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Worcester Pub Beer Festival on Facebook and Send Your Pub and Brewery News to Twitter Spring 2020 magazine of the lunesdale branch of the campaign for real ale BRAT LE IN E G FREE C 25 O years F N P E INT TAK Pint Taken Pint Taken is published by the Redditch & 10,000 copies of Pint Taken are distributed Bromsgrove, Wyre Forest and Worcester across the county of Worcestershire and branches of the Campaign for Real Ale beyond. (CAMRA). Read Pint Taken online, download previous Pint Taken is designed and printed by Catshill editions and find out more at Design design.catshill.com pinttaken.org.uk Subscribe to Pint Taken for a year by sending Advertising rates are available at four C5 stamped addressed envelopes to pinttaken.org.uk or further details via Subscriptions, 4 Tilehouse, Redditch, [email protected] Worcestershire B97 4PL Articles/comments/photos to The views expressed in Pint Taken are not [email protected] necessarily those of the Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. Items for publication in the Summer edition (published 1st June 2020) should Citizens Advice consumer helpline be sent in by 26 April 2020. Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm Tel: 03454 040506 CAMRA Ltd 230 Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 4LW This special edition features Tel: 01727 867201 historic artwork that appeared in the 1981 Worcestershire Beer Guide. 3 Welcome from the Editors Pint Taken proudly celebrates its 25th birthday in 2020 but its origins begin much before then, in 1983, as a short-lived newsletter. This issue we’ve tracked down every former Pint Taken editor, including Malcolm Glass, who came up with the name. We hope you enjoy reading the magazine. Here’s to the next 25 years! Malcolm Glass (1983 - 1984) In 1983 when beer The Pint Taken was less than £1 a pint, we launched Timeline the first issue of Pint Taken to pub 1983 - Pint Taken launched as a short-lived goers. The four page A4 branch newsletter circulation of the 1995 - First production of a four page, black first issue can’t and white A5 newsletter covering the north have been much east of the county more than 500 copies, delivered 1996 - Coloured paper introduced. Eight pages by willing 2000 - Coverage extended to all of volunteers to Good Worcestershire. 12 pages Beer Guide Pubs. 35 years ago it 2003 - Coloured text introduced. 16 pages was essential to 2006 - Full colour introduced to the cover. 24 have a copy of the pages Good Beer Guide to hand, especially when travelling out of the area, 2008 - Full colour throughout the magazine. 28 to help you to avoid the numerous pubs selling pages nasty keg beers. The idea behind Pint Taken 2020 - 25 years celebrated, 40 pages came from myself as I had recently moved to Redditch from Solihull where we produced a Banks’s pub. We had a Stoke Works Stagger, simple bi monthly newsletter called ‘Boro which included the Butchers Arms, now closed Banter’. Pint Taken took the same format, and replaced by cottages. We also met and plenty of beer and pubs news as well as drank Ansells at the Dragoon in Aston Fields promoting local CAMRA and pubs and which is now the Ladybird. Our favourite beers publicans who had introduced cask ale for the at the time, however were Sam Smiths, first time. In the days before desktop Ruddles, Simpkiss and Bathams. publishing, my wife would type up the newsletter for printing manually on a trusty I remember my good old friend Andrew Lyndon Gestetner machine. The first issue was a very organised pub crawls using vintage buses. We rudimentary publication with good information visited the Fleece, Bretforton for a skittles but no design or colour. Miles away from the night one time but didn’t warn the driver of how superbly edited and professional publication difficult manoeuvring a large bus with no we have today. Likewise the pub landscape power steering would be. I am no longer was totally different back then which saw us involved with CAMRA, my focus now is on local often travelling miles to sample decent real and national politics. It is very sad how many ales. Through all of the constantly evolving pubs are still closing down nationally, but the changes in the licensed trade, the Coach & situation is the same for pubs as it is for other Horses, Weatheroak Hill springs to mind. It has businesses in that business rates and rents remained steadfast to real ale with its public cause difficulties particularly when trade isn’t bar effectively unchanged since I first visited in as brisk as in years gone by. I would like to see the mid 1970’s. From the first issue, we more locally brewed beers being made advertised meetings at venues such as the available in a lot more pubs. Whilst we all like Pillar of Salt in Droitwich, a newly opened to try interesting beers coming from the other 4 1995 - 2020 side of the country, it’s just not sustainable to download since spring 2003! I wish the bring ale hundreds of miles by road when there magazine a happy birthday and continued are fine ales being brewed within 30 miles or success for the next 25 years. so from our local pubs. Big brewers will still be Charlie Ayres producing their mediocre beers and lagers (2006 - 2015) using licensed foreign brand names, but as has always been the case small and local is best. I took over the Today younger drinkers probably cannot editorship of Pint imagine the lengths we had to go to try some Taken for the of the excellent beers of the day. We have it Autumn 2006 easy today by comparison. Local CAMRA edition, having magazines and local beer guides were a lifeline never edited then and they are still relevant to this day. anything before. During my time as Brett Laniosh (1995 - 2005) Editor the The birth of Pint magazine moved Taken was a drawn from being a two- out affair. Malcolm colour production used the name Pint on matt paper to a Taken when he 28-page full colour produced a black and edition. Quite a white A4 newsletter few things changed in the beer and pub world which first appeared during my time as Editor. Possibly one of the in October 1983. The largest being the introduction of the smoking magazine, which was ban, which came into force in July 2007. Some still called a 12 years later, I still believe that this has helped newsletter, first to open out pubs to a much wider audience became a regular and made many more family orientated, publication in spring providing another reason to go to the pub! 1995, hence the 25th The timescale to produce each edition was anniversary issue that you are now reading. over a three-month period, starting almost as When I first became editor in 1995, Pint Taken soon as the previous edition was printed and was a monochrome publication printed on distributed. Completion of the Autumn editions coloured paper to brighten things up. Winter often took place in France whilst we were on 2000 saw the magazine grow into a publication holiday. Looking back, the internet was still a for the whole of Worcestershire covering all growing entity and places to gain access were three CAMRA branches. I continued to edit the often limited. Fortunately, we found a superb magazine until 2005 during which time it café and bookshop, run by an English couple, in continued to evolve as more contributors from a small town called Gençay, near Poitiers. Here around the county became involved. I’ve kept a emails could be collected, articles chased up relationship with Pint Taken by contributing and all laid out using Microsoft Publisher, articles and distributing magazines to this day. accompanied by excellent cakes and hot In 2017, I also got involved with the magazine chocolate! (Google chezchristies.fr for more on a commercial basis with Catshill Design. information). This includes supporting the editor and liaising with our brilliant advertisers. I believe strongly I would like to personally thank all those who in independently produced pub magazines. contributed to Pint Taken during my time as Going to the pub, socialising over a beer and Editor, as after all, without input from those reading a printed magazine are all great people there would not have been anything to analogue things to do in today’s digital world. edit. That said, Pint Taken has always embraced technology and has been available to 5 Welcome from the Editors Paul Richards (2015 - 2017) Stourport-on-Severn. I remember tiptoeing anxiously around the buildings on the opposite I was involved with Pint side of the River Stour to capture that perfect Taken for some time shot; having no idea if I was on public property before my editorship as or whether I was trespassing. But it was all I often wrote articles worth it as a few weeks later I ripped open a about CAMRA’s recent box and I was holding my first edited copy. I events, and I also help carried on to produce another nine issues to distribute the before passing the pen to Andy Checketts. magazine. I know that readers love flicking Andy Checketts (2017 - 2019) pages for inspiration I have enjoyed having on new places to visit the honour of being and beers to sup (I editor of the last eight hope you do too!), and I editions of Pint Taken, thought that it would building on the work of be a shame for the publication to cease to the previous editors and exist.
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