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lincolncamra.org.uk ImpAle 1 WE ARE BAD COMPANY BAD is fun. BAD is social. BAD is informal. BAD is exciting. BAD goes with music. BAD is a science and an art. BAD is good. Our beers are craft-brewed, with outstanding flavours and impact, inspired by the American approach to ale production and current British craft brewing renaissance. WeAreBadCo BadCoBrewingandDistilling WeAreBad.co BAD COMPANY Unit 3, North Hill Road, Dishforth Airfield, Dishforth, North Yorkshire, YO7 3DH T: +44 (0) 1423 324 005 E: [email protected] 2 CONTENTS ISSUE 2 2015 The Guests 10 Pints Of View Steve Renshaw wonders if something doesn’t add up about the way we’re served beer. 13 15 Old Ale Tales We look at the history of the pub named after the historic document. 15 Meet The Brewer A trip to Cathedral Heights Brewery to find out about their past, present and future. 21 Behind Bars 21 A new feature where we talk to long standing publicans. The Regulars 7 Lincoln News A round up of Local Pub and Brewery News. 11 What’s Brewing A look at what’s happening nationally. 12 Members Page Find out what’s going on with the Lincoln CAMRA Branch. 20 Bottled Beers Beers from another, flat, world. 22 & 23 18 Find the TravAle A walking tour of the pubs surrounding Lincoln Castle. 25 Unfined Quiz Ken takes a look at vegan See how much you know about Magna Carta. friendly beers lincolncamra.org.uk ImpAle 3 THE REAL ALE STORE for the finest Local, British & Imported Bottled Beers Over 300 Top Quality Bottled Beers & Ciders Gift Packs, Vouchers, Mixed Cases, Glassware & Books Opening Times: Mon 10am - 3pm, Tues - Sat 10am - 6pm 12-14 KIRK GATE, NEWARK, NG24 1AB T: 01636 918022 E: [email protected] Order online at www.theRealAleStore.com 4 ImpAle lincolncamra.org.uk Welcome. Summertime It’s a big year for Lincoln, I doubt measures and states “Let there be one measure of wine you’ve failed to notice that the 800th throughout our whole realm; and one measure of ale.” It didn’t anniversary of the signing of the Magna have anything to say about oversized glasses but it was the Carta has drawn much attention to beginning of the standardisation of weights and measures. So this little city. We’ve had a royal visit we’ve tailored some of our regular features, such as TravAle and to officially open the newly refurbished Old Ale Tales, to help celebrate this fact. But there’s plenty more Lincoln Castle where one of the four in this issue including a look at the occasionally controversial remaining original copies are housed, issue of fining beer, the process that it entails and whether it there has been plenty of coverage in is actually necessary or not. I take a trip to Cathedral Heights the media and with Barons popping brewery and find out about the vast array of plates the head up around the city centre it’s clearly a brewer is spinning there and we start a new feature in which focus for much of what’s happening we meet long standing publicans and find the tales they have around Lincoln this year. to tell. As usual if you have any comments please send them to me [email protected] or tweet me @ImpAleEditor. So we’re looking at what the beer world is doing to celebrate, Or be my friend on Facebook – Lincoln CAMRA ImpAle. not just to hop on the band wagon but because the Magna Carta was vital in making sure you get a decent pint every time you visit the pub! Section 35 was concerned with short Our Twitter account @Lincoln_Camra has over 2400 followers! Please like our new Facebook page Lincoln CAMRA. To help keep the success going we need your help! Please email Aaron at [email protected] with your local pub’s events, be it a regular weekly quiz/food night and one off events, it’s an easy way to become active within the branch with minimal effort. ImpAle ImpAle is the magazine of Lincoln CAMRA branch. CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real pubs and consumer rights. It is an Editor independent, voluntary organisation with more than 160,000 Greg Richards members nationally. ImpAle magazine is published three times a year and is available free through pubs in Lincoln Design branch areas. To join CAMRA, help preserve Britain’s brewing Matt Richards and pub industry, get the campaigns quarterly newsletter and Art Of Matelot, Matelot Marketing Limited its monthly newspaper What’s Brewing and a host of other membership benefits visit www.camra.org.uk Publisher Neil Richards MBE CAMRA is a limited company, run at national level by an Matelot Marketing Limited elected unpaid board of directors and at regional level 01536 358670 by volunteer regional directors, both backed by full time [email protected] professional staff. Consumer Rights With kind help from For complaints about issues such as short measures Campaign for Real Ale Steve Renshaw, Wendy Renshaw, contact Lincolnshire Trading Standards on 01522 782341 or Ashley Sewell, Matt Mills, Aaron Joyce, Consumer Direct on 0845 404 0506. 230 Hatfield Road Ken McGibney, Steve Richardson and St Albans Cathedral Heights Brewery. Disclaimer Herts The views contained within ImpAle do not necessarily Tel: 01727 867201 represent the views of CAMRA, the editor, or the Lincoln [email protected] branch. lincolncamra.org.uk ImpAle 5 6 ImpAle lincolncamra.org.uk NEWS IN BRIEF Guests at the Magna Carta The Magna Carta in Lincoln now stocks beers from Pheasantry Brewery, alongside ones from breweries in the Cheers Marston’s stable. And, with Marston’s recent acquisition of the Thwaites brewing business, we should soon be seeing Lancaster Bomber (4.4% ABV) to Beer at the pub. Local beer festivals If you enjoyed the recent Lincoln Beer Festival, why not try some of the Major organisations in Britain’s beer significant legal documents in history. events being staged by local pubs industry are backing the UK’s first national And in 2015 beer is still vital - not just and breweries during the summer? th beer day on 15 June. CAMRA, along to the British economy but to the social Lincoln’s Golden Eagle has its beer with Britain’s Beer Alliance, the British health of the nation. festival at the end of June, as does the Beer and Pub Association, the Society of Pheasantry Brewery at East Markham. Independent Brewers, Cask Marque, the The aim of Beer Day Britain is to raise the At the end of July, Springhead Brewery Independent Family Brewers of Britain, the profile of beer as Britain’s national drink. holds its summer festival, and the first th Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers At 12.15pm on 15 June, the organisers weekend in August is the date of the and the British Hop Association have all are planning a nationwide communal Dog and Bone’s Kennel Fest. signed up to support the initiative. cheers to beer, when beer lovers will be encouraged to raise a glass to celebrate The idea is the brainchild of Jane Peyton British beer. The intention is to trend Anniversary beers (Beer Sommelier of the Year 2014), Sophie on Twitter with the hashtag CheersBDB from Tom Wood de Ronde (head brewer at Brentwood and photos of people raising their beer By the time ImpAle goes to print, Crafty Brewery) and Sara Barton (head brewer glasses. Farmer (4.4% ABV), the second of four at Grantham’s Brewsters Brewery). They 20th anniversary brews from Tom have deliberately chosen Magna Carta Appropriately, Lincoln CAMRA members Wood’s Beers, should have appeared Day to celebrate our national drink. Ale will be raising their glasses at the Magna in local pubs. And Old Codger (4.0% was so important in England in 1215 Carta on Exchequergate. ABV), the first of the celebratory that it was included in one of the most specials, is now available in bottles. Newby Wyke’s Czech exchange In April, Newby Wyke brewer Robert the end of the process. He also March, together with his wife presented the brewery staff with Christine and CAMRA’s Brewery commemorative T-shirts. Liaison Officer Malcolm Cooke, visited the Pegas Brewery in Brno. On the home front, Liberty (4.1% The Czech city has had the right to ABV), the last of the Grantham brew beer since the 12th century brewery’s single-hop series, but, when it opened in 1992, Pegas was launched at Lincoln Beer was the first private brewery in the Festival. The beer marks the 800th region of Moravia. anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. Having brewed his IPA, Distant Grounds (5.2% ABV), on the Pegas kit, Robert was given the honour of Robert March (left) at the Pegas Brewery in Brno. ringing the brewery bell to signal lincolncamra.org.uk ImpAle 7 News Lincoln CAMRA Pub of the Year Awards The Dog and Bone on John Street has community local run, since February been named as the Lincoln CAMRA 2013, by enthusiastic husband and wife Branch Pub of the Year for the second team, Chris and Sarah Sorrell. The pair year in succession. Having won the also won the Batemans Publican of the Lincoln CAMRA chairman, Aaron Joyce, award in 2014, the Batemans’ pub went Year award for 2015. presents certificates at the Dog and Bone on to reach the last 16 of CAMRA’s and the Dambusters Inn national competition. The overall runner-up and Lincoln CAMRA Country Pub of the Year is the Dambusters This year, the Lincoln branch competition Inn at Scampton.

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