Don’t forget the 2nd Newark Winter Beer Festival, being held in the magnificent Ball Room of Newark Town Hall this weekend.
Friday 29th January – 11.00am – 11.00pm
Saturday 30th January – 11.00am – 11.00pm
Card carrying CAMRA members pay £2 for admission, non-members pay £5. Entry is pay at the door, NOT [...]
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I’ve just re-read an article in the Winter 2009 issue of MerseyAle – Liverpool CAMRA‘s newsletter – which reports:
…the Government now defines a binge drinker as someone who drinks on one day a week more than twice the recommended safe limit, which is 3 to 4 units for a man and 2 [...]
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I picked up a beer mat in Nottingham on Saturday that instructs ‘Say no to warm beer’. The beer mat in question is for Carling ‘Extra Cold’. What the hell are the ‘brewers’ thinking of?
The tiny bit of flavour Carling might have had, even after filtration and pasteurisation, will certainly not be detectable [...]
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Much has been made of the workers’ strike at the giant AB InBev brewery plants at Leuven, Jupille and Hoegaarden in Belgium this last week. Supplies of Stella were expected to run out on Belgian supermarket shelves over the weekend.
God forbid! Drinkers may be so desperate that they now have to choose something from [...]
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We are pleased to announce that the winner of Newark CAMRA branch Pub of the Year for 2010 is The Hearty Goodfellow at Southwell (for pub details go here). Apparently on being told the news Steve and Alison were well chuffed, to say the least. The whole pub broke out into spontaneous applause and [...]
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There is a pub documentary on the More4 TV channel this coming Sunday evening at 10pm.
Entitled ‘Red Lion’, it is a 3,000 mile pub crawl around the country’s Red Lion pubs – the UK’s most popular pub name - investigating the nation’s drinking habits.
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Newark CAMRA has today updated its on-line pub guide.
SPILE, or Simple Pub lIst onLine for CAMRA branchEs (sorry, I didn’t make it up!) is a searchable database of all the pubs in the Newark branch area. All the essential information is there including photo’s, telephone numbers and links to Google maps, but the project [...]
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I’ve just been told that the Vine has reopened, apparently business as usual. I will update as soon as I know more.
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They Liked a Pint – by Harry Constantine
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