Pints West 118, Summer 2018
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No. 118 Summer 2018 INTS WES P Multi-award-winning magazine of the Bristol & District and T Bath & Borders branches of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale BAD LADIES @ GOOD CHEMISTRY Contents Page 8 BAD Ladies Introducing the new Page 18 BADRAG (rare ales group) Page 22 Bath & Borders pub news Page 12 Beer festivals Page 46 Beer in Brussels Page 48 Beer scoring and GBG Three Engineers brewery Page 4 Beer with a view NTS WE Page 44 Book reviews “It’s a hobby that’s got out of hand,” says Dan Gillians, one of the I S eponymous Three Engineers who together have founded the Bristol Page 20 Bristol Beer Festival area’s newest brewery. P T Page 32 Bristol Pubs Group The multi-award-winning magazine of the Bristol & District Page 51 CAMRA diaries & contacts branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, plus the Bath He, Steve Slade and Greg Shipton discovered their mutual interest Page 10 Clevedon pubs in beer at work and decided to try and take it a step further in their & Borders branch Page 26 East Bristol Brewery Trail free time. After initial experiments in Dan’s house and Steve’s garage Brought to you entirely by unpaid volunteers Page 49 Going for a beer in Rome they found their current premises, in the tranquil surroundings Ten thousand copies of Pints West are distributed free to Page 35 New micropub: Fallen Tree, Clevedon of Winterbourne’s Medieval Barn. The space, in one of the barn’s hundreds of pubs in and around the cities of Bristol and Bath Page 27 New micropub: Just Ales, Frome outbuildings, needed fixing up for its new use, including the addition ... and beyond Page 17 New micropub: Wooden Walls, Staple Hill of such necessities as a door, plumbing and electrical connections, but their experience and contacts from house renovation projects stood Also available on-line at www.bristolcamra.org.uk Page 21 Pub of the year award presentations Page 15 Public transport to Somerset pubs them in good stead and they now have a small but efficient set-up. Being engineers, they’ve been happy to design and build whatever was Published by the Bristol & District Branch of CAMRA, the Campaign Page 30 Shine on Redcliffe for Real Ale, May 2018 © needed and couldn’t easily or cheaply be obtained elsewhere, from the Page 40 Weston-super-Mare news temperature regulation system for the fermenter to a contraption for Editor: Steve Plumridge ([email protected]) Brewery news: labelling their bottles. Design & Layout by: Steve Plumridge Page 39 Arbor Ales Next edition: end of August 2018 (probably) Page 6 Bath Ales Since two out of the three partners in the brewery are still working Printed by: JamPrint Page 37 Brewhouse & Kitchen full-time, brewing takes place at weekends, usually once a fortnight. Spread the word: any written article in this publication may be Page 37 Bristol Beer Factory Their current capacity is two firkins, with each beer being conditioned reproduced provided the source (‘Pints West’) and the contributor’s Page 49 Butcombe in the cask and then bottled (under counter pressure) if required. They name, where applicable, is stated. (No using logos/photos/artwork Page 29 Croft Ales aim to have at least three of their beers available in bottles from the without permission.) Page 17 Dawkins Ales brewery at any one time; when I was there these were Crosswind, a 5% pale ale, Corsair, a 4.1 % American pale ale, and Mustang, a 5.4% Subscriptions: to be put on a mailing list to receive Pints Wests (for Page 25 Electric Bear UK addresses) send ten standard (not large) 1st class stamps to the hoppy US-style IPA. (Sharp-eyed readers may notice a theme here and Page 38 Epic Beers (Pitchfork Ales and 3D Beer) might possibly deduce what field of engineering brought these three editor Page 28 Fierce & Noble together.) Casks of the 4.4% best bitter Gladiator have recently been CAMRA Good Beer Guide: suggestions for future entries, and Page 10 Glede supplied to the Drapers Arms and to Snuffy Jack’s micropubs where comments on existing ones, can be made to our GBG co-ordinator, Page 36 Good Chemistry they went down well, with the firkin at the Drapers selling out in about Martin Gray: [email protected] Page 13 GWB five hours. If you have any pub updates: please enter them via whatpub.com or Page 29 Incredible email details to [email protected] Page 24 Kettlesmith There’s a nice sense of community about the progress of the Three Further information on all aspects of CAMRA can be had from Ray Page 42 Left Handed Giant Engineers so far. They’ve been able to engage with people who Holmes on 0117 9605357 (home) Page 43 Moor Beer are interested in the brewery, from Dru Marland, the designer who produced their striking artwork, to those who comment and feed back Trading Standards Officers: contact for problems such as consistent Page 43 New Bristol short measures, no price lists... via their Facebook page. The relationship with the Medieval Barn is a Page 3 Three Engineers (new) good one, with casks of Three Engineers beer being supplied to events Bristol: 0117 9223444 / S. Glos: 01454 624000 Page 39 Tiley’s at the barn (see www.winterbournebarn.org.uk for what’s coming up). Glos: 01452 426201 / N. Somerset: 01934 888802 Page 25 Twisted They’ve also been chatting to the nearby Daisy Chain Deli in Frampton B.A.N.E.S: 01225 396755 Page 35 Twisted Oak Cotterell, who should by now be stocking their beers. or visit www.tradingstandards.gov.uk Page 42 Wiper & True LETTERS: please email correspondence to the editor at Page 11 Yeovil Ales All profits are being put back into the brewery, with a carefully [email protected] Page 29 Zerodegrees thought-out plan for expanding capacity and availability. One slight or post it to Pints West Editor, Steve Plumridge, and much, much more... fly in the ointment, however, is the forthcoming planned renovation Garden Flat, 6 Royal York Villas, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4JR of the outbuildings on the Medieval Barn site, which means that the ADVERTISE: to find out about advertising in Pints West, please email brewery will be homeless for at least twelve months from December [email protected] 2018. The plan is either to cuckoo brew at another Bristol brewery of a similar size, or come to an arrangement with a larger brewery CONTACTS: for further contact details and diaries see inside back page Views expressed in Pints West are those of the individual authors and not necessarily supported by CAMRA Inclusion of an advertisement does not imply endorsement by CAMRA Thanks to this issue’s contributors: Ali Bridle Les Cooper Richard Brooks Bianca Ambrose Lesly Huxley Richard Lobb Bill Barnes Martin Ansell Robin E Wild Bridget Andrews Martin Gray Roy Sanders Chris Hooper Marty Cummins Stephen Edmonds Left to right: Steve Slade, Dan Gillians and Greg Shipton Dave Graham Michael Bertagne Steve Hunt David Weir Mike Jackson Steve Plumridge who would be willing to house their (very small) pilot brew kit, before Den Rahilly Neil Harrison Tim Nickolls returning to the Medieval Barn once the new workshops are ready. Duncan Shine Neil Ravenscroft Tim Webb Eddie Taberner Norman Spalding Trevor Cromie In the meantime, those wanting to sample some of Bristol’s newest Henry Davies Pete Bridle Vince Murray beers are encouraged to check their Facebook page (search for ‘Three Keith Morey Pete Dommett Will George Engineers Brewery’), where you’ll find details of what’s currently Laurie Gibney Pete Taberner CAMRA Bristol and District ‘Ladies Who Love Beer’ (BAD Ladies) available where, and when they’re open for on-site sales. They Laurie Jackson Phil Cummings visit Good Chemistry brewery welcome feedback and respond promptly and happily to queries. See pages 8-9 Their home-made bottle labelling contraption Bridget Andrews 2 PINTS WEST PINTS WEST 3 A beer with a view e might just be able to count on some warm summer days are tables set out on the dockside. The view is either of the working and evenings now, and when they do happen, nothing is end of the Floating Harbour around the Underfall Yard, or looking Wmore enjoyable than sitting outside in a pub garden catching over the Cumberland Basin the vista takes in Hotwells and the Clifton a few rays, or a cooling breeze. Even though there are lots of pubs Suspension Bridge. Just across from the pub are a row of cottages for in the Bristol area with decent gardens, what about the view that naval families built in the early 1800s which are really pretty. The Nova you look out onto, the vista that makes you linger longer and enjoy Scotia’s regular beers are from Courage and Caledonian, but there is just one more? Well here is a pick of a few that you might consider, usually one or sometimes two changing beers. whether it’s a beer with a view beside water, over the city skyline, or a quintessential English village green. Waterside The Grain Barge, located in Hotwells, is moored opposite the Mardyke pub on Mardyke Wharf. The boat was built in 1936 and converted into a floating pub by Bristol Beer Factory in 2007. During its working The view from the Victoria Park The view from the Mall garden life the barge was an engineless transporter that carried barley and wheat from Bristol to Cardiff across the Severn Estuary.