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Pints of View No.253 REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING FREE PLEASE TAKE ONE ! HERTFORDSHIRE’S Pints of View The bi-monthly publication for every discerning drinker June/July 2012 Circulation 8750 No. 253 Hertfordshire CAMRA Branches Pubs of the Year Presentations Clockwise from top left: Old Cross Tavern (Hertford), Queen’s Head (Allens Green), Land of Liberty, Peace and Plenty (Heronsgate), Red Lion (Preston) Pub Beer Festivals during the Jubilee and throughout June and July See our list of pubs holding beer festivals on page 33 PLUS: NEWS BEER PUBS BREWERIES1 EVENTS SPECIAL FEATURES REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING THE BITTER END Beer drinkers rocked by tax man s wallowing a third of every pint • AMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has The beer duty escalator increases beer tax by 2% lambasted the Government for its careless above inflation every year, and is currently in approach to one of Britain’s most valued place until 2014/15. C • institutions, the pub, as a further inflation plus 2% The further incr ease of 5% in beer duty in increase on beer will bring about yet more price the budget means that beer duty has rises at the bar, and further job losses in the sector. increased by over 40% since 2008. New increases have put up the price of a pub pint • This new increase will result in a 5-10p increase by 5-10p. With £1 on in the price of a pint sold in the pub. every pint going to the • Duty and VAT Treasury in beer duty are more than £1 for a and VAT, CAMRA has 5% beer sold at £3 in reacted to today’s news the pub. by urging its 136,000 It’s time to save your members and all pub pint and fight back goers to sign an against this year’s industry-backed e- budget which saw the petition to remove the Government continue its beer duty escalator - damaging policy of the www.camra.org.uk/saveyourpint . The e-petition beer duty escalator. has today been backed by CAMRA, the British Fight back to save your pint by signing the e- Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), and the Society petition of Independent Brewers (SIBA). We need 100,000 signatures to trigger a high With the beer and pub industry supporting almost profile Parliamentary debate and put pressure on 1 million jobs and contributing £21 billion to UK the Government ahead of Budget 2013. GDP, CAMRA has condemned the Government for To stand a chance of doing this we need your help imposing punitive successive tax increases, which in reaching as many people as possible. So please will impact both breweries at production level, sign the petition and then spread the word. So far, and drinkers at the bar. 39,000 have signed the petition. Mike Benner, CAMRA Chief Executive, said: ED says: Unfortunately the budget came just after ‘The fact Britons are forced to pay over 40% of the the last newsletter 252 was put to bed. An EDM EU beer tax bill, but consume only 13% of the (Early Day Motion) calling for the “Beer Duty beer sold in Europe, is remarkable. British beer in a Escalator” to be scrapped was only signed by one pub is so heavily hit with duty and VAT, the tax of Hertfordshire’s nine MPs - James Clappison man’s whirlwind hikes translate to him guzzling a (Hertsmere). Other MPs Anne Main (St Albans) and third of every pint served, a shadow cast over the Mark Prisk (Hertford & Stortford) have had letters beer drinker depriving people of an affordable pledging support for the pub published in this night down their local. journal but did not sign the EDM. You can draw ‘Such high taxes on beer are totally unsustainable, your own conclusions about their genuine and therefore CAMRA is launching a consumer commitment. We do however urge everyone, fight back in a bid to make the Government see including lager drinkers and non-CAMRA sense. We today urge all beer drinkers to visit members, to sign the e-petition. If you use the pub www.camra.org.uk/saveyourpint to get behind this you are directly affected, so please sign and pledge new industry-backed e-petition to help safeguard your support to stop the continual relentless price the future of the beer and pub industry’. rises. See Petition poster on page 34 2 REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING 3 REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING THE BITTER END it set out to be two years ago. Minimum alcohol pricing to That is the assessment of All Party Parliamentary curb retail booze deals Save The Pub Group chairman Greg Mulholland, AMRA has supported the Government’s who was speaking at CAMRA’s Annual calls to introduce a minimum price per Parliamentary Reception in the first week of Calcohol unit in England and Wales. The March. measures will help close the gap between on and At the event, which was attended by over 100 MPs off trade alcohol pricing, and give pubs more of a and peers, Mulholland said that while some chance to compete in the current climate at a time progress had been made to ease the financial when 16 pubs close their doors forever across burden on pubs, he “would have hoped for more” Britain every week. and “we want to see more” from the Government. CAMRA has found that in 10 years the price of a He said: “We really implore the Chancellor and pint of beer in the off trade has increased by only the Treasury to give us a break and actually to 1%, whereas in the on-trade, a pub pint has soared recognise the huge importance that both British by 43%. beer and the British pub have to all of our local Mike Benner, CAMRA Chief Executive, said: economies, all of our local constituencies, as well ‘CAMRA is pleased that the Prime Minister is actually to the top-line and the country as a whole, seeking to support community pubs with plans to and it is high time that that was reflected in a break introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol to end in beer duty and particularly finally in the abolition pubs being undercut by below cost supermarket of the beer duty escalator”. alcohol price promotions. In the last 10 years, the Mulholland went on to criticise the government’s cost of a pint has increased by an incredible 43% response to the Business, Innovation and Skills in pubs but just 1% in the off trade — contributing report into the pubco-tenant relationship, and to a culture where people are more likely to drink called on it to follow “the will of Parliament” by at home or on the streets. establishing an independent review panel in ‘CAMRA would support a minimum price of autumn. between 40 and 45 pence a unit as this would “The government got it badly wrong”, said prevent alcohol being sold at below cost and so Mulholland. “The good news is that there are help redress the growing price gap between enough MPs and peers in Parliament who alcohol sold in pubs and alcohol sold by the off understand the issue and who care about the issue trade. This move to end irresponsible alcohol loss and that this issue will simply not go away. On the th leaders by the large supermarkets will encourage a 12 Jan there was a unanimous vote in the House cultural shift towards drinking beer sociably and of Commons to support a review in autumn.” responsibly in well-run community pubs’. He added “We want to see more in the way of Ed Says: One alcohol unit of beer costs £1.26 in looking at the possibility of a genuine ban on the pub (average pint is 2-2.5 Units) so the idea below-cost selling in supermarkets, we want to see that a minimum price policy will save pubs is quite a real attempt to find a way to give well-run frankly ludicrous. If you want to save pubs you community pubs a break in terms of rent, and we have to reduce pub prices which the government, also want to see a real protection for pubs in the for all their talk of support for the Great British planning system. Pub, are doing absolutely nothing about. In fact, “There has been some progress there but it needs following the budget the government made matters to go further, because there are many pubs closing, worse by raising pub beer prices above inflation not only that shouldn’t close, not only that need yet again. not close, but actually where there are people trying to buy them and run them as a pub viably and are prevented from doing so. Government has failed to prove “For any government that believes in community its pub-friendly credentials empowerment and this one does, then that cannot be right, that is something that we must see he Government has not done enough for changed.” pubs in the last 12 months and is failing to prove itself as the “pub-friendly government” Adam Pescod, Publican’s Morning Advertiser, T 13-Mar-2012 4 REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING FIVE REAL ALES: Oakham JHB Timothy Taylor Landlord Tring Ridgeway 2 Guest ales and 1 real cider 5 REMOVE ALL CROP MARKS FOR PRODUCTION PRINTING Brewery and Pub Industry News continue to be involved in the brewing process. Red Squirrel Brewery looks to Furthermore, a third brewer will join the Red the future Squirrel team and we will announce the details of ed Squirrel Brewery has announced its plans that person in the coming weeks.” for the future following the departure of Mr Blesson concludes “The cornerstone of any Head Brewer Gary Hayward.
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