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Pub News


All Wetherspoons on Merseyside should now offer 20p pint discount to Camra members. No discount in conjunction with another like the 50p off vouchers, and be patient they have just started this scheme and staff may not know.

The Bierkeller is a new cellar bar just opened on Stanley St. (Dale St.end). 2 guest beers such as Oakham JHB,  Salopian .  Worth a visit.

Lord Warden,  London Road has reopened with guest real ales


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Caledonia on Catherine Street has reopened and has 3 ales on, with Tim Taylors Golden Best as the regular. The Loose Moose String Band who played on the Saturday of the Liverpool Beer Festival playing on every other Sunday night.


Cains Raisin has replaced Cains Mild as a regular beer



LADs Pub of the Year

The Liverpool and District Pub of the Year is the Dispensary on Renshaw Street (formerly RapidHardware Street). So congratulatons to Dave and the staff on what has been a fine and improved year. The runners up were the Ship & Mitre and the Fly in the Loaf.

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Brewery News



Amanda and Daryl from Turks Head have started brewing on their own farm, Tower Hill Brewery in St Helens.  Ex Mayflower plant.  Beers now on at Turks Head include Tower Hill Bitter & Mild

Liverpool One brewery recently opened, beers often in Roscoe head. You can check out the website by clicking on the link below. 


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Outstanding Beers

The beer of the Liverpool Beer Festival was awarded to the Outstanding Stout from the Outstanding Brewery down the road in Bury. Staff who worked sessions at the festival were invited along to visit the brewery for the award and to sample some lovely brews; along with the stout there was Blonde, Ginger, Wheat (or maybe it was Banana?) and Passing Out all of which were indeed outstanding (as were the pies!).


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Geoff presents the awards to Paul, Glen, Dave and Alex at the Outstanding Brewery.


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Campaigns

. National CAMRA have taken this opportunity to develop on the communication strategy with our current, wannabe and future representatives. Make your voice heard. Check out the Campaigns page for more information.

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Liverpool Beer Festival 2010

The beer festival has been and gone. It was another enjoyable and successful three nights and two days of beer, food and music. It received some nice reviews in the press and there was little but smiling faces seen as the lucky number with the tickets went in and came out.


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Well thought out proposals No. 3647, this time from the BMA

The British Medical Association (BMA) has published a new report proposing a draconian clampdown on alcohol and pubs.

Rather than proposing targeted measures to help the small minority of people who misuse alcohol, the BMA have taken a heavy handed blanket approach that will harm responsible drinkers and community pubs. The report proposes
vastly increasing the tax on alcohol through above inflation rises in alcohol duty and introducing a new alcohol levy. It further demands a reduction in pub opening hours which could mean a return to a uniform 11pm, or earlier, closing time.

CAMRA has launched a petition to the Prime Minister calling on the Government to reject these proposals and to support the interests of the responsible, sensible majority of moderate drinkers.

It is vital that we get as many signatures as possible in order to ensure a government response on this important issue, so please ask
your family, friends and fellow CAMRA members to show their support for the campaign here.

Link to report:
www.bma.org.uk/images/undertheinfluence_tcm41-190062.pdf

Link to petition:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/support-the-pub/


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Liverpool Historic Guide

The branch has produced a Liverpool Historic Guide detailing some of the city’s the main contributors to the rich pub heritage.
The guide is on sale for only
£3 from many city centre pubs and can be ordered on line from CAMRA.

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Beer Scoring

We changed the Beer Scoring guide in 2008 to the same as the National Beer Scoring System (NBSS). Check out the Beer Scoring page. Also on that page you will find the Guidance on Scoring for assessing pubs.

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Campaigns


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Stamps Too in Waterloo was the first pub in the district to be given the LocAle award - and it’s well deseved. Other pubs are joining all the time and to check out which ones look on the dedicated LocAle page, which can be accessed from the main menu bar on the left.

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Click on the LocAle logo to visit the main CAMRA Locale website.



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Good Beer Guide

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The Good Beer Guide 2010 is out, and you can get it now from the CAMRA bookshop. £11 for members and £15 for non-members online (it may be worth checking out Amazon (currently £8 member or not!)).



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