SPECIAL FESTIVAL EDITION FLEETWOOD BEER FESTIVAL 2012 Sponsored by Barrett Nelligan Solicitors the Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6HF
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P IC WELCOME TO FYLDE ALE! I’ K M M F E R U 0 P 8 E E E U ! S S I WFELCyOMlE d eAle SPRING 2012 SPECIAL FESTIVAL EDITION FLEETWOOD BEER FESTIVAL 2012 Sponsored by Barrett Nelligan Solicitors The Esplanade, Fleetwood, Lancashire, FY7 6HF Thursday 9th February: 7 - 11pm Friday 10th February: 12 - 11pm Saturday 11th February: 12 - 11pm From Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Branch Of CAMRA PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS WELCOME TO FYLDE ALE! Fylde CAMRA Pub of the Year 2004 WELCOME West Pennines YOUR EDITORS his is our one of our festivals with over 100 different beers Pub of the Year 2004 30th available. We serve our beers in pints, half pints and Tannual third-pints, giving you a chance to try a large variety Fleetwood Beer of beers yet still drink sensibly. It’s even our policy to Henry Street, Lytham Festival, our let you have a small “taster” if you’re not sure you’d first festival like any particular beer. There’s also the chance to was more than buy bottled beers from all of the world’s great beer 30 years ago, producing countries. We can even offer you a wide the first festival variety of apple ciders and perry from pears. Get • 8 Real Ales • Real Fires • Real People was actually along there and enjoy yourself. held in the late 1970’s, but we To finish on a cautionary word for 2012, FYLDE ALE had a short break from holding festivals shortly after is in some danger of ceasing production. Your full Lancashire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2010 that first one. This festival over the years has proudly colour informative magazine comes to you FREE. gained a reputation, both locally and nationally as This is thanks to the generosity of advertisers, the being one of the best in the UK. Our selection of revenue from the adverts pays for the printing of the over 100 different beers and ciders attracts beer magazine, I hope you agree that our magazine is drinkers from all over this area and further afield, worth saving. We do cut costs to the bone, your www.thetaps.net Telephone: (01253) 736226 even the odd overseas drinker. Only a couple of years editors do their job totally unpaid we don’t even ago we were visited by a group of beer claim for the reams of paper, printer cartridges, “professionals”, led by Owen Ogletree from the state telephone calls or petrol for investigative visits. We of Georgia in the USA. We’ve seen Australians, only ask to be reimbursed for the envelopes and Canadians and visitors from all over Europe. stamps we buy to allow us to distribute the magazine, most of which are hand-delivered by Our Festival chairman, Fleetwood born and bred unpaid volunteers. Dave Stirzaker, has experience as bar manager at the Great British Beer festival and the National Winter If you have a business that would benefit from an Ales Festival (recently held in Manchester). Dave and advertisement in our pages or know of anyone who his gang of unpaid helpers will do their best to may be able to help, please contact Neil Richards at ensure that your experience of our festival is a good [email protected] to discuss a deal with one. And we would ask that you appreciate that our Neil! Why do it? We calculate that each year over servers, glass collectors, staff manning the desks are 10,000 people, almost all real ale drinkers, many of all unpaid and do it simply to spread the word that them living in the north-west of England read our “real ale is best”. little magazine. But the magazine does travel much wider than our local area. What a splendid way to Some years ago I was talking to a young work reach such a huge, concentrated group of cask ale colleague about one of our upcoming beer festivals drinkers and landlords. Really an excellent way to let and suggesting she should visit it. Her reply was, “But this thirsty audience know about your pub, business I don’t even like beer!” My reply was, “Well that’s a or product. And if you’ve nothing to sell, please very good reason for you to go.” At the Fleetwood support the businesses who do advertise with us, beer festival you’ll find a huge variety of British and they deserve your patronage. foreign beers as well as ciders and perries. I’m confident that there’s a drink to suit every taste and ALAN DOGGART the best place to find one or more to your liking is at 2 3 BRANCH INFORMATION LAYTON RAKES CONTACT US ‘Come and pay a LAYTON RAKES - A NEW PUB IN TOWN Fylde Ale welcomes letters, photographs, news, views and visit to this hidden s articles for possible publication. Please keep it brief and to gem of a pub’ n the point. Please supply your name and address (this will only be published with your permission). The editors retain the Come and enjoy our Four e right to edit any submissions. The opinions expressed in e this publication are those of the writers and not hand pulled ales on offer in the original Bank Vault t necessarily those of the editors, Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre f Branch of CAMRA or CAMRA itself. Now serving our very i f Contact the editors at: own Cask Ale (3.7%) and 7, CARISBROOKE CLOSE, POULTON-LE-FYLDE. FY6 7UA Dry Stone Stout (4.5%). 01253 894778 [email protected] Traditional Cask Cider Branch website: www.blackpoolcamra.org.uk now available. 15 YOUR RIGHTS Enjoy Champagne on us if Complaints about short measure should be addressed it’s your Birthday! Pop in or initially to the landlord. If you are still not satisfied you ring for more info! should contact your local Trading Standards Officer: LANCASHIRE: County Hall, Preston 01772 254868. etherspoon opened their latest local adult, are welcome in the pub until 9pm throughout BLACKPOOL: 125 Albert Street, Blackpool . 01253 478359 42 St Annes Rd West, St Annes FY8 1RF Tel: 01253 725852 public house in Blackpool on the 22nd the week, with last orders for food at 8pm. As a Listed below are the current Blackpool Fylde [email protected] WNovember, just in time for the Christmas condition of the licence both the adult and child & Wyre branch of CAMRA committee members www.fifteensstannes.com trade. The new business created 50 much needed must order a meal. and their contact details –: jobs in this area of high unemployment. The CHAIRMAN IAN WARD company spent £2.3 million developing the outlet, a The new look pub, is on two floors, featuring a bar on [email protected] new build, in Market Street, Blackpool. The new pub each and an external roof terrace and a pavement- becomes the third owned by the company in café-style area to the front, near the entrance, where VICE-CHAIR DAVE STIRZAKER [email protected] Blackpool and the 5th on the Fylde coast. The smoking is permitted. The pub is wheelchair accessi - Wetherspoon pub called the Layton Rakes, is ble and has a specially adapted toilet for people with BRANCH CONTACT/SECRETARY MAGGIE HODGKISS managed by Lee Thelwell. disabilities. There is also a lift to the first floor and [email protected] roof terrace for the use of disabled customers. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY IAN SHERGOLD Blackpool, Britain’s largest and busiest seaside resort, [email protected] took shape from the 18th century onwards in the Photos, local history art-work and information TREASURER JOHN HODGKISS sparsely populated coastal area of Layton with War - boards relating to the history and characters of the [email protected] breck. Recorded in the Domesday Book, the village of area are displayed in the pub, as well as IT OFFICER GARY WALKEY Layton was connected to the sea by Layton Rakes, commissioned art-work by local artist Alistair Parker. [email protected] now Church Street. The word Rake is a Scandinavian There is an illuminated sculptor of Tower Circus word, meaning a path. It was at the seaward end of entertainer Charlie Cairoli, a large mural depicting PUBS & SOCIAL OFFICER RAY JACKSON [email protected] Layton Rakes, known as Lane Ends, close to the site local landmark buildings and fixed seating in the of the new pub, that the resort later developed. style of a Waltzer and a Carousel. There is also a NEWSLETTER EDITORS MARIAN & ALAN DOGGART corner dedicated the local CAMRA branch where [email protected] The new pub specialises, as all Wetherspoon pubs, in copies of FYLDE ALE should be available. PUBLICITY OFFICER RUSS COBB real ales, serving a wide range of beers including [email protected] those from local and regional brewers. The Layton Manager Lee Thelwell said “Myself and my team are F’WOOD BEER FESTIVAL CHAIR DAVE STIRZAKER Rakes is open from 9am until 12 midnight Sunday looking forward to welcoming customers into the [email protected] through Thursday and from 9am until 1 am Friday pub and are confident that it will be a good addition and Saturday. Food is served throughout the day to Blackpool’s community.” LYTHAM BEER FESTIVAL CHAIR GARY LEVIN [email protected] until 10 pm every day. Children, accompanied by an ALAN DOGGART 4 5 BOOK REVIEW PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS Leafing through the volume, I realise despite trekking to the USA on dozens of occasions I have only tasted a couple of dozen of those 300+ beers.