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FREe – Please take a copy BEST CAMRA MAGAZINE IN BRITAIN – 2019 2019 real ale | cider | perry wine | live music | food TWENTIETH AYRSHIRE REAL ALE FESTIVAL 3rd-5th Oct 2019 TROON CONCERT HALL Ayrshire & Wigtownshire Campaign for Real Ale Autumn 2019 www.awcamra.org.uk 2 Autumn 2019 Contents – AUTUMN 2019 Volume 21, Issue 3 Index / Welcome / Contacts................3 Map/List of Outlets............................16/17 Ayrshire and Editorial ..............................................................5 Travel Info / Social Contacts.............20 Wigtownshire What's On Diary ..........................................5 East Ayrshire trip to Yorkshire ...21-25 CAMRA Branch Various Branch Awards.......................6/7 Ray's Round Up ..................................28/29 Ardrossan Beer Festival ...........................7 What Pub and Beer Scoring ..............31 Chairman: Lindsay Grant 2019/20 Committee .................................8 Bar Manager Training .....................32/33 Email: [email protected] Fairlie Beer Festival .....................................8 Wigtownshire News ..............................34 Secretary: Kenneth Middleditch East Ayrshire rural social ........................9 Join CAMRA ................................................35 Email: [email protected] Forthcoming Festivals .......................... 10 Norwich, City of Ale ..............................36 Minutes of Branch Meetings are available to members from the Secretary. Outlets & Brewery News .....................11 CBOB Voting ................................................37 Ayrshire Real Ale Festival ............. 12-14 Trading Standards Info .........................38 Treasurer: Ian Fairbairn Email: [email protected] SNID: Every Little Helps........................15 Members' Area at camra.org.uk .....38 Editor: Stuart McMahon, 93 Montfode Drive, Ardrossan KA22 7PH WELCOME Tel: 01294 603848 Email: [email protected] CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) is an independent, voluntary, consumer organisation which campaigns for real Advertising: ale, real pubs and consumer rights. Membership is open to Mike Tomlinson all individuals; CAMRA currently has over 191,000 members. Email: [email protected] It is governed by a voluntary unpaid national executive, Advertising Rates (from Spring 2019): elected by the membership. It has a branch structure which Back / Inside Front Cover: £100 (£360/year) means that all members can join a local CAMRA branch and Full Page: £90 ½ Page: £50 campaign and socialise locally. Yearly rates (in advance): £320 / £180 The Ayrshire & Wigtownshire Branch currently has around Websites: www.awcamra.org.uk 660 members. Within the branch, we have four social group www.ayrshirebeerfestival.co.uk areas - namely North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and Wigtownshire, each of whom organise regular events and meetings (usually monthly) – details on p20 - we're still Facebook “f” Logo Social Media:CMYK / .eps Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .eps looking for someone to take over Branch or South Ayrshire Ayrshire & Wigtownshire CAMRA Socials - contact Lindsay Grant, [email protected], if Ayrshire Real Ale Festival interested. @awcamra @troonbeerfest Details of all our events are on the next page and are also posted on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Members are always Full Pints is designed by Montfode Design, encouraged to bring a friend along if they wish - all are www.md93.co.uk and printed by Brown Brothers welcome to attend. Printers, Irvine, www.brown-bros.com. Around 2,500 copies are published every 3 months and distributed to all Real Ale outlets in our region. The views expressed in this publication are The next edition of Full Pints will be published in those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the December 2019. Articles, photos and other contributions editor or of the Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. should be sent to the editor at [email protected] © Campaign for Real Ale Ltd no later than Friday 8th November 2019. 3 www.awcamra.org.uk 4 Autumn 2019 Editorial I hope you've all had a good summer, and managed to enjoy some sunshine in between the rather damp weather of recent weeks. The latter might even have encouraged you to visit a local pub in order to cheer you up! In the last edition, as part of But the biggest, and of course, city and meet lots of friendly CAMRA's Summer of Pub the best, is our own Ayrshire CAMRA members throughout campaign we asked for Real Ale Festival in Troon the weekend. nominations for our branch's Concert Hall from 3-5 October. best real ale pub with a beer See pages 12-14 for details. We We're still looking for an overall garden. The winner of that always need volunteers to help Branch Social Secretary to award was McKay's in Troon - at it, even if for just a few organise occasional outings to the award will be presented on hours, or during set-up and breweries and/or pubs outwith Sat 31st August at 2pm, take-down. It's great fun, and the branch area. We're also still hopefully in the beer garden! you'll get rewarded for your needing someone to organise So please come along to that if time with some beer! monthly meetings for the you are free - there are usually South Ayrshire area. It's not three ales available. A number of our members onerous - just selecting a were volunteers at the Great different pub within South There's been a number of British Beer Festival in London Ayrshire to visit every month great ale festivals over the and some also were trained on and contacting the pub to let summer - some are mentioned a CAMRA-run Bar Managers them know we're coming. elsewhere in this magazine - course. Looking well ahead, Please give consideration to Glasgow Real Ale Festival and why not consider volunteering either or both of these the Ardrossan Beer and Music for the National Members' positions. Festival in June, Alloway in Weekend and Conference in July and Fairlie, Arran and York next year? You'll get to Cheers, Stuart Beith in August. visit some amazing pubs in the AUTUMN DIARY DATES Please check www.awcamra.org.uk for up-to-date details of all our Branch events. A monthly email is sent at the start of each month to our members listing forthcoming events - if you don't receive this, please check your email Junk/Spam mailbox and confirm your email address at www.camra.org.uk. Details are also published on our Facebook and Twitter pages. SEPTEMBER 2019 OCTOBER 2019 NOVEMBER 2019 Mon 2 Branch Committee Meeting, Thu 3 - 20th Ayrshire Real Ale Mon 11 Beer Festival Wash-up Wheatsheaf Inn, Kilmarnock, Sat 5 Festival, Troon Concert Hall, Meeting – Abbotsford Hotel, 8pm Help also required for set up Ayr, 8pm Mon 9 Beer Festival Planning from Tues 1 October and take Thu 21 North Ayrshire Social –venue Meeting, Merito, Dunlop, 8pm down on Sun 6 / Mon 7 Oct. tbc, 8pm Sat 14 Wigtownshire Social – Thu 19 North Ayrshire Social – Wed 27 East Ayrshire Social – First Stranraer Oyster Festival venue tbc, 8pm Edition, Kilmarnock, 7.30pm Thu 19 North Ayrshire Social – The Fri 25 / Alloa Beer Festival in Alloa Village Inn, Fairlie, 8pm Sat 26 Town Hall Wed 25 East Ayrshire Social and Sat 26 Beer Festival Volunteers' Branch Meeting, Wheatsheaf Outing to Alloa Beer Festival Ayrshire & Wigtownshire CAMRA Inn, Kilmarnock, 7.30pm Tues 29 East Ayrshire Social – Mill Ayrshire Real Ale Festival Sat 28 INDEPENDENT – Kilcreggan House, Stewarton, 7.30pm Beer Festival (note Tues rather than @awcamra normal Wed) @troonbeerfest 5 www.awcamra.org.uk Branch Pub of the Year 2019 Our Branch Pub of the Year, The Twa Dugs in West Kilbride, was presented with its award on Sat 8th June. The pub was packed with over 45 members and friends attending. Ian Middeditch, vice-chairman gave a short welcome to everyone before handing over to Stuart McMahon, Branch Editor to present the award to Debbie Crossan. The overall Scottish Pub of the Year award was won by the Bridge Inn, Peebles. We also extend our congratulations to Debbie who got married in August. Watch out for news on the opening of a small restaurant through the wall from the Twa Dugs. Photos: Above left: Debbie Crossan receiving the award from Stuart. Middle: Debbie (right) with two of her staff, Rebecca Ashe (left) and Denise Burns (middle). Right: Some of the happy customers enjoying the afternoon in the pub - Ayr Jolly Beggars, Lowland Twa Dugs and Five Kingdoms Dark Storm were the available ales. Branch Club of the Year 2019 Cambusdoon Sports Club, Alloway was presented with our Branch Club of the Year Award on Sat 3rd August during their beer festival. Branch Chairman Lindsay Grant presented the award to Ross Mitchell, Club Steward. The event was very well supported with 10 ales being available including two new ales from Ayr: 160*, a 3.6% pale ale celebrating the 160th anniversary of Ayr Cricket Club; and Passion Fruit Pale, a 3.8% fruit-infused pale ale. The cricket match against Dumfries started well, but had to be abandoned after a torrential monsoon passed over the area and flooded the field along with surrounding roads within a very short space of time. 6 Autumn 2019 Branch Beer of the Year 2019 Our Branch Beer of the Year was chosen at our AGM back in March, with the winner being Orkney Red MacGregor. Orkney is never an easy place to get to logistically, so we managed to arrange a presentation at the Glasgow Real Ale Festival held back in June. Jonathan Kemp, CAMRA national director and Chairman of the Glasgow & West of Scotland CAMRA Branch, presented the award to Craig Steven, Commercial Manager, The Orkney Brewery, with members of our own branch onlooking. Ardrossan Beer & Music Festival The seventh annual beer festival to take place at Ardrossan Academicals was another success thanks to the addition of live music on the Saturday. 12 Scottish ales were available this year and over the course of the Saturday, Ardrossan Music Experience provided three bands in the marquee outside on the playing field.
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