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All-Newmagazine! All-ne w mag azine! Castle Rock No:1 Spring 2014 All the latest news, views and essential information from Castle Rock Brewery More on page 4 Willowbrook the Maze! takes Jake Bugg rocks shape Turn to page 2 See page 3 www.castlerockbrewery.co.uk Welcome In Focus Welcome to the first edition of our The Willowbrook reinvigorated Castle Rock magazine. The all new Castle Rock Quarter, as the name suggests, will be produced quarterly and will tie in with the seasons. So what better time than Spring to bring you this fresh approach and to inform you of everything you need to know about being ‘out and about’ in Castle Rock pubs. It has only been six months since what proved to be the final edition of the Castle Rock Times. As the following pages will reveal, so much has already happened and it didn’t make sense to keep it ‘under a bushel’ for a further six months. We wanted to share all our exciting news and updates with you and we were sure you’d want to know about them: so the Castle Rock Quarter was born! The CRQ team will be working hard to fill these pages with much more relevant and up-to-date news, ideas and information that will help you make the most of your visits to Castle Rock pubs. There will be breaking stories, interesting insights, topical opinions and plenty of useful information about what is forthcoming. We will also save space for some fun too! We hope you enjoy the new format of CRQ and with the lighter nights now upon us and less of a chill in the air (well hopefully!) we have plenty going on and we hope you choose to spend your precious time with us and enjoy what we have to offer down Hi, my name is Pete Hopwell and I’m the at your Castle Rock local. General Manager for the newly purchased and Thank you for your continued custom and loyalty. We promise we will continue to soon-to-be completely refurbished work hard to deserve it! Cheers Willowbrook in Gedling. Colin Wilde I started in the business back in 1989 period, in order to honour bookings and working for Ansells Brewery in a events that had been organised prior to community pub in Alvaston, Derby as a Castle Rock taking over. As time went by we wet-behind-the-ears barman who fell in realised that the Gedling community and Castle Rock Brewery love with what I did. From there I worked surrounding areas were more than pleased Queensbridge Road, Nottingham NG2 1NB my way up through the ranks and moved with the transition the Willowbrook had around to extend my knowledge of made. We decided to undertake the Tel: 0115 985 1615 running bars from small independents to refurbishment while staying open as much as General enquiries: high street brands, working all over the we could for the enjoyment of the regular [email protected] country for the next 23 years. trade who could see the changes we were Sales enquiries: making bit-by-bit. I have inherited a great In 2013 I was given a fantastic opportunity team of staff and since I’ve been here have [email protected] to get back to my roots and run a community got to know all the regulars, making the Recruitment: pub using all the skills I had learnt over the transition very smooth and all great fun. [email protected] years. The fact this was with Castle Rock, who brew quality beers and have a great The Willowbrook refurbishment has been reputation, made it a very special project on coming on in leaps and bounds, including which to work - exciting times! making a new ground floor cellar so we can go from the already increased seven real ales is produced by freerbutler limited We took over the Willowbrook Club on the to a possible fourteen, with craft beers and a 22nd November 2013, with the plan to run good range of lagers. This will also include a www.freerbutler-gds.co.uk the pub as usual through the Christmas fine selection of world beers, spirits, wines 2 Hot News The Maze gets the Bugg! a r e z n a P o l e g n A y b h p a r g o t o h p He might have already played to The exclusive gig was attended by those thousands of screaming, bopping and lucky enough to win a ticket through his boogying Nottinghamians, but the website, where the crowd was invited to city’s music lovechild Jake Bugg is make donations to Cancer Research UK. still the humble boy who stepped onto Jake is pictured above with Ben (left) and the BBC’s Introducing Stage aged just Gaz (right) of the Maze - they are old seventeen. friends and the main reason Jake came back to play the venue. Jake played a secret gig at The Maze in November 2013, ending a year of The Maze was the ideal intimate venue to performing to colossal crowds on big showcase songs from ‘Shangri La’, Jake’s stages, by going back to the venue where second album, which debuted later that he started out. month. Wise after the event! Midnight Owl, our black India Pale Ale, took home gold in the Old Ale/Strong Mild category in the East Midlands regional beer competition held during the National Winter Ale Festival in Derby in February. In the final panel, consisting of the winners Above: Pete Hopwell, the General Manager at from all five categories, Midnight Owl was Castle Rock’s newly- acquired ‘The Willowbrook’ awarded second place. Our brewer, Jon in Gedling, Nottingham. Edger is pictured right (on left) being toasted on the win by leading beer writer and ciders, as well as NewBrew, LocAle, and and campaigner, Roger Protz (right) and other drinks offers from Castle Rock Les Baynton in his role as Derby Beer King. Brewery. We are also in the process of extending the Other News kitchen so that the menu we have introduced can be enhanced to provide more variation Castle Rock Brewery has been shortlisted to win ‘Best Drinks Offer’ at the Publican for the discerning customer. We will be able Awards 2014. Attributed for innovation with the ‘Discover World Beers’ initiative, we to cater for bigger bookings and functions join four other contenders in the finals. on a regular basis for meetings, birthdays, weddings, Christmas and private parties. We collected the “Highly Commended” award for Best Marketing and Communication for our Nottinghamian Celebration Ales range at SIBA Beer X. We have adjusted the main bar by taking The Maze has been listed as a ‘venue that changed music history’ by Gigwise, alongside down a separating wall to create one big the world-famous Cavern Club in Liverpool where the Beatles first performed. room, with new toilets in two areas, great Visit Gigwise.com to read the full story. new décor and furnishings to make it the ideal place for drinking, dining and Castle Rock Brewery is now accredited by the BII (British Institute of Innkeeping). socialising. Courses begin with Personal Licence training in April of this year. The Poppy & Pint was runner-up in the Pub Of The Year awards from Nottingham Keep a look out for wine, food and beer CAMRA. Congratulations to James and his team. tasting evenings, cocktail master classes, band nights, beer festivals and much more. This year Castle Rock beers will be ‘back in brown’ bottles! More to come soon… 3 News focus Autogrill Catering UK’s John Lobley (left) and Kate Cochrane (second right) with Castle Rock Brewery managing director, Colin Wilde, and chairman Geoff Newton (right) Come Fly With Me Castle Rock Brewery taps into East Midlands Airport In February we were delighted to Having won the East Midlands Airport Above: Early visitors appreciate the decor and announce the launch of the Castle Rock contract, Autogrill wanted to act locally and ambience of the Castle Rock Tap Room & Tap & Kitchen in the first floor departure work with smaller businesses. Local food Kitchen at East Midlands Airport lounge at East Midlands Airport. suppliers have also been included in the offering at EMA but Castle Rock was deemed encourage passengers to take some Harvest Many months were spent in the planning top of their list on the beer front; so our Pale with them into Europe! stages when Autogrill approached us last reputation definitely preceded us on this one! year. We insisted that key members of our So enjoy your holiday and when you return team were fully involved, especially when Both parties were surprised and delighted make sure you tell us how much you enjoyed approaching fitting out the cellar. Our that our values were so closely connected, your Harvest Pale at the airport. extensive experience of working real ale held which allowed Castle Rock and Autogrill to us in good stead and our skills were certainly make this project happen. used to their maximum potential. By working Send us a selfie! closely with the Autogrill team (the site The Castle Rock Tap and Kitchen raises the Barely had the operators) we have the confidence that the bar well above the standard airport fayre of opening signs Harvest Pale on sale at EMA will be of the yesteryear and what can be better for gone up at the highest possible quality and this was always passengers than being able to sample Tap Room & our primary concern.
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