Just occasionally we get an urge to do something different. To break the mould. To push the boundaries. A quick look at the Newark CAMRA website showed me exactly where the boundaries were – and arguably the furthest boundary was on the west; Oxton to be exact.
With my trusted travelling beer-drinking companion beside me [...]
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Real Ales available on the CAMRA LocAle stand at Newark & Notts County Show, May 9th and 10th (Eight available at any one time).
BREWSTERS CHEVAL MORT 4.0%
BREWSTERS HOP A DOODLE DOO 4.3%
BREWSTERS MARQUIS 3.8%
SPRINGHEAD WILLYS WHEATBEER 5.3%
SPRINGHEAD LIBERTY 3.8%
SPRINGHEAD GOODRICH CASTLE 4.4%
MAYPOLE [...]
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Just received beer menu for Sutton-on-Trent Sports Club beer festival, held 1-3 May.
ECCLESHALL SPRING FORWARD 3.8%
MORDUE SPRING TYNE 4.0%
WARWICKSHIRE DARLINGS BUDS 4.0%
RINGWOOD BOLD FORESTER SPRING ALE 4.2%
HOPBACK SPRING ZING 4.2%
NEWMANS SPRING COTTAGE BISCUIT 4.2%
TOM WOODS SPRINGTIME 4.2%
BATEMANS EGGS-B 4.2%
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There is a plethora of local beer festivals coming up. There is an Easter fest on this weekend at the Castle, featuring about 12 ales. Sutton-on-Trent Sports Club hold a well organised festival which takes place on the 1st-3rd May, about 18 real ales from near and far.
A CAMRA bar will be present again [...]
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You’ve got to hand it to them at that Castle. Popped in on Tuesday night at about 8.30 and the place was heaving. Seems the music nights attract the punters. Don’t think many pubs could boast of being packed on a Tuesday. Oh yes, and the Sharps IPA wasn’t bad either!
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After Marston’s MD, Stephen Oliver’s unwarrented outburst about CAMRA members, SIBA and even their own licensees, I think we should boycott Marston’s beers.
His article in the pub trade paper The Morning Advertiser, entitled ‘It’s hard to keep the gobby hobbits happy’ calls CAMRA members ‘beardy weirdies’ hohoho, how original, and ‘sandal-clad, whisker-stroking stormtroopers’. Stormtroopers!!!
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There were lights on in the Malt Shovel this evening. The back doors were open and there was a skip full of rubbish in the beer garden.
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Another jolly day out in Leicester yesterday. First stop, the Ale Wagon for a swift half before swooping over to the Leicester beer festival. A great list of over 200 beers at this excellently organised and run festival. Unfortunately (for us) most of them had sold out! So after a couple of hours it was [...]
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They Liked a Pint – by Harry Constantine
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