News
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
The
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.
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!).
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
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
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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