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We meet the brewer at microbreweryLeila Cottage.

CONTENTSISSUE 1 2013

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Meet TheBrewer

7Lincoln NewsAll you need to know about what’s happening in theale world in Lincolnshire.

13Branch DiaryImportant dates for your diary.

16Lincoln Brewing HistoryA little look at Lincoln’s brewing past.

18Micro-pubsSteve Renshaw investigates the Micro-pub trend.

21CookingTwo micro recipes to inspire you.

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Thank you for picking upthis edition of ImpAle – Ihope you enjoy it. I thinkthere are lots of interestingarticles to hold yourinterest whilst suppingyour pint.

This edition is inspired bythe little things in the aleworld. Microbreweries arebooming and Lincolnshireis lucky enough to boastseveral microbreweriesnow (many featured in

previous Meet the Brewer articles). For me, the best thing aboutmicrobreweries is not that they are just small, but that they showan alternative attitude and approach to brewing. Often thebrewer at a microbrewery has greater flexibility and is able toexperiment with flavours and styles, which is great for usconsumers of ale! They are also able to offer better customerservice, dealing directly with pubs and meeting their customers,meaning they can receive immediate feedback from theircustomers about their likes and dislikes. They also support thelocal economy, usually employing local people, serving localpubs and in some cases giving the waste product of brewingto local farmers for fertiliser.

So next time in you are in the pub and see a beer from a breweryyou’re not familiar with, why not give it a try?

Please enjoy this issue of ImpAle and as usual if you have anycomments please send them to me.

Cheers!

Please enjoy this issue of ImpAle and as usual if you haveany comments please send them to [email protected] Or tweet me @ImpAleEditor

Wendy

Welcome.

ImpAle

EditorWendy Margetts

DesignMatt RichardsArt of Matelot, Matelot Marketing Limited

PublisherNeil Richards MBEMatelot Marketing LimitedTel:01536 358670 Mob:07710 [email protected]

With kind help fromSteve Renshaw, Steve Richardson, PhilKempton, Aaron Joyce, Ashley Sewell, JerryGale, Lorraine Gale, Greg Richards, RichardBanks, copies/images of Lincoln Librarywith permission of Lincolnshire CountyCouncil: Lincoln Central Library: Local StudiesCollection, Sara Basquill, Market Rasen Mail,Lincolnshire Echo, Lincolnshire Life Magazine

ImpAle is the magazine of Lincoln CAMRA and Louth CAMRA branches.CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real pubs and consumer rights. It is anindependent, voluntary organisation with more than 120,000 membersnationally. ImpAle magazine is published three times a year and isavailable free through pubs in Lincoln and Louth branch areas. To joinCAMRA, help preserve Britain’s brewing and pub industry, get thecampaign’s quarterly newsletter and its monthly newspaper What’sBrewing and a host of other membership benefits – visit www.camra.org.uk

CAMRA is a limited company, run at national level by an elected unpaidboard of directors and at regional level by volunteer regional directors, bothbacked by full time professional staff.

Consumer RightsFor complaints about issues such as short measures contact LincolnshireTrading Standards on 01522 782341 or Consumer Direct on 0845 4040506.

DisclaimerThe views contained within ImpAle do not necessarily represent the viewsof CAMRA, the editor, or the Lincoln and Louth branches.

Campaign for Real Ale230 Hatfield RoadSt Albans, Herts.

AL1 4LWTel: 01727 867201

Email:[email protected]

Our Twitter account @Lincoln_CAMRA now has over 1000followers! Our friends on our Facebook account are alsoincreasing at a steady rate! To help keep the successgoing we need your help! Please email Aaron [email protected] with your local pub’s events,be it a regular weekly quiz/food night and one off events, it'san easy way to become active within the branch with minimaleffort.

Hello and Welome to 2013

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Producing heritage craft ales in

eight-sailed windmill

Heckington Windmill, Hale Road, Heckingtron, Lincolnshire Tel: 01529 469308 www.8SailBrewery.co.uk

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Sara Barton of Brewster’s Brewery in Grantham was “absolutelydelighted” to be named Brewer of the Year 2012 at the influentialBritish Guild of Beer Writers Awards Dinner. Brewster’s, whichis the old term for female brewer, was set up by Sara in 1998and this is the first time that a woman has won this award. Sarahas a Master’s Degree in Brewing and Distilling from Heriot WattUniversity.

Brewster’s brews a wide range of core beers, as well two themedranges of cask ales, WhimiscAle and Wicked Women. Sara hasalso been busy working with other women brewers, having set

up Project Venus in 2011 to collaborate on new brews andshowcase the best of female brewing in the UK and Eire. ProjectVenus has now produced eight beers from participatingbreweries around the UK and next one is scheduled for January2013 at Offbeat Brewery in Crewe.

British Guild of Beer Writers chairman Tim Hampson said, “Saraisn’t just a great brewer, she is also changing the face of thebrewing industry through her collaborative brews with otherwomen. By sharing her experience and skills generously withthese emerging brewsters, she is encouraging more of them to startbrewing and returning an industry that has been dominated bymen back to its roots, when beers were made, like bread, by thewoman of the house.”

Blacksmiths Arms re-opens

Having been boarded up fortwenty months, the BlacksmithsArms at Bracebridge Heathre-opened in December. Land-lady, Carolyn Merridan, has livedin the village for 22 years andwas licensee at the Bull for 6years. The building has beenrefurbished inside and out, andthe aim is to provide a traditionaldrinkers’ pub. Pub grub will beavailable once the kitchen hasbeen brought up to scratch. Thefirst real ales on the bar wereTom Wood’s Lincoln Gold andSharp’s Doom Bar.


IN BRIEF

NEWSSara is first

female winnerof Brewer of

the Year

Pic – Strait & Narrow

At the beginning of November, CAMRAannounced the latest pub closure statistics.And the bad news was that pubs across thecountry are now closing at the rate of 18 perweek, compared with 12 a week six monthspreviously.

But, in the same week that these figures werereleased, we in Lincoln had a very unusualoccurrence - a brand new bar opened. TheStrait and Narrow, in what used to be acatalogue shop at the bottom of Steep Hill,describes itself as a continental-style beer bar.

The well-designed interior is open plan, withdrinking areas on different levels. There’sstanding room near the bar and plenty ofcomfortable seating. The exposed brick wallsand wooden floor give a minimalist feel whichcontrasts with the chandelier light fittings.

The choice of beers is extensive. On draughtthey have Belgian lagers, wheat beers, kriek,and blondes. There are five hand pumps, withTimothy Taylor’s Landlord, Black Sheep Bitterand a beer from Grafters Brewery as regulars.There are well over 100 international bottledbeers, including Trappist beers, stouts, IPAs,British ales and fruit beers.

New Bar opens in Lincoln

Pic - Brewer of the Year, Sara Barton, is congratulated by Tim Hampson, chairmanof the British Guild of Beer Writers.

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News

Bowling Green plansPlanners have approved anapplication to upgrade andmodernise The Bowlo publichouse at the junction of WragbyRoad and Outer Circle Road, withthe hope of bringing a restaurantoperator to the premises. Thebuilding, previously known as theBowling Green, has stood emptyfor a number of years. Suggestedchanges will give the building amore contemporary feel as well asproviding improved car parking.Work will be undertaken when atenant has been found.

Online database of Lincolnshire pubs

CAMRA has been planning anddeveloping its own online pubguide for over three years.Thanks to an immense amount ofwork by volunteers and staff, theWhat Pub database is currentlyavailable to CAMRA members.However, non-members canaccess information onLincolnshire pubs by going tothe Lincoln CAMRA website(www.lincolncamra.org.uk) andselecting Pub Database. Onceyou have read the informationpage, tick the agreement box andclick Continue. You will then beable to search the database forpubs and find details such astheir opening times, descriptions,facilities and of course details ofthe real ale and cider on offer.

Batemans wins GreatBritish Beer Hunt

Batemans Mocha has won theprestigious Sainsbury's GreatBritish Beer Hunt 2012. The 6%ABV bottled beer is brewed withgenuine coffee, fine Belgianchocolate and locally grownroasted malt. Mocha fended offstrong competition from over 140beers to win the title plus asix-month listing in Sainsbury'sstores nationwide.

IN BRIEF

Pic – closed pub

The Government has now implemented thepart of the Localism Act covering the so-called ‘Community Right to Bid’. In theory, thisenables communities in England to stop theclock on sales of what they regard as valued

local assets (such as pubs), so that apurchase bid can be formulated.

Lists of assets of community value areadministered by district/unitary councilsand London boroughs. Nominations forinclusion on the lists can be made by parishcouncils, neighbourhood forums, communityinterest groups (which must be charities orcompanies) and ‘unincorporated groups’.The last must comprise at least 21 peoplewho live in the council area.

When an owner decides to sell a listed asset,they must notify the council. The group whichnominated the asset in the first place maythen request to be treated as a potentialbuyer. At this point, a moratorium period ofsix months is imposed to give the groupenough time to work up a bid and a businessplan, as well as exploring all available optionsto save the community asset.

A detailed summary of the new powers canbe found at:http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/2229703.pdf

Licensee and brewer, Phil Troop, has markedthe fifth anniversary of his Grafters Brewerywith a major expansion. The larger brewingarea will quadruple capacity at the sitebehind the Half Moon at Willingham by Stow.

Also included are viewing windows so thatreal-ale enthusiasts can see the ale beingmade, a shop for off-sales, an office and alarge beer garden. The first brew from thenew 10-barrel plant is planned for February.

Phil, who has run the Half Moon with wifeTracy for more than 15 years, admits thatbefore he diversified into brewing in 2007, hisbusiness came within a whisker of closure onmore than one occasion. He’s hoping that,

from next summer, brewery tours will be anattraction in their own right. And he’s alreadyhad an enthusiast come from Manchesterto Lincoln by train, ride over to Willingham bybicycle and then back to Gainsborough andreturn home by train.

CommunityRight to Bid

Major expansionat Grafters

Pic - Phil Troop with assistant brewer Aaron Taylor anddelivery man Daniel Wilkinson (Photograph courtesy ofLincolnshire Echo)

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News

IN BRIEF

Pic – Beer bat

Drinkers at CAMRAbeer festivals arefamiliar with the third ofa pint measure. It’sparticularly useful if youwant to try a selectionof different brewswithout ending up theworse for wear. Andwe’re now seeing thirdglasses in pubs.

Tasting trays of threethirds for the price ofa pint are a regularfeature of the twice-yearly real ale festivalsat J D Wetherspoon’soutlets. And you canalways get three thirdsat the Strugglers inLincoln. In fact, Anna

will sell you a singlethird of any real ale -really useful if it’s aparticularly strong beeror you’re driving.

The latest Lincolnpub to offer thirds isthe Jolly Brewer. Theglasses are presentedin a wooden ‘beer bat’,making it easy tocarry them to yourtable. Landlady, EmmaChapman, reportsthat younger drinkershave been keen totry them, and alsosome customers whowouldn’t normally drinkreal ale.

Make minea Third

Nottingham brewer, Blue Monkey,won an unprecedented 5 goldmedals and 3 silver medals in theSociety of Independent Brewers(SIBA) Midlands Beer Competition,which was held at Nottingham BeerFestival. Big Blue (6.8% ABV) wongold in the premium strong beercategory and went on to be namedSIBA Supreme Champion Beer of theMidlands.

Big Blue will be joined by the caskand bottled versions of Ape Ale in theSIBA National Beer Competition 2013.The judging criteria are based onmarketability, in addition to quality.The cask winners are showcased atthe Great British Beer Festival andthe bottle winners are entered bySIBA into the International BeerCompetition.

The competition will form part ofSIBA’s BeerX 2013, an industry-wideconference to be held in Ponds ForgeInternational Sports Centre, Sheffield.This will include the SIBA champions’beer festival which will be open to thepublic from 14th to 16th March.

The Advocate Arms in Market Rasenis to be televised as part of BBC`sGreat British Railway Journeys, hostedby ex-shadow chancellor of theexchequer, Michael Portillo. Mr Portillovisits Market Rasen, as his 19th centuryBradshaw’s Guidebook states thatthere is an old hospital in the townand a ‘curious,embattled toweredchurch, whose vicar takes tithe of ale.Great Train Journeys series four willbe aired sometime in January 2013.

Dark ale from PheasantryPheasantry Brewery at East Markham hasadded a third beer to its portfolio. PheasantryDark Ale (4.2% ABV) has malty flavours,balanced bitterness and a velvety texture. Thebrewery’s other beers are Best Bitter (3.8% ABV)and Pale Ale (4% ABV).

Blue Monkeyheads for

Ponds Forge

TOP RASENHOTEL ON

T.V

Picture – Michael Portillo at Market Rasen trainstation – courtesy of Market Rasen Mail.

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Louth News

In 2005, after being in CAMRA for nine years, I moved from Wiltshire to Lincolnshire to be with mywife Lorraine. In the January, I went to my first ever branch meeting at the Boars Head in Louth.

We both loved the feel of things with our new friends, so in November that year, at the AGM, wevolunteered to join the committee. After a year as Treasurer, I was asked to take the Chairman’sjob, which I did and have been doing it since then.

I also took on the job of organising the beer festival. I was thrown in the deep end, as I was given no paperwork from previousfestivals so it was a steep learning curve for me.

Just before our AGM in 2012, which is now in April, I announced to my committee that I would be standing down, as the job (and allthe others that I do that no one else has the time to do) was getting on top of me. They persuaded me to stay by changing frommonthly to bi-monthly meetings. However, I warned them that, if I still felt the same, I would give them six months’ notice at the SGMin October. This proved to be the case, so I will be stepping down in April. I feel that the job is no longer keeping my interest andno longer fun (which as a volunteer it needs to be).

I have also taken two other jobs within CAMRA as the East Midlands Champion Beer of Britain Coordinator and also the EastMidlands Tasting Panel Coordinator.

I would like to say that, although I am stopping my work with Louth & District CAMRA branch, I have enjoyed it and who knows whatthe future may bring. I would like to thank all the members and all of those that have worked with me on the committee and I wishyou all well.

I won’t be leaving CAMRA as I believe totally in what it stands for.

Louth Branch Diary

Branch Meeting 28th February at the White Horse, Louth - 8pm

Social Trip 22nd February to Horncastle leaving Louth 7pm

Branch AGM 25th April at the Boars Head, Louth - 8pm

Jerry Gale explains why he’s standingdown from his posts with Louth &District CAMRA branch.

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November> CAMRA research has shown that, since 2010, 140 pubs havebeen turned into supermarkets. Tesco was leading the way with 91conversions.

> The 2013 Great British Beer Festival will be held in London’s Olympiafrom Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th August. This is a week later than theusual date for the festival because of an existing booking at the venue.

> Backed by the Department for Communities and Local Government,the new Community Shares Unit will help people in England usecommunity-owned shares as a way of raising finance to buy pubs orother at-risk local assets, such as a shop or a post office.

December> The finalists in the National Pub of the Year competition for 2012 wereannounced. They were the Bridge End Inn in Ruabon, the Baum inRochdale, the Conqueror Alehouse in Ramsgate and the Tom CobleyTavern in Spreyton.

> After months of campaigning by CAMRA members to achieve over100,000 signatures on the e-petition calling for a debate on the beerduty escalator, MPs have overwhelmingly called for a review of thecontroversial tax. Subsequently, CAMRA was organising a mass lobbyof parliament to protest about the government’s refusal to review theescalator.

> The Live Music Act 2012 has ended the need for pubs with capacityof less than 200 people to hold a live music licence. Now pubs canhost music up to 11 pm without incurring the expense of applying for aspecial licence.

January> Around 1,200 CAMRA members from across the UK took part in themass lobby of parliament. They joined with licensees and brewers toensure that MPs got the message that the beer duty escalator was asevere threat to the pub industry.

> Pete Brown has been named Beer Writer of the Year by the Guild ofBeer Writers. Pete, who recently joined CAMRA, has contributed toCAMRA’s quarterly magazine, Beer, on several occasions.

> Oakham Ales is the first UK brewer to use a new US hop variety, havingshipped over the entire harvest from the States. The new beer iscalled Multihead, which is the nickname of the Humulus LupulusNeomexicanus hop.

If you’re not a CAMRA member, you won’t be getting all the latestreal ale, pub and brewing news delivered to your door every month.Join, using the application form on page 26 and get What’sBrewing and Beer delivered free, plus a host of other membershipbenefits.

WHAT’SBREWINGNATIONALLY

ImpAle rounds up CAMRA’s news from the last three months

@churchybabes – The Golden Eagle in Lincoln because Traceytold me that was the right answer and who am I to argue?

@AndrewParrish7 – The Wheatsheaf Barton upon Humber, Agreat pub with great ales.

@churchybabes – The Golden Eagle a superb pub that serves afantastic pint of beer time and time again. A wonderfully welcomingatmosphere with great staff and friendly locals. Brilliant beer festivaland fab food. Top Class.

@Greymanes – The Jolly Brewer because the later the night themore random the conversation!

@GOOCHIEG – Lord Harrowby Grantham, classic back streetboozer rejuvenated by John and Linda. 5 Great ales to choosefrom

@iFancyaPint – Bateman’s Brewery tap – spent a great afternoonthere with the team from Batemans- nice people, fresh beer. Or wasit the other way around?

@_scatterbrain – The Dog and Bone! Saviour of Monks Road,lovely atmosphere, library, great ales, roaring fire, and Brian the cat!

@jezashberry – u can’t really beat Strugglers Lincoln – friendlyno-nonsense landlady, roaring fire, great beer

Find Lincoln CAMRA ImpAle on Facebook. Follow us onTwitter @ImpAleEditor Alternatively, you can [email protected] or write to ImpAle, 4 SquiresPlace, Nettleham, Lincoln, LN2 2WH

We asked our Facebook friends and Twitterfollowers to tell us about their favourite pub.

Here’s a selection of the replies.

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The JargonbusterPhil Kempton carries on his series of busting all the beer jargon associated with CAMRA.

Having discussed ‘barrels’ in the previous issue, the next step isgetting the beer from the cask into the drinker’s glass (or mug).

The simplest and oldest method of service is direct from the tap inthe barrel end and into the glass. This is usually known as ‘gravity’dispense, and until the early 19th century was the only method ofservice. Some pubs still serve beer in this way, there now beingsophisticated cooling systems for keeping the cask, and thereforethe beer in it, cool. Clearly without this cooling there is a significantrisk that the ambient temperature of the pub will be well above theideal cellar temperature of 13º C (56º F).

In the 19th century the beer engine, nowreferred to as the hand pump, was developed.It is a simple suction pump activated bythe handle visible on the bar counter. Thisallowed pub owners to keep casks in aseparate cellar, or other cool area, serving thebeer via a pipe between the cask and thehand pump. In the North of England, the spoutof the hand pump is usually fitted with a nozzle(or sparkler) which, when screwed up tight,creates a tight head of froth on the beer. Inthe South the spout is left open, which deliversa looser head. It is argued that this allows thefull flavour of a beer to be appreciated. Thepreference for a ‘tight head’, or a ‘flat pint’, isreally a matter of habit and taste.

An electric pump was developed later, which made life behind thebar less energy-sapping – no more hand pumps to pull! On the barcounter was a tap which activated the electric pump attached to thepipe between cask and tap, near to the cask in the cellar. Some ofthe taps on the counter delivered a measured half pint through aglass cylinder, or sphere – a diaphragm moved across the cylinder,or around the sphere, when a handle was operated, pushing the beerinto the glass. This system was extensively used by the Home,Shipstones and Hardy’s & Hanson’s breweries. Sadly all now gone,as has the use of electric pumps. Unless any Imp Ale readers knowbetter. Are there any electric pumps still in use out there?

All these different ways of getting the beer from cask to glass havea common aim – keeping the beer at the right temperature, in goodcondition, and preserving the flavours that the brewer intended.

At your service!!

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Lincoln CAMRA Members’ News

Good Beer Guide selectionThe selection of pubs in our branch area for the 2014 Good Beer Guide will take place at our branch meeting in the Adam & Eve,Lincoln, on 7th February. Arguably, this is our most important meeting of the year, so we need as many members as possible attend.

Young members’ trip to DerbyLincoln young members are planning a trip to Derby on Saturday, 23rd February. They’re hoping to visit the Derby Winter Beer Festival,as well as a selection of good pubs in the city. They also plan to hook up with young members from Nottingham and Derby. CheckFacebook and Twitter for further details.

Beer festival going aheadPlanning is under way for the 2013 Lincoln Beer Festival.The dates for your diary are 23rd to 25th May 2013.Remember that the success of the event depends onhaving enough members volunteering to help. Look outfor the staffing form - you can sign up for a little or alot, and you won’t be asked to do anything you’re notcomfortable with.

Calling members in MetheringhamThe Lincoln branch area is very large and it’s often difficultfor members in the far-flung outposts to get involved inbranch activities. We’ve been approached by a memberin Metheringham who would like to be put in touch withother members in the village so they can discuss gettingtogether to share transport. If you’re interested, pleasee-mail [email protected] and we’ll put you intouch.

What Pub websiteFor a number of years, people have been asking why CAMRA, as the UK's largest and most influential pub-going consumerorganisation, doesn't have its own online pub guide. Well, now it does. You can use whatpub.com to search for details of pubsacross the UK and then look up details such as opening times, descriptions, facilities and of course details of the real ale and cideron offer. Being an online guide allows extra functionality such as additional text for descriptions, photos and live map data. You canalso enter beer scores via the site. At the moment, it’s only available to members, using the same login as for the main CAMRAwebsite. There’s a lot more data to be added before it can be opened up to the general public.

CAMRA discount at Ember InnsThe Ember Inns chain, which includes the GBG-listed Centurion at North Hykeham, now gives 20p off the price of a pint of real ale,on production of your CAMRA membership card.

Branch Diary

FebruaryFriday 1st Minibus pub survey - pre-booking essential.Sunday 3rd Committee Meeting - The Swanholme, Lincoln - 8pm.Thursday 7th Branch Meeting (GBG Selection) – The Adam & Eve, Lincoln - 8pm.Sunday 17th Beer Festival Planning Meeting – The Morning Star, Lincoln - 8pm.Saturday 23rd Young members’ trip to Derby.

MarchSaturday 2nd East Midlands Regional Meeting - Grantham Railway Club - noon.Sunday 3rd Committee Meeting – The Centurion, North Hykeham - 8pm.Tuesday 5th Branch Meeting – The Dog & Bone, Lincoln - 8pm.

AprilSunday 7th Committee Meeting – The Blacksmith’s Arms, Bracebridge Heath - 8pm.Thursday 11th Branch Meeting – The Three Horseshoes, Waddington - 8pm.19th - 21st National Members’ Weekend and AGM - Norwich.

Check out the branch website for up-to-date details of trips and socials.

Members enjoying a trip to 8 Sail Brewery at Heckington

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Microbreweries are, by definition,small. So when Wendy, the editor,said she wanted an article abouta small microbrewery, there was abit of head-scratching. But then Iremembered Leila Cottage inIngoldmells.

I’ve spent many happy holidays in myaunt’s caravan in the small resortjust a few miles north of Skegness. Ifyou leave the hustle and bustle of itscaravan parks, the famous marketand Fantasy Island Theme Park, andhead into the village itself, you’ll findthe Countryman pub.

Known as the locals’ local, the pub isnow home to Leila Cottage Brewery,Ingoldmells first brewery since 1898.After a hearty, homemade Sundaylunch in the pub’s Poachers Pantry,Steve Renshaw, Wendy Renshawand myself sat down to share a pintor two (and a soda for the driver) anda chat with brewer, Scott Colebourne.Apparently, Leila Cottage was thename of a building which had stood

on the site since the 1800s and hadbeen the home of local smuggler,James Waite. You can see from theoutside of the building the differentcoloured roof tiles where the originalbuilding would have stood and itsmodern day additions.

Born from the ideas of the pub’slandlord, Baz Good, and brewer Scottas a way to help out the pub afterthe introduction of the smokingban, the brewery started operatingin November 2007. What wassupposed to be a hobby making aflavoursome beer to put on the barsonly hand pump has become into athriving microbrewery.

The original operation involved ahalf-barrel plant in the pub’s cellar.Now that is really small! The week’sbrew was enough to fill just two9-gallon casks. As a comparison,Batemans Brewery further down thecoast at Wainfleet is a 135-barrel set-up.

In the 1970's, CAMRA fought the efforts of the bigbrewers to replace traditional ales with tasteless kegbeers such as Watneys Red, Tavern Keg and DoubleDiamond. Although the campaign raised the profileof real ale, the number of breweries producing it haddwindled. Most of them had been swallowed upand, subsequently, closed by the ‘Big Six’ of Allied,Bass, Courage, Scottish & Newcastle, Watneys andWhitbread.

A few resourceful individuals spotted an opportunityto tap into what was then a niche market by settingup small breweries. The problem for these newbreweries was getting their beer into pubs, most ofwhich were owned by the Big Six brewers.

In 1989, following a two and half year enquiry, theMonopolies and Mergers Commission publishedtheir report into ‘The Supply of Beer in the UK’.CAMRA had submitted hard-hitting evidence to thisenquiry which was the culmination of a decade ormore of reports pointing out the regional dominancethe Big Six. The Government responded to thereport with wide-reaching reforms called the BeerOrders.

In addition to restricting the number of tied pubs thatcould be owned by large brewery groups, the ordersrequired large brewers to allow a guest ale to besourced by tenants from someone other than theirlandlord. This widening of the market resulted in agrowth of microbreweries. Lincolnshire micros thatwere established in the 1990s include Newby Wyke,Oldershaws, Brewsters, Dark Tribe and Tom Woods.

The most significant boost to small brewers came in2002, with the introduction of Progressive Beer Duty.After many years of campaigning, the Society ofIndependent Brewers, supported by CAMRA,persuaded the Government to introduce a reducedrate of excise duty for brewers producing less than30,000 hectolitres (a hectolitre is about 175 pints). In2004, this level was raised to 60,000 hectolitres. Thismeasure meant that small brewers were able tocompete on a more level playing field with the largebrewers

Since then, the number of microbreweries hasincreased year on year. There are now over 1,000breweries in the UK, and the vast majority aremicros. In Lincolnshire, we have around twentymicrobreweries.

TheMICROBREWERYRevolution

CottageIndustry

Aaron Joyce visits a small microbrewery at theseaside.

Pic - Aaron with Leila Cottage brewer, Scott Colebourne

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Pic - Scott with his original half-barrel plant

With no experience of brewing, other thanmemories of his dad’s home brewing inthe cupboard under the stairs, Scottapproached Phil Ellis, head brewer atFulstow Brewery in Louth. He spent timeassisting Phil and learning the physicalside of the job. He then attended abrewing course at Nottingham University,learning the science behind producinggreat ale. We were surprised to learn thatbrewing is not Scott’s main job! FromMonday to Friday he works in IT and onlybrews on Sundays.

Taking away what he learnt from Phil anda single-hop ale recipe, Scott went towork producing his first brew, a 3.8%ABV session bitter. But what to call it?Following a vote by the pub’s locals, thename Ace Ale was chosen. This derivedfrom the pub’s previous incarnation, TheAce of Clubs. Black Jack and Leila’s Alewere soon added to the portfolio.

The beers proved to be very popular so, inJanuary 2009, Scott installed the currenttwo-and-a-half-barrel set-up in what hadbeen stables behind the pub. We wereinterested to learn that the equipment hadtravelled only 45 miles from PoachersBrewery in North Hykeham.

Black Jack and Leila’s Ale are no longerin production but two other beers havereplaced them. Lazy Days, as the namesuggests, is ideal for quenching your thirston a lazy summer’s day. Scott joked thatthe name Lincolnshire Life came fromthe fact that, “It came out a bit darker thanexpected and we thought it looks a bit likea murky winter’s day in Lincolnshire”.

Scott’s ethos is to brew something hewould drink himself. He maintains a goodrelationship with Phil at Fulstow, oftenchecking out what hops he has. Scottuses his very “scientific” method of givingthem a good sniff to find an aroma helikes!

As production at the brewery increased, sodid the number of handpumps on the barat the Countryman. On our visit, we hadthe choice of all four beers in the currentthe range.

However, it’s not all been plain sailing.In early 2012, the brewery was infectedby a strain of wild yeast. This meantproduction had to cease whilst the plantwas disassembled and cleaned from topto bottom. But after a couple of testruns, the problem was fixed and now

production is back to normal. And, mostimportantly, the beer is back on form!

What does the future hold? Well, Scottsaid he hopes to produce a mild. Andif business remains buoyant, they mayconsider expanding to a 5-barrel plant. Atpresent, he only supplies casks to the puband the occasional beer festival, althoughit has been known for a visiting landlord totake one away. If you want to take someof the range home with you, it is availablefor purchase in bottles, or you can ask fora carry out.

So if you find yourself with a day off or onholiday on the Lincolnshire coast, a visit tothe Countryman would be well worthwhile. Enjoy a meal in the Poachers Pantrywashed down with a pint or two of trulylocal ale, and take some bottles home asgifts for friends and family.

Leila Cottage beers

Ace Ale (3.8% ABV). A typicalsession bitter brewed to beenjoyed as an "all-rounder"with a reasonable roast malt

body and a gentle hop bitterness flavour.

Leila’s Lazy Days (3.6% ABV).A light IPA beer produced tobe served slightly chilled andenjoyed in the Lincolnshire

sunshine. Its taste is slightly citric, with alight caramel edge, and is very easy todrink.

Lincolnshire Life (4.2% ABV).A dark, full-bodied, malty bitterwith a toffee aroma and taste.It uses a mix of 3 varieties of

hops and 3 varieties of malt to deliver itsunique and full taste.

Leila’s One Off (5.1% ABV).One Off was introduced inJanuary 2011 to celebrate thebrewery’s 100th brew. Brewed

as a one-off, it was so popular that it wascontinued as a regular brew. A very dark,full-bodied bitter which verges on being astout. It merges together 2 varieties ofhops and 4 varieties of malt to deliver itsstrong and memorable taste.

Pic-Baz and Scott behind the Countryman’s bar

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The Crown Brewery is little rememberednowadays, but was probably the largestbrewery that ever existed in Lincoln. We’llbegin our story at the Globe Inn (30Waterside South). Richard Rudgard tookthis over in 1820. The Globe Inn wasalready a couple of hundred years old, anda long established brewing pub able toproduce 7 to 8 hogsheads of beer daily(hogshead = 54 gallons). Nowadays, we’dcall it a microbrewery. You can see theGlobe to the left in picture 1, opposite whatwould later become the modern GreenDragon.

The Rudgards were one of the risingmerchant families in Lincoln. Trade wasin the hands of those with yards andwarehouses flanking the river and BrayfordPool. Described usually as “merchants”,they would turn their hand to any profitableactivity. Rudgard, Dawber, Winn, Maltby,Keyworth, Willson, Marshall were variouslycorn, coal, timber, bone, wine and spiritmerchants, bone crushers, millers,maltsters, and sometimes brewers. Thesewere the men who took the lead in politicsand municipal affairs, their money madethem leaders of the social world below hill,and they dominated business life in thecity until the rise of the engineers.

In 1826, Lincoln had 66 hotels and taverns;by 1842 this had risen to 73 plus 39beer-houses! The 1830 Sale of Beer Actestablished a free trade in beer-shops andbeer. If only beer and no spirits were sold,a magistrate’s licence was no longerrequired. A beer-house could easily be setup in any front room, or kitchen. Thenumber of houses for the sale of beer andspirits reached 150 in 1864, and then 183in 1869. That was about one pub for every25 Lincoln families! It was said at the timethat the average working man spent 5shillings a week out of 20 shillings on beer

and spirits (6 or 7 pints every day). Thepublic house was the poor man’sclub; a congenial place away fromovercrowded and unpleasant surroundings.The growing number of pubs was alsopartly due to Lincoln’s many large fairs andweekly markets. Beer was seen as a saferdrink than spirits. Back in the 18th century,as excise duties pushed the price of beerup to 1d a pint, many breweries switchedto distilling gin. With gin you could get“drunk for a penny, and dead drunk fortuppence”. Later in the century, therewas a backlash against beer-houses.Magistrates regained fierce licensing control,and the Temperance movement started.

When Richard Rudgard died in 1822,brothers William and John Rudgard tookover the Globe and its brewing business.William Rudgard was then just 22. Isuspect he may have already fathered anillegitimate child Edward, with Ester Earlfrom Kings Lynn, when she was just 18.To his credit, he does seem to haveestablished Ester, her younger brother,and Edward in Lincoln. Named EdwardWilliam Rudgard Rudgard (no paternitydoubt with that double name), this youngchap later went on to carve out a brewingcareer of his own. In 1825, William andJohn dissolved their partnership (a patternfrequently repeated in William’s life). TheGlobe passed into the hands of the Winnfamily. There was a Winn’s BroadgateBrewery, and brothers Charles, Frederickand Thomas built up an estate that by1857 included 20 pubs in and aroundLincoln (among them the Adam & Eve,and Golden Eagle [then known as TheLion Hotel]).

A few doors down from the Globe, at 28Waterside South, was the brewing andmalting business of George Smith. Seepicture 2 (a bill heading 1820’s style). By1841, George Smith was 70 years old,and William Rudgard had acquired hisbusiness. William carved out quite acareer. In 1837, he was one of the firstmembers of Lincoln Town Council (afterthe Municipal Reform Bill), and rapidlybecame leader of the Whig Party inLincoln. In 1839, he was elected Mayor.An Alderman, leader of the council, andlater Senior Magistrate, in 1851 he was theChairman of what became the MidlandCounties Insurance Company. He wasalso closely linked with the coming ofthe railways to Lincoln in 1846. Politicalcommentators described him as “roughspoken, stubborn, and a good hater”, andalso as “an overbearing ruffian”. After one

Old Ale Tales(The Crown Brewery)

Steve Richardson our resident historian delves back into thearchives.

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parliamentary election, his effigy wasparaded through the streets on a gallows,with a sign around the neck “The NewlandDictator”. The gallows and effigy wereburnt in Bargate. By the standards ofthe day, William was a good employer.Newspapers report on happy staff dinnersfor his 60 brewery and malting employees,where his health was toasted. In 1859, hewas the first employer in Lincoln to takenote of the early closing movement byclosing his offices every Saturday at 4pm.

In 1856, Rudgard & Co re-built GeorgeSmith’s brewery on a vast scale, renamingit the Crown Brewery. Huge malthouses,brewery, stores, stables, and yardsstretched from Waterside South, down toNorman Street (covering the presentBus Station, and City Square centre). Itsboundary to the west comprised thebuildings flanking Sincil Street, and tothe east, the long narrow strip of landbelonging to The Globe (mostly lostaround 1940 under the widened MelvilleStreet). The scale of the buildings can stillbe seen in the background of picture3 (see also the old Green Dragon). Thenew Crown Brewery manager’s residenceappears in picture 1, a little further alongfrom the Globe. A GNR guide book of1861 describes the new Crown Brewery as

producing some of the “finest ale in theworld”. “The proprietors spare no cost, anduse every exertion to keep the best aleand stout”. Great play was made ofthe quality of the large coned “powerfullyodoriferous” golden yellow hops.

By 1861, Rudgard & Co were paying£10,000 annually to the GNR and othersfor the carriage of goods alone. Thecompany was a large supplier to thehome market, and also an exporter ofmainly Lincoln Pale Ale and stout todistant parts of the world, includingNew Zealand and South America. Williamprobably had expectations that thisbrewing enterprise would be continued byhis son, John Richard Rudgard, the onlyone of his legal children recorded as a“Brewer”. Sadly John died aged just 42 in1871.

The beers produced by the CrownBrewery were a typical Victorian selection.In the local newspapers their beer rangeand prices were listed, to be had in casksof 6, 9, 18, 27, 36, 54, or 108 gallons,and usually just undercutting those ofDawber’s. The beers included 4 types ofale (A, B, BB, & BBB, from 1s to 2s per gall),East India Pale Ale (1s 6d), 4 types of stout(X, XX, XXX, XXXX, from 1s to 1s 6d pergall); sometimes a mild, and a No. 2 EIPA.The “stouts” would include the usualporter, stout, brown stout, and extra stout.

William Rudgard died in July 1875, hiscompany owned 22 pubs in and aroundLincoln. Among these were the Bull &Chain, Old White Horse (later renamed theTap & Spile), Shakespeare, and John Bullin Bracebridge. His brewing estate was

sold in May 1876 to William Henry Brookjnr, on behalf of Brooks & Co. The Brookssignificantly expanded the estate, so I’llpick up that story in another instalment,and also return to the story of EdwardWilliam Rudgard Rudgard. Suffice it to sayfor now, the Crown Brewery passed fromBrooks & Co, to A & B Hall of Ely in 1891.Brewing ceased in 1923. In 1939, LincolnCorporation acquired the Crown Breweryand Globe sites. The pub estate passedto East Anglian Breweries in 1950,Watney Mann (boo hiss) in 1964, GrandMetropolitan in 1972, and then InntrepreneurEstates Company in 1990 (following apubs-for-breweries swop with Courage).Grand Met merged with Guinness in 1997to form Diageo.

A personal dream would be to see TheHarlequin a pub again, or even better amicro-brewery (it was once a brewing pub,part of the Brooks & Co Crown Breweryestate). It’s just at that point on Steep Hillwhere I’m usually gasping most severely!

If readers have old photographs of localbreweries, pubs, stories, etc, we’d loveto hear from you. Contact us at: [email protected], or 4 SquiresPlace, Nettleham, LN2 2WH.

Acknowledgements:1) Thanks to Lincolnshire County Council:Lincoln Central Library: Local Studies Collectionfor permission to print photographs 1, 2, and 4;and to Sara Basquill and Library staff;

2) Also to the Lincoln and Norwich ArchivesOffices for their kind assistance;

3) Thanks to the Lincolnshire Echo forpermission to print photograph 3;

4) “A Century of British Brewers”: Norman Barber,Brewery History Society;

5) “Georgian” and “Victorian Lincoln”: Sir FrancisHill, Cambridge University Press;

6) Web: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk;and www.ancestry.co.uk.

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On Wednesday 12th December CAMRA members met atParliament to lobby their MP’s to scrap the beer escalator tax.But what is the escalator tax and why are CAMRA against it?

The beer duty escalator is an increase in tax on beer by 2%above the rate of inflation, introduced in 2008 and in place until2014/15. As a result, tax on beer has gone up by over 40% since2008. You now pay over a third of your pint on tax.

The UK now has the second highest duty on beer in theEuropean Union. Unless we can change Government plans UKbeer duty will soon be the highest in Europe.

As a consumer organisation with over 135,000 members CAMRAis calling for:

1 - The abolition of plans to increase beer duty in future budgets by inflation plus 2%

2 - A long term freeze in the rate of beer duty.3 - The retention of the 50% duty relief for Britain’s smallest brewers.

Increases in tax on beer and the VAT rise are fuelling a shift inbeer consumption away from pubs. Almost half of all beer is nowsold in off licences and supermarket chains as beer drinkersseek to avoid tax rises. In just six years there has been a 30%collapse in the volume of beer sold in pubs as more than 7,000pubs have closed forever. Beer supports over 1 million jobs;generates over £21 billion in taxes and is vital to the survivalof pubs. Despite this unfair beer duty hikes are forcing the beersector to shrink.

Pubs inject £80,000 into the local community and are a majoremployer of young people. As pubs close, communities aresuffering, often losing vital services that pubs can offer. CAMRAalso sees pubs as a controlled environment where people lookafter each other, compared with the home which is unregulated.

Since the introduction of the escalator tax beer sales havereduced by 16%, actually meaning less money for the Treasury.

This is a debate that is still rumbling on. You can keep up-to-date with this on Twitter using hash tag #saveyourpint

Pictures taken from www.camra.org.uk

Most beer drinkers are familiar with the idea of a microbrewery.The term has been used since the late 1970s to describe thenew generation of small breweries which focus on producingtraditional cask ale. But a micro pub?

At CAMRA’s annual general meeting there is always a guestspeaker to give light relief from the routine procedural business.At the 2009 AGM in Eastbourne, we heard from Martyn Hillierwho, four years earlier, had turned his off-licence in the Kentishvillage of Herne into a tiny pub.

He explained that the 2003 Licensing Act (which took effect in2005) had made it far easier to open a pub. Previously, ifyou applied for a licence to set up a new pub, the grounds forobjections were fairly loose. So the Pub Cos owning pubs inthe area would engage their expensive lawyers to block theapplication. Under the new Act, there are only four reasons forobjecting: health and safety, law and order, protection of childrenand the applicant’s previous criminal record.

Martin then went on to describe the micropub formula thathe had developed. Having identified all the pub features heconsidered unnecessary, such as keg beers, spirits, food, gamingmachines, TV and music, he was left with the three essentials ofreal ale, space to store it and a toilet. With some space for a fewcustomers, he reckoned that an area 6 metres by 4 metres wasmore than enough for the entire site.

The theory was that, with relatively low set-up costs andoverheads, a modest turnover could produce a viable business.But what would the drinking public make of the Butchers Arms(before being an off-licence, the building had been the villagebutcher’s shop)? Well, they obviously liked it, and it won fiveCAMRA awards in its first two years.

Pic: Inside The Butchers Arms

Beer Duty SMALLBUT PERFECTLSteve Renshaw investigates the micro pubphenomenon.

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Most of us in the audience that day nodded sagely and muttered,‘Interesting’, before checking what was next on the agenda.However, a number of entrepreneurial souls were inspired to havea go themselves.

One of them was Pete Morgan, a Hartlepool man who had justfound out he was about to lose his job. Just over six monthsafter hearing Martin's speech, Pete was the landlord of the RatRace, a micro pub based in a room at Hartlepool railway stationthat had been, at various times, a waiting room, a taxi companyoffice and a newsagent. As at the Butchers Arms, the focus atthe Rat Race is on good quality cask ales and conversation.And, once again, CAMRA recognition has followed, with the pubbeing named North East Regional Cider Pub of the Year for 2012.

Closer to home, Phil Ayling, a former chairman of Newark CAMRA,was inspired to set up a micro pub. He got together with fellowmembers Duncan Neil, Paul Murphy and Stuart Young to workon the project.

The search for suitable premises took them to The Swan andSalmon Yard, close to Newark Castle. The unit had originallybeen part of the stables of a nearby coaching inn. Followingextensive building work, Just Beer opened its doors in August2010. At 8.5 metres by 3.5 metres and with a limit of 57customers at any one time, it’s one of the biggest of the micropubs that have sprung up across the country.

Pic: Just Beer

The aim of the four ‘tapsters’ was to provide the best features ofa traditional pub. They seek out beers from microbreweriesacross the country that are not normally found in the town, andalso support local brewers. The beer is served in oversizeglasses so you can be sure of getting a full pint. Tasting notesare provided and, if you’re not sure what to choose, they’ll giveyou a sample. There’s no TV or gaming machine so, in theconfined space, lively conversations can develop.

On weekdays, four ales are available, with five or six at theweekend. There are no regular beers and there’s always a dark

ale available. A board over the bar gives the number of differentbeers served since they opened; at the time of going to press,the total stood at 1,479.

If you can’t find a beer you like, there’s traditional cider and a perry.The only other drinks are red or white wine, cola or water. Youcertainly won’t find any keg beers or trendy bottles. When theyfirst started, there was no food on offer, but they now offer a platterof local cheese with biscuits.

Just Beer was voted CAMRA’s 2012 Pub of Year for Newark,Nottinghamshire and then the East Midlands. But I can’t finishwithout mentioning the micro pub that has gone even furtherin the National Pub of the Year competition. The ConquerorAlehouse in Ramsgate is one of four pubs in the final, with theoverall winner due to be announced in February 2013.

The Conqueror opened in November 2010 and is named aftera two-funnelled paddle steamer which operated excursionsfrom Ramsgate to France around the beginning of the twentiethcentury. Old photos of the ship and its crew adorn the walls.Beer and cider are served straight from the barrel and take-awaycontainers are available for those who want to enjoy a drink athome. Landlord, Colin Aris, is a member of CAMRA and is oneof the team behind the highly successful Planet Thanet AleFestival, which is held annually at Margate's Winter Gardens.

Pic :Inside The Conqueror (Photo courtesy of Debbie Aris)

I’ll leave the final word to Colin. “We are obviously absolutelythrilled and proud to be the first micro pub and pub fromRamsgate to have ever got this far in this national competition.This success is vindication of the micro pub model, and showssuch pubs have a valid place in today’s industry.”

Where to find a micro pubThe Butchers Arms, Herne, KentThe Rat Race Ale House, Hartlepool, County DurhamJust Beer Micropub, Newark, NottinghamshireMarlpool Brewery Alehouse, Heanor, DerbyshireThe Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate, KentBake & Alehouse, Westgate-on-Sea, KentThe Just Reproach, Deal, KentThe Chapel, Broadstairs, KentThe Snug Micropub, Carnforth, LancashireFour Candles Alehouse, Broadstairs, KentFirkin Alehouse, Folkestone, KentLittle Chester Ale House, Derby, DerbyshireGoldy’s Cider and Ale Bar, Tiverton, Devon

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Dog and BoneIt is usually customary to feelsad when a popular landlady leaves a pub. She hasbecome our friend and ourconfidante. Not only will wemiss her, but we worry aboutour favourite pub. Will itchange? Will it close?

The sadness that I feel that thevery popular Eve Quinn fromThe Dog and Bone is leavingto start a new life in Croatia(more on that later!) is alsotinged with admiration. Evehas taken the small back-streetpub off Monks Road, Lincolnfrom the brink of closure to avital community hub.

When I popped along to speakto Eve about her leaving, shewas still very much in thethroes of organising thehandover of her businessand moving her life to anothercountry. Keeping herself busymeans that the reality of themove she is about to makehasn’t hit home yet. I wantedto know why she is leavingsuch a successful business.

‘The move is about becomingself-sufficient, I will have landto grow crops, a house torenovate, and a new businessto begin’, she tells me. All thisand in another country and, ontop of all the arrangements shehas been making for the lastfew months and years, shehas also been trying to learnthe language! Eve will have anorchard and a vineyard at hernew property, so maybe wecan hope to see her cider atbeer festivals in the future!

Eve is going out on a highthough, feeling that she hasachieved so much in her 7years at the helm of The Dog.When she took the pub on, itwas threatened with closurefrom property developers want-ing to turn the pub into flats, butthe supportive clientele helpedher save the pub. It is thecustomers that make the pubwhat it is, according to Eve. Ithas a real ‘village pub in a city’feel and Eve feels honoured tohave shared the lives of her

customers, from marriages,exams, children and sadlyeven deaths – all part of therich tapestry of life.

The pub is part of thecommunity, with live music,garden parties, poetry readings,artists’ displays and Sundaylunches. Eve is very gratefulthat her customers havesupported her and that thehighlights of her time at TheDog far outweigh any badtimes. It was always her dreamto run a pub, but she thoughtthis would be somethingthat would come later in life.She goes away from The Dogand Bone with a feeling ofaccomplishment. ‘I’ve ticked allthe boxes of what I wanted toachieve here’ she tells me.

Lincoln CAMRA Branchmembers will certainly missEve’s help at Lincoln BeerFestival on the Thursday nightand the delicious food served

up on the Sunday in ourpost-festival meal. In fact,when I asked Twitter andFacebook users for theirmemories of Eve and TheDog and Bone pub, it wasbranch members who repliedfirst to thank Eve and thenreminisce about the wonderfulfood! Eve states that shehas been thankful for thehelp provided by Lincolnbranch members and for theopportunity to be involved withthe beer festival.

Eve leaves The Dog and Boneand the UK on Monday 4th

February. Her big leaving partyis on Saturday 2nd February andyou can say your farewellsagain on Sunday the 3rd

February at the Folk Jamsession from 3pm.

What’s next for The Dog and Bone?Chris and Sarah Sorrell aretaking over, so no worries

about closure here. Chris andSarah fell in love with the puba long time ago and are keento keep the community feel itcurrently has. They tell me itwill have real ale, real cider, livebands, good chat and heartygood fun. A husband and wifeteam, with Blade the dog andSarah’s mum helping out, thepub will have a real family feel.

Chris and Sarah hope to growon the current success of thepub with community events,live music and Sundaylunches. Batemans ale’s willstill be stocked, along withcider and a trial of Leffe Blonde.

Why not pop down to The Dogand Bone to meet Chris andSarah on Saturday 9th Februarywhen they will host their firstmusic night with AugustJames performing.

Picture of Eve supplied by LincolnshieEcho

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Ingredients:25g butter150ml Tom Wood’s Bomber County ale175g Cote Hill Reserve cheese25g plain flour1⁄2 teaspoon Dijon mustard2 egg yolks4 slices thick-cut bread (a brown, seeded loaf works well)

Method:In a heavy-based saucepan, gently stir the butter, grated cheeseand ale over a low heat until melted and smooth. Add the flourand stir the mixture briskly over a medium heat until it comes tothe boil. Remove the pan from the heat and add the mustard. Letthe mixture stand for five minutes then beat in the egg yolks.Toast the bread slices on one side, then turn them over and spreadthe mixture on the untoasted sides, dividing it equally over the fourpieces. Place them under a hot grill until they bubble up and turngolden brown. Serve immediately, ideally accompanied by more of the ale!

Picture by Wendy Renshaw

Our second micro recipe is from our resident chef, AaronJoyce. He has prepared Baby Stout cakes. With Valentinesis just around the corner, so why not treat that ale lover inyour life or wow your guests at a dinner party with these richchocolaty stout cakes. Or you could just make them foryourself to eat. (Caution, contains nuts & egg)

You will need:100g/4oz butter, softened (plus extra for greasing)175g/6oz light brown sugar1 large egg, preferably free range100g/4oz self-raising flour50g/2oz ground almonds1⁄2 tsp bicarbonate of soda5 tbsp cocoa powder (plus extra for dusting)150ml/1⁄4 pint Stout

For The Cream200ml/7fl oz double cream25g/1oz icing sugar

Method:Heat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4. Grease & line the bases of six minipudding basins with baking parchment if you don’t have basinsramekins will suffice. In a bowl beat together the butter, sugar, egg,flour, almonds, bicarbonate, cocoa & stout. The mix should be lumpfree. Divide amongst the basins & bake in the oven for 20-25 min-utes. If you bought a 500ml bottle of stout enjoy the remaining350ml whilst the cakes are baking! You know when they arecooked, when a skewer poked in comes out clean. Don’t have askewer? A spaghetti strand works just as well! Leave to cool for 15minutes, remove from the basins & cool on a wire rack. Eat straightout of the ramekin if using.

For the cream; whip the cream & icing sugar until thick. Spoon overeach cake & decorate with a light dusting of cocoa.

Picture by Aaron Joyce

In keeping with the micro theme of this issue, we are serving up two small but perfectly formed recipesfor you to try. First up, Wendy Renshaw has a recipe for a lovely (ale-inspired) brunch.

A Lincolnshire twist on a traditional recipe.

Bomber County Rarebit Baby Stout Cakes

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The Fun Fair Brewing Company has been brewing since 2004,originally based in Holbrook, Derbyshire the brew plant was thenmoved to Ilkeston. In 2010 the brewery owners (David and Abi)took over the Chequers Inn at Elston (just off the A46 betweenNewark and Nottingham) with the aim being to move the breweryto the back of the pub. The pub is well worth a visit offering afine range of 7 cask ales, including guest ales as well as FunFair beers. Three ciders as well as continental lagers are alsoavailable.

The brewery has now been relocated since September has beenfully operational brewing the fine range of the breweries beers froma new 10 barrel plant. Since the completion of the move thereare plans for new brews and a welcome return of bottled beers.Currently three beers have been bottled including Christmas CakeWalk, a 6.5% rich dark Christmas Ale. The other two beers to bebottled so far are Dodgem and Waltzer.

Dodgem is a 4.7% bottle conditioned delicately hopped premiumgolden bitter. It pours pale golden colour with a nice white head.Aromas of caramel, biscuit and citrus. The flavours of this beer area very nice balance of slightly sweet malt and light citrus hops.This is a very clean tasting easy drinking refreshing beer. The onlyproblem is one bottle may not be enough. As it says on the bottlelabel, Dodgem can be enjoyed with savouries or more Dodgems– a statement I would certainly go along with.

Waltzer is a 4.5% bottle conditioned traditional bitter. This beer is


Bottled Beer

ReviewRichard Banks from Newark BeerShop reviews two bottled beersfrom Funfair brewery’s range:Waltzer and Dodgem.

Waggon and Horses - SouthRestonThe first stop of the day was anearly one for breakfast, luckily theWaggon & Horses starts servingat 9:30. It describes itself as aTraditional Country Inn, and it hasthe open fireplace, pictures and ornaments to fit this description.The selection of pump clips on display show it makes use ofbeing a free house, when we visited they had 3 ales on. Butwhat makes this pub different is you can tell it’s the hub of thecommunity, there were people just stopping for a cup of tea anda chat on the way to work and one side of the pub was actuallythe local shop/Post Office. But they made us outsiders feel verywelcome.

Red Lion – MumbyNext it was on to the furthestaway pub of the day, the Red Lionopposite Mumby’s church overan hour away from Louth by bus.But it was a pub worth visiting,

serving four Batemans real ales. It also has a shop, though thebuilding is actually separate to the pub. A pool table and dartboard dominate one corner of the pub, another section seemedset out for diners and with a good-sized car park and beergarden. It’s a pub with something for everyone.

Bacchus Hotel – Sutton-on-SeaThis hotel has a large bar with fourhand-pumps and was the onlyvenue we visited that had its ownteddy. We were hoping it wouldhave its own beer as the hotel hada microbrewery installed in 2010

and gained a reputation for brewing some good ales. Howeverthis success has led to the need for a new 3 barrel, 450 litrebrewing facility to keep up with demand both on site and to sellon. This meant I didn’t get to try one of their brews. The beer Ihad was well kept and the armchair by the fire was very comfy.

Beach Bar – Sutton-on-SeaAs we had more than an hour between buses in Sutton wedecided to explore a bit. Heading towards the sea we came

TravAle After reading about the mit was time for a visit. Bucan be visited by taking

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across this surprise find. Fromthe road it looks to be a bit of asea-side cafe and it was only theglimpse of a Doom Bar banner thatmade us investigate further. TheSharp’s ale and Directors were theonly two ales on but they wereboth served well. Sitting looking out over the sea was an addedbonus, although there was a TV showing Sky Sports in one roomfor those who prefer sport to scenery.

Montalt Arms – MablethorpeThere is not a lot of call for real alein Mablethorpe it seems, but forthose who are after a decent pintshould be satisfied by the MontaltArms. They have four hand-pumpsserving ale, one their own brewed

by Tetley’s and three changing guests. If you continue past thebar you will find a large entertainment room out the back with apool table, dartboard and stage for the many music and karaokenights the pub puts on.

The Gas Lamp Lounge – LouthSo to finish we decided to call in to a pub in Louth and theFulstow Brewery tap featured in the last ImpAle seemed theobvious stop. A slight walk from the bus route The Gas LampLounge seems to be at the end of a road to nowhere. But it’sworth going out the way for, serving four ales from the breweryplus a guest. Turn up once its dark outside to get the full effect ofa gas lit pub.

Also in the areaAxe and Cleaver, Huttoft – Don’t let the exterior fool you, this isstill an open pub. Or at least was at the time of writing. Probablybest to phone ahead.

The Beck, Mablethorpe – A family restaurant that has a separatebar room serving Green King IPA and Pedigree. Plus easy accessto the nearby mini-golf.

The Turks Head, Maltby Le Marsh – Serves one Black Sheepale.

a nice amber colour with a lasting light beige head. Aromas aremoderately malty with a delicate hoppiness. Flavours are much thesame as the aromas, clean and refreshing. Traditional chestnutcoloured bitters such as this can be overlooked these days whenwe are faced with an amazing choice of beer styles but that doesnot mean that they should be overlooked and Waltzer is as goodan example of a traditional easy drinking bitter as you may wish for.

All the bottles from Fun Fair have been well bottled; they are all foundin fine condition with good clean flavours and well worth seekingout.

about the many things going on in Louth in the last issue of ImpAle, our regular pub-goer Greg Richards decidedor a visit. But a visit to Louth was hardly enough for TravAle so he decide to venture beyond! All the pubs belowd by taking the Interconnect Route 9 bus. Follow Greg on Twitter @TravAle_UK

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Where real ale goes, cider isfollowing. Britain`s boomingsmall brewing sector is beingmirrored by a growth in thenumber of cider makers.

New figures from CAMRAshow there are now morethan 300 producers in thecountry making real cider, andthere could be many morewhich CAMRA does not yetknow about. The research by CAMRA`s APPLE committee findssome of the biggest growth areas in the UK for real ciderand perry includes Herefordshire, which boasts more than 40producers, and Somerset, with 35.

The research finds the number of cider makers has morethan doubled since 2005. Such is the increasing interest in thenation`s proper cider making heritage, even non-traditionalscrumpy areas such as Yorkshire, Northern Ireland and the Isleof Man are seeing small ventures pressing apples for the firsttime.

And now APPLE committee chairman Andrea Briers wantsbranches to find out who is making real cider in their area.Andrea said : “We are delighted to see a large number ofpeople coming into the real cider and perry industry. Our localbranches are discovering new producers starting up all the time,meaning we are constantly revising our databases, and alwayswelcoming new information “

Cider database coordinator Chris Rouse said : “ With so manynew cider makers, we rely on branches to tell us what`shappening. It`s important that we get accurate and up to dateinformation due to this growth of real cider and perry in the UK”.

IS REAL CIDER OR PERRY BEING MADE NEAR YOU? E-mailChris at [email protected]


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Lorraine Gale, from Louth CAMRA, visits aLincolnshire cider producer

Jerry and I went to see Guy Williams, owner and operator ofSkidbrooke Cyder Co., to find out how he came to be makingand selling cider so far away from the main cider-producing areasin the country, how it all started and how he is doing now.

Originally from Somerset, the home of traditional cider, Guymoved to Lincolnshire after meeting his wife, Kate, who hails fromthe county. He started making cider eight years ago, as thereweren’t any decent cider-makers in Lincolnshire at that time. Guysaw that there was lots of wasted fruit around in the area sodecided to utilise this.

Guy has a co-operative of people who bring him apples, whichhe turns into cider. He gives them back half of the output andsells the other half. He also has his own orchards.

Guy now has a new press which is more mechanised and moreproductive. When we went to see him in November 2012, he hadsold 20,000 litres so far that year. At one time, Guy’s cider wasvery dry but he now feels that he’s got it spot on. We enjoyedour tasters very much and it is certainly worth a try, if you see it inyour local pub.

The company also sells apple juice, honey, mead, beeswaxpolish, chutney, jellies and jam from their own fruit. You can buyall these products from The Grange, Skidbrooke, Louth, Lincs,LN11 7DH or contact Guy or Kate via email:[email protected].


QuizPubs of Lincoln’s PastAnagrams

This quiz will not only win you a beery themedt-shirt, but will also serve as reminder of all thoselost Lincoln pubs. Send your answers by emailto [email protected] or post youranswers to ImpAle Quiz January 2013, 4 SquiresPlace, Nettleham, Lincoln, LN2 2WH. The closingdate is 1st April 2013 and the editor’s decision isfinal.

Good Luck!

1) Cob than Braile 1)2) Cube Rok 2)3) Drakes Hut 3)4) Hi Wilted Elf 4)5) K Halter 5)6) Larn the God 6)7) Mrs Vane 7)8) Poo Help 8)9) Snakey Bomb 9)10) Vicars hunt Loll 10)11) Undo Shear Hand 11)12) Wood Ranch Rannc 12)

The answer to the September Issue Quiz was‘Good Beer Guide’ and Christine Andrew fromBarton on Humber will be enjoying her prize atSpringhead brewery sometime in the near future.

ER PRESSOR MAKERS

Cider Press and Quiz

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Pale bitter combining lager and traditional ale malts with English grown Cascade and Pilgrim, to produce a fruity aroma, slightly zesty flavour but retaining some

malt characteristics very moreish.

LINCOLN GOLDABV.4.0

An earthy malt aroma, but with a complex underlaying mix of coffee, hops, caramel and apple fruit. The beer starts bitter and intensifies, but all

its mahogany flavours stay on until the end.

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This is an easy to drink bitter and has a fresh, dry, hoppy flavour combined with

a fruity aftertaste and heady aroma.

ABV.3.5

BREWED USING ALL ENGLISH INGREDIENTSTom Woods Beers Ltd. Tel: 01652 680001 Fax: 01652 680379 Email: [email protected]

Look out for these beers locallyTom Wood Beers Ltd.

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