A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All Our Readers!
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180 Peterborough & District Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale December 2014 / January 2015 A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! PUB AWARDS FOLLOW THE BEAR GOTTA HAND Merit Award presentations Celebrate this old Fenland IT TO ‘EM and Pub Of the Year plough custom in Whittlesey Bram and Sue from the Hand nominees inside this January. and Heart win Gold Award ALSO INSIDE PUB & BREWERY NEWS DIARY DATES JOIN CAMRA Both pubs are in the CAMRA GOOD BEER GUIDE 2015! P ETERBOROUGH CAMRA P ETERBOROUGH CAMRA PUB OF THE YEAR 2 01 4 Runner Up PUB OF THE YEAR 2 01 4 & 2 01 1 CAMRA Gold award 2 013 CAMRA Gold award 2 013 Six Real Ales Ten Real Ales from £2.50 a pint from £2.00 a pint Live Sky Sports • Live Entertainment Live Sky Sports • Live Entertainment Happy Hour Monday-Thursday 5-7pm Happy Hour Monday - Friday 5-7pm Cash Quiz every Sunday from 8pm Price: £10 per ticket. Pre-purchase only, not available on the door. Please buy from the venue. Ask at the bar for more details. The Ploughman Staniland Way, The Dragon Hodgson Centre, Hodgson Ave Werrington Centre Tel: 01733 327696 PE4 5EG Tel: 01733 578088 Editor’s ramblings | 3 A pub is for life not just for Christmas! Greetings! Can’t believe it’s nearly that time of year again! IN THIS ISSUE The Festive Season! (I like to Welcome from the editor 3 think all seasons are festive, but Chairman’s corner 5 is that just wishful thinking?) Coalies in Newark 7 At least it’s an excuse, if one is Pub of the Year nominees 8–9 needed, to meet up with Pub news 10 –13 friends/family in your local or meet them at theirs. The dark nights can be off- Brewery news 14 –17 putting, and it’s easy to convince yourself not to Follow the bear 18 –21 venture out, but your local needs you! Disappearing boozers of Stamford 23 –25 I came across an article the other day in A big hand 26 November’s edition of CAMRA’s What’s Brewing , entitled “Drinking Beer is the Healthy Option”. Telford ale trail 29 –31 The article says “drinking beer is good for you and Gig guide 33 that’s official. Supping a pint of beer a day helps Diary dates 35 you live longer, cuts the chance of heart attack by a CAMRA Christmas party 36 third and it’s not going to make you fat, experts at Top tips 37 the European Beer and Health Symposium in Contacts 38 Brussels have found.” They go on to say that moderate beer consumption can be part of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Food for thought! Think I’ll go out for a pint even though it is dark and Are you missing out? damp, and mull it over. Merry Christmas and a Get Beer Around Ere delivered to your door! Happy New Year to you all. Cheers. JB For a year (6 issues) send £3.48 for second class or £4.02 for 1st Class or multiples thereof for multiple years. Please send a cheque/PO payable to “Peterborough CAMRA” and your address to:- Daryl Ling, 19 Lidgate Close, Peterborough PE2 7ZA Editor: Jane Brown Distribution: Beer Around ‘Ere is published [email protected] David Murray by the Peterborough & District [email protected] Published by: Peterborough & District Branch of CAMRA Copyright Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. Proof Reading: © 2014, The Campaign for Bob Melville - 07941 246693 Real Ale Ltd. Produced on behalf of CAMRA by: Printed By: Orchard House Media Ltd Precision Colour Print Ltd Views or comments expressed in this publi - 9a South Street, Crowland, PE6 0AH Haldane, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4QQ cation may not necessarily be those of the Tel: 01733 211933 Editor or of CAMRA. Circulation: 7,000 copies distributed to Magazine Design & Production: pubs, clubs and members throughout the The next issue of Beer Around ‘Ere will be Daniel Speed Peterborough and District CAMRA available on the 29th January . [email protected] Branch area. A digital version of this We must have your stories, news and magazine is available to view and advertisements by 6th January . Please Advertising Sales Manager: download at issuu.com Jane Michelson send your stories and other copy to the [email protected] Main Cover Image: John Moore editor, Jane Brown. Tel: 01733 211410 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk DECEMBER 2014 / JANUARY 2015 | BEER AROUND ERE 4 | Please support our advertisers Huntingdonshire CAMRA Rural Pub of the Year 2014 Opening Times Two Beer Gardens (one V.I.P!) Mon - Thurs: 11am-3pm & 5- 11pm Fri - Sun: Open all day Childrens Bouncy Castle every Sunday throughout the summer Food Served All day Sunday Refurbished Restaurant BEER AROUND ERE | DECEMBER 2014 / JANUARY 2015 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk Chairman’s corner | 5 Chairman’s Co rner Darker nights have descended on us with the inevitable reduction in the number of people going to the pub. It’s a seasonal thing it seems! In the last few years the weeks leading up to the ‘silly season’, Christmas, have been somewhat slack for the pub trade. A few with some enterprising skills do ride the for our Pub of The Year (POTY) and to list their period by enticing customers through their doors, choices for inclusion in the 2016 Good Beer in various ways, whether it is a charity night as Guide. As we have seven contenders this year for recently put on at The Heron in Stanground or, a POTY we expect a good return of votes and a winter ales beer festival. The point I’m trying to close competition. Your nominations for pubs to make is for licensees to make a greater effort and be considered as GBG entries are also of great do something to get customers through the doors, importance. Please note the change of address to rather than just sit and moan about the lack of return voting forms and the deadline date. It drinkers. would be advisable to send them in before the Xmas post rush, or you may prefer to send them As the year draws to an end we can take stock of by email. Only present CAMRA members can how many more pubs we have lost this year. For cast votes and please only list pubs within our example, if you were to go on a pub crawl starting branch area. We would also like to see as many in Woodston/ Fletton heading towards Stan - members as possible to our AGM on the 10th ground, on leaving The Coalheavers in Park St. December at The Brewery Tap. Prior to that and the next pub you would come across would be over one not to forget, our social night on the 6th a mile and a half away, in Stanground. This scene December at The Ploughman, Werrington. is repeated in many parts of the city, where you have to trek well over a mile between pubs. It‘s still It just remains for me to wish you all the very unbelievable that, in many areas of our city, people best compliments of the forthcoming season and do not have a pub within a ten or fifteen minute to look forward to a healthy and happy New Year. walk from their homes. A situation that was unheard Cheers of a few years ago. Our new Pubs Officer John David Murray Temple has been making a vigorous effort in Branch Chairman checking out many of these past and present pubs. A survey by Dr Ignazio Cabras of Newcastle Award Presentations Business School has come up with several facts that On 19th October a minibus of CAMRA stalwarts show pubs (in particular rural ones), can have a visited Ramsey and Whittlesey to present Jolly high level of complementarity between pubs and Sailor and Letter B with Merit Awards. social events and activities within the community. Bruce receiving his award from They are deemed to be more effective in Dave Murray our branch chairman. promoting community events such as sports matches, charity events and social clubs than other places such as village halls. Nevertheless the most powerful solution for avoiding pub closures would still rely on us as it’s a simple case of use it or lose it, maybe for good. Landlord and Landlady, All our local branch members should have Paul and Louise Craw - received a letter and voting form to cast their votes ford with Dave Murray Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk DECEMBER 2014 / JANUARY 2015 | BEER AROUND ERE 6 | Please support our advertisers BEER AROUND ERE | DECEMBER 2014 / JANUARY 2015 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk Coalheavers’ Gang off to Newark | 7 Coalies in Newark Coalheavers mini trip part one A very small group of us headed off to Newark Next pub was another recently opened one and recently. None of us had been before, it`s not too based on a Monty Python theme. The Flying far away and we had heard good things about it. Circus only had 3 beers on and one was a Mile - The only down side to the trip was the cost. We stone. There was a Brewster’s beer and one made thought it would be about £15 so didn`t bother especially for them and called Norwegian Blue, getting advance tickets and we were stung for after the famous dead parrot sketch.