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Issue 153 December/January 2014 “Cheers!” NATIONAL WINTER ALES FESTIVAL comes to ’s Roundhouse

Gillian Hough Festival Organiser

National Winter Ales Festival 19-22nd February 2014... Full details inside… Miners Arms, Brassington. Bluebell Inn, Melbourne. Nelson Arms, Middleton.

2 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 National Winter Ales Festival - DERBY 2014 Put the dates in your diary now …… 19-22nd February 2014

o your noted on your phone that it’s happening, booked the time off work and now SNational Winter Ales Festival (NWAF) is just around the corner (just after Valentine’s Day. N.B. best make another note to buy your best beloved something special!!). Opening at 4pm (following a Trade only invite event from 1pm) on Wednesday 19th February NWAF will be the beer and cider consumers’ equivalent of a Christmas selection box. With more selection than ever before, more brewery bars than ever before and more mead than ever before NWAF is a ‘don’t miss event’.

Running 11am – 11pm Thursday showcasing what this multi award popular beers (and Ducks!). At the unit at the Derby Royal hospital so 20th until Saturday there is plenty winning very special 4th back of the music marquee please be generous with your of opportunity to attend and be generation independent family Leatherbritches Brewery will be change as you leave NWAF. brewery do so very well. Having served by one of the willing serving their unique beers which The buses to and from the Market been recently awarded East volunteers (without whom this have fun names belying their Place and the Bus Station are Midlands Champion Beer for their festival simply would not happen). depth of flavour. expected to run again. Add in live Whether you want a marmalade Batemans Salem Porter your taste Derby Mountain Rescue will again music, cider and perry, continental like golden ale or a chocolaty stout buds are in for a treat. Derby provide the cloakroom for beer and you have a something to the bar staff will be able to guide Brewing Company will join donations which generates boast about to your friends. Come you through the 350+ real ales Batemans in the Roundhouse main revenue which enables them to and support NWAF, come and sup using their knowledge and the room as Trevor and Paul Harris will help people who need their (arguably) some of the best Winter tasting notes in the programme delight and surprise with their assistance. The Rotary Daybreak Ale in the Country. (always a work of incredible detail). innovative brews. Rachel Matthews of Dancing Duck Club will also be collecting to raise Yours Four Brewery Bars have been Brewery will be in the Carriage funds to purchase a much needed Gillian Hough confirmed with Batemans Brewery Room with her delicious range of incubator for the Special care Baby Chair NWAF       

       3 www.derbycamra.org.uk The hunt for Britain’s best winter beer ends at the Roundhouse

o say it is no easy feat being Supreme Champion Beer of Britain. While Last year at the National Winter Ales Tcrowned the very best winter beer only a select number of real ales make it to Festival in Manchester it was a small in Britain would be a bit of an the Finals to be held at National Winter Ales brewery from West Yorkshire, Elland, who understatement. At the turn of the 21st Festival – falling into the categories of Old were crowned Supreme Winter Champion century traditional winter beer styles Ales/Strong Milds, Porters, Stouts and for their “1872 Porter”, just piping the beer such as Old Ales and darker Milds were Barley Wines – in reality the competition with probably the longest name in Britain under threat, with many historic recipes itself begins at grass roots level right across “Bartram’s Comrade Bill Bartram’s being overlooked in the face of Britain soon after the 2013 Finals have Egalitarian Anti-Imperialist Soviet Stout” dwindling consumer demand. taken place. from Suffolk - to the title. In 3rd place from East Renfrewshire, in Scotland was “Kelburn Fast forward a decade and the United With its vast local branch structure, CAMRA Brewing Dark Moor”. While these three Kingdom can now boast about over 1150 relies on its members to vote for their inspirational winter beers stole the show in breweries regularly producing way in favourites using branch and tasting panel last year’s competition, the most exciting excess of 8,500 different real ales. A nominations for the beers produced in aspect of judging at these Finals is in renaissance has occurred in recent years their area. Regional or area competitions tasting the sheer depth of quality on show. and particularly in the field of outstanding are arranged for the beers to be expertly dark, malty, rich and roasted beers for judged and assessed in style classes – then With the future looking bright for those colder months of the year. British only the very best progress through to the traditional winter beer styles at National beer drinkers are faced with more variety Finals. The Finals for winter beers are held Winter Ales Festival you’ll find champions and choice than ever. You will need only to annually at CAMRA’s National Winter Ales both past and present each with their own take one look around National Winter Ales Festival with a special invited judging unique flavour profiles. Try a few and you’ll realise exactly why being a beer taster and Festival running from Weds 19th until panel usually consisting of brewers, Saturday 22nd February 2014 for proof! judge is such a difficult and thankless task. publicans, drinks writers and CAMRA Cheers!! Such huge variety means that it has never members deciding upon the overall been a more difficult time to judge the winners or Champions. Nik Antona, CAMRA National Director

4 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 National Winter Ales Festival 2014

Beer Cider & Perries Another great line-up of ciders & Perries is promised It may be the National Winter this year (see Cider with Suzie on page 13). Ales Festival but we will have much more than just Winter Beer styles with over 350 Real Ales, ciders, perries, continental beers and meads Buses to the Beer Fest from every beer style imaginable. The full beer list is As this service has proved popular in recent years we will still being finalised so keep again be running buses to and from the Festival at the checking the website Roundhouse. Although the details are still being finalised nwaf.org.uk. And of course we we expect to run a similar service to last year with buses will have the Champion Winter calling at the Quad and the Bus Station. Dates/times and Beer of Britain competition frequency details will appear on the website soon (see article on page 4). nwaf.org.uk Trade Entertainment & Open Mic night Session artists needed If you are in the trade then why not come This was still being finalised as we went to press but along to our trade as usual another cracking line-up is promised which session on includes Arctic Monkeys & Kings of Leon tributes. Wednesday 19th Full details will be posted on the website shortly February between nwaf.org.uk. We are also planning to hold our 1-4pm. popular open mic evening again on Wednesday 19th February. E-mail If you would like to come along and play for a pint or [email protected] two then e-mail us at [email protected] You must let us know beforehand though as we will for your free trade tickets. not be accepting additions on the night.

5 www.derbycamra.org.uk Six of the Best in

wenty years ago, CAMRA, delightful snugs. Only a Arbor Low, we find the Duke of disappoint. An enticing menu Tmindful of the dwindling handful of licensees have kept York, Elton. A corridor with which included partridge in number of unspoilt pubs, the “Malt” since 1939, including rooms either side leads to the wine is a further attraction at created a National Inventory Betty and Tony Woodyet, a small, quarry tiled bar at the the 300 year old pub which listing those which hadn’t been popular couple who served the rear with a frieze rail laden with opens only at weekends. subject to crass, internal local community between 1950 sports’ trophies, suspended modernization. In CAMRA’s and 1985. A broad choice of from a wooden boarded In the stunning High Peak, in lavishly illustrated book, well-kept ales from the ceiling. In here, Mary happily prime walking territory, is the Britain’s Best Real Heritage Marston’s empire is dispenses hand pulled pints of stone-built Crown on the main Pubs, Derbyshire has faired complemented by good food. Marston’s Burton Bitter at just road going into Glossop. relatively well with half a dozen £2.60. It’s unusual these days to Bleaklow and Kinder Scout fine inns listed, while counties North of Derby, off the A6, near find outside loos, and it should have long been popular with such as Leicestershire, Milford, is the hamlet of be noted that the Duke opens ramblers and there could be no Lincolnshire and Norfolk each Makeney, where the centuries evenings and Sunday better place in which to slake has one only. All in all 270 pubs old Holly Bush sits at the top of lunchtimes only. A time warp one’s thirst than this lovely are featured. Derby Drinker the lane of the same name. pub if ever there was one. pub’s unchanged interior. You despatched Paul Gibson to see Owned by octogenarian, John can admire the traditional Turn off the A6 at Ashford in what beery delights await the Bilbie, for four decades, this drinking lobby, parlour/lounge, the Water, and past Monsal discerning drinker in our very wonderful, stone-built former cosy snug and games room. Head, onto Wardlow Mires best heritage pubs. farmhouse is now run by the Warming, open fires add to the energetic Chris Wilbraham. The where the Three Stags’ Head old world charm of the Sam Derby drinkers will be familiar centrepiece is the snug which awaits. The roadside inn Smith’s house, which serves with the Olde Dolphin on is enclosed by high backed comprises of two adjoining impeccable Old Brewery Bitter Queen Street in the city centre, settles with glazing above. The cottages; one with a flagged from a curved, mahogany bar. the oldest parts of which are acquisition of the cottage next floor and an old kitchen range, Sam’s legendary value for contemporaneous with the door in 1981 added valuable and the other is probably a money should ensure that nearby cathedral. The floor space while maintaining former living room, replete custom is unaffected by the association between the two the traditional tone. Interesting with scrubbed-top tables and recent opening of a buildings stretches back nearly guest beers rub shoulders with walls adorned with pictures of Wetherspoon outlet in Glossop. 500 years when the Dolphin an array of regional brews not Lurcher dogs. A Black Lurcher served the needs of tradesmen dissimilar to the of the real ale variety is Britain’s Best Real Heritage constructing All Saints’ Gothic aforementioned Dolphin. available here together with Pubs available from tower. Much of the pub’s fabric Absolution, Deception and Waterstone’s or from is of more recent date but four West of Matlock, and just 4 Brimstone, all courtesy of www.camra.org.uk/shop or rooms of contrasting style have miles away from Derbyshire’s Sheffield’s Abbeydale brewery. I ‘phone 01727 867201. Priced survived, and the partial most famous antiquity, the opted for the latter, a dark, at £9.99 plus postage and demolition of the Full Street 4,000 year old stone henge of hoppy 3.9% brew which didn’t packing. elevation facilitated the pleasant patio enjoyed by today’s patrons. Regional breweries such as Greene King, Adnams and Timothy Taylor are well represented, with a couple of tasty beers from the Nottingham Brewery jugged up from the cellar.

In the old part of Spondon lies the Malt Shovel, discreetly tucked away on Potter Street. It is thought that the Spondon Conflagration of 1340 ignited here after a fire in a malt house, and Edward III consequently exempted the village from taxation to aid its reconstruction. The pub’s oldest parts date back to 1680, and off a red and black quarry tiled passageway are two Hollybush Inn, Makeney Inside the Malt Shovel, Spondon 6 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 Old Dolphin, Derby

Inside the Duke of York, Elton

Three Stags Head, Wardlow Mires

Inside the Crown, Glossop 7 www.derbycamra.org.uk 8 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 Old Silk Mill to weave its magic again

fter what has seemed like the time to drink in with the likes of Aan absolute age the Old Mark Wright, Mel Sage and others Silk Mill has finally opened its seen there when the Rams were in doors in its new guise as The the top flight. Throughout the 90’s the Mill had a reputation for its food Silk Mill Ale & Cider House…… and its ‘Big Breakfasts’ where Since its closure at the back end of legendary and a must eat for the Summer the pub has students of the day. There was undergone some major always a good range of Real Ales as refurbishment work including a well with regular Beer Festivals but glass conservatory roof over the rear oddly enough it didn't actually of the pub giving it a light & airy feature in the Good Beer Guide until feel, the exposure of some 2000 something to do with the brickwork around the real fires, politics of the day no doubt. As floorboards throughout, an eclectic Whitbread gave way to Enterprise mix of pictures and assorted the onset of the Noughties saw a paraphernalia adorn the walls and steady decline in the pubs fortunes perhaps most impressively of all the as successive landlords struggled to addition of a brand new outside make a living and by 2008 the pub garden area something that the Silk was on its last legs and finally shut Mill has always lacked and should with its future uncertain. prove a real haven in Summer. Real Enter out of retirement, ‘Big’ Terry & Ale & Cider remain the mainstay of Janina Holmes in 2009 who set the bar but food has now been about transforming the pub rather introduced which will be served in like they had done with the Old the new conservatory area at the Dolphin at the turn of the Century. rear. The pub will be opening from The pub was refurbed and given a 10am for breakfast (9am on much more homely, traditional feel. Saturday) with food being served in Real fires and soft lighting were the evening until 9pm and Sunday introduced, a Parquet floor was lunches available from 12-4pm. exposed in the snug, a new bar - ‘the The ‘Mill’ of course has always John Lombe’ was built at the rear played its part in Derby drinking and a fantastic range of Real Ales folklore being a City centre circuit was introduced which culminated in pub and it has had quite a colourful the Derby CAMRA Pub of the Year history over the years. In the 1970’s award in 2011. The pub certainly it had a reputation as a bikers pub shuck up all the others around it and motor bikes would be lined up with its competitive pricing policy outside a la Matlock Bath style, no forcing them to compete as never doubt attracted by a great jukebox before. Big Terry finally decided to which included rare rock singles by call it day though and retired for a the likes of Led Zeppelin and King second time in 2013 with his parting Crimson. At that time it was run by words being “I’ll be back” in true Schwarzenegger style. We wait with John Pierrepont and the brewery baited breath but in the meantime was Tennants of Sheffield which he has left some rather large later came under the Whitbread trousers to fill and who better to fill umbrella. It was a spartan pub in them than the man who has those days but had much decorative transformed the Exeter Arms over tiling - the sort that still exists on the last few years, Martin Roper the way to the toilets today. achieving the Derby CAMRA Pub of In the late 1980’s its rock mentality the Year award in its own rite. gave way to a more sophisticated, We wish Martin, Denise and the upmarket pub with real ale a feature team well and hope that they can and was run by Nigel Barker who weave that Old Silk Mill magic once dubbed it "The smart place to drink again. real ale". Indeed the pub was smart enough for Derby County players of Gareth Stead/Paul Gibson 9 www.derbycamra.org.uk LAST ORDERS

Ray Smith CAMRA has launched its first ever national

It is with great sadness that we online pub guide – whatpub.com have to report the passing of Ray - dedicated to helping the public find the Smith after a short illness on November 22nd. Ray was a keen best pubs to suit their needs across Britain. skier, golfer, bass singer, Shrovetide football player and an ollowing an extensive two year active member of the Derby Fproject by thousands of CAMRA volunteers, whatpub.com features Branch of CAMRA. He was Health 47,000 pubs, around 36,000 of which & Safety Officer for the City serve real ale - making the site the most Charter Beer Festival at the definitive online guide to real ale in the UK. Whatpub.com offers over thirty Assembly Rooms and his different search fields ranging from dog engineering skills were invaluable friendly pubs to those that offer in setting up the Festival over a newspapers or live music, making the results customizable to each person's number of years. Ray was also one individual preferences. Another key of the five Derby CAMRA feature is that of the 35,800 real ale pubs featured, around 22,000 have members who visited the House details of the real ales being served - of Commons in December 2012 to taking the guess work out of a visit for lobby local MP’s to scrap the beer real ale lovers. A full entry offers a description and pictures of the pub, the duty escalator which indirectly led address, opening hours, who owns it, to a positive outcome and its lists the regular real ales they stock, states whether the pub offers Guest eventual abolition. Ray will be Beers, highlights the pubs main sadly missed by all who knew him features e.g. availability of food, gives a and will remain in the hearts of map of where the pub can be located, sat nav reference, OS reference and many. highlights the local transport available. Why not give it a try. Terry Morton

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10 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 AmberValley CAMRABranch By Trevor Spencer [email protected] AMBER VALLEY NEWS Diary 2014 Winter Ales Trail , in second place, the Amber champion was not decided until the very last Friday December 27th Branch Social at Old This event, which was very successful last day of the Trail, when the Beehive Inn, from Oak, Horsley Woodhouse from 7pm winter, will take place between 11th January Ripley narrowly beat the Hunters Arms, Monday 13th January Beer Festival Meeting, and 16th February. It may be expanded to Gate Inn, Swanwick, 8pm start accommodate pubs from Branches bordering Kilburn and the Holly Bush Makeney, with the Black Bulls Head, Openwoodgate close Thursday 30th January Branch Amber Valley, and further details are available Committee/Branch Meeting, George, Lowes Hill, from Trevor Spencer, who is organising the behind in 4th place. The first three pubs on Ripley 8pm start Trail, on 07758 265 915 or the Amber Valley Trail will receive Certificates Beer Festivals: [email protected] marking their achievement, and the Beehive Amber/Erewash Valley is the Amber Valley CAMRA Cider Pub of the December 26 -29: annual Beer Festival at Year, and has thus been nominated for the Old Oak, Horsley Woodhouse., the Cider Trail inclusion in CAMRA’s National Cider Pub of Leadmill/Bottle Brook Brewery Tap. As usual, a the Year competition, in which everyone at varied and imaginative menu featuring beers The Amber and Erewash Valley Branches from far and wide will be on offer at this ever- combined to celebrate Cider Month by Amber Valley CAMRA hopes it is very popular event – don’t miss it! running the Two Valleys Cider Trail during successful. October. 24 pubs took part, and the winners Pub/Brewery News were decided by inviting drinkers, both Amber Valley Beer CAMRA and non-CAMRA members, to text in At the time of writing the Wheel Inn, a mark out of 5 for the cider they were Festival 2014 Holbrook is closed, while the Nags Head, drinking. There was a tremendous response, Belper is for sale. Belper Brewing Company with 1,127 marks being received overall for 56 It is quite likely that we will be moving to a will shortly commence brewing, albeit at a different varieties of Cider or Perry. There was new venue for the 2014 event, the Strutts site in Duffield, just outside the Amber Valley an incentive of a tub of Three Cats Cider for Centre in Belper. We will have more details area. surveying the most pubs, ands several soon. drinkers tried for the prize, with the eventual A new bar, Arkwrights has opened at the winner visiting 18 of the 24 pubs on the Trail. Belper Goes Green event Strutt Club in Belper. It will be serving up to 6 Real Ales and a choice of ciders/perries. It will As for the winning pubs, while the Gallows The proposed dates of this event are 31st be open from 4pm weekdays and all day at Inn, Ilkeston was the clear winner from May-1st June 2014 and organisers hope to weekends. Erewash with the Muirhouse Brewery Tap, have a bar run by Amber Valley CAMRA.

Beehive Inn 11 www.derbycamra.org.uk Good Beer Guide 2014 – Out Now The 2014 edition of CAMRA’s popular Good Beer Guide is now out and is fully revised and updated and features pubs across the that serve the best real ale. Now in its 41st edition, this pub guide is completely independent with listings based entirely on nomination and evaluation by CAMRA members. This means you can be sure that every one of the 4,500 pubs deserves their place, plus they all come recommended by people who know a thing or two about good beer. The unique 'Breweries Section' lists over 1000 breweries - micro, regional and national - that produce real ale in the UK, and the beers that they brew. Tasting notes for the beers, compiled by CAMRA-trained tasting teams, are also included. The Good Beer Guide 2014 is the complete book for beer lovers and a must-have for anyone wanting to experience the UK's finest pubs. It is available online from CAMRA.org.uk or local book shops and some pubs around the area including the Alexandra Hotel & Furnace Inn in Derby.

12 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 n the last Cider with Suzie I they would like to be expect Hecks Kingston Black cider at Peterborough Festival Imentioned the Two Valleys included, so expect a bigger cider and Blakeney Red Perry 2013. Back after a debut at the Cider & Perry Trail run by and better trail next time. along with perennial favourites Derby Summer Festival will be Amber Valley and Erewash from Westcroft (Janet’s Jungle Looking ahead, it can’t have Bottle Kicking from Hallaton, Branches of CAMRA. It proved Juice), Wilkins, Naish and, or escaped your notice that Derby to be a great success, with Leicestershire. Its early days yet, are running the National Winter couse, Broadoak Perry. From over one thousand scores but space permitting we will Ales Festival 2014 at the Herefordshire we will have two received (by text voting). In have the largest range ever or Roundhouse from February craft cider makers new to the Amber Valley the result was cider / perry at a Derby Winter 19th to 23rd. I know the Festival, Greggs Pitt from Much very close, with the winner emphasis is on “Ales”, but you Marcle (cider and perry) and Festival. being the Beehive at Ripley, cider drinkers certainly won’t also Marches Cyder Circle from second place going to the This has been a very good year be neglected. The format for Lucton (also cider and perry), Hunters Arms at Kilburn and for cider makers. Plenty of cider is changing slightly this not forgetting our regular, third was the Hollybush at year; the main bar will still be in Gwatkins (Yarlington Mill) from sunshine, and plenty of rain too Makeney. In Erewash there the Main Hall but the Abbey Dore. The Welsh has produced one of the best was a comfortable win for the supplementary bar is moving contingent will be present, with crops of apples and pears in Gallows Inn, Ilkeston. All these from the Carriage Room to the a selectin from Gwynt y Ddraig pubs specialize in real cider years, so next summer should Music Tent. We will have a (Welsh Warrior cider and Two and perry with a wide choice be excellent for cider and perry. range of Derbyshire ciders Trees perry), also Springhead always available, with some Of course, cider has to be made including Woodthorpe Hall (Wobbly Munk). rotation so you never know (Ruby Suzie) from North in the autumn when the fruit is what interesting drinks you Devon will be represented with, Derbyshire, Spencer & Haspel available and it then ferments may find. On top of this they amongst others, Winkleigh (Shock) from Ockbrook, throughout the winter. It is all stock a good selection of Autum Scrumpy and from Clyst Bramley Street (new to the possible that some of the 2013 Real Ales. I would like to St. George Green Valley Rum festival) from Somercotes, congratulate them on their Tiddly Tum. If you like pale, vintage will be ready for the Scropton Cider (probably Doris success and commend them clear cider we have Double National Winter Ales Festival, so Stokes) and Three Cats Cider all to you, the reader, as well Vision from Kent, and from the there could be late changes to from Morley. worth a visit. It looks certain same stable their perry, the program to accommodate that the cider trail will be run All the main cider / perry Impeared Vision. A newcomer early season pressings. again next October and Derby producing areas of the country to the festival is Hubz from Branch have indicated that will be featured. From Somerset Cambridgeshire, champion Wassail

Pub of the Year Finalists Real Ale Capital Survey Derby CAMRA has announced its shortlist of candidates for the 2014 Pub of the Year title after an initial vote by its membership. The Derby CAMRA’s Annual Beer Census will take magnificent 7 finalists are the Bell & Castle, place on Friday 31st January, 2014 with all the Furnace Inn and Little Chester Alehouse all in pubs in the City Centre being visited on one Derby and Pattenmakers Arms – Duffield, night by teams of surveyors. The idea is to see Queens Head – Little Eaton, Royal Oak – how many different Real Ales are available in Ockbrook and Royal Oak – Wirksworth. The Derby on any one given night. Last year we had a pubs will now all be visited by a team of judges whopping 276 ales altogether with 180 different over a 6 week period and marked after each visit ones and this year we are hoping for equally as with the winning candidates expected to be many if not better. The night is usually a cracking known towards the end of January. Derby social occasion as well so if you would like to join Drinker will of course bring you the full details of one of the teams then e-mail the winners next time but wishes all of the [email protected] finalists well.

13 www.derbycamra.org.uk Ashbourne & District CAMRA Branch

by Mark Grist [email protected]

Ashbourne Sub-Branch Pub News The White Hart has re-opened yet again, for possibly the third time this year. It is on The Miner’s Arms at Brassington (actually just Marston’s disposal list, so let’s hope they can outside our sub-branch area) recently has find a buyer who will revitalise and stabilise it, changed hands and the licence has been so that everyone has a chance to get to know taken on by Janet & Steve from the Sycamore a consistent team behind the bar. at Parwich. They will continue to run the Sycamore and have installed a management During mid-November, both the George & team at the Miner’s Arms, but intend to leave Dragon and the Smith’s Tavern had guest ales the operation there largely unchanged. at the same time from the Celt Experience Brewery. The George & Dragon had Golden- The Horns re-launched on October 18th and Age at 4.2%, whilst the Smith’s Tavern set George & Dragon the new young management team are very local drinkers a challenge with Seven Flowers, keen to improve the pub scene in the town. weighing in at 8.1% and containing no less The members would like to wish Ben & than seven hop varieties. Both were superb in Christina every success and will be very different ways, although the Seven supporting them in their efforts. Flowers did cause a Marmite-type split The Roston Inn (The Shant) at Roston has re- amongst those who tried it! opened following a four month sabbatical. Initially, it is open from Thursday to Sunday Ashbourne Area expands only, but it is welcome news to see it breathing again in any format. We have recently been allocated a wider area to cover local members’ interests and this The Ketch at Kniveton is using personal links means we will now be reporting on the with the team at Bumpmill Brewery to put on following areas: The Ketch a regular guest ale from them alongside the more familiar offerings of Pedigree and Hulland Ward (The Nag’s Head, The Black Doombar. This is a very welcome addition to Horse), Brailsford (The Rose & Crown), the beer choice in and around Ashbourne. Hollington (The Red Lion), Shirley (The Saracen’s Head), Longford (The Ostrich), The Smith’s Tavern continues to reintroduce Dalbury Lees (The Three Horseshoes, The traditional pub games and alongside the Black Cow), Boylestone (The Rose & Crown), reinstated dartboard and the new shove- (The Cavendish Arms) & Sudbury ha’penny board can now be found a bar (The Vernon Arms). billiards table – a very rare sight these days and one that will surely attract more pub- Any news on pub events, forthcoming beers, goers looking for a traditional pub festivals etc for these, as well as our existing experience. Backgammon sessions are now area pubs, is most welcome and can be sent The Horns also held every Wednesday. to the e-mail address above. Diary Dates

BRANCH MEETINGS Tuesday 17th December Smith's Tavern, Ashbourne Up to 9 Real Ales Tuesday 28th January Plus The Nag's Head and The Black Horse, Real Ciders & Perries Hulland Ward

14 DerbyDRINKER December/January 2014 EREWASH VALLEY by Mick & Carole Golds CAMRA BRANCH [email protected]

Pub News The Coach & Horses, Draycott is now selling Bass served by gravity and all cask ales are First of all an apology to Mandy & Richard Muir from the Brewery Tap for miss spelling their £2.60 pint. Trip surname in the last issue of the drinker. Trip and Pub Survey of We will have more trips in the New The Needlemakers Arms, Nottingham Rd, Year and hope to include a report on Ilkeston has reopened after a refurbishment by Giltbrook & Eastwood Punch Taverns. We called in after the reopening our Christmas Social trip to Stockport and were very pleasantly surprised to see such On Saturday 26th October, 13 Camra members in the next issue of Derby Drinker. a good job, the pub now has a new entrance to made up of Erewash, Nottingham & Derby the car park, (see photo) the existing entrance branches met at The Gate Inn, Awsworth. What is still at the side and a patio door has been added out into the garden. At weekends it better place to meet to start the trip ,from Future Meetings supports three regional beers and the licensee there we went on to the New White Bull a is Corey Turton ex Weatherspoons and Kings Greene King pub threatened with closure, what All meetings start 8.30pm. Head, Ilkeston. a surprise when we went in and saw no Greene Contact Secretary, Jayne 0115 The Bridge Inn, Cotmanhay is a pleasant canal King beers on the bar instead 2 beers from full 8548722. side pub at the end of Bridge Street ,Cotmanhay, (see photo) and was originally a mash of Stapleford. We were made very Wednesday 8th January 2014 - Hardy Hansons pub then taken over by Greene welcome by landlord and landlady before we Stumble Inn , Long Eaton. King but it is now a free house operated by moved on to the Hayloft but were not very Wednesday 5th February 2014 - licensee Bob Oakley and his wife. Bob has run impressed. On to Hilltop, Greasley Castle this pub for a good number of years under Crown Inn, Heanor. Greene King, the beer list still consists of beers another Greene King pub but with Batemans from Greene King with guest beers available, Yellow Belly as a guest. Then across the road to for more information visit their website - the Three Tuns, an excellent pub and a good Bridge Inn Cotmanhay. selection of beers. Next was the Sun, another Pub Discounts The Three Horseshoes, Derby Rd, Ilkeston is at Greene King pub but no comment before Please remember to show your the moment another Greene King pub for sale, but we have heard a rumour that it has been moving down to the Great Northern in Langley Camra card. bought and is to be reopened watch this Mill with a friendly atmosphere and 5 beers The Barge, Long Eaton - space. from the Pub People selection. Then it was to The Royal Oak, Tamworth Rd, Long Eaton is still the Railway Tavern before going to the Crown, 10p off pint, 5p off half (includes closed and boarded up and it doesn’t look Heanor and finally catching the bus back to cider) promising. Ilkeston to finish the night in the Muirhouse The Barge, Tamworth Rd, Long Eaton after The Bridge, Sandiacre - going through a bad spell is now up and Brewery Tap. A great day out with one or two 15p off pint running again with a selection of real ales. surprises along the way, see photo’s. Coach & Horses, Draycott - All cask ales £2.60 pint

Great Northern , Langley Mill - 15p off pint

Navigation, Breaston - 10p off pint

Observatory , Ilkeston - 20p off pint

The Poacher, Ilkeston - 15p off pint

Queens Head, Marlpool - 20p off Bridge Inn The Needlemakers pint, 10p off half (includes cider)

Rutland Cottage, Ilkeston - 15p off pint Mon- Thurs only

Seven Oaks, Stanton by Dale - 20p off pint

Steamboat Inn, Trent Lock - 20p off pint, 10p off half (includes cider)

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onsider! Dear Toper, the festive season that is so nearly Cupon us once again, a time when your favourite hostelries will no doubt be invaded by those once a year boozers, who What’s That Noise? know nothing of pub etiquette and who make their own time at the bar longer than necessary (and as a consequence, These strange events usually take place on quiet weekday evenings, everyone else’s) by insisting on paying by credit card – or when landlords are looking to entice punters into their establishments should I say ‘cards’? as the first plastic offering seldom works. with some form of entertainment. Unfortunately these evenings are Yes, Dear Toper, it is that annual commercial bonanza known as not very entertaining, and the would-be pop stars of tomorrow seem Christmas! A time of year when gullible parents, egged on by a T.V. to think that decibels are a substitute for talent, which usually means advertising onslaught that begins as a trickle in October and by that you can hear the discordant racket at the other end of the street. December has become a full blown ‘Shock and Awe’ offensive, will be The latter is not surprising, because the score or so of speakers, that lavishing their savings (or more likely their payday loans) on buying each “artiste” brings along with them, are piled high on either side of their spoilt brats the latest ‘must-have’ items. And the older and craftier the performer, to create a couple of vibrating, tottering towers, that loom ominously over the proceedings, threatening to topple over at the brats get, the more expensive they become; sullen teenagers will any moment and crush any unsuspecting member of the public who no doubt be threatening to take their hapless parents to the European has been forced to venture too Court of Human Rights, close to the throbbing claiming ‘mental cruelty’, if they colossuses in an effort to access don’t get their heart’s desire, the toilets. And watch out for and more often than not these tripwires too, for connecting days, that is a musical this absurd over sufficiency of instrument. When I was a amplification are enough teenager, musical instruments cables and switches to rewire were expensive, often being an entire housing estate. handed down from one And so there the performer generation to another, and as a proudly sits, amidst his little consequence, the people that empire of cables, tripods, owned them treated them with microphones and speakers, that a certain reverence, and what is have taken up two thirds of the more, they tended to know room, and announces presently how to play them. Not so those dreaded words, “This is nowadays – like so many other one I wrote myself”. It turns out things these days musical to be a protest song, and the instruments are relatively singer, who’s never had a job; cheap; often being made in playing a guitar made in a Third third world sweat shops, and so World sweatshop, and using they proliferate at an alarming enough electricity to power a rate. small hospital, drones on about the exploitation of labour; the need to I’ve no objection to people spending their own money, however they cut energy consumption in order to halt climate change and how his may wish to do so, and if that means giving their pubescent brats the parents don’t understand him. means to make a horrendous din, so be it. Indeed, I think there is a Don’t misunderstand me, Dear Toper: I’m all for live entertainment in kind of ironic justice at work when they demonstrate their lack of pubs, but it has to be entertainment and not self indulgence. musical ability and taste in front of their doting parents. The trouble is, Furthermore, as a musician friend of mine recently pointed out, open it doesn’t last; sooner or later the parents’ object to the caterwauling mic nights are taking work away from professional musicians. (usually when a distraught neighbour forces the issue by heaving a As for our would-be pop star, he’s just started playing something that brick through the front window). And so the aspiring minstrels are sounds vaguely like “Jingle Bells”. Well, I suppose it is that time of year. forced to look for an alternative venue. Despondent, they trudge the As for you, Dear Toper, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you a streets; and then they see it, a blackboard outside the local hostelry, very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. advertising “Open Mic Nights”. Consider that, Dear Toper! D.T.

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