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Summer 2016 the FREE Please Take One tippler The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2015. Opinions expressed need not represent those of CAMRA Ltd or its officials tipplerthe The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2016. Opinions expressed need not represent those of CAMRA Ltd or its officials Front cover: Beer Festival Aussie style! The Geelong Beer Festival, Victoria. Our antipodean chums enjoying some culture, real ale and sunshine. Full story next contents: issue. Letters to the Editor - none! page 4 Brewery News page 36 The Hunter’s Column page 6 Cask vs Keg page 39 Cheltenham News page 8 Pub News page 40 North Cotswolds’ News page 14 DEYA Brewing Company page 42 Gloucester News page 18 Locale Listing page 44 No Business Like Beer Business page 20 Gloucester Prize Wordsearch page 49 News from around the county page 22 CAMRA contacts page 51 Cotswold Beer Festival 2016 page 28 What’s Coming Up? page 52 CONTRIBUTION DEADLINES: THIRD FRIDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER MAKING OUR BEERS LOOK AS have you any pub news? More details are posted regularly on the Facebook group 'Gloucestershire Pubs', an ideal forum GREAT AS THEY TASTE to keep other people informed of the latest pub developments in the county. We value feedback and news from around the county, so, if you’ve got something Our new-look core range — same great taste, new fresh feel. to say, want to make a contribution, compliment or criticise, then get in touch: The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 5TX [email protected] wyevalleybrewery.co.uk wyevalleybrewery @wyevalleybrew 01684 439767 3 www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk WVB-A5-Portrait-Core-Product-Flyer-V1.indd 1 31/05/2016 14:33 for goodness things were taking place, like travelling or LETTERS sake jeremy, can’t we THE TIPPLER waiting around. A smaller increase was noted just send an email like when pleasurable activities were being all those FRIGHTFULLY EDITORIAL experienced. On the whole the good news is to the this: modern chaps? Once again, the lack of correspondence Drinking responsibly makes bad things means I can to climb onto my soapbox and more pleasant and already pleasant things address the good people of Gloucestershire’s even better. EDITOR real ale community. There’s plenty to read in Unsurprisingly, CAMRA have been active this edition, particularly as we are right into in this issue, taken from their website: Some of FestivaI season, with an eight page pull out ‘The majority of GPs disagree with the us old codgers section advertising the best. The jewel in Chief Medical Officers’ statement that there is are still happy to use the crown, perhaps, is the 40th year of the no safe level of alcohol consumption, according the services of the Royal Mail, and we actively encourage all Cotswold Beer Festival at Postlip. Why not get to research undertaken on behalf of CAMRA, forms of (preferably printable!) communication. So get writing along to support the effort. the Campaign for Real Ale. and get your news, views and comments published! The truth, along with beer is a wonderfully A recent poll conducted by medeConnect Unfortunately, this edition has none! liquid thing, particularly if you happen to take showed that 60% of the GPs surveyed disagreed an interest in the health benefits of beer and with the statement that there is no safe level of alcohol. We all have the ability to misread or alcohol consumption. It also found that almost even misunderstand data. The really interesting [email protected] two thirds (63%) of the GPs considered that thing is the Government’s boffins ability to do moderate alcohol consumption can be part of The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, the same. How they manage this with all their a healthy lifestyle. brain and computer power to do this and Numerous scientific studies have shown Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. GL20 5TX confuse everyone involved in the drinks that moderate drinking can have a protective industry is a mystery. There can be no doubt effect against various health problems including the anti-drink lobby is the happiest of all with cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline the latest guidelines. Despite nearly a hundred and certain forms of cancer. However, this is this publication is edited, designed and created by years of research proving that the vast majority ignored in the new alcohol guidelines. of responsible drinkers live longer than tee- CAMRA’s National Chairman, Colin Valentine totallers, we are still being fed a non-drinking said: “We made the observation when the line by our increasingly abstemious leaders who new guidelines were published that the Chief recently introduced the lowest recommended Medical Officers had ignored evidence which levels of alcohol consumption (14 per week for showed that moderate drinking can have a men and women) in Europe. beneficial effect. The recent publication of the results of “Only recently, a report from Oxford University research by the University of Kent has proved found those who had frequented a local pub something that most of us have known for a were happier, healthier and felt more integrated long time: alcohol can make you happy. The in their communities than those without. survey was designed to understand wellbeing “It therefore is no surprise that this survey in more depth. There were over 2 million has illustrated that GPs overwhelmingly believe responses recorded over three years and it that a moderate consumption of alcohol can concluded that when responders were drinking be part of a good and healthy lifestyle.”’ their happiness levels went up just north of My conclusion, after reading all of this, is 10%. This is a bit confusing, however, as other the government is a) trying to shorten my life CHARISMATIC MARKETING LIMITED things may affect happiness levels as very and b) make me unhappy. In the interests of often drinking takes place with other stimuli, To find out about our design, advertising, sales and promotional clarity, I will point out right now that this is a like socialising, after taking this into account personal opinion, so make mine a pint! literature services, and how we can help your local business the figure settled on a 4% increase. call Chris on 01684 439767 The biggest increase in happiness and 4 [email protected] drinking came about when unpleasurable Chris Leibbrandt 5 www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk THE HUNTER’S COLUMN Oh no! Is our intrepid hero getting all political on us? A recent trip to the land of oranges and marmalade got him thinking: In or Out? The BIG Question... The rain in Spain falls mainly in Seville or at cobbled streets. The big question for us each least it did whilst we were there. The Spanish morning was in or out; shall we stay in or refer to it as Sevilla, the town that is, not the should we venture out? rain and I could see why. It hasn’t stopped I’d googled real ale in Seville before we’d raining on the Villa all season either; goals set out and decided that there was more they had a localish, Zurda ale 5.2% and a ‘Tropical Pale for 27, goals against 76. If they are not very chance of the Queen Mother coming around to Ale’ from Axarca of Malaga, called Frigiliana 5%. At the careful, they could end up being twinned with cut our lawn next Sunday, after church. There Bar Europa, on one particular rain drenched afternoon, each other. We chose to visit Seville in early were a few craft ale bars though, that would be we drank a weiss bier from the world’s oldest brewery, May, so that it wouldn’t be too hot. We were worth searching out. There was a beer shop Weihenstephaner, established in 1040, before the spot on there, but hadn’t quite expected it to called XXXII Great Power of Beer & Wine, Doomsday Book even, which was commissioned in be so wet. The streets resembled the film set “The premier place for craft ale in Seville”, December 1085 by William the Conqueror, in order to for Singing in the Rain and there was a run, which we somehow managed to miss and a list all of the pubs in the land selling Doom Bar, so that not on the euro, but on a far more important nano-brewery Taifa, in the Triano Market, that they could be struck off his Christmas card list. The other commodity - umbrellas. People were exchanging we also failed to splash our way to - maybe ale on offer was one of my favourites, Brewdog’s Punk them for a week’s holiday in Tewkesbury, where next time. After conversations with the IPA, but I had a bit of difficulty trying to get the waiter to we had just come from and where it not only enthusiastic staff in the Maquila, which had its understand me, when suddenly his face lit up and he wasn’t raining, but was enjoying a warm spell own brewery on view to the left of the bar, we declared, “Ah, Punky Pa”. I gave a big smile of satisfaction of Costa del Gloucester sunshine. In fact, they learnt that the locals liked their beers served and he said, with an even bigger smile of satisfaction, seemed to have Seville’s weather. I suspect it was really cold, otherwise it doesn’t sell in Seville. “Eez finished!” I wish it had been the rain.