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Issue 74 - Spring/Early Summer 2020 Following the unprecedented series of events surrounding Covid-19 This issue is available online only. Inside this issue: • Crossword and Stories • Any news we have about the current situation • Presentations for Pubs. Clubs in our area • Ampleforth Cider of the Festival (2019) @furnesscamra Welcome to Issue 74 Furness CAMRA Branch Magazine www.furness.camra.org.uk InnQuirer is produced entirely in-house by Furness CAMRA volunteers with inal printing done by HSPMilners Who to contact in the Branch What you can ind in this issue Pages Chairman/Branch Contact Press Oficer and Public Affairs 4 Disaster Recovery - Advice Dave Stubbins 07807 836591 [email protected] 6 Chairman’s Report Deputy Chairman Janet Ridal 8 Ulverston Beer Festival - some [email protected] history and future plans Secretary 10 CAMRA ‘Pulling Together’ Dave Latham 01229 467238 Campaign [email protected] 12 Deliveries during the crisis Social Secretary/Beer Festival Organiser Dave Wilson 13 & 14 A Visit to Timothy Taylor’s [email protected] Treasurer 16 CAMRA Volunteers and why we Andy Donnan 07592 947733 do it [email protected] 18 Cider of the (Ulverston Beer) Membership Secretary Festival 2019 - Presentation Ann Summers-Glass [email protected] Centre Pages Branch Award Presentations GBG Co-ordinator Ken Parr 22 LocAle [email protected] Pubs Oficer 24 & 26 A Vision for 2020 Ann Summers-Glass [email protected] 28 National Beer Scoring - Whatpub InnQuirer Layout and Editor 31 & 32 The CAMRA National Pub of the Jack Summers-Glass 01229 462076 Year 2019 [email protected] 34 The Crossword No 32 Other useful contacts: 35 Branch Diary ( clue - no events Citizens Advice listed!) 03454 040506 www.adviceguide.org.uk 36 CAMRA discounts (before the crisis) Trading Standards 01539 713594 (fax 01539 713580) 37 Ad. Rates, Transport and email: [email protected] Crossword answers A word from the Editor A small change this issue - since the issues tend to be available straddling the seasons, the issue name now says ‘Spring/Early Summer 2020’ and from now on each issue will be like this as it better describes the season when the magazine will be available. This issue is online only following the Covid-19 crisis. Copyright: Copyright for all content belongs to the owner/provider of the item. All content in this magazine that is subject to copyright is included with the permission of the item owner or is in the public domain and/or not subject to copyright. Permission to use any item herein may be sought from the Editor but this does not imply an automatic grant. Disclaimer: Views and opinions expressed in articles in this magazine are not necessarily the same as those of Furness CAMRA or CAMRA in General InnQuirer Issue 74- Spring 2020 Page 2 Disaster recovery and other options CAMRA supports you! Covid-19 As you are all aware, all pubs clubs etc are closed for the foreseeable future. However, some pubs are now offering a mail-order or delivery service and quite a few breweries are supplying by mail order. If you can, please avail yourself of these as you will be their lifeline until this crisis ends. We don’t have a deinitive list as things are changing all the time so check out our Facebook and Twitter feeds where we will try and keep you all informed when we know ourselves. Adverts in this issue With the current situation, opening times shown on adverts are based on what the pub thought they could manage at the time the advert was created. We currently do not know when any of these pubs will re-open or what will happen to events that are scheduled for the future. You should check with either the pub’s or our social media feeds to get the latest information. How does it work? Let’s all Pay it Forward for the future of British pubs and It’s simple! Small business, who may be breweries worried about their future due to COVID-19, can set-up a Pay it Forward campaign offering customers the CAMRA will also be working option to book meals, a room for the with Crowdfunder to promote night or a ticket to an event now, opportunities for the brewing based on a promise to deliver in the and pubs industry to tap into future. local funding during the period of crisis to tide them over. The idea is simple, breweries and The next issue of the pubs that will be suffering from CAMRA Good Beer Guide closure and drastically reduced should appear in the trade about their future can set- Autumn but in the up a Pay it Forward campaign meantime, why not get offering customers the option yourself a copy from to pay for pints, meals and CAMRA? Alternatively, why tickets now, which can be not get the mobile app. for redeemed in the future. your iPhone or Android. That way, you will always have it to hand when looking for a pub near you Stay in touch and as a bonus, you can score the beer quality https://www.camra.org.uk directly from it. InnQuirer Issue 74- Spring 2020 Page 4 Furness Branch Chairman’s Report by Dave Stubbins - Chairman Obviously the most signiicant thing to We are aware that at least two of our report this quarter is the devastating brewers, Hawkshead and Stringers, impact the coronavirus Covid-19 is are ofering delivery services for bottled having on all our activities. Because beer. Contact details and arrangements our pubs are currently closed and to for delivery can usually be found on minimise our own members’ movement their Facebook, Twitter or web pages we have decided that this issue of the (what we know so far is on page 12). I InnQuirer will not be printed. We did know other brewers are making plans however feel that it is important to too. At this time please follow our continue to communicate as far as Facebook and Twitter accounts as we possible so this issue will be in an on post any information we get on a line version only. regular basis. Cumbria CAMRA and our fellow Cumbrian branches are also We as a branch are of course following posting information and it’s a good way CAMRA’s national instructions and all to keep up to date. meetings are cancelled in the immediate future. You may be aware On a positive note, just before the that CAMRA’s lagship event, the clampdown on pubs occurred we were Great British Beer Festival, scheduled able to make presentations to our to take place in August this year, has branch Pub of the Year, the Old been cancelled. The decision had to be Friends in Ulverston and our branch taken early as the detailed planning Club of the year. Congratulations to involved is signiicant. both on their ine achievement and to the Wellington at Loppergarth, our We are fortunate that, because we Cider Pub of the Year. As soon as have several years’ experience of conditions permit, we will make further running our own Ulverston Beer and presentations as our Pub of the Season Cider Festival, we can wait a few more is ongoing. weeks to see how the virus situation develops before we need to decide The most important thing is to follow whether we can proceed with the the Government’s advice and please festival. keep safe and we’ll CAMRA has teamed up with the see you on Society of Independent Brewers the “other (“SIBA”) and Crowdfunder to launch a side” of campaign entitled “Pulling Together”. this Details of this Campaign are contained pandemic. on page 10 of this magazine. Suice it to say it’s desperately important that we do all we can to help our pubs in any way we can at this diicult time. InnQuirer Issue 74- Spring 2020 Page 6 Ulverson Beer and Cider Festival by Ann Summers-Glass Beer Festival General Dogsbody Thoughts about the Ulverston Beer Festival in the past Planning for this has started in earnest! This long gone now) became our home for a year, it’s open from Thursday 3rd to couple of years, then Eddysons off Saturday 5th September, although actual Cornwallis Street, and Geronimos nightclub set-up will start on the previous Monday next to the rugby ground. (They might have and we’ll dismantle everything in time for a been in a different sequence - it was a long late lunch on the Sunday. It’s at the time ago, none of us are getting any Coronation Hall in Ulverston again, but that younger, and a lot of beer has lowed since wasn’t always the case....... then!) We’ve been reminiscing about the Olden One year we held a cider only in a Barrow Days and thought it might be fun to share pub - but no-one can remember which one! some of our memories. Although this is the If you know, please let us know via our 32nd Ulverston Festival, the irst festival our Facebook or Twitter pages. This was the branch held was actually in 1983! The irst irst ever cider only event held by CAMRA two were held in the Coro’, but we moved so we’re trailblazers -yay!! to the Rydal Suite in the Civic Hall in We then returned to the ’ where we’ve Barrow in 1985. The festival was held there Coro for a few years until the Civic Hall was been ever since.