darlington drinker - issue 193 - winter 2014/2015

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Welcome to Issue 193 of the Darlington Drinker and our Winter edition.

Ever heard the expression “Turn a disaster into an opportunity?” Well that’s what Darlington CAMRA has (nearly) succeeded in doing in this last month.

The disaster? - It is with a big thank you that we say goodbye to Ian Jackson who has recently resigned as editor of the DD. He is to be congratulated having found a position that actually pays him - unlike this thankless job! He took over as editor from Veronica Burningham at the beginning of 2013 and has worked tirelessly for us, editing issues 186 through to issue 192. It certainly is a disaster to lose him.

And It’s not just those 7 DD issues that we owe him for either - in the background he has also been quietly and expertly running our website. So we are at a loss on two fronts. However, this has given us the opportunity to re-vamp the Darlington CAMRA website with the help of our treasurer (Dave Till) ably assisted by committee member Andy Grainger and CAMRA ‘s Web Guru Andy Shaw. They are currently building a brand new website: www.darlo.camra.org.uk which we hope to have fully operational before the DD194 Spring 2015 issue is published. We hope to have brand new features such as a members area to allow any CAMRA member to quickly fi nd all the real-ale pubs in the Darlington area and view our Branch Meeting minutes. So all is not lost.

We wish Ian a prosperous future in his new work.

Cheers!

FROM THE EDITOR

Howard JonesEditor, Darlington Drinker

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your future endevours

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Did you know that without Beer the British would never have started measuring liquids in pints?

The pint was born to give us a fair measure of BEER. It wasn’t blood, milk, mead or water, Beer was more important than all four.

Britain owes its advanced society to its standards and industrialisation. Without BEER - which gave us our pint measure, we would be playing catch-up.

The article entitled “A Potted History of Our Prized Pint” following, submitted by John Bottomley

(a new Darlington Member, a big welcome to the branch), spells out how the quantities of life’s essentials (Ale and Bread) were fi xed in 1266. The weight of the Farthing Loaf and the quantity of the Penny of Ale were regulated. Bakers or brewers who gave short measure could be fi ned...or even fl ogged! (I think CAMRA should campaign to have this law brought back...!)

It also makes me think that Americans drink 20% more beer in the UK than they do at home...read on!

We all love our real ale, but how did the quantities we drink it in come about ?

The earliest units of measurement of length were taken from the human body: feet to measure distances, hands to record height, forearms for length and the width of a thumb for small objects.

Capacity measures were even more random. Some of the earliest were developed in Greece and Ancient Egypt.

In 1215 King John included the following words in the Magna Carta: “Let there be one measure of wine throughout our kingdom and one measure of ale and one meaure of corn, namely the London quarter, and one width of cloth whether dyed, russet or halberjet, namely two ells within the selvedges. Let this be same with weight as for measure”.

These edicts were repeated later on in history. From 1266 there were assizes of bread and ale to fi x the quantities of,what were considered to be, lifes essentials. The weight of the Farthing Loaf and the quantity of the Penny of ale were regulated. Bakers or brewers who gave short measure could be fi ned...or even fl ogged!

Henry VIII created new standards at Winchester in 1526 and Elizabeth 1st distributed standard weights to 57 towns in England and Wales. These standards were used for the next 230 years.

Historically, units called a pint (or the equivalent in the local language) were used across much of Europe, with values varying between countries from less than half a litre to over one litre. Within continental Europe, the pint was replaced with the metric system during the 19th century, but the term is still used in parts of France, Quebec (“une pinte”) and central Europe, notably some areas of Germany and Switzerland.

In 1824 the British Weights and Measures Act standardised various liquid measures throughout the British Empire whilst the US continued to use the earlier English measures.

THE POWER OF BEER

A POTTED HISTORY OF OUR PRIZED PINT

by Howard Jones

by John Bottomley

Editor’s note: The UK pint now consists of 20 fl uid ounces (568ml) whereas the US pint is 16 fl uid ounces (473ml) - making the British pint exactly 20% bigger than the American pint. i.e 5 pints of ours is equal in volume to 6 pints of theirs. No wonder the Yanks can’t hold their beer when they’re over here!




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Regular beers include Rivet Catcher (Jarrow Brewery’s award winning real ale)

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STUNNING VIEWS OVER THE FELLSACCOMMODATION from £40

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Year 2004-2008

• Good Beer Guide 2005-2014

• FIRST Snooker Club to be voted CAMRA Club of the Year

• FIRST Snooker Club to appear in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide

• FIRST Snooker Club to have it’s own major beer festival

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Comfortable TV Lounge

Parties Catered For Buffets can be supplied to fit every budget

Junior Classes Sunday 9-11am. No Junior classes on Saturdays.

School Groups WelcomeProfessional coach available

SUPER REGIONAL FINALISTNE CLUB OF THE YEAR 2011-2014Further Accolades:• CAMRA North East Club of the

Year 2004-2008

• Good Beer Guide 2005-2014

• FIRST Snooker Club to be voted CAMRA Club of the Year

• FIRST Snooker Club to appear in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide

• FIRST Snooker Club to have it’s own major beer festival

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On Saturday August 9th Darlington CAMRA were treated by Pete Fenwick (of Mithril Ales fame) to a Festival Workers Trip as a reward

for running our successful beer summer festival at the Forum.

Pete was running his yearly open day, where he gave away samples of 7 of his beers and hot dogs made with sausages with his beers among the ingredients as follows: • Pork & Black Pudding - with Mithril God’s Own Country. • Pork & Chilli - with Mithril Dere Street. • Cumberland - with Mithril A66.

Methinks that Pete should form an alliance with one of Darlington’s best purveyors of fi ne meats. How about it Pete?

The beers that Pete put on for us were :- Tug of War 3.8%, Scarecrow 4.0%, Feast 4.1%, God’s Own Country 3.9%, Duck Race 3.9%,Top Dog 4.2% and A66 4.0%

Apart from fi lling us with his excellent food and drink, Pete treated us to tours of his brewery and put some fi ne acoustic music on

We used the occasion to present the brewery with their well deserved 1st place for Best Beer of the Festival. The voting process was indeed simple.

The fi rst beer to run out came fi rst, the second came second etc.

The top 3 beers at the festival were voted as: 1st: Forum Festivale 4.0%. Mithril Ales (Aldbrough St John, North Yorks) 2nd: Summer Breeze 4.0%. Crafty Pint (Sedgefi eld, Co Durham) 3rd: Pothole Porter 5.1%. Cwrw Ial (Eryrys, Clwyd)

The bus with the festival crew also popped into two award winning pubs on the trip; The Stanwick in Aldbrough & The Crown Inn in Manfi eld. A good time was had by all.

Now that you know what the rewards are like how about volunteering to help at the next festival happening soon? Watch this space!

MITHRIL ALES TRIPby Moira Tolkien

NOVEMBERFri 14th - Second Durham Country Surveying Trip. 7pm from Dolphin Centre, 6.45pm from Aldbrough. Sadberge x 2, Morton Palms, Creebeck, Hurworth & Hurworth Place.DECEMBERFri 12th - 3rd Durham Country Surveying Trip. 7pm from Dolphin Centre, 6.45pm from Aldbrough. Middridge, Newton Aycliffe x2, Coatham Mundeville, Great Stainton & Preston le Skerne.

Mon 29th - Christmas Social at the Darlington Snooker Club, 7.30pm.JANUARYFri 9th - First North Yorkshire Surveying Trip. 7pm from Dolphin Centre, 7.15pm from Aldbrough.Pubs to be confi rmed.

For details of all trips please call Pete Fenwick on 01325 374817 or 07889 167128

For further updates of events please visit www.darlocamra.org.uk

BRANCH DIARY

All trips: Leave from round the corner from The Dolphin Centre & return there and pick up from Aldbrough St John by the church and return there. Open to members & non members. Visitors & new members are always made welcome.If you need to cancel, remember if it’s within 48 hours of the Trip then you will still have to pay for your seats in full.




Recently The Quays has re-opened with new landlords, this is nothing particularly new for The Quays as it seems to have happened

all too much in recent history. The usual joys of a pubco owned establishment (which we will get on to later) meaning new banners outside, new faces inside and same old story, open closed open closed. Not this time!

The Quays has had a change, in have come Pete and Jo, returning to their home town from West Yorkshire with a long term vision and plenty of experience. So, fi rst of all what is the vision?

The vision is to try and break the mould set by the structure of most pub company by being the same as everyone else, selling the same products (how many times do you see generic banners offering Carling, Fosters, Strongbow all of which

give pubcos their best margin) so out the window with them and premium brands such as Budweiser, Heineken and Symonds cider have been placed on the bar. BUT the biggest change is the removal of John Smiths Smooth and the introduction of 4 cask ales, which was a move that was strongly resisted by the pubco but one we felt necessary for our overall package, traditional pub values. Real ales with a welcoming friendly atmosphere, homemade and freshly cooked food and live music.

Why do we believe that we are different and this will work!? Well let me tell you a little about your new landlords, Jo (the redhead) has opened, set up and being running a town centre pub in Batley called The Taproom, for around 2 years, which had 6 real ales on at all times and with being free of tie, were always from West Yorkshire breweries (with the twice a year exception of Moorhouses Blackcat making a popular appearance) and live music every Friday and Saturday night. When Jo took over what was then The Wilton Arms, it was a pub that punchtaverns were desperate to get off their books, a pub that had had more ‘new management’ than new customers in the last 5 years, each doing the same as the landlords before, each following what they believed was the best options from the pubco. The change installed by Jo and owner Chris has obviously worked as the The Taproom is still going strong, although has a new manager Jacque as Jo has left for her own pub.

So, for those of you that have been in already must think Pete is behind the bar for his good looks and personality, luckily not. Pete has worked with pretty much all of the pubcos in his time (and probably should know better) and has come from opening a real ale house in Brighouse called The Beck (formerly The New Inn) a pub that had been shut for 10 months. Again this pub is in the portfolio

A NEW ERA AT THE QUAYSby Peter Thompson




of a pubco, this time Enterprise Inns, who own about half the pubs in Brighouse. Again a new direction was chosen, a pub that used to have a maximum of 2 real ales on, now was to have 8. A big change, but not as big a change as the pubco allowing Partners to put all of their ales on without tie. So a pub that was predominantly a lager house had an amazing face lift inside and possibly the nicest gent’s toilets in Britain in a big gamble, the hope that real ale was the way forward. The answer couldn’t have been any clearer than seeing the empties outside on delivery day, 1 Amstel, 1 Kronenbourg, 1 Symonds...11 empty casks, more importantly The Beck is still doing well, now under the guidance of Adrian, still serving up 8 real ales.

There is obvious trends to those pubs doing well, but I know you’re thinking that’s in Yorkshire not Darlington, but these towns are alike, they are full of good hardworking people wanting a little bit more for their hard earned money.

So our vision is simple, lots of hard work (it will always be Jo or Pete behind the bar), creating a nice place to relax and enjoy a drink with every care taken to make your visit the best experience it can be and feel free to let us know is there is anything else we can do or that you think will improve the pub. Live music on a weekend, visit our facebook page thequayspubdarlo or twitter @thequayspub for the latest info. There may be a different selection of drinks to what you may be used to, but there is something for everyone (did I mention 19 world beers) and Jo and Pete will gladly chat to you about what’s available and gladly give you tasters of the real ale, but sorry no Carling or Fosters.

Darlington has a nice selection of real ale pubs so think about occasionally having a change of scenery and move from your local for an evening, as we rely on you to keep ALL of Darlington’s pubs open. We have many a time (in our short time) directed out of town customers to other pubs in their search for real ale, even to the point standing outside and giving directions.

With each edition of The Darlington Drinker that comes out we hope give you a greater insight into how the industry is changing, how CAMRA are putting pressure upon pubcos and how they are bending. To include some new features that have been popular in other magazines. To give you greater and wider view of the Darlington real ale scene, but for now this article is more of a shameless plug for our pub, The Quays.

We also know that we have many visitors to this town with real ale drinkers (I have had Darlington Drinker brought back to West Yorkshire for me) so if you ever fi nd yourself in Batley check out The Taproom and say hello to Chris and Jacque or if you are in Brighouse call in to The Back and say hi to Adrian and Levi.

D.D. TEN YEARS AGO...SHEFFIELD STEAL GOLD

Pale Rider, from Kelham Island Brewery of Sheffi eld, has been judged the best beer in Britain by a panel of brewers and beer writers at August’s Great British Beer Festival. The 5.2% beer is described in the Good Beer Guide as “A full bodied, straw pale ale, with a good fruity aroma and a strong fruit and hop taste.”

It was chosen as Champion from more than fi fty fi nalists in six categories, including beers from new micros, old family fi rms and major regional brewers. Roger Protz, a judge, said, “We were struck by the

super balance of malt, hops and fruit. A wonderfully complex and refreshing beer.”

Kelham head brewer Paul Ward was ‘gobsmacked’: “I thought the beer would do well, but to win is amazing. At only 31 years old what do I do now?”

The overall runner-up was Greene King IPA and third was Hampshire Ironside. North East micro-brewing claimed a prize, with Mordue IPA (5%), brewed on Tyneside by Garry and Matthew Fawson, taking the silver medal in the strong ales section behind Pale Rider.

Darlington Drinker Issue 153, Autumn 2004




10 hand pulls - 9 real ales & 2 real ciders. A rotating selection from all around the country.Fosters, Thatchers Gold, Budweiser Budvar, Marstons Oyster Stout, Westons ‘Old Rosie Cider’ plus a selection of bottled ciders and lagers also available. Wines and spirits also on offer.

We are proud to be the Darlington CAMRA Pub of the Year 2014 winner for the tenth time. We are also honoured to have been awarded CAMRA North East Pub of the Year 2013.We pride ourselves in the beer, the service and our music.Check out the events page on our website for further info.• Acoustic Night - Mondays (Open Mic)• Rock Night - Wednesdays (NO COVER CHARGE! FREE ENTRY)• Busk-It - Open mic style with a back-line & in house band - come & sing, play or just enjoy a listen• Blues Thursdays Lounge Sessions (hosted by Alex Fawcett) - Monthly open mic night on a Thursday for blues music• Laid Back Sundays - Bluegrass/Skiffle Night (with Willow Creek) - Last Sunday every monthOpen 7 Days a Week - from 11am. Closing Times Vary - M - 11:30pm / Tu, Th & Su - 11pm / W, F & Sa - Midnight

The Quakerhouse

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7th Fizzy Fish14th Russ Tippins Electric Band

21st Steam Radio28th Prelude

3rd Under the Radar10th Area 4017th Sissy Strutt

25th Christmas Day - Closed all day31st New Years Eve Celebrations

5th Circuit 6812th Gypo19th Animate

26th TBC

27th Nov, 29th Jan - Quaker Folk night featuring members of Steam Radio

20th Nov, 18th Dec - The Blues Lounge Session hosted by Alex Fawcett & Danny Wragg

4th Nov - Comedy & Music night with Dave Adams & Dave Cadman (Strong adult humour)

26th Nov - BOXING DAY - Open at 6pm - 9pm - Phil the PipeÊs Christmas Special Quiz

1st Jan - NEW YEARS DAY � OPEN AT 6PM

9th Mark Atkinson (4pm) 23rd Al Hughes (4pm)30th Willow Creek

7th The Paddy Maguire Band (8pm)14th Michael Gaberack (4pm)28th HowlinÊ Mat (4pm) & Willow Creek (9pm)

11th TBC25th Ani Sanwith (5pm) & Willow Creek (9pm)

ACOUSTIC MONDAYS (Open Mic)

4th Nov, 2nd Dec, 6th Jan - Phil the PipeÊs Music Quiz(£1pp entry, max 4 in a team)

25th Nov, 30th Dec - BUSK IT is back!

24th Nov, 22nd Dec, 19th Jan - Dave Cadman & friends

10th Nov, 8th Dec, 5th Jan - Paul Dannett & friends

29th Dec - Jack Watson & friends

8th Nov Thatchers Bush 6th Dec The Equalisers

1st Nov, 3rd Jan - DJ Wal's 'One Love' Reggae Sounds

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Hello and welcome to the fi rst Quakerhouse catch up.

We’ve had a wonderful summer of beer and music, and on Friday 12th September we opened the popular R &B festival with Steve Williams Blues Deluxe with our new and improved stage lighting! The Sunday was absolutely fantastic with music all day long from Alex Fawcett, Mo Scott and the much loved Lewis Hamilton. (No not the racing driver...) To help cater for the hundreds of people who visited us we had our fi rst outside bar thanks to Just a Minute brewery! It was a roaring success with people outside all day enjoying the music and beer – thankfully we had some marquees

up to help protect them from the temperamental British weather! Thanks to all involved for making it such a good weekend, together we drank a whole lot of beer, taking us to our total so far this year of 678 different beers of which 425 are new, and we’ve also bought from 40 new breweries.

We’ve also just had our annual curry competition with loads of entries in the three categories of Mild, Spicy, Hot and Vegetarian. Music was provided by the crowd-pleasing Eddie Miller.

Thanks!

For more info on future events please visit www.facebook.com/TheQuakerhouse/ or join our group at www.facebook.com/groups/105626676784

QUAKER-HOUSE CATCHUPby Libby Andrews




10 hand pulls - 9 real ales & 2 real ciders. A rotating selection from all around the country.Fosters, Thatchers Gold, Budweiser Budvar, Marstons Oyster Stout, Westons ‘Old Rosie Cider’ plus a selection of bottled ciders and lagers also available. Wines and spirits also on offer.

We are proud to be the Darlington CAMRA Pub of the Year 2014 winner for the tenth time. We are also honoured to have been awarded CAMRA North East Pub of the Year 2013.We pride ourselves in the beer, the service and our music.Check out the events page on our website for further info.• Acoustic Night - Mondays (Open Mic)• Rock Night - Wednesdays (NO COVER CHARGE! FREE ENTRY)• Busk-It - Open mic style with a back-line & in house band - come & sing, play or just enjoy a listen• Blues Thursdays Lounge Sessions (hosted by Alex Fawcett) - Monthly open mic night on a Thursday for blues music• Laid Back Sundays - Bluegrass/Skiffle Night (with Willow Creek) - Last Sunday every monthOpen 7 Days a Week - from 11am. Closing Times Vary - M - 11:30pm / Tu, Th & Su - 11pm / W, F & Sa - Midnight

The Quakerhouse

WWW.QUAKERHOUSE.CO.UK

7th Fizzy Fish14th Russ Tippins Electric Band

21st Steam Radio28th Prelude

3rd Under the Radar10th Area 4017th Sissy Strutt

25th Christmas Day - Closed all day31st New Years Eve Celebrations

5th Circuit 6812th Gypo19th Animate

26th TBC

27th Nov, 29th Jan - Quaker Folk night featuring members of Steam Radio

20th Nov, 18th Dec - The Blues Lounge Session hosted by Alex Fawcett & Danny Wragg

4th Nov - Comedy & Music night with Dave Adams & Dave Cadman (Strong adult humour)

26th Nov - BOXING DAY - Open at 6pm - 9pm - Phil the PipeÊs Christmas Special Quiz

1st Jan - NEW YEARS DAY � OPEN AT 6PM

9th Mark Atkinson (4pm) 23rd Al Hughes (4pm)30th Willow Creek

7th The Paddy Maguire Band (8pm)14th Michael Gaberack (4pm)28th HowlinÊ Mat (4pm) & Willow Creek (9pm)

11th TBC25th Ani Sanwith (5pm) & Willow Creek (9pm)

ACOUSTIC MONDAYS (Open Mic)

4th Nov, 2nd Dec, 6th Jan - Phil the PipeÊs Music Quiz(£1pp entry, max 4 in a team)

25th Nov, 30th Dec - BUSK IT is back!

24th Nov, 22nd Dec, 19th Jan - Dave Cadman & friends

10th Nov, 8th Dec, 5th Jan - Paul Dannett & friends

29th Dec - Jack Watson & friends

8th Nov Thatchers Bush 6th Dec The Equalisers

1st Nov, 3rd Jan - DJ Wal's 'One Love' Reggae Sounds

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I have a confession...I play chess. Sad I know, but our secretary (Howard) is a Radio Ham! - so I’m not quite as sad as him... Anyway, like most

people I learnt to play at school and found I was not bad going on to play for Shropshire County and in two British Championship events prior to moving up to Durham. I carried on playing for the University and after moving to Darlington I briefl y played in the local leagues before Darlington Rugby Club dictated my other passion.

So what’s this got to do with Real Ale? Well a great majority of chess clubs have been formed in and around pubs/drinking establishments from the 18th century, and indeed present clubs in the surrounding area can be found in pubs and social clubs. (Darlington Chess Club is sited at Cockerton Club). I have found that playing in Tournaments around the country also gives me the opportunity to visit the Real Ale Pubs at those locations e.g. at the end of October I will be playing in Scarborough Indigo Alley, The Cask Inn, Scholars and the North Riding Brew Company.

At the end of July this year I played in the British Senior Championships at Aberystwyth and stayed just outside Barmouth, North Wales. During that stay, whilst travelling to and forth two and a half hours each day, I managed to visit fi ve pubs, three of which are in Barmouth itself, the other two, a few miles outside, on the road to Harlech. The Ael Y Bryn Pub/Restaurant boasts an excellent menu and two Real Ales. I am surprised to see that it is not in the What Pub database. Several pints of Young’s

Hummingbird along with a Madras Curry, with my mum and my wife Denise made it a very good night. The chess wasn’t going too well as I struggled to get above my seeded level amongst 61 contestants, which was 61.

Still I was getting very tired each day with the travelling. On the site there was a club which only had bottled Real Ale, though very good from The Great Orme Brewery, but I’m not a massive fan of bottled beers. My next meal in a Real Ale establishment was at The Victoria, Llanbedr.

A Robinsons’ chain pub/restaurant set aside a stream with outside facilities for eating, drinking and smoking, and in the height of summer you couldn’t get better. Unfortunately I was driving so only had the one, a very nice 3.8% Dizzy Blonde. By this time I had only got one point from seven games, but I have to say of the fi ve I lost I should have done better in converting advantage into wins in four of those games. Still it was my fi rst venture in a top seeded tournament, normally I play in a section closer to my grade.

By Saturday I was in need of some energy infusion so Barmouth here we came, saw and conquered. The Last Inn, Barmouth is a misnomer, as it is actually the fi rst one you come to when you enter the resort. I have to say this is the best pub, furnished in the style of a fi shing cabin with it’s own internal lit pool and waterfall feature and more importantly a variety of six Real Ales.

I chose the Young’s Citra 4.5% and enjoyed a lively atmosphere spoilt at 10pm by the disco just starting, still it is a tourist destination. Next I visited the Talydon Hotel, further up the main street. This is a really popular pub with locals, I believe Marston led, as it provided Jennings and Ringwood Beers. Two pints of excellently kept FortyNiner and I was

CHAIRSPEAKby Garry Hewitt

Ael Y Bryn, Dyffryn Ardudwy




en route to my last venue - The Royal. This a pub/restaurant that has seen better times, closing it’s upstairs restaurant over the last few years. However it was the only pub that served Welsh Beers, with two from Purple Moose, and one from another Brewery which I cannot recall the name of, never mind pronounce. I chose a new one from Purple Moose, the New Zealand IPA which was very good and left with mixed emotions from better times.

Apart from the chess, this was a great break and I would recommend this area to anyone, as most pubs are Real Ale oriented. I have rated where possible the beers through What Pub and I would urge all members to do the same whenever they

visit somewhere new or in their own local area, let’s get involved.

BRANCH WHO’S WHO?Chairman: Garry Hewitt e: [email protected] Secretary & Branch Contact: Howard Jones e: [email protected] Membership Secretary: Fred Lawton e: [email protected]

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As mentioned in the editorial, since the sad resignation of Ian Jackson from the role of webmaster, the Branch has taken the step

of having our Branch website hosted by CAMRA’s own website hosting service at www.darlo.camra.org.uk

This move will allow us to automatically harmonise our content with that of CAMRA’s own content, specifi cally members area, updated pub guide with a Google map service as a locator and direct links to the Whatpub site.

We are also having new areas on the site such as Tickers Corner, Young Members area and Quaker trip details.

We intend to publish all Branch and AGM minutes in the members area along with Treasurers

reports on a regular basis.Because of the way in which the CAMRA

server has been set up, updating the content is now very easy to update with usually copy and pasting from contributors emails and documents being the norm.Hopefully the site content will be accessed and updated by a group of people, not just one.

As such the role of webmaster has been replaced by web coordinators, who at the moment are Andy Grainger and myself.

The site is still under some development, as is the CAMRA facility, but will grow in its functionality and usefulness. We intend it to retain its position as being an extremely useful campaigning tool as well as keeping folk informed as to what is happening where and when.

Give it a try and let us know what you think and how it can be improved.

A recent study from the Stockholm School of Economics published in the American Association of Wine Economists, has told us

something we suspected for a long time…lagers all taste the same.

They tested Budvar, Stella Artois and Heineken in blind tastings of three draught poured with each lager being twinned in each of the three tests, i.e. each drinker had 3 sets of drinks, each lager appearing as a singleton in each and as a twin in each. So even with two out of the three being the

same, drinkers were ‘largely unable to distinguish differences between the three’.

“In two of three tastings, participants are no better than random at telling the lagers apart, and in the third tasting, they are only marginally better than random.”

In the article entitled ‘Hide the label, hide the difference’ the authors conclude that “consumers are largely unable to distinguish between different brands of European lagers in blind tastings. Consumer loyalty to different brands European lager is thus unlikely to be grounded in the intrinsic sensory properties of the beers themselves, suggesting that this may be an example of a product category in which marketing and packaging are the main drivers of consumer differentiation.”

Full article available at: www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/AAWE_WP165.pdf and on our website: darlo.camra.org.uk

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by Dave Till

by Dave Till




The October Quaker trip found us in the drizzly delights of Huddersfi eld, primarily to visit the Huddersfi eld Branch of CAMRA’s Oktoberfest,

a celebration of 79 beers (including two from our very own Mithril Brewery) at the Apna Venue Leisure Centre, which is also a Sikh temple. For some of the travellers the big draw, beside the beer, was to be the excellent food provided by the venue.

The party split up early along Oktoberfest tickers and Huddersfi eld Pub Crawlers, myself in the latter group.

Our fi rst point of call was a railway viaduct, sheltering from the harsh drizzle that only that part of Yorkshire can produce, waiting for the Sportsman to open its doors. We were early, not them late!

The Sportsman is a gem of a building, set on a corner very close to the railway station, having been built in the 1930’s in the ‘neo-Georgian style’ and boasting an old Bass barrel sign hanging outside.

The pub is no stranger to awards, having been Huddersfi eld Branch’s Pub of the Year in 2013 for the 3rd year running. It also has a place in the Yorkshire Regions ‘Heritage Pub’ guide with pride of place along with numerous CAMRA citations, a 2011 English Heritage Conservation award.

The beers included a rare excursion into the novel by Timothy Taylor, Havercake, a deep amber hoppy 4.7% beer, usually found in bottles, but here in draught form to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund. Very tasty. We also managed to sample Mallinsons Mosaic and Summer Wine Oregon.

Bit of a glue pot the Sportsman, but leave we had to. General Gordon and myself were having a bit of a competition to rid ourselves of our respective loads of DD’s around Huddersfi eld and as he had left some in the Sportsman, I decided to leapfrog the usual next call, the Kings Head on the Station, and head to the Head of Steam, also on the Station. An

innovative initiative to celebrate Cask ales was their platter of 3 halves and a bar snack of choice for £4 and amongst the choices was Ossett Pale Gold, Smallworld Yorkshire Ness and Tim Taylors Dark Mild. This pub was considerably more expensive than the Sportsman with even the Dark Mild at 3.5% costing the same as a 5.5% down the road.

After an unoffi cial Market visit by one of our Councillors, we found ourselves in the Hand Drawn Monkey (HDM), which was described as like drinking in a building site or Youth Club as the décor consisted partly of sheets of marine plywood hanging from the ceiling and walls. I tried, and enjoyed very much, the HDM Monkey Hops 4.5% £2.90. I was also introduced to a new dispense / storage method for beer, Key Kegs. These are a lightweight, disposable bag in a box keg that seem to be an alternative to traditional aluminium/wood/plastic kegs. They are stood upright with outlet on the top and dispense is through compressed air that squeezes the bag, forcing the beer out through a free fl ow tap or even a hand pull. I understand that the CAMRA jury is still out on these.

General Gordon was most insistent on our next venue, The Vulcan, if not for the beer but the food. The house beers are Silver Myst and Golden Pippin from Copper Dragon with Walls Gundog, Theakstons Infallible and Saltaire Pride, all at £2.40 a pint. What was really great about this pub was the prices of the food as well as the beer, £3.95 or less for good hearty grub as advertised on the numerous large chalk boards.

A trip into the Cherry Tree, a JD Wetherspoons outlet (no. 22 in the companies rankings of Real Ale sales at 2500/week) drinking a Kelham Island, Radar Men from the Moon, £2.20 4%, which is what

WE SIKH BEER HERE, THERE & EVERYWHEREby Dave Till




one of our party described some of the clientele as! A nice touch was a map on the wall showing where the beers on sales where brewed.

We diverted from General Gordons plan by nipping in to The Wellington on the way to The Crown. The Welly is a no nonsense pub, frequented by locals and sports fans offering on the day, Charmed Circle from Caledonian 4.4% for £2.60.

The Crown was to be our last stop before the Festival, and again a large airy locals pub near the Ring Road with very odd offset handpulls dispensing for us BoonDoggle 4.2% at £2.60 for all hand pull beers. It seems to be the norm for pubs to charge a fl at price for all real ales, irrespective of gravity.

The route to the Apna Venue was punctuated by lots of asking for directions, each contrary, so it seemed, to the last lot. At last, a proper curry and cornucopia of beer.

Managed to have a couple of halves, Triple F, Dazed and Confused (which I was becoming) and Empire Raikihautu before being summoned to the Charabanc for our journey homeward.

Cracking day out, well organised, good company, well varied pubs and beers, and surprisingly good value in both beer and food departments.

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In this issue of Brewery News we have joy in reporting that yet another microbrewery is about to open, this time at the Number 22 Traditional

Ale House and Canteen in Darlington.

CRAFTY PINT The “nanobrewery” based at the Half-Moon in

Darlington owned by John Anderson and Partner Dave Walker have been experimenting with some

brews. Latest reports are that there is one beer from The Crafty Pint Brewery on the bar along with a beer for the brave - Anexation 8.3% a fl avoursome Russian Imperial Stout at from Brasscastle.

FOUR ALLSThe ‘maypole village’ of Ovington is the home

of the Four Alls Brewery. Brewed on the premises of the Four Alls pub in this is the only place to sample its beers. Usually serving Four Alls Four Alls, it is best to give the pub a call on 01833 627 302 to check which of their beers is available.

GEORGE SAMUEL BREWING COMPANYThe Brewery’s website now reports that this

small independent two barrel brewery is now producing hand crafted all grain real ales and is supplying to the public and licensed trade. The site www.georgesamuelbrewingcompany.co.uk/reports the beers as: Brew It Again Sam 4% - Best Bitter, By George She’s got It 3.6% - Blonde Ale and Golden Wellingtons 5% - Premium Golden Ale. To try these, pop along to the Duke of Wellington in Welbury where Landlord Andrew Ferriman has also been serving Welbury Pale Bitter 3.6%, Welbury Brown Ale and Hodgson’s Hopeful.

MITHRIL ALESAccording to their website www.mithrilales.

co.uk. Craft Brewer and well known Local Darlington CAMRA Member, Pete Fenwick realised

his dream of opening a microbrewery in 2010 - after 8 years annoying his wife Corinna by brewing in the kitchen. Pete brews mainly for the local market and his beers can be found in free houses in the Darlington & Richmond area. The brewery name Mithril comes from The Lord of The Rings and is a “Dwarf” Silver or a “True Silver” named “Mithrill” by the elves stronger than steel. In the Brewery logo an Elf Maiden is depicted.

Still brewing twice a week, Mithril Ales recently brewed their 200th New Beer.

Up & coming beers are: • Ghostly Grog 3.9% - Amber ale for Halloween • Guy Fawkes Gold 3.8% - Golden beer for Bonfi re Night • Poppy Pale 3.7% - Pale ale for Remembrance Sunday. 10p will be donated for every pint sold • Prop Forward 3.9% - Brown ale for Autumn Rugby Internationals • Lineout 3.8% - Amber beer for Autumn Rugby Internationals • Movember 4.0% - Golden beer celebrating mine & other Mustaches • Chase The Pud – Pale ale for Richmond’s Santa Race • Christmas Hobbit – Brown ale celebrating the 3rd Hobbit fi lm.

NUMBER 22The Number 22 Traditional Ale House in

Coniscliffe Road Darlington, has installed a one-barrel (36 gallons) plant in what used to be the pub’s kitchen. According to owner Ralph Wilkinson, the beers will be made under his Village Brewer banner. “I’ve been thinking about the microbrewery for ages – a few years,” says Ralph.

“The only space we had to develop anything was the kitchen. The young girl who ran it has gone off doing her own thing, so I decided to invest in the one barrel kit.

“We’ll be concentrating on session beers using English Hops. There won’t be any commercial pressure so we’ll brew perhaps once a week or every fortnight. Nick Stafford at Hambleton Brewery is considering using it as a pilot plant to see how a new recipe might work rather than going straight into 20-barrel production.”

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SCHOOLHOUSE BREWERYHaving only been trading for only 3 months,

Graham Gannoway, owner of The Schoolhouse Brewery, reports that their a 6 barrel plant is breaking even already. After fi rst displaying their wares at the recent Darlington Beer Festival, they have been invited to beer fests at Nottingham & York. They have 3 beers: at 3.6%, 4.4%, & 4.9%. 1 Golden & 2 Copper coloured.

OTHER BREWERY NEWSRooster’s Brewing Company, owned and

operated by Ian Fozard and his two sons Tom and Oliver, has launched a range of its award-winning beers in 330ml cans. A state-of-the-art canning machine is being installed at the Knaresborough, North Yorkshire brewery before the end of the year. Tom Fozard says: “Cans are becoming an increasingly popular option for consumers of quality, independently brewed beer and we want to be at the forefront of the UK beer revolution”. They plan to produce Rooster’s Fresh Hop 4.3% with Pioneer hops harvested a mere 6 hours before the boil.

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COUNTY DURHAMThe Buck Inn, Sadberge, which used to be

owned by Marstons is now a Free House with 3 handpumps. The Dog Inn, Heighington, which was previously an Enterprise Inns pub is now a Free House with 1 real ale at weekends.

DARLINGTONThe Emerson Arms, Hurworth has reopened

with 1 real ale. Also in Hurworth, The Station Hotel, Hurworth Place has now added a second handpump. Chambers on Duke Street is re-opening renamed Sass. Although it has 3 handpulls it has no real ale yet. The Mowden Hotel on Staindrop Road has reopened and now has 2 real ales on handpump. Whilst still a pub, there is more emphasis on food and the atmosphere is generally much more pleasant.

NORTH YORKSHIREThe results of this year’s North Yorkshire Pub of

the Season were: • 1st - Old Well, Barnard Castle • 2nd - Red Lion, Cotherstone • 3rd - Langdon Beck Hotel • 4th - Strathmore Arms, Holwick • 5th - Cafe 1618, Middleton in Teesdale.

TEESDALEThe results of this year’s Teesdale Pub of the

Season were: • 1st - The Stanwick, Aldbrough • 2nd - The White Swan, Gilling West • 3rd - The Duke of Wellington, Welbury.

The Carlbury Arms, Piercebridge (now called The Fox Hole) has had a massive refurburbishment and now has 3 real ales from the likes of Mithril Ales, Sonnet 43, Black Sheep & Rudgate. The Golden Lion, Barnard Castle now has 5 handpumps, 4 for real ale & 1 for real cider.

INN BRIEF...

QUIZ QUESTIONAs you may recall in Issue 192, we set a quiz question regarding the CAMRA Branches during each stage that the Tour de France race went through on its visit to Yorkshire back in July. So how many branches could you name?

LONG VERSIONDuring Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate on Saturday 5th

July, the race started in Leeds Branch before heading towards Skipton and entering Keighley & Craven Branch. As the race passed along Wharfedale through Kettlewell and Bucken, it then climbed past the White Lion in Cray, over into Bishopdale and North West Yorkshire Branch area where it headed along Wensleydale and over Buttertubs Pass into Swaledale. Through Reeth and over Grinton Moor and Leyburn, the race headed onto Masham and into Harrogate & Ripon Branch area and the fi nish in Harrogate. So a total of four branch areas.

On Sunday 6th July, Stage 2 went from York to Sheffi eld. York Branch was the fi rst branch area of the day as the race headed to Knaresborough and Harrogate & Ripon Branch once more. Through Harrogate, the peleton headed along the A59 and over Blubberhouses into Keighley & Craven Branch at Bolton Bridge. Through Addingham (also on Stage 1), the race headed through Silsden and Keighley into Bronte Country before reaching Hebden

Bridge in Halifax & Calderdale Branch. Through Mytholmroyd and up Cragg Vale, the peleton reached Blackstone Edge and had a short foray into Lancashire and Rochdale, Oldham & Bury Branch for a few hundred yards before going back into Yorkshire and Halifax & Calderdale Branch once more. Dropping down into Ripponden and climbing through Greetland, the race passed under the M62 into Huddersfi eld & District Branch. Through Huddersfi eld and Holmfi rth, the race climbed over Holme Moss into Longdendale in Greater Manchester and High Peak & NE Cheshire Branch before heading east towards Penistone and South Yorkshire and the outer fringes of Sheffi eld & District Branch. The race then continued past Stocksbridge, through High Bradfi eld before heading into Sheffi eld and the fi nish close to Meadowhall Shopping Centre. So on Stage 2, the peleton passed through eight different branch areas passing through Halifax & Calderdale Branch area twice.

SHORT VERSIONSTAGE 1: Leeds to HarrogateLeeds, Keighley & Craven, North West Yorkshire, Harrogate & Ripon (Four branch areas)

STAGE 2: York to Sheffi eldYork, Harrogate & Ripon, Keighley & Craven, Halifax & Calderdale, Rochdale Oldham & Bury (a few hundred yards!), Halifax & Calderdale, Huddersfi eld & District, High Peak & NE Cheshire, Sheffi eld & District (Eight different branch areas)




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• This Guarantee is offered by all banks and building societies that accept instructions to pay by Direct Debits.

• If there are any changes to the amount, date or frequency of your Direct Debit The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. will notify you 10 working days in advance of your account being debited or as otherwise agreed.

• If you request The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. to collect a payment, confirmation of the amount and date will be given to you at the time of the request.

• If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit by The Campaign for Real Ale Ltd. or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society.

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• You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time by simply contacting your bank or building society. Written confirmation may be required. Please also notify us.

Join CAMRA TodayComplete the Direct Debit form and you will receive 15 months membership for the price of 12 and a fantastic discount on your membership subscription.Alternatively you can send a cheque payable to CAMRA Ltd. with your completed form, visit www.camra.org.uk/joinus or call 01727 867201. All forms should be addressed to Membership Department, CAMRA, 230 Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 4LW.

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