the Summer 2019 FREE Please Take One The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale Front cover photograph competition sponsored by the The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale ©The Campaign for Real Ale 2019. Opinions expressed need not represent those of CAMRA Ltd or its officials HILLSIDE BREWERY FRONT COVER COMPETITION WINNER: Resident angler, international toad-nurdler, raconteur and wit, Courtney Moore Lately, sent in this fabulous contents: Thames side scene from the very edge of the county. Letters to the Editor page 4 Brewery News page 32 The Hunter’s Column page 8 Pub News page 34 Bath Time page 10 Competition - Name that Pub page 36 Gloucestershire Pub of the Year page 13 View from the Brewhouse page 38 Cheltenham News page 14 The Axicon Art of Labels page 42 Obituary - Graham Green page 17 Hillside Front Cover Competition page 44 North Cotswolds News page 18 Dursley Cider pub of the Year page 46 Tewkesbury News page 22 The Pheasant Inn - Toddington page 48 Burning Passion 2 page 24 Front Room to Public House page 52 Cotswold Beer Festival page 26 Gloucester Prize Wordsearch page 57 Competition - Linton Festival page 28 What’s Coming Up? page 60 News from Gloucester page 31 CAMRA contacts page 62 CONTRIBUTION DEADLINES: these have now changed to SECOND FRIDAY OF FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST AND NOVEMBER 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 LETTERS to the EDITOR MED but the ride was so wonderful we stayed onwards and upwards! Dropped off in the middle of somewhere very Alpine at 1 a.m the driver had gone This morning I am non stop from Paris and dropped us outside the feeling lucky. So go on, gendamerie to enquire where we might sleep! make my day ... please. Winning a couple of tickets In his pyjamas and wearing his police cap the to the Gloucester Brewery is far preferable to looking gendarme summoned the youth hostel to fetch us up up the barrel of a Magnum. Indeed, a win here even more high up Alps in a DeuxChevaux.. but the would allow the Hawksworth brothers, and my son, DS was the most beautiful ride. to hit Gloucester on a Friday night. We do not get Heres a tip! DS was on CAR SOS last week.. out much, but I doubt life could get much better than FUZZ and Tim (yes FuZZ the drummer from The that. BEAT way back) go to France and rescue a basket You are eminent for your proficiency in producing case DS to absolute beauty. Brilliant mechanics! a wonderful magazine. Such skills are bound to Open a bottle of something nice and watch it. include an ability to identify old buses. Perhaps you I made do with a couple of lefty 2CVs and briefly a could open up this topic to your thousands of contented LETTERS Dyane. readers? This could form a fourth competition in the Tippler. In terms of credibility, this might make the to the All the best Hunter! Gloucestershire branch unique within CAMRA. To help kick start this I can offer a starter for five. As Chris replies: I am sure you know, the photo submitted by Ron Cave Ayland in the Winter 2018 tippler contains a Hello, spoof. The vehicle on the right has wheedled its way EDITOR into Ron’s shot, but it is not a bus. A truck - an AEC I’m not exactly sure of your name, hence the Matador - has got into a Beer, Buses and Walks lack of a decent salutation. article. A shocking state of affairs, but that tells a Sounds like an epic adventure in the sixties, story of living life on the edge on the Isle of Wight. Some of us old codgers are still happy to use the services of the and a continued love affair with our French As for the others, they are buses with the third one Royal Mail, and we actively encourage all forms of (preferably printable!) communication. neighbours’ motor cars. I’ve always seen the in being a Dennis Something - another five points for So get writing letters, sending emails and get your news, views and comments published! 2CV as a kind of moving notice board for our that please. ‘green’ friends (not frogs) to post on, particularly, Just like Clint I do not always get things right. Dear Chris, have an ampersand, but not an amphora, so I remember, the CND members. For all that But I remain your humble servant and suggest goodness knows who decides what is in and incredibly innovative suspension and I well constructive criticism should always be welcomed, If the column is written by ‘The Hunter’, for the what is out. I just used a comma, reduced remember the epic 2CV races around Brands regardless of its merit. love of all that is holy, please insert a possessive its size and lifted it well above the character Hatch where the cars careered around at incredible apostrophe in the column’s title. baseline to insert the possessive apostrophe as angles, especially on the infamous Paddock Hill Keep up the good work requested. Whether or not is is more holy than Bend, how they didn’t turn over was nothing previously is open to dispute, certainly better short of a Gallic miracle. Kind regards Michael McGrath grammar, so many thanks for the email, much I’ll pass the message on to our intrepid hero appreciated. and I’m sure your encouragement will see even Stephen Hawksworth Chris replies: more delights from the Hunter, or should that be le Chasseur? Chris replies: Hello Michael, Dear Chris, Hello Stephen, Many thanks for the grammatical reprimand, How I agree with Hunter’s love for The DS... quite Dear Chris one that is appreciated and, as you’ll see, corrected. the most beautiful, practical car of the century! The I haven’t forgotten you, I just had a bit of It’s been going on since 2001 (although my Parisians used to glide up the RN1 to pop into Belgium What a pleasant surprise to see my comments in more work on than usual. stewardship of the missing apostrophe is only to get a decent beer, the Estate car would take a your brilliant Spring 2018 Tippler. I am now fired up hanks for the promise of having a go at the five and a half years) is a technical one: the font double bass; the 8 track had to be loud, it was so to have another go at both the Word Search, and the WordSearch, I hope you get to win it. By the way, (African) is missing some of the usual characters, comfortable you could be asleep at the wheel! Winter 2018 Tippler article - “Isle of Wight: Classic as you have so rightly spotted, there are now apostrophes, single and double quotation marks My best hitched ride was Easter 1966 from Paris Buses, Beer and Walks Weekend.” I often think that THREE competitions in the Tippler all of them being the most glaring examples, although it does to the Alps. we had intended to go to the Camargue I have much in common with Clint Eastwood. with great prizes, the aforementioned WordSearch the 4 The magazine of the Gloucestershire Branches of the Campaign for Real Ale www.gloucestershire.camra.org.uk 5 LETTERS to the EDITOR LETTERS to the EDITOR sponsored by Gloucester Brewery, but why not a food offering, there would be even fewer pubs have a go at the ’Name that Pub’ sponsored by nor in the open, for nearly all pubs, food is a necessity, Stroud Brewery or the Front Cover Photo accompanying advert. when it’s good why not celebrate it? Competition, sponsored by Hillside Brewery. I’ll Clearly the new tenants don’t I have contacted the pub, and have asked them be frank here and say that the Front Cover see beer as an important feature. CAMRA as its to address your concerns about their food and contest has the least number of entries, funny name makes clear is to promote ale. “The Good drink policy/offering and I’ll publish that in the that as it is one of those subjects that gets Pub Guide” is another thing altogether. next magazine. CAMRA people hot under the collar. I understand you wish to keep us up-to-date with Many thanks for taking the time and trouble Unfortunately my knowledge of old transport the pub scene, to fill pages and make money from to write in. advertising but please remember what CAMRA is for Subscription methods is pretty rudimentary, so I doubt I’ll be and please don’t betray its principles. putting in anything about buses, trains or taxis, Below is the response from Simon Willson-White Thank God for my local, The Old Spot in Dursley, on the other hand, if I am inundated by requests, regarding the ale and beer selection at the Seven which is a good dining pub but has one of the best Increase I can consider it. Tuns. Simon Willson White says: ale ranges in the county. “I’m confused by comments saying we are Reminder Hi Chris not beer friendly. We at the Seven Tuns get some Dursley Dave great feedback on our beers and what’s more, Don’t worry about the buses, or any other transport CAMRA ‘love us’.