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Plough Inn, Wreay - Winter Pub of the Season Winter Pub of the Season Pubs Matter - List Your Local Ale Trail - Pub Visits Bar Fly - Pub News 25th Carlisle Beer Festival What’s Brewing - Brewery News Solway Branch 40th Anniversary Solway Branch of CAMRA Issue 14 The Campaign for Real Ale Winter 2016 AT014.indd 1 07/01/2016 12:09:36 Winter Pub of the Season Plough Inn, Wreay The Plough Inn was taken over by Jane Kirby Food at the Plough is sourced locally where and Alex Foster in May 2014. Since then, they possible and a unique specials board adds to have developed it into a thriving pub renowned the culinary experience. The pub show-cases for its food. an eclectic mix of “Theme Nights”, bringing the Shaun and Jo welcome you. Herdwick Inn tastes of Britain and the world to the pub. Real Ales Special dietary needs are also catered for. Penruddock Winter food opening hours: Meals are served on Tuesday evening and then Monday & Tuesday lunch Penrith lunch times and evenings on Wednesday to closed, Monday & Tuesday night 5-9, Wednesday to CA11 0QU Sunday. Afternoon teas are also available but Sunday 12-2.30 and 5-9. please remember these have to be booked in 01768 483007 advance. Dog friendly. Pool room. Log www.herdwickinn.com fire. Monday evening is typically quiz night held in New menu, daily specials. aid of local charities. The pub also organises The pub is a family venture, with Jane’s son Four B&B rooms from £45 various other charity nights and has raised working in the kitchen and her daughter, per night during winter. about £7,000 so far for good causes.. sometimes helping out in the pub. Although with Congratulations to all at the Plough. Children welcome, board a baby on the way, Jane’s daughter will find her games to play. time being needed elsewhere! Paul Claringbold This tastefully modernised pub dates back to 1786 and sits at the heart of this picturesque village, just five miles south of Carlisle. The Fetherston Arms Alex has worked hard to keep the bar and the Kirkoswald real ales in fine order, an achievement that has been recognised with a place in the CAMRA 4 hand pulled Good Beer Guide 2016. real ales and hand pulled cider The Blacksmiths Arms offers all the hospitality and comforts of a traditional Country Inn. Great home cooked food Enjoy tasty meals served in our bar lounges or linger over dinner in our well Open Mon-Fri 4pm-midnight, appointed restaurant. Sat-Sun 12 noon-midnight. Two regular real ales (Yates Bitter & Black Sheep) Lunch served Sat-Sun 12-3.30 and and two guest ales. evening meals Tue–Sun 5–9. Open daily 12-3, 6-11. 20 minute walk from Lazonby train station The Jackson family extend their warm hospitality Real ales are usually locally sourced with to all who frequent the Blacksmith’s Arms. We look forward to welcoming you Hawkshead beers a regular favourite. Other Talkin, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1LE beers from within Cumbria and occasionally 016977 3452 / 4211 The Square, Kirkoswald, CA10 1DQ further afield have been stocked. CAMRA [email protected] 01768 898284 members receive a 30p discount on a pint of www.blacksmithstalkin.co.uk real ale. 2 Winter 2016 3 AT014.indd 2-3 07/01/2016 12:09:40 Ale Trail Ale Trail Our Ale Trail this time takes us to some excellent end of Hadrian’s Wall noted for a large Roman branch line closed in 1932. excellent, locally sourced, food including sea real ale pubs at the western end of Hadrian’s fort. The surrounding area is of outstanding salmon, sea bass and sea trout. Wall. natural beauty and is popular with bird watchers Three real ales are usually available: Greene and walkers. 1. BUSH INN, KIRKBRIDE King IPA, Morland Old Speckled Hen and Telephone 01228 231496 At Bowness, the remains of a railway link with alternating guest ale. Scotland are still visible. This small village lies on marshland and is surrounded on two sides by the River Wampool. The railway opened in 1869 but it was The Romans utilised this advantage to build a vulnerable to ice and storms and caused the fort here. harbour at nearby Port Carlisle to silt up! The viaduct closed in 1921 and was demolished in A former World War Two airfield is located to the 1934/ south of the village as is the South Solway Mosses National Nature Reserve. The Kings Arms is situated in the centre of the village. It is a popular stopping or starting point for visitors walking the Hadrian’s Wall path. Port Carlisle is also on the Hadrian’s Wall path Some with a long way still to go and others very and can be a very welcome resting point for relieved at completing the walk! those making the all day hike to and from Carlisle. This is very much a community pub with a library, band practice and a regular quiz on Although this is an open plan pub, the narrow WHATPUB.COM Thursday nights. bar area in the middle really divides into two For more details of opening hours and facilities, distinct areas. The front room is a lounge area please visit www.whatpub.com Jennings supply the one real ale available. with a pool table whilst there’s a dining room at the rear. We advise you to check pub opening and meal times before you travel especially during the On our visit, real ales from Greene King were on winter months. sale. Details of pubs in our area (and the rest of the 4. HIGHLAND LADDIE, GLASSON The Bush Inn, a former Jennings pub, had been UK) can be found on the CAMRA website: Telephone 016973 51839 closed for several years until it was recently www.whatpub,com bought, extensively refurbished and re-opened. The small village of Glasson sits just inland from the Solway coast. The place name is thought to The Bush is now an attractively furnished, come from the Anglo-Scandinavian word L-shaped bar, although, depending on where ‘glaise: which means a small stream. you si, it has the feel of two separate rooms. The line of the Vallum of Hadrian’s Wall (a wide One area focuses on dining whilst the other ditch that accompanied the Wall) runs through promotes pub games such as pool and darts. 3. HOPE & ANCHOR, PORT CARLISLE the village but sadly is no longer visible. There are two attractive fireplaces and pictures Telephone 016973 51460 by artist Marti Davis adorn the walls. This is a popular village local close to the Port Carlisle was a fishing village and was Solway Firth and a bird reserve. The Hadrian’s Real ales on sale are Greene King IPA and originally called Fisher’s Cross. In 1819 a port Wall path passes the pub and provides a very Morland Old Speckled Hen. was built and, four years later a canal link was welcome resting place. The pub is family and dog friendly and offers established to take goods to Carlisle Basin Meetings are held in the pub for the fishermen free wifi. (near the Jovial Sailor, hence Port Road). The who follow the ancient tradition of haaf netting, canal closed in 1853 and was very quickly 2. KINGS ARMS, BOWNESS unique to the Solway and believed to be a replaced by a railway built by the Port Carlisle Telephone 016973 51426 remnant of its Viking past. Railway Company as part of the development of This small, farming village marks the western new and improved port facilities at Silloth. The The pub has gained a reputation for providing 4 Ale Tales 13 Winter 2016 5 AT014.indd 4-5 07/01/2016 12:09:45 25th Carlisle Beer Festival 25th Carlisle Beer Festival Let’s cut to the quick; the Carlisle Beer Festival When the doors First of all, I would like to sponsors and those who advertised in our 2015 was a roaring success. In all, 57 casks of opened on the thank everyone who Festival Programme, special thanks. beer, from breweries around the UK, almost Thursday there played a part in what The generosity of totally sold out by closing time, record numbers was a queue, turned out be a very our Festival of people through the door and almost repeated at each successful beer festival. customers in universally good feedback. opening time. As organiser for the first supporting the The Hallmark Yet none of this could time, it gave me a very raffles and was packed with have happened without interesting perspective auctions for our representatives from 71 CAMRA branches over the work of the on how everything chosen charity, the weekend, anxious to see what delights we volunteers, the branch works. the Jigsaw had on offer. members and small Appeal in aid of the Childrens Hospice was Prior to the Festival opening, , we had our first breweries that assisted I partook in the revelries on that first night. It was enormous. All prizes were donated, the list of ever Insurers Inspection! Our health and safety with everything from my reward for the months of hard work sourcing those who supplied them in our programme and arrangements passed with flying colours; well storage to construction the beer that I wanted us to have! above our CAMRA stall. done to all who were involved. of the stillage to line My own personal favourite of the festival was From attending my first CAMRA Beer Festival cleaning and, ahem, My other major concern was, would the festival the Hawkshead/Tiny Rebel collaboration, as a customer with my wife at the Market Hall in quality control.