187 Peterborough & District Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale February / March 2016 TYDD STEAM BEER IN THE USA BREWING IN CYPRUS Local brewery celebrates Peterborough CAMRA Press Facinating story on the trials South Pole adventure with Officer tastes the best of and tribulations of an Antarctic brew! Californian brewing setting up a brewery abroad ALSO INSIDE PUB & BREWERY NEWS DIARY DATES JOIN CAMRA The Simmonds Family present: THREE GREAT AWARD WINNING PUBS serving Real Ale with fantastic prices! orough rough borough Peterb Peterbo Peter A CAMRA CAMRA t CAMR District District Distric & he & ard & the Pub of t Gold Aw Pub of 2013 11 ear 2014 Winner Year 20 Y Staniland Way, Werrington Centre PE4 6NA Tel: 01733 327696 Pub Of The Year 2014 and 2011 Ten Real Ales from £2.00 a pint Live Satellite Sports • Live Entertainment Happy Hour Monday - Friday 5-7pm ugh eterboro P AMRA District C & ard Gold Aw HTodgHson ECen trDe, HRodgAson GAveO PE4N 5EG 2013 Winner Tel: 01733 578088 Six Real Ales from £2.20 a pint Live Satellite Sports• Live Entertainment evon South D CAMRA he Pub of t 4 The Queens Arms Year 201 31 Station Hill, Brixham TQ5 8BN Tel: 01803 852074 6 hand pumps and a regular £2 special Weekly Live Music and Events Facebook: The-Queens-Arms Editor’s ramblings | 3 Greetings! So here we are one twelfth of IN THIS ISSUE 2016 gone already. It’s been Welcome from the editor 3 grey and dreary so far and as you look around there have Chairman’s corner 5 been lots of gloomy faces. Pub news 7–13 Guess they haven’t visited their local recently! Reading pub Brewery news 14 –16 news makes me realise that there are many pubs in New Year, new venue 19 our branch area that I either haven’t visited recently or indeed not at all. I don’t make New Mysterious goings-on 20-21 Year resolutions but must try to make the effort to Is craft daft? 22-25 venture forth into the hinterland! I have to get out the bicycle! Roll on spring! Diary dates 24 Beer in the USA 26 –27 For those of our readers visiting Cyprus this year check out the article on page 28, definitely worth a Micro-brewing in Cyprus 28 –29 visit. There is also an article on beer in USA, plus Branch contacts 30 the regular features. Join CAMRA 31 I was reading in What’s Brewing that CAMRA women’s representative, Lisa Wadlow, has been extolling the virtues of beer to Women’s Institutes, It would be interesting to know what our readers introducing them to beer and food matching. think about these types of campaigns. Please let us Makes a change from ‘Jam and Jerusalem’! What a have your opinions on these or other topics good idea, always pleased to see new ways of intro - pertaining to CAMRA related issues and/or arti - ducing women to beer or should that be cles in Beer Around ‘Ere . Also, if there is anything introducing beer to women? you would like to be included in this newsletter, please get in touch. Your feedback is always Did you “Try January” (see chairman’s report) or welcome, be it positive or negative. did you have a “Dry January” (bah humbug). Cheers! JB Beer Around ‘Ere is published Jane Brown Distribution: Editor: by the Peterborough & District [email protected] David Murray [email protected] Branch of CAMRA Copyright Peterborough & District © 2016, The Campaign for Published by: Proof Reading: Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. Bob Melville - 07941 246693 Real Ale Ltd. Printed By: Produced on behalf of CAMRA by: Views or comments expressed Orchard House Media Ltd Precision Colour Print Ltd in this publication may not necessarily be Eventus Business Centre, Sunderland Rd, Haldane, Telford, Shropshire TF7 4QQ those of the Editor or of CAMRA. Market Deeping. Tel: 01778 382758 Circulation: 7,000 copies distributed to pubs, clubs and members throughout the Magazine Design & Production: Peterborough and District CAMRA The next issue of Beer Around ‘Ere will be Daniel Speed Branch area. A digital version of this available on the 24th March . [email protected] magazine is available to view and We must have your stories, news and advertisements by 1st March Advertising Sales Manager: download at issuu.com Jane Michelson Please send your stories and other copy to [email protected] the editor, Jane Brown. Tel: 01778 382718 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 | BEER AROUND ERE 4 | Please support our advertisers The Rose & Crown in March Easter Beerfest Friday 25th – Monday 28th March 2016 PUB OPENING HOURS 20+ LIVE s Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Real Ale MUSIC 12noon-midnight ( and Real Fri, Sat & Sun Monday: 12noon-11pm Evening Ciders s) Pub food served 12noon-8pm • BBQ available 41 St Peters Road, March, PE15 9NA Tel: 01354 652077 BEER AROUND ERE | FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk Chairman’s corner | 5 Chairman’s Co rner The festive decorations have been returned to the loft for the next eleven months. The Whittlesey pubs have had their ‘Christmas 2’ with the Straw Bear weekend. So we are now into Dry January (and for many Over the next few weeks, as usual for this time of pubs February as well). Whilst not berating the year, we will be surveying the pubs that have been idea of abstaining from having a beer or two chosen by our members to be put forward for during the month if overindulgence during the inclusion in the 2017 Good Beer Guide . In spite of a festive season is the reason, I can only emphasize very poor response from our branch membership how much damage to the pub trade this can cause. we did manage to get a variety of pubs that may It’s a fact of life that the first two months of the get recommended. These include some new and year are a bit Spartan in our pubs due to a lack of different entries from previous years. Thanks to all customers. Abstain campaigns have a benefit for the members who took the trouble to send in their some charities but, the other side of the coin is it votes. may encourage a lack of impetus to socialise. Many people actually don’t go out at all during the Our congratulations go to our new POTY (Pub first month of the year, whether through lack of of the Year), The Woolpack, in the old part of funds or to have a ‘dry month’. This can only Stanground. Landlady Linda and Pete Goddard cause even more hurt to pubs already under-used were presented with a Gold Award in August 2015 by their local community. which put them in the running for POTY. The pub is a real olde world building steeped in history, and There has been an alternative campaign originally built in 1711. From the village morgue to suggested by drinks industry journalist Jessica the local lock up and a small military museum by a Mason, namely, ‘Try January’ which encourages former landlord in the back room, the compact licensees to challenge people to try new drinks and pub is a true community social centre. Normally food and make the month more inspiring and three or four hand pumps dispense a variety of experimental. The campaign aims to challenge beers, including a LocAle. The regular being one people to try something new or different at their from Tydd Steam brewery. They hold a beer local. The whole ‘Try January’ campaign could in festival each summer. There is a long garden which some way help prevent pubs seeing in the New leads down to the river Nene backwater, with Year with low takings, whilst giving something mooring for visitors. An ideal spot on a warm back to the community by inspiring customers with summer’s day. We shall be making the presentation tempting options. to Linda and Pete on the 12th of February. Come along and give your support. CAMRA is once again calling for a further 1p cut in beer tax. Apart from Finland the UK pays That’s all folks, for now. the highest beer tax rate of the top six brewing David Murray countries in the EU. A cut of 1p can help strug - Branch Chairman gling pubs stay open, increase investment in brewing and pubs, and keep the lid on pub beer prices. Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 | BEER AROUND ERE 6 | Please support our advertisers VINYL NIGHT Bring down your favourite records Last Friday of the month UKELELE NIGHT Every Thursday from 7.30pm Winter beer fest 2nd - 7th February LIVE MUSIC WEEKLY Check Facebook & local gig guides 14 Ever-changing, gravity fed real ales thepalmerstonarms BEER AROUND ERE | FEBRUARY / MARCH 2016 Visit our web site for up-to-date news: www.real-ale.org.uk Pub News Pub news | 7 Christmas has gone, and all those who turned up restaurant offering an enticing Caribbean cuisine. for their one annual visit to their local and found it The last time I was in there they had a Digfield closed can now rue the 364 days when they failed beer on hand pump. The proprietor told me that to appear. Thanks to all those loyal readers who he intended to discontinue this, making the place clubbed together to present me with the complete effectively a restaurant with a bar.