LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 1 CONTENTS ISSUE 2 2014 The Guests 13 Ship of Theseus All about Bass 19 WhatPub? 13 A guide to WhatPub? 20 Old Ale Tales Some pictures from Lincoln’s pub past. The Regulars 7 Lincoln News A round up of local and national pub and brewery news 20 10 What’s Brewing National and Cider News. 11 Members Page & Branch Diary Find out what is going on in Lincoln CAMRA branch. 24 Recimpes Honey Beer Chutney – Yum! 26 - 27 TravAle a guide to some of Lincoln City Centre’s pubs. 29 Quiz Quiz time. 15 Meet the 31 Membership Form Brewer CAMRA Membership form Batemans Brewery LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 3 4 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk Welcome. Hello Again. It’s good to be back! My thanks to from some old Batemans pubs and I know from the feedback Greg for guest editing and the rest I receive that these old pictures are well loved by some of you. of the team who regularly write and If you have memories or pictures of any of Lincoln’s (or indeed contribute ideas and information to Lincolnshire pubs) please let me know. ImpAle, it really is a team effort. Aaron Joyce has a guide to using WhatPub?, a brilliant website This time the team have produced set up by CAMRA that allows you to search for pubs near to you another excellent issue (if I do say and allows you to find out information before you visit and is so myself) and we are all looking particularly useful if you are new to an area or just want to find forward to a summer of drinking somewhere new to go. Why not have a read and take a look at beer in lovely beer gardens. If the WhatPub website yourself? You never know what a gem of you come across any that are a pub you might find! particularly nice do please email or So I’ll leave you to read this issue and enjoy your summer of tweet me so I can check them out. beer drinking, and as usual if you have any comments please This issue, Steve Renshaw has gone to Meet the Brewer at send them to me at [email protected] or tweet me Batemans, they have recently had an image update and are @ImpAleEditor. Or be my friend on Facebook – Lincoln CAMRA making some exciting changes, do let us know what you think. ImpAle Steve Richardson, our resident history buff, has some pictures Cheers, Wendy Our Twitter account @Lincoln_CAMRA has over 2000 followers! Please like our new Facebook page Lincoln CAMRA. To help keep the success going we need your help! Please email Ashley at [email protected] with your local pub’s events, be it a regular weekly quiz/food night and one off events, it’s an easy way to become active within the branch with minimal effort. ImpAle ImpAle is the magazine of Lincoln CAMRA and Louth CAMRA branches. CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real Editor pubs and consumer rights. It is an independent, voluntary Wendy Margetts organisation with more than 160,000 members nationally. Design ImpAle magazine is published three times a year and is available free through pubs in Lincoln and Louth branch Matt Richards areas. 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LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 5 SUMMER BEER FESTIVAL ϮϱƚŚϮϳƚŚ:ƵůLJϮϬϭϰ ;,ĞĐŬŝŶŐƚŽŶ^ŚŽǁtĞĞŬĞŶĚͿ GREEN HOP BEER FESTIVAL ϯƌĚϱƚŚKĐƚŽďĞƌϮϬϭϰ "&#""! #"&#""# "%$ ((( $($)#' $($) #& !&$%$#!"&#" ()&&#" 20+ beers and 6 ciders Li ve Music · Barbecue · Souvenir Glass Kids’ Acti viti es · Large Beer Garden Pheasantry BREWERY Real ale gem and Beer& FestiFamily Weekend val Fri 20 - Sun 22 June the best beer £3 per adult before 6pm (includes free half pint) garden in Lincoln! £5 per adult after 6pm (includes 2 free halves) free entry for CAMRA member and children The Golden Eagle, 21 High St, Lincoln LN5 8BD [email protected] TEL: 01522 521058 High Brecks Farm Lincoln Road East Markham, NG22 0SN Multi-award-winning Tel 01777 870572 Pheasantry Harvest Pale available www.pheasantrybrewery.co.uk BREWERY Friday 20 June (4pm - 11pm), Saturday 21 (11am - 11pm) Sunday 22 (11am - 4pm) 6 ImpAle LincolnCamra.org.uk NEWS IN BRIEF Heneage Arms beer and music festival The volunteers at the Heneage Arms community pub in Hainton are holding their first beer and music festival over the weekend of 30th May to 1st June. The plan is to have around a dozen ales from local microbreweries, plus a few real ciders. Springhead Brewery in Laneham is providing support. Over the weekend they will be raising funds for CLIC Sargent, LIVES, St Mary’s Church, Hainton and Lincoln City Radio. Nocton Social Club Nocton is a small village seven miles south- east of Lincoln. Until recently, a covenant prevented a public house opening in the Presentation evening at the Dog and Bone village. However, Nocton Social Club, founded approximately 65 years ago, provides a bar within the village hall. With the support of Dog and Bone is Cathedral Heights Brewery, the club has been running a competition to name an ale and design the pump clip. The winner was Mrs Clodagh West, who suggested the name Lincoln’s Nocton Flier and produced a design inspired by the light railway used by Smiths Crisps to Pub of the Year transport potatoes from Nocton Farms. Chequers cheer The Dog and Bone on John Street has games are popular and well-used. The been selected as the Lincoln CAMRA walls display works from local artists, Locals at Potterhanworth are celebrating Branch Pub of the Year for 2014. The and the wonderful garden is an oasis the reopening of the village pub, following a selection process started with a vote of calm. On the bar are five real ales two-and-a-half year closure. The Chequers by local CAMRA members. Then five and two handpull ciders. The pub pub/restaurant has three handpumps and judges visited the pubs that topped the belongs to Batemans so beers from the ales change regularly. New manager, poll to assess the quality of the beer, this long-established, Lincolnshire Isabelle Roe, is delighted with the support the atmosphere, service, community family brewery feature, along with she has received from the villagers. Isabelle focus and value for money. The other interesting guest ales. is the niece of owners Sara and Bob Roe, finalists were Lincoln’s Strugglers Inn who also own the Pyewipe Inn near Saxilby and Jolly Brewer, and the Dambusters Lincoln CAMRA chairman, Aaron and the Penny Farthing at Timberland. Inn at Scampton Joyce, said, “To win Pub of the Year after just twelve months in charge is The Dog and Bone is a hidden gem a fantastic achievement by Chris and It’s not all good news! among the old terraced houses off Sarah. They’ve taken this great little Riverside Brewery, the Wainfleet microbrewery Monks Road. This thriving community community pub up to another level.” set up by John Dixon in 2003, has closed. The pub was taken over by enthusiastic brewery’s regular beers were Dixon’s Major husband and wife team, Chris and The Dog and Bone now goes forward (3.9% ABV), a traditional brown bitter and Old Sarah Sorrell, in February 2013. Above to the Lincolnshire round of the Diabolical (4.4% ABV), a golden, full-bodied the bar is a collection of old valve competition, where it will be up against beer. John has returned to his previous job radios and paraphernalia that always the winners from the Gainsborough, as a pub auditor and stock-taker. sparks discussion, and the pub’s board Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Louth and Grantham branches. LincolnCamra.org.uk ImpAle 7 News 30 years of good beer at the Vic The 2014 edition of CAMRA’s “Good Beer Guide” sees the 30th consecutive appearance of Lincoln’s Victoria. The local CAMRA branch has presented a certificate to the pub to mark the achievement. Nestling in the shadow of the castle walls, the Vic has two small rooms and a heated outdoor seating area. Batemans XB, Yella Belly Gold and Castle Rock Harvest Pale are regular beers, along with up to four guests plus a real cider and a perry. Branch chairman, Aaron Joyce, presents the certificate to Neil Renshaw. Tony Eastwood, founder of drinks wholesaler Small Beer Ltd, bought the Victoria from Whitbread and, after extensive structural former CAMRA national chairman Chris Holmes, who went on to work, it reopened in December 1983. As a free house, it was set up Castle Rock Brewery.