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June 2014 issue 109 InnSpire THE MAGAZINE OF CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT CAMRA The future for The Crispin PUB OR SUPERMARKET? FREEPage 1 COPY InnSpire Editorial & Production Chesterfield & District Tim Stone & Debbie Jackson CAMRA Tel: 07773 141433 [email protected] Chairman Advertisements Mick Portman Peter Boitoult 88 Walton Road, Chesterfield S40 3BY Tel: 07791 159 526 Tel: 01246 277757 [email protected] Further Information Branch Contact www.innspire.org.uk Jane Lefley [email protected] [email protected] Article Deadline for August 07790 863432 Issue 110 Wobble Organisers Friday 18th July 2014 Ray Easter InnSpire has a circulation of 4,250 [email protected] copies and is produced by and copyright of the Chesterfield & District Colin Clark Branch of CAMRA. [email protected] Matlock & Dales Branch No parts may be used without permission. Articles & letters are Contact always welcome and may be Peter Boitoult 07791 159 526 submitted by email to the InnSpire Editor, address above. Do you have trouble Please note that the views expressed finding a copy of InnSpire? herein are those of individual contributors and not necessarily those Why not guarantee yourself a copy by of the national Campaign for Real Ale subscribing to our Postal List? or the local Branch. As each issue is published, you will Chesterfield & District CAMRA is a be one of the first to receive a copy of Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale InnSpire, directly to your door. To receive a whole year’s worth of InnSpire, please send six second class LARGE letter stamps to: InnSpire Postal List, 88 Walton Road, Chesterfield S40 3BY Please remember to include your full name and address. Page 2 Chairman’s Report What better time to be thinking about beer than in the (I hope) warm, dry days of summer? Whether you’re in a town centre pub, or in the garden of one of our smashing country pubs you can’t beat it. By the time you read this (if anybody does), Barrow Hill Roundhouse Rail Ale will, I’m sure, have been another great success. The next festival to look forward to is Matlock and Dales CAMRA’s second beer festival at the Fishpond, Matlock Bath on 8th and 9th August. And we’re pleased to see the launch of another new brewery – Pigeon Fishers in Hollingwood, which completed its first test brew last month. Chesterfield CAMRA holds its annual meeting on 3rd July at the White Swan when all members are encouraged to attend. All committee positions are up for election and our branch secretary, John Rodd, will be pleased to send you information about the positions available. Mick Portman Chesterfield CAMRA Annual General Meeting Chesterfield CAMRA’s AGM will be held at the White Swan, St Mary’s Gate at 8.00 on Thursday 3 July (followed by the usual branch meeting). All branch officer positions are up for election. If a member is interested in any position, he or she should contact the secretary John Rodd - [email protected] - who will send the job description etc. or call Chairman Mick Portman to discuss. Apart from election of officers, the AGM is the opportunity for members to question officers and put forward their ideas on how the branch should operate for the coming year. If you like what we’re doing, come and say so. More importantly, if you don’t, come and tell us what we’re doing wrong and how it can be done better. Page 3 Derbyshire Rock The Carnival Saturday 16th August Live Music Featuring - Full Throttle, 28 Shots, Your Next, Atomic, Escape Plan, & Maple. More to be confirmed! All Day BBQ, Camping & Award Winning Barlow Beers Units 5/6, Church Farm, Hackney Lane, Barlow, Dronfield S18 7TR Tel: 0114 2891767 www.barlowbrewery.co.uk [email protected] Page 4 Brewery News Barlow The Brewery is once again a Three Valleys venue with beer, bangers and bands in the farmyard. The Festival takes place across up to 14 venues on Saturday 7th June with a free bus service linking them every half hour. Barlow will also be holding its popular Rock the Carnival event in August – see advert for details. Brampton Recently the brewery has taken delivery of its own bottling plant which will allow the team not only to supply regular beers but also limited run/edition bottling. Watch out for a Spirit of Brampton Mild at approx 42% available in a variety of bottling sizes. The brewery has been invited to the Thornbridge Great Peak Weekender festival of beer to be held at Thornbridge July 4th to 6th July, which will see Brampton beers available alongside a variety of British and American ales. Bumpmill We are very excited to announce we will soon be opening Matlock’s first micro pub, taking over what was the Central Cafe on Smedley Street. Stanley’s Alehouse will be a small, cosy, traditional micro pub serving our own beers alongside an ever changing variety of quality micro brewery beers. New beers about to hit the bar are Lightning Bolt 4.6% - a refreshingly smooth golden ale named after one of our favourite songs by Jake Bugg - and Mr Brightside at a pleasant 3.8% Everards Whakatu (pronounced fak-a-too), with its distinctive Maori inspired pump clip, is back in Everards pubs. Whakatu derives from the Maori name for Nelson, reflecting its fusion of Nelson Sauvin and Challenger hops, and is a light golden ale which has a crisp, dry bitter taste with hints of gooseberry and kiwi. Pigeon Fishers This brand new brewery based in Hollingwood launched its first test brew at Page 5 Brewery News cont. the Rail Ale Festival last month. Brewer Ade Cole would like to thank the many members of the local brewing community who have helped to get the new brewery off the ground, and hopes a ‘non-test’ beer will be appearing on a bar near you very soon! Raw By the end of May we should have our new 12 Barrel FV installed, which will be the first part of our expansion. This will take us up to five brews - just over 30 barrels per week. We are also bringing in a new conditioning tank so we can start to hand fill kegs on site and increase our keg range. Zenith Pale and Majic Mild have done well over the Spring and will soon be replaced with the summer specials Solstice 3.8% and Apollo Summer 3.8%. There will also be a new Ghost IPA 5.9% coming out soon in keg and we are hoping to get the Baby Ghost 3.9% released soon too. June will see us joining forces again with ICCB for the music and beer festival at the Speedwell Rooms in Staveley 13th - 15th June and we’ll be bringing back the ICCB Colliers Brass 3.7% for this. Hopefully later in June Antoni will have his brewpub in Sardinia up and running and Dave will be heading over as soon as possible to brew with him. We have been invited already to this year’s Sardinian beer festival and hope to be receiving some of Antoni’s Trulla beer soon for the Raw Pubs. Thornbridge After sifting through hundreds of entries the BBC Food Awards judging panel for the Best Drink Producer awarded the accolade for 2014 to Thornbridge Brewery. The BBC award is made to the company that uses “carefully sourced ingredients and skill to produce an outstanding drink”. With the number of entries in the category doubling in 2014, judge Victoria Moore said the task was “Incredibly tough” but that Thornbridge was “the one we were talking about weeks after the visit”. Thornbridge’s Head Brewer Rob Lovatt was delighted “I’ve just returned from the World Beer Cup with a medal for our beer and so to win this award so soon after is a real testament to the hard work all my team put in day in and day out.” Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Pub News It’s almost time to search through the wardrobe again, as we approach the Roy Shorrock Hawaiian Shirt Appreciation Day 2014. This annual event will take place as usual at the Arkwright Arms on 5th July, with live music from 12:00 till midnight. This year’s event will be bigger than ever, with more space, more bars and more food. See the Appreciation Day Facebook page for details. Local Micropub, the Chesterfield Alehouse on West Bars, supported CAMRA’s Mild Month throughout May by dedicating at least one of their six handpumps to showcase Milds from breweries near and far. It has also been accredited by CAMRA’s LocAle scheme. Easter saw the Rose and Crown hold another successful St George’s Day beer festival. June will of course see the World Cup in Brazil take place and for those who like a bit of football with their real ale, the pub will be showing all the matches. Keep your eye out for the Brampton Brewery / Rose and Crown Flag that will be making an appearance at each England game ... so three games at least !! For those that prefer a ‘football free’ environment, the Tramway Tavern are promising to look after you with no mention of the World Cup, just good beer and conversation! Thanks to everyone who contributed so well to the raffle in aid of Ashgate Hospice held at the recent celebration evening in the Derby Tup for 30 consecutive years in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide. There were prizes aplenty ranging from presentation cased beers, gallons of ale, polo shirts, wines, chocolates, mugs, Sunday lunches, Rail Ale tickets and a group brewery tour - all kindly donated by Ashover, Barlow, Brampton, Castle Rock and Townes breweries; the Derby Tup, Barrow Hill Rail Ale Festival and the Rose and Crown, Page 9 Chesterfield Arms Newbold Road Chesterfield S41 7PH 01246 236634 Cider & Perry Festival Thu 21st - Sat 23rd Aug Live Music Thu & Sat Nights Try our sister pubs Chesterfield Arms - Chesterfield, S41 7PH Crown Inn - Beeston, NG9 1FY Sir John Borlase Warren - Nottingham NG7 3GD Passionate about beer Passionate about pubs Passionate about brewing Visit us at brownalesbrewery.co.uk Page 10 Pub News cont.