LEADMILL BREWERY and BOTTLE BROOK BREWERY . Producers of Traditional Hand Crafted Real Ales. In the Sticks July 2017 Free Copy minutes into the Championship play-off final so I elcome to the latest issue of “In the astwood must be the most populated place W E was able to watch the penalty shoot-out before Sticks ” the newsletter of RuRAD , Ru ral Real for micro bars! As far as I'm aware they my departure. It’s on the Three Valleys Trail but Ale Drinkers. We hope you enjoy reading it. already have 3, with planning application well worth a visit at any time” passed for a 4th and another one going Amber Valley CAMRA Update If you want to receive a copy electronically e- through the process of application. th mail [email protected] - 8pm, Beer festival meeting Thorn Tree, Charisma informs us “On the opening day 10 Or for current & previous issues log on to Ripley. 14 th - Evening survey trip, contact Jane of the Tupton Tap at Tupton (formerly the Wallis 01773 745966. 27 th - 8pm, branch meeting http://www.mansfield.camra.org.uk Royal Oak ) I decided to pay a visit only to Thorn Tree, Waingroves find the car park packed, and when I finally made my way into the bar the queue to be BEEHIVE served was out the door! I returned a week THE AWARD WINNING 151 Peashill, Ripley later and was very impressed with the layout Tel: 07510431414 HUNTERS ARMS of the pub, and the beer choice was also Mandy & Dave would like to invite impressive with 8 real ales available including 23 Church Street, Kilburn. customers old and new to the Tupton Tipple, Tupton Pale and Alton from Huge selection of traditional ciders Beehive/Honey Pot. Ashover Brewery, along with Sturdy IPA always available in cider-room Selection of 3 real ales at the Beehive from Abstract Jungle, Skull & Spanners 8 ever-changing, top notch real ales! and 6 real ales at the Honey Pot as from Batemans, Captain Smiths from Titanic Function room Large car park to rear Beautiful gardens Free wifi well as various ciders and perrys. and Supreme Bitter from Nottingham Freshly made cobs Darts, Dominoes and Skittles on brewery. Well worth a visit and well worth Open Mon-Thurs from 2.00pm weekly. the wait!” Fri-Sun from midday Quiz night Fridays plus card bingo. Tel 01332 781518 Everyone welcome. Follow us on Facebook & Twitter! Beer and Pub News On Tuesday 13th June Chris P Duck made a first Littleover Brewery is to open a micro pub called visit since it became a community hub to the the Pothole at the Park Farm shopping centre in Anglers Rest at Bamford . This now contains a Allestree post office and a tearoom with the bar serving Chantry Diamond Black Stout, Kelham Island ingfield Wanderer reports “Big changes at W Kelham Best, Acorn Summer Pale & Barnsley South Wingfield Social Club . They now have a Bitter and Black Sheep Best Bitter. He had a half regular real ale on through the week and 2 most of all except the latter and all were very good as 53 Market St, weekends. Of late there has been a regular you would expect having won Sheffield CAMRA showing from the Exmoor Brewery and more Ilkeston DE7 5RB awards. There was also a mobile pizza oven on a recently from the Lenton Lane Brewery including Tel: 07538 723 722 trailer on the car park. Worth visiting if in the the excellent Gamblers Best Bitter at 4.7% and Open Derwent Dams area attractively priced at under £3. In fact the Thursday to Sunday The view from The Chair Lenton Lane owners paid a visit recently” 11 til 11 Originally pencilled in as a trip to Bridgnorth, as The Spotted Cow at Holbrook is due to reopen requested by Sister Tones, we where we on July 16 th anticipated similar weather to the preceding few Chris P Duck reports “On Bank Holiday Proposals are being considered for a Jacobean- days. However we had overlooked the fact that it Monday 31 st May I made a first visit to the themed micro pub called the Rebellion Ale House was a Saturday and the weather acted Travellers Rest at Hundall which is located in College Place, Full St in Derby accordingly and turned on it's head. So we had to northeast of Chesterfield. As I approached do some quick revising of plans and noting a pub The Bear and Monkey , the micro bar on Oxford I could hear a house alarm and soon realised beer festival at the Shrewsbury Arms Street, Ripley , has been sold. that there had been a power cut so the pub (Blackcountry Ales) pub in Stafford, and a desire was in almost complete darkness. There was to visit the Hooded Ram Pub in Wolves, we he sale of the Wheel at Holbrook has finally T a very full pub in the gloom possibly because incorporated the two places into a day trip. We been completed, with Dee and her parents firmly Mondays are £2 a pint days but maybe travelled via Birmingham New St to facilitate in charge. because of the excellent friendly ambience these calls. On arrival in Stafford we undertook or the bank holiday afternoon. There were 3 the 25 min walk from the station to the Kings The Travellers Rest in Kilburn , which recently ales from Drone Valley, 1 from Red Willow Arms in the north of the city. A pubco flexible re-opened, had Doom Bar and Bass on the bar and another that I could not see. When the lease allows two to three guest beers amongst when I recently paid a visit. power came back on the TV sport was 119 the five wickets, in this tidy terraced pub, which and readily changed. We sampled four whilst here and whilst in conversion Hayley talked THE TALBOT about contact, which she had with a new Butterley Hill Ripley, DE5 3LT brewery Dogs Breath (Kinver) who are Tel: 01773742382. normally bottle only. The pub put on a meet A quiet, cosy pub enjoying real ale. the Brewer evening and following it's success Open Mon - Thu 2pm & Fri - Sun 12pm. and a bit of badgering, the Brewer arranged Minimum of 5 changing ales on Mon - Wed & up to 9 Thu - Sun. to put some of his smoked Porter 5.9% in cask, exclusively for the Lych Gate it was in Choice of Pork Pies and fresh cobs to the cellar conditioning, and whilst not quite enjoy by the fire or in the garden. Last Wednesday of the month is our ready to put on, a half was offered for us to Acoustic night. sample. Now Sister Tones is not keen on Cans, Bottles and Keg by Kernel, Magic, smoked beer but we both found this very Beaver, Siren and Wild etc. much to our liking, it had a very nice balance F/B - Talbot Taphouse, Tweet @beeratthetalbot was easy drinking for its strength, but with plenty of flavour...one to note for the future day didn't leave Woodside Terminal until 10.30 supports various sports on it's two TV's which I feel. Many thanks to Hayley for arranging and that it cost £10, we took the bus through the are not too intrusive. Having enjoyed a Felinfoel this. We next called at Slaters Bar Queensway tunnel instead. We wondered how many Double Dragon, we retraced our steps back (Stafford Brewery) and tried one of their passengers (on the ferry) get tossed overboard by towards town and into the Greyhound , which sits guest beers. First choice a Muirhouse mild the staff for singing THAT song?! Too early for on another terraced street opposite Stafford burst on request, and the second choice, one the pubs (since we tend not to use JDW Jail. This pub has been a long-term proponent of from Old School House, tasted like it might establishments), we headed directly to Albert cask ales and there is a northern slant to the be heading the same way, so we just shared Dock and the Maritime Museum. GC may take issue beer choice with Abbeydale /Rat /Bradfield the one arf! Then it was time for the Hooded with the term “directly” as he's convinced that I /Mallinsons /etc featuring regularly. On the day Ram , situated in the Old Nat-West Bank meander round the streets in a confused way like this also included a less than top flight Bathams building on Lichfield St. It is a busy street I've just escaped from a Home for the Terminally Best, which was a shame, and unusual for the pub. corner Bar/Kitchen with the Bar dominated Bewildered. Be that as it may, our route took us Next stop back in town was Ye Olde Rose & by five beers from Hooded Ram Brewery past Mathew Street, home to the “World Famous” Crown , a Joules pub, very olde worlde inside, and (Isle of Man). We chose a single hop Mosaic Cavern Club. As you would expect, the area is where an additional wicket has been installed for and Jack the Ram a stout. The mosaic was filled with Beatles themed bars & shops and there a guest beer, from outside the Joules estate. superb as expected but the Jack the Ram are also statues of John Lennon and Cilla Black to This time it was Elgoods Black Dog mild....sadly in was not too happy, and was returned. We admire (or take a selfie with if that's what floats very poor order...Oh Dear! So back to the Market were later offered a replacement but by your boat) – would that be ‘cross the Mersey? - Square and No: 7 Market Square, it was around 1- then we were on our way.