Lunesdale Drinker - Issue 27 - Jul/Aug/Sept 2015

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On The MoveMorecambe Beer Festival 2015

Morecambe MeanderingPart One

plus much more...

Kalamazoo to KrakowMerely Poles apart

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Getting engaged and becoming one of only six finalists in the British Institute

of Innkeeping Licensee of the Year Awards might be seen as trying a little too hard to get a mention in the local CAMRA magazine, but we do congratulate Tim Tomlinson (and Lucy Margerison) on those achievements. Under one of the difficult contracts that the pubs’ freeholders are apt to offer, Tim has turned the White Cross and the Merchants into popular, civilised pubs where real ale is of central importance and which figure prominently on the Northern City of Ale circuit which Tim set up.

When I lived in Scorton many years ago the nearest pub was The Fleece at Dolphinholme. The village itself was dry. But no longer - along with the Priory Cafe Bar, Scorton now has its own brewery and we send Nigel Stokes our best wishes with the new venture. More details on the brewery are Pub News.

Back in town, Mark Cutter at the Robert Gillow, the Bottle Shop and the Juke Joint (formerly The Lord Ashton) has started a mailing list which you may like to join to keep up to date with everything going on in his empire, which recently included a tasting of darker ales went down well with Lancaster University’s Real Ale and Cider Society. You can sign up through the Robert Gillow’s Facebook page.

Up at the Town Hall recently, Barry Howarth at Lancaster Wine Company ran a superb wine tasting which welcomed over a dozen merchants and producers – which nonetheless, found room for a couple of tables of beer. Rory brought his excellent three regularly-produced Borough Beers, whilst next door to my table was Hardknott Brewery from Millom, showing a mighty range which started

with Code Black at 5.6% and Azimuth IPA at 5.8% before ascending to the dizzy heights of the Rhetoric at 12.4% and their Granite Barley Wine at 12.7%. I was there to help out with James Clay’s beers, most curious amongst which was an unfiltered canned “India Hell’s Ale” from Camden Brewery in north London. The next night will be held nearer Christmas but it’s a hot date, so make sure you sign up to Barry’s mailing list.

So popular was last month’s event, that I was approached as I was locking my bike up outside the Town Hall by a man who, judging by the brown paper bag he was swinging at his side, might favour strength over complexity in his alcoholic tastes. He informed me he was an ex-soldier and that he would be “kicking off in there in a minute.” “Jolly good,” I replied, and thought nothing of it. I was startled to see him ten minutes later in the Banqueting Hall standing in front of my table as I was getting everything set up. He was politely ejected before he could grace us with his company, no doubt intimidated by my threatening nine stone frame. Apart from him though, it was a very civilised crowd!

As ever - with a team in the local CAMRA branch comprised of quality rather than quantity, we can only write about things we know about so if you’d like us to give your pub, festival, brewery or other activity a mention, please get in touch as early as possible. Talking of which – don’t forget that Morecambe Beer Festival is moving this year and further details are elsewhere in the magazine.

Cliff [email protected] 1050 7602

EDITOR’S COLUMNCliff Laine

Call 01524 220 230or visit www.lunesdaledrinker.com

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I was very pleased to be able to present The Royal Bar in Morecambe with our

Pub of The Year 2015 certifi cate at the end of March. Everyone there was so pleased to have been given this award which was well deserved in recognition of their efforts in providing good quality real ale in a lively and well run bar. I recently visited the Isle of Man for a CAMRA meeting and was very impressed by the beers from the Hooded Ram Brewery in Douglas, especially the Black Pearl Oyster Stout. So if you visit the Isle of Man, one to try.

I am now looking forward to the Morecambe Beer Festival in September at the Trimpell Club. This promises to be a great venue for the festival and easy to get to by bus or train and easily within reach of our Pub of The Year and other Morecambe pubs. Changing the date means you can now visit both Morecambe and the Great British Beer Festival in August as I will be doing. Finally,I have been out and about to a number of different pubs recently and have noted that outside of the Lunesdale area I tend to score lower on the quality of beer in general than in our area pubs. So stay near home for better beer!

I’d also like to add a note about CAMRA Members email addresses. Usually on a monthly basis I send out an email newsletter to CAMRA members mainly from information held by CAMRA HQ which has been up-dated by me when I learn of changed addresses. CAMRA are now putting in place a new system (Comms Tool) which will allow me to email all Lunesdale members on their database which I may be switching to at some future date. So it is important to keep your email address with CAMRA up to date. To check you need to log on to the members area at www.camra.org.uk and verify or change your email address as neccessary.

In addition if you are a member and are not receiving Lunesdale Mailouts and would like to do so, then email me at [email protected], stating your membership number.

Happy Drinking

Michael DillonChairman

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On 31st March we were delighted to present the Lunesdale Branch’s Pub

of the Year Award for 2015 to the Royal Bar in Morecambe.

Presenting the certifi cate to manager Bru Wood, branch chairman Michael Dillon remarked that before 2012, this pub would not have been considered for any CAMRA award. The new owners undertook a much-needed refurbishment that kept the original features left by previous owners and made sure the modern blended with the old. The revived pub has made cask-conditioned ale a central feature of its business and is now popular with residents and visitors alike, aided by a competitive pricing policy. The house is free of tie which allows Bru to sell a range of ales of his choosing.

The beautiful views over the Bay towards the Lakeland hills can also be enjoyed from a restored upstairs dining and function room. For those wishing to stay over there is an outstanding offer of a pint, evening dinner and a room for £31.

Accepting the award, manager Bru Wood said, “We have been given other awards, but this is the best. A lot of hard work has gone into getting us this far. But we intend to get even better.” He paid tribute to Drew Lucas, his “real ale guru” and promised a wider range of ales in the future. The branch congratulates Bru and the team on their wonderful transformation of this pub, adding to the widening range of real ale available in the resort.

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JULY• Thursday 16th : 8pm : Branch Meeting, Juke Joint (Lancaster)

AUGUST• Saturday 2nd : Hike & Pint - Ribblehead - Ingleton, 7 miles mostly downhill. Catch bus 832 from Lancaster Bus Sation 09.15 to Ribblehead, return19.25 to Lancaster.

• Thursday 6th : 8pm : Branch Meeting, Royal (Heysham)

• Friday 28th - Sunday 30th : Royal (Heysham) Beer Festival : 12 Beers & 2 Ciders.

SEPTEMBER• Thursday 10th : 8pm : Branch Meeting, Borough (Lancaster)

• Wednesday 9th - Sunday 13th September : Lancaster PubFest.

• Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th : Morecambe Beer Festival. At Trimpell Social Club (Morecambe). Note new date and venue.

FUTURE EVENTS

Please send details of future events you would like to be included as early as possible. Send to Martin Sherlock at [email protected] or ring them through to 01524 66131

For more details keep an eye on our website at www.lunesdalecamra.org.uk


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24 St George’s Quay, Lancaster01524 388808

PUB & BREWERY NEWSThe big news this quarter is of a new brewery opening in Scorton. Snowhill Brewery micro brewery started life in spring 2014. From a very small brewery to initially supply friends family and self, it has recently expanded and now is a 1.5 barrel plant . There will initially be two regulars brewed, Snowhill Pale at 3.7% and Snowhill Gold at 3.9%. Further brews to come on stream will a Best Bitter, a Black IPA and a substantial stout all planned for later this year.

Several pubs have stocked the beers, but only as one-offs, so you will just have to take your chances if you want to try them.

On the pub front, it’s just a depressing tale of pubs disappearing, I’m afraid. The signs have been removed from the New Albert (Lancaster) and the Packet Boat (Bolton-le-Sands). There are no advertised plans that I know of for either, but it doesn’t look good.

The builders are in at the Royal (Silverdale) and the Roof Tree

(Middleton). The former is supposed to reopen with a bar in what is otherwise a housing development, the latter has long had permission for a change of use, but little actually seems to be changing.

There has also been planning permission granted for the (New) Inn at Wray to change to housing.

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It’s all change for this year’s 4th CAMRA Morecambe Beer Festival with a new

venue, a new date and a new festival organiser. The event will take place at the Trimpell Sports and Social Club on the 24th to 26th September. Unfortunately George Palmer has to take a back seat due to personal commitments so I have stepped in to his shoes. They are big shoes to fill, but with the backing of our enthusiastic committee, volunteers and the Lunesdale Camra Branch I’m confident we can produce another successful event.

In the past three years we have used the Winter Gardens, and although it is a wonderful building it is not really practical to host a beer festival and we felt that we needed a more manageable and cost effective venue. The Trimpell Club is

an ideal place with great facilities, a ten minute walk from the train station and two minutes from the bus stop at the York Hotel. Cross Bay Brewery will be the main sponsor and I would like to thank Nick and his team for their continued support and for brewing some excellent beers.

We have kept the entry fee the same as last year and have introduced a weekend pass which gets you in all three days for the price of two, for the diehards. We are in the early stages of the organising and over the next few months will be visiting many other Beer Festivals to promote the event and sample many different types of real ale to decide on our beer list... I know... it’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it! With over 170,000 CAMRA members, around 1,100 breweries, the real ale scene is very much on the rise. There will be an opportunity to sponsor a barrel for £25 and we will soon be recruiting volunteers to work whatever hours anyone can. We will be giving out regular updates together with revamping the website at www.morecambebeerfestival.org as well as keeping you up to date on social media, so, I suppose, the barrel has started to roll.

In the meantime, anyone who’d be interested in helping out at the festival can contact the organisers via the Facebook group, craftily titled “Morecambe Beer Festival”. All offers of help are very welcome.

By Peter Morgan

MORECAMBE BEER FESTIVAL IS ON THE MOVE


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The Owls Nest

This is the fi rst part of a look at Morecambe pubs. Part two will cover

central Morecambe, and Heysham will feature later.

Starting in Bare, there are two pubs. The Owls’ Nest is a Mitchell’s pub in the old lodge of Elms House, which became the Elms Hotel before being demolished and replaced by fl ats. It’s a small cosy little pub with a few seats outside. Further along Bare Lane, we come to the Dog & Partridge, a Greene King ’Meet & Eat pub & grill’ naturally good for food. It was originally named the Sportsman’s Arms and dates from the 1880s but has since been rebuilt.

Continuing by foot or bus (service 3 or 4) we arrived at Torrisholme, which used to have two old pubs opposite each other. One was the Groves Arms, originally a

beer house (1880s), but now long closed and mostly demolished; however, part of it remains to the left of the electrical shop. Opposite was the Lodge’s Arms (1748), which was rebuilt in the 1930s as the George, and remains today. The pub sign shows George V and probably celebrates the King’s Jubilee in 1935. It is a traditional Thwaites pub with their range of beers.

Turning west, we come to the roundabout and the Toby Carvery, which opened in the 1970s as the Shrimp. It is more a diner than pub, although there is normally a real ale available.

Next on Westgate is the William Mitchell, a fairly modern pub named after the Brewery founder, with everything you would expect in a Mitchell’s pub.

Next we fi nd the Hurley Flyer, a Marston’s pub just outside the football ground. It is named after a RNLI Lifeboat, and only opened in 2013. Like many of their similar pubs it offers a good range of beers and food. Behind this pub is the Globe Arena, home of Morecambe Football Club, where there is the

downstairs Globe Bar, mainly open on match days, and upstairs the more upmarket Wright & Lord Suite, available for functions and events, besides match days, with both bars normally

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Part One - Our intrepid travellers go slaking their thirst in Morecambe with Lawrence Bland

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have one real ale on tap. One should note the club pies, which are also sold in Harrods, are often voted the best in the Football League.

Over the railway bridge (buses 6 & 6A) into Regent Road, both the Park and the Imperial are at present closed. Onto the Promenade, there is the Clarendon Hotel, a late 19th century upmarket Mitchell’s residential hotel, with a lounge bar on the ground fl oor by the reception with a separate Waterfront Restaurant. Most beer drinkers will head down to the cellar bar, the Davy Jones Locker.

Passing several bars with no real ale, Breezer’s Bar, Broadwalk and Cavern, we come to the Ranch House. It replaced the old Casino Bar in 1986, when the fairground adopted a wild west theme. The fairground closed in 1999 and site has been desolate since except for the Ranch House and Polo Tower, but plans are frequently announced for replacement shops and a new hotel on the site. I call this a sports bar with multiple TV screens showing all the sports channels. There is seating outside to catch the summer trade, along with a nice range of beers and is well worth a visit.

Next we come to the old Promenade Station, dating from 1907, but which closed some years ago. Parts of the building house the tourist offi ce and the Platform entertainment centre. At the east end is the Station, which is popular for food. It should have real ale available, although I have never found any on when I visited.

Opposite, in a prime location on the seafront is the Midland Hotel, starting as the North Western from 1848 and renamed the Midland in 1871. It was rebuilt in the

1930s in a classic Art Deco style

and recently resorted to its former glory and is now a beautiful Grade 2* b u i l d i n g . Overlooking the sea is the Ravilious Rotunda Bar, with the restored Eric Ravilious Mural from 1933. It’s popular for food and there is usually one real ale available, although it’s not cheap!

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Lancaster to Bolton-le-Sands Canal Hike by Lawrence Bland

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from the White Cross, while I joined those waiting for the Hest Bank to open at noon, having taken a different route. The Hest Bank was quiet, but plenty of staff were waiting for the lunchtime and afternoon rush. Adnams Jester was the main beer sampled, along with Black Sheep.

Returning to the canal, we continued to the Blue Anchor in Bolton-le-Sands, another quiet pub except for the Monaco Grand Prix on the TV. The recent upgrade has left a continental café style, with teas, coffees and snacks menu available from 9am each day. Lancaster Amber & Red, along with Coniston Bluebird were

sampled. We walked through the village, passing the former Packet Boat, looking unchanged except that the inn signs having been removed.

Rejoining the canal, we entered the Royal by the back door entrance. The pub was packed with drinkers and diners and the food looked very tasty. Three third pints were available, and there was a nice choice of beers. Coniston Asria and Oakham Citra & JHB were among those tasted. I left the party here, to return home to watch Preston North End win the Division One Play-Off fi nal on TV. The rest of the group were debating whether to continue to Carnforth or hike over to the Limeburners in Nether Kellet.

PUBS WITH CAMRA DISCOUNT

MORECAMBE• Kings Arms (LA4 4BJ) - 20% off• Smuggler’s Den (LA4 5HB) - 50p off a pint of house ale• Royal Hotel (LA4 4BJ) - 20p off a pintGARSTANG• Th’Owd Tithe Barn (PR3 1PA) - 30p off a pint• Wheatsheaf (PR3 1EL) - 20p off a pintGALGATE• Plough (LA2 0LQ) - 40p off a pintHEYSHAM• Royal Hotel (LA3 2RN) - 10% off

This list is believed to be accurate, but may of course change without notice. Some pubs don’t give discount on half pints. Email any errors or omissions to [email protected]

LANCASTER• Bobbin (LA1 1HH) - 30p off a pint• The Borough (LA1 1PP) - £1 off a pint of their own beers only• Fibber McGee’s (LA1 1UP) - 30p off a pint• George & Dragon (LA1 1RB) - 10% off• Greaves Park (LA1 3AH) - 30p off a pint• Juke Joint (was Lord Ashton) (LA1 1NY) - 10% off• Merchants (LA1 1YN) - 10p off a pint• Penny Bank (LA1 1XF) - 10p off a pint• Penny Street Bridge (LA1 1XT) - 30p off a pint• Robert Gillow (LA1 1HP) - 10% off• Study Room (LA1 1LH) - 10% off• Tap House (LA1 1UH) - 10% off• Three Mariners (LA1 1EE) - 10p off a pint• Water Witch (LA1 1SU) - 30p off a pint• White Cross (LA1 4XT) - 10p off a pint

Members need to be in possession of a current valid CAMRA membership card to claim the discount.


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Traditional home -cooked food, served

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I fl ew out from John Lennon airport on 30th November on a warm Sunday at

noon, arriving into John Paul II airport in Krakow which was enjoying temperatures of minus 5 at a very dark 4pm.

Much in need of some Polish spirit I set off the explore the microbreweries of Krakow. Most people will have tried the common Polish beers of Tyskie and Zywiec, which sell more in the West End of Morecambe than in the shipyards of Gdansk. I was informed that there are eight microbreweries, mainly in the Old Town and the Jewish Quarter. The Old Town has several hidden cellar bars down alleyways and often diffi cult to fi nd. This was because during the German occupation in the Second World War the Polish people were frightened to walk the streets of Krakow in case they were stopped and searched Having the wrong ID on you (e.g., a Burnley Season ticket) meant being sent to the labour camps, as Pope John Paul II had to endure.

These hidden bars make for good brewing conditions. The fi rst bar I visited was C. K. Browar, where you can order their beer in a “pipe”, which comes in a large cylindrical glass about four feet high with a tap at the bottom to extract about eight pints of beer. I had their wheat beer at 6% which was very nice. I should point out at this stage that all the micropubs are in the tourist areas of Krakow and sell for around £2 a pint. In the outskirts of the city, you can get all the common beers for about 60p a pint. This attracts not only the tourists but I also observed gangs of young trendy Polish girls who just drank pints of beer.

Next stop was a visit to the Stara Zajezdnia in the Jewish Quarter. This

is a fascinating building as it has been converted from a tramshed into a microbrewery and restaurant, just across from the transport museum which is also worth a visit. I had the 6% wheat beer, a bargain at £2 a pint.

Finally, I found the Multi Qlti Tap Bar, which brews twenty beers. I had the 6% Raciborskie DR American IPA. Whilst quaffi ng I was inroduced to Gosia Gog, a lady beer journalist who is so enthusiastic about beer that she takes guided tours round Krakow and meets parties of curious ale-lovers at the airport.

I could continue with all the bars I visited, but I thought I would publish her card so that you can view the bars I went to or book yourself a tour with Gosia. Krakow is well worth a visit for other reasons. The world heritage salt mines are close by as is Oskar Schindler’s factory.

So as they say in Poland, Dzieki do Widzenia!

Bajrij Jungnia.

Merely Poles apart, with our World Correspondent Barry Young

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handwriting of the Polish names, a marvellous feat given what he was up to on his trip!].


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The Snug Micropub

at Carnforth Station

Open Tuesday to Saturday 12 noon - 2pm & 5pm - 9pm& Sundays 12.30pm - 3pm

Call: 07927 396861Blog: thesnugmicropub.blogspot.co.ukEmail: [email protected]: www.facebook.com/thesnugmicropub

We serve Real Ale, Wine & Soft Drinks

No lager, spirits, music, TV

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Earlier this year we saw another Dark and Winter Ales Festival, a

visit from Liverpool CAMRA, and a jaunt with the University’s Real Ale and Cider Society. And here’s the evidence.

Martin Sherlock on what you can do to help save your favourite pub

LIST YOUR LOCAL NOW!

OUT & ABOUT Chief Photographer - Lawrence Bland

Caitling on the DWAF at the Tap House,

unsuccessfully trying to hide behind something

long and shiny from Millom.Dwaffi ng causes tunnel vision

at The Merchants.

Back in the Tap House, our Scouse guests will never have an excuse for missing their train.

Plain clothes bouncer keeps watchful eye as student’s eyesight fails.

I have written about the designation of “Asset of Community Value” in these pages before, but

my excuse for returning to the topic is that it has become more useful recently. Up to now it was a useful delaying tactic for villagers trying to raise the capital to buy their pub, so it was only worth nominating a pub under immediate threat. Now it is worth nominating any pub, and in another part of the forest a recent judicial decision means CAMRA branches can be directly involved.

Under current planning law, pubs in general can be converted to shops or restaurants, or even demolished, without any permission being required. However, a recent change in the law means that a pub which is an Asset of Community Value needs planning permission for all these changes. This is not of course any sort of guarantee that the pub will stay open, but it is another device we can use. So we might as well try to designate as many pubs as we can. But where to start?

This is where you come in. We want you to nominate a pub as an Asset of Community Value.

All you have to do is email [email protected] (or, if you are stuck in the 20th century, write to 22 Cumberland View, LA1 4AB), saying which pub you want to nominate and (critically) why it is a community asset. We will deal with the bureaucracy. If you want to get together with your friends to nominate a pub, so much the better. You can nominate as many pubs as you like.

Note that, although it might be a good idea to do the most deserving cases fi rst, the pub you nominate does not need to be under any immediate threat. Nor does it matter (at least in theory) that there is another perfectly good pub up the road.

It is perhaps worth pointing out that an ACV designation is entirely separate from the older “listing” in planning law. Many pubs in this area are “Grade II listed” which protects the fabric of the building but not the way it is used, so that a listed pub (on paper) is safe from demolition but could be turned into a shop.

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Westmorland CAMRA POTY 2011

Traditional Real Ales


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Westmorland CAMRA Cider & Perry Pub of the Year 2013/2014Westmorland CAMRA Real Ale Pub of the Year 2014

THE GEORGE & DRAGON HOTEL

Discounts on Real Ale given upon production of valid CAMRA Membership card.


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Westmorland CAMRA Cider & Perry Pub of the Year 2013/2014Westmorland CAMRA Real Ale Pub of the Year 2014

THE GEORGE & DRAGON HOTEL

Discounts on Real Ale given upon production of valid CAMRA Membership card.


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