pub mirror (issue 82) winter 2012

BRANCH CIDER PUBSOF THE YEAR 2012

The new series of the Cider Pub of the Year competitions began in October at branch level with thejoint winners being the Wellington Inn and the Hop & Vine. On Wednesday 24th October, localsand around fifteen members of Hull and East Yorkshire CAMRA Branch gathered in the WellingtonInn, Hull to celebrate with owners Janette and Richard Gant the presentation of a certificate byChairperson Angela Cawte. The couple have run the pub since 2004 and have sold real cider andperry from the outset when these products werenot as popular as they are today. We then movedon to the Hop & Vine where Angela presented acertificate to Stewart Campbell and Janet Rowan.We were lucky to have the opportunity to choosefrom a large range of ciders and perries which hadbeen purchased for the pub’s October ciderfestival. Both pubs will now be entered for the2013 Yorkshire competition.

Our thanks go to the licensees for supporting realcider and perry over the years and for theirhospitality on the evening. We also thank Carolineand Rob Gibbon from Moorlands Farm Cyder fortravelling from North Newbald on the night.

Stewart & Janet, Angela, Richard and Janette

BANNER

Hull and East Yorkshire CAMRA Branch Website - www.hullcamra.org.uk

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3HULL & EAST YORKSHIRE BRANCH INFORMATION

Chairperson - Angela Cawte07904 [email protected]

Branch Treasurer - Stewart Campbell01482 44910007500 [email protected] Acting Press & Publicity Officerand Acting Pub Preservation Officer

Acting Branch Secretary - Bernie Cawte07956 [email protected] Magazine Editor

Membership Secretary - Tony Garrett07971 [email protected] Branch Contact

Pubs OfficersEast Yorkshire - Mark Bainton07749 [email protected]

Holderness - Pete Mason07984 [email protected]

Hull - Jill Walker07932 [email protected]

Branch Social Secretary - Vacant

BRANCH COMMITTEE

ASSOCIATE POSITIONS

Cider RepresentativeDavid [email protected]

Clubs Liaison OfficerSteve Hopkinson

Forum MasterJohn Houldsworth

Web MasterPatrick [email protected]

Young Members Co-ordinator - Vacant Beer Style Officer - Vacant

SUPPORT POSITIONS

Pubs Liaison OfficersBeverley - John AshtonBridlington - Ivor HurstCottingham - Cliff OttawayDriffield - Martin BellHedon - Pete MasonHornsea - Keir HornerMarket Weighton - VacantWithernsea - Steve Allison

Pubs DatabasePatrick [email protected]

BRANCH POSTAL ADDRESS

ON-LINE CONTACTS

Website: www.hullcamra.org.ukYahoo Forum: Hull and East YorkshireFacebook: Hull and East Yorkshire CAMRABlog: hulleastyorkshirecamra.blogspot.comTwitter: @hullCAMRA

PUB MIRROR INFORMATION

Pub Mirror is produced quarterly by Hull & EastYorkshire Branch of CAMRA, and edited by theBranch magazine editor, Bernie Cawte.

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The Wellington Inn&&&

BREWERYBREWERYBREWERY

Rail/Bus Station 5 mins. walk

H o p & V i n e24 Albion Street, Hull www.hopandvinehull.co.uk

Opening Hours: 4pm-11pm Tuesday; 11am-11pm Wednesday-Saturday;Closed on Sunday & Monday

3 Real Ales and 4 Real Cider/PerryBudweiser Budvar & Pilsner Urquell on draught

Food available until 9pm. “The best sandwiches in town” - Hull Daily Mail Guide

All our beers are served in over-sized lined

glasses guaranteeing a full pint

East Yorkshire Real Ale Festival

22nd - 24th November 2012

CAMRA AWARDS

Yorkshire Cider Pub of the Year 2010-2012

Branch Cider Pub of the Year 2009-2012

National Cider Pub of the Year 2010

2013 Good Beer Guide Listed

Group - CAMRA Hull & East Yorkshire @hullCAMRA Group-CAMRA Hull & East Yorkshire @hullCAMRA

5EDITORS COMMENTS by Bernie Cawte

Admiral of the Humber, George Hotel, Hop & Vine, Kingston Hotel, Lion & Key,Minerva (NEW), Oscars, Pave, Sailmakers Arms, Three John Scotts, Walters,Wellington Inn & Brewery, Wm Hawkes, Ye Olde White Harte (NEW) - all Hull

Green Dragon, Windmill and Woolpack (NEW) all BeverleyThe Marine Bar, Bridlington - King William IV, Cottingham

Spread Eagle and Old Falcon (BOTH NEW) DriffieldGoodmanham Arms, Goodmanham - The Station Hotel, Patrington

Crooked Billet, Ryehill - The Ship Inn, Sewerby

Big River Brewery - Bird Brain Brewery (NEW) - Great Newsome BreweryMoorland Farm Cyder - Theakstons Brewery - Wold Top Brewery

Yorkshire Brewery Company

Well its that time of the year when we all lookforward to relaxing and having some time off withfamily and friends. I hope you all have a goodtime and enjoy the festive period. Please sparea thought to all those who will be working overChristmas, especially the bar and pub staff whowe keep so busy, and the emergency serviceswho keep us safe and well over the stressfulcouple of weeks.

Congratulation to Hop & Vine for winning theYorkshire Cider Pub of the Year (POTY) awardfor the third time. Not only have they won thataward but more importantly they have again wonthe Branch Cider POTY, albeit as joint winnerswith Wellington Inn, well done to both Richardand Janette, at the Wellie and to Stuart andJanet from the Hop & Vine.

As you will see elsewhere in this edition we arelooking towards the annual Hull Real Ale andCider festival, our 35th festival, and again we areholding this event at the Holy Trinity Church inHull. Our festival Committee have already met,and our planning to increase the number of beersavailable after the extraordinary success of thisyear festival. We have learned a lot from thisyear’s festival, not only about the number ofbeers, but about the glass collection and tokenissues that were raised by you the customers. Ifyou are a CAMRA member why not volunteer tohelp with the festival, either as a member of thecommittee or as a worker for the festival week.Please contact any member of the committee ifyou are interested. The actual dates are 18th to20th April so put them in your diary now, andhope to see you there.

Do you visit your local on a regular basis, if sowhy not help us and your fellow real ale drinkerskeep up to date with what's going on therethrough either our facebook or twitter pages. Letus all enjoy your local and keep it alive. Youcould also help CAMRA keep its records up todate on our new web site whatpub.com. CAMRAhave pledged themselves to get together themost comprehensive list of pubs in the country.Check our web site to find out how you can helpus reach that aim.

Finally, if you have any ideas for future issues ofPub Mirror or want to send me some articles forpublication please feel free to do so. Articles willbe read but I can’t guarantee to publish, editorialprivilege. space and CAMRA policies notwithstanding. Please contact me at the followingaddress, [email protected] , thank you.

Thanks to the following pubs, clubsand brewery for allowing us to usetheir premises for our variousmeetings over the last few months;Beverley Road Social Club,Brewery Wharf, George Hotel,Black Boy, The Sailmakers Arms,Minerva, Duke of York (Sutton),Olde White Harte,William Wilberforce, Hayworth,Rising Sun and Lion & Key.


The Big River Brewery, brewing real ales with character.

www.bigriverbrewery.co.uk

[email protected]

Big Red 3.9%, Ropewalk 3.5%, Windjammer 4.7%, Halcyon Daze 3.4%, Sailmakers Porter 5.2%

Find us at South Cave and Market Weighton farmers markets and select pubs around theregion. Casks and hand pump hire available for parties.

Brewed in Brough, East Yorkshire. Contact: 07737 820 922

Caledonian Deuchars IPATheakston Old PeculierTheakston Dark Smooth

Theakston LightfootCaledonian Flying Scotsman

2 Guest Beers each Month

Fine Selection of Malt Whisky


HULL PUB NEWS by Jill Walker 7

Arctic Ranger on Orchard Park re-opened on28th July after a period of closure.

The Bay Horse on Wincolmlee has a newmanager, Danny Johnston and has re-introducedcask ale in the form of Batemans XB, he hopesto add XXB if the sales of the XB go well.

The Tap on Spring Bank has closed and Ashleyand Jess have moved to Kings Bar in Hull. Ihave been informed that they intend adding asecond hand pump to the bar to introduce achanging guest ale alongside their regularGreene King IPA.

City Hotel is selling real ales at £2.30 per pintduring the week, with up to 4 available, but spe-cifically they have recently taking delivery of 'OldTown Bitter' 4.5% ABV a special for them fromBatemans. The pump clip is a photo of AlfredGelder Street in bygone days.

Three John Scotts, recently had within their ev-er changing range of real ales, beers from Axhol-me, which is a new microbrewery on the southbank, so all you beer tickers might want to pay avisit, as they intend to continue selling it. Thebrewery is the the work of Mike Richards whoformerly worked at the now defunct Thorn Brew-ery. They are also selling Old Mill’s ever extend-ing range.

Sailmakers in the High Street is a rarity in thatalthough it is a Punch Taverns pub 3 of the 4 realales available are free of tie allowing licensee afree hand to chose. We benefit here from exten-sive variety of regularly changing beers, usuallyfrom local breweries, Alex also likes to have darkbeers available for all you traditionalists.

The New Clarence had a beer festival over theweekend of 27th - 30th September. I visited onthe Friday evening and there was a good rangeof beer styles. As landlord Ian Cheeseman isn'tan ale drinker himself, I think he should be ap-plauded for his efforts to bring more choice to hiscustomers in this way.

St John's, Queens Road is now open again aftera lick of paint. The new licensee Adie seems avery affable guy on first meeting. He is selling

four ales from the Marstons range, EPA and OldEmpire on permanently with the other two pumpsfor Marstons guest ales. Hobgoblin and For-tyniner were on when I was there last. This is aremarkable unspoilt multi-roomed pub and wellworth a visit.

Master's Bar, Jameson Street is currently closedand To Let.

Spring Bank Tavern a temporary manager is inplace, Louise Hollins. She has re-introduced realale in the form of Jennings Cumberland. Openinghours are 12:00 – 12:00 Monday to Sunday.

Yet another temporary manager in place in thePolar Bear although he reports that a new tenantis in the pipeline. There are currently three realales on offer and on a recent visit these wereMarston’s EPA, Wychwood Hobgoblin, and Jen-nings Cumberland. The pub’s opening hours are:Sunday to Thursday 12 noon – 11.00 pm andFriday & Saturday 12 noon – 2.00 am

The Botanic on Spring Bank now has a soldsign outside, and we are optimistic it will becomea real ale outlet. The George on WaltonStreet/Spring Bank West failed to sell at thesame auction.

The pub formerly known as The Square onSpring Bank has had a notice on a chalk boardoutside for some months stating 'Coming soon –Henley's Bar'. It is now open, advertising‘specials’ I have yet had a chance to see if realale is on sale.

I am pleased to report that following someproblems with licensing in September Phil andSue at the Minerva now have the pub fully openagain. I am sure they will be grateful for yoursupport and custom.

A walk around the Marina calling at the GreenBricks, Minerva and Goldcrest would help pass aSunday afternoon, very nicely, and you get thebonus of blowing away the cobwebs!


The Windmill Inn53 Lairgate

Beverley

East Yorkshire

HU17 8ET

Tel: 01482 86 28 17

Greene King IPA - Abbots Ale

Old Speckled Hen

Plus Guest Beers

BAR/DINING ROOM/GAMES/PATIO AREA

Lunches

Mon to Sat: 11.30am-2pm

Sun:12noon-2pm

Sat & Sun Breakfast: 10am-12noon

Bed & Breakfast - 19 En-Suite Rooms

Open all day from 11am (10am Sunday)Close at 11pm (midnight on Fri & Sat)

Free Wi-Fi

www.windmillinn.co.uk

GREEN DRAGON51 Saturday Market

Beverley(01482) 889801

Weekly changing guest ales

from Yorkshire and Regional breweries

as well as real ales from around the UK

General Knowledge Quizzes onTuesday & Wednesday @ 9pm

Now serving Breakfast from 11am

Food served daily until 10pm

Freshly cooked Sunday Lunches

Good Beer Guide 2013

BRANCH G(ood )B(eer) G(uide) ENTRIES 2013

BEVERLEY: Cornerhouse, Dog & Duck,Durham Ox, Green Dragon

BLACKTOFT: Hope & Anchor

BRIDLINGTON: Marine Bar, Prior John,Telegraph Inn

COTTINGHAM: Blue Bell,Duke of Cumberland, King William IV

DRIFFIELD: Bell Hotel, Mariners Arms,Rose & Crown

GOODMANHAM: Goodmanham Arms

GREAT KELK: Chestnut Horse

HEDON: Haven Arms

HOLLYM: Plough Inn

HULL: Admiral of the Humber, Hop & Vine,Lion & Key, Olde Black Boy, Olde White Harte,Pave, Three John Scotts, Walters,Wellington Inn, Whalebone

KIRK ELLA: Beech Tree

LUND: Wellington Inn

NORTH CAVE: White Hart

OLD ELLERBY: Blue Bell

PATRINGTON: Holderness Inn, Station Hotel

RYEHILL: Crooked Billet

SOUTH DALTON: Pipe & Glass

Congratulation to the following Pubs from our Branch area, that have been included in the2013 Good Beer Guide.

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BEVERLEY SOCIAL CRAWL by Jill Walker

It was a grey and damp Sunday as we set offfrom the Interchange on the bus to Beverley butthe weather didn't dampen our spirits too much.The plan was to meet some more branchmembers in our first pub the Dog and Duck. Wefound a couple of the beers not on due to the factthat there was to be a beer festival the followingweekend so the beers were being saved for thatoccasion. The beers on offer, including CopperDragon's Golden Pippin and Nine StandardsSilver Standard were all sampled with relishthough and the general opinion was veryfavourable.

The beauty of a walking survey trip is that peoplecan move on when they are ready and otherscan catch up at their leisure rather than having torush if you're unfortunate enough to be one ofthe last ones to be served so it was in thismanner that we all drifted along to our next pubthe Durham Ox. This two roomed local heldmore of our members who had opted to get adifferent bus which stops outside. Here wesampled Brass Castle's Cliff Hanger, Brain'sOrgan Morgan and John Smith’s Cask andwere joined by even more members. This wasturning into quite a crawl with around 26 of us bynow.

The next stop was the Cornerhouse where therewere 12 different beers to choose from, theregular beers are Abbeydale Deception, BlackSheep Bitter, Taylor's Landlord and TetleyBitter with the other 8 changing regularly. I triedthe Theakston's XB which is one of myfavourites and then Gold from Hop Studio whichwas very good. Charlie the Bar Manager hadkindly arranged a buffet for our party which wasmost welcome. It was a very generous spread, Ihad said to cater for 20 but there were at least 26of us, none of us shy when it comes to eating,yet there were plenty of left-overs for the regularsand bar staff and Charlie assured me that itwouldn't go to waste.

Next up was the Green Dragon where there areup to 7 regularly changing beers to choose from,today's included Rudgate Ruby Mild, LeedsHellfire, and Itchen Valley Junga. Unfortunatelyour rather large party did cause a bit of

congestion at the bar here and some othercustomers were getting a little impatient with thetwo bar staff who were doing their best to cope.They did cope well but it did result in it takingquite a long time for all of us to be served, sosome of our crowd had finished their drinks andmoved on by the time the last ones were served.

Our next destination, The Woolpack is one ofthose pubs that I've always thought of as beingout of the way and a bit awkward to get to but onmy last two visits to Beverley I've discovered thatmy impression is completely wrong. Out of theback of the Green Dragon onto Lairgate and ashort walk down Newbegin brings you to TheWoolpack in about 5 minutes. This little localwas soon crammed full when our party entered.Jennings Snecklifter and Banks Fields ofGold were just two of the very well kept beers onthe bar. Now, here is where things went a bitawry!

As we'd all arrived at and been served atdifferent times, some of the party were ready tomove on and the next pub on the schedule wasThe Tiger so off they went to await the arrival ofthe stragglers.

However someone suggested that we make animpromptu call into The Windmill as it was 'onthe way'. I'm actually glad we did because theonly other time I have been into the Windmill wasa few years ago and it has improvedconsiderably since then, it has recently beenrefurbished and had two real ales on offer, one ofwhich being Wold Top Bitter, this was on topform and all of us enjoyed it very much. I won'tleave it so long before I visit again.

When we finally reached The Tiger some of ourparty had already left for home and the ones whowere still there were asking where on earth wehad been. The Tiger is a welcoming local withfriendly customers. selling ales from theMarston's range with the Wychwood Hobgoblingoing down particularly well.

With a bus stop within a few yards of the door,this was an excellent pub in which to round off avery enjoyable survey trip.

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CAMRA MEMBERS20p off a pint of Real Ale with Valid Membership

(Excluding other offers - Membership Card must be shown)


MAGGIE by David Litten

It is with great sadness that I report the prematuredeath of Maggie Morris, my partner of twentyseven years and an active CAMRA member. Shewas diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year, butafter treatment, she appeared to have fully recov-ered by May of this year. Unfortunately, it returnedwith a vengeance in late July and just a week afterdiagnosis, she died on 2nd August, aged 62.

When I first met Maggie in 1985 her preferreddrink was wine. With my encouragement, shesoon discovered the delights of real ale and mysingle membership of CAMRA was rapidly re-placed with Joint Life Membership. We travelledout together on branch social and survey trips withvisits to remote pubs, with the Eagle at Skernebeing of particular delight.

Never one to self promote, she did many things inthe background that went unseen by many mem-bers. She helped at real ale and cider festivals

and her work was most invaluable in gatheringinformation for the tasting notes in the festivalprogrammes. When I became Branch Cider Rep-resentative and more latterly Regional Cider Co-

ordinator she was always ringing round checkinginformation and proof reading articles and newsreleases for me. She never wanted to be photo-graphed or see her name in print, but occasionallyI managed to persuade her to put her name to awell written article in Pub Mirror.

While working at the Head Post Office in Lowgatein the early 1990’s, when guest beers were muchscarcer than today, I well remember having toregularly pop out and see Keith at the Black Boyto collect takeouts of Maggie’s favourite beer atthe time – Moorhouse’s Pendle Witches Brew.She developed a taste for stouts and porters andwhenever I went to the bar in a pub I knew whatto order for her, especially if either Timothy TaylorRam Tam or Batemans Salem Porter were availa-ble. The latter became her favourite beer of alltime and when we held her 60th birthday party atthe Bay Horse on Wincolmlee, I arranged for it tobe on sale at the bar.

It was amazing to see so many people from nearand far at Maggie’s funeral and the ‘celebration ofher life’ held afterwards at the Wellington Inn onRussell Street. Licensees Richard and Janette(and Chris Robertson) did her proud, with Richardrenaming one of his own beers “Maggie’s Choice”for the event. My thanks to them for hosting theevent, and to Alan, Chrissie and David from TheLion and Key for the food.

Thanks also to Sue and Keith Simpson fromBrown Cow Brewery for producing a special bot-tled beer, and to artist extraordinaire ChristineJopling for designing the label for the bottled beer.All at extremely short notice!

Cheers Maggie – you are greatly missed.

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GOODMANHAM ARMSGoodmanham,

nr. Market Weighton01430 873849

Peg Fyfe Mild, Theakston’sBest Bitter & Old Peculier,

Wold Top Bitter, Guest Beers,

plus Real Cider from the wood

Locally sourced produce :Lunch times plus Fri 5-7.30

Sunday Hog RoastMonday Steak Pie night

Music Night 1st ThursdayJazz/Blues 3rd Thursday

of MonthQuiz Night: Wednesday

Beer GardenLog Fires – Dog Friendly Pub

All Hallows breweryBREWING NOW UNDERWAY

OPEN 11am till late EVERY DAY


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37 Westwood Road,Beverley

01482 867095

Opening HoursMon 4.30pm -10.30pm

Tues - Fri 12pm - 3pm

& 4.30pm - 11pm

Sat - Sun 12pm - 11pm

7 Real Ales

Dog Friendly

Home-cooked food

Thursday Night Quiz


EAST YORKSHIRE PUB NEWS by Pete Mason/Mark Bainton

The Lobster Pot, formerly the Broadacres inBridlington, has re-opened after a £2 millionrevamp by Marston’s Inn and Tavern group.David and Sheila Reil are very pleased to bemanaging the establishment and look forward toseeing old and new customers back to samplethe wide range of real ale from the Marston’srange.

The Star in Kilham is now selling real cider andlandlord Danny has plans for a winter festival inthe run up to Christmas. The village staged theirannual beer and cider festival over the weekend7th - 9th September and was a great success.Well done to the Kilham Playing Fields Groupwho organised the event.

The Blue Post Inn North Frodingham now sellsreal ales, Wold Gold and John Smith’s cask areregulars, along with a changing locally guestbeer. The Travellers Rest in Long Riston hasbegun to sell two real ales. In Gilberdyke; sadlyWards Hotel has been put up for sale byauction. We hope the premises continue to be apublic house.

In Driffield; The Old Falcon is now selling ciderand re-introduces real ale. Particularly pleasingare the discounts offered to CAMRA membersfrom Ist November 2012. We are also delightedthat Pub of Year winner in 2011 Bob Palmer hasmoved to the Spread Eagle. It is a doublebenefit as it means a long standing pub has apromising future but we also have a free house inthe town.

If his plans come to fruition on time, branchmember Ian Allott is using his love of real ale togood use by opening a new free house inBeverley. By the 1st February ‘Chequers’ willbe serving 3-5 real ales and 3-5 ciders inSwaby’s Yard, I look forward to my first drinkthere!

The All Hallows Brewery at the GoodmanhamArms in Goodmanham has crafted Peg FyffeMild to be sold at the pub, but has also gone outto local festivals in the area, including the eventwe ourselves held at Beverley Racecourse inSeptember and has had a very favourableresponse.

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The Ship

KingsHead

10% Discount for card carryingCAMRA members on cask ale

The Ship is a traditional family PubOpen from 11.00 am to 11.00 pm (12.30 on Friday and Saturday)

Several Real Ales and Ciders available From theFollowing Breweries

Marston, Mansfield, Jennings, Banks, Wychwood and 2 quests alesBar Meals Menu Available from

Tuesday to Friday 12noon- 2.00pm and 5.30pm- 8.30pmSaturday 12noon - 2.30pm and 5.00pm - 8.30pm

and Sunday Cavery 12noon - 4pm

Cliff Road, Sewerby, Bridlington - Telephone. 01262 672374


Roaring Log Fire and dog friendly pub


Spread Eagle

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Three Regular Real AlesCumberland Bitter,Marston’s PedigreeJennings Dark Mild

Food Served

Monday to Saturday(except Monday & Saturday evening)

11.00 - 2.30 & 5.30 - 7.45

Sunday Lunches12.00 - 3.00

5 regular guest aleschanging weekly

Large beer garden andeating area

Outdoor courtyard withsmoking area

Tuesday Night is Quiz Night

The King William IV

152 Hallgate, Cottingham, HU16 4BT

Telephone - 01482 875996

MARTIN, MANDIE and

STAFF

EXTEND A WARM

WELCOME TO ALL

Large function room and buffetsavailable ideal for all occasions

Locally sourced produce freshly prepared daily Greatvalue lunch menu

Monday to Saturday 12noon - 4pm

Full house a la Carte menuMonday to Thursday 12noon - 8pm

Friday and Saturday 12pm - 9pm

First Class Sunday Lunch 12noon to 7.30pm

Buffets, Banquets and Outside Cateringtailored to suit your needs

www.stationhotelpatrington.co.uk

The Station Hotel Patrington 01964 630262

email: [email protected]

Families Most Welcome

Function Suite

&

Conservatory

Marquee Coming Soon

Situated on A1033

Main EYMS bus

route 75/76/77

Listed in CAMRA’s



Hull social crawl to wincolmlee by jill walker

Saturday 28th July was a warm sunny eveningwhen Patrick and I met up with the five otherbranch members who hadn't been put off by mychoice of pubs for this crawl. I had chosen thepubs of County on Francis Street, Kingston onCumberland Street and Whalebone and BayHorse both on Wincolmlee because they arepubs that, being in a very industrial area of thecity, I thought probably don't usually get a lot ofevening traffic.

After a couple of beers in our meeting place ofthe Wellington Inn (their own brew Salamancagoing down a treat with a few of us) we were onour way.

First stop, County and in my opinion, thehighlight of the whole night. Only one beer onoffer, being Banks’ Bitter which was absolutelysuperb. Such a shame that they can't sellenough real ale to make use of the other twohand pumps on the bar if the Banks’ was anexample of how they keep their beers! The realtreat in here though was the absolutely wonderfulbarmaid who clearly took no nonsense fromanyone. Some quality banter between her andPete had us all falling about laughing and reallyset the mood for the night. That's what I call aproper barmaid someone remarked and I have toagree. I'll bet they don't get any trouble makersin that place, or if they do, they're swiftly dealtwith by a tongue so sharp it could cut your headoff!

Reluctantly leaving the jovial atmosphere of theCounty, we set off on the fairly long walk toKingston. Two of our party decided to wait forus in the Whalebone so it was just five of us whoarrived at the Kingston feeling very thirsty. I hadphoned the landlord during the week to advisehim of our visit and to ask if he had beer on the

bar. He confirmed that yes, he had Black Sheep.I'm not a fan of Black Sheep personally but thesetrips are all about visiting different pubs in ourcity so in we trooped. You've guessed it I'm sure– no pump clips, no beer on! I wasn't a happybunny but as there was no one behind the barand of the people in the pub, no one looked likethey were even going to attempt to get up andserve us, I really didn't know what else to doexcept follow the rest of the crew, who hadalready walked back out again.

On the way back to the Whalebone, Howardinsisted us having a photo standing underneaththe Wincolmlee street sign, this was in responseto Mark, our East Yorkshire Pubs’ Officer windingme up the previous week by disputing my choiceof name for the crawl area.

At the Whalebone where we bumped into formerChairman of the branch Alan Canvess with agroup of friends. Alan did suggest that perhaps Ishould also have checked the Bay Horse forbeer too, which I hadn't thought to do. As wewere now rather ahead of schedule, we enjoyeda couple of drinks and a welcome sit down in theWhalebone, the Diana Mild was pleasant andalso on the bar was Whalebone's Neck Oil and abrew from Copper Dragon. For anyone whohasn't visited this pub I recommend that you doso soon. It is a real hidden gem and the pictureson the walls of old pubs no longer in existenceare fascinating as are the old sporting photos ofour local teams.

Alan's crowd left to go to the Bay Horse andshortly after, we followed only to see them comestraight back out and shake their heads at usindicating that there was in fact, no beer to be

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continued from previous pagehad. I went in myself to check and sure enough,no beer. Apparently they haven't had any forseveral weeks! I was embarrassed by now andstarting to feel like my second ever pub crawlwas turning out a bit rubbish. Despite everyonereassuring me that it didn't matter, I felt badabout dragging everyone on a long walk to threepubs when only one of them actually had anybeer! I'm only pleased that the weather wasclement.

Another trek, this time back into town to visit TheOld English Gentleman where the beers on the

bar were Jennings Snecklifter and Cock-a-hoop.Now Snecklifter is a favourite of both Patrick andme and despite it being a bit lively when firstpulled, it tasted wonderful. We were joined inhere by Mark who had been at work up to then, abig thank you to him for making the effort tocome out and join us.

We now seemed to be on a synchronised pubcrawl with Alan's crowd as having beaten us tothe Old English Gentleman, they now followedus to our last pub of the night the New Clarence.It was just as well we went in because prior toour arrival there were only two people in theplace. The camera came out again, now dubbedthe CAMRA camera by Howard. Former branchmember Mick kindly took a photo of us all togeth-er. Then Linda dragged Alan's crowd over to sitwith us whilst she took another photo.

I think that on the whole everyone enjoyed theevening, despite the enforced changes! I cer-tainly did and my thanks go to Kim and Mike,Howard and Linda, Pete, Steve and John and ofcourse Patrick for all joining me and making thenight a success.

Wincolmlee (c0ntinued)

kingston

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Members discount scheme

Our thanks go to the following local pubs where CAMRA members can take advantage of thefollowing offers on production of their membership card:

Hull PubsKings, King St: 10p off a pint of cask ale;Admiral of the Humber: 20p off a pint of cask ale – cannot be used in conjunction with aWetherspoons voucher;Three John Scotts: 20p off a pint of cask ale – cannot be used in conjunction with aWetherspoons voucher;The Haworth Arms: Beverley High Road: Discount card for everyone – 8th pint of cask alefree – AND 10% off cask ale for CAMRA members;

East Yorkshire Towns & VillagesTriton Inn, Brantingham: 10% off cask ale;Marine Bar, Bridlington: 10% off cask ale;Gardeners’ Country Inn, Coniston: 10% off meals;Blue Bell Cottingham: 10% off cask ale;Duke of Cumberland, Cottingham: 10p per pint off cask ale;King William IV, Cottingham: 10p per pint off cask ale;Railway Inn, Cottingham: 30p off a pint and 15p off a half of cask ale;The Black Prince, Cottingham: 10% off cask ale;Old Falcon, Driffield: 20p off a pint of cask ale (from 1st November); NEWPlough Inn, Hollym: 10p off per pint off cask ale; 5p off a half pintRose and Crown, Hornsea: 10p off per pint off cask ale;Beech Tree, Kirk Ella: 20p off a pint of cask ale (National Ember Inns promotion); NEWOld Mill, Langtoft: 10p off a pint of cask ale;The New Inn, Leven: 10% off cask ale;The Carpenters Arms, Market Weighton: A loyalty card is offered to CAMRA members;Sandpiper, Melton: 10% off cask aleThe Gnu, North Newbald: 10% of cask ale;The Holderness, Patrington: 10% off cask ale;The Star, Sancton: 10% of cask ale;The Ship Inn, Sewerby: 10% off cask ale;Green Dragon, Welton: 10% off Cask Ale;Warton Arms, Woodmansey: 10% off cask ale.

Please make use of these offers as they will save you money and show the pubs that CAMRAmembers use them. Also, please let us know if the published details appear to be incorrect.Offers change and we are not always the first to know. Details of local discounts for membersare publicised locally in Pub Mirror (of course), in the Members’ Digest, on the branch websiteand forum, on facebook and at branch events such as the Real Ale and Cider Festival. If youtravel elsewhere in the country, check out the local CAMRA branch websites and the CAMRAmagazines to find out offers available in the area you are visiting.

All members currently receive £20 worth of vouchers from Wetherspoons over the year. Thesetake the form of 40 vouchers, each worth 50 pence off a pint of real ale.

Membership leafletsWe try to keep a supply of CAMRA membership leaflets in pubs nominated for the Good BeerGuide. If the pub where you found this magazine does not have any, please let me know.

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Why Join CAMRA?

I would like to invite you to join CAMRA to play apart in the campaigns to keep quality real alebehind the bars, keep pubs on your streets,rather than see them turned into housing or officeblocks and to work towards your pint being goodvalue for money. The traditional advantages ofmembership are:

v Be a member of the most successfulconsumer organisation in Europe;

v Be part of a social and active branchwith many events throughout the year;

v Be involved by nominating and selectingthe pubs included in the Good BeerGuide;

v Receive a monthly copy of the ‘What’sBrewing’ CAMRA newspaper, providingthe latest news on CAMRA nationallyand details of beer festivals and socialevents;

v Receive a quarterly copy of the CAMRAmagazine, ‘Beer,’ offering informativearticles about many subjects related tobeer and cider;

v Receive a branch newsletter bi-monthly,updating you on all the local news andactivities (Hull and East Yorkshirebranch members only);

v Receive discounts on the RRP of manyCAMRA products including the bestselling Good beer Guide;

v Enjoy free or discounted entry to beerfestivals;

However, there are other incentives to help youdecide whether or not to join:

Ø Increasing numbers of pubs nationallyare offering discounts on real ale toCAMRA membership card holders;

Ø £20 of vouchers for real ale atWetherspoons pubs (40 fifty pencevouchers);

Ø Discounts on holidays, insurance andother offers from reputable companies(see national website for the latestoffers);

Ø More information about real cider andwhere to find it;

Just fill in the application form (or a photocopy ofit) and the direct debit form in this publication toreceive 3 months membership free. Direct debitis also cheaper year by year. Alternatively, youmay want to commit yourself to a lifemembership and never make a second payment!You can also join using a membership formsfound in many local pubs, forms inWetherspoons magazines and in CAMRApublications, or on-line via the CAMRA website.

It’s only £5 extra to buy a joint membershipso why not get double the benefit(Wetherspoons excluded)

Want to get active in CAMRA?Feel free to ask about what’s going on,committee or associate positions that maybevacant, social activities and surveying for thenext Good Beer Guide. You may have somegreat ideas for what we should do in the branchor which pubs are worthy of Good Beer Guideentries, let us know. Relevant contact details canbe found elsewhere in this Pub Mirror.

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The nights are drawing in now but nothing coulddeter our intrepid band of ‘survey trippers’heading to our Northern Frontier, our mostnorthern region within the picturesque YorkshireWolds.

We began at The Anvil Arms in Wold Newton.Here we were treated to Black Sheep Bitter,Theakston’s Best bitter and Green King IPA.

Up the road to Burton Fleming and to theBurton Arms which had Deuchars IPA andTheakston’s Best Bitter, some had both beforewe moved on!

We moved on to the Falling Stone in Thwing.The pub’s name originates from a meteoritewhich fell from the sky on 13th December 1795and was found close by, it’s now housed in the

Science Museum in London, a monument standswhere it fell. On at the bar was, Cameron’s BestBitter, Great Newsome Jem’s Stout, The Pride ofFulstow and Plum Porter from Fulstow Brewery

in Louth, the Plum Porter was particularly specialand I thank the licensees for providing us with achance to try it.

Onwards to Kilham and a visit to the Old Star.This traditional village pub served a veryinteresting selection of ales; Brains’ OrganMorgan, Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, OssettBitter and Otter Bitter from Devon along withcider and perry, so the range representedbreweries all over the country. At the time of ourvisit to Kilham the village was holding its annualbeer festival on the recreation ground (30 ales).Sadly we had to focus on carrying on with thesurvey trip!

At Harpham we sampled the St.Quintin Armswhich is on Main Street. A popular pub withvillagers and the passing visitor. So when the20+ survey trippers arrived to sample the WoldTop Anglers Reward and Tetley Cask, the placebecame very full, but Ian & Zoe didn’t mind.

We travelled on to our last port of call, TheChestnut Horse in Kelk. Jon the landlordinformed me he has a regular clientele whoeither come down to dine on Lucy’s famous piesor drink his Wold Top, Wold Gold and JenningsCumberland ale or the guest beer Hop Studio,Summer XS from Elvington. I think its both!

After saying our farewells it was back to Hull andto start planning the next survey trip.

All the pubs which were visited have diningfacilities as well as a bar area and a menu to suitall. Contact details can be found on theirwebsites.

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1. ANGEL15 Butcher RowDraft Bass, Theakston’s BestBitter

2. BEAVER8 North Bar WithinJohn Smith’s Bitter

3. CORNERHOUSE[GBG 2013]2 NorwoodAbbeydale Deception, BlackSheep Best Bitter, TetleyBitter, Timothy TaylorLandlord, up to 8 guest beers.

4. DOG & DUCK [GBG 2013]33 LadygateBlack Sheep Best Bitter,Copper Dragon GoldenPippin, John Smith’s Bitter,Ringwood Boondoggle,Timothy Taylor Golden Bestand one guest beer.

5. DURHAM OX [GBG 2013] 48NorwoodJohn Smith’s Bitter; 2 guestbeers.

6. FORESTERS ARMSBecksideBeers from the Marston’srange.

7. GRAPES (PUSH INN)Saturday MarketTetley Bitter plus guest beer

8. GREEN DRAGON [GBG2013]51 Saturday MarketBeer Range Varies; up to 7guest beers.

9. GROVEHILL HOTEL183 Holme Church LaneUp to 3 Jennings/Marston’sBeers

10. HAYRIDEGrange WalkWells Bombardier andTheakeston’s Old Peculier

11. HODGSONSFlemingateTetley Bitter and guest beers

12. KINGS HEADSaturday MarketBrakspear Bitter plus 3 fromthe Marston’s range.

13. LORD NELSON13 FlemingateJohn Smith’s Bitter

14. MOLESCROFT INN75 Molescroft RoadJennings Bitter, JenningsSnecklifter plus guest beer.

15. MONKS WALKHighgate (entry also fromEastgate)Black Sheep Best Bitter (notalways available).

16. MOULDERS ARMS32 Wilbert LaneOne real ale available.

17. ODDFELLOWSEastgateBlack Sheep Best Bitter andGreene King IPA

18. QUEENS HEAD5 Wednesday MarketGreene King IPA and OldSpeckled Hen and seasonalbeer.

19. ROSE & CROWNNorth Bar WithoutJohn Smith’s Bitter and BlackSheep Best Bitter

20. ROYAL OAKCartwright LaneJohn Smith’s Bitter and guestbeer

21. ROYAL STANDARDNorth Bar WithoutBlack Sheep Best Bitter andJennings Cumberland

22.SUN INN1 FlemingateBlack Sheep Best Bitter,Caledonian Deuchars IPA;TimothyTaylor Landlord andguest beer.

23. TIGER INNLairgateBlack Sheep Best Bitter,Wychwood Hobgoblin andCopper Dragon Golden Pippinand guest beer and WestonsCider.

24. VICTORIAVictoria RoadMarston’s Pedigree andchanging guest fromMarston’s range.

25. WHITE HORSE INN22 HengateSamuel Smith’s Old BreweryBitter (Cask Breather used)

26. WINDMILL53 LairgateGreene King Abbot Ale,Greene King IPA and guest.

27. WOOLPACK INNWestwood RoadJennings Bitter, Cockerhoop,Snecklifter, Marston’s EPA,Wychwood Hobgoblin, and upto 2 guest from the Marston’srange.

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MADE INEASTYORKSHIRE

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We now offer a full range of fruit cyders which are:PEACH --APRICOT --BLACKCURRANT -- BLACKBERRY -- CHILLI -- PASSION FRUIT

CRANBERRY --RASPBERRY --RHUBARB.They are all based on our medium sweet cyder with a hint of these flavours. All

flavourings and sweetenings used are from completely natural sources which webelieve is the first time a full range has ever been launched at one time using natural

products which now makes us the market leader in artisan crafted cyder in thecountry. We are now scaling up production to cope with demand. These cyders areavailable initially in 500 ml bottles but later in 2013 we will be able to supply it in 20

ltr bag in the box. It can be supplied in bag in the box now, but only to special order.

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INN CIDER by David Litten

Hull and East Yorkshire Branch leads the way inthe county with around thirty regular cider andperry outlets, its Cider Pub of the YearCompetition and the quarterly Cider and PerryTasting Panel.

YORKSHIRE CIDER PUB OF THE YEAR2012

The Hop & Vine in Hull has won the YorkshireCAMRA’s Regional Cider & Perry Pub of theYear competition for the third consecutive year ina record year for entries. The finalists were allvisited and judged on criteria that includedquality, temperature and price. Also consideredwere aspects of the pubs themselves i.e.atmosphere, service & welcome, style/décor,community focus, and sympathy with CAMRA’saims. The number of pubs selling real cider andreal perry in the county is now around 300 and itis therefore a tribute that the pub has maintainedits position ahead of the competition. Thepresentation of a certificate was made to StewartCampbell and Janet Rowan by YorkshireRegional Cider Co-ordinator, David Litten on theevening of 24th October 2012.

cIDER MONTH EVENTS IN OCTOBER

The Beverley Millennium Orchard celebratedNational Apple Day with its 12th Apple Festivalon Sunday 14th October.

The Hop & Vine hosted its fifth cider and perryfestival on 18th – 20th October timed to coincidewith National Apple Day. There were 15 realciders and perries sourced from the awardwinning local Moorlands Farm, the West Country(including the CAMRA National Champion Cider,Cornish Orchards Farmhouse), Wales andBrittany.

The Royal Oak, Wantage, has been judged theCAMRA National Cider and Perry Pub of theYear for 2012 after a year of local and regionaljudging rounds. News of the Oxfordshire pub’ssuccess was announced on 1st October - the dayCAMRA began its annual National Cider andPerry Month campaign to champion theproduction, history and skill associated with realcider and perry making.

Owned and run by landlord Paul Hexter and hiswife Frankie since taking over the premises in1983, the Royal Oak is a multi award winningstreet corner pub famed for its extensive drinksselection, and also renowned for being an activesupporter of local charities, holding regularfundraising events.

The pub has today been crowned by CAMRA asthe best cider and perry pub in Britain, with theRoyal Oak stocking a formidable 15 ciders andperries at any one time, the majority of which aresourced from the local area. Judges praised theowners for their support of local producers anddedication to promoting the real cider industry tocustomers. In the quest to become the best ciderand perry pub in Britain, the Royal Oak beat 3other National finalists to the accolade. Thesepubs are Arkwright Arms, Sutton cumDuckmanton, Derbyshire: Graduate College Bar,Lancaster University: Lancaster and HornsLodge, South Chailey, East Sussex.

PUB NEWS

The Old Falcon in Driffield is stocking WestonsOld Rosie and a Moorlands cider while the OldStar at Kilham is now selling a real cider.Forpubs in our area that sell real cider see pubs withlist on page 41.

BRANCH CIDER TASTING PANEL

The Branch's Cider Tasting Panel met for itsquarterly meeting at the Hop & Vine in Kingstonupon Hull on the evening of Tuesday 16thOctober 2012. As the pub had just received itsstock for the cider festival we were able tochoose from around fifteen ciders/perries. ‘CiderTasting Cards’, similar to the ‘Real Ale TastingCards’ that are already used by the Real AleTasting Panels, were used.

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Stewart, Janet and David


CIDERS ON THE UP TOO!!!!!

The Campaign for Real Ale has recently revealed how the real cider and perry industry is growing inline with the UK’s real ale boom. There are now over 1,000 breweries operational across the UK (thehighest number for over 70 years) and new figures show that there are now over 300 producersoperational across the UK, twice as many as in 2005 when CAMRA's Good Cider Guide reported155 producers in operation.

With the research conducted by CAMRA’s National Cider and Perry Committee, some of the biggestgrowth areas of the UK for real cider and perry include Herefordshire, which boasts over 40producers, and Somerset, with over 35.

Such is the increasing interest in the nation’s historic cider making tradition; even less popular areasfor cider including Yorkshire are seeing small companies start life.

Locally, Rob Gibbon flies the flag in the Hull and East Yorkshire CAMRA branch area at NorthNewbald where he has been producing his popular and award winning Moorlands Farm Cyders forthe last few years.

Andrea Briers, CAMRA National Cider and Perry Committee chairman, said:

‘We are delighted to see a large number of people coming into the real cider and perry industry andplaying a major part in driving consumer interest in local produce, whether sold at a small farm outletor a CAMRA festival. Our local branches are discovering new producers starting up all the time,meaning we are constantly revising our databases, and always welcoming new information.’

‘It’s also exciting to hear many of these producers reporting high demand for their ciders and perries.This shows how many drinkers in the current climate are shunning mass produced brands andinstead are turning to their local producer for quality and choice.

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Yorkshire Brewery

Hull and East Yorkshire CAMRA Branch Website - www.hullcamra.org.uk Group - CAMRA Hull & East Yorkshire @hullCAMRA

In the west of CAMRA’s Hull and East Ridingbranch area is the pleasant market town of How-den. Probably most well known for its MinsterTower which is visible for miles, it is also thehome of Bird Brain Brewery where Phil Usherhas been brewing his beers since 2008.

After spending eleven years in East Africa withpale, warm lager made by large local breweries,Phil returned to Yorkshire hoping to find theYorkshire beers of his memories. However, thegreat cask beers he hoped to find no longer ex-isted and the cans available in supermarketswere even worse.

In 2000 there were very few brew kit stockistsleft. Phil searched the internet and located “Hop& Grape” which stocked all the kits and toys abrewer could need. After using kits and extractfor a while, he wanted something better. With

little money and being a true Yorkshireman, hebuilt his own kettle and cooling coil for full grainmash to go with a small mash tun made from apicnic cooler that contained a strainer and sparg-ing arm. This all grain brewing made great beerwith the body and mouthfeel he wanted. The onlyproblem was that it took 7 hours to make 5 gal-lons. Brewing was therefore limited to twice amonth for home demand.

The Chairman of Doncaster CAMRA asked Philto brew a beer for Doncaster Beer Festival forcharity. That and other festivals and eventsmeant that brewing was now taking place at mostweekends. As an engineer by training, he hadthe confidence told build something bigger. Buy-ing and building stainless tanks and other equip-ment continued as money and items becameavailable.

The next problems occurred when he could brew81 gallons. How much could he really drink aweek and how was he going to store it? As ahome brewer, Phil had four plastic polypins andsix Cornelius kegs. The solution arrived in theform of 30 casks that were purchased from Gar-ton brewery when the brewer there was sellingup to retire to Cyprus.

A few barbeques were held locally with food andbeer for friends to taste. A lot of beer was beingconsumed but not enough. The answer was toconsider going professional. This caused a prob-lem since Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customsdiscovered that the branch chairman of DoncasterCAMRA had already advertised Bird Brain

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THE BIRD BRAIN BREWERY - SO FAR by David Litten

beer at the Doncaster Beer Festival. Once it wasmade clear that the beer was for charity, Phil ar-ranged with HMRC for a license and training.

Now in its fourth year of brewing, capacity hasincreased with a 4 barrel electric kettle, and anoth-er conical fermenter. Extra hot liquor tanks andmore casks totalling 115 (all stainless steel –plastic casks are not used) mean that capacitycan be expanded as required. Brewing normallytakes place twice a month, when the day joballows. Phil hopes to brew regular beers moreoften with more local pubs taking our beers. Theregular beers are Shiny, Howden Bittern, PuffinPale Ale and a couple of dark beers (to be deter-mined).

Currently there are two regular outlets: the Victo-ria Hotel in Goole, for which Shiny is brewed; andthe Creykes Arms in Rawcliffe, which takes How-den Bittern. Also in Rawcliffe, the Jemmy Hirst atthe Rose & Crown has always had at least onecask of every different beer brewed. Bird Brainbeers have been sent to festivals not only inYorkshire but all over Britain including London,Brighton, Liverpool, Newcastle and Scotland, andat a wide variety of pubs in between.

So why is the brewery called Bird Brain? It isobvious! When Phil mentioned starting a breweryto his father, he asked ‘What kind of bird-brainedidea is that?’ and since you need a lot of namesfor beers and there are lots of bird names to useand it all fell into place.

Photos by Bob Wallis, Sean Stewart and DavidLitten.

Landlord Tony Milner of The Victoria inGoole with Phil Usher of Bird Brain Brewery

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It’s all change for the better on the Irish BeerScene; if you’ve been before and weredisappointed then read on.

Inspired by an article in the CAMRA Beermagazine of Autumn 2010, on my third visit inApril 2011, I endeavoured to seek out some beerother than the brewpubs. Invaluable in seekingout pubs selling it in Dublin, and Ireland ingeneral is the Beoir website, which lists all knownoutlets for Irish Craft Beer in both NorthernIreland and the Republic. I found the wonderfullytasty Galway Hooker, Rebel Red from Cork andTrouble Dark Arts Porter on this visit. Othertasty brews were tried too in various pubs, andthanks to an understanding fiancée (now wife) Iwas lucky enough to find some of the best outletsin the centre of Dublin to try Irish Ales.

When next returning to Dublin in September2011 with our son, we headed for O’Neill’s,Suffolk Street, one of the more traditional pubswith a great range, I noticed a poster for a BeerFestival. This was for the inaugural Irish CraftBeer Festival at the Royal Dublin Society. Itwasn’t on the weekend we were there so I vowedto do a bit of research on the web when we gothome.

And so to 2012! After getting confirmation of thedates I asked friends if anyone else wasinterested. Luckily, after my brother, Simonconfirmed he’d like to attend my wife gave methe thumbs up; flights and hotel were booked andso off we went. The dates of this year’s festivalwere September 7th-9th. We got there at around6.30 on the Friday, to find people drinkingoutside enjoying the beer. After paying a €10

charge, which included a glass, we got our tokens and were away. The hall was a lovelyvenue, and each brewery/producer had their owntrade stand which covered 3 sides of the venue.

There were 14 breweries represented, 3 ciderproducers and a stand selling a limited section ofUSA beers; Beoir also had a stand. Afterperusing the programme we started off on tryinga bit of cask ale from Dungarvan. Unfortunatelyit really could have done with better cooling as itwas a warm evening. I did try other cask alesfrom other brewers which again seemed to sufferwith the same issue.

Some of my personal favourites I tried at theFestival were the Bo Bristle Rowers Red, andIPA, and Eight Degrees Sunburnt Red, andBarefoot Bohemian Pilsner. I advised Simonthat some beers were possibly best left until thenext day when we were doing a pub crawl.

On the Saturday, across lunchtime, we did aHistory Walking Tour about the Easter Rising of1916; very informative if you have an interest ofthat sort of thing. Our first pub of the day wasMessrs. Maguire where we tried 4 or 5 of their

own brews, including a hoppy Olympic IPA.Disappointingly they didn’t have their Plain Stoutavailable, which I’d tried on a previous visit, andis possibly the best Irish stout I’ve drunk. After a10 minute walk or so we arrived at Against theGrain on Wexford Street. I’d called here on aprevious visit when it had only just opened. Thisplace is a must, and we stayed here a while

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Continued from the previous pagetrying several beers between us including BayAle red, and Stormy Port porter from GalwayBay Brewery in Galway, and the wonderfully dryShandon Stout from Franciscan Well, Cork.They also had a Thornbridge beer on caskavailable.

We then had a 5 minute walk to the Bull &Castle, Dame Street, where again there was agood range in the Beer Hall. Next stop was thePorterhouse, on the edge of Temple Bar. Ienjoyed their Red Ale here, and they have anexcellent range of their own ales, including 3stouts, plus guests; incidentally they also have abranch in Covent Garden, London.

Time was marching on now, but after workingdistances out we headed to the Black Sheep,Capel Street which has a similar range toAgainst the Grain; not too big a surprise as it’sowned by the same group. Our last pub wasW.J. Kavanaghs, which was further out of thecentre on Dorset Street Lower. A friendly placethough and though, well worth the trek. Theyalso had a few Thornbridge beers on Cask here.

In summing up Dublin has now become a beerdestination for myself, and I’m discovering newplaces to try beer every time I go.

Our pub crawl was by no means exhaustive, butyou would certainly get the chance to try a fewdifferent ones. Why not go yourself, and give theIrish Craft a try?

Slainte!

EMERALD ALES (continued)

Nick was an active member of the Hull Branch ofCAMRA in its early years and with Jane, theywere valued helpers at our Branch beer Festi-vals. He will be remembered for his wit andsense of humour and good nature- a true gent.But also for pioneering the first Real Ale Off -Li-cence in Hull .

Nick opened the “Good Beer Shop” at 55 GraftonStreet in the late 70s which became a mecca fordiscerning beer drinkers. It was a genuine“offie”with cask beer on tap from 2 hand pumps-you took your own container to be filled. TheShop must have been built as an off -licence witha cellar with a trap door. Nick invariably emergedfrom the cellar with a smile on his face every timea customer entered-he seemed to spend a lot oftime down there for some reason!

His knowledge of beer [as well as cars - he useda Reliant Scimitar as a dray] - was legendary. Hiscustomers included Paul Heaton and other mem-bers of the Housemartins. Another customerbrought a tea pot to be filled with ale-an eccen-tricity which I am sure Nick would have appreci-ated.

Apparantly, he was involved in a pioneering hov-ercraft service across the Humber when his me-chanical engineering skills were no doubt put togood use.

A good turnout at a Thanksgiving Service at St.Mary’s, Dalton Holme was followed by severalpints in Nick’s memory at the Pipe and Glass Inn.Any Donations to the Pancreatic Cancer Re-search Fund please.

Paul Ashton

Nicholas Charles Frederick Hotham1947-2012 fondly remembered

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REAL ALE v SMOOTH

What is Real Ale?Real Ale is a living beer. It continues to fermentand develop its full flavour in the cask.

Real Ale is brewed from traditional ingredients,malt, hops, water and yeast matured bysecondary fermentation in the container fromwhich it is dispensed, and served without theextraneous use of carbon dioxide or nitrogen viahand pumps.

Real Ale is also called cask beer or caskconditioned.

Examples of traditional handpumps

What are ‘Smooth’ beers?Smooth beers are brewed in much the same wayas real ale but eventually the natural yeast iskilled and processed to give longer shelf life.

The dead beer is then resurrected by means ofchemicals and served chilled by gas pressurethrough fonts. Smooth beer sales are also knownas nitro-keg beer.

Examples of ‘Smooth’ dispensers

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YORKSHIRE BREWING COThe Old Fruit Market,70 Humber Street,HULL,HU1 1TU

(01482) 329999/618000 www.yorkshirebrewing.co.ukRegular Beers: True North (ABV 4.5%),Jubilation Ale (ABV 4.8%), Tyger Tyger (ABV3.6%)BLO - Mark Bainton

OLD MILLMill StreetSNAITHDN14 9HU

(01405) 861813@ www.oldmillbrewery.co.ukRegular Beers: Mild (ABV 3.4%),Bitter (ABV 3.9%), Old Curiosity (ABV 4.5%),Bullion (ABV 4.7%), Blonde Bombshell (ABV4.0%), Yorkshire Porter (ABV 4.4%)

WELLINGTON INN BREWERYRussell StreetHULLHU2 9AB

(01482) 329486@ Thewellingtoninnbreweryhull.blogspot.com

Regular Beers: 1st Duke (ABV 3.7%), BeauDouro (4.5%), Stateman (4.0%),Waterloo Porter(ABV 4.0%), Leipzig (5.8%).BLO - Steve Hopkinson

WHALEBONE163 WincolmleeHULLHU2 0PA

(01482) 226648Regular Beers: Diana Mild (ABV 3.5%),Neck Oil (ABV 3.9%)BLO - Howard Joy

WOLD TOPHunmanby GrangeWold NewtonDRIFFIELDYO25 3HS (01723) 892222@ www.woldtopbrewer.co.uk

Regular Beers: Bitter (ABV 3.7%), Wold Gold(ABV 4.8%), Headland Red (ABV 4.3%), AnglersReward (ABV 4.0%)

ALL HALLOWSGoodmanham Arms,Main StreetGOODMANHAMYO43 5JA (01430) 873849Regular Beers: Peg Fyfe Dark Mild (ABV 3.8%),Wayward Angel (ABV 4.3%), Suicide Blonde(ABV 5%)BLO - Paul Altersyke

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East Yorkshire HU15 1AA (07737) 820922@ www.bigriverbrewery.co.ukRegular Beers: Windjammer (ABV 4.7%), BigRed (ABV 3.9% ), Rope Walk (ABV 3.5%),Halcyon Daze (ABV 3.4%), Sailmakers Porter(ABV 5.2%)BLO - Paul Ashton

BIRD BRAIN30 Hallgate,HOWDENGooleDN14 7SL (01430) 432166Regular Beers: Shiny’s (ABV 3.9%), HowdenBitter (ABV 3.9%)BLO - Stewart Campbell

GREAT NEWSOMEGreat Newsome FarmSouth FrodinghamWinesteadHULLHU12 0NR (01964) 612201

@ www.greatnewsomebrewery.co.ukRegular Beers: Sleck Dusk (ABV 3.8%), PrickyBack Otchan (ABV 4.2%), Frothingham Best(ABV 4.3%), Jem’s Stout (ABV 4.3%)BLO - Stewart Campbell

MOORLANDS FARM CYDER TTH (York) LtdMoorlands FarmNORTH NEWBALD (01430) 827359@ www.moorlandsfarmcyder.co.ukCider: Medium Sweet Cyder (ABV 6.4%)

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Follow The Tigers on the Amber Trail

In conjunction with our friends at Hull City Official Supporters Club, we are lookingat the next few away fixtures for City as they chase promotion from the Championship.

Saturday 10th November 2012 v Cardiff CityThere are 13 pubs in the Cardiff area in this years GBG and the popular city centre pub GreatMajor (33 High Street, CF10 1PU) is a good a start as any and it also has traditional Welsh foodserved in the evening. Opposite the Millennium Stadium is Zerodegrees (27 Westgate Street, CF101DD) a very eco friendly pub, with several bars on different levels. Seasonal brews including fruitbeers and stouts always available.

Saturday 17th November 2012 v Birmingham CityIt is not particularly recommended that you visit pubs near to the ground, so we have given you twopubs within 10 minutes of New Street Station. The first is Old Joint Stock (4 Temple Bar, oppositethe Cathedral, B2 5NY) which in its previous life was the Old Joint Stock Bank. It is a Grade II listedbuilding and boasts elaborate decorative features, a large island bar and a club room to the rear anda balcony drinking area. Good quality food is served along with guest beers and ciders from localbreweries. The second pub is the Wellington (37 Bennetts Hill, B2 5SN) a local CAMRA Pub of theYear which boasts 17 hand pumps with local ales and two ever changing ciders. No food is servedbut you can take your own and plates and cutlery will be provided.

Saturday 1st December v Nottingham ForestNottingham is one of the gems in terns of real ale pubs with no less then 18 pubs in the GBG 2013.The VAT & Fiddle (12-14 Queen’s Bridge Road, NG2 1NB) which is adjacent to the Castle Rockbrewery, one of the best known breweries well known for Harvest Pale as a previous winner of Beerof the Year. Hot food is served daily. A second pub worth a visit is the Canal House (48-52 CanalStreet, NG1 7EH) which used to house the canal museum, but is now a converted open-plan pubthat contains a certain quiet cosiness. Food available daily.

Saturday 8th December v WatfordWatford’s oldest pub is called the One Crown, (156 High Street, WD17 2EN), and dates from the16th century. The U shaped bar divides into a lounge and a games area. The guest beers are oftenseasonal beers from Tring Brewery and change on a monthly basis. There are two pubs within 5minutes of Watford Junction Station that may be interesting. The Southern Cross in Langley Roadhas a good range of ales and was a GBG pub for many years. The other is The Nascot Arms inStamford Road (off Langley Road) with about 6 beers from the Greene King range.

Friday 21st December v Derby CountyTurn right out of the station and make your way down to the Brunswick Inn (1 Railway Tavern, DE12RU). This pub re-opened in 1987 and a purpose built brewery was added later. Now owned byEverards, it is the model for the company’s project backing micro-brewers. Busy on match days. Thesecond choice is the local branch’s 2011 Pub of the Year the Old Silk Mill (19 Full Street, DE1 3AF)9 real ales are on offer, including beers from the cask and two traditional ciders .

Tuesday 1st January v BlackpoolThe Pump & Truncheon (13 Bonny Street, FY1 5AR), has what is described as hearty andgenerous home cooked meals and a good selection of malt whisky to keep you warm. The localFuzzy Duck brews are available along with up to 6 changing guest ales. A 10% discount available forcard carrying CAMRA members on food and real ales.

Saturday 19th January v Peterborough UnitedThere are many good pubs I could recommend, so here are a couple near to the football ground andthe city centre. Brewery Tap (80 Westgate, PE1 2AA) is the home of a recently installed custom-made specialist brew plant for Oakham Ales, which can be viewed through a glass wall. Twelve realales are on hand pump and excellent value food is always available. Also worth a visit is Charters(Town Bridge, PE1 1EM), which is a large Dutch Barge moored just under the bridge that leads tothe ground. 12 real ales are usually on tap and bar meals available at lunch time.

Details correct at time of writing - Bernie Cawte Magazine Editor

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Spread EagleExchange Street, Driffield, YO25 6LL

Telephone: 07525 817175

Opening hours all week - 12 noon to Close

3 Changing Real Ales

Occasional Meal Promotionsduring the week

Sky Sports TV

Under New Management SoA Friendly Welcome Guaranteed

with mine hostBob Palmer

the old falcon market place ~ driffield ~ YO25 6AW

CASK IS BACK Serving an ever changing

selection of two “QUALITY” real ales

FROM £2.29PINT

Westons ~ OLD ROSIEMoorlands ~ Real Cyder

Additionally we permanently have available

Theakstons Best Bitter whilst it’s a keg … it’s a great tipple

… it’s great value @ £2.20 PINT

(find Sue and the girls opposite The YorkshireTrading Company and EYMS Bus Stop)

Driffield is my home town, so I feel sentimentalabout the place and I visit regularly when I gohome to visit Mum and Dad.

I have a rather dog eared Driffield Guide, whichfrom the 3 digit telephone numbers probablydates from around 1972. It lists the public hous-es, and it was useful when I was asked to adjudi-cate a bet as to how many pubs might closewhen Benjamin Fawcett opened. Apart from acouple lost in the 80’s and 90’s I am pleased tonote that things have got better and real ale go-ing back to both pubs advertising here - the betis still outstanding………although I discoveredthat the hatch where I bought my ‘pop’ at theMariners was closed up a few years ago.

A review of Driffield pubs was published by usrelatively recently and a guide to all pubs in Drif-field will be published in a future edition.

It’s less than 30 minutes by train, why not see foryourself some of the pubs from a guide that pre-dates CAMRA?

Angela Cawte


From my chair by angela cawte

Regular readers will know that I have now beenthe Chairperson of this branch in an officialcapacity since our AGM in March 2012, I wasacting before that (believe me that was neveracting!) So effectively I have been ‘at the top’ foraround 18 months, it has been my pleasure tomeet and know such a diverse group of people inthat time. At the heart of this all is the love of realale.

In particular the GBG 2013 has a number of newentries and some long standing ones,exemplifying the hard work put in by publicans soyou can enjoy quality real ale. It is a joint effortlocally these things are, but I had the awesomeresponsibility of typing up the reports writtenwhen the successful pubs were surveyed. Andthe organising and managing our local Pub ofthe Year competition, after the members whovote have decided the area’s best pubs we thenwhittle down to the best of the best. It’s a timeconsuming and enjoyable hobby, yes folks Ihave a ‘real’ job too! I calculated that by goingon each survey trip we have run this year I havedrunk in more than 30 pubs I would otherwise forone reason or another not have had the pleasureof sampling! It’s a good job we do it once amonth rather than at one go!

The purpose of trying to inject some lightheartedness into my ‘job description’ is toencourage you, the reader, to have a go inparticipating in branch activities, many peopleover time express dis-satisfaction as to the pubsin the Good Beer Guide, but did they vote? Thisbranch has more than 700 members and asmuch as I understand people have differentmotivations in joining CAMRA, I would alsoencourage everyone to do something more, so ifyou are a member why not come to a meeting,yes they may be held at time you findinconvenient, but unfortunately there are only afew suitable venues. EVERYONE can check outwhat we are up to at hullcamra.org.uk CAMRAand members can see additional information.This is only as good as the information we aregiven, so again if something is missing tell us!

As for publicans, it’s great when a newadvertising pub comes on board, after all if youare a publican and don’t advertise the public

won’t necessarily know you are there, but it helpsus encourage others to try you out. What couldbe better than that?

I would like to thank everyone who hasparticipated in putting this edition of Pub Mirrortogether and those who distribute the magazinein real ale outlets. In particular those who knowme know I wear two hats and I am Bernie’s wife,as our magazine editor, he puts in hours andhours to produce each magazine and I see firsthand the pleasure he gets in theacknowledgements sent from readers. Soultimately I thank Bernie for all I know he does tomake this happen, and wonder if he will edit mycomments out ?

THE GEORGE HOTEL

Dean and Paul welcome you back home

Purveyors of Real Ales&

home cooked locally sourced food

Food served Wednesday to Sunday(from 1200 noon)

CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2011

The Land of Green Ginger, Hull

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LETTERS PAGESome clips from letters received since the lastedition of Pub Mirror, the first from:

Paul at the Triton Inn, Brantingham.

I finally got chance to read through Pub Mirrorafter some were dropped off last week. I haveto eco what many say, its a superb littlepublication now. the glossy paper makes a worldof difference, but also the content now is soattractive and easy to read. Well done, you andyour team.

One of my customers was heard praising the oldtown map of pubs with REAL ALE, he said its thebest thing he's seen like that for many years andplans on trying out a few more pubs, as he worksin the town.

Its amazing that someone about 40 years oldhasn't tried all the pubs in Hull, I think I had bythe time I was 19 (far too much spare time on myhands obviously!)

We have started selling HEADLAND RED nowas our third Real Ale - of all the beers Ive triedhere, it has had the most favourable reaction."Smooth and slightly nutty " is how I woulddescribe it (but then again, some peopleprobably think of me being smooth and nutty!)

Im increasing our ciders again and plan onmaking a splash in October for the real Cider andPerry thing.

Anyway, thanks once again for a great magazineand all your hard work in the cause.

Thanks Paul for the kind words, look forward toseeing you soon, glad to hear about the increasein cider and perries, will pass that on the Davidour cider rep.

Next is a letter received from one of the manypeople to enter our Tombola at the last HRACF.

Bob Wallis from Wakefield CAMRA

With one of my many hats I do stuff for thecharity efforts at Wakefield beer festival includingblagging meal vouchers from food oriented pubs.I had a go on your tombola at last year's Hull

Real Ale Festival, and won a very anonymousenvelope from the box at the back. It was lunchfor two at the Pipe and Glass worth nearly £60and all we had to pay was our fuel from WestYorkshire and £8.50 for drinks (I was volunteerdriver with two halves of Wold Top and my wifehad the huge red wine because she'd beenvolunteer driver for 4 of us back from Old MillBrewery the previous night!)

Why I'm writing to you is that nobody at thefestival would really have known of thegenerosity of this sponsor. Also, as an incentiveto buyers of tombola tickets at this year’s festival.

Thanks Bob a very good point, all though all ofour sponsors are recognised at the festival, wedon’t normally put that sponsorship elsewhere.Pardon the pun but it gives us food for thoughtfor next year.

If you have anything to say please or commentsto make, please send any letters to me [email protected]. Editors decision toprint is final.

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CROOKED BILLET PITT LANE RYEHILL (01964 622303)

Runner Up CAMRA East Yorkshire Village Pub

of the Year 2010

Open: 4 pm - Midnight Mon to Thurs 12 noon - Midnight Fri to Sun

4 Regular Real Ales

Banks Bitter

Jennings Cumberland

Wychwood Hobgoblin

and two changing guest beers

A traditional Village Pub now serving a fullmenu Thur to Sun

Thur to Sat 12noon to 8pm

Sunday Lunches 12noon to 6.30pm.

Come and have a good pint and a good natter.

2013


The far flung western reaches of the Hull andEast Yorkshire CAMRA empire is the ancienttown of Howden with its Minster and remoterailway station. It is not the easiest place to getto on public transport. Trains take around 30minutes but the station is about 1 mile fromHowden. The X55 EYMS bus leaves the HullInterchange at 11.15 and then 2 hourly but takesjust over 1 hour to get to Howden. The return is2 hourly from 11.02.

Starting in Hallgate which is to the east ofHowden centre there is the Wheatsheaf (below)

which was closed for a time last year but hasreopened and offers John Smith’s Cask andTimothy Taylor Landlord. Turning right out of thepub takes you past a very good chippy beforeturning left into the Market Place where you willfind the Whitehorse Inn (below). There has

been a recent change of tenant who is planningan increase in real ales; currently there are threehand pumps with John Smith’s Cask, Hobgoblinand another beer soon to be added and plans foranother pump.

A couple of doors further down Market Place isthe Board Inn which currently does not do real

ale but talking to the barmaid the owner islooking to install pumps so watch this space!

Across from the Board Inn is Vicar Lane anddown there around the right hand bend is JayJays (below) which is a cafe bar selling Black

Sheep. Carrying on up Vicar Lane and throughthe small alley takes you to Bridgegate and to theright is Bowman’s (below) which sells Deuchars

and the Wellington Hotel (below) which is an

Old Mill Brewery House. It had Traditional Bitter,Summer Sunshine and Blonde Bombshellavailable. All these venues are open daily fromaround 12.00 apart from the Wheatsheaf whichopens at 16.00 on Mon-Thurs.

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NATIONAL NEWS - PLANNING REGULATIONS

Thanks to intensive lobbying by CAMRA, thenew guidance on Planning Regulations intro-duced recently, includes national policies whichare potentially very helpful to community facilitieslike pubs. Most importantly, Councils are told to“guard against the unnecessary loss of valuedfacilities and services” which specifically includescommunity pubs. What's also crucial is that theserules apply to all pubs, urban and rural. Councilsmust have in place, by March 2013, local plan-ning policies consistent with the Framework; inthe meantime, Framework policies should gener-ally be applied.

So what does all this mean if your local isthreatened by an unwanted planning applica-tion? You should object to the Council, ofcourse, but when doing so, make sure to refer tothe relevant policies in the Framework. If you canshow that loss of the pub would reduce the localcommunity's ability to meet its day-to-day needs,then the Council should refuse the application.CAMRA has produced an advice note on thebest wording to use and this can be found, alongwith much other information on planning issues,

at www.camra.org.uk/nppf or if you would likeany of these documents posted to you thenplease phone CAMRA’s Campaigns OfficerClaire Cain on 01727 798 454.

The Framework is already making an impact.Councils in Cambridge and the Fylde have usedit to refuse planning applications to convert pubsto houses. In those cases, the applicants haveappealed against the refusal and, in each case,the Government Inspector, considering the ap-peal, has dismissed it largely because approvalwould run counter to Framework policies.

Sadly, not every development adversely affectingpubs needs planning consent – conversion to arestaurant or a shop for instance. CAMRA iscampaigning hard to get planning law changed inthese areas. In the meantime, the new Frame-work is very much a step in the right direction.

If you have any issues regarding a campaign tosave a local pub in your area please contactCAMRA’s Local Planning Policy Advisor PaulAinsworth on [email protected] or

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CAMRA is pleased to launch its new pub website‘WhatPub’ to all members of the Campaign.

The website is the product of thousands of volun-teers visiting pubs, adding content and develop-ing the site over a 2 year period.

The 'WhatPub' website aims to become the best,most comprehensive online pub listing which allpub-lovers can use and enjoy. At present thereare currently more than 21,000 pubs listed onthis site but we need YOUR help to ensure theselistings are as complete and accurate as possi-ble. What better time to get involved?

We realise that this is only the end of the begin-ning for 'WhatPub'. We know that we must con-tinue to develop and improve the site and withthe help and support of members like you we canmake this the best pub website in Britain.

INTRODUCING WHAT PUB

The CAMRA backed campaign for the Govern-ment to look at the Beer Escalator Tax took an-other twist when a National Sunday newspaperjoined the campaign. The battle to freeze beertax - and save the traditional British pub - hasnow been joined by the Sunday People.

MPs of all parties will now debate and recom-mend (hopefully) that George Osborne abandonsthe beer duty escalator, which will add five percent tax next year and clobber hard-pressed pubdrinkers for another 10p.

Since the escalator was introduced in 2008 byLabour Chancellor Alistair Darling, beer duty hasincreased by 42 per cent.

That means drinkers are now paying 55p tax oneach pint costing an average £3.17 Another 52pgoes in VAT, 18p in employment tax and 12p inbusiness rates on every pint. The average pub isshelling out £66,500 a year in tax and nearly6,000 pubs have since shut it was introduced.

Beer tax escalator


Organised by hull & east yorkshire camra

hull Real Ale & CIDER FESTIVAL

where

holy trinity church - hull

when

18th - 20th april 2013

35th

100+ Beers

25+ Ciders

Music

@hullcamra


PUBS WITH ….….….…..

A rare and unspoiled interior ofoutstanding historic interest:Beverley - White Horse InnBridlington - Station BuffetKingston Upon HullOlde Black Boy - Olde White HarteSt John’s Hotel - White Hart

Oversized, lined glasses:(Guaranteeing a full or ½ liquid pint)Bridlington - Station BuffetBeverley - Dog & Duck (Black Sheep Only)Hollym - Plough InnKingston Upon Hull - Hop & Vine

Real draught cider (not keg), East Yorkshire:Beverley - Cornerhouse : Green DragonBrantingham - The TritonBridlington - Prior JohnCottingham - Cross Keys : RailwayDriffield - Tiger Inn : Old Falcon NEWDunswell - The ShipGoodmanham - Goodmanham ArmsHedon - Haven ArmsHessle - Hawke formerly Admiral HawkeHornsea - SmugglersKilham - Old Star NEWNorth Newbald - Tiger Inn - The GnuSouth Dalton - Pipe & GlassTickton - New Inn

Real draught cider (not keg), KingstonUpon Hull Clubs and Pubs:Adelphi Club Admiral of the HumberThe Gardener’s Sailmakers ArmsHop & Vine Lion & KeyNew Clarence Olde Black BoyPave Rising SunThree John Scotts WaltersWellington Inn WhaleboneXanders Zachariah Pearson

Real Mild regularly available:Beverley - CornerhouseBlacktoft - Hope & AnchorBrough - BuccaneerCottingham - King William IVDriffield - Tiger InnGoodmanham - Goodmanham ArmsHornsea - Rose & CrownKingston Upon Hull -Whalebone : RavenserRising Sun : Duke of York (Sutton) NEWPreston - Cock & BellWetwang - Black Swan

A quiet room (no piped music or juke box, TV,electronic games):Beverley - Rose & Crown : White Horse InnWoolpack : HodgsonsBridlington - Old Ship InnCottingham - King William IVDriffield - Bell HotelGreat Kelk - Chestnut HorseGoodmanham - Goodmanham ArmsKingston Upon Hull - Olde Black BoySt John’s Hotel

Licensee who has gained Cask MarqueAccreditation, East Yorkshire:Beeford - Tiger (new)Beverley - Green Dragon : GrovehillRoyal Standard: Tiger : Molescroft InnBridlington - Old Ship Inn: Prior John :Friendly Forrester NEWBrough - BuccaneerCherry Burton - Bay HorseCottingham - Blue Bell : Duke of Cumberland:King William IV : RailwayDriffield - Bell Hotel : Benjamin FawcettFerriby - Duke of CumberlandHedon - ShakespeareHessle - Marquest of Granby: NorlandHornsea - VictoriaKirk Ella - Beech TreeMarket Weighton - Griffin : Red LionNorth Cave - The White Hart InnNorth Newbald - Gnu : TigerPatrington - The Holderness : Station Hotel :HildyardPreston - Nags HeadRoos - Roos Arms : Black HorseRyehill - Crooked BilletSewerby - Ship InnSouth Cave - BearSouth Dalton - Pipe and GlassTickton - Crown & AnchorWalkington - The BarrelWillerby - Toby Carvery: Hop Pole NEW

Licensee who has gained Cask MarqueAccreditation, Hull Clubs and Pubs:Admiral of the Humber : AvenueGardeners Arms : Haworth Arms : Hop PoleManor Farm : Mill : National : New ClarenceOdd Bottle : Old Grey Mare : Pave :Ravenser : Three John Scotts : Victory PubWilliam Wilberforce : Zachariah Pearson :West Bulls

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The branch at the invitation of BeverleyRacecourse, held our inaugural real ale and ciderfestival during a race meeting on Saturday 1stSeptember.

We had 16 real ales from local breweriesincluding All Hallows, Big River, Bird Brain, BrassCastle, Great Heck, Great Newsome, NorthRiding & Wold Top, plus Moorlands Farm Cyderon offer.

CAMRA members were given the opportunity topurchase 2 tickets for the price of one, plus there

own exclusive entrance to the course - right nextto the real ale bar.

Entertainment was provided by the organisers ofthe Beverley Folk Festival which helped makethis venture a truly great event. All beers andciders were sold out well before the last race, sowe will be bringing in a few more next time.

Talks are already underway for next year’s eventwhere the racecourse would act as hosts againand Hull & EY CAMRA will hope to select a widerrange of locally sourced real ales, after all wehave had several micro-breweries set up in the12 months leading up to the event. Who knowswhat the next 12 months will bring? So ‘pencil in’a weekend at the end of August or earlySeptember and we will look forward to seeingyou then. And finally we gained new members atthe event and we welcome them to CAMRA andhope they are enjoying the benefits of it!

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The Venue

Some of the Beers

The Crew

The Punters


BRANCH EVENTS DIARY

tel. 01964 612201

www.greatnewsomebrewery.co.uk

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Branch Open MeetingsAll open meetings start at 8pm and conclude at approximately 9.30pm with a chance to socialiseand refreshments are normally provided at the end of the meeting.Wednesday 7th November - Lion & Key, High Street, Hull. GBG nomination meeting.Wednesday 5th December - The George Hotel, Land of Green Ginger, Hull.Wednesday 9th January - The New Clarence to be confirmed

Survey and Social TripsThese trips run from May through to October on the second Saturday of the month and areused to survey the village pubs that are nominated for the following year’s Good Beer Guide.Details of next years trips will be in Branch Events Diary in the next edition.Please contact our Pubs Officers, details available on the Branch Contacts page or seeBranch Website for further information.

Branch Beer FestivalsThursday 18th to Saturday 20th - The Hull & East Yorkshire branch of CAMRA are proud tobring you our 35th Hull Real Ale & Cider Festival, which will be held at the Holy Trinity Church,Lowgate, Hull - 100 and more beers, a minimum of 25 cider and perries, plus entertainment fromlocal folk/acoustic artists.Keep in touch by logging on to our Branch Festival Blog - hulleastyorkshirecamra.blogspot.co.uk

Sunday 25th August 2012 - Beverley Race Course. To be confirmed.

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