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Pints West 113, Spring 2017 No. 113 Spring 2017 PINTS WEST Contents Page 36 A Round with Robin Bristol Beer Festival Page 24 BADRAG (rare ales group) he twentieth annual CAMRA Bristol Beer Festival runs from Page 30 Bath & Borders pub news Thursday 23rd to Saturday 25th March 2017 at Brunel’s Old Page 42 Beer scoring and GBG TStation, Temple Meads, Bristol. The event features approximately 140 real ales and around 40 ciders and perries plus a range of food. Due Page 43 Berlin to the publication date of this edition of Pints West you may be reading Page 16 Bristol Pubs Group it shortly before, after or even during the festival. At the time of writing INTS WES Page 28 Bus Checker app there are currently still a few tickets remaining for Thursday evening and Page 47 CAMRA diaries & contacts Saturday evening and these are available to purchase online. Some may P T Page 15 CAMRA ladies also be available in the Seven Stars, Thomas Lane, Bristol. Please go to The multi-award-winning magazine of the Bristol & Page 46 CAMRA membership www.camrabristol.org.uk/festival.html for the latest information. District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Page 14 CAMRA young(ish) members On Sunday 5th February 2017 tickets went on sale to CAMRA Page 22 Cider members in Bristol and Weston-super-Mare. A lot of keen CAMRA Ale, plus the Bath & Borders Branch members (and some new joiners) turned up and tickets for the Friday festival information including updates about ticket availability and the Page 18 ‘Closing Time’ (cover photo ~ Gavin Roberts) beer and cider lists as they become available. And for all you cool kids Brought to you entirely by unpaid volunteers Page 15 Crossword lunchtime and Saturday lunchtime sessions sold out in record time. The remaining tickets were put on sale online on Tuesday 7th February and with smart phones, also look out for our new beer festival app which Page 5 Drapers Arms should be available in advance of the festival. Ten thousand copies of Pints West are distributed free the Friday evening session sold out within an hour. We would like to Page 23 East Bristol Brewery Trail Richard Brooks to hundreds of pubs in and around the cities of Bristol thank the Commercial Rooms in Corn Street, Bristol and Off the Rails Twitter: #camrabbf Page 21 Hope & Anchor, Volunteer, Cornubia and Bath ... and beyond. Also available on-line at: at the railway station in Weston-super-Mare for their assistance with the Page 26 Inn and around Portishead ticket sales events. www.bristolcamra.org.uk Page 40 Letters All ticket prices include £4 worth of beer festival tokens, which Page 12 Mangotsfiled, Downend, Emersons Green customers will receive on entry enabling them to go straight to the bar. Published by the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign Page 41 Severn Vale CAMRA Also included are a festival programme and a commemorative half-pint for Real Ale, February 2017 © Page 34 Weston-super-Mare news glass, marked for third- and half-pint measures. The Thursday 23rd Editor: Steve Plumridge ([email protected]) Brewery news: March evening session runs from 6:30pm until 11pm and tickets cost £10 Design & Layout by: Steve Plumridge including £4 worth of beer tokens. The Saturday 25th March evening Page 31 Albion Next edition: end of May 2017 (probably). session runs from 6:30pm until 11pm and tickets cost £9 including £4 Page 39 Arbor Ales Printed by: Caric Press Limited (www.caricpress.co.uk). worth of beer tokens. Page 7 Bath Ales and Beerd Spread the word: any article in this publication may be reproduced Our thanks to the event sponsors should be noted as their support Page 3 Box Steam provided the source (‘Pints West’) and the contributor’s name, where helps greatly with the festival – in particular this year: Purity (glasses) Page 7 Brewhouse & Kitchen St Austell/Bath Ales (staff T-shirts), RCH (beer festival app), Bristol applicable, is stated. (No using logos or artwork without permission.) Page 6 Bristol Beer Factory Beer Factory (beer tokens), Wye Valley (games) and Castlecombe Subscriptions: to be put on a mailing list to receive Pints Wests (for UK Page 28 Butcombe (cellar team T-shirts). A special mention should also be given to Rab addresses) send ten standard (not large) 1st class stamps to the editor. Page 9 Cheddar Ales Clarke of the Eldon House for supplying the bar counters. CAMRA Good Beer Guide: suggestions for future entries, and Page 41 Cocksure (new) We strongly advise keeping an eye on our website for further beer Queuing for tickets outside the Commercial Rooms comments on existing ones, can be made to our GBG co-ordinator, Page 38 Crane Martin Gray: [email protected]. Page 11 Dawkins Ales If you have any pub updates: please enter them through whatpub.com Page 32 Electric Bear or email details to [email protected]. Page 22 Good Chemistry A visit to the brewery Further information on all aspects of CAMRA can be had from Ray Box Steam Page 29 GWB Holmes on 0117 9605357 (home). Page 23 Incredible Brewing Company Trading Standards Officers: contact for problems such as consistent Page 38 King Street Brew House short measures, no price lists... Page 9 Left Handed Giant Bristol: 0117 9223444 / S. Glos: 01454 624000 Page 33 Milk Street Glos: 01452 426201 / N. Somerset: 01934 888802 Page 23 Moor Beer B.A.N.E.S: 01225 396755 Page 38 New Bristol Brewery or visit www.tradingstandards.gov.uk Page 37 RCH LETTERS: please email correspondence to the editor at: Page 31 Twisted [email protected] Page 11 Wiper & True or post it to: Pints West Editor, Steve Plumridge, Page 38 Zerodegrees Garden Flat, 6 Royal York Villas, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4JR. and much, much more... ADVERTISE: to find out about advertising in Pints West, please email: [email protected] CONTACTS: for further contact details and diaries see inside back page. Views expressed in Pints West are those of the individual authors and not necessarily supported by CAMRA. Inclusion of an advertisement does not imply endorsement by CAMRA. Thanks to this issue’s contributors Andrea Briers Kev Williams Phil Cummings Bianca Ambrose Laurie Gibney Richard Brooks Bob Gibson Laurie Jackson Robin E Wild Chris Rogers Mac Macarthur Roy Sanders Chris Whitbread Martin Farrimond Sam Kendon Colin Valentine Martin Gray Stephen Edmonds Dave Graham Marty Cummins Steve Hunt Eddie Taberner Michael Bertagne Steve Plumridge Gavin Roberts Mike Jackson Tim Nickolls Gillian Hough Neil Ravenscroft Tim Webb JW Moles-Craft-MoleCatcher.2016.pdf 1 19/07/2016 17:14 Henry Davies Nigel Morris Tony Durbin BREWING CO. Ian Beckey Norman Spalding Trevor Cromie SINCE 1982 C M Jan Deverell Pete Bridle Vince Murray Y Members of the Bristol & District, Bath & Borders and team, it was also good to mingle with members from some CM MY MOLE CY CMY Keith Morey Pete Taberner Will George K CATCHER Cirencester CAMRA branches had a very pleasant trip to Box other branches. So a big thank you to Box Steam Brewery. DARK COPPER ALE 5.0% OLD ENGLISH & Steam Brewery on Tuesday 10th January. As well as enjoying Richard Brooks WITH A SPICY HOP AROMA FULL BODIED & LONG BITTER FINISH CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain Gold Medal WINNER 2011 the brewery tour and the generous hospitality of the brewery (See ‘A Round With Robin’ on page 36 for more on this visit.) 2 PINTS WEST 25 YEARS OLD PINTS WEST 3 and looking better than ever A beer festival or two The Drapers Arms one year on Gryphon MetAle Festival he Drapers Arms, Bristol’s first micropub, celebrated its first The Drapers Arms, Bristol’s first micropub, opened by The 13th MetAle Festival at the Gryphon in Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 anniversary with a ‘thank you’ birthday party for their customers Vince Crocker (of Ashley Down brewery) and Garvan 5AP, just up from the Colston Hall – from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th on Saturday 3rd December. For the event, 12 beers were available CHIPPENHAM March “...bringing you plenty of exciting, tasty ales and wholesome overT the weekend and for the Saturday there were complimentary Hickey, recently celebrated its first anniversary homemade food.” snacks, including two of my favourites, a very mature cheddar from Dave Giles (butchers) on the Gloucester Road, and roast potatoes Chippenham CAMRA Beer Festival from the Crocker household. There were eight beers on the day that Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April at the Olympiad Leisure had not been featured there before, namely Schwarzwalder (5%) and Centre, Chippenham SP15 3PA. See advert. Pamplemousse (4.2%) from Stroud Brewery, 18 Eight (4.6%) from Chantry, Great Uncle John Prohibition Ale (4.6%) from Milk Street, Gloucester CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival Advent Horizon (5.6%) from Good Chemistry, Dashers Dinkle (5.5%) from Hunters, Rucking Mole (4.5%) from Moles, and Moxie IPA (4.8%) Friday 31st March and Saturday 1st April at the historic Blackfriars Priory in central Gloucester, featuring around 100 beers and over 30 from Butcombe. ciders and perries. See advert. Opened in a former drapers’ shop on the Gloucester Road (see BEER FESTIVAL feature in Pints West 109), it has brought one of Britain’s fastest th th The Lansdown 30 growing developments in the pub trade to Bristol. This one-room Friday 31stApril March 27 & & Saturday 28 , 1st20 1April2 2017 The seventh beer alehouse, which doesn’t serve lager, keg beers, fizzy cider or spirits, has received widespread support from the local community, which reflects Olympiad Leisure Centre, Chippenham SP15 3PA festival at the the values and independent atmosphere of businesses found on the (5 minutes from rail and bus stations) Lansdown in Clifton, Studio Hall, Olympiad, Chippenham Bristol (BS8 1AF), Gloucester Road.
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