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A Pub Crawl with Attitude page 32 contents: Railway Pubs in Gloucestershire page 34 Brewery News page 38 Letters to the Editor page 4 Flying High page 40 The Hunter’s Column page 6 Locale page 44 First Steam & Ale Weekend page 8 Prize Wordsearch page 48 View From The Brewhouse page 14 What’s Coming Up? page 52 Pubs Matter page 18 CAMRA contacts page 53 Pub News page 20 A Crafty Trip to Bristol page 24 Front cover: The Bull at Fairford

STOP PRESS *** STOP PRESS *** STOP PRESS THE SALUTATION AT HAM HAS WON THE COVETED SOUTH WEst PUB OF THE YEAR AWARD have you any pub news? More details are posted regularly on the Facebook group 'Gloucestershire Pubs', an ideal forum to keep other people informed of the latest pub developments in the county. We value feedback and news from around the county, so, if you’ve got something to say, want to make a contribution, compliment or criticise, then get in touch: The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, Tewkesbury, Glos. GL20 5TX [email protected] 01684 439767 3

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk for goodness sake jeremy, can’t we LETTERS LETTERS danger for CAMRA in my humble opinion. Ordinary folk just send an email like totally respect the campaign for proper foodstuffs, fair all those FRIGHTFULLY measures and fair taxation. But, they (we) do not want to to the to the be patronised or nanny’d just because we do not take a modern chaps? purist view on the production of cider. In the event, I opted to taste just a half of Gwatkins Sqeal Pig. This again caused muttering and seemed EDITOR EDITOR to trouble a well-to-do lady in CAMRA garb. I later found out from my son that she had rolled her eyes at my having asked for a half in a pint glass, despite being clearly Some of marked with both half and full pint lines. Not sure why?? I enjoyed it a lot, my son squealed at his sip. So I us old codgers bomb, had popped back into the shed where the six or seven CAMRA are still happy to use previously worked on the Vickers Wellingtons (and nuns galoshes?). guards were on duty. “Half of Gwatkins Yarlington Mill the services of the Royal Mail, and we actively The Wellington expedition that I was referring to, please”. This time no lecture and so out onto the platform encourage all forms of (preferably printable!) of course, was the cycling club’s visit to that mag- we went. My lad enjoyed that one as did I. As luck communication. So get writing and get your nificent mecca for real ale drinkers in the centre of would have it, I got chatting with a really affable CAMRA news, views and comments published! Birmingham, which despite the WWII bombing raids volunteer in hi-vis bib. Lest he should be reading, he had on the city, survived the ‘kidding’ Mr Hitler. Hope this a good head of silver hair, a deep, what-looked-like Mediterranean holiday tan, and I think moustache or A message from our Branch Chairman helps (Blimey Ed., that was a close one!) They call me ...The Hunter goatie. I didn’t catch his name but he is Bourton-on-the- The more observant among you will notice that the Tippler is now the joint Water based and drinks in the Mousetap. magazine for the Gloucestershire branches of CAMRA. As of September 1st, Dear Ed, Dear Tippler readers, He totally restored my faith in your band of intrepid there is a new and separate Cheltenham Branch, which will cover postcode campaigners. He took the time to explain why tokens are areas GL50-53. Beware – Please don’t become the wine snobs of used, what events are going on and how the camaraderie This latest partition of the County has caused a headache for a few beer and cider world is such an important feature of your group. Well done sir, members, but the CAMRA national guidelines are quite clear (in encouraging an ambassador indeed. active members to become even more active, if possible); we hope that their Last Saturday, as some may know, there was a small Lastly, on arriving back to Toddington I invested my obvious enthusiasm will help make the new branch a great success. CAMRA presence at Gloucestershire and Warwickshire remaining £1.60 in a 3rd half, this time Gwatkins Stoke On a practical level, this means that almost 40% of you have now become steam railway, specifically at Toddington and Tewkesbury Red which turned out to be both mine and my son’s part of the new Cheltenham structure; and that the existing County Branch stations. Not (yet) being a CAMRA member, I had favourite. Your stall representative there was great and will have a lot of committee posts up for grabs at next month’s AGM. no knowledge in advance of this as the day was for my even let me off the 10p price difference. Thanks. All three branches in this fine County of ours have the same broad campaigning young son’s benefit. So, the messages in my story from just an ordinary aims, and all deserve your full support, even if it just means planning to attend Not wishing to miss out on this rather fortunate member of the public are: 1. Please don’t become wine snobs, and 2. Great customer service trumps the product a beer festival (or two). coincidence, I planned our train route to stop for 40 minutes or so at each station where there were delights to be every time. To your ambassador in the yellow bib, “hope to see Cheers, sampled, including, by the way, from an excellent Cornish you in the Mousetrap one day, I’ll gladly buy you the first Andrew Frape Pastie van. pint.” Chairman, Gloucestershire branch of CAMRA. However, this is where the tale takes a turn for the worse. On arriving at Tewkesbury my son and I joined the CAMRA queue. On reaching the front it transpired Chris replies: that I couldn’t buy a single pint of cider, I was obliged Sir, to buy a glass and token for £7. Okay, not really what I Many thanks Colin for this cautionary tale, the With reference to the Spring 2014 issue, I’m a tad The Hunter replies: wanted but “hey, go with it” I thought. ending of your day being far more representative of confused over The Hunters Column..the Gloucester On entering the shed, I was met by a bank of CAMRA CAMRA than the beginning. Cycle Club re-enacted the Wellington expedition as Dear Nick officianados of whom I inquired about cider. The printed In defence of the representatives, many of them Eric Coates’ Dam Busters March was played...this I always wondered who it was that read the list did not match those available so I had to ask a couple are long standing campaigners who have had many historic raid in May 1943 by 617 squadron was led column. So may I just say how much I admire of questions about sweetness and dryness. At this years of campaigning in adverse circumstances. No by squadron leader Guy Gibson, comprising of 19 your taste. The historic and heroic Operation point, one man decided to lecture me on how inferior more so than now, with over 30 pubs a week being Lancaster’s. Chastise carried out by No.617 Squadron RAF, pump ciders are and how ignorant customers are of the closed. Being deeply committed, the volunteers may meaning of sweetness, dryness and added sugars. I have Lest We Forget. who became known as The Dam Busters, was in- on occasion, get a bit over-enthusiastic with their been drinking cider all my life, some 35 years of adult views and I am certain they would be only too glad to deed comprised of modified Avro Lancaster Mk consumption so I know what I like, if not the complete apologise wholeheartedly for any offence caused. Regards, Nick Gillett. IIIs. Barnes Wallis, who invented the bouncing heritage of every glass full. Typically, I drink Addlestones, What you will find is that CAMRA has space for Harry Sparrow, Thatchers and Stowford Press. Frankly, everybody, I am no beer expert by any means, but I they’re what’s in the pubs round here – no other am still tolerated by the friendly and cheerful [email protected] justification needed. members who work so hard to keep pubs and real This man reminded me of the Gordon’s Gin TV advert ales and ciders at the top of their campaigning The Editor, The Tippler, 23 Theocs Close, with Philip Glenister where a wine snob is waffling on agenda. So, why not join us, join in and keep Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. GL20 5TX about first and second aromas etc.,etc. And herein lies a us on our toes? - Ed. 5 www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk of all things Monster, Raving and Loony, so I was wearing a tee shirt with the slogan ‘I have sex daily. quite surprised to find the landlord and brewer to Sorry… I mean dyslexia’. His mate seemed a little be rather admirably reticent and self-effacing. He surlier; his tee shirt read ‘NO! I AM NOT ON F*!#ING stood behind a long line of hand pumps, as this is FACEBOOK’. Sutch is life.

THE HUNTER’S the brewery tap for the Heart of Wales Brewery. The I was thinking that there could be no greater brewery is at the back of the hotel in what were once endorsement for the Neuadd Arms Hotel of Llanwrtyd derelict stables. It wasn’t until I started to scrutinise Wells, in the Welsh Principality, than to have the the beer menu that I realised that this was the home patronage and support of the aristocracy of their of Welsh Black, the very popular 4.4%, award-winning chosen party – the Monster Raving Loony Late-Night COLUMN stout, which is a regular feature of Tewkesbury Party. There was Lord Sutch, as was and now Lord Winter Ales Festival. Other Heart of Wales ales Offa of the Dyke, as maybe; then there was the bloke included D’Rovers Return 4% (we were in Wales, with his dog on a string; the dyslexic and his mate After his southern sojourn our intrepid hero heads off to the wild west where men are men and sheep are nervous); Loony who wasn’t on Facebook, but, when I looked at their and gets a bit of the local Monster Raving and Loony hospitality... Juice 4.4%; Inn-Stable 6.8% and High As A Kite, website, I stood up and curtsied. There behind the bar, coming in at a very, beer monstery 10.5%. Loony pulling a pint and a bit of a crowd was the Prince of Wales is an interesting place inhabited by some Rome do as the Llanwrtyd Wellians. Juice was specially created for the 2010 General the Principality himself, along with his very supportive very interesting people. There’s Tom Jones; ‘Burly We sought out the GBG listed Neuadd Arms Election, in support of the local MRLP candidate, Mrs. Chassis’; Max Boyce; Harry Secombe and Dylan Hotel, right in the town centre, whilst on a visit to the Lord Offa of the Dyke, who was unelected, if not Now, what have they got to do with Monsters, Thomas - that’s one for a start. The Welsh are the Principality. Incidentally, the ‘dd’ is pronounced as a unelectable. One of the locals (not the one who Ravers and Loonies? came on the bus with his dog on a piece of orange, Ancient Britons, the Irish who can’t swim, whose soft ‘th’, otherwise nobody will direct you to it. I know language is a direct ancestor of Old British, once this because I had a Welsh mate, who was born bail-winding string, that he left perched on the spoken throughout most of the British mainland but near Llangollen and, as all the Welsh know very window ledge outside) came gliding through the bar, The Hunter now only found in old Ealing Studio comedies and well, the ‘ll’ is a “voiceless, lateral, fricative sound”, a extremely, remote, forgotten, backwaters of the UK, sound that only the Welsh can make and that even this publication is edited, designed and created by like the Black Country e.g. Enoch: Wat tiem is eet some of them can’t manage. So every time a tourist wen thersa pork pie on toppa Walsall Clock? Eli: asked him for mispronounced locations, he’d either Summat to ate. say he’d never heard of it or send them off quite Wales is a land of peculiarly spelt towns and happily in the wrong direction. unpronounceable villages, whose names were handed Back at the Neuadd Arms, things became even down long ago from a far flung game of Scrabble. more interesting. Firstly, I noticed a yellow, leopard The Welsh Tourist Board must be driven in extremis print, top hat trying to promote places like Bwlchgwyn, Cwmt- fixed to the wall wrch and not forgetting Ysbyty Ystwyth. This is why outside, over a everybody goes to Rhyl, Swansea or Cardiff and commemorative nobody goes to Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­ plaque to David drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch. It doesn’t exactly trip off ‘Screaming the tongue. Neither does Llanwrtyd Wells, not as Lord’ Sutch easily as H G, but it is the smallest town in Britain 1940 – 1999. and does own up to being the birthplace of the Then, behind well-known, Welsh Folk Song ‘Sospan Fach’, which the bar was a was “written” there in 1895. But I thought folk songs sign declaring were… ah well, and who would want to sing about a it to be The CHARISMATIC MARKETING LIMITED ‘Little Saucepan’ anyway? It gets worse. Official Monster Llanwrtyd Wells is also the home of the World Bog Raving Loony To find out about our design, advertising, sales and promotional Snorkelling Championship; the World Mountain Bike Party Head literature services, and how we can help your local business Bog Snorkelling Championship; the Man Quarters. This versus Horse Race and, this is more like was obviously call Chris on 01684 439767 6 it, the Saturnalia Beer Festival - when in the epicentre [email protected] 7

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk GETTING STEAMED UP! First Summer Ale & Steam Weekend reaches Toddington PPUURREE REREFFRERESSHMEHMENNTT FROM SSTTARARTT TTOO FINISFINISHH

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Normally held at Winchcombe Station with 24 beers it was extended to include Toddington Station for the first time where 12 beers were also served from the No 2 Waiting Room on the recruited six new members for CAMRA including North Platform. Eight ciders were also available North Cotswold Branch’s 200th member, Lorraine split between the two locations. This encouraged Demur, welcomed by Roger Price Branch train travel between stations for customers to Chairman, and a lifelong Member, Leonard Sykes experience the full beer range and also avoided for Cheltenham Branch who was welcomed by any delays in serving the beers. The train journey Cheltenham Branch Chairman Veronica Emary. time between stations was just right to consume We were also delighted to welcome new North a pint and be ready for the next one. The second Oxford Chairman and Vice Chairman with 11 bar proved very popular and was ideal for its new members on Saturday, who were attending for purpose with several picnic tables fully utilised in the first time and promised to return with more the warm summer weather. North Cotswold CAMRA members next year. staff, supplemented mainly from Cheltenham Camping was arranged within walking distance Branch, were split between the two locations and at Greet with seventeen tents partying on Saturday easily coped with the new set up. night. The helpers were provided with takeaways Most of the beer was sold with Saturday, the since Enterprise Inns’ Harvest Home had busier of the two days, and the full range was unexpectedly closed again cutting off their food available through to early Sunday. Winner of the and beer supply. Festival, the first to run out, was Hung Drawn and Both Festival bars were emptied in record Portered from North Cotswold Brewery closely time and reconverted to waiting rooms by 7pm followed by Cavemans Citra. on Sunday night and all empties and racking Congratulations to Festival Coordinator John removed offsite. Since ‘Set Up’ was one day later Stocks and Good Beer Company supplier, Rob than normal on Thursday morning, racked and Brady, who once again, provided a great range vented by 2pm, and tapped on Thursday night of beers including six locals with the furthest from we set new performance records. We are most Stewart’s Pentland brewed in Scotland 274 miles grateful to the whole team who put in such a away. The Railway were delighted with the extra great effort across the two sites. custom and rail travel. Andrew Smith from GWR We have ring-fenced funding from 2013 and PRPREESSCCOOTTTT felt it had been a huge success and hopes that added the 2014 allocation for the helpers trip, we repeat this format for the Spring once we have decided venue following Moreton. 2015 event. Clearly a visit to North Cotswold Brewery will not WWW.PRESCOTTALES.CO.UK 8 Membership Secretary Garry Hayward dent circa £800 accumulated in the pot! WWW.PRESCOTTALES.CO.UK

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FESTIVAL NEWS FROM NORTH COTSWOLD BRANCH Moreton in Marsh Cricket Ground, BEER FESTIVALS MONTHLY PUB WALKS We now have two down and one Batsford Road

We have continued our programme www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk to go. Both of our GWR Festivals of monthly pub walks which have been well supported completing the following were highly successful, see page 8 so far this year:- for the write up on the 1st Summer Ale and Steam Festival. 12th & 13th September 2014 January - No 48 - New Inn, Willersey Please also see the Moreton in Marsh February - No 49 - Plough Inn, Stretton Cricket Club details that includes a doubling of 45 Beers, Ciders & Perrys March - No 50 - Ebrington Arms, Anniversary walk the music and live band line up. With plenty of beers April - No 51 - Harvest Home and Goffs Brewery and ciders to choose from this should be another Hot Food, Pig Roast, Soft Drinks May - No 52 - Inn at Fossebridge/Chedworth cracking event, so please come along and enjoy the Live Music, Red Shift, Zool weekend. We still have four events on this year’s calendar, Kinky Farnham and Ellen Larson with more plenty more for the coming year. Winner of the Summer Festival was ‘Hung, Drawn Camping & Parking 26th - 29th Sept. - Weekend away Torquay and Portered’, so we will be organising a Brewery 4th October - No 53 - George Hotel, Brailes visit shortly to present the certificate. See website for details 1st November - No 54 - Coach and Horses, Bourton on the Water and MEMBERS Friday 12 noon to 11pm Entry £3 Cotswold Lager visit We have exceeded 200 members this month and Saturday 12 noon to 11pm £3 29th November - No 55 - Plough, Stretton (New our next Branch Meeting is at the Inn on the Marsh owner and a Free House) at Moreton on Thurday, 4th September at 8.00pm. CAMRA members receive beer token allowance

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As some of you know, Cheltenham Our official launch event will take place Sub-branch becomes a full branch in on the 4th October at the Sandford Park its own right on 1st September 2014. Ale House. Once again, our local breweries We have been trying to obtain this status will be represented. There will be some for nearly two years. It has been a long and guests of honour, but we are also inviting all winding road, but we have arrived there now and we CAMRA members to come and join us (but please will be focusing on our campaign plan for the year remember to bring your membership card). Our ahead. With a membership of over 900 we feel we Regional Director, Gareth McDonald plans to attend can do much more for the Campaign for Real Ale in as well. that we can funnel all our energy into the wonderful Finally, arrangements are in hand to hold a beer town of Cheltenham. A very exciting time lies ahead festival in the centre of Cheltenham next summer. for us. We already have the basic festival committee On 6th September we are having, for the first appointed and as we get nearer to the event we will time, a CAMRA table in the beer tent at the Cheltenham be looking for volunteers in all different fields. Cricket Club beer festival. Later in the month, the We shall continue to be part of Tippler as this is a University of Gloucestershire’s Students’ Union Gloucestershire branches publication. Please note have invited us to attend two of their Freshers' that we will be happy to help with any events. Not only will we have a membership stand, Gloucestershire CAMRA beer festivals that are but our local brewers will be selling their beer there planned. Please contact us if you are in need of our help. too. The dates are the 18th (10am to 4 pm) and Thank you all for your patience and assistance. 20th September (11am to 7pm) and if you have a We look forward to a productive and fun year ahead. couple of hours free to man the stand, then please let Veronica know at [email protected]. Cheers! uk (telephone: 01242 244397) as she will be drawing up a work schedule. Veronica – Chair Cheltenham CAMRA

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It is also notable that the original US definition of small was 2 million barrels until it was Favourite Beers joins the realised that the Boston Beer Company (Sam CRAFT BEER DEBATE! Adams) produced 2.3 million barrels and so the bar was raised to accommodate one of the founding fathers of their craft beer revolution! It appears that barely a day goes by when I don’t The second clause – ‘independent’ isn’t truly get someone in my shop (Favourite Beers in independent, as it allows a brewery to be 25% Cheltenham) asking about where I stand on craft owned by another bigger ‘Non-Craft’ brewery, this beer, generally followed up with questions like “So can have a massive influence on the brewery. what is craft beer anyway?” or “as a member of The definition for last clause, ‘traditional’ is CAMRA, surely you can’t support craft beer?” pretty vague as well, as it states that the brewer As such, I thought that I should put pen to paper must have “a majority of its total beverage alcohol It is also very notable that a lot of people (and I dispense is difficult or impossible and has introduced (actually pressing a few keys on my computer, but volume in beers whose flavor derives from traditional include brewers and bar owners here) do seem to some great beers to a new, generally younger ‘pen to paper’ sounds far more romantic) and express or innovative brewing ingredients and their just be using the ’Craft’ label so that they can charge generation of beer drinkers. It is also worth pointing some of my own views on the subject. fermentation.” – sounds like a definition decided by ridiculous prices for beers that are essentially still out that these keg products are far removed from a committee that allows anyone to do pretty much just made with water, malted barley, hops and yeast! those of the early 70’s that prompted the formation So is there a definition whatever they want! So anyway, in the UK at the moment there really of CAMRA in the first place. for Craft Beer? Now, it has been generally accepted that the US is not any definition for what Craft beer is.So, if it So when you hear definition does have an awful lot of holes in it and isn’t defined, why is everyone talking about it? people talk about the UK Firstly on the subject would not really be of any use for adopting in the ‘Craft Beer’ scene at the of ‘What is craft beer?’ – UK. There have been proposals put forward in this Thornbridge - UK Craft beer pioneers? moment, the majority tend For the UK there isn’t any country for a similar set of clauses – most notably to be referring to big hoppy sort of official definition; the one from the It all started with a few of the more ambitious beers, brewed using US and personally I don’t Brewdog founders early micro-breweries (Thornbridge - 2005, Brewdog or South Pacific hops and think it is possible to last year, but these - 2007, the Kernel - 2009 etc.) experimenting with being served in trendy actually group a particular seem to be trying the more obvious styles coming out of the craft bars by keg dispense set of UK breweries, or to nail down a breweries in the US. They started to make use of the methods or in 330ml beers into a collective whole and say with certain something big alpha acid American hops to create American bottles and cans. This is a bit ingenuous, as many any certainty that these are craft beers and that seems to style IPAs and Pale Ales full of tropical fruit and pine of the better new ‘craft’ breweries are producing a any other beers and breweries not listed are be increasingly flavours. These provided a taste sensation that the whole range of innovative styles of beer ranging not craft. Furthermore, as I explain below, I indefinable. We also UK beer drinker hadn’t really experienced and the from unusual experiments with strange flavouring don’t really think that there is a need to do so need to question beers proved to be very popular (I can still remember additions (adjuncts) or barrel aging to those who are (although I have had a few ‘shouty’ people the motives of the the buzz at the Cotswold Beer Festival when recreating new versions of classic European beer argue with me on this point!). people who are Thornbridge Jaipur first made its debut there). Over styles with a unique UK twist. Many of these are In the USA, the Brewers Association putting forward the past five years we have seen an ever-increasing being ‘packaged’ in cask, keg and bottle form so that definition of a US Craft Brewer is: these suggestions number of micro-breweries emulate these early the drinker has a choice of which to try. – I couldn’t fail to innovators. There are however also a whole range of new An American craft brewer is ‘small’, notice that on the The draught versions of these early UK ‘Craft’ small breweries that are producing exceptionally ‘independent’ and ‘traditional’. issue of size, the beers were originally produced exclusively in cask good traditional beers, including good old ‘boring Brewdog proposal form and were welcomed by CAMRA members up brown beer’, but should these be called craft? The first of these clauses states that suggested a and down the country. Increasingly however, over ‘small’ means brewing less than 6 million maximum annual the past few years many of these breweries have Craft or Artisanal? barrels of beer a year – Six Million! capacity of 50,000HL been moving over to keg dispense methods or a mix That’s an awfully big brewery in my book – which just happens to be identical to the maximum of the two. This has allowed their beers to be show- So, OK, what does ‘Craft’ mean to me and 14 (a UK micro-brewery sitting below the expansion capacity of their new brewery! cased in more bars where perhaps traditional cask the beers I stock in my shop? Using the vague 15

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk view from the brewhouse definitions of ‘Craft Beer’, I could probably only Many are classify about 25% of my stock in that category. The bottle problem is there are many grey areas and overlaps conditioned – where do German and Belgian beers fit in? Do so will bottle conditioned beers fit in craft or not? what appeal to about those breweries who are deliberately producing the CAMRA ‘Craft’ ranges to differentiate their other beers? – it purists, but is a total minefield and in my opinion a source of as long as needless argument and debate. they are Surely what beer drinkers are really after are not heavily good quality, tasty beers at a reasonable price? In pasteurised, my view there are a number of breweries currently filtered beers hoisting the ‘craft’ flag whilst making unexceptional can be just or even faulty beers (I call this ‘band-wagon jumping’!) as full of yet there are some stunning beers coming out from flavour. small micros who would not dream of classifying One of the arguments that Brewdog put forward their beers in the craft bucket. last year for having a UK craft beer definition was I am quite picky in selecting the majority of bottled that shops and supermarkets should create ‘Craft’ beers that I stock, but rather than class them as sections on their shelves to help the modern brewers ‘Craft’, I prefer to use the term ‘Artisanal’. My own get more awareness for their products – I really definition for ‘Artisanal’ beers is that they come don’t agree with this, it suggests that my customers from breweries and brewers who have a hands-on are not intelligent enough to figure out for themselves approach to the brewing process (e.g. those who what beers are good and what they would like to experience the joy of cleaning out the 2 - Cans are spend their hard earned cash on. in vogue with the craft beer movement. Using this definition I would happily classify over 98% of the Leigh Norwood bottled beers that I currently stock as Artisanal. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/66572. applications for ACVs, successful or otherwise! Visit: http://camra.org.uk/listyourlocal (once the Visit: http://pubsmatter.org.uk/ for more details CAMRA website has been relaunched).

PUBS MATTER After all this, however, remember that a pub is If you are reading this in a pub List Your Local a business. For all we can try to do to limit the over a pint of beer, then unfair pressures they are under, pubs will only congratulations! You are The 2011 Localism Act gave communities survive if we use them. So – you should have supporting one of our most the right to have pubs (among many other finished that pint by now. Time for another... precious, but also most things) listed as Assets of Community Value (ACVs). This gives communities the right to bid threatened assets. Helping Martin Parker support pubs and preserve to protect them if they are threatened with sale them from closure is the most for demolition or change of use. Having your important campaigning issue local listed costs little beyond some time and facing CAMRA these days. effort and can put a brake on any attempt to sell Every time you visit your local to a developer or supermarket chain. you are helping us whether you CAMRA has a target of having 500 pubs are a member or not. listed across the country by the end of this year. With 31 pubs closing across The present total is 458 and four of those are in Gloucestershire. Our various local authorities the country every week we need to persuade the Government to vary widely in their approach to this. Stroud put measures in place to try to halt DC has a long asset list on its website including the slide. Various commercial interests are the timetable and the proposals fall short of three successful applications for pubs to be fighting over our struggling pub estate, pred- those we have been calling for, but this still rep- included. The Forest of Dean shows one listed ators on the lookout for the weak who can be resents a significant breakthrough. In the last pub but some others have no indication of any converted into a quick profit. If we are to have year alone, CAMRA's campaigning has consist- anywhere to drink a well kept pint of cask ale ed of 8,000 member emails to MPs, a 44,000 in the future, we need to tilt the playing field in strong petition along with extensive meetings their favour. So here's an update on how the to lobby MPs and Ministers. In total CAMRA three main planks of CAMRA’spub strategy are helped secure active support from 212 MPs. progressing. Visit http://www.fairdealforyourlocal.com/ for more details. We are delighted to announce that Fair Deal for Your Local We need to loosen the stranglehold that Pubs Matter the large pub companies (Pubcos) have on so The Salutation at Ham many of our pubs. After ten years of hard cam- A newly launched CAMRA campaign paigning, CAMRA achieved a major success in highlights weak planning laws in England which June when the Government finally announced are failing to protect our pubs. Two pubs are has won the coveted that it would introduce legislation on Pubco converted to supermarkets alone every single reform. week. South West Region This would include: a new Statutory Code of Pubs currently fall within the A4 planning practice to ensure that tied licensees should be use class. This means they can be converted Pub of the Year Awards 2014 no worse off than if they were free of tie; a new to many things such as supermarkets, loan Adjudicator with powers to arbitrate in companies, restaurants, or even demolished, disputes if licensees feel they are being treated without planning permission or any community and is the venue to launch next year’s unfairly; a right to a parallel free of tied rent consultation. assessment for tenants of companies The current situation is ludicrous and is 2015 Good Beer Guide on 11th September with more than 500 pubs. encouraging the loss of pubs. Please take a 18 The Government has not yet set out moment to access and sign the e-petition at

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk pub news pub news A new pub called Cobblers opened this August bohemian heart of Stroud. It was also a great purchase for Setminds, owners of the adjacent in Cinderford's Market Street. Cobblers is bucking venue, with the former billiard room at the back - with Cornhill Shopping Centre - who snapped up The the trend of pub closures by focusing on getting its own separate bar - used for music, plays and films Market Tavern in July - with a view to moving it back to basics: good quality and well kept real ales. without intruding on the main bar at the front. The upmarket as a restaurant, wine bar or café, or even This philosophy extends to the policies of no lager, pub also had a proper pub garden, a rarity in central converting it into a shop. Unfortunately, the lack of no music, no food, no wifi, no TV, and no children, Stroud. an outdoor smoking area seriously compromises the though well behaved dogs are made very welcome. Lotte Lyster of The Prince Albert in Rodborough, Swan’s future as a wet led traditional style pub. The It certainly seems to be a winning combination, well known for its live acts, argues it should continue Swan goes up for auction on 10th September. The and one which encourages the kind of affable as a pub. “It has failed, but with the right ownership George Inn at Frocester is also up for grabs on the conversation over a pint which many larger more and management it could succeed again,” she says. same day with a guide price of £340,000. 'sophisticated' establishments seem to lack these “Stroud is in need of another successful, busy venue The Golden Fleece on Nelson Street in Stroud days. Friendly landlord Ian Jones is in the vanguard supplying arts and music, good beer and food to the (Enterprise Inns) is currently closed and being of an emerging trend of micropubs, and Cobblers people of Stroud. The last thing we want in Stroud offered for let as a ‘characterful wet led public Cinderford lives up to its motto: 'a firkin small The Market Tavern at the bottom of Union is another supermarket - we must all support our house’, and also for sale freehold with ‘alternative pub', with seating for around 20 patrons, but with a Street in Stroud has been bought by Setminds, the use potential (subject to planning permission)’. warmth of character exceeding its size. owners of the adjacent Cornhill Shopping Centre, The Golden Fleece is a lovely, once thriving This is the third Cobblers, following similar who have plans to convert it into a supermarket. pub with huge potential. It would be tragic if it successful ventures in Newent (Church Street) and The pub closed in February and the freehold was were lost as a pub. Coleford (St Johns Street) The Cinderford micropub put up for sale by its then owners, Star Inns (former- keeps two regular ales brewed by Goffs especially ly Scottish & Newcastle). The pub was sold for a for Cobblers: 'Firkin Good' being a chestnut best sum well in excess of the guide price of £350,000. bitter at 4.0% ABV, and 'Firkin Excellent', a straw Setminds is proposing to convert the pub into a coloured brew, well hopped and refreshing at 4.7% supermarket by extending the ground floor across ABV. The beers represent excellent value for money the pub garden and underneath the market square (which is at first-floor level). This floor would be too, with 'Good' priced at £2 per pint and 'Excellent' a ‘food emporium’. The pub's first floor would be at £2.50. The third beer is a rotational guest. Though converted and extended into a 14,000 sq ft space it has only been open a month, Cobblers in Cinderford for non-food items, with the market square extended has already built a loyal following in the town, and to meet it over the top of the supermarket's ground is well worth a visit. Opening hours are 4.30 pm to floor. This could mean the expansion of the Cornhill 9.00pm, with the exception of Friday and Saturday Market Square by 50 per cent. Car parking would when it opens another hour until ten o'clock. Cobblers be at the London Road multi-storey carpark behind Cinderford is closed on Monday. Brunel Mall across the road. No planning application has been submitted, but current planning law (whether we like it or not) allows for the conversion of pubs to retail without planning permission—as has been the fate of all too many pubs in recent years. The independent traders in the town.” new build-out and underneath the market is Meanwhile at the other end of Union Street from technically an extension and therefore the issues the Market Tavern, the Swan Inn has been put up considered by the planners will be somewhat for sale by Enterprise Inns. Recently the Swan has limited. seen a succession of leaseholders and temporary The Market Tavern originally opened as The managers, and has often been closed. It has a In the early 1990s this was an unpretentious back Union Inn. In the 1990s it was born again as downmarket reputation and lacks an outdoor smoking street boozer, very much an old man’s pub The Pelican, affectionately known as the ‘Peli’. area, which means that smokers congregate on the (and none the worse for that). All this changed in 1994 Landlord Andy Thomas transformed the ‘Peli’ street outside the entrance in a manner that does when Andy Thomas (also licensee of the Pelican into a successful real ale and music venue, ably not encourage the casual visitor. Inn) acquired the lease from Enterprise Inns. His assisted by Lotte Lyster (now boss at The Prince Fleurets are advertising the Swan as having ambition was to turn it into a ‘grown-up Pelican’, Albert) and Beaver, also to be found at the ‘potential alternative uses (subject to planning with jazz and blues on the sound system permission)’. It is hard not to see it as an obvious instead of the Pelican’s techno/trance. Albert. It was a superb pub and the beating 21

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk pub news pub news The pub underwent an exemplary and minimal The Tipputs Inn is on the A46 just south of Kites Nest mention ‘potential for development’ and refurbishment, with the matchboard panelling and Nailsworth on the way towards Bath. It is owned draw attention to the Daniels Industrial Estate being floorboards stripped and the two principal interior and run by the Pheasant Pluckers gastropub chain, the ‘location of the proposed ASDA supermarket’. spaces painted in strong and contrasting colours. which includes The Britannia in Nailsworth, The If successful, ASDA’s plans would either sweep the A succession of charming rooms rises up short Old Fleece at Rooksmoor, The Foston’s Ash on the pub away or leave it stranded on an island beside flights of stairs, culminating in a delightful patio and Slad Road towards Birdlip and The Old Lodge on the store’s petrol station. garden. The décor has been described as ‘shabby chic’. The pub boasted an upright piano, an open Minchinhampton Common. ASDA has applied to build a supermarket with fire at each end and live music some nights. The The Tipputs and Ruskin Mill already have close parking for more than 300 cars, a petrol station and range and choice of beers, as well as the general links. Last year the Tipputs was enlarged to incorporate a café on the Daniels Industrial Estate, which is ambience, earned it a place in several editions of the a bigger car park together with a purpose-built adjacent to the B&Q store on the Bath Road at Good Beer Guide. smokehouse and organic farm shop operated by Lightpill near Stroud. Industrial Sales, which owns Sadly, Andy Thomas died in January 2002. The Ruskin Mill College. The new smokehouse (funded by the trading estate, says 25 per cent of units are lease passed to Andy’s widow, Anne O’Neill-Thomas, the Local Food Fund) is able to smoke and package vacant and it is difficult to let them because they and the pub saw a succession of managers (including for sale a range of fish, meat, game, vegetable and are not suitable for modern businesses. There Rodda Thomas, now landlord of The Crown & cheese products, including Ruskin Mill’s home are, however, currently 24 businesses at Daniel’s, Sceptre, and Beaver, formerly of the Pelican) before produced trout and pork, as well as enabling students including the Meningitis Trust charity and Springfield Anne decided to call it a day a few years ago. Since then, the Golden Fleece has seen a succession of training rooms and offices, as well as accommodation of Ruskin Mill College to gain a range of skills and Engineering, which employs 42 people. They would leaseholders and temporary managers, and has for apprentices and long-term volunteers who work experience in food related subjects. The smokehouse all have to relocate for ASDA plans to go ahead. often been closed. Unlike the Swan, however, the on the site. was officially opened by Channel 4’s Fabulous Baker The Kites Nest was known as The Fleece Inn pub has an outdoor smoking area (the patio and This has uncanny echoes of the unilateral closure Brother Tom Herbert from Hobbs House Bakery in until 2005 when it changed its name to that of a garden upstairs) and everything going for it. It has of The Halfway House at Box by Cotswold Chine Nailsworth on 30th November. nearby lane to avoid confusion with the Old Fleece been a thriving and successful pub before and there School and its reopening as the Halfway Café to The Save The Tipputs campaign has a website gastropub at Rooksmoor. It is a handsome building is no reason why it should not be so once again, provide … ‘vocational training for students, a public http://savetipputs.com and that increasing rarity—a pub with a skittle alley. whether leased from Enterprise or trading as a free community meeting space, as well as additional and a Facebook page: Just along the Bath Road from The Kites Nest, offices, teaching space and accommodation.’ This house. https://www.facebook.com/tipputs?fref=ts at the junction of with Dudbridge Hill, once stood Since plans to close The Tipputs Inn and sell it despite a vigorous campaign by Box residents, The Golden Cross Inn, an imposing Cotswold stone to Ruskin Mill College were announced in March, pub-goers and CAMRA members determined to a vigorous campaign has been launched to keep retain a very popular local and destination pub on Godsells house. It was acquired by Gloucestershire it as a pub. A petition opposing any application for Minchinhampton Common. County Council c1966 and demolished for road a change of use was launched and a successful However, on 9th July - just two days after Ruskin improvements. All that remains is a sign at the application made to put it on the list of Assets of Mill’s application - Stroud District Council added the junction, which is still referred to as the Golden Community Value. This gives a six-month breathing Tipputs to the Register for Assets of Community Cross. Below where the pub once stood is the space for a buyer to come forward wishing to keep it Value. This decision pauses the sale of the pub to carpark for the B&Q store. as a pub or for the community to raise the money to either Ruskin Mill or any party looking at a change of buy the pub themselves. The pub finally closed on use for a period of six months while the community Stroud Against Supermarket Saturation was formed continue to work on a business case and funding to 29th June. On 7th July Ruskin Mill Land Trust made to stop the three proposed out-of-town a formal application to Stroud District Council for a purchase the pub. supermarkets - including ASDA - near Stroud. change of use ‘to allow for educational, commercial Chris Stevens of the Save The Tipputs campaign and residential use by Ruskin Mill College’. Located said: “We have a number of interested parties and They have a website: nearby at Horsley, Ruskin Mill caters to about 100 feel very positive that our efforts will be rewarded. http://sasscampaign.wordpress.com/ students with learning difficulties and disabilities It would be great to see the Tipputs open its doors and a Facebook page: aged between 16 and 24. again and we are all committed to seeing this hap- https://www.facebook.com/StroudAgainstSupermar- The college wants to run a small café, open pen.” To celebrate the decision a party was held at Punch Taverns has put The Kites Nest at Lightpill ketSaturation?fref=ts to the public, and a shop selling organic food and ‘The Q8 Bar’ - a pop-up cash bar under the canopy up for sale for £235,000. Its location at the tip of produce from the site, as well as craft items made by of the old Q8 petrol station next to the Tipputs Inn - the Daniels Industrial Estate must call its survival as Sale particulars for The Kites Nest with CBRE of the students. These two ventures would also provide to raise money to help pay for the work needed to a pub into question if ASDA’s planning application Leeds: complete the business plan. The Q8 Bar has since vocational training and work experience for the rest of the site is approved by Stroud District http://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial- for its students. In addition, the building become a regular and highly visible Friday evening Council in September. The sales particulars for The property-for-sale/property-44925287.html 22 would be used for additional meeting and fixture on the busy A46. 23

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk from Caribbean to Pieminister Pies and BBQ to great breweries to choose from. Little did we know it, C A T Thai and Indian Curry. Each of us sampled food but we were about to purchase what was universally r from a different corner of the globe, with my choice agreed to be the beer of the day here, namely a t ip TO being a Beef Brisket with Burnt Ends from Grillstock. Neither IPA. This is a collaboration brew from R Grillstock seem to have several outlets in Bristol and Siren, Cigar City and Grassroots, and is a hoppy F Y have been made famous by their BBQ sauce, which double IPA brewed with corn and wildflower honey. o is a very popular purchase to take away. We detected grapefruit and tropical fruit flavours, brist l After lunch, we headed to the Small Bar, the first which made it most refreshing but also dangerously bar in what is known as the Beer-Muda Triangle drinkable! and one of three in King Street, which is turning into We were in serious danger of being swallowed up a Mecca for real ale and craft beer. The Small Bar by the Beer-Muda Triangle, but somehow managed may disappoint those who refuse to drink their beer to escape its clutches and head out into the afternoon from anything other than a pint glass - the beers are sunshine in the direction of Hotwells, passing Bristol's served only in ‘schooners’ (2/3 of a pint glasses) council offices and its magnificent cathedral. We had and halves - but, given the strength of some of the a plan to get to the Grain Barge and then head back beers served, this is possibly no bad thing! We towards the station. One factor to bear in mind when were impressed at the sheer range of beer styles planning a visit to Bristol is the time of the last train that were represented on both cask and keg here, home - one thing we often notice on trips like this is something you're unlikely to find in smaller towns that time flies when you're having fun, so make sure and cities such as Cheltenham. We took advantage you allow yourself enough time to visit all the bars of this by ordering the splendid Saison a la Provision you want to go to. With several from Burning Sky (from Sussex), as well as a dark bars still to do, therefore, our plan to catch the beer from Fallen and Cromarty Rogue Wave (both 8.30pm train was soon shelved in favour of the last from Scotland). direct train back to Cheltenham, which departs Onwards and upwards to The Famous Royal Temple Meads at 10pm. Navy Volunteer, one of the second corners on the After our walk through the hustle and bustle of scalene triangle that had hold of us. We crossed the the city centre, it was nice to reach the altogether cobbled street and entered the large bar, where a quieter area in which the Three Tuns is situated. screen was showing a torrential storm disrupting the Though Arbor Ales' tap bar, the selection here is by cricket at Old Trafford. This brought back memories no means limited to offerings from this local brewery. of my previous visit, when water had leaked into the That's not to take anything away from Arbor - they Cheltenham has a USA. A Brewery I can honestly say I have visited, bar area, but that's another story. A year had passed brew some wonderful beers - but our intention was growing beer scene, tasted the beer and have the T-Shirt! Their flagship since the ‘Volley’ first opened its doors, so our visit to sample ones that we don't usually see in but it is always good to beer 'Heady Topper' appears in the top 1% of coincided with their birthday celebrations. Cheltenham and their ales can often be found at explore the scene in an- worldwide beers according to rate beer. It certainly A low tech but effective beer board presented Cheltenham Motor Club. With this in mind, we ordered other town. Bristol is an exciting city and is easily ac- knocked the socks off the regulars at Cheltenham us with a mixture of cask and keg beers to choose ReAle Extra, an IPA from Italian brewery Birra del cessible by train from Cheltenham. A return can be Motor Club when they sampled some last year! from. There was more choice than any human could Borgo, and a raspberry-flavoured beer from their purchased on the day for £8.80; however, timing is Our next stop was the 7 Stars, a small bar possibly need in life. In order to take advantage of compatriots Toccalmatto. A destination for a future key, especially through the Parkway-Temple Meads located next to a big music venue in a small this, we opted for the beer paddle, which comprises beer trip, perhaps! pinch point, where the train can get very crowded. alleyway. The real ale selection here is good, with of three, one third of a pint glasses, meaning we Our next port of call was a five-minute walk from On leaving the train at Bristol, our breakfast stop beers available from far and wide and discounts for were able to sample nine different beers. Again, we the Three Tuns. The nautical reference is actually was The Knights Templar, a Wetherspoons pub near CAMRA members with valid CAMRA cards. We tried were impressed with the variety of styles on show, rather apt, as it was the Grain Barge, a floating bar to the railway station. It's a great place to have a the Citra by The Brew Co; however, it felt uninspiring with the beers sampled including an IPA (Buxton Ace that predominantly serves beers from Bristol Beer pre-pub tour breakfast and we were lucky to find a compared to the two big American style beers that Edge), a Double IPA (Celt Experience Ogham Factory. With the taste of the hops from the IPA at couple of very interesting beers on handpump. On were being served in Weatherspoons. Willow), a breakfast stout (Siren Craft Brewing our previous stop still lingering, we were hoping for a offer (and duly sampled) was Acorn - Transatlantic Love them or hate them, BrewDog were next on Broken Dream), a milk stout (Wiper and True Milk similarly hoppy beers such as Southville Hop. IPA, a 5% golden IPA which is brewed with a the list. This young and trendy bar not only has a Shake) and a lager (Williams Brothers Caesar However, as this was only available in bottles, we combination of British and American hops. It's a wide selection of BrewDog beers but also several Augustus). settled for Nova. In their description of the beer, solid beer with an intense hop aroma and a harmonic other big names on craft keg. Stopping here was a On to the last corner of the triangle: the Beer Bristol Beer Factory refer to the “bright, fresh and level of bitterness in the flavour. Also sampled was great excuse to try Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous Emporium. As you leave King Street, you are greeted zesty hop aromas...underpinned by herbal and floral Adnams - Enraptured: a brown IPA brewed with the Black IPA (all the way from the USA) and the by what appears to be a bottle shop. You then adjust notes”. The depth of flavour belies the mere 3.8% base malts of Broadside (Pale Ale and Chocolate powerfully hopped Magic Rock Cannonball (from your compass bearing to the right, head down some ABV. Taking our seats on the top deck, we were malt) and hopped with lots of Columbus, Citra and slightly closer to home in Huddersfield, but which stairs and into an interesting underground bar. On able to see the start of the evening’s Bristol Balloon Summit hops. It is full of resinous, pine could itself be easily mistaken for a US craft beer). previous daytime visits, we had been a little disappointed Fiesta ascent, with around 30 balloons taking off from and citrus flavours backed up by sweet From BrewDog, you are only a couple of flights of to find that many of the handpumps were not in use. nearby Ashton Court, flying along the water, biscuit malts. The Enraptured pump clip stairs away from St Nicholas Market. This is a semi- Today, though, we had a full complement of interesting past the SS Great Britain and over the 24 links back to Alchemist Brewery in Vermont, open/outdoor food hall that caters for many tastes, beers from the likes of Arbor, Siren and many other harbourside area. 25

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Next was the Bag o Nails, or ‘Bag of Cats’, as from New Bristol Brewery - one to watch - and Long some call it. The pub is owned and run by Luke, a Lane Pale from Liverpool Craft. real character who took the pub over a few years In summary, we hit Bristol on a really good day ago when many feared that it had closed for good. and were lucky enough to come across a number Customers are greeted by an interesting sign on of amazing beers and very few poor ones. We were the door which reads ‘No Idiot Pub Crawls’, while in one of the most diverse places around for beer. entertainment is provided by Luke himself, as well Neither IPA by Siren et al was voted beer of the day. as a record player in the corner of the room playing Though slightly cloudy, the taste was absolutely vinyl. When ordering, you may find that space on delicious, which just goes to show that it's always the bar is limited, as it is often taken up by one or best to drink with your mouth and not your eyes! more of the pub's resident cats! Luke had recently hosted a beer festival and still had a 10% imperial Chris Martin & Roger Merrett stout on - Green Jack Baltic Trader - which we felt Cheltenham CAMRA obliged to try. He had also recently had more cask lines installed. We were now firmly set on catching the 10pm train, while not CAMRA National discounting the possibility of an Pub of theYear 2007 impromptu late night trip to Wales! We were at the end of the line and The Farmers Club - Agricultural House, Sandhurst Road needed to head back along the CAMRA branch line back into the city. Knowing Gloucestershire there were many beers that we hadn't tried earlier, our plan of action Pub of the Year 2013 Friday 26th September 2014 was to revisit the Small Bar and then Excellent Home head for the Barley Mow, before Cooked Food Served 17:00 to 23:00 heading back up to Cheltenham. King Street in general and the Small at Lunchtimes Bar in particular had become a lot Cosy Log Fires for busier in the meantime and it was the Winter...Secluded Saturday 27th September 2014 now standing room only. Offices had closed and people had started to Garden for the Summer celebrate the onset of the weekend. dog 12:00 to 23:00 It was also noticeable just how many beers had changed since we called Wide in earlier in the afternoon, which is testament to the bar's popularity. Range This time, we had beers from Bad of Guest Over 50 Beers and Ciders Seed and Tiny Rebel. Ales The Barley Mow is hidden away brought to you by in the back streets behind hotels Always Tickets: and flats near Temple Meads railway Available the Gloucestershire Craft Brewers station. Recent development of the £6.00 in advance area has made it even harder to find see website for full list than before, but is definitely worth T. £7.50 on the door 01453 542870 the effort. The Mow has a consistent enquiries Free Pint and diet of exciting beers, so plenty to @old spot inn.co.uk www.gloucesterbeerfestival.co.uk or visit. Souvenir Glass chose from here as well. Calculating www. old spot inn. co. uk that we had 20 minutes to order and scan me... VISIT OUR SISTER PUB: THE OLD BADGER INN, EASTINGTON . . . . Order tickets online at : http://www.gloucesterbeerfestival.co.uk/ consume our beers, the final selections The Old Spot Inn Hill Road Dursley Glos Gl11 4JQ included halves of Supernatural IPA or buy directly from any of the following, The Dick Whittington (Glos), The Farmers Club, The Varsity (Glos), The Restoration (Chelt), Favourite Beers (Chelt) CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE GLOUCESTERSHIRE BRANCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the 40th Annual General Meeting of the Gloucestershire Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) will take place at the Fountain Inn, Westgate Street, COTSWOLD CRAFT ALES Gloucester at 7.45pm on Wednesday 22nd October, 2014. Please note that this will be the first AGM of the branch following the separation of Cheltenham as an independent branch and as such all YubbyFest committee positions will be open to new nominations. The Ebrington Arms’ Nominations are invited for the offices of Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer and for four ordinary Beer Festival is back committee members. They should show the candidates name, the office for which he/she is nominated, 6-12 October the names and signatures of the proposer and seconder and the candidate’s signature to indicate his/her willingness to serve. Candidates, proposers and seconders must be members in good standing At least 12 cellar conditioned craft ales on the bar of the Gloucestershire branch of CAMRA. Mon 6th - Folk Night Fri 10th and Sat 11th - Full programme of live Nominations, as well as any motions for debate at the meeting should be sent to the Secretary: Mr bands, including The Oxford Waits and pizza shed Martin Parker, 68 Cirencester Road, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, GL53 8DA, or may be handed in at and cider bar. the meeting. See www.theebringtonarms.co.uk for full information and line-up. tables, tickets in advance, lots of fun! Music and staff The Ebrington Arms in fancy dress! Ebrington, near Chipping Campden YubbyFest Thursday 9th YubbyDarts Competition Glos. GL55 6NH Compered by our very own Chris Rawlings, this Tel: 01386 593 223 promises to be a fun evening, all skills welcome, Brewing our own is back... This is a charity event to raise funds for Warwick Claire and Jim, owners of The Ebrington Arms hospital. The Ebrington Arms’ second Cotswold Beer and The Killingworth Castle have created The Yubberton Brewing Co. We are now brewing three Festival - YubbyFest - is back and will take place YubbyFest Weekend craft ales, Yubby Bitter (named after the old at the pub from the 6th to the 12th October 2014. Fantastic weekend celebrating craft ale with our very COTSWOLD PALE ALE COTSWOLD BROWN ALE nickname for our pub, ‘the Yubby’), YPA (Yubby Launched last year to celebrate owners Jim and own Yubberton beers and the launch of 12 cellar Pale Ale) and Yawnie (the ‘village idiot’). Claire Alexander’s newley formed Yubberton Brewing conditioned craft ales available across our bar. A full Co. With three craft ales of their own: Yubby Bitter, programme of music and entertainment culminating The full range is exclusively available at our pubs YPA and Yawnie, it was necessary to celebrate with in a Village Barn Dance. The beer garden will have The Ebrington Arms and The Killingworth Castle /yubberton.brewery the now renamed ‘YubbyFest’, this year’s festival marquees and we will be selling our homemade pizzas and will be in more pubs very soon! promises to be bigger and better than everand make in the ‘pizza and cider shed’ from 5.00 - 9.00pm on the event a firm favourite on the annual Cotswolds’ Friday and Saturday with dining inside as usual. calendar. With an array of events for the week, culminating YubbyFest Friday 10th in a weekend of music and fun. All welcome. Headline act: Dharma Sunset (tbc) Jake Watson (tbc) Monday 6 - Folk Night Keith Finlay & Donald McCombie Who needs the X Factor? We’ve gone one better YubbyFest Saturday 11th with the “XFolker” - our usual folk night with a twist Headline act: The Oxford Waits as the audience get to vote for their favourite fiddler, 16 Strings & a Goat (tbc) voice, flautist, or percussionist. Sunday 12th Family barn dance, (6-9pm) Tuesday 7th - The YubbyLimpicks Headline act: 16 Strings & a Goat The ‘Pub Pentathlon Challenge’ sees teams trying their hand at five traditional pub games to win prizes. Pizza shed doing food from 5.00pm. Fun for all the Wednesday 8th - Bangers & Tankards family at our barn dance in the beer garden WWW.YUBBYINNS.COM Set meal of homemade bangers and mash and ale marquee. Dances will be ‘called’ by in traditional tankards ‘beer keller’ style. Communal the band to help any dancing novices! 29

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk ROYAL HOP POLE POSTS £21,000 B££R PRICES UPDATE Linda and Stuart Coxhall, managers of the Royal achieving this fantastic amount for such a worthy Hop Pole in Tewkesbury are delighted to report that, cause. Over the last six years, we have completed since they took over the hotel on its re-opening on adrenalin filled fundraising events including: a jingle the 12th May 2008 fundraising news is better than bell drop abseil, two sky dives, a Bristol 10k run expected. Working to raise money for the CLIC by me and a more ambitious London Marathon by Sargent charity. This is the UK’s leading cancer Stuart earlier this year. charity for children and young people, and their “The customers especially enjoyed the Bungee families. Providing clinical, practical, financial and jump in the hotel riverside garden! Calmer events emotional support to help them cope with cancer have included: cake sales, casino evenings, and get the most out of life. From diagnosis onwards clairvoyant readings (those two events weren’t with the aim of helping the whole family deal with linked by the way), family fun days, weekly bonus the impact of cancer and its treatment, life after ball, seasonal hamper raffles, and probably most treatment and, in some cases, bereavement. The important of all, not forgetting the customers popping total in those six years now stands at £21,407.52! their loose change in the pink CLIC bar top tubs Linda, pictured with the certificate says; “We are on a daily basis. So, thank you every single so pleased and proud that the staff and customers one of our customers who have donated, have combined their we are, quite simply delighted efforts in with the response.”

Our annual town centre surveys, carried out in average of 4.2% per annum with the CPI running at May and June, confirm what we all know: beer just over 3%. £4 was the highest price found in the prices are rising as fast as ever. Averages found surveys - but at the present rate an average of £4 a were over £3 a pint in all of Cheltenham, Cirencester pint is just 6 years away! and Gloucester for the first time. A new survey in This is despite the recent fall in beer duty which Tewkesbury did show an average of just £2.93 but, has caused no noticeable slow down in price rises. as we have no long history there, that has been Nor can it be laid at the door of the brewers - our excluded from the rest of the analysis for now. The records from the Cotswold Beer Festival show that last six years are shown in the table below and a beers from local brewers have increased in price by summary of the last 21 years in the graph at the top only an average of 2.7% over the last 5 years. of the page. The unfair pricing policies of the large Pubcos must be having a major effect, if only in raising the Chelt Ciren Glouc Overall expected norm across the trade. If you limit the 2014 £3.15 £3.30 £3.03 £3.15 analysis to brewery tied pubs the increases are Speaking of hop poles, our intrepid contributor Courtney 2013 £3.04 £3.22 £2.91 £2.99 somewhat smaller. In those cases the average rise Moore Lateley sent in this photograph (left) from a recent trip 2012 £2.94 £3.14 £2.83 £2.94 across all surveys for beers that are unchanged over to Kent, the Garden of England. A county of village greens, 2011 £2.90 £3.04 £2.75 £2.87 the last year is 10.5p per pint as opposed to the and winding leafy lanes that burrow through the ancient 2010 £2.73 £2.91 £2.70 £2.75 overall average rise of 16p. woodland to create tree tunnels, cider, and of course, hop 2009 £2.62 £2.77 £2.42 £2.57 Pubs are under pressure but rises on this scale poles. On one such visit to a village out ‘in the sticks’ he found will be difficult to sustain as your regular pint costs a this and sent it in to us, wondering whether or not it was one The graph also has a line showing how much a greater and greater proportion of your spare cash. If of the very best toilet doors of any pub in England, certainly it pint should cost if it had risen with inflation (Consumer we can win the battle against unfair Pubco pricing let must rate as a gothic rubicon of note. Prices Index) over that time. As you can see, prices us hope that pubs can find a way to pass Can any reader find a pub in Gloucestershire with a toilet have far outstripped the CPI over the whole period some of the benefits on to the beleaguered door to match this medieval masterpiece? of our records and since 2009 have risen at an overall drinker. 31

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk A Pub Crawl with Attitude Preaching to the converted, Lilian Street, with its and David relate their adventures of expensive shops warmer climes and colder ‘beer’ on a and shopping pub crawl with attitude! malls (you really do not want to go there unless you have won the lottery!), So, it’s a long way to go to sup ice-cold beer, there was outside seating where you but regardless of the hardships of lager (excuse the could be entertained by dancing, singing language), someone has to do it, and it fell on our and drumming events on an astro-turf shoulders. half-moon performance area. The Terminal 5 Heathrow! A bad start to the holiday. Hawaiian blues/rock is the best way interior offered the typical ‘U’ shaped Customs officials made us feel like criminals we can describe it. The food - none and/or terrorists when trying to get our of this twee stuff – it is what we would medications through, but we finally boarded call in the UK as ‘pub grub’, but that the flight to Los Angeles. The L.A. to Honolulu leg bar with ‘only’ 130 taps, 50 wines, plus bottles really does not do justice to the threw up no such problems; the Americans were galore. The beer prices were (wait for it) £4 - £4.30 quantity, quality and freshness of all very polite and helpful. Finally we arrived at our per pint – ouch! But we bravely carried on in the items on offer – pizzas are off the holiday destination for three weeks – Hawaii. name of research. We tried all the local beers on planet, club sandwiches are a delight, We had many reasons to go there, which we will offer; Maui Brewing, Lahaina, Maui – Coconut Porter plus so much more. not bore you with because we know you really want (6%), Bikini Blonde (5.1%), Mana Wheat (5.5%), and We were able to visit this superb to know about the Real Ale. Sorry to disappoint you, Kona Brewery, Kailua, ‘Big Island’, (Hawaii) – establishment nine times, and we but there wasn’t any. Cellar temperature would be Pipeline Porter (5.3%), Koko Brown ((5.2%), about 86F/30C, and Real Ale would be dead. We Lavaman Red (5.6%), Longboard Lager (4.6%), Big decided that ‘Beer of the Holiday’ was had to accept that all ales would be keg/pasteurised/ Wave Golden (5.3%), Wailua Ale (5.4%) and Fire Killian’s Irish Red (5.0%). It has been brewed in the chilled. But flavours over-rode the chill factor; the Rock (6.0%). But, guess what? Also available was USA since 1981 by Miller Coors to the original 1864 pubs were so friendly (and interested in CAMRA, Bass Ale and Newcastle Brown – good grief. recipe of the Killian family in Ireland. Other beers on their campaigns and what Real Ale is all about). Ignoring the chill factor, they would all score 3.5 – offer where Primo (4.6%) from Primo Brewing Co. Firstly, we had to get used to the word ‘beer’, not 4.0 on the CAMRA scale. Honolulu, Blue Moon and Sam Adams (4.8%) ale – culture shock. Now, we will tell you about the Many of these ales are intermittently available at from Boston Beer Co. Massachusetts. We ordered three best outlets we found, in ascending order. Favourite Beers, Cheltenham, so look out for them. Killian’s in four pint pitchers, and the cost worked out Third place went to the Shore Bird, one of our We are, however, informed that they fly off the to the princely sum of £1.30 a pint!! hotel bars/restaurants. The characteristic ‘u-shaped’ shelves. We must just say that we did not drink all But the stars of the Pub were the staff, Andrian, bar, the emphasis on cocktails, but beer was not the ales in one session, and made five visits in total. Jon, Margo, Sophie, and Violet. They were very totally neglected, yet it was so strange to be served The staff, particularly Geoff and Ali, were chatty at professional, but their efficiency, even at busy times, wheat beer with a slice of orange on the glass rim lunchtimes when we were able to sit at the bar, but – Blue Moon (5.4%) from Blue Moon Brewing Co. at night the place was heaving with customers – we did not preclude a friendly word or a joke. We had out of Golden, Colorado, but a Miller Coors owned were given a pager and sat outside until a table so much fun, and we will always remember those brewery. The pleasant, chatty and helpful staff were became available; the music was on full blast, so fantastic evenings at the Pub. enthusiastic about the Tippler. (Who wouldn’t be? - no conversation! Table service was friendly and It may seem that all we did on holiday was ale Ed.) At our hotel bar, what was even better than the efficient, but the food was only adequate. research, but we did manage to acquire a suntan, beer, was the view along Waikiki Beach to Diamond And so finally – the winner of ‘Pub of the Holiday’ go down 100 feet in a submarine to explore the coral Head, an extinct volcano. At the end of the day, this was the Harbor Pub; this was also our favourite on reefs, fly by helicopter over the active volcanoes and was a typical hotel bar, but better than most. Once previous visits in 1996 and 2005. This bar is situated lava fields of Big Island and take an eco-tour through you have been in one, the rest are all the same. The where Waikiki ends and Honolulu begins at the tropical forests. But some of our best memories are food was fresh, of good quality and plentiful, but in junction of Hobron and Holomoana, and across of the Harbor Pub and the friends we made. As Arnie the evening the form was to choose your steak and the road from the Ala Wai Boat Harbor and Marina; would say, “We’ll be back”. cook it yourself on the grill/BBQ. No…we wanted to it is the place to socialise, meet friends and make be waited on at that price! friends. It has been in the same family for over 30 We awarded second place to the Yard House, years, and currently the owners are brother and one of a ‘pub chain’ with over 50 locations sister partnership, Mike and Rita Coyle. Thursday Lilian & David Sermon throughout the U.S.A. Situated on Lewers night is live music night, and how brilliant was that? Tewkesbury CAMRA 32

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk by more modest establishments often built by opportunists brewers and entrepreneurs to gain custom from those travelling by rail. In Gloucestershire perhaps the most elegant railway hotel was built by the Midland Railway in Gloucester in 1898. The Midland & Royal Hotel was located opposite Eastgate Station and when it closed in the late 1970's it was converted to offices and renamed Royal House. The old railway hotel, in Bruton Way, now overlooks Asda supermarket. The less impressive Midland Hotel in Gloucester Road. Cheltenham, still welcomes rail travellers from the only surviving railway station on the national network in the town. Commercial Gloucestershire breweries also built or ran pubs near railway stations. Stroud Brewery Following our steam leased the Railway Hotel in Russell Street which and railway theme, local pub opened on 1st September 1845, just four months historian Geoff Sandles drops us a after the Great Western Railway opened their station line and points out the past and present in Stroud. The pub briefly traded as Shunters before closing in 2005. The building is now a restaurant. In Cinderford, Wintles Mitcheldean Forest Brewery RAILWAY PUBS constructed their Railway Hotel directly opposite the Great Western station which opened in July 1900. When passenger trains were withdrawn in 1958 OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE the then Railway Tavern suffered from immediate The Railway Inn in New Street, Cheltenham lack of trade and it languished until finally closing (once a tied house of the Cheltenham Original at the beginning of the 21st century. There were Brewery) is some distance from the town's railway For anyone not accustomed with the history of station for passengers in the town. Therefore despite other Railway Hotels in Bourton on the Water (once station at Lansdown. There is nothing to indicate Gloucestershire it might seem strange that there the proximity to the present Dean Forest Railway, tied to Hitchmans of Chipping Norton) that served that a railway ever existed here at all. However, it are pubs called the Railway Inn some distance from it seems that this defunct Railway Inn was named passengers on the GWR Cheltenham-Kingham line once overlooked the extensive goods yards to the any existing railway lines in Cam, Cheltenham and after an industrial tramroad. which closed for passengers in 1962), Nailsworth south of the Great Western Railway’s St. James Fairford. The pub names may seem out of context The first standard gauge passenger railway in (once tied to Richard Bowly of the Cirencester station. A railway turntable was located just a few within the present landscape but they are intrinsically the county was the Birmingham and Gloucester Brewery) which was the terminus of the branch from yards from the Railway Inn where, in the late 1950's linked to the past social and industrial history of the which opened for passengers from Bromsgrove to Stonehouse which closed for passengers in 1947 and 1960's, ex-Southern locomotives were turned area. Cheltenham in June 1840, extending to Gloucester and in Cirencester (the Railway Inn in Sheep Street around to begin their journey back to Southampton The earliest railways in Gloucestershire were just over four months later. By the end of the 1840's which was once tied to the Cirencester Brewery) on the 'Tiddley-Dyke' line via Andoversford, Chedworth horse drawn tramways which were built to transport the Midland Railway and the Great Western Railway that served passengers at the terminus of the GWR and Fosse Cross. timber, coal, stone etc., from their source of extraction had passenger services to London via Swindon, branch from Kemble which closed for passengers The Railway Hotel in Ambrose Street, situated to either the River Severn or Gloucester Docks for Bristol, Birmingham and the Midlands. In 1852 the fifty years ago in 1964. a short distance from the Railway Inn, welcomed onward shipping by barges. A plaque was unveiled railway line from Gloucester to Cardiff was completed The Railway Inn at Fairford (once a tied house travellers from the nearby GWR St. James Station on the 3rd July 2010 on a premises in Norwood and the last major railway construction, the GWR of RB Bowley, Swindon) is about one mile from the Terminus. The name was changed to the St. James Street, Cheltenham, that was previously the Railway Cheltenham to Stratford 'Honeybourne Line', opened centre of the village. The name is a reminder of the Hotel, but earlier this year was refurbished and now Inn. This marked the bicentenary of the opening of a for passengers in 1906. In a period of just over terminus of the East Gloucestershire Railway which trades as the Quaich. The Arkells of Swindon tied branch line of the Gloucester and Cheltenham 60 years the railway network had transformed the ran from Witney to Fairford which opened for house serves excellent beer from both the Kingsdown Tramroad which ran between 1810 and 1860 Gloucestershire landscape enabling easy access to passengers early in 1873. The topography of the and Donnington Breweries, but the link with the local bringing stone from the quarries of Leckhampton Hill. most parts of the country. land is flat here but undulates down the Coln valley history of the area has now been sadly lost. Although this Railway Inn has long closed, evidence This new railway age heralded a new dawn in to the village itself. Because the station was so The voracious entrepreneurial commercial of its licensed past can still be seen as it retains bar the construction of hotels and inns built exclusively isolated it never achieved anticipated passenger breweries of the Midlands were quick to utilise the and smoke room etched windows. In Lydney a for the comfort of rail travellers. Many of the great numbers and languished until 1962 before the railway network for expansion. Mitchell & Butlers of Chinese Takeaway in Hill Street has a 'Best in the railway companies of the 19th century built lavish inevitable closure. Similarly the Railway Inn at Cam Cape Hill, Birmingham, built the grandiose Vauxhall West - West Country Ales' ceramic plaque still in and extravagant hotels. The grandiose hotel at St. (once a tied house of TW Elvy's Dursley Brewery), Inn in Barton Street, Gloucester, in 1876. Constructing situ, a reminder of the days when it traded as the Pancras Station in London, for example, was designed which is a reminder of the only intermediate station a pub of such grandiose and elegant proportions, Railway Inn. There are documents recording a and built at great expense by George Gilbert Scott on the Dursley branch line, is at the northern end they were effectively advertising their products, no Railway Inn in Lydney as early as 1839 - for the Midland Railway Company. In contrast the rail of the village. The station closed for passengers in doubt enticing drinkers from more austere twenty seven years before the Severn traveller seeking refreshment and accommodation on September 1962 but, over 50 years later, the Railway local traditional beerhouses. Mitchell & 34 and Wye Railway opened their railway inter-city routes and rural branch lines were served Inn reminds us of the local history. Butlers also commissioned the building of 35

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk RAILWAY PUBS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE that it was announced that the iconic Swindon locomotive works were to finally close down. The Plough Inn, on the corner of Alfred Street and Windmill Parade in Gloucester, overlooked the Great Western Railway goods yard and trains the ornate Imperial Inn in departing Northgate Street and the Gloucester Parkend Hotel. Central A pub in Oakle Street station on their near Churcham, which called way to Bristol last orders for the final time and London in 1999, was built by Francis passed directly Wintles’ Forest Brewery of in front of the pub. It seemed entirely Mitcheldean and originally appropriate to rename this pub the Great traded as the Oakle Street Western as part of the celebrations yet fate Hotel. It was purpose built decreed, that just a few years afterwards, adjacent to Oakle Street the view of the railway was totally Station on the Gloucester obstructed by a large wall of concrete to South Wales railway supporting the elevated section of the line. The railway station closed in November 1964 Metz Way inner relief road. leaving the Oakle Street Hotel somewhat isolated in It is difficult to image the scenes of utmost a rural backwater. In the last few years of trading the despair and human tragedy that were witnessed pub was appropriately renamed the Silent Whistle. in the Railway Tavern at Charfield near Wotton The railway station at Newnham on Severn, further under Edge on October 13th 1928. An horrific crash down the line, closed at the same date but the Rail- involving three trains occurred in dense fog which way Inn - CAMRA Gloucestershire Cider Pub of the claimed the lives of at least fourteen people. The Year 2014 - is a reminder that railway passengers 'Dursley Gazette’ reported on October 20th 1928 once used the pub 50 years ago for refreshment that 'later on Saturday morning the dead bodies and On the ex-GWR Gloucester to Swindon line at charred remains were placed in an old coach-house Brimscombe in the Stroud Valleys a pub called the at the Railway Tavern and throughout the weekend Victoria Hotel was once the most prestigious sorrowing relatives and friends paid visits to this hotel of the nearby Brimscombe Brewery. In 1985, tragic building to make what, alas, often proved to when under Whitbread ownership, the pub changed be unavailing search for clues to identity.’ its name to the King & Castle to celebrate the 150th And finally a mystery. The Whitesmiths Arms in anniversary of the Great Western Railway. Kings Gloucester Road in Cheltenham was mysteriously and Castles were GWR locomotives and Castle renamed the Junction about fifteen years ago. It is class engines used to thunder past the Victoria located on the corner of Bloomsbury Street towards Hotel pulling the famous Cheltenham Spa Express - the High Street end of Gloucester Road and would the‘Cheltenham Flyer.’ The larger King class engines have once overlooked the town gas works (now were prohibited on the Stroud line, so the pub name Tesco's). The Honeybourne line is a short distance was actually a little misleading. The premises is now behind the pub, but there was certainly no junction a licensed Indian Restaurant called the Pavillion. at this location. The gas works did have its own Another pub changed its name during the railway sidings but access to the main line was via bittersweet 150th GWR anniversary in the Midland Railway at Alstone sidings. Was there 36 1985 - which was ironically the same year ever a junction here?

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk FLYING the manager why they weren’t listed and he was equally baffled, there was some suspicion of a long held rift between the brewery and CAMRA, that I have not been privy HIGH to. It would be interesting to get the history of that. A very pleasant lunch that was the equal of the beer and the surroundings passed as the sun climbed, along with the temperature, towards its My kind of house, zenith, it was hot! Too hot to worry next to my kind to much about the trout fishing that I was looking forward to. of river.

aerobatics team was ‘beating up’ the town with an excllent free display, minus the coloured smoke. The Tippler’s resident angler, The whole scene, a sylvan quintessentially and Courtney Moore Lately, takes a trip timeless English setting was a delight. The river was to the Bull at Fairford to sample low and clear, not the easiest of conditions and the the beer, the food and a day of fish were still well down in the water. The trout are not stocked, the hotel club’s members preferring tricky trout fishing on the County’s the native brown trout to the more usual immigrant glorious river Coln. rainbows. This means you get a good range of After a good chat with the manager about the sizes, from the obliging tiddler to the wary senior restaurant, the premises and the fishing club and citizen, there is something for everyone in the differing Fairford, normally a quiet small town nestling on Cotswolds. The pub is built in the classic English how all of them are looking at being upgraded and habitats of the beat. You need to own a pair of the south-eastern fringes of the county was aflutter style, beams and uneven floors, a complex warren improved I finally broke under the strain and decided waders, preferably chest waders, so you can get to with the preparations for its busiest weekend of the of small rooms creeping away from the side of the it was time to tempt some trout. The river Coln is a all of the opportunities that present themselves, as year, that of the Fairford Air Tattoo. main entrance and bar. There were reading rooms, limestone river, clear and rich, rising to the east of well as allowing you to sit where you please. Fishing It was a hot day and I was lucky to nab the only dining rooms and one of them set aside as the Cheltenham running through the county to join the benches where you can while away the day with the parking spot right outside the hotel entrance, the angling room, that still needs working on. There are Thames at Lechlade. The classic chalk streams of help of a nip or two from your hip flask, are not part turnover of cars was fairly high and parking in the plenty of decent old pictures from yesteryear, and the southern downlands are slightly different, with of the scenery as one would find in the more town didn’t seem a problem. I sat to watch as the satisfyingly, a few copies of the Tippler on the well clearer water that is taken into the porous chalk pampered Hampshire waters. various aeroplanes began to arrive overhead, some stocked information table. before rising again and being delivered, nutrient Whiling away the time was indeed, the name of seemingly to land and get a parking space. Others Shuffling forward in the queue gave me time to laden into the river valleys of Witshire, Berkshire, the game, the heat supplemented by a simply to practice their moves for the show, the large check out the ales on offer and once I had made Hampshire, Sussex and Kent. Their gin clear, incredible display of impossible manoeuvres of fluffy clouds and the sound of jet fighters flying low it to the bar, I was greeted by a fine selection of nutrient rich water creates particularly lush plant life blistering speed, thunderous afterburners rent the reminded me of my early childhood in a tiny Kent Arkell’s ales on tap and it made me wonder how it and therefore fly life and invertebrates in abundance. village nestling at the end of Biggin Hill runway, it is is that The Bull doesn’t feature in the list of Locale silence of the peaceful countryside. I watched, a sound that resurrects countless memories of the pubs. Their full range of five differing ales from a Leading in turn to fat trout that you can easily pay fascinated, at the incongruous sight of the Typhoon Raymond baxter, Spitfires, Vulcan bombers and of fresh and tangy 4.0% Summer Ale through various over and above £200 for a day’s fishing (if you can Eurofighter muscling its inelegant way across the course the ludicrously powerful Lightnings. It is a bitters, a light 3.2% 2B, my particular favourite the get a booking at all). The Bull’s fishing, of which Gloucestershire sky. The air display was very sound that I love. 4.0% 3B, the rich, chestnut and stronger at 5.0% there is a considerable beat of varying difficulty welcome addition to the day as the fly life, along with The Bull was busy, busy with a bustle of local Kingsdown to a very pleasant and surprisngly strong levels is a good deal cheaper than that, and you the trout failed to make an appearance until well into shoppers, Miss Marple impersonators, aeronautic 5.0% Moonlight. There was even a lager, their 3.8% can always take advantage of their great offers of the evening. Despite that, the whole day was what enthusiasts and a bus full of retired Czech style Pilsner, which I am told is very good, accommodation, dinner breakfast and fishing. makes fishing what it is, good beer, a fine scottish tourists (retired from work, not that was, however, lost on me, a bit of a luddite that I set off across the road towards the fishing lunch and an uncertain science taking place 38 tourism) on a few days away in the emotive views ‘eurofizz’ with a degree of suspicion. I asked beats, the sun was beating down whilst the Italian in the best of the English countryside. 39

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to showing at the forthcoming Ale and Steam Festival at Winchcombe and the Moreton in Marsh beer festival. Some local music festivals have been enhanced by featuring Donnington Ales: Lakefest near Tewkesbury and Wilderness at Cornbury Park. Prescott Brewery’s Seasonal ales always Force Brewery of Cirencester provide much needed ‘Great British Lubricants’ and, alongside our standard ales is a range of seasonal straight from the horse’s mouth... launched of their third core beerin June. ‘Chasing products that complement favourites like Hill Climb, Leather’ is an aromatic pale Track Record, Grand Prix and GBF Postlip Hill, ale at 4%; it is packed with Silver Medal winning for Chequred Flag our hoppy brewery news the grapefruity smack of the amber ale! The aim is to bring an ever changing Chinook hop. Imbued with seasonal taste to the bar to offer variety to our core strains of summer, it’s just the beers. Gloucestershire CAMRA Beer of the Year 2014 ticket for another classic British season! Autumn Season’s Best is a 4.2% ABV ale that is The hardworking tasting committee have had their work cut out at the GBF at Postlip, ‘Yankey Zulu’, their core bitter, took first place a warming Golden Bitter: Fruity and well balanced, making their way through a host of fabulous ales to pick out this year’s champion in the Gloucestershire best bitter category at this this ale helps to warm the heart as we approach brews, here are the beers that have won the votes of the tasters. Congratulations to all year’s Gloucestershire Beer Festival at Postlip Hall winter. Autumn Season’s Best uses Pale and Crystal of the competitors and winners. this July. malts as well as Bramling Cross and Willamette In between all of his brewing activity, Charles Malet Hops to create afresh yet warming seasonal ale. Overall Champion: Cotswold Spring OSM Strong Bitters of Love Lane’s Force Brewery, took on the epic challenge Colour: Light Copper. Available from September to Overall Second: Severn Vale Nibley Ale of running the full 94 miles of Gloucestershire Way November. Overall Third: Gloucester Cascade First: Gloucester Cascade to raise cash for Alabaré Homes for Veterans, a Second: Hillside Legend of Hillside charity that supports homeless exservicemen. Bitters The brewery owner, and former military man, Porter/Stout finished at Tewkesbury Abbey at 20:59 on the 8th First: Severn Vale Nibley Ale June. The entire 94 miles took him just under 29 Second: Stanway Broadway Artist’s Ale First: Severn Vale Severn Sins hours and he has raised over £21,000 so far. Second: Battledown Black Watch out as the temperature drops search out “It was hard to know what to expect,” said Charles. Best Bitters our temping Winter Warmer, Winters Seasons Best “It was extremely tough. I had to watch my Mild 4.2% ABV: Rich ruby stout. Specially brewed for the footing every single step and it became clear half First: Force Yankee Zulu winter months, Chocolate, Crystal and Roasted way through that finishing it in 24 hours was Second: Prescott Chequered Flag First: Cotswold Spring OSM malts are combined with Willamette, Cascade Third: Wickwar Gold Second: Bespoke King’s Shilling not feasible.” Charles originally wanted to complete the challenge and just a hint of Vanilla to create a smooth and in one whole day but instead it took him 28 hours and deliciously rich Ruby Stout. Colour: Dark Ruby. 59 minutes. “I’ve walked long distances before, Available from December to February. News from Donnington Brewery centres around their new beers and ales. but not like this. I leapt straight into the unknown. I Please tell them what you think about their ever Donnington Gold has now become a permanent beer alongside couldn’t have done it without the support team that changing seasonal range by emailing them on BB and SBA. my wife organised.” [email protected] Life Sentence ABV 5.0%, a celebratory wedding ale, was “Donations are still coming in,” he added. “It’s produced for June and was so popular there is demand for it important to get all the exposure for the charity too. Wickwar Brewing Co. will to be brewed again. Life Sentence was brewed using Admiral I’m an ambassador for Alabaré Homes for Veterans, also be holding an open day hop and Maris Otter Malt along with some wheat and oats. it is something I am very passionate about.” at the brewery on Saturday As well as being thrilled to display our beers at the CAMRA beer festivals at Visit my.give.net/gloucestershireway2014 to donate 27th September to to Charles’ cause. 40 Winchcombe Railway Station and Postlip Barn, we our hugely looking forward celebrate national 41

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk more... more... EXTRA! EXTRA! brewery news EXTRA! EXTRA! brewery news Cask Ale Week with free brewery tours being held throughout Castle Combe Brewery was feedback. New pump clips and other merchandising the day & special offers available in the brewery shop. launched on 1st May 2014. were ordered and the first two are now ready for the To celebrate the 50th Formerly trading as Braydon trade. ‘Pendulum Pale Ale’ (3.8%), and ‘Circuit Bitter’ Ales, one of the Tippler’s long (4.4%). The remaining two, ‘Bybrook Bitter’ (3.5%), anniversary of the last term advertising supporters, and ‘Doing Little Bitter’ (4.1%), (a play on words for passenger train leaving the Wiltshire business was the film ‘Dr DoLittle’, shot in the village in 1967), will Wickwar Railway Station, 100% acquired by previous be ready in a few weeks time. Farnham & District Model Braydon director Martin Martin now has a Personal and Premises Licence, Railway Club are in the Hender. Still operating from which allows the sale of bottled ales, as well as process of building a scale Preston West Farm, near Chippenham, Martin was ‘beer-in-a-bag-in-a-box’ to the general public. This model of the Brewery and joined in June by Marek Cznarek, who had spent service will be available towards the end of September. the incredibly detailed scale the previous five years brewing with the Dartmoor The new licence also allows for up to 12 events a the now closed Wickwar models Brewery. year at the brewery, we’re keen to encourage visiting Railway Station as it would Martin and his family have lived in the picturesque CAMRA branches, as well as pub excursions etc. So have looked in the 1960’s. village of Castle Combe, five miles west of Chippenham, pop in and see them for some ale tasting etc. Wickwar Brewing Company will be displaying the finished model in our historic Brew House at a free open for over 16 years; given the village’s historic brewing Based on a 200 acre arable crop farm has its day for the general public who’d be interested in seeing the finished scale model in action. There will also be heritage, Martin wanted to resurrect this in the name advantages; apart from the lovely brewing environment free brewery tours available on the day where one of our brewers will take you through the brewing process of the brewery and its brands. All the beers are (a local farmer recycles all the spent malt to his of our award winning real ales. therefore themed after locations/objects etc. within cattle), the brewery has ample parking and very the village. good road and motorway networks links. The guys Lots more entertainment and special offers at the brewery shop are currently being organised to make the The last three months have seen an extensive can be reached on 01249 892900, or call Martin open day an event not to be missed. refurbishment programme and the new brewery has directly on 07809 471140. A new website with all the been closed. A recent ‘tasting night’ for locals covered usual social media and information is currently under all four new ales, which resulted in very positive construction.

Hillside Brewery have Although out of the increased capacity and also county, one of the opened a new visitor facility at Tippler’s long term its very advertising support pictur- partners Hook Norton esque Brewery came up trumps at the Oxfordshire brewing Business Awards 2014 after the announcement was facility on made that the Cotswold Hills based brewery had the edge fo the Forest of Dean. Brewery tours and visits are defi- won the Heart FM Marketing Excellence Award. nitely worth a phone The Heart FM Marketing Excellence Award was call. During my visit given to the brewery for its brand development and I was also shown the campaign for the newly launched beer, Lion. the very heart of The brewery has also received the sum of the operation, their £90,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an carefuly exciting project, Hooked on Tradition: Accessing Hook guarded pumphouse Norton’s Brewery Heritage. The project focuses on that draws its water the Brewery site and unites the staff and volunteers from hundreds of in a range of improvements aimed at making the feet below the brewery. An unique heritage of this Victorian tower brewery much unusual feature that provides more accessible to the visiting public. the ultimate in control over the Oktoberfest at Hooky on 3rd October, plenty of very base element beer, sausages and lederhosen! Keep an eye on for the quality of www.hooky.couk for more details 42 their excellent 43 brews. www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk Hillesley The Fleece Stonehouse Woolpack Kemble Tavern Inn Stroud British Oak Thames Head Inn Clothiers Arms Kempsford George Inn Crown & Sceptre Kineton Halfway House Golden Fleece Lechlade Crown Inn Imperial Hotel Riverside Inn Prince Albert Swan Queen Victoria CAMRA LocAle is an initiative that promotes pubs that endeavour to always stock at least one locally Leighterton Royal Oak The Retreat brewed real ale, and importantly, kept in a consistently good condition. Mickleton Butchers Arms Tetbury Priory Inn Hotel Our definition of ‘local’ is a beer that is either brewed in the county, or within 30 miles of the pub. Only one of Minchinhampton Crown Inn Royal Oak the ales need be local to qualify. If your local isn’t part of the scheme ask the landlord or landlady why not. If Old Lodge Inn Snooty Fox they’re interested in joining the scheme, then please get in touch with us and we’ll take it from there. Weighbridge Inn The Ormond Minsterworth Severn Bore Trouble House The list below, in order of city, town or village has ongoing updates, new additions are highlighted in magenta. Miserden Carpenters Arms Tewkesbury Nottingham Arms Alderton Gardeners Arms Chipping Campden Eight Bells Moreton-in-Marsh Bell Inn Olde Black Bear Amberley Amberley Inn Noel Arms Redsedale Arms Royal Hop Pole Black Horse Cirencester Bees Knees Nailsworth Britannia Theoc House Arlingham The Red Lion Corinium Hotel Village Inn Tudor House Hotel Ashleworth Boat Marlborough Arms Naunton Black Horse White Bear Twelve Bells Avening Bell Nettleton Bottom Golden Heart Inn The Camp Fostons Ash Waggon & Horses Barnsley Village Pub Newent Cobblers Toddington Pheasant Inn Blaisdon Red Hart Clearwell Lamb Yew Tree George Hotel Todenham Farriers Arms Blockley Great Western Arms Clifford’s Mesne Cranham Black Horse Newmarket George Inn Tormarton Major’s Retreat Bourton-on-the-Hill Horse & Groom Royal William Newnham Railway Twyning Village Inn Bourton-on-the-Water Mousetrap Cromhall Royal Oak Bream Rising Sun North Cerney Bathurst Arms Uley Crown Didmarton King’s Arms Brimscombe Ship Inn Nympsfield Rose & Crown Upper Soudley White Horse Dursley Old Spot Bakers Arms Oddington Horse & Groom Waterley Bottom New Inn Broad Campden Eastington Old Badger Falcon Hare & Hounds Broadwell Fox Inn Ebrington Ebrington Arms Poulton Westonbirt Brockhampton Craven Arms Edge Edgemoor Inn Randwick Vine Tree Inn Whiteshill Star Brookend Lammastide Elkstone Highwayman Inn Sapperton The Bell Wickwar Buthay Cashes Green Prince of Wales Elmstone Hardwicke Gloucester Old Spot Shipton Moyne Cat & Custard Pot Wickwar Social Club Cerney Wick Crown Forthampton Lower Lode Inn Siddington Greyhound Woodchester Ram Inn Charfield Pear Tree Frampton Mansell Crown Inn Slad Woolpack Royal Oak Charlton Kings Royal Frampton-on-Severn Three Horseshoes Slimbridge Tudor Arms The Old Fleece Cheltenham Adam & Eve France Lynch Kings Head Snowshill Arms Falcon Inn Beehive Inn Gloucester Cross Keys Snowshill Wotton Under Edge Cheltenham Motor Club Dick Whittington Somerford Keynes Bakers Arms Inn Royal Oak Exmouth Arms Fountain South Cerney Old George Inn Star Hewlett Arms New Inn Stanton Mount Swan Hotel Jolly Brewmaster Pelican Kemble Brewery Inn Water Poet Moon Under Water York Old Restoration Gotherington Shutter Inn Retreat Great Barrington Fox Inn have you any pub news? Royal Union Gretton Royal Oak Slug & Lettuce Guiting Power Hollow Bottom More details are posted regularly on the Facebook group Somerset Arms Ham Salutation Inn 'Gloucestershire Pubs', an ideal forum to keep other people informed of Strand Hawkesbury Upton Beaufort Arms the latest pub developments in the county. 44 St Stephens Club 45

www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BREWERS... Do your bit for the breweries in the county and support them by asking for their beers, bottles and ales. Here’s a list of the county’s brewers:

Battledown Cotswold Spring Halfpenny Stroud (Cheltenham) (Chipping Sodbury) (Lechlade) (Stroud) 01242 693409 01454 323088 01367 252198 01453 887122 07891 995878 Bespoke Brewing Donnington Hillside (Mitcheldean) (Stow-on-the-Wold) (Longhope) Terrace 01594 546557 01451 830603 01452 830222 (Aylburton) 01594 840100 Ciren Ales Force Nailsworth 07942 205947 (Cirencester) (Cirencester) (Nailsworth) 01285 652230 07532 097050 01453 835715 Uley (Uley) Corinium Ales Freeminer Prescott 01453 860120 (Cirencester) (Cinderford) (Cheltenham) 07716 826467 01594 827989 07526 934866 Whittington’s (Newent) Cotswold Gloucester Severn Vale 01531 890223 (Bourton-on-the-Water) (Gloucester) (Cam) 01451 824488 01452 690541 01453 547550 Wickwar (Wickwar) Cotswold Lion Goffs Stanway 01454 292000 (Coberley) (Winchcombe) (Stanway) 01242 870164 01242 603383 01386 584320 WORDSEARCH Can you find the listed words in the grid, reading across, down, or diagonally, forwards or back?

When you have found all the words, the remaining letters spell out another CAMRA pub and its location.

Get your answers in ASAP to [email protected] and win two tickets worth £10 each to the Moreton CC Beer and Cider Festival on 12th & 13th September

Bell George Boat Kings Butchers Lamb Wordsearch for Autumn 2014 Buthay Mount Ram Can you find the listed wordsCrown in the grid, reading Newacross, down, or diagonally, forwards or back? Red hart When you have found all theExmouth words, the remainingNoel letters spell out Royal another CAMRAFox pub and its location.Ormond Ship Bell T S O M E R S E T S H I P Shutter Boat H G E O R G E E Y O T L D Snowshill Butchers S N O W S H I L L O F A O Buthay Somerset L I N R E V A T H Y R E R Crown Star The best things E K T E O P R E T A W K M Exmouth Strand Fox L A Y O R E T T U H S C O Swan George M A R X O F C A O T W O N in life are three Kings N E W O T N U O M U O E D Tavern Lamb O D N A R T S B X B C H N Theoc Mount E D C B U T C H E R S T H Tudor Visitor Centre open Mon - Sat 9.30am - 4.30pm all year round New L R E D H A R T O W E S T Water Poet www. hooky.co.uk e: [email protected] Noel K C A P L O O W A B M A L twitter.com/hookybrewery Ormond Woolpack facebook.com/hooknortonbrewery HANDCRAFTED BEERS FROM THE E R B E L L N N T U D O R The Brewery, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, OX15 5NY 01608 730384 COTSWOLD HILLS SINCE 1849 Ram York Red hart Royal Ship Shutter Snowshill Somerset Star Strand Swan Tavern Theoc Tudor Water Poet Woolpack York 150,000 and membersgrowing! CAMRA Membership Benefits

For just £23* a year, that’s less than a pint a month, you can join CAMRA and enjoy the following benefits:

■ A quarterly copy of our magazine BEER which is packed with features on pubs, beers and breweries. ■ Our monthly newspaper, ‘What’s Brewing’, informing you on beer and pub news and detailing events and beer festivals around the country. ■ Reduced entry to over 160 national, regional and local beer festivals. ■ Socials and brewery trips, with national, regional and local groups. ■ The opportunity to campaign to save pubs and breweries under threat of closure. ■ The chance to join CAMRA / Brewery Complimentary Clubs that are exclusive to CAMRA members. These clubs offer a variety of promotions including free pint vouchers, brewery trips, competitions, and merchandise offers. ■ Discounts on all CAMRA books including the Good Beer Guide.

Plus these amazing discounts...

15% discount with £20 worth of JD 10% discount on National Express coach Wetherspoon Real Ale toprooms.com. Vouchers.** services.

15% off boat hire with start 10% savings at 20% off brewery and beer locations form Falkirk to Cotswold Outdoor. tasting tours. Hilperton.

Up to 52% off - with 10% discount on booking 10% discount on booking attractions for the family with cottages4you. with Hoseasons. ...plus many more too numerous to name.

For more on your CAMRA Membership Benefits please visit www.camra.org.uk/benefits * This price is based on the Direct Debit discount. ** Joint CAMRA memberships will receive one set of vouchers to share. CAMRA reserves the right to withdraw any offer at any time without warning and members should check CAMRA website for updated and details of current offers. Cheltenham CAMRA Branch Officers and Committee events: what’s coming up Chair and Branch Contact Membership Gloucestershire Branch Veronica Emary - 01242 244397 Chris Chadwick [email protected] [email protected]

7th October 8.00 pm - Committee Meeting - Royal Oak, Tetbury. Secretary News Letter 4th November 8.00 pm - Committee Meeting - Gloucester tba. Leigh Norwood Ian Scott secretary@cheltenhamcamra. [email protected] org.uk Webmaster Cheltenham Branch - Email: [email protected] Social Secretary Chris Martin Meetings on second Wednesday or Thursday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Veronica Emary 01242 244397 Gwyn Hughes [email protected] 11th September 8.00 pm - Social, (and GBG 2015 launch), start Exmouth Arms, Bath Rd. [email protected] 23rd September 8.00 pm - Business meeting, Copa, Regent St. Committee Member 4th October 7.00 pm - Launch Event - Sandford Park Ale House. Treasurer Rob Coldwell 8th October 7.20 pm - Social, bus from Promenade (94) to Gloucester. Grant Cook [email protected] 28th October 8.00 pm - Business meeting, The Tivoli, 34 Andover Rd. [email protected] 1st November 10.00 am - Bus to Oxford - Super Regional Meeting, Town Hall. 13th November 8.00 pm - Social, start Feathered Fish, Winchcombe St. Pubs Officer Committee Member John Crossley John Pickles 25th November 8.00 pm - Business meeting, venue tbc. [email protected] [email protected] Cirencester Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] Clubs Officer Meetings on second Tuesday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Rob James on 07816 136140 Andy Forbes [email protected] The Cheltenham branch normally meets on the second Wednesday or Thursday of the month, please see the list of Dursley Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] Press Officer meetings in the diary of events section. New members are Meetings on last Tuesday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Chris Arrowsmith on 01453 548991 Tony Lucas 30th September 8.00 pm - Fox and Hounds Coaley, Berkeley Arms Cam, meeting Railway Cam. [email protected] always welcome, both at our social and business meetings! 28th October 8.00 pm - Tour of Charfield, meeting at the Plough.

Forest of Dean Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] Meetings on first Tuesday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Andy Tubb on 01594 822381 North Cotswold CAMRA Branch Officers and Committee 25th September 8.00 pm - Active Jolly - The Ship Inn Newnham Chairman and Branch Contact Media Officer: Roger Price Martyn Herbert (Exmouth) Gloucester Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] 6 Greenlake Close 07760 134866 Meetings on second Wednesday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Margaret Wilkins on 01452 551400 or 07908 699809 Bourton on the Water [email protected] 10th September 8.00 pm - Social - starting at the Lower George. Cheltenham 20th September 11.10 am - By Train to Chepstow - meet 11:10 Gloucester Train Station for the 11:22. GL54 2PR Young Members Officer: 1st October 8.00 pm - Gloucester Sub-Branch AGM at The Fountain. Members only - your chance to get involved 01451 810305 Nick Avery [email protected] and have your say! 07850 429630 01451 822602 17th October 8.00 pm - Oktoberfest comes to Gloucester at the Water Poet. [email protected] 22nd October 8.00 pm - Gloucestershire Branch AGM at the Fountain Inn. Members only. Social Secretary and Webmaster: Secretary: Peter Rowe (Bourton on the Water) 1st November 10.50 am - Away Day to Ross. Meet 11:00 Gloucester Bus Station for number 33 service. Jonathan Sankson – (Bourton on the Water) [email protected] 12th November 8.00 pm - Social - meeting at the Kingsholm Inn. 01451 821513 28th November 6.30 pm - Mystery Mini-bus tours! Meet outside the Pelican at 18:30 ***booking essential*** [email protected] Beer Festivals Coordinator: 6th December 10.30 am - Bath by train - meet 10:30 Gloucester Train Station for the 10:41 service. John Stocks (Toddington) - 01242 620442 10th December 8.00 pm - The Christmas Party. Bookings required. Venue to be confirmed in next Tippler or see website. Treasurer: [email protected] 31st December 8.00 pm - See in the New Year at The Pelican with CAMRA, and lots of other people! From 20:00ish till Dawn Harrison (Bourton on the Water) late. Bring a plate of food to share (but preferably not sausage rolls!). 01451 822410 BLO Donnington Brewery: [email protected] Dick Harrison (Bourton on the Water) 01451 822410 Stroud Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] Membership Secretary: [email protected] Meetings on third or fourth Tuesday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Andy Burston on 01453 882410 Garry Hayward (Winchcombe) Anyone interested in Stroud meetings should contact us by email on [email protected] and ask to be 01242 621140 BLO Stanway Brewery: added to our email list. [email protected] Garry Hayward (Winchcombe) 01242 621140 Pubs Officer and [email protected] Tewkesbury Sub - Branch - Email: [email protected] Good Beer Guide Co-ordinator: Meetings on third Thursday of the month at 8.00 pm. Call: Steve Kisby on 01684 295466 Phillip Ellis (Bourton on the Water) BLO Cotswold Brewing Co.: September 18th 8.00pm - The Railway followed by The Three Kings 01451 822524 Peter Rowe (Bourton on the Water) October 16th 8.00pm - A Bredon Hill Trail [email protected] [email protected] November 20th 8.00pm - The Nottingham followed by Theoc House 52 December 23rd 8.00pm - 2014 Xmas Bash, Royal British Legion www.northcotswoldcamra.org.uk 53

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Gloucestershire Branch Elected Committee Members

Position Name, address and contact details

Chairman Andrew Frape Sunnybank, Cheltenham Rd., Bagendon, Cirencester, GL7 7BH 07941 670371 [email protected]

Vice Chairman John Barrett Membership Secretary 59 Welland Lodge Road, Cheltenham, GL52 3HH Webmaster 01242 239785 [email protected]

[email protected] C

Branch Secretary Martin Parker M Branch Contact 68 Cirencester Road, Cheltenham, GL53 8DA

01242 252085 Y [email protected]

[email protected] CM

Treasurer Patrick Phair MY 01242 527068

[email protected] CY

Tasting Panel Coordinator Trevor Carter CMY 07717 841233 [email protected] K

Public Affairs Officer Chris McHugh 01452 542163 [email protected]

Young Members Contact Sarah Dunn 07955 670600 [email protected]

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TRADING STANDARD DEPARTMENT Gloucestershire Trading Standards, Hillfield House, Denmark Rd., Gloucester. GL1 3LD Telephone: 01452 426201 email: [email protected] 54

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