your free magazine | autumn 2019 WETHERSPOONNEWS UK EDITION First Goldie Lookin Chain - Fresh Prince of Cwmbran (2011) (1m YouTube views) READ BY NOW Ed Sheeran sings Wetherspoon’s an easy 2 MILLION lunch option in 1,000 Nights (2019) CUSTOMERS (2.5m YouTube views and counting) WE'RE NO.1 FOR KIDS' MEALS It’s official! OUR FIRST DUBLIN PUB The Silver Penny – our brand-new pub in Dublin’s city centre MAKING ROOM FOR YOU SINCE 1998 There’s a warm welcome waiting at our 58 hotels in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland Available on EU DEBATE iOS and Android Presents both sides of the argument Use the Wetherspoon app to order and pay from your table 1. Take a seat at a table and use our unlimited free Wi-Fi 2. Download the free Wetherspoon app 3. Order your food and drink using the app 4. Pay using credit/debit card, Google Pay, Apple Pay or PayPal 5. We will bring your food and drink to you WIN! PRIZE CROSSWORD 101 INSIDE FEATURES SUSTAINABLE COD AND HADDOCK IN OUR PUBS ................................ 11 Expert bodies commend our efforts to serve only traceable and sustainable cod and haddock 13 ED SHEERAN’S STOP-OFF ON THE ROAD TO STARDOM ................... 12 Front-cover story EU DEBATE .................................................................. 60 WE’RE NO. 1 FOR KIDS’ MEALS ............. 13 Wetherspoon News aims to present both sides Wetherspoon’s pubs serve the healthiest meals of the argument in respect of the EU for children – it’s official! NEW ICED CAPPUCCINO ............................66 REAL-ALE FESTIVAL ......................................... 18 Enjoy the distinctive flavour of Lavazza Italian roast coffee, We are celebrating 40 years of Wetherspoon with a cool twist with 40 beers, for autumn 2019 CHRISTMAS IS COMING EARLY ........... 74 TASTING NOTES .....................................................20 Our festive menu is stuffed with goodies RECIPE TWEAK MAKES HOW BREWDOG POGOED BEANS VEGAN FRIENDLY .......................... 78 TO THE TOP .................................................................28 Vegan burgers now on our menu too Scottish-made BrewDog IPA has been a spiky presence in our pubs since 2014 FLAVOURS TO SAVOUR IN NEW FRUITY GINS ......................................82 HOMEGROWN CROP Spirits featuring strawberry & lime and raspberry OF WHEAT BEERS ...............................................30 earn berths in our gin palace Unusual brews were developed in Belgium and Germany, but our offerings are made in England PETITES PIZZAS ....................................................96 New smaller versions have proven a popular addition OUR FIRST DUBLIN PUB ...............................42 to our ‘any 3 small plates’ selection The Silver Penny – our brand-new pub in the city centre SODA POP COMES OF AGE .......................45 THE REGULAR STUFF The craft revolution – now, it’s going soft TIM’S VIEWPOINT ................................................... 4 TAX EQUALITY DAY ...........................................46 Prices slashed by 7.5 per cent for 24 hours YOUR SAY ...........................................................................6 to highlight VAT unfairness MEET THE BREWER ..........................................26 THE OLD CHAPEL IN DARWEN ............48 SIBA ......................................................................................54 Converted into a pub by Wetherspoon in 2014 COMPETITION ........................................................ 101 PUB HISTORIES........................................................ 51 CAMRA’S BAR TALK .......................................102 The Samuel Peto, Folkestone GRADUATES ...............................................................53 NOW OPEN, NEW LOOK With a diploma or degree, 94 staff qualify for the bar WETHERSPOON HAS OPENED MORE MAKING ROOM FOR YOU NEW PUBS IN RECENT MONTHS ......32 SINCE 1998 ...................................................................56 There’s a warm welcome waiting at our 58 hotels in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland OUR PEOPLE AND Written and edited by Eddie Gershon, along with welcome contributions COMMUNITIES from Wetherspoon staff. 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OUR CHARITY Front-cover photo credit: Matt Jelonek, Getty Images CLIC SARGENT ........................................................84 PB Wetherspoon | Autumn 2019 | jdwetherspoon.com jdwetherspoon.com | Autumn 2019 | Wetherspoon 3 Tim’s Viewpoint People and organisations make mistakes when they act on false presumptions Sceptics create a debate, which aids the quest for truth Memo from Winston Churchill to his staff, 1940 Consciously or not, we should be reduced to six an issue, they say, supported prove that there are always Just a couple of final In addition, we will agree humans sift through what grams per day from our by British Airways. non-EU alternatives). points. Lawyers and the to mutually recognise Tim says: Churchill was an amazing guy – he we hear and see, daily, to current eight – which will Perhaps the hardest myth to Let the excellent Swedish law play a vital role, of each other’s laws and failed most of his exams, yet, in his early years, try to work out what’s true almost certainly reduce life disprove, in recent years, has company Kopparberg produce course, in the free world. regulations, on the same and what’s not. expectancy, many believe. been that UK banks would cider in Somerset, which it However, the EU is basis as they are became the country’s highest-paid journalist. Democracies, education Indeed, sceptics like Taubes, relocate en masse to the now does. an example of an recognised today.’ organisation in which A war hero, he went back into the trenches in and a free press best facilitate who ‘swim against the tide’, continent – which has turned The idea that you need to sign As you will appreciate, JC, ‘legalese’ and what this process. often play a hugely important out to be nonsense. a vast mega deal with the EU this proposal has the great World War I, aged 40, having already held high Winston Churchill Perhaps health is the area role in limiting the impact or the USA is beloved of advantage of brevity, so Trade called ‘officialese’ have government office. where we are most inclined of the constant barrage of lawyers and bureaucrats and that it can be easily More people are employed in been used as a weapon to fall for quack remedies and false information which fills is almost universally accepted understood by everyone. In the memo below, written shortly after the City today than before the to hide the real issues, elixirs for longer life – health the airwaves. – yet is a myth. Frankly, my colleagues referendum – and thousands stymie debate and baffle becoming PM, he makes the case brilliantly for and dietary myths are difficult In trying to separate the and I couldn’t make head of mini initiatives have been Chaos the public. to disprove and so last a long wheat from the chaff for or tail of the baffling brevity and clarity. undertaken by City of London The mournful lawyer Dominic time, before assignment to yourself, finding a ‘small truth’ Churchill withdrawal agreement or individuals and organisations ‘We’re all doomed’ Grieve QC There is great danger in ‘officialese’ – let’s apply the dustbin. which contradicts a widely Churchill and US political declaration. to ensure that trade continues. (what a sorry contrast to the held belief is always a good presidents Roosevelt and Churchill’s sensible principles to dealing with the EU. For many centuries, getting But there’s one enduring myth, can-do Puissesseau) and his They were so long that starting point. Reagan, for example, caught in the rain was felt to broadly accepted by both Labour twin, Kier ‘Sorrowful’ almost no one read them demanded that officials be the precursor to a cold; For example, if salt is bad for Leavers and Remainers, which Starmer QC, have seen life – and that can’t be right! should reduce their now, we know that a cold is a you, how come the Italians, needs to be killed off now. only through vast swathes Bonne journée reports and arguments virus and that rain has been who consume far more of it of legal documents and This is that the UK, and to one page – their Boris innocent all this time. than we do, live longer? forecast chaos and economies generally, are message was: “If you can’t It may be that JC doesn’t For most of the last 50 years, Unless there is a good ruin without a lawyer- axiomatically better off, if sum it up in one page, accept Boris’s inspired offer. so-called experts in the explanation, salt is perhaps politicians organise vast and orchestrated mega deal. you don’t really know In that case, Boris needs, medical profession and unfairly maligned. all-encompassing trade