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F R E E DDRDRIDRINDRINKDRINKEDRINKERRINKER Volume 39 No. 6 December 2017/January 2018 The Angel, Hayes End, see page 28 (Photo by Michael Slaughter LRPS) FRI 26 JAN TO SUN 4 FEB THE LON DON BEER FESTIV AL CRAFT BEERS AND REAL ALES FEA TURING 20 L ONDO N BREWERS BY THE HORNS | REUNION ANSP ACH & HOBD AY | MONCAD A FIVE POINTS | SIGNATURE SAMBROOK’ S | TRUMAN’ S PORTOBELLO | ENFIELD HOP STUFF | REDEMPTION EAST LONDON | SOUTHW ARK TWICKENHAM | WIMBLEDON C A S WINDSOR & ETON | WILD CARD S E S K U M O A H RQ EE UE- FR ACCR OON WATNEY S | CRONX EDITED J D WETHERSP Subject t o l ocal l icensing r estrictions a nd a vailability a t p articipating f ree h ouses. P hotography i s f or g uidance o nly. J D W etherspoon P LC reserves t he r ight t o w ithdraw/change o ffers ( without n otice), a t a ny t ime. S ee m ain m enu f or a dditional d etails o f o ur t erms a nd c onditions. Editorial London Drinker is published on behalf of the at Hayes End, the Compton Arms in Greater London branches of CAMRA, the Canonbury and the Salt House in St Campaign for Real Ale, and is edited by Tony Hedger. It is printed by Cliffe Enterprise, John’s Wood, you will, I hope, share my Eastbourne, BN22 8TR. despair of the attitude of pubcos and CAMRA is a not-for-profit company limited by brewers. These are not failing pubs. guarantee and registered in England; Perhaps I am being sentimental and company no. 1270286. Registered office: DDRDRIDRINDRINKDRINKEDRINKERRINKER naïve but I would have thought that 230 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL1 4LW. they are assets that they would be Material for publication, including press proud to have in their estates. Instead releases, should preferably be sent by they appear to be engaged in some e-mail to [email protected]. RANDOM THOUGHTS giant game of Monopoly, ‘sell the The deadline for the next edition, house on the cheaper square then buy February/March is Monday pologies but no specific topic or 15 January a hotel on the more expensive one’, call to arms this time, just some All contributions to this magazine are made on a A almost as if is being done for its own voluntary basis. random thoughts from your editor as sake. Let us not forget that they are To advertise in London Drinker, contact the year closes. also playing with decent people’s John Galpin on 020 3287 2966 I appreciate that the subject of the homes and jobs. Of course, they are or mobile 07508 036835; J D Wetherspoon organisation provokes E-Mail: [email protected]. businesses and must show a return to Prices: whole page £345 colour or strong feelings from both directions their shareholders on the company’s £275 mono; half-page £210 colour or £155 but I hope that we can all agree on this. assets. Well, consider this statement, mono; quarter-page £115 colour or £90 mono. Indeed I feel strongly enough about it which ‘dot com’ pioneer Martha Lane- The views expressed in this magazine are those of to mention it here and not on an inside Fox quoted in a recent interview with their individual authors and are not necessarily page. There is a ‘Twitter’ account endorsed by the editor or CAMRA. the Evening Standard . It comes from called @Wetherspoon UK . Recently it © copyright the London Branches of the David Packard, one of the founders of Campaign for Real Ale; all rights reserved. carried a statement from the company Hewlett Packard: “ Many people Due to the ever Subscriptions: please send either £9 for the to the effect that, ‘ assume, wrongly, that the purpose of a mailing of six editions or £17 for 12 editions to expanding multiculturalism of our company is to make money… a group Stan Tompkins, 52 Rabbs Mill House, Chiltern clientele and employees this year our of people get together and exist as an View Road, Uxbridge, Middx UB8 2PD. Please staff will not be wearing the poppy make cheques payable to CAMRA London Area. institution we call a company so they These prices apply to UK mail addresses only. To while working .’ This account is bogus, are able to accomplish something arrange for copies to be sent overseas, please as was the message. The company collectively that they could not contact us. have roundly disowned both. Why do accomplish separately. They make a people do things like this? It is not ‘just contribution to society, a phrase which CONTENTS a laugh’; it is malicious. It is damaging sounds trite but is fundamental .” And Branch diaries 6 to their reputation and trade. At least he is just talking about making CAMRA events and beer festival news 10 one person who saw it in good faith printers… Pub news 12 started a campaign to boycott JDW Just for context, a report by analysts Demanding justice for the outlets. Perhaps more to the point, PWC, quoted on Radio Four news on Old Justice 18 why does Twitter allow it? This is why I, 13 November, was that 14 high street London Regional Pub & Club for one, do not use Twitter. of the Year presentations 20 shops are closing every day and that is News round-up 22 Looking ahead, our campaigning to apparently a stabilisation of the New voice for the drinker 26 save pubs must continue. Irrespective situation. CAMRA’s National Pub of their architectural and/or historic On the subject of allegedly of the Year – the last four 28 merits, for so many reasons the pub is ‘endangered species’, there have also London Drinker Beer Festival 28 the only place to drink cask been reports this year that CAMRA’s Pub focus: the Angel, Hayes End 28 conditioned beer, especially in good local beer festivals have had their day. Greater London Region young company. According to some figures If people don’t like CAMRA beer members take on Twickenham 30 that I saw recently in the Morning festivals for any reason, fine, but Last orders at the Dog & Dumplings 31 Advertiser , when I started drinking in Health and welfare 32 don’t then rubbish them and by Brewery news 34 the early 1970s there were around implication the efforts of all of my Trade news 38 78,000 pubs in Britain. By 1997 that fellow volunteers who run them. From WhatPub? update 23 42 had shrunk to 60,600 and it is now the few that I have managed to get to Book reviews 48 down to 50,000. That said, some pubs and those that I have received Idle Moments 50 are of historic and/or architectural reports of, both in London and LocAle scheme 53 value. When you read of three of the elsewhere, CAMRA beer festivals are at Crossword 54 cases covered in this edition, the Angel worse holding their own and the 3 Editorial majority are thriving. They are, in my opinion, still a good the very best for 2018. Although my name appears perhaps day out. too often in these pages, I could not do what I do without Some of you may have heard that Roger Protz has stood the help of a number of people. It would be invidious to down as editor of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide which he has name them all but thank you all so much for your support. edited from 1978 to 1983 and then from 2000 to 2018. He Tony Hedger is 78 now and is simply reducing his workload. As he told the Sunday People , “ I’m certainly not retiring. I want to visit Japan next to learn about their brewing process and I have plenty more books I want to write .” I think that I know enough about the GBG production process to appreciate what a very good job Roger has done over the years. His will be a hard act to follow. I can’t claim to know Roger well but on the occasions that I have needed his help with this magazine, he has always been very helpful. I wish him well. Finally, as we approach the festive season, I hope that you will all enjoy the strange and wondrous beers that appear at this time of the year. Most of them are too strong and Best wishes for Christmas highly spiced for my palate so I hope that publicans will remember to keep a least one ‘normal’ beer on their pumps and the New Year from the for the likes of me. Harvey’s Old will always go down well London Drinker production and at some point I am bound to succumb to Hop Back’s superb Winter Lightning which has already arrived in my team to all our advertisers, local. That’s it for another year. On behalf of the London contributors, distributors and Drinker team (and there are more of us than you might think) of course, our readers we wish all readers, advertisers, distributors and contributors a good Christmas (or whatever you choose to celebrate) and ERY BREW OUR S T ! ABLE AVAIL L US EMAI TAP ROOM Try our beers s traight fr om the br ewery! FRID AYS 5- 10P M S ATURD AYS 12-8P M FIND US EMAIL US 44 Jaggar d W ay, L ondon, SW12 8SG inf o@belle villebr ewing.co.uk 4 It ma y not ha ve gone unnotic ed tha t the br ewer y has been shr ouded in sca olding sinc e A pril .