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Issue 1 | Summer '17
Inside... Pub of the Season - Summer 2017
The White Hart Pub of the Year presentation
Hobsons; The Best Choice
Gone for a Burton
Ah, the taste of beer!
Local CAMRA Beer Festivals
Of cial magazine of Telford & East Shropshire branch of CAMRA
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Editor's Welcome Main Contents A word from our Chairman 4 Welcome to this new quarterly publication by our branch! It has Welcome from our Sub-Branch 5 been sometime since Telford and Pub of the Season Summer 2017 7 East Shropshire CAMRA had a branch The White Hart 8-9 magazine and we hope you enjoy it. The Red Lion 11 This edition is packed full of A Life in Ale 12 information as it has been a very busy period for our branch and Gone for a Burton 14-16 its members. Weve not only been Hobsons; The Best Choice 18-19 organising this magazine but also Beer, Battle elds and Bruges 20-21 had Pub of the Year and Pub of the Telford CAMRA 3rd Shifnal Beer Festival 23 Season presentations, Mild in May, Brewery of the Year presentation and Ah, the taste of beer! 24-26 tour (see article) and various branch Whatpub 28 meetings. We are also currently Local CAMRA Beer Festivals 30 organising the beer tent for Festival At The Edge, the Cider Trail and our Local Non-CAMRA Beer Events 31 Beer Festival which will be taking CAMRA LocAle 32 place at Shifnal on 19th to 21st Branch Contact Details and 33 October this year. Consumer Information
I would like to thank all of the Branch Diary 2017 34 branch members, breweries and publicans who have helped put this Thanks to everyone who has supported us by magazine together. I would also contributing to this issue. Shropshire Tales is like to thank Danielle Preston for solely funded by advertising revenue. If any additional monies are raised then this will the fantastic job she has done on help to fund other TES CAMRA initiatives. making this magazine look so good. Articles and suggestions for the next issue If you want to support us by writing of should be submitted by an article or would like to advertise 1st August 2017. then please contact me. I will now How to advertise in leave you to enjoy our magazine. Shropshire TAles Lee Bradbury If you would like further information about advertising in the next edition please Editor contact Lee Bradbury email: [email protected] email: [email protected]
3 A word from our Chairman I would like to start by saying how good it is to see the branch magazine back with a new title of . It is a very important campaigning tool for the branch and therefore I would encourage all of you to support it in whatever way you can, be this by distributing it or supplying material for use in the magazine be it articles or feedback letters. I would also like to add a big thank you to all those that have been involved in getting this magazine re-launched.
As we approach what sometimes is called summer in this country can I ask people to use the longer daylight hours and hopefully better weather to get out and about to the rural pubs in our part of Shropshire and give them our much needed support and encouragement. Also do not forget members that when you are out drinking in our wonderful pubs to submit beers scores to give the branch a better picture of what is happening, these can be submitted via Whatpub which is available on everything from smartphones to computers.
Campaigning for Real Ale, Cider & Perry can take many forms from being an active member involved with the branch or higher levels of CAMRA to just encouraging others to try traditional products when they are drinking. Everyone is welcome to attend branch and sub-branch events which you will nd in this magazine but also keep an eye on Whats Brewing and the branch web site for up to date details.
Campaigning and drinking should be fun and sociable so get out there and enjoy what our wonderful Shropshire pubs have to offer.
Adrian Zawierka Branch Chairman
4 Welcome from our Market Drayton Sub-Branch Its is great to see our own local CAMRA real ale guide out. Our aim locally is to promote our pubs in the Market Drayton area but we need your help. As our sub-branch we have become well established in the town we are committed to help the pubs and real ale drinkers.
For the 2017 Good Beer Guide Market Drayton can boast four town entries, the Red Lion, Sandbrook Vaults, Kings Arms and the Hippodrome. Equally important is that also we also have the Bear in Hodnet, the Royal Oak in Ellerdine Heath, Three Horseshoes in Sambrook and the Red Lion in Chewardine so the potential to reach out to ale drinkers is there. Other pubs in the area also serve excellent beers and one way you can help them is to become a CAMRA member and score the pubs you visit through the CAMRA www.whatpub.com website. Scoring has the bene t of highlighting your local or favourite pub every time you visit, simply score the ale or cider and by completing this it will help ensure that the beer quality is good and consistent. With regular good scores, the pub gets noticed and then becomes a contender for the Good Beer Guide.
To help the pubs we need a vibrant CAMRA Market Drayton sub-branch and I would appeal to all beer drinkers, pub landlords to get involved with us and help your pubs, beer and community. Cheers.
Bryn Sub-Chairman
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Pub of the Season - Summer 2017
Bridgnorth CAMRA Pheasant at Neenton Neenton, Bridgnorth WV16 6RJ The presentation took place on Tuesday 23 May.
Telford CAMRA Gaskell Arms Hotel High Street, Much Wenlock TF13 6AQ The presentation will be taking place on 10th June 2017
Call for votes for the Telford and Bridgnorth Branches Autumn Pubs of the Season To be eligible for selection a pub needs to not be in the Good Beer Guide and currently achieving a minimum of 3.0 for their beer quality score (an up to date beer score will be checked following nomination). For Telford Branch please email your nomination to Janine Barrow on [email protected] by 1st August 2017. Name and CAMRA membership number must accompany all nominations. Bridgnorth branch nomination and voting are taken at branch meetings.
7 Telford CAMRA The White Hart Pub of the Year presentation
The White Hart was presented with The winners/owners have always had Telford POTY, Overall Branch Area A and J Christian names, but this year POTY and The John Shinton Sheild not Andy and Jayne - Adam and Jodie. by Branch Chairman Adrian Zawierka I also suspect Adam and Jodie are on Sunday 23rd April 2017. amongst the youngest winners weve had for a while. The youngest The White Hart Shifnal in what must be the oldest pub in our is no stranger to Pub of area. Though they will acknowledge the Year presentations. and, (Adam did just that to Andy and It has won more than a Jaynes previous track record in his handful over the past two decades. In speech after the award), they had a my memory the weather has always good grounding on which to proceed been bright and sunny, and as the with their mission. group pictures Ive taken over the years testify, Im not mistaken.
Our Chairman Adrian presenting The John Shinton Sheild to Adam and Jodie.
8 It is quite obvious mixing with Strangers who have not visited the the White Hart clientele that they pub before often remark on the are both admired and loved. The friendliness of their welcome, and atmosphere has not just carried indeed as a regular I notice how keen on from before, but is somewhat they are to put new customers at enhanced. Little touches have their ease. One area not many may been added to the previously be aware of is the food end of the successful format; real cider, pork pub. Ever since Roger and Margaret pies, refurbishment of the bar area, were my hosts, the White Hart has without altering the basic ingredient had a ne reputation for its victuals. of a successful CAMRA pub; comfort, Today Adam's mother Carol has taken conviviality, conversation and real ale. on the mantle, and a great success This has not been achieved on their it is proving to be. Congratulations to own. By their own admission the staff, all at the White Hart. Im sure Adam mostly those who were with the pub and Jodie will agree it is a team effort, before Adam and Jodie took over, but and are carrying on the epithet once with a few new faces, have played used in a GBG description:- 'Like your their part in the success story. favourite pair of slippers; comfortable.'
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Market Drayton CAMRA The Red Lion Pub of the Year presentation
On a warm sunny Saturday afternoon in April a good time was had by all at the Red Lion Market Drayton to present the local 2017 PoTY.
Receiving the award Manager of the Red Lion, Linda McAuley said She was so thrilled to receive it and added We will try even harder to Bryn can be seen presenting the award win it again next year. above to Linda and Kayleigh Knight.
Bryn Pass the local organiser commented, It has been a tough contest this year and it is a great thrill for me to have to present these awards. We have some great pubs in our area so it is nice to be able to of cially recognise them with a prestigious award. The high standard has been set again this year it now up to the other pubs to come up to that standard. A Life in Ale Written by Pete Arden
This year's TES CAMRA Town Pub of the Year is The Cock Hotel, Wellington. Otherwise known as The Old Wrekin Tap Our Chairman Adrian presenting the award to Pete and Liz Arden due to its proximity to the site of the former brewery, this Some time later I moved to the Royal multi-CAMRA award-winning Oak in Much Wenlock, another very busy pub has for many years been darts and dominoes pub which sadly run by Pete and Liz Arden. has gone the way of too many others Here Pete begins the story of being de-licenced and converted into his lifetime in real ale. a house. A very brief term followed at what was then the Telford Racket Centre (now the Telford International Centre) My original journey into the joys of with the brief of bar development. real ale was during my employment with the Whitbread Brewery more I was enticed away to the Horse and than forty years ago. Based in Jockey, Ironbridge Bank by a friend who London, I travelled around the fancied owning a pub and needed a various breweries in the Whitbread manager. Before too long he decided empire, known as The Whitbread that the licenced trade was not for him Umbrella. My job entailed research and sold on what had developed into and development of various aspects a quaint hostelry with a mixture of real of the dispensing arm of the ale and catering. After a short relief company - equipment, installation terms and The George and Dragon, and monitoring of cooling systems Much Wenlock, to help out during a as well as pipe cleaning systems health crisis at the pub, I moved on to and all types and style of dispense the Lord Hill at Ketley Bank, the CAMRA equipment. An invaluable grounding real ale record of which is folklore in for later years. this branch. The Lord Hill was sold and I returned to The George and Dragon for Since 1980 I have run several pubs a few happy years. starting with The Plume of Feathers at Harley. Much smaller than it is now, During my time at the Lord Hill I met Liz it was a typical darts and dominoes who at that time owned the Horns of local, where I cut my real ale teeth on Boningale, near Albrighton, a successful such classics as Flowers Original. real ale and catering free house. More in the next issue; Joint ventures!
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Gone for a Burton Written by Val Mason
An intrepid Telford Dozen decided The mild choice here was Muirhouse to join the West Midlands Regional Chocolate Mild (4.0%) which was Mild in May Trail on a dull but dry enjoyed by many (as by then we had Saturday in May. This years trail was been joined by more of our party plus to Burton upon Trent, which, as the others from several West Midlands home of British brewing, seemed like branches). Real ciders were also on a good plan. sale and theres a relatively large beer garden at the back. Armed with a map of Burton with 30(!) pubs marked on it plus a few scribbled notes from the GBG, we were dropped off at the Railway Station by our regular mini-bus driver, Len. The Wellington Six (Val, Gareth, Janine, Paul, Rosemary and Ken) headed east with a vague idea of doing a circular tour.
Our rst stop was the Last Heretic micro-pub which we reached at 11.55 - 5 whole minutes before it opened. Luckily the owner was there unloading Coopers Tavern (above) supplies; he let us in and left us there whilst he parked his car - very trusting Our second visit was round the of him. The micropub sold beers from back streets to the Coopers Tavern gravity with capacity for 5 being served which used to be the Bass brewery and 5 available soon. tap in the days gone by. It is now a Joules pub and unfortunately all the old historical brewery photos and memorabilia have been removed - what a shame. The beers here were also on gravity and included the Joules range plus various guests, the mild choice being Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild.
Last Heretic (above) 14 A few more back streets later towards Reaching the Burton Bridge Inn the town centre we found the Dog Inn (the Burton Bridge brewery tap) we which is a Black Country Ales house. discovered that not only did it serve Here there were 3 Black Country beers the complete Burton Bridge range and 8 guests available, all on hand inside but there were 24 more ales pull. Apparently, they have had 1,335 available at a beer festival outside guest ales in the last 2 years which is including several milds. This is quite impressive! The Brass Castle an interesting multi-roomed pub, Hazelnut Mild here was an acquired complete with a skittle alley upstairs. taste being quite tangy. A couple of beers later and with 3 more pubs planned we prepared for the longest walking section of the day having to follow the main roads west, in order to cross the railway, then south to the next pub.
The Dog Inn (above)
Walking north through the (new) town centre, stopping for a much needed top up at the ATM, we headed up towards the River Trent with the Burton Bridge Inn our main destination but not forgetting the Fuggle & Nugget on the way. This micro pub has been open for 18 months and is a cosy little bar with a small area outside at the back. It has 5 varying beers available including, at that time, the Five Towns Outll Do Mild (4.6%). It also sells bottled beers and the range of Fentimans Burton Bridge Inn soft drinks. (both photos above)
15 Along the way we passed the This micropub serves 4 real ales plus National Brewery Centre, we didnt an American key-keg beer. Being a bother popping into the brewery tap bit camera shy, we managed to have but found time to look at the Burton our drink in here in good time before Union System display outside (see the hordes of West Midlands Mild picture) and to say hello to the Shire trailers arrived for their photo shoot. horses.
Our next port of call was the Alfred Our last visit was to the Old Cottage Ale House which had originally been Tavern, the Burton Old Cottage the Trumans brewery tap. Situated brewery tap, which is a back street on the main road back towards the local serving their own range (which station, this is a Burton Bridge house included Halcyon Daze , Oak Ale and with their full range plus a guest and Stout) plus several guests. a real cider. Having run out of time and our Getting back towards the station mini-bus imminently turning into a we sought out the Weighbridge pumpkin, we re-traced our steps to the Inn, a small micropub situated in railway station for the journey home. the old coal yard which may give a A good day out in the brewery capital clue to what was weighed on the of England, de nitely worth a visit. weighbridge, although the name of the yard, Grain Warehouse Yard, may Next issue... Read about Bridgnorth indicate other uses as well. Sub-Branch's - A Mild Day in May
16 Coming July 2017 Shropshire Cider and Perry Trail*
* The Shropshire Cider and Perry Trail will run during July and August 2017. Find more details and passport book in pubs taking part. The Best Choice Hobsons Brewery was established The tasting room was added in in 1993 by Jim & Nick Davis and 2014 and features a bar, plenty of has gone on to be one of the major seating and shelves stacked with breweries supplying cask and bottled Hobsons beers plus other goodies. ales in Shropshire. They have such a The room is used for regular Foodie strong commitment to quality that Nights where local producers give their Mild (3.2%) - now known as food demonstrations and discuss Champion Mild - was awarded CAMRAs matching food with beer. These are Champion Beer of Britain in 2007. held throughout the year and are very popular. Details can be found on On a bright spring evening members Hobsons website. from Telford & East Shropshire CAMRA headed down to the brewery located in The real ales available were Champion the market town of Cleobury Mortimer. Mild (3.2%), Best (3.8%), Old Prickly Immediately upon disembarking the (4.2%) and Town Crier (4.8%) and beers packed coach everyone was rallied for were served briskly as everyone settled the essential group photo. down in the comfortable surroundings.
33 members shuf ed into the tasting We were split into two groups, the rst room and were greeted by our hosts group was lead by Patrick Cudmore, for the evening, Patrick and Colin. Events Facilitator for Hobsons.
Words: Dave Haddon | Photos: Mike Jackson 18 Our host was very informative as he 2017 has seen the introduction of explained the green technologies a new award voted by the branch employed at the brewery. Ground members from Telford & East source heat pumps, a wind turbine Shropshire CAMRA. After the tours and rainwater harvesting reduces our branch chairman, Adrian Zawierka, their carbon footprint which earned presented Patrick and Hobsons Hobsons SIBAs Best Green Business Brewery with our Brewery of the Year award in 2010. 2017 certi cate.
The rst oor brewing room, where the cask ales are produced, is an amazing sight and we wondered how a huge mashtun and copper has been squeezed in to the tight spaces amongst the roof beams of the building. Here, along with a separate mashtun for their bottled beer production, Hobsons can produce up to 285 barrels of ale per week.
We viewed the 5 enormous 45 barrel capacity fermenting vessels, the last one being installed in 2016. Some The celebrations continued as we were open for us to gaze within at enjoyed a selection of locally produced the wort with the yeast now slowly pies and cheeses. working its beery magic. There is a large collection of hats After a short stay in the beer racking in the Tasting Room and soon both area we were lead in to the bottling ladies and gentleman posed in groups room where Patrick explained that wearing bowler hats, pith helmets, fezs 20% of the breweries capacity is used and top hats. But in no time at all we to produce their bottled range of ales. thanked our hosts for a very enjoyable A recently added 15 barrel mashtun evening and wished Hobsons Brewery has replaced the previous 10 barrel continued success for the future. vessel. Back in the tasting room we Cheers! enjoyed the real ales whilst the second group headed off for their tour.
19 Beer,Battle elds and Bruges Written by Claire Smith
If you have even the vaguest interest We enjoyed the La in beer, Belgium is a pretty good Trappe Blonde and place to visit. Famed the world over a couple of bottles for its seemingly in nite range of from Le Fort (Tripel, beers, we decided to spend a few 8.8%, and Donker, days travelling across the Flanders 9%), ready to ease region in March, in search of some us into a couple of of the areas nest tipples - spending days in Bruges. time in Ypres, Bruges and Ghent. In an attempt to avoid the kids Ypres is a relatively small town, with in a sweet shop situation, we had the tourist trade focused heavily consulted CAMRAs Good Beer Guide around the rst world war - and to Belgium in order to narrow down a rightly so, owing to the pivotal role few favoured drinking establishments the area played during the con ict. in Bruges. After investigating some of After spending time exploring the In the citys cultural highlights (the bell Flanders Fields Museum, as well as tower, the Church of Our Lady - home Passchedale, Tyne Cot Cemetery and to the only of Michelangelos works Sanctuary Wood Museum (a small, to leave Italy during his lifetime, a privately owned hodge-podge of boat trip and far too many waf es), fascinating artefacts, the highlight we decided to check out some of being the original front line trench the guides recommendations. First out the back), we took in the daily last up was Cambrinus - a cosy bar with post performed at The Menin Gate - a a contemporary interior, serving truly poignant a selection of popular beers plus and humbling their own - Cambrinus Blonde - most experience. enjoyable with the complimentary Conveniently, the salami! Next was (and, I must confess, bar across the we didnt get much further street, the Ypra afterwards) La Inn, serves a good Trappiste. A range of draught candlelit cellar beers, and has a light hearted British bar, this place and colonial theme (if you have an is a real gem. interest in policemens helmets, this is a place for you!).
20 Serving over twenty draught beers and Again we opted for the taster mix, hundreds of bottles, the encyclopaedic which provided us with a small glass beer-menu looked somewhat daunting, of Blanche de Namur (8% wheat so we selected the taster option - ve beer), Kriek Boon (4% oak aged cherry 150ml tasters of your lambic), Gouden Carolus choice. The Troubadour (8.5%, dark and aromatic) Magma IPA 9% was great and Paix Dieu (10%, if, like me, youre a fan of Abbey triple, only brewed a super-hoppy American during a full moon!), IPA, and the Bruges- along with some mini brewed Straffe Hendrick sausages and cubes of 11% is perfect for those nice strong cheese. who prefer something dark, malty and Beer and food go hand mysterious. A venture in hand in Belgium into the bottle menu - Chimay produce their also left us suitably own cheese to match impressed with Dead their beer and we Mans Hand barrel aged chose to round off our Russian Imperial stout day with mussels cooked in a sauce 10%, but also the Hoegaarden Rose is made with Bruges Zot - one of the few worth a mention at just 3%, it makes beers still brewed within Bruges itself. for a deliciously sweet palate cleanser. Our nal day was spent in Ghent - a Our second day in Bruges led us to the larger city around an hours drive from Beer Museum (honestly, dont bother Bruges. Home to some spectacular - the only highlight was the tasters architecture, as well as some excellent at the end, which are included in the bars, we settled for Het Waterhuis aan price of the ticket), and afterwards to der Bierkant. Situated right on the the much sel ed Beer Wall. A long river with a great view of Gravensteen line of display cases installed along (the castle of the counts), this was an a secluded alleyway, home to over excellent place to enjoy some more a thousand unchartered beer territory. This place beers leads is the exclusive home to Gandavum - a to a compact dry hopped, light and oral 7.5% beer, but incredibly and well worth the trip to nd it. popular riverside bar. I cant recommend Belgium enough for a beer-exploring break. Our only regret is that we didnt get to try them all!
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23 Ah, the taste of beer! Written by Paul Barrow
If youre reading this sitting in a pub, Its about walking into a pub and answer me this question; what does scouting the bar area for potential your beer taste of? Or cider for that targets, identifying those which matter. It reminds me of the quote, are either known to be up to your Everything tastes more or less like personal standard or might be, given chicken. Ive never found a beer that the clues offered by the pump clip tastes like chicken in whatever form advertising. it may be served, so beer probably falls into the category of things that Do you stick to something you taste less like chicken than other know should be to your taste, things, which is almost certainly a or do you gamble? Gambling is good thing. addictive because it is a risk - reward behaviour. The risk gives The pump clip might give you a the butter y sensation of stepping clue, if you dont already know, as beyond the usual, of treading the to what a beer might taste of; Hop line between failure and success; Bomb, Cherry Blonde and Lemon the reward brings satisfaction, sense Dream are just some names that of achievement and grati cation. spring to mind, but there are others Failure, should the worst happen, at which one would hope do not hint least provides a learning experience. at the gustatory experience to But what is failure in this scenario come; Cornish Knocker, Santas Little anyway? The beer doesnt make your Helper and Old Fart. OK, yes I know, top 20, but it will almost certainly there are many ways of conjuring be drinkable, and of it isnt, ask for a up names for beers and reference to replacement. taste or ingredients (how many beers are named after the hop variety they contain these days?) is only one of them, so this isnt a great way of deciding whether a newly discovered beer will make your top 20. This is what makes being a real ale drinker such an adventure - you have to try it to know, and trying new beers is part of the excitement.
24 Anyway, I digress. Back to the Have you ever wondered who question - what is it that makes your the people are who sit on panels choice of beer a good one? Its taste when beer festivals occur and of course. We all have our favourite decide which of the offerings are beers, styles of beer and even of suf cient merit to progress breweries. We know what we like in towards the annual Champion terms of taste and we all taste the Beers of Britain awards? Or who it beer that we are drinking to decide is that CAMRA uses to produce the if we like it. descriptions of beers that appear in various CAMRA publications? Well, How far do we go in the tasting they are CAMRA-accredited beer process? How deeply do we delve tasters and there are not enough into the experience that is the taste of them, so CAMRA are setting up of our beer? Having been a real ale regional courses to train more of drinker for around 25 years and a them in the process of tasting beer. CAMRA member for most of them, I Having heard about this initiative have tasted quite a lot of beers and I was lucky enough to attend one formed opinions on all of them. But of the rst of these events being how much time and effort did I put offered in this region. It wasnt into evaluating each one? compulsory to start drinking beer before the course started but all For a few, a slightly more considered good sports coaches will tell you process of deciding if the beer that a good warm-up is essential merited a top 20 ranking position for good performance, so most of us in my pantheon of great beers. decided that to get off to a cracking However, at the beginning of 2017, start and promote excellence in my approach to tasting ales was achievement. about to change courtesy of a new CAMRA initiative rolling out across Throughout the day the course the midlands. progressed with an introduction to an array of chemicals, tastes and smells that are associated with intended avours, unintended avours, good and bad elements that can be found in beers. From there we gently, slowly, immersed ourselves in the processes of properly evaluating the tastes and experiences that can be found in beer.
25 Experiences? Yes, because its not We discovered that it was necessary to just about taste; there are also those give scores for the aromas and avours peripheral experiences that you get of hop, sweetness, bitterness, caramel with beer, such as body, mouthfeel and and roasted malt, to identify hints of condition, all of which are assessed. citrus, blackcurrant, melon and lychee. And it isnt just the initial taste either; It soon became apparent that it takes appearance, head, aroma and aftertaste time and a fair bit of effort to do this all need to be evaluated with the same tasting thing properly, honest! consideration, picking out smells and tastes that come and go in various Finally, we were issued with a handful stages during the drinking experience. of tasting report cards and instructed to go forth on a mission to taste and For the more reserved of the trainees evaluate as many beers as we could. half of the battle was getting to grips Maybe one day well meet again on with our inner, so far suppressed, Jilly a tasting panel at a beer festival, or Goolden, enabling us to communicate simply enjoy the pleasure of adding to our sensations and assign labels to the information that CAMRA collects the aromas and avours that we were on the beers that we taste. If you getting from the ales were asked to would like to join CAMRA, or would evaluate and discuss. like to attend a CAMRA tasting course, please contact a TES CAMRA branch Perhaps that early beer was at last to committee member. Contact details prove its usefulness in facilitating at and our website are listed in every least this part of the process. edition.
26 *Price for paying by Direct Debit and correct at April 2017. Concessionary rates available. Please visit camra.org.uk/membership-rates CAMRA, 230 Hat eld Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 4LW | Tel: 01727 798440 Email: [email protected] | Printed forms available upon request. Once you have found a pub or pubs, you will also be able to click on their website if they have one. All this is available to everyone. Whatpub is CAMRA's guide to every Additionally, for CAMRA members, pub in the UK that serves real ale, having logged on with membership no. with features such as opening and password,(your postcode without times, mealtimes, accommodation spaces and in small letters), you can and much more. enter beer scores for the pubs you The information has been compiled visit. Just a little practice will show you by the individual branches and is there is superb predictive text. Start kept up to date by them. If you are typing SALOPIAN and before you have searching for a speci c type of pub, reached the L, it will offer the complete say one with B&B and evening word. And having entered the brewery meals, and near a railway station name, it will then list all the beers you can tick the lter boxes and made by that brewery, and all you have thereby only see establishments to do is click on it. Hardly any dif cult with those features. typing needed!!
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Local CAMRA Beer Festivals June 2017 Thu 08 42nd Wolverhampton Beer & Cider Festival Newhampton Arts Centre, Dunkley Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 4AN
Thu 29 Bromsgrove Beer & Cider Festival 2017 Bromsgrove Rugby Football Club, Finstall Park Finstall, Bromsgrove, B60 3DH
July 2017 Fri 07 Beer on the Wye Xlll Hereford Rowing Club, Greyfriars Ave, Hereford, HR4 0BE
Thu 20 Shrewsbury Beer Festival Wakeman Campus Shrewsbury Sixth Form College, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AA
Thu 27 10th Stafford Beer and Cider Festival Blessed William Howard School, Rowley Ave, Stafford, ST17 9AB
August 2017 Thu 17 The 18th Worcester Beer, Cider and Perry Festival Worcester Racecourse, Grand Stand Road, Worcester, WR1 3EJ
September 2017 Thu 21 Cannock Chase Beer and Cider Festival Prince of Wales Theatre, Church Street, Cannock, Staffordshire WS11 1DE
October 2017 why not come alon an g Thu 19 The 3rd Shifnal Beer Festival d join us? The War Memorial Club, Innage Road, Shifnal, TF11 8AD
30 Local Non-CAMRA Beer Events June 2017 Sun 04 Duke of Cambridge Beer Festival, Willenhall
Thu 08 Craven Arms Beer Festival
Thu 15 Rising Sun Beer Festival, Tipton
Thu 15 Summer Beer Fest, Green Duck Beer Company, Stourbridge
Thu 15 Beer Day Britain
Fri 16 Stafford Cheese and Ale Festival
Fri 23 Lady Lane Wharf Beer Festival, Solihull
Sat 24 ALEerdine 2017, Ellerdine Village Hall
Sat 24 Alderley Edge Micro Beer Festival, Cheshire
Sun 25 Shrewsbury Food Festival
July 2017 Sat 08 Aldridge Beer Festival, The Scout HQ, Aldridge
August 2017 Thu 10 Black Country Beer Festival, Lye Cricket Club
September 2017 Sat 23 New Inn Beer Festival & Newport Food Frenzy, Newport, Shropshire
All information correct at time of print. Please check prior to event by searching on the internet.
31 How does a pub become LocAle CAMRA LocAle accredited? What is CAMRA LocAle? LocAle status is accredited by your local Telford and East Shropshire CAMRA It is an initiative that promotes pubs branch and is subject to the pub having stocking locally brewed real ale. The at least one locally brewed, good scheme builds on a growing consumer quality, real ale available at all times. demand for quality local produce and a greater awareness of 'green' issues. What is classed as local? Who bene ts from local pubs Within our county, or up to 30 miles stocking locally-brewed real ale? from the brewery, via the shortest driving route. Pubs stocking local real ales can increase pub visits How do I nd a LocAle Pub? Consumers enjoy greater beer choice and diversity Pubs which have been given LocAle Brewers gain from increased sales status by their local CAMRA branch Money is spent and retained locally can display the LocAle sticker on Fewer beer miles' resulting in less their windows/doors. Search for road congestion and pollution participating pubs on whatpub.com Increased sense of local identity and pride For more information on the CAMRA LocAle scheme visit www.camra.org.uk/ CAMRA Discount locale or email [email protected] All over the Country there are 1000s of pubs offering discounts to card carrying CAMRA members!*
Visit whatpub.com to nd which pubs are involved in the scheme.
For details on how to participate in the Real Ale Discount Scheme contact [email protected]
*Please note that pubs may remove an offer at anytime and all offers are subject to change without notice.
32 Contacts and Consumer Information The of cial Telford CAMRA Consumer Information branch contacts If you have any complaints over short Chairman: Adrian Zawierka measures etc. and have no satisfaction from email: [email protected] the pub in question please contact
Secretary: Eleanor Haddon Telford & Wrekin Trading Standards email: [email protected] Tel: 01952 381999 Treasurer: David Jones email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Media Liaison: Alan Thwaites Address: Telford & Wrekin Council, email: [email protected] Darby House,Lawn Central,Telford TF3 4JA
Pub Surveys Of cer: Dave Haddon email: [email protected] Shropshire Trading Standards
Membership & Social Secretary: Paul Jones Tel: 0345 678 9000 tel: 01952 460456 email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Address: Shirehall, Abbey Foregate Bridgnorth CAMRA main contacts Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6ND
Branch Chairman: Eleanor Haddon tel: 07711 739007 or 01746 862884 email: [email protected]
Branch Secretary: Alan Thwaites tel: 07813 571956 email: [email protected]
Social Secretary: Position Vacant
Membership Secretary: David Jones email: [email protected]
Market Drayton CAMRA main contacts
Branch Chair: Bryn Pass tel: 07949 321442 email: [email protected] www.facebook.com/ groups/199617536785775/ 33 June Branch Diary 2017 Sat 3rd 3pm why no t come alo Event: AGM a ng nd join us Venue: The White Hart, Shifnal, TF11 8BH ?
Tues 6th 7.30pm Event: Visit to Plan B Brewery, Newport,TF10 7DW Transport to be arranged.
Sat 10th 3pm Event: Pub of the Season Presentation The Gaskell Arms, Much Wenlock TF13 6AQ
Thu 15th 12.30pm Event: Beer scoring trip by bus to the Newport area Leaving Wellington bus station on service 4 at 11:22hrs, changing at Oakengates to service 5. All very welcome. Contact Paul Bradburn on 01952 510611, or 07905 897997 on the day if needbe.
Sat 24th 12.30pm Event: Inter Branch Quiz with Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton Venue: The Wrekin Inn, Wellington, TF1 1RH
Tues 27th Time TBA Event: Rural POTY Presentation Venue: Fighting Cocks, Stottesdon July Tues 11th 8pm Event: Branch Meeting and COTY Presentation Venue: St. Georges Sports and Social Club, TF2 9LU
Friday 28th to Sunday 30th Event: Festival At The Edge Venue: Dearnford Lake, SY13 3JQ Volunteers Required. Setup from Tuesday 25th. Knockdown Monday 31st August All information correct at time of Tues 8th 8pm print. Please check prior to event Event: Branch Meeting by contacting the Social Secretary. Venue: TBA
34 35 The Red Lion Brewery Tap The Fox & Hounds The Bricklayers Arms The Castle Hotel The Rose and Crown Great Hales Street High Street Copthorne Road 14 High Street 8 Church Street Market Drayton, TF9 1JP Cheswardine, TF9 2RS Shrewsbury, SY3 8NL Wem, SY4 5AA Ludlow, SY8 1AP 01630 652 602 01630 661 244 01743 366 032 01939 236 088 01584 875 726
The New Inn The Sandbrook Vaults The Dolphin The White Lion The Talbot 2 Stafford Street Shropshire Street 48 St Michaels Street High Street Church Street Newport, TF10 7LX Market Drayton, TF9 3BY Shrewsbury, SY1 2EZ Wem, SY4 5AA Ruyton 1X Towns, SY4 1LA 01952 812 295 07813 835 959 01743 247 005 01939 232 927 01939 261 716
Joules Brewery, Great Hales Street, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 1JP www.joulesbrewery.co.uk