WAKEFIELD CAMRA in BELGIUM and the NETHERLANDS Annual Easter Trip Visits 5 Breweries
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“THE REAL” WAKEFIELD BEER FESTIVAL THE ORIGINAL AND BEST to RETURNS ON OFrom Overton to KKirkthorpe 4TH-6TH OCTOBER Issue 75 . Spring 2018 . FREE! WAKEFIELD CAMRA IN BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS Annual Easter trip visits 5 breweries CAMRA’s GOOD BEER GUIDE BELGIUM 8th EDITION OUT NOW THE72 New Road LITTLE Middlestown Wakefield BULL WF4 4NR Abbeydale Deception regular plus three rotating guest ales New quality menu with locally Open all day every day from 12 noon sourced produce Karaoke every other Saturday Monday-Sunday 12-4 Pet Friendly Fish and Chips Mon-Sat £5 Large Car Park Two meals for £10 served daily 12-4 Children’s Play Area (on selected meals) SUNDAY EVENING QUIZ WITH Wednesday Night is Pie Night 5-8 RAFFLE, HI-LO CARD GAME, CASH PRIZES AND FREE SUPPER A Family-run Independent Free House Sun Trap Private Courtyard Beer Garden At The Rear tel:01924-726142 Website : www.thelittlebull.co.uk Welcome Contents Hello and welcome to Issue 75 PUB AND CLUB NEWS 4 Tetley’s has come up quite a bit in this magazine News from Ackworth amd surrounding over my years as editor. I am former fan of the area. Pub and Club of The Year. beers, escpecially Mild, it is what I used to drink when I first started drinking real ale the late 80’s. MEMBERSHIP NEWS 9 It is why I am here, editing this magazine, typing Including voting information and out these words. upcoming branch meetings. Well of course as we know the brand suffered in DAM INN, NEWMILLERDAM 10 the 90’s and 00’s and we all moved on to smaller ...for a good meal and a decent pint. breweries and better beers. Carlsberg closed the brewery, shopped production off to other BEER SCORING 12 breweries around the country and hoped no one Get involved with What Pub. would notice. They themselves seemed not to notice either with Carlsberg now saying that UPCOMING BEER FESTIVALS 15 “Tetley’s is a sleeping Your list of upcoming festivals. giant” and “we haven’t done much with it in BELGIUM 2018 16 the past five years”. Our annual Easter visit. But maybe now things are changing with GOOD BEER GUIDE BELGIUM 16 a new pumpclip for The new edition is out and we have a Tetley’s Bitter, now review. branded as “Tetley’s Original Cask”. Out BRADBURY’S BEER MATS 19 has gone the Huntsman and in comes the Tetley Chin Chin family crest, which is dividing opinion. Although what is “original” about a beer brewed far from its ON THE HANDPULL 21 original home is anyone’s guess but I suppose you Take care of your glasses. can get away with anything in marketing these days, just look at the amount of big brewery beer BEER ON DVD 22 labelled as “craft” these days. The Heineken Kidnapping. And now via our galloping gourmet Colin Williams ANNABEL SMITH 25 comes an image showing a flyer for a new Tetley’s On social media. branded beer called “No 3. Pale Ale” with the headline “Brewed again in Leeds 2018”. SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS 26 Voting from the AGM. BREWERY NEWS 27 original column to type this out. I can’t find out anything more online about this new beer. Hopefully it does come to something, I would love Have Carlsberg seen the error of their ways, do to order a Tetley’s branded beer and say “yes, that they now realise that Tetley’s should come from is a nice beer” instead of “yeah, not as good as it Leeds? Who knows. used to be”. This information came right at the very end of Mark production of this magazine and I scrapped my Wakefield CAMRA OtoK Spring 2018 | 3 Ackworth from David Oates There have been some significant events and Brown Cow: Black Sheep Bitter and Ossett Silver further developments of the real ale scene since King permanent real ales. A rotating guest is on a the last report back in January. Ackworth Cricket third hand pump, which was Butcombe Original Club is now selling real ale. Beer on a mid April visit. The pub will be open A very successful inaugural Ackworth Real Ale all day from 9:30am onwards on Friday 4th May Festival at the Bell Lane Parish Rooms took place to celebrate Tour de Yorkshire which passes the on the 8th/9th March. Organised by the Rory front door. Sandwiches (am) and Snacks (pm) Embling Foundation, based in Ackworth, which will be available. Different live ‘Singers’ will be is a part of the CRY Charity (Cardiac Risk in the performing at 2:00, 6:00 and 9:00. A bucket Young). The 20 real ales on offer showcased local collection will be made through out the day for micro-breweries and Wakefield District breweries. the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. It raised over £4000 which will enable 80 plus 14 Rustic Arms: Ossett Yorkshire Blonde and Black to 35 year olds to be heart screened for free on Sheep Bitter popular permanent real ales. the 26th May in Ackworth. The festival was very Timothy Taylors Landlord has replaced the Doom well attended by Wakefield CAMRA members on Bar as a third permanent. Mark is “dead chuffed” the Saturday. Over 600 people attended over the with the real developments in the Rustics and 2 days. considering putting on a series of changing Ackworth Cricket Club: Brian Lord, the Steward/ blonde/IPA guests on the Ossett Blonde pump Bar Manager at the Club, is trialling selling bottle as his locals are becoming more and more open conditioned beers. The Club is small, but very to trying ‘new’ real ales. A recent Dinner- Dance smart, and only opens ‘part-time’ and therefore raised over £3,500 for the Prince of Wales would struggle to sell real ale on draught without Hospice. The pub is well worth a visit when it is having a big wastage. Brian is keen to provide his well frequented by people, and many in their customers with a real ale choice and may consider vintages cars, steam engines and other unusual putting on draught real ale when there is a big vehicles from the near by Ackworth Scammel on match on. Opening times are: Tues, Thurs, Fri the 28th and 29th April. and Sat from 6:30 pm and during the afternoon Boot and Shoe: White Rat has become a very when there is a senior home game (fixtures can popular permanent. A rotating real ale from the be viewed on ackworth.play-cricket.com). A Ossett which was a very good Progress Porter Family Fun Day takes place on the Cricket Field on a recent visit. A rotating guest from the SIBA on Sunday 20th May, admission £1, from 12:00 list makes up the third handpump. Local Shaun onwards with live music, a DJ, stalls and a funfair Merrill, lease holder, reported that he tries to to raise money (£200,000 is the overall target) to have at least one “dark beer” on at all times due send local 17month old Ivy Louise to America for to the likes and demands of the pub’s locals, with ground breaking treatment for her Stage 4 High Ossett Treacle Stout proving to be very popular Risk Neuroblastoma. recently. A new old brick entrance wall and arch/ Masons Arms: Bradfield Blonde and Brown Cow open door way inside the vestibule has made the continue to be in great demand. Two changing pub warmer on colder days. guest real ales include a wide range of nationally Angel: Black Sheep Bitter is the popular sourced beers, frequent appearances from both permanent. It was again ‘top notch’ on a recent the local Chin Chin and Outgang Brewery beers visit. A regular guest from a wide range of and by locals request Adnam’s Mosaic Pale Ale breweries sourced nationally is on a second hand and Ghost Ship. A real cider on a fifth hand pump pump. Purity Brewing Company Mad Goose on a has become a recent addition. The annual ‘BEAT recent visit. Dean and Julie reported a new exiting IT’ day to raise money for Cancer Research UK new food menu coming on board very soon. takes place on Sunday 22nd July with a number Ego at the Beverley Arms: Yorkshire Blonde is a of live bands. Last year £3,341 was raised. A permanente. A rotating guest from either Ossett, real ale and cider festival in a marque out in the Fernandes or Rat is on the second hand pump, beer garden is being pencilled in for early to mid which was a good quality By George(4.2%) on a August. recent visit. 4 | Wakefield CAMRA OtoK Spring 2018 Pub and Club News Spread Eagle at Darrington Reopens Barnsley Oak at South Elmsall The Barnsley Oak at South Elmsall continues to stock good pints of Black Sheep and a changing guest. Improvements are now up to Phase 3. The Spread Eagle at Darrington has reopened and Phase 1 was some new toilets, replacing the is to be known as “The Spread”, which is what it original 1970 installation from when the pub has been known as locally anyway. Andrew the opened as a Barnsley Brewery tied house. Phase new landlord is keen on real ale and there are 4 2 was a long overdue resurfaced car park and on offer: Farmers Blonde, Doom Bar, Black Sheep Phase 3 involves some very smart new interior and the excellent Purity Pure Ubu. It is good to decoration. hear that the latter has proved very popular.