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FREE CAMRA Liverpool & Districts News Letter Feb 07 Birthday Edition CAMRA Ready to party 2007 MerseyAle Ambassador Competition Special supplement Woolton and Gateacre MerseyAle at Sea Beer at home with a twist Local Pub News Brewery News ... and much, much more. Circulation 10,000 Circulation Welcome to the AWARD WINNING MerseyAle "The Liverpool and Districts Chapple’s the proverbial in a CAMRA branch has been brewery, the world class praised in the Pubs Column Liverpool Beer Festival, but that in the past for its ability to is just the beginning. So if you not only organise one have not been able to get tickets of the most popular beer for the Festival there are lots of festivals in Europe, but also great events coming up later in to produce a sumptuous the year. Spring into Real Ale is national award winning free a new event to attract new magazine on the back of people to real ale, especially unpaid voluntary zeal. young people and women. It They are proof there’s at least builds on our ground breaking one organisation in this Fashion with Real Ale Flair haunting cover photo of Antony city that can organise the events which have brought Gormley’s Iron Men, received proverbial in a brewery." a new dimension to the feature coverage in the Daily Mike Chapple promotion of real ale. Post, the Crosby Herald and on Daily Post Pubs Column 9-9-06 September sees another event the front page of What’s which is gaining national Brewing. This edition we bring In this edition we bring you stature, the CAMRA Eight Days you the next in the series with news of CAMRA’s latest a Week Liverpool Real Ale Pubs our Special Guide to Woolton campaign initiatives and our Festival. This sees a city centre and Gateacre. Again we have a special programme for 2007, wide celebration of real beer classic cover featuring the Liverpool’s 800th Birthday Year. and real pubs which highlights under threat Woolton Cinema As you will see CAMRA is our pub heritage. Last Picture Show. ready to party and you are The November edition struck a Mersey Ale is spreading its invited to join our exciting line chord in the public imagination wings. It is now being up of real ale events. After all with our Special Supplement distributed in pubs on the Isle it’s not every year you are 800!! to Real Ale in Crosby and of Man and we have pictures of The year starts with Mike Waterloo. The guide, with its Steam Packet Captain Cane Tahar receiving his copy on the bridge of Sea Express 1. Mersey Ale Ambassadors has photos from Nigeria and Belgium. Join the fun and send us your photos of Mersey Ale in unusual locations. Letters, comments and articles (maximum 500 words) are always welcome at [email protected] Mersey Ale – the Final Frontier – our mission – to boldly go where no John Armstrong real ale magazine has been before (split infinitives included). Editor 3 The Pub with Best Beer Quality Ship and Mitre Stillage scores for each pub are then The Ship has installed an initiative which further adds to averaged by CAMRA. The Lion additional set of stillaging at the the variety of real ales on offer. Tavern was a clear winner. rear of the pub with four hand There have been changes to the The award was presented by pumps. This enables themed food operation, with Sunday Branch Chair Geoff Edwards to beer events to be offered each lunches now withdrawn. Food is licensees John and Marie week, recent examples being now available in the evenings O’Dowd, who were joined by bar beers from Cumbria and a Thursday to Sunday from 4-8.30. staff Katie Stephenson and Claire selection of winter ales. The pub Lunches are 12-2 Monday to Lovell. In attendance was a good is to be commended on this Friday and 12-6 Saturdays. crowd of CAMRA members and regulars, who toasted the award in some excellent real ales, present ownership by the Dusanj February the new birthday The Lion Tavern Moorfields has This is the second consecutive including Bath Barnstormer and Cains News brothers. Chris is seeking celebration beer Bock 8%, March been assessed by CAMRA year that the Lion has won this Hambleton bitter from the SIBA information for the period after Creamy Stout 4.1%, April the drinkers as having the best beer award. Over a twelve month list, representing the wider range Cains History Man 1921 when Higsons bought the new Export IPA 5%, May Triple quality of any pub in the period drinkers score the quality of guest ales now offered at the Freelance writer Chris Routledge brewery, plus peoples’ living Hop 4.5%, June Sundowner Liverpool and Districts area. of each pint out of ten, and the Lion Tavern. has been appointed by Liverpool memories from the war years to 4.5%, July the new Organic University Press to write the the 1960s. Contact him at Wheat Beer 4%, August Finest official history of Cains brewers, [email protected] lager 5%, September the new SIBA beers at the Lion with the working title of The Black Lager 4.5%, October The Lion Tavern from the SIBA list which includes 2007 may also see the pub Story of Liverpool in a Pint. 2007 Seasonals Autumn Fall 4%, November Moorfields has most of the country’s micro installing an additional two hand Target date for publication is Cains are launching some new Raisin Ale 5%, December joined the Society brewers. Early examples were pumps, enabling a wider range of early 2008. It will record the the seasonal beers for 2007, with a Victorian beer 6%. Look for these of Independent Weetwood Best Bitter and guest beers to be featured along fortunes of the brewery from its different seasonal every month. in Cains pubs and also Brewers Association Direct Hambleton. It is expected that the with possibly a real cider in the founding by Robert Cain to its January Dragonheart 5%, the free trade. Delivery Scheme, and will now Lion will be majoring on guests summer months. be regularly ordering one beer in the 3.8% to 4% range. Spitting Success £30 per session gives tastings of Malts at the Lion 4 malts. The inaugural session Exciting news Wetherspoons. The brewer is featured Gordon and MacPhail from Spitting Terry Ashford and Ann Branton, Landlord John O’Dowd has bottlings of Glen Grant from Feathers formerly licensee at the Harp launched the Lion Malt Whisky 1956, 1957 and 1959, plus an 18 brewery, at Waverton near Little Neston, runs the office. Society. The concept is to have year old Glenfiddich. Future Chester. Situated in an ideal rural The latest exciting news is that regular sessions at which sessions are likely to feature Islay setting on Common Farm the the brewery is planning to brew members can taste rare and aged and other island malts. To join brew house is in the former its first mild in April/May to malt whiskies, which at around ring 236 1734 or call into the pub milking parlour, whilst the celebrate CAMRA’s Mild Month, £200 per bottle would be and speak to John O’Dowd. atmospheric hospitality bar is in although the beer is likely to prohibitively expensive for Numbers are limited to twenty adjoining farm buildings set have a "non mild" name to avoid individual purchase. A fee of per session. around a central courtyard. customer resistance. There will be a BBQ featuring The brewery opened in 2005, and Additionally plans are being laid sausages from the farm made owner Mathew Walley and his for a Brewery Beer Festival Day in with Spitting Feathers beer. Cains Bock 800 partner Alison Smith have seen July, probably on Saturday 14th. Numbers will be limited by Cains have announced their new is made with Munich malt and the beers achieve success in the This will feature a Meet the ticket. Date and details will be on seasonal beer to commemorate Saaz and Hallertau hops. The free trade in Merseyside and Brewers event, with brewers www.spittingfeathers.org and in Liverpool’s 800th Birthday. The beer will be available from Cheshire, as well as being from seven Cheshire breweries the April Mersey Ale. The branch 8% dark Bock German style beer February 2007. featured by many of the region’s presenting around 28 real ales. may run a coach trip to the event. 4 5 Double Century at Thwaites New Editor for CAMRA’s What’s Brewing Tom Stainer has been Ted Bruning who edited What’s Tom says Liverpool is not events and commemorative appointed as the new full time Brewing for eight years as a "I’m very the only place beers. First up is a brand editor of What’s Brewing, freelance has moved to a full excited by celebrating a new beer called appropriately CAMRA’s national newspaper. time position in another the opportunity I’ve been given major birthday Double Century, which will be He will also provide support for organisation. Mersey Ale would to take it forward and build on in 2007. available in cask and also A sense of historical perspective other CAMRA publications like to wish Ted well in his new what has already been achieved Thwaites brewery Blackburn in bottles. is provided by the realisation including branch newsletters. job and to thank him for the to make it even more relevant, have clocked up 200 years of Thwaites have recently been that when David Thwaite began He has a background as interest he took in our stories.