company, with some being in collaboration with other breweries. 22 Love Rat 3.8 Pale 16 Dreich Days 5.2 Speciality An extra-pale session ale. Mellow and with low Cranachan Pudding Pale. Cranachan is a famous bitterness, but intense floral hop aroma. Scottish dish containing raspberries, honey, 23 Year of the Rat 5.3 Golden cream, oatmeal and whisky. We’ve left out the Golden El Dorado IPA. Brewed with Cara Malt, whiskey but everything else is here. moderate bitterness, but heavily aroma hopped 17 St. Clements 4.0 Speciality with American El Dorado hops. Lots of orange and lemon zest, a slight sweetness from lactose and a citrus/herbal hop Fernandes Brewery character from the Centennial dry hop. Yorkshire Opened in 1997 and housed in a 19th century malt house. Ossett Brewery purchased the brewery and tap Ossett Brewery in 2007 but independent brewing continues. Wakefield, Yorkshire 24 Hophead Pixie 4.7 Bitter Brewing began in 1998, moving to a new site in Hopped up blonde beer once tasted not 2005. 2017 saw significant investment in brewery improvements and expansion to bring total forgotten, using copious amounts of centennial, brewing capacity up to 360 barrels per week. In addition, a cluster and soratchi hops. brand-new warehouse and packaging facility was constructed. Riverhead Brewery 18 Admiral 4.0 Bitter Huddersfield, Yorkshire A crisp, dry, blonde bitter brewed from all Riverhead is a brewpub that opened in 1995. English ingredients. Generous additions of Ossett Brewing (qv) purchased the site in 2006 but runs it Admiral hops both to the boil and after as a separate brewery. It has since opened the Dining Room fermentation create intense aromas of citrus, on the first floor, which uses Riverhead beers in its dishes. spice and pine resin. 25 Liquorice Stout 5.0 Stout 19 Silver King 4.3 Bitter A rich malty stout full of roast flavours Consistently popular for nearly twenty years, complimented by the addition of fine Yorkshire Silver King is perhaps Ossett’s best-known beer liquorice and finished with subtle spicy notes. and the winner of many prestigious awards. 26 Butterley 3.8 Amber A simple combination of pale malt and A rich gold smooth drinking session ale, with American Cascade hops result in a crisp, dry, soft malt flavours with delicate floral English refreshing bitter in which the aromas of citrus Hop Aroma. fruit are pleasingly well balanced. 20 Treacle Stout 5.0 Stout Parker Brewery A rich and robust stout. The addition of black Southport. Lancashire treacle gives intense depth and roasted malts Parker was established in 2014 using a impart a coffee flavour. Generous amounts of 25-litre plant, and has since expanded to a five- barrel plant hops add a dry citrus finish to this complex black ale. 27 Barbarian Bitter 4.1 Bitter A traditional English ale, golden amber in colour 21 Yorkshire Brunette 3.7 Bitter with notes of caramel. Smooth and well An easy-drinking session bitter brewed with balanced, an easy drinking ale. pale, wheat and roasted malts. Pale chestnut in F
20 21 Parker Brewery contd 39 Bob Barley & the Ale-ers 6.1 Stout 28 Centurion Pale Ale 3.9 Pale Jamaican themed milk stout with ginger, A light refreshing ale with zingy zesty fruit nutmeg, cinnamon and aged on rum-soaked oak flavours. A crisp and dry ale with a hoppy finish. chips. 29 Dark Sparton Stout 5.0 Stout 40 Endeavour 4.0 Pale Hints of chocolate and coffee and is silky Green Hop pale ale. smooth. Think bonfire night and treacle toffee. 41 Life begins at 40 4.2 Ruby 30 Saxon Red 4.5 Ruby Festival special Ruby Ale A moreish, smooth malty ale packed full of warm fruit flavours, with a subtle hint of spice Beer Station on the finish. Freshfield, Merseyside A new brewery started in summer 2019 based at the Beer 31 Viking Blonde 4.7 Blonde Station micro pub in Freshfield near Formby using a small A delightful blonde ale with subtle hints of half barrel plant. blackcurrant leaf and red summer berry fruit flavours, with a refreshing full crisp finish. 42 Pale Express 4.5 Pale Unfined pale slightly fruity ale Rock the Boat Brewery Crosby, Merseyside Brimstage Brewery Rock the Boat began brewing in 2015 in a converted 16th- Wirral, Merseyside century wheelwright's workshop in Little Crosby. Beer Neil Young began brewing in 2006 using a 10-barrel plant in names relate to a local theme, often reflecting the brewer's the heart of the Wirral countryside. Wirral's first brewery musical tastes and local landmarks. A green hop beer is since the closure of the Birkenhead Brewery in the late produced each year. 1960s. Since Neil passed away in 2018, his two sons now own the brewery. 32 Bootle Bull 3.8 Bitter 43 Oyster Stout 4.4 Stout Smooth and malty balanced with a blend of Easy drinking stout with rich chocolate aromas subtle hop varieties. leading to a mellow roasted coffee flavour and 33 Dragons Tooth 4.3 Stout lingering bitter finish. Dark roasted malts with hints of chocolate. 44 Sandpiper 3.6 Pale Bursting with refreshing tropical citrus flavours, 34 Fab Four 4.4 IPA an award-winning light session ale. Four sensational hops dry hopped in the cask. 45 Scarecrow 4.2 Amber 35 Sitting on The Dock 3.5 Mild Full bodied amber bitter, Fruity aroma. Five smooth malts treacle, chocolate and nutty. 46 Trappers Hat 3.8 Golden 36 Waterloo Sunset 4.2 Bitter A refreshingly hoppy session beer. Gold Orange marmalade hops rounded with malt coloured with hints of orange and grapefruit. and Rye. Saninjski hops. 37 Yellow Submarine 3.9 Golden A special brew using Olicana hops. Carnival Brewery Liverpool, Merseyside Carnival is a new microbrewery and brew tap off MERSEYSIDE BREWERIES the dock road in Liverpool 47 Macau 5.4 Speciality Ad Hop Brewing Oat Cream Pistachio Pale. Liverpool, Merseyside Ad Hop started life in 2014 at the Clove Hitch 48 Urban Shaker 4.5 Stout pub, moving a couple of times before ending up in much Oatmeal Stout. larger premises in 2017 where a 5.5-barrel plant was added to its existing 2.5-barrel one. 38 Aotearoa Pale 4.4 Pale NZ hopped Pale Ale.
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