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ISSUE 17 www.cheersnortheast.co.uk // February 2012

WASTE NOT cheersWANT HAPPY COWS AND WARM RHUBARB?

ALSO SPIELBERG’S NEXT BLOCKBUSTER Let’s do the movie right here CRABS IN CRASTER A Jolly ﬁne lunch THE VIEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO Seeds of a new beer culture

FROM CELLAR TO TILL A PASSION FOR PUBS

INN-SIDE PUBS !// NEWS // IDEAS // OPINION // NEW PUBS // OLD PUBS // BEER ORF LUNCH // BEER FOR TEA // BEER FOR DINNER // PUBS!

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[email protected] ALSO SPIELBERG’S NEXT BLOCKBUSTER HollywoodHollywood world world of Spielberg, of Spielberg, I would. I would. But there’s But there’s no need. This place no need. This place exists.” exists.” “If I could snap my fingers to bring you back into the real world, back from the frame-perfect Let’s do the movie right here CRABS IN CRASTER A Jolly ﬁ ne lunch Advertising THE VIEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO Seeds of a new 01661 844115 beer culture Gillian Corney e year is o and running with FROM CELLAR TO TILL [email protected] every one of us doing all we can to A PASSION FOR PUBS INN-SIDE PUBS ! // NEWS// IDEAS// OPINION // NEW PUBS// OLD PUBS // BEER FOR LUNCH// BEER FOR TEA keep our pubs alive and thriving. // BEER FOR DINNER// PUBS! Website: Initiatives abound with new people Cover: Edward trying di erent menus, regular haunts Theakston, passionate www.cheersnortheast.co.uk Alastair Gilmour, editor showing a bit of initiative, and class about pubs. See page 16 Designed & Published by: pubs showing why they’re… class. For instance, e Central in Gateshead celebrates this leap year by bringing us a selection of Champion Beers of Britain from years with a INSIDE Unit One, Bearl Farm February 29 in them – that’s what comes with donning a large thinking cap. Edward eakston, a man with one of the most recognisable NEWS Stocksﬁ eld surnames in British brewing is about to tell us not how to make beer – 4 Victoria Tunnel Northumberland it’s not his specialism – but how to run a pub more successfully, from commissions a NE43 7AL productive cellar layout to jingling till. beer We’ve been sitting down with microbrewers and farmers to nd out 6 Doggy dinners. Directors: where the waste from brewing our pint goes, and why. Recycling is the Cheers woke the Gary Ramsay name of the game and if it keeps our cows, sheep, rhubarb and compost world up [email protected] heaps happy, we’re all for it. 8 Flag day in Jane Pikett But it’s not all joy and happiness; we’ve already lost one ne pub to Mexico? Let’s [email protected] supermarket redevelopment in recent months – the Old Red Bull do tequila until in Morpeth – and we could be losing another if a decision to atten sunrise Website: Victoria & Albert in New Hartley, North Tyneside, and absorb it into a 11 New takes on old www.offstonepublishing.co.uk Tesco store goes the wrong way on February 14. Valentine’s Day of all cocktail favourites days. FEATURES Photography: And, apparently British pubs are still closing at a rate of 16 a week. 16 The name’s Peter Skelton ere’s never been a more pressing time to realise just what we’ve got – familiar but www.photo-psp.co.uk fantastic pubs – and to do something about preserving such vital assets. he’s in pubs not It’s that old phrase again: Use it or lose it. Race you to the bar. breweries Whilst every effort has been made Cheers - Alastair Gilmour, editor to ensure accuracy, the publisher 20 Where the waste cannot accept responsibility for goes and who omissions and errors. All material makes use of it in this publication is strictly copyright and all rights reserved. PASSION FOR PUBS 24 A day at the seaside restores a He may have a famous bit of faith 16 name in brewing terms but Edward PUB WATCH Theakston’s interests 26 The Grey Horse lie behind the doors of keeps galloping the pub rather than in a brewhouse. His FUN STUFF mission is to show 31 Quizzes, a cartoon people how to run and a date with a OUR them better. dog SPONSORS If Spielberg did pubs He’d do the movie Pub crawl Elvis gets hip Syrah or Shiraz? right here A-Z pub guide Replacement joy One grape different name

ROGER STERLING View From Waste Lunch 14 California 20 measurement 24 date A brewery that The leftovers from It always had a started out in an making beer just reputation for its Wylam Brewery ordinary kitchen don’t disappear crab soup and has developed at – they are useful sandwiches but The an incredible rate to someone, Jolly Fisherman into one of the somewhere. And at Craster has most inventive in they keep rhubarb reinvented itself the US. warm in winter. under new owners.

CHE17.indb 3 04/02/2012 14:59 NEWS Major Miner move

Cheers has been reporting from time to time on a bid by pub lovers in Acomb, Northumberland, to buy the local Miners Arms and run it as a co-operative for the bene t of the community. Basically, the pub – although trading very well – is up or sale due to EXPANDING: Bob Fountain at the Black Horse owners’ personal reasons. An initial public meeting was held in March last year to gauge local interest in forming Listen to the eco e Miners Arms Inn Community from pub lovers who don’t want to The owner of an 18th Century County Durham pub has dreamed up a host Project that would consider its see a traditional alehouse su er. of developments for the year head. purchase and it stirred much local Units of £500 will secure a share. Bob Fountain, who owns the Black Horse at Red Row, near Beamish pride. Similar schemes have operated Martin Booth, of the Hudswell Museum, has several expansion plans for the extensive rural site, very successfully elsewhere in the Community Pub Group o ers the including the building of a new eco centre, which is due to open in late country, notably the Old Crown at Miners Arms much encouragement. 2012. This will be a conference and wedding venue along with featuring a Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria, and “Something like this is a real microbrewery, wine cellar, farm shop and tea rooms. the George & Dragon at Hudswell, community e ort, everyone has Bob, who also owns the internationally renowned Aston Workshop, based near Richmond in North Yorkshire. a say and has one vote,” he says. close to the Black Horse, opened a luxury cottage on the site last autumn Miners Arms organisers have “If we can do it, so can you.” and intends to develop the idea further. extended their “pledge” deadline into For further information on The The Black Horse kitchen, under the eye of head chef Sean McCabe, February and it’s more than half-way Miners Arms Inn Community sources ingredients from its 10 acres of on-site vegetable gardens and to success. Pledges are invited from Project, contact orchards. The award-winning pub boasts scenic views across rolling anywhere in the world, basically [email protected] countryside, as well as Wi-Fi, plenty of parking and function spaces for special occasions – some of which will involve cheese and wine tastings. Visit www.blackhorsebeamish.co.uk Tunnel of lurve Ouseburn Valley Brewery owner Nigel Mothersole has recently started offering brewing days at the brewhouse based in the cellar of the Brandling Villa in South Gosforth. “Our ﬁ rst three people came along for the ride,” says Nigel. “We are doing an Imperial Russian Stout – all on pre order – and have no idea of the strength yet, but it’ll hopefully be around 8% abv. “The Ouseburn Trust Victoria Tunnels has also asked us to do a beer, so that will happen soon. I’ve also just got an allotment, so I’m going to have a crack at growing hops – which will take a few years but I’ve planted some Fuggles, First Gold and Cascade varieties and I hope they enjoy the balmy North East climate.

Meet and drink The County on Gosforth High Street has been enthusiastically supporting local breweries for some time now and has a series of Meet The Brewer events scheduled. In February’s it’s Wylam Brewery’s turn with an opportunity to meet some of the brewing team on Wednesday February 8 (8pm). It’s expected that Matt Boyle, Ben Wilkinson and Lee Howourth will be there. In March, the feature brewery is Tyne Bank. 4 cheers february 2012

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BUSY: Martin Hamill, left, and Andy Burrows, Hadrian Border Filling up Hadrian Border Brewery, based at Newburn in The former council offices at Whickham NEW LEASE OF LIFE?: Newcastle for the past 12 months, has taken delivery of 120 new stainless steel ﬁ rkins with 120 more arriving in this month. “January was busier than expected, so they Whatever the Wether... have come at the right time,” says brewery managing director Andy Burrows. n improved sales performance George Osborne to scrap the rises in “We have also had to purchase a new van earlier provided some end-of-2011 alcohol duty, which have been going up than anticipated, but it coincides with a new cheer for pub chain JD above the rate of in ation in recent years driver starting at the beginning of February.” Wetherspoon, but its chairman and will wait for the chancellor’s Budget Awarned that its expansion plans may be speech before deciding whether the scaled back in the face of more tax hikes. current rate of expansion can continue. e chain, which operates 850 pubs across e chain reported that like-for-like sales in Dining room the country that include three in Newcastle the 12 weeks to January 15 2012 increased The New Bridge on New Bridge Street, Newcastle, city centre alone, is on track to open 50 sites 3.6%, which was up from 1.1% in the previous is now offering meals on Saturdays between 12noon in the year to July but future openings may quarter. However, the most recent gures and 3pm. Monday to Friday food hours are 11am to slow drastically if the Chancellor presses were attered by comparisons with a weaker 3pm and the famous Sunday lunches are still available ahead with planned increases in duty. performance in the previous December when between 12noon and 4pm. The New Bridge is one of ere are apparently six sites earmarked blizzards kept people at home. e group three Sir John FitzGerald pubs trying out a new food for a Wetherspoon makeover in the North said its pro t margins fell in the second menu and on Thursday February 19 lunchtime – as East, including the former council o ces quarter of its nancial year as it struggled a one-off – all main meals will be £1. The pub has in Whickham, Gateshead (pictured). to pass on the rising cost of VAT, alcohol already started live Saturday night music events with, 2012 CAC New Cheers NE Advert 85x190_Layout 1 30/01/2012 12:09 Page 1 Chairman Tim Martin has called on duty, and higher food and drink costs. we’re told, an interesting lineup of musicians in store.

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CHE17.indb 5 04/02/2012 14:59 10-Dipton 41x93.5 ad:Layout 1 19/1/11 13:36 Page 1 Dipton Mill Inn NEWS All you’d want a country pub to be... Interest Dipton Mill Road, Hexham NE46 1YA Tel: kindled 01434 606577 www.diptonmill.co.uk There was also a rather nice response to a plea regarding the country’s most common pub name. “Is it The Red Lion?” asked Cheers “luncher” Jane EAT - DRINK - ENJOY Pikett – and pub sign Local Real Ales • Homecooked Food • Freshly Blended Coffee expert Chris Kilkenny was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - OAP’s Lunchtime Special quick to respond. 1 course £6.25 2 course £7.50 3 course £8.95, (12 - 2pm) “The answer is…” Chris wrote, “…probably nobody knows. But it’s between the Red Lion, as suggested by the British Beer & Pub Thursday, Friday, Saturday - Steak Night £8.95, (6.30pm - 8.45pm) Association and The Crown (Camra). The Royal Oak is a close challenger.” Sunday Lunch £7.50 - (2 - 4pm) And now for the commercial: Chris has produced an ebook for reading Live football shown every weekend on Kindle and PC or iPad. The Inn Sign Story North East England tells the story behind the pub names. Live entertainment last Saturday of the month “You can learn the history of the North East by looking through a pub window,” says Chris. Download the ebook at Kindle UK (best viewed on a computer in colour). More from Chris in March – and then Slovenia’s Slovenske Novice.

Main Street, Acomb, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 4PW WINNER: The Bacchus, Newcastle Tel: 01434 602934, email: [email protected] www.thesuninn-acomb.co.uk

PotYs uncovered The Camra Tyneside and Northumberland branch has announced its Pubs of the Year (PotYs). The region covered is so large it’s split up into four sections, so it’s congratulations to the Bacchus in Newcastle (Tyneside area); the Boathouse, Wylam (South West Northumberland), The Tap & Spile in Morpeth (South East) and jointly for North Northumberland, The Barrels in Berwick and The Ship Inn at Low Tradition at it’s Best Newton. They all go forward to the regional ﬁ nal. LIVE SATURDAY 11TH FEBRUARY MUSIC e original Rythm & Soul band, Legendary Heroes Doggy style is the way e Mudskippers, Rockabilly - Blues - Honk PLUS STARTS 9PM FREE ENTRY While the world didn’t exactly South Gosforth pub, along with a wobble, a story ﬁ rst featured specially-brewed, non-alcoholic 10 Handpulls + ciders always on tap in the previous issue of Cheers beer for canine customers. Snacks & sandwiches served every day North East winged its way around “We see dogs as punters Live sports shown on big screen tv’s the globe, featuring in media too,” says Sammy. The pair have outlets in China, India, Slovenia, Pool table - wi their own “testers” in Sammy’s France, Italy, Australia, Canada chihuahua/jack russell cross and, er… Radio Newcastle. Ladybird and Dave’s best friend Doggy-style meals developed Franco the beagle – both of KINGS MANOR by Dave Carr at the Brandling which you could argue were Hadrian Border Brewery Tap Villa – ably advised by chef guinea-pigs. And, it’s nice for us Sammy Dee – have been a huge all to know that people are 132 140 NEW BRIDGE STREET, NEWCASTLE, NE1 5SZ TEL: 0191 2321618 hit at the newly-refurbished taking notice. 6 cheers february 2012

CHE17.indb 6 04/02/2012 14:59 Join us Cheers North East and Edward Theakston Associates have joined forces to offer a terriﬁ c pub training day on April 11 at The White Bear in Masham, North Yorkshire. At £50 a head, it’s unbeatable value. See page 17 for details.

Festival JOIN US TOO:Neil Amos, Newcastle Arms. Drawing: Hutch

diary STOCKTON ALE & ARTY FITTING: The bar at the soon-to-be demolished NEWCASTLE ARMS BEER BEER FESTIVAL, ARC, Old Red Bull in Morpeth FESTIVAL, ST ANDREWS DOVECOT STREET, STREET, NEWCASTLE, STOCKTON ON TEES, TS18 FEBRUARY 9-12 1LL FEBRUARY 23-25 Counter culture lives Unusual and rare beers from Eighty-plus ales from breweries unusual and rare breweries – 35 across the country with also a The bar from the Old Red at the Masonic Centre in Winton plus a range of Belgian gueuze. nod towards local producers – Bull in Morpeth – closed last House. The centre hosts dozens The usual, though, is the temporary including Loch Lomond, Staithes, November to make way for a of functions, including weddings, counter with eight handpulls Nant, Tempest, Gambling Man, multi-million pound Morrisons and as its former bar was “falling complementing the bar, which Scarborough and Captain Cook. superstore development – has down”, at least a part of the Old has the (usual) ﬁ ve. Details: www. Full details at www. been installed across the road Red Bull lives on. newcastlearms.co.uk clevelandcamra.org.uk

REBEL CRAFT AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT THE TOWN WALL to read the full story visit www.thetownwall.com/rebelcraft

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CHE17.indb 7 04/02/2012 14:59 NEWS

Leap of faith, grunge and a CELEBRATION:Dave Campbell, Mexican wave manager, The Central, Gateshead

he Head of Steam group of pubs could possible that these ales have never all been on sale Erdinger Weissbier, the German classic. You will never be accused of being backward in together at one time, so we thought, what better be able to collect stamps on every pint purchased coming forward – they are, of course, way to celebrate some brilliant award-winners of for the chance to win some superb and rare well known for quality beer and food the past?” merchandise. All completed cards will go into the oT erings and also come up with some terri c ese are: Tripple FFF Altons Pride (3.8% abv), hat to win branded polo shirts, gift packs, three-litre promotional ideas. Group managing director Moorhouses Black Cat (3.4% abv), Woodfordes Erdinger glasses and branded Erdinger watches. Tony Brookes says there’s a lot planned for 2012 – Wherry (3.8% abv), Woodfordes Nog (4.6% abv), Early February sees the opening of e Morpeth “and that’s an understatement”. Kelham Island Pale Rider (5.2% abv), Ringwood brewing company Brewstar and the launch of its With this being a leap year, e Central in Old umper (5.6% abv) and waites Nutty Black Brewstar Blonde (4.1% abv). Head of Steam pubs Gateshead will be marking the event by o ering (3.3% abv). – as supporters of all things local – are among the Champion Beers of Britain from the years that All the ales will go on sale on or around February rst to take delivery. include a February 29, going right back to 1980. 29 and will be on sale until the last drop is sold. e Head of Steam at Reform Place, Durham, Dave Campbell, Central manager, says: “It’s quite During February the focus will also be on is “absolutely buzzing” and the thinking caps

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have been well worn here, too. All e following week – February month, customers are invited to 20-26 is National Chip Week, so a name a chou e – and win one. So portion of fries will be £1 with a pint what is a chou e? It’s a red-hatted, of Budvar, Tuborg, Peroni or Estrala. long-bearded gnome, part of Belgian Sweet potatoes, US fries, home-made folklore and a Belgian beer brand. chips, curly fries or a selection chip Collect three stamps for three basket is £3. separate beers from the Chou e In between is Día de la Bandera bottle and draught range and hand (Flag Day), February 24, a national the completed card to a member of holiday in Mexico. e Head of Steam sta with your suggestion for a name will revel in a sea of Mexicana – re- and see what you’ll win. fried beans, quesadillas, burritos and From February 17-20 the pub will fajitas – and lots of Mexican beers. host a Seattle Weekend to celebrate And where would a Mexican the birth – and birthplace of Nirvana celebration be without tequila? frontman Kurt Cobain. e pub’s Simon Ritson, the pub’s enterprising ever-expanding range of American manager, and Patron Tequila have beers will be joined by some seafood teamed up to bring a very special specials from the west coast city. evening of tequila tasting that will Seattle was also the home town include some of the best in the world. of Jimi Hendrix, so expect to hear Special Mexican dishes to some of the music that became complement each tequila will also to be known as e Seattle Sound be on o er in the ticket-only event from him and the likes of Pearl Jam, (available from the bar £35 a head). Great Food - 2 Great Pubs Soundgarden and, of course, Nirvana. www.headofsteam.co.uk

The Crown Inn

Local real ales - Open 7 days New menu - Real ales Accommodation - Children welcome Open 7 days - Children welcome Station Road, Corbridge, The Crown Inn Northumberland NE45 5AY Humsaugh, Hexham, Tel: 01434 633633 or visit Northumberland, NE46 4AG Islay take the high road www.dyvelsinn.co.uk Telephone 01434 681231 Taking the Robert Burns quote: Davidson at each distillery they “Whisky and freedom gang visited. thigither” to heart, Head of Steam “No whisky while driving, group managing director Tony though,” says Tony. A framed A Warm Welcome Awaits Brookes and a mate recently took selection of the photos will 7 ever-changing cask ales, Selection of snacks off on a trip of Islay and Jura and appear at one of the Head of Monday Nights: Buskers photographed his beloved Harley- Steam pubs. Thursday Nights: Live acoustic music Shoes off, take a seat The Three Horseshoes, Maiden which also owns The Wellington Law, Lanchester, County Durham, Heifer at Ainderby Steeple, reopened during 2011 after a Northallerton, North Yorkshire £300,000 refurbishment and the (currently closed for major reﬁ t). ﬁ rst six months of trading seeing Extensive lunch and evening in excess of 10,000 diners pulling menus are prepared freshly, Supporters of the CAMRA LocAle campaign, up a chair – with many of them while the ale offer includes Black 30p o each local ale to CAMRA members - making return visits. Brothers Sheep and a revolving “guest”. ask sta for details Paul are Christopher Hopper, both Self-catering accommodation is The Birtley Ale House - A traditional cask ale house graduates in hospitality studies, currently being added. Check it Talbot Terrace, Birtley, County Durham, DH3 2PQ are managing the operation out at www.glencairninns.co.uk/ Tel: 0191 4100593 www.birtleyalehouse.co.uk on behalf of Glencairn Inns, Threehorseshoes february 2012 cheers 9

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CHE17.indb 10 04/02/2012 14:59 NEWS HAVE YOUR SAY

Log on to Book is on Manor from cheersnortheast.co.uk the money heaven The Oxford Companion to Beer, a 920-page encyclopedia, edited by A Northumberland pub owner to my delight. Amongst all this Brooklyn Brewery’s Garrett Oliver, and is applying techniques to his I worked towards building up covering every aspect of our favourite business that are common in a better relationship with our drink from the development of beer manufacturing environments. brewery owners Marstons who, styles to history and production, has The art of kaizen, or “continuous I have to say, have been very sold in excess 28,000 copies wordwide improvement”, is a Japanese- helpful. They have seen my since it was published in November. inspired initiative much favoured ambitions for the business and It has also been shortlisted for the by the likes of Nissan. met most of my requirements as prestigious André Simon Food and “Continuous improvement a they understand it works both Drink Book awards to be held on big factor,” says Earl Nicholson ways.” March 15. Further information at the Manor House Inn, Dale’s plans have included at: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ Haltwhistle. “I’ve been working appointing a top-fl ight chef in product/9780195367133.do closely with local tourism and Gary Robinson – together they’re other business associations to committed to the best of local obtain grant funding to make my produce that Northumberland next step possible. Completely can offer which will take the Competition winners refurbishing the outdated Manor’s Griffi n Room Restaurant And, on that note, here are the winners of our great competitions accommodation, a kitchen up several notches and get from the December/January issue of Cheers. Winners have been refi t, and new website launch, recognition far and wide for informed and our thanks go out to all who entered. if unsuccessful, could have quality. Oxford Companion to Beer: Eric Larkham, Newcastle; DFDS trip to signalled the end for the Manor. The Manor House Inn, Main Amsterdam: Janette Burgess, Newbiggin by the Sea; Beer hamper “After two long hard years, we Street, Haltwhistle NE49 0BS. from Coppers 8till8: A Hunter, North Shields; Barfl y mugs: Ian eventually got the funding and Tel: 01434 322588. Visit www. Malcolm, Blaydon; Beer for a year from Hadrian Border brewery: the next stage was completed themanorhousehaltwhistle.co.uk Tracy Walker, Whickham, Gateshead. Well done you lot. TREAT YOUR MUM ON HER SPECIAL DAY

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CHE17.indb 11 04/02/2012 15:00 COLUMNIST: ROGER STERLING Close encounters of the waistcoat kind Our barﬂ y takes off et’s get the rst edition deserves to be lauded, it is a place “I’m feeling your vision, Steven. of Cheers 2012 o in where every detail, every sight-line, What colour are the dogs?” to an unexpected suitably uplifting style every “fault” has been meticulously Spielberg: “Black. And brown. destination – for with a review of one chosen to look as though it all And black and brown. Spotty!” ofL my favourite pubs. But it’s a happened by accident. Just for a Sycophant: “Genius.” him. Then he takes favourite of mine for reasons moment, let’s go on a Spielberg: “ ere off on one di erent to those for which I certain ight of fancy. has to be bay windows, normally grant my favours. is Here’s the set-up: with those small panes place is actually more of an inn Steven Spielberg has of glass. And the tables than a pub – let alone a bar. You been chosen to direct “And the tables and and chairs need to be, chairs need to be, are familiar with my views on bars a movie to be set in “an ah whaddtheycallit, ah whadtheycallit, selling food. I wouldn’t expect to English village”. e ‘higgledy-piggledy’. ‘higgledy-piggledy’. I nd a ne malt or a hand-crafted opening scene is in “the can hear a big clock. I cask ale in a sh and chip shop, village pub”. He sits down want the walls covered so who thinks doing it the other with “his people” to discuss how in photographs depicting how way round is a good idea? the pub should be and to ensure the peasants live ’way back in Whatever. Food aside, it looks “absolutely authentic”... the early 1970s. And I want a this is a pub which Spielberg: “It’s in my head. shaded terrace where men with It’s, it’s, well it’s ‘old’. ere more dogs can smoke pipes and has to be open res. With stu , and talk about coal.” logs. Big logs. And dogs, we Sycophant: “Epic. What need some dogs. Four dogs.” colour are their dogs, Steven?” Sycophantic set designer: Spielberg: “I’ll get back to you

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on that. But what we really need is a steam train. I want a steam train Pop along to run right by the bay windows Bright and blow its whistle, just as the inn- keeper walks in carrying fresh logs. people And the inn-keeper; he has to have Culler facial hair. And a waistcoat. And he One of the North East’s most should have just got o his barge.” scheme popular cocktail bars has Sycophant: “A barge, Steven? launched a new menu which OK, we can relate to that... North-Tyneside brewery includes a selection of unique (whispers to an aide, “What has secured orders from drinks created by its staff. the rat’s ass is a barge?”). outside the region, following Popolo at Pilgrim Street, Spielberg: “And have something a successful fi rst month of Newcastle, has already won stu ed and put it in a case. Oh, and distributing cask-conditioned several awards for its extensive the outside guys talking about coal beer to more than 20 pubs drinks collection and is now – their dogs are small and white.” across the North East. hoping to continue that success Sycophant: “Galactic!” Cullercoats Brewery, the with the new, 12-page list. If I could snap my ngers to bring microbrewery responsible for Among the many new additions you back into the real world, back beers such as Lovely Nelly are Popolo Originals – a selection from the frame-perfect Hollywood and Jack the Devil, is now of 10 unusual cocktails created world of Spielberg, I would. But supplying pubs in Sheffi eld, in-house by one of the venue’s there’s no need. is place exists. Nottingham, Birmingham team of experienced bartenders. It’s not a movie set. But to all and Cheshire through These include Raisin intents and purposes it could be. working in collaboration with GOING PLACES: Bill Skantleberry, Expectations – dark rum, Find the time to take a trip Manchester-based Boggarts Cullercoats Brewery sherry and home-made raisin to Frosterley, and submerge Brewery Distributions. and vanilla syrup; Thorny yourself in the eye-wateringly Cullercoats Brewery began Issue – gin, crème de mure gorgeous nostalgia of the Black brewing in mid-December and (3.9% abv), a copper-coloured pale and rhubarb bitters, and the Bull. It’s a blockbuster of a pub. is donating 3p per pint to the ale, and Jack the Devil (4.5% abv), Palooka, featuring velvet THE BLACK BULL IS IN RNLI. Boggarts has ordered 12 which is full-bodied and dark. falernum, orange bitters, sweet FROSTERLEY, COUNTY DURHAM fi rkins – 864 pints – of Lovely Nelly Visit www.cullercoatsbrewery.co.uk caramel syrup and tequila. New Year, New Chef, New Menu The Manor House Inn are proud to introduce Gary Robinson, who will be creating an exciting range of dishes to tempt your tastebuds.

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CHE17.indb 13 04/02/2012 15:00 VIEW FROM ABROAD LAGUNITAS BREWERY, SAN FRANCISCO  visit www.cheersnortheast.co.uk to have your say

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Log on to most publicans would not put it on tap. How come you cheersnortheast.co.uk Today, 7.5% is considered modest! When we bottled what was among the rst few of the now stampeding Double IPA 3 GREAT BARS taste so good? beers – our Maximus Ale – other brewers and bar owners commented that we “put too 13 beautiful 3 hand home sunday Tony Magee from Lagunitas Brewing Company in California, writes much money in the bottle”. Can you imagine exclusively for Cheers with inspiration for would-be brewers and that thought even existing on the lips of a craft en-suite bedrooms pumps cooked food lunch beer drinker today? Nowadays, Bed and breakfast from Black Sheep is a served Mon to Sat 12pm - 5pm an insight into the ‘explosion’ of craft brewing “too much of everything is just enough” is the rule. £30 per night regular plus 2 Guest 12pm - 9pm reetings from the Planet of other – and the gentle Zen-like Since our inception we have, Lagunitas. We are a US craft brewer handling of a brand which, if happily and with the permission in the Sonoma County California you are lucky, will become a of the newly-born beer culture, SPECIAL OFFERS wine country town of Petaluma. platform for your business to grown our brewing output by GMy name is Tony Magee, and I founded the communicate with unimagined about three times the industry Monday - Saturday ursday Steak Night UNDER NEW brewery on my wife’s stove in our rst house in future customers who are average, year in and year out. 2 meals foronly £10.00 (12 pm - 5 pm) 2 sirloins + bottle of wine £25.00 the tiny West Marin County town of Lagunitas. only now being born. To keep up with all of this in OWNERSHIP Now that we know each other, I’ll tell you e unique thing about the 2008 we put in a new Bavarian- Wednesdays Nights Friday and Saturday nights how we got here. After a prior life as a would-be seemingly-explosive growth built brewhouse (Rolec), and Curry + pint £6.95 (John Smiths or Fosters) Live music musician and a commercial printing salesman of craft brewing in the US has our growth picked up speed and I homebrewed my rst batch on the stove two important aspects and now in 2012 we are installing one Saturday in February in 1993 and the we are luck to enjoy a spot a whole new brewing system. CROXDALE INN Front Street, Croxdale, County Durham DH6 5HX, Tel: 01388 815727 next morning I decided to open a brewery. at the centre of both. e rst is that “Since our iception Suddenly, in 2011 the industry as Lagunitas brewed its rst 210 gallon batch it is not explosive – it has been going we have grown our a whole grew at 11% – but we grew ten months later that same year. It was more on since 1962AD when Fritz Maytag brewing output by at 60% – and that is continuing even Home of Olde Esh of a seizure than it the culmination of years rescued the last American craft brewery, about three times as I write this. So, we are all out of Good Beer Guide the industry average, Bitter 4.1% of dreaming, but over the last 18 years it Anchor Brewing, from oblivion. And capacity again and awaiting the year in and year Open: Mon to ur 12pm - 11.30pm, Fri & 2012 - 13 Real Ales has been the best ride into the larger world secondly, it is simultaneously the cause commissioning of the new plant. out.” Sat 12pm - Midnight, Sun 12pm 11.30pm than could ever have been imagined. for, and the result, of the birth of genuine at is a big story in 687 words on at all times By “the larger world”, I mean evolving one’s “beer culture” in the United States. (and all the editor will allow me), but 6 Real Ales + Old Rosie Cider consciousness over time from managing We began in 1993 (so we have been in- in the US alone there are 1,600 of us with another Food served Mon to Sat Home cooked food served Monday to your own cheque book, to being saturated country for a good portion of craft brewing’s 600 still in the womb and due each and every 12 pm - 9 pm & Sun 12 pm - 8 pm Friday 11 am till 9 pm, Saturday 11 am by everything from sources of malting barley emergence) during one of its more confusing day. We’ve had visits from wannabe brewers from till 7 pm & Sunday 11.30 am till 4 pm grown on Hutterite colonies in Alberta and the phases and we have ever-since played our all over the world and calls from distributors THE nascent character and quality of one’s local water own role in building people’s expectation of from Stockholm to the far- ung Isles of SPECIAL OFFERS SPECIAL OFFERS BARLEY supply, to dealings in international currency personal preference in the beer they drink. Langerhans, all hoping to sell what we do there. Monday to Saturday - 2 meals for £8.50 CROSS Monday to Saturday: 2 meals for £8.00 exchange rates and managing relationships For example, when in 1996 we bottled our ese people are all the seeds for a new beer (12 pm till 6pm) (12 pm - 5 pm) with a failing-then-recapitalised bank. holiday release of the day, e Lagunator Ale, culture to be sown all over the world, born Monday Nights - Curry + drink £6.95 KEYS Monday Nights: Curry + pint £5.99 MOW ursday Nights - 2 Rump steaks Front Street, Esh, County Durham Road, Birltey, ere are the hundreds of relationships you’ll in 22oz bottles it was 7.5% alcohol by volume here in San Francisco in 1962 – 50 years ago. Friday Nights: 2 Rump Steaks for £13.00 have with employees, both long-term and the and was regarded as ridiculously strong and More at www.lagunitas.com or Rib eye + bottle of wine £25.00 Durham, DH7 9QR Tyne & Wear, DH3 2AH Live Music every ursday and Saturday Live Music Sunday 26th February Tel: 0191 3731279 Tel: 0191 4104504 14 cheers february 2012

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CHE17.indb 15 04/02/2012 15:00 INTERVIEW: EDWARD THEAKSTON

THOROUGH: Edward Theakston checks glassware

don’t think any pub should fail,” he says, over a pint of Lighfoot Bitter and a divine Wensleydale and beetroot sandwich in e White Bear in Masham. A passion for pubs “It’s just a question of understanding the circumstances you’re in and what you have to do. The surname is familiar but one member of a renowned Personally my biggest issue with pubs is costs. “When you go into the pub business you’ve brewing dynasty is not involved in making beer – his got to get the pricing right, you’ve got to get the business is advising people how to sell it and make money costs right. How many people actually know what their break-even number is going to be at the same time. Alastair Gilmour reports before they sign up? To me, having done a lot of work with the leased sector, not just with pend ve minutes with Edward “Running a licensed premises S&N – though that’s my background – it’s quite eakston, one of the North Yorkshire successfully in the current market is concerning. People have this wonderful dream of brewing family, and it’s hard to resist challenging,” says Edward. “But with the running a pub; they love the idea, but have very the temptation to get involved in right o ering, it’s not an impossible task. little experience and fall into all the old traps.” theS pub business. His enthusiasm for the “It’s not about the cheapest prices and a Most of us who love pubs, beer and licensed trade is infectious, his passion for the raft of promotional o ers – today’s consumers particularly people, have that dream – linked subject is uplifting, while his knowledge and are much more discerning and if they are to the lottery win, the redundancy cheque, awareness of all things pub are enlightening. to return to trade outlets they will do so for the life’s savings, the inheritance from an old e surname’s the same but the day-to-day the whole experience which will include the auntie – but perhaps we’re fooling ourselves. running of the 185-year-old T&R eakston quality of the drinks, the variety and quality of Edward says: “People go in with their hearts, brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire, is left to the food o ering, the e ciency and standard which is very admirable, it’s lovely – and the Edward’s brother Simon and his team though of service, the cleanliness of the place and cold-headed approach sometimes gets pushed Edward remains a director of the company. the friendliness and expertise of the sta .” to the side. e truth is, you can’t be hard enough However, he has been heavily involved for the last In today’s trading environment – throughout on yourself and if you’re entering a tenancy 16 years elsewhere in the licensed trade, directly all business sectors – it is imperative that agreement in particular you need to make sure as an independent pub operator and running operating at the highest levels and exceeding you’re happy with the deal you’re signing up to. training courses for groups and individuals. He is customer expectations are essential to “You’re going to be tied on the beer, tied on a Fellow of the British Institute of Innkeeping and enable business goals to be achieved. But the food, tied on all sorts of things. I don’t want professionally recognised by Cask Marque – and there is no “one size ts all” approach and to get involved with the very political debate who are we to disagree with a Cumbrian pub- that’s where Edward eakston excels. that’s going on at the moment, who’s right and owner’s opinion, “he is one of life’s gentlemen”. “I come from this very optimistic view that I who’s wrong – and everybody has their view

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CHE17.indb 16 04/02/2012 15:00 NEWS

New brew to choose Brew Star is a new microbrewery based at the Whitehouse Centre near Morpeth, set up by husband-and-wife team Simon and Dawn Miles. Their fi rst beer – Blonde Star – a 4.1% abv ale, was launched at Tilleys Bar in Newcastle, which is a rather appropriate venue as Dawn and Simon had their fi rst date there 28 FINE PUB:The White Bear at years ago. Masham, North Yorkshire Graham Frost, Tilleys’ manager, said: “I hope customers like Blonde Star so much they force us to keep it on as a regular. Launching it here on it – but the baseline is if you can’t make the think,” says Edward. “It’s the choice between must be like coming for Dawn and Simon.” numbers stack up you shouldn’t be doing it.” being reactive as opposed to being proactive. For more information, contact Dawn Miles on Again, like any other business, everything in “For instance, someone will take over a pub 01670 789755 or e mail [email protected] a pub, from the bog rolls to the beer, ultimately and put up big banners that say: Under New has to come through the till; they’re all part of Management. But, excuse the language – what a the margins you need to operate under. Edward load of bollocks. It’s not under new management, eakston is perfectly clear on where it’s under new ownership. Great news the buck starts, let alone where it stops. “You might actually be a manager “ e xed cost of rent or mortgage, going in, but it’s still your pub so there the xed cost of power and all the other ought to be a banner along the lines for Sunderland “If you cut staff your utilities, the beer – all these costs are service levels drop, of ‘If you think Libya’s gone through a only going to go up and, in order to Your presentation regime change, have a look in here’.” drinkers move forward, you need to know what and standards It’s not only new licensees that price you have to sell your beer,” he says. are immediately Edward eakston has a case- The Clarendon in the Sunderland’s East End “In my experience, two things tend affected.” load of advice for, he’s adept at has reopened after a three-month hiatus and to happen if you’re struggling. You teaching old dogs new tricks. the new management is ready to take the bull may cut part-time sta but if you cut sta your Ross Evans of the Ship Tavern in Holborn, by the horns. This bull is obviously Bull Lane service levels drop. Your presentation and your London, says: “You are not only given the Brewery, tucked away in the 1753-vintage standards are immediately a ected, then do tools but shown how to use them.” Clarendon basement, and there will be a new your customers get value for money any more? One of those tools could well be a emphasis on the pub being a major outlet for “It’s a horrible spiral and nobody likes doing Wensleydale and beetroot sandwich. its beers brewed by expert brewer Steve Potts. numbers – you only like doing them when they’re A couple of local “guests” are also on offer and successful – but they need to be done. If the pub DELIVERING RESULTS Clarendon owner John Taylor promises that he next door’s beer is 10p cheaper than yours you and the management team are “bursting with may get a shift of customer – so you’ve got to ask Edward Theakston Associates and ideas”. Best have a look yourself, though. yourself if such a price-sensitive customers is Cheers North East have teamed up to The Clarendon, 143 High Street East, really what you want. ey might well be, but the offer a brilliant value training and advice Sunderland, SR1 2BL. Tel: 0191 531 3200. fact is if you then have to cut your prices by 10p session for publicans and staff. www.clarendon-pub.co.uk it’s your pro t that’s going out of the window.” The event will take place on Tuesday So it’s clear that cutting margins and ultimately April 11 at the White Bear, Masham, North pro tability doesn’t seem to be the sensible way Yorkshire, at a special introductory price of forward and Edward is quite forceful on this £50 per delegate. The day will feature every Centre of fundamental point – and that there are hundreds planning and training technique with piles of of other factors to be taken into account. His advice and initiatives that help make money at training courses cover wider business techniques one end and stop it running out at the other. learning such as evaluation of operational e ciencies “It’s possibly the best £50 a pub operator The fi rst Northumbria University Students and key performance indicators – areas that could ever spend,” says Cheers editor Alastair Union Real Ale Society Beer and Cider Festival we “dreamers” tend to shy away from – but he Gilmour. “It’s amazing value. Edward’s will be held on March 6 and 7 (4pm-11pm) in also explores things like routine maintenance, sessions cater for everyone in the business.” Reds at Northumbria Students Union. They’re cellar layout, sta training, technical expertise, Please contact edward.theakston@ hoping to have at least seven local beers on with site analysis and strategic planning. And it edwardtheakstonassociates.co.uk or one being made specially for the occasion by all leads to making – and saving – money. tel 01677 460171 for full details and/ Ouseburn Valley Brewery. There’ll also be pies “What quite often happens is people are or to register an interest. Alternatively, from the New Zealand Gourmet Pie Company. working so hard and they haven’t got the sta email [email protected] Further details at http://www.facebook.com/ or the luxury of time to actually sit down and or call 07930 144 846 for a chat. events/323258851020412/

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CHE17.indb 17 04/02/2012 15:00 Q&A RALPH WILKINSON, NUMBER TWENTY 2

We ask the questions RALPH WILKINSON, Number Twenty2, Darlington

How long have you been in the family business I realised I had 1976 became licensees of The people. Good manners are so pub trade and how long have made a huge error. My godfather George at Piercebridge. Hooked! important to my staff and to me. you been at Number Twenty 2? used to run a hotel and a couple My fi rst Justices Licence was of pubs in North Yorkshire and a What is the best thing Apart from Number Twenty 2, June 1976 and Number Twenty close friend was a hotel manager about your job? what’s your favourite pub(s)? 2 opened in March 1995. in London (The Curzon). He and Providing appreciative customers The White Horse, Parsons Green, I decided we would have a pub with quality products. London, the Crown Posada, What made you do it together and after a quantity of Newcastle, and my other pubs in the fi rst place? G&T at the Penthouse Club we And the worst? (The Crown at Manfi eld and After leaving school to work in the decided to go ahead and in June Dealing with ill-mannered Blind Jack’s, Knaresborough).

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CHE17.indb 18 04/02/2012 15:00 Also The Shoulder at Middleton Tyas, because I can walk there If you had a pet hamster and back – good food and ale. what would you call it? Harry, because it alliterates. Who was the last celebrity I had a Harry when I was you served in the pub and young, as did my children. what were they like? Reg Holdsworth (I don’t know his After the last customer has left, do proper name). He was very well you relax with whisky or cocoa? mannered and unassuming. Sorry to be boring, I’m such a lightweight… neither. It always Optimist or pessimist? Are you used to be a glass of red, probably a pints or halves person? Georges Dubouef Grand Cuvée My glass has always been half-full. – his Morgon is my favourite.

What words or phrases I Number Twenty 2 Coniscliffe do you most overuse? Road Alehouse and Canteen, “It’s not difﬁ cult” and “get Darlington DL3 7RG. Tel 01325 to the customer ﬁ rst”. 354590 www.villagebrewer.co.uk welcomea warm

Situated in the heart of Newcastle city centre with it’s relaxed atmosphere and subtle decor, the Bacchus is a great place to Hoppy new beer call in for a drink or bite to eat. We are close to the Theatre A North Yorkshire brewer has beer, Top of the Hops 2012, a 4.5% Royal and many other entertainment venues. brewed a beer using 2,012 abv fruity golden ale, has been on Food is available every day and our New Bar Buddies Menu now varieties of hop in a bid to boost sale since the turn of the year. o ers even more choice and exibility. There is an excellent selection the English hop industry. Great Yorkshire director Joanne of cask ales and local micro brewery beers to try complemented by The Great Yorkshire Brewery Taylor said they decided to partner an extensive wine list. We are in the Good Beer Guide 2012. in Pickering – formerly Cropton research body Wye Hops because Brewery – has bought a batch of of the decline in English hop trial varieties from Kent’s Wye acreage and to support work done BACCHUS CAMRA Tyneside Pub of the Year 2009, 2010 2011 Hops that will not be developed by Peter Darby, the organisation’s 42 48 High Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 6BX for commercial use. The resulting head of research. Telephone: 0191 2611008 email: [email protected] www.sjf.co.uk

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CHE17.indb 19 04/02/2012 15:00 FEATURE: WHERE THE WASTE GOES HAVE YOUR SAY

Log on to Waste cheersnortheast.co.uk measurement It’s something that we don’t often think about in the pub, particularly on a busy Friday night, but what happens to all the waste materials that go into our pint? Alastair Gilmour ﬁ nds out

e know where the beer I’m really about,” he says. goes after we slurp that Matt Boyle of Wylam rst glorious pint of the Brewery tells us that anybody evening. Straight to refresh is free to pick up bagged theW parts that other gear cannot reach, spent hops from the Heddon that is if you’ve got a good memory and on the Wall premises for can recall the old Heineken adverts. similar garden use. e But where do the raw ingredients – water, popularity of their beers malted barley, hops and yeast – end up when means more and more the brewing process is nished? Down the waste is produced which drain, in the bin, or up in the air to add to is beginning to be a bit of a MUNCH BUNCH:Happy cattle make happy beef ozone-layer-destroying particles? Beer-making headache to dispose of. Hops uses incredible amounts of natural materials, break down after a time into rich so they’ve got to go somewhere, else every compost and can also be used as collecting it from the heat exchanger, brewery in the land would have a pile of stinking a mulch. But recycling brewery saving us 400 gallons per brew. vegetation in the yard that the neighbours would waste is more than about hops. “We get regulated every four soon complain about. With the help of a few “Some of the farmers round here “To me, a compost months when there’s a check done on enterprising individuals, there’s actually a whole take the malted barley and feed it heap is the heart of the chamber to see what’s in it. We industry been kicked o in recycling them. to their cattle,” says Matt Boyle. the garden – where it have to make sure no hops or other “Our hops get used on the gardens here at And, if you thought that ushing all happens.” solids go down the drain. ey’re Beamish Hall,” says John Taylor from e Stables waste water down the plug hole bagged ready for local allotment Brewery. “Customers also take them was a simple task, it may be time to think again. holders to come and take away for compost. away to spread on their gardens, “We get charged more to send the water e spent malt is also bagged and numbered too – they keep the rhubarb warm down the drain than we are to get it in,” to di erentiate it from kitchen waste and that over the winter, so I’m told.” says George Storey of Big Lamp Brewery goes o to farmers for feed supplements.” And, Andy Davenport, sometime in Newburn. “ e water that’s left Previously-used malt is also helping engineer and sometime ace over from making beer goes into tank to establish a herd of pedigree cattle. recycler, takes a similar view of cleaning and cask cleaning and it costs Alastair Gibson from Cut orn Farm near hops as compost: “I us thousands a year just to do that.” Burnop eld, has three huge tubs of spent love spreading It’s rather appropriate to discuss water grain waiting by a byre to feed to his herd the message; at Big Lamp as brewing takes place in of pedigree shorthorn and crossbreeds. that’s what a former grade II-listed Victorian “I pick it up from Hadrian Border Brewery water pumping station originally at least once a week,” he says. “ e cows love constructed for the Whittle it. If I’m not using it straight away I bag it Dene Water Company in 1885. like silage with drainage at the bottom so it “I reckon treating water can dry out. It helps with the winter feed. I puts 1.5p on the price of reckon the spent grain still contains about a pint at the end of the a third of its goodness, so there’s a lot in it. I day – which works out at don’t know what I would do without it.” about £250 a week; not an Alastair is in the process of building a insigni cant sum,” says pedigree shorthorn herd at the 260-acre George. “We’ve bought it farm which his family has farmed since in and used it, then we 1948. It’s part of the Gibside Estate and George Storey of Big get charged to put it down he rents it from e National Trust. Lamp Brewery the drain – and that’s us “Growing beef is a very expensive process,”

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with Karaoke, live Entertainment & free Jukebox you don’t want to Miss out! he says, pointing out that each book on the subject and is such an cow calves only once a year. enthusiast he even runs composting “ e sheep on the farm also workshops (next one in April). TEL: 0191 276 9000 feel the bene t when the grain Bags of used hops are dropped is mixed with their feed. o weekly at his garden gate by “We’ll sell the heifers for breeding Hadrian Border Brewery. It’s a Traditional, comfortable, cosy neighbourhood pub, serving and the rest will be nished o on “back-scratching” arrangement the farm with the meat sold through that suits both parties. an excellent selection of Real Ales and real hospitality the estate. We have total traceability “It’s all about sustainability,” says and I can tell you the day when Andy. “To me, a compost heap is any animal was born, and where.” the heart of the garden – where it Alastair also runs West Wood all happens. Hops are absolutely Yurts, a diversi cation into family tremendous and mixed with holidays with six of the Central other garden and kitchen waste, Asian nomadic-style dwellings they make lovely compost.” sitting in an attractive copse. Hops are useful for mulching – “We’ve only just had our covering soil to help with moisture rst year but it’s working,” he retention and weed suppression says. “But I’ve given myself – look no further than local an awful lot of hard work. authorities’ use of bark chips in “I heard about the spent grains public shrub beds. A mulch also from a friend at Bays Leap Farm acts as a wake-up call for the which is near Wylam. It’s great bacteria and organisms resident in for me – again, it works.” the soil. Hops also improve a soil’s Manure from the cattle sheds is condition and improve drainage. eventually spread back on the “We’ve got heavy clay here so land as fertilizer, completing the they help make the soil nice and “soil to soil” circle and this natural friable,” says Andy. “Plants feed CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2012 process is the basis of a business on what’s broken down and hops New Bar Buddies Menu available all day every day set up by engineering consultant are very good at starting the Pub Quiz Nights, ursday and Sunday from 9pm Andy Davenport at his home in process o then crops grow well. Darts (Male) - Monday - Darts (Female) - Tuesday Bing eld, Northumberland. “ ey’re quite high in nitrogen Andy is an extremely resourceful which creates heat in the compost Sky Sports / Big Screen / Plasma TVs character and has developed an heap, though they’re quite acidic NEW Pavement Cafe, Fresh Co ee, organic activator that helps break in nature and are good for the BRIDGE Book Swap, Free WIFI down waste into garden-ready likes of rhododendrons.” crumbly compost. He has written a Andy’s home-made compost >> 2-4 Argyle St, Newcastle, NE1 6PF Tel: 0191 232 1020 www.sjf.co.uk

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CHE17.indb 21 04/02/2012 15:00 FEATURE: WHERE THE WASTE GOES

is a peat-free mix of hops, leaf mould and sharp sand which he says “grows very, very nice tomatoes”. He’s busy putting a hop bed in a greenhouse to grow seedlings in and advises putting them between rows of potatoes. “ ey’re great for attracting tiger worms which also help to break nutrition down too.” e QR (Quick Release) herbal compost activator he o ers online – www. “Repitching yeast avour character, mutation, qrcompostingsolutions.co.uk – was is fairly common, genetics and consistency. rst developed in 1935 by Maye Emily but needs careful “Occasionally yeast may Bruce from a blend of common management to be used to extract some herbs such as nettle, dandelion and avoid contamination biotechnology component camomile, plus the addition of honey. or damage.” although this would “You just add the powder to water and you can be quite specialised and really more start o a completely natural process,” he says. relevant to large-scale production. RECYCLE:Andy Davenport starts off a compost mix e yeast used in brewing beer is saved and “Repitching yeast is fairly common, but made up of kitchen waste and brewery hops. refrigerated for future use and many strains needs careful management to avoid Left: Alastair Gibson feeds spent malt to his beasts used daily by big brewers can be 50 or 60 contamination or damage. We store years old. But most used yeast is discarded, pure yeast strains at Brewlab – we have more as about ve times the amount is generated than 200 at present – deposited by breweries Further information at: per brew as was pitched at the start. or isolated from historic beers, as well as www.qrcompostingsolutions.co.uk “Large breweries may send it for yeast developing strains for particular uses. “ www.westwoodyurts.co.uk products such as Marmite or other food So it appears there’s a whole world of bio- www.brewlab.co.uk uses,” says Dr Keith omas, director of degrading, cell-construction, ltration and www.biglampbrewers.co.uk Brewlab, the world-renowned, Sunderland- recycling going on all around us. It’s all connected www.hadrian-border-brewery.co.uk based centre for brewing studies. to that glass of beer in your hand – and refreshes www.beamish-hall.co.uk/stables “Regular maintenance requires testing for purity, the rhubarb that other composts can’t reach. www.wylambrewery.co.uk

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CHE17.indb 22 04/02/2012 15:01 CULTURE: ELVIS APPEARS LIVE Elvis the pelvis replacement

You never know who’ll take the stage in the pub, writes Jeff Price

As the snow fl ies, on a cold It was the fi rst Tuesday of the and grey Gosforth evening, month and he knew that the Elvis skidded down towards Brandling Villa hosted Henry’s the Brandling Villa for a well Swing Club – they had open earned pint. As he reached the spots for singers and he was shops, both his legs goose- determined to take part. Elvis took stepped at once. He crashed to his place at the microphone. the ground with heavy thump. He opened with Love Me Tender Hours later he woke in the Freeman and at fi rst the words were shy Hospital to be told he was on his and reluctant, the guitar as way to surgery with a broken hip. hesitant as a fi rst kiss, but slowly Back at home, the recovery the performer in him – silent and began and he became as repressed for all these years – bored as a post offi ce counter began to burst out like a new barrel worker on pension day. He was of beer from a pump. The audience desperate for a distraction. of mainly young people regarded Standing in the corner of his this old man with suspicion and at living room was the old guitar fi rst continued to chat or fi ddle with that he hadn’t picked up in years, their mobiles, but when he started and to while away the hours he the fi rst few chords of Jailhouse started to play. His fi ngers – at Rock the phones were abandoned fi rst stubborn and unyielding – and the conversations faltered. By eventually began to pick out the the time he sang It’s Now Or Never chords and melodies; he moved they were on their feet cheering, from discordant notes to gentle his titanium hips began to gyrate, harmonies and the voice that had and Elvis felt like he was reborn. slept for so long began to fi nd Elvis didn’t have to pay for another its metre. The forgotten lyrics pint that night and even Dave came back to him like long-lost the publican bought him a beer friends and each chorus opened (a minor miracle in itself) and a fl oodgate of memories. Not if you’re lucky enough maybe only had his hips been renewed, you might fi nd yourself in a but so had his lust for life – he pub on an open mike night and felt invigorated and alive. The King might sing for you. “ ere are more old drunkards in the world than old doctors.” Benjamin Franklin

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CHE17.indb 23 04/02/2012 15:01 LUNCH: JOLLY FISHERMAN, CRASTER A jolly good go A midwinter walk, some stunning views and lunch at a rejuvenated pub grabbed Stan Abbott’s attention on a day at the Northumberland coast

or most of my adult life, the arrival of David Whitehead, brightened up the Jolly Fisherman at ex-pro rugby player with Newcastle with a lick of paint Craster has been the Falcons and others, now reborn throughout and most exciting unrealised into the catering trade as owner of smarter loos. victuallingF opportunity on the Craster’s Shoreline Café. Whitehead A perfect Northumberland coast. Certain pledged to keep the pâté and January day things were reassuringly constant soup, but that those other less had brought at the pub that stares through endearing constants would vanish the walkers misty windows at the prowling with the rst ebb tide was implicit out in force to grey North Sea – the sometimes in his gastro-pub manifesto. take the traditional two or three- challenging surliness of the Whitehead and his culinary team mile walk to the iconic ruins of there, but so too new additions sta , the infuriating afternoon – John Blackmore of Blackmore’s, Dunstanburgh Castle and back. drawing heavily on local produce. closures, the lack of food of Alnwick, and Richard Sim, formerly Unsurprisingly, the Jolly Fisherman Inevitably, I went for the crab soup, an evening, but above all, the of the Baltic’s rooftop restaurant was still doing a brisk trade when now served with sourdough, while Craster kipper pâté and the best and Alnwick Garden – introduced we arrived there at 2.30. Once my partner chose the sweetcorn crab soup in all these islands. a somewhat wider range of dishes, upon a time its doors would have chowder, with crab toasts. We took Last year, however, the winds longer lunch hours and, crucially, by now been closed till four. a portion of chips for good measure. of change began a-blowing with an evening menu. e pub was e old favourites were indeed e food came quickly,

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CHE17.indb 24 04/02/2012 15:01 squid, local beef or venison, Stilton want to be just a pub, we want to and leek sou é. And many more. become a destination,” he says. HAVE Yes, the new Jolly sherman does Could this even become YOUR SAY indeed have jolly new prices. e the “Padstow of the North crab soup is now £6.25, which, if my East”, he muses. Log on to cheersnortheast.co.uk memory serves me right, may be It’s an interesting question. rise of close to 100%, and the corn Craster is certainly the nearest chowder is £7.25. I suspect the old the fabulous Northumberland prices had people running around coast gets to Cornwall cute, in that notorious land of busy fools. with its working harbour, cobles We are now, however, in the world and shermen’s cottages. of the gastro-pub and e overall aesthetic quality, service and is indeed very pretty, yet longer hours must come “We want it to be almost paradoxically so, with a price attached. different; we don’t as it’s arguably greater e Jolly Fisherman’s want to be just a pub, than the sum of its real ale o ering was we want to become a parts, which include John Blackmore, left, con ned to Black Sheep destination.” unprepossessing and David Whitehead are revitalising The Bitter and Mordue houses and the Jolly Fisherman, along Workie Ticket, though excessive bulk of the with chef Richard Simm Whitehead promises a wider range concrete harbour wall. for summer when the pub will But success breeds success handle an impressive 300 covers at and, with other revitalised pubs, accompanied by a genuine smile extensive range of sandwiches, lunchtime. It retains its “cosy local” like the Ship at Low Newton and on clean tables adorned with with a strong seafood theme and alter ego – there’s still room for the the Fishing Boat Inn at Boulmer, little Heinz ketchup bottles. all elegantly presented. e evening dartboard and the main entrance there is now another good reason Apparently it’s very trendy! menu starters include Lindisfarne is still via the cosy little front snug. to make the coast between the e soup proved as good as oysters, black gs with local blue But John Blackmore promises honeypots of Alnmouth and ever; the chowder also excellent. cheese, Shetland mussels… Mains further changes to the menu when Seahouses your destination. And the chips are to die for! e include both hot and cold seafood it reopens for Easter after a re t. lunch menu also features an board, sea bass with chilli-salted “We want to be di erent; we don’t Jolly Fisherman, 01665 576461. Real Ale,

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CHE17.indb 25 04/02/2012 15:01 Where is it? It’s on Sherburn Terrace, just to the east of Consett town centre. Take the A692 Consett turn-off at Villa Real – the roundabout, not the Spanish football club – and an immediate right. If you’re doing the Coast to Coast it’s close PROFILE to the route and acts not only as a stamping station but as a welcome refreshment stop. THE GREY HORSE, CONSETT Careful, you might just hang your hat.

OVERVIEW Landlady: Kathleen Croft The Grey Horse, 115 Sherburn Terrace, Consett, County Durham DH8 6NES T: 01207 502585 www.thegreyhorse.co.uk

There has been a pub here since 1848 when it was a coaching inn and Consett was but a twinkle in an iron foundry owner’s eye. The Camra Good Beer Guide describes it as “an oasis in a cask beer desert” which is a fairly accurate comment, so after crawling towards the palm-tree mirage, open the door onto the L-shaped bar to the left and the lounge on your right. Either way, the welcome is the same; warm and friendly, with the sight of a dizzying range of ales to set you pondering.

The beer (4.0% abv) which all celebrate With the award-winning the town’s former life as a Well worth making Consett Ale Works centre of steel production to microbrewery sitting across the world. There’s no regular the effort to visit the back lane, it’s obviously food on offer in the pub, but a prime outlet for the most functions are particularly So, we’ve turned left or right at the front door. e bar is local of local beers. All the well catered for. notable for its replace, which on a cold February evening, favourites get their position isn’t half a welcome sight. Along one wall is a ne painting on the counter as and when of a bar scene (artist Peter Atkinson also created the mural – plus there are regular visits at the Beamish Mary, No Place, near Stanley). Rumour has from the likes of Hadrian it that he painted movie stars in the crowd of drinkers, so Border, Delavals and Wylam it’s a lm bu ’s delight. Maybe that’s Burt Lancaster and breweries (with Westons Old could that be Paul Newman? e locals are a friendly crowd Rosie cider a permanent). and the late afternoon gathering features a lot of walking Consett Ale Works beers – sticks and a dog or three. Up a step and there’s a small, more brewed by the resolute Rufus intimate – and carpeted – area. e lounge (to the right) is Thompson – include Steel large and like the bar, has a beamed ceiling and huge feature Town Bitter (3.8% abv), Red replaces. Lots of china and bric-a-brac cover the walls and Dust (4.5% abv), Cast Iron the furniture – including settle-style seating – is large and (4.1% abv), and White Hot comfortable enough for lolling in. 26 cheers february 2012 bar and little A lovely the for a contender ever friendliest

CHE17.indb 26 04/02/2012 15:01 WINE WITH SUZANNE LOCK AND BILL OSWALD Summer Beer Festival August Bank Holiday Weekend Friday 26th - Monday 29th 12 handpulls on mobile bar in the lounge. Great selection of beers and ciders from around the country & lots of free bar snacks.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT July: Thursday 15th Den & Dave Open Mic, Syrah or Shiraz – 21st Tom Mitchell, 28th Den & Dave Open Mic August: Thursday 4th Den & Dave Open Mic, what’s the difference? 11th The Buskers, 18th Shaun Henderson Looking through a monthly wine Ladies Who Shoot Their Lunch, consett ale works is a micro-brewery based publicationat the recently grey wherehorse apub Annie’s Lane, Two Hands Angel Quiz every Wednesday - Free food (first rightpanel after of 10 villawine realexperts roundabout) were inShare, consett. and The Blue Eyed Boy. reviewing Australia Shiraz – These tell the consumer little leaning253 heavily tasted on over the two town’s days iron (in works aboutheritage, the wine inside the bottle. e Grey Horse we haveLondon developed of course), four I camedistinctive over brandsNow with to Syrah and Shiraz – the HOME TO CONSETT ALEWORKS red dust,with steel a warm town feeling, bitter, so white often hot and samecast iron.grape – one French the 115 Sherburn Terrace, our beersassociated hark back with to theOzzie days Shiraz. when prosperityother usedcould in the new world, Consett, County Durham, DH8 6NE not be separatedI was reminded from the how steel far which builtparticularly blackpool Australia. Shiraz, of Telephone 01207 502585 towerAustralia and the and nation’s its wines nuclear had come submarines. course, is a city in Iran, where since the early commercial allegedly the grape was thought the recipesdays of for the 1970s.the brews The panelwere ofcreated towith have the originated, but more former ironworkers in mind. we wanted to have ales experts came to the conclusion recent research has shown that that we thought would be flavoursome enough to have quenchedthat, the overall, thirst the of winesthe ironworkers they asSyrah they fromleft the Northern Rhone worktasted after – whicha hot wereand gruellingall over £10 day in originatedfront there from crossings of Regular Ales - Always Available per bottle –of were the of furnaces. local grapes long ago. Ales with heritage consistent quality and It is famous for being that there were deﬁ nite deep coloured, intensely and history differences between “Syrah from the perfumed and slow regions. The different Northern Rhone is maturing. Hermitage Great for those customers who want a famous for being regions of Australia and Crozes Hermitage deep coloured, refreshing breverage after a hard days work. bringing their own Shiraz in Australia – intensely perfumed individuality to the and slow maturing.” particularly New South wines due to soil and Wales Shiraz – is full of 3.8% ABV 4.0% ABV 4.5% ABV climatic conditions. bramble aromas, spice This, of course, is what happens and rich chocolate ﬂ avours and in Europe with the historical even menthol and eucalyptus. Occasional Ale - Brewed Regularly appellation controllée system In France’s Southern Rhone, of France and denominación de Syrah is used in a supporting origen system of Spain. The “new role, blended with Grenache 4.5% ABV world” wine making countries of and other local grapes; in Italy4.0% ABV South Africa, Chile, Argentina, it is used3.8% withABV Sangiovese, and Our beers hark back to the days when prosperity could not be separated from the steel which built US, New Zealand and Australia from Australia, more often Blackpool Tower and the Nation’s Nuclear Submarines. do not have any such old and unblended, with prices and quality formal structure of rules, thus varying from £3.99 to £33.99. 4.1% ABV 4.3% ABV their wine labels have always been easy to understand; the Suzanne Lock and Bill Oswald information of wine maker, are AdVintage. The company is grape variety and alcoholic hosting two nights dinner, bed ABV content being clearly stated. and breakfast, with wine tastings, 4.3% ABV 4.3% Looking at the wines tasted at Shap Wells Spa Hotel, Shap, For more information contact ABV LYNN (Telesales) 07730 896 766 or RUFUS (Brewery) 01207 591 540 Cumbria from4.1% Friday March in London, the Australian labels The Grey Horse, 115 Sherburn Terrace, Consett, DH8 6NE seem to be carrying a lot of 30-Sunday April 1 2012 – £119 4.6% ABV 4.3% ABV unnecessary information. Many per person (sharing). Visit www. Purveyors of Fine Ales & Beers had unusual names such as Advintagewine.co.uk for details. 4.3% ABV february 2012 cheers of the furnaces. 27

4.3% ABV CHE17.indb 27 04/02/2012 15:01 4.6% ABV RIVERDALE HALL HOTEL THE CROWN INN NORTH YORKSHIRE Bellingham, NE48 2JT Humshaugh, Hexham, t: 01434 220254 NE46 4AG THE CROWN INN e: reservations@ t: 01434 681 231 Vicars Lane, Manfi eld, riverdalehallhotel.co.uk A-Z PUB GUIDE DL2 2RF www.riverdalehallhotel.co.uk THE DIAMOND INN t: 01325 374243 Main Street, Ponteland, THREE HORSESHOES NE20 9BB  You can pick up your copy of cheers at any of these great pubs...THE DOG & GUN Hathery Lane, Horton, t: 01661 872898 Coopers Lane, Potto, Cramlington, NE24 4HF DL6 3HQ t: 01670 822410 THE DYVELS INN Cheers is all about pubs in the North East t: 01642 700232 Station Road, Corbridge, THREE WHEATHEADS NE45 5AY and this should be a good place to start... THE WHITE SWAN Thropton nr Rothbury, t: 01434 633 633 1 West End, Stokesley, NE65 7LR e: thedyvelsinn@googlemail. 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The Sun Inn, Beamish Museum. Beamish Inn, Sun The Acomb. Inn, Sun The 4. 4. 3.

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