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The Valiant Trooper Aldbury King's Arms Amersham The Swan Amersham The Crown Amersham Paper Mill Apsley White Lion Apsley Crown Berkhamsted

Lamb Berkhamsted Rising Sun Berkhamsted Hen & Chickens Botley White Horse Bourne End Crown & Sceptre Briden's Camp The Bell Chartridge The Old Swan Cheddington Black Horse Chesham Queen's Head Chesham Chesham Brewery

Shop Chesham Harte & Magpies Coleshill Red Lion Dagnall Spotted Dog Flamstead The Nags Head Great Missenden The Full House Hemel Hempstead Rose & Crown Ivinghoe Green Man Leverstock Green Crown Ley Hill Swan Ley Hill White Lion Little Chalfont The Local Markyate Plume of Feathers Markyate Angler's Retreat Marsworth Red Lion Marsworth The Squirrel Penn Street Jolly Cricketers Seer Green Old Swan Swan Bottom Robin Hood Tring Anchor Tring

Kings Arms Tring Castle Tring The Bell Tring White Hart Whelpley Hill Greyhound Wiggington Half Moon Wilstone

CONTENTS

p.3 – Editor’s Notes and LocAle p.4 -‐ ‘Old Whinge’

p.5 – Easter Ales and St.Patrick’s Day p.6 – St.David’s Day

p.7 – Valentine’s Day p.8 – Membership Form

.9 – CAMRA Membership Prices p.10 – Beer Scores

p.11 – Tring Brewery News & Brews p.12 – XT News & Brews

p.13 – Chiltern Brewery News & Brews

p.15 – ‘The Darts’ p.17-‐18 -‐ Mad Squirrel Brews & News

p.19 – ‘The Strength Of It!’ p.20 – Beer Festivals

p.22-‐23 – Tryanuary 2019 p.24-‐26 -‐ The White Lion, Apsley

p.27 – Branch Contacts/Diary Dates

Jared Ward-‐Brickett

EDITOR’S

NOTES

First of all welcome to the Spring edition of the Mid-‐Chiltern’s Tapler, I hope you enjoy all of the latest news and brews, accompanied by a good beer in hand! As always, the Tapler will aim to deliver content relevant to drinkers in the Chilterns, and we have some cracking articles to showcase the amazing beers, pub, breweries and bars within the home-‐counties. A particular highlight of the spring calendar for myself is the BerkoBeerFest, headed up by local beer hero Nigel Oseland. Returning for a 5th year the festival will see 36 cask ales from local brewers, along with a craft bar (12 keg beers), 18 ciders AND a gin bar. “Local bands will keep entertainment at a high, with a dedicated quiet room to boot. Free entry with plenty of food stalls. Pints are £4 for real ale and £5 for craft. The bar will operate a token system and there will be some early deals online (www.berkobeerfest.co.uk) ALL PROFITS go to the bands, charity and building the festival.” Read on to find out more.. Cheers to spring!



Old Fart Whinge Sedatephobia is the fear of silence and the evidence is all around us. I have no complaints about live music or hearing-damaging rock concerts etc., because I can avoid them. I really object to the bombardment from loud, recorded, music in places that I need/want to visit such as a café, department store, gallery, hospital, hotel, leisure centre, library, museum, pub (especially), restaurant, shop or supermarket. This is even worse for those who have hearing problems. The UK has eleven million people (16%) with some hearing loss. This could rise to 20% within 20 years.

There is a campaign against “…unwanted piped background music…” called Pipedown (https://pipedown.org.uk/). Visit their site to find out how serious this problem is and the successes they are achieving. They list another site called Quiet Corners (https://quietcorners.org.uk/) where you can search for places (by location or postcode) that really are quiet. My main interest is finding quiet pubs and this site identifies The Valiant Trooper (Aldbury), The Crown (Berkhamsted), The Crown & Sceptre (Bridens Camp), The Fox & Hounds (Chalfont St Giles), The Bedford Arms (Chenies), The Harte & Magpies (Coleshill), The Cross Keys – landlord decision, The George and The Nags Head (Great Missenden), The Full House (Hemel Hempstead), The Swan (Ley Hill), The Crown Inn (Little Missenden), The Anglers Retreat (Marsworth), The King’s Arms (Tring) and The Greyhound (Wigginton). The CAMRA site (whatpub.com/) also identifies quiet pubs.

In 1946, George Orwell described his perfect pub and named it The Moon under Water. He included this requirement, “The pub is quiet enough to talk, with the house possessing neither a radio nor a piano”. There are very few quiet pubs in the UK, with the honourable exception of the Wetherspoon chain: they were given a national award for this by Pipedown. Wetherspoon pubs have no background music, plus silent fruit machines and muted televisions (except for International matches). Tim Martin (founder) has called several of his pubs ‘The Moon under Water’ and many others have ‘Moon’ in their names.

My reaction to loud noise from background music and TVs in pubs is because they don’t need to have it, except (I suspect) for their bar staff. When I started using pubs, over 50 years ago, they were quiet places for conversation. Any music came from a radio (rare) or someone on the pub piano and customers could sing along if they so wished. Music speakers around the walls are something new and, about the same time as they came in, bar design changed to add over-bar glasses racks: before that, there was clear space from the hand-pumps to the ceiling. I can remember why piped music was introduced because it could create a semblance of privacy if there were very few customers. The problem is that, as most customers stood at the bar, they, and the glasses racks, masked the music for the bar staff – so they raised the volume. This started a vicious cycle; the music volume under the speakers was unpleasant so more people crowded around the bar and masked more sound – so the staff raised the volume more. Those at the bar then had to shout at each other to be heard, so the staff raised the volume to hear the music over the shouting customers. Asking for the volume to be turned down sometimes works but the staff sneak it up when they think we won’t notice. I realise that I will never succeed in getting quiet restored, but I will keep trying.

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This year Easter is quite late so we can hope for good weather. It seems that some pubs are willing to have a punt on this because we already know of Beer & Cider Festivals: The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Horse Inn (Chesham), The Red Lion (Marsworth) and The Jolly Cricketers (Seer Green) have

already announced. Check our website for others as Easter approaches.

Look out for your local putting on entertainment and/or Easter menus, I know of The Crown (Berkhamsted), The Bell (Chartridge), The Gamekeepers Lodge and The Red Lion (both Chesham), The Squirrel (Penn Street) and The White Hart (Whelpley Hill). The Pheasant (Chesham) invites you to bring the kids and a picnic for some family time beside the river Chess; you can book the pub BBQ on seven days’ notice.

And if you want your children to learn about, and be part of, a centuries-old social tradition then go down to one of the pubs where they can hunt for the Easter ovoids that were hidden by the Easter leporid. At the time of writing I know about The Hen & Chickens (Botley), The Black Horse Inn (Chesham) and The Full Moon (Hawridge Common). After all the noise and excitement, you will have earned your pint.

Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations followed the Irish around the world and their descendants carry on the tradition and invite everyone to join in. It is held on 17th March, thought to be the date of his death (the year is uncertain) unless it clashes with the Church’s Holy Week as it did in 1940 and 2008. According

to tradition, he was a 4th/5th Century Brit called Patricius who was snatched by Irish pirates when a teenager and sold into slavery as a shepherd in Ireland. He escaped after a few years and returned to Britain and trained for the priesthood. Later, he went to Ireland as a missionary to stop the traditional Irish pagan practices and convert the people to Christianity. Odd that he didn’t get the usual response that Brits get when we try to interfere with Irish traditions. Guinness has captured the licensed trade for this celebration and ships in vast volumes of keg stout from Ireland. A few UK brewers are striking a blow against ‘Stout Miles’ with their own ‘Irish style’ real ale offerings. Hilden, a Northern Ireland brewer, has Irish Stout. Our LocAle brewers have Fuller’s Black Cab Stout, Hillfire Nighthawk Stout, Hornes Triple Goat Porter, Loddon Hocus Pocus, Lovibonds Henley Dark, Mad Squirrel London Porter, moogBREW Wigmore’s Right Proper Porter, Paradigm Black Friday, Tring Tea Kettle Stout, Vale Black Beauty Porter and XT brewery’s XT 8 Porter. Most pubs will have some sort of Guinness decorated party, many on Saturday 16th, some with Irish traditional music/dancers/menus and some try a little harder and get a different dark ale in. The ones I know about at the time of writing are The Crown and The Rising Sun (both Berkhamsted), The Black Horse Inn, The Gamekeepers Lodge, The Generals Arms, The George & Dragon, The Pheasant and The Red Lion (all Chesham), The Full Moon (Hawridge Common), The Full House (Hemel Hempstead), The Craft Beer Shop (Little

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Saint Patrick’s Day, Sunday 17th March

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Chalfont) and The Red Lion (Marsworth). The Rising Sun (Berkhamsted) will hold a “Not that Stout” event. Check what a pub near you is planning. The Feast Day of Saint David (1st March) falls on a Friday this year. Dewi Sant (St. David) was a Welsh Archbishop who died in the sixth century. He was made a saint for performing miracles, amongst them curing the blind and bringing a boy back to life. While he was a monk, he promoted a simple life of eating only bread and herbs and drinking only water. He forced his fellow monks to pull the plough themselves and not use animals. Today he would be a vegan. This date has been celebrated as the National Day of Wales ever since his canonisation, and the National Assembly for Wales wants it to be an official bank holiday. There are special ales for his day, which is ironic as he tried to stop his monks drinking beer. Look out for Brains St David’s Ale, Coach House Dewi Sant, Evan Evans St David’s Ale, Great Orme St. David’s Ale and Gwaun Valley St Davids Special. I know that some of our pubs will be looking for a Welsh ale or will hold celebrations for expatriates (or both) and I expect they will allow other Britons to experience them. Try The Saracens Head (Amersham), The Crown and The Rising Sun (both Berkhamsted), The Black Horse Inn, The Gamekeepers Lodge, The Generals Arms, The George & Dragon and The Red Lion (all Chesham), The Full Moon (Hawridge Common) and The Full House (Hemel Hempstead). And how is our new secular Saint David in the person of Sir David Attenborough getting on? We canonised him for his miracle of Blue Planet II that persuaded us to care about the treatment of waste plastic. We now understand that if waste plastic is not safely (?) disposed of by incineration or in landfill, it causes massive damage when it reaches the sea – and it will because that’s what gravity does. The people who have been warning us for decades are finally seeing public support and action. Since Blue Planet II we, and businesses, have to justify why we are still using plastic when there are other options. The pub, restaurant and supermarket trades are on board, especially on iconic plastic drinking straws and packaging: Co-op stores offer compostable carrier bags. Now we can almost claim ‘Job done’ but we need proof that the compostable replacements are what they say they are; we are testing some in our compost bin. A bigger problem is all the single-use plastic still used as packaging, including bubble-wrap in cartons and shrink-wrap on pallets. Waitrose is dropping hard-to-recycle black plastic food packaging and Iceland has gone further, “Iceland has taken the bold decision to remove plastic packaging from its own label products by 2023…” Last year, the UK companies responsible for 80% of our packaging agreed the UK Plastics Pact to eliminate unnecessary packaging and make the remainder 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. As they succeed their methods are bound to be copied around the world. Another bad product is the throw-away coffee cup that is very hard to do anything with because it is a compound of paper and plastic. One solution that Waitrose has implemented is to stop giving them out; that removes 52,000,000 cups from the UK waste system. If others follow this, especially the tax-dodging coffee shops, it will be a huge win for the planet. We can nudge

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them by not using their cups until they do: they will lean on their suppliers to sort it out if their sales decline. All these actions are preventing more plastic getting into the seas and there are now trials underway to work out how we can remove what is already there. I suspect that we will still need to clean the beaches regularly for centuries to come – if we survive as a species for long enough… What are you doing? Valentine’s Day is on Thursday 14th February and pubs will be back in celebration mode. The only ales I can find brewed for this day are Harvey’s Kiss (Rodin inspired) and Coach House Bootleg Valentine (Al Capone inspired). The Gamekeepers Lodge, The Generals Arms and The Red Lion (Chesham) and The Monks Inn (Hemel Hempstead) are planning to stock one. Many pubs, like The Metro Lounge and The Swan (Amersham), The Crown and The Rising Sun (Berkhamsted), The Fishery Inn (Boxmoor), The Bell (Chartridge), The George & Dragon (Chesham), The Travellers Rest (Edelesborough), The Bricklayers Arms (Flaunden), The Nags Head (Great Missenden), The Full Moon (Hawridge Common), The Full House (Hemel Hempstead), The Rose & Crown (Kings Langley), The Green Man (Leverstock Green), The Swan (Ley Hill), The Pomeroy (Little Chalfont), The Bridgewater Arms (Little Gaddesden), The Marchmont Arms (Piccotts End) and The White Hart (Whelpley Hill) will have Valentine’s deals or menus. If you are planning a romantic evening then make sure you behave sensibly. Do you want to show your current or intended partner what you are really like when you’ve had too much? I don’t see the logic in that.

There is a good choice of patriotic ales from Churchend (St. George’s Ale), Doncaster (St. George’s Minster Pale Ale), Greene King (Patron Saints Ale),

Harveys (Georgian Dragon) and Wadworth (St George and the Dragon). Expect to find some at our Easter Beer Festivals. Real Ale pubs on our patch, especially those with ‘George’ in their name, will put on a patriotic ale - some with matching food. Those that I know of are The Saracens Head (Amersham), The White Lion (Apsley), The Crown and The Rising Sun (Berkhamsted), The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Horse Inn, The Gamekeepers Lodge, The George & Dragon, The Generals Arms, The Pheasant and The Red Lion (Chesham), The Full House (Hemel Hempstead) and The Red Lion (Marsworth). The Full Moon is planning a special ceremony (Hawridge Common). So, “Cry God for Harry, England and Saint George!” Well, it is Shakespeare’s birthday, as well. The arrival of Spring brings a change in our seasonal ales, going from dark Winter Ales to lighter Spring Ales. Our LocAle brewers offer a growing choice from Bootlegger’s Mountain Meadow, Chiltern Earl Grey IPA, Fuller’s Front Row, Gales Spring Sprinter, Loddon Hoppit, Paradigm Touch Point, Rebellion Amber, Tring Drop Bar and Bring Me Sunshine, Vale Brill Gold and XT Brewery’s XT15. Expect others as Spring approaches. On our patch you should find them at The Saracens Head (Amersham), The Paper Mill and

Saint Valentine’s Day

Spring Ales

Saint George’s Day, Tuesday 23rd April.

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Saint George’s Day, Tuesday 23rd April.

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The White Lion (Apsley), The Boat, The Crown, The Highwayman and The Rising Sun (Berkhamsted), The Hen & Chickens (Botley), The Crown and Sceptre (Bridens Camp), The Ivy House (Chalfont St Giles), The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Horse Inn, The Gamekeepers Lodge, The Generals Arms, The George & Dragon, The Pheasant, The Queens Head and The Red Lion (Chesham), The Harte & Magpies (Coleshill), The Travellers Rest (Edlesborough), The Cross Keys and The George Ale House (Great Missenden), The Full House and The Monks Inn (Hemel Hempstead), The Craft Beer Shop (Little Chalfont), The Crown Inn (Little Missenden), The Black Cat (Lye Green), The Red Lion (Marsworth), The Hit or Miss and The Squirrel (both Penn Street), The Jolly Cricketers (Seer Green), and The Kings Arms and The Robin Hood (both Tring). Many others will have them but I don’t know about them. You should also find Spring Ales at the Spring/Easter festivals at The BerkoBeerFest (Berkhamsted Cricket Club), The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Horse Inn and the Royal British Legion (Chesham), The Red Lion (Marsworth) and The Jolly Cricketers (Seer Green).

Vale News The new brewery shop and tap room are offering brewery tours again after a long hiatus. The tours are held on the first Saturday of every month and can be booked with the office by calling 01844 239237. Vale Brewery’s Pickled Swans offers it’s Cobs and Pens the following:-‐ Free Membership / Periodic Promotions / Invitations to one off events / Open Day Preview sessions with a free pour bar To become a Pickled Swan please email [email protected] with your email address or you can visit our website.

Vale have got a number of new beers in the pipeline to ease drinkers through the winter months: Fork Handles 4.2% Blonde Back for a record third appearance. As popular as the joke that spawned it. Fork handles is an all British golden blonde beer. A biscuity malt backbone and juicy

floral hop flavours from Olicana hops makes this beer a modern classic. Beam me up scotty! 4.0% Hoppy Copper Kirk may never have said it, but it is still one of the most iconic lines in TV history. Beam me up Scotty! is a copper coloured ale packed full of punchy, aromatic, American hops, giving flavours of stone fruits and citrus. It’s beer, Jim, but not as we know it.



CAMRA MEMBERSHIP PRICES 2018/19 DIRECT DEBIT NON-‐DIRECT DEBIT

SINGLE STANDARD £25 £27 SINGLE

CONCESSION £16.50 £19

SINGLE OVERSEAS £38 £41.50 JOINT STANDARD £29.50 £32.50

JOINT CONCESSION £19.50 £22.00

JOINT OVERSEAS £43.00 £47.00 LIFETIME SINGLE STANDARD N/A £450

LIFETIME SINGLE CONCESSION N/A £306

LIFETIME SINGLE N/A £711 OVERSEAS

LIFETIME JOINT STANDARD N/A £549 LIFETIME JOINT N/A £360 CONCESSION

LIFETIME JOINT N/A £810



HELP!! WE NEED YOUR BEER SCORES -‐ WHY ?? …… Because now most Branches use beer scores (as per CAMRA’s recommendations) in order to decide their shortlist for the Good Beer Guide pub selection. We have a meeting each December to look at the beer scores for the previous 12 months. We then try and visit the top ones to check out the quality of beer and in January we shortlist the top 8 pubs from Bucks and top 8 pubs from Herts (we can only put 8 from Bucks and 8 from Herts in the Guide). If you want your favourite pub to stand a chance of meeting the criteria, please submit beer scores for the quality and condition of their beer. Mid Chilterns Branch has 850+ members but only about 30 of those submit scores. The National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) is an easy to use system that has been designed to assist CAMRA branches in selecting pubs for the Good Beer Guide and also monitor beer quality by encouraging CAMRA members from any part of the world to report beer quality on any pub in the UK. If you are a CAMRA member, we want you to tell us about the quality of beer in the pubs you visit You can score your beer online at home or if you have a smart phone in the pub! To submit your scores just visit http://whatpub.com. Log into the site using your CAMRA membership number and password. Once you have found a pub on the site, you can start scoring. You can find out more at http://whatpub.com/beerscoring You need to record the The location and name of the pub (WhatPub mobile can work this out!), The date you visited the pub, A score out of 5, The name of the beer/brewery. The scores mean the following:

0 -‐ No cask ale available

1 -‐ Poor. Beer that is anything from barely drinkable to drinkable with considerable resentment

2 -‐ Average. Competently kept, drinkable pint but doesn’t inspire in any way, not worth moving

to another pub but you drink the beer without really noticing.

3 -‐ Good. Good beer in good form. You may cancel plans to move to the next pub. You want to

stay for another pint and may seek out the beer again.

4 -‐ Very Good. Excellent beer in excellent condition.

5 -‐ Perfect. Probably the best you are ever likely to find. A seasoned drinker will award this score very rarely. You can also enter half scores, e.g. 3.5 for good to very good beer. You shouldn’t mark down a beer just because you don’t like it because if the beer is in good condition it should be marked accordingly. It isn’t about personal preference, it is about the quality and condition of the beer. Once beer scores have been submitted online, CAMRA branches can download them and use them to help in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide selection process. For more information, go to http://camra.org.uk/nbss It is REALLY important that we get more branch members scoring as the committee can’t get to every single pub in the branch (nearly 200) more than once a year if that so we rely on local members scoring their local pubs. Landlords often ask us why they aren’t in the Guide, as do members occasionally, but we need at least 5 different people to put in a score per pub each year and at least 10 different visits to the pub in order for it to have an average score and a chance of being on the shortlist. PLEASE help us and the local pubs by submitting scores on a regular basis. I would also ask Landlords to encourage their regular CAMRA members to put their scores in. Thanks very much.

Gillie Badminton



TRING BREWERY NEWS & BREWS Red Roamer has been brewed in collaboration (our first ever!) with The Wandering Brewer Project. Red Roamer is a 4.3% red ale; hopped with Jester, a new variety of British hop. The Wandering Brewer Project is headed up by Ian Jones, an avid brewing veteran who met the Tring Brewery team in a classic Hertfordshire pub back in 2018.

The backdrop of this setting inspired Ian (and the rest of the team at The Wandering Brewer Project) to brew up a storm with Tring Brewery at Tring’s brewhouse on Dunsley Farm. The resulting beer has been brewed with Aromatic malt, imparting chewy body and a ruby red hue to the beer. Jester, a new variety of British hop, accompanies the malts to offer fruity aromas, with a smooth and sweet finish.

Tring Brewery Co were proud to launch what is believed to be a world-‐first product in January, alongside The Original Biltong

Company, based in nearby Chesham. The Original Biltong Company produce South-‐African inspired cured meats using authentic family recipes. All of their products are made with locally-‐sourced, grass-‐fed beef. Tring Brewery have partnered with the Original Biltong Company to produce a special biltong that has been cured with beer. Believed to be a commercial first, the beef snack has been prepared using the brewery’s award winning ‘Death Or Glory’ barleywine. Death Or Glory biltong is available now in the brewery shop on Dunsley Farm, with plans already in place to make it a permanent product. In 2019 we are extremely excited to be undertaking a yearlong partnership with Gaddesden Place Riding Centre for the Disabled. The team at Tring Brewery will take inspiration from the local riding school, using equestrian themes for the namesakes of twelve monthly specials, to be brewed throughout the year. At the RDA, hundreds of horses and ponies provide therapy, achievement and enjoyment to people with disabilities all over the UK every year. The brewery looks forward to hosting fundraising events over the course of the year, with all proceeds going directly towards developments at Gaddesden Place RDA. Cheers to 2019, and to the therapy of horse-‐back riding!



XT Brewery News & Brews

XT have been making their Millennial Beer ‘M’ marked up as a 6.6% IPA. The one thousandth mash from XT carries the moniker ‘M’, melding only malts and hops that begin with M: malts;Marris Otter, Munich and Melanoidan, and hops, Motueka, Minstrel and mountains of Mosaic. It uses the most hops in

any XT or Animal beer ever! A massive missile of tropical and citrus flavours explode initially, melting away to the more classic XT model of malty mellowness for a moreish mouth feel. And if that’s not merely enough, more munificent dry-‐hopping leaves you with a mellow fruit bouquet to finish. This is a memorable classic. The annual teen series concludes this year with the coda: XT-‐19 – A Red Rye IPA at 4.2% -‐ its packed with 5 different malts and rye grains but it’s a very hop forward beer. The 19 will be available through the year with a rotation of the teen family classics such as XT-‐13 and XT-‐15

The Animals haven’t been sleeping either, and two new creatures are released for the cooler months: Emu is a Southern Amber at 4.6% using some international and English malts; Maris

Otter, Special B and wheat for a chewy base and new world hops; Green Bullet, Dr Rudi, Waimea and Pacific Gem Yak is a Breakfast IPA with a nice blend of classic Maris Otter, Oats, Vienna and Melanoidan and some American greenery: Amarillo, Azzacca and Mosaic. The recipe will then be rounded off with lactose to give that breakfast twist.

And to mark Chinese New Year – this year is the year of the Pig – Animal Oink, which was the first ever Animal beer to be brewed, way back in 2013 will make a return.

In Oxford City centre XT have been involved in a project to bring an old 17th century pub back to life. XT will be supplying beer to the Plough on Cornmarket. The pub originally served from 1665 to 1925, then waited until now to again sell fine ales. The pub will serve beers from cask, craft keg and from special tanks built in behind the bar, upstairs will be a restaurant. The revival process has restored some old features including an ancient fireplace, the grand panelled stairs and historic window bays.



Chiltern Brewery News & Brews The Chiltern Brewery enjoyed a busy end to 2018 and their busiest Christmas period ever, thanks in part to the launch of two new beers -‐ Salted Caramel Ale and Festive Foxtrot (previously Foxtrot) -‐ and their very first gins. To learn more about their plans for 2019, we caught up with Tom Jenkinson, Partner and Head Brewer of The Chiltern Brewery, who told us about the brewery’s upcoming beers: “in January we launched two brand new beers, 3 Thread Stout and Table Beer, that are examples of what we enjoy most about

brewing -‐ reviving classic ale styles for the modern era. In February we will be releasing another new beer, Honey Porter, that is not to be missed. Brewery classic 300s Old Ale will be available until the end of February, when Earl Grey IPA and Colombian Coffee Porter will be released to welcome the start of Spring.”

The Chiltern Brewery released the 2019 Vintage of their Imperial Stouts in November, with three varieties available in their brewery store and online -‐ Export Original, Tudor Spiced and Oak Aged (aged in oak barrels for over 12 months). These big, dark beers are the perfect treat in these colder months! Tom closed by saying, “once again, we can’t thank our loyal customers enough for their invaluable support year after year and we look forward to welcoming many more of you to The Chiltern Brewery in this coming year”. You can keep up to date with the latest Chiltern Brewery news on their website, www.chilternbrewery.co.uk, or by following them on Facebook & Twitter -‐ @ChilternBrewery. The King’s Head, Aylesbury The King’s Head in Aylesbury enjoyed a busy festive period, led by their oak-‐panelled Dining Room which was available for exclusive hire for groups to enjoy Christmas Parties (the room is available to hire all year round). Executive Head Chef Paul Adams and his team were kept exceptionally busy throughout the festive season and are now looking forward to focusing on the next stage of exciting development of The King’s Head kitchens. George Jenkinson, Managing Director of The King’s Head, told us about The King’s Head annual ‘Celebration of Beer’ saying that, “this year the Celebration Of Beer is bigger and better than ever! As well as selecting the best porters, stouts and old ales, we have also introduced a new ‘Beer Passport’ that allows our customers to record the beers they have enjoyed with us… along with earning a few free pints, too! However, as always, when each beer is gone, it’s gone! So please keep an eye on our social media channels for full details of what is available daily at the bar in order to avoid disappointment.” Finally, George thanked all regulars and guests of The King’s Head for their ongoing custom and stated “we look forwards to a lot of exciting changes at the King’s Head in 2019 and to raising a glass with you all soon -‐ cheers!” You can keep up to date with the latest King’s Head events and beer selections by regularly checking the website, www.kingsheadaylesbury.co.uk, and following them on Facebook and Twitter.



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On Saturday 24th November we held our annual darts match at the Black Cat, Lye Green, Chesham and, as usual, again there were some very keenly fought matches. Chris Peers triumphed to clinch the singles trophy again and in the doubles Chris Peers and Liz Doughton were successful in another hard-‐fought match. Well done to the victors and we look forward to next November.

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Mad Squirrel News & Brews

After a successful Christmas period, 2019 has started as busy as ever at Mad Squirrel. Our first limited-‐edition brew of the year was released the first weekend of January, ‘De La Pod’ (4.5%), a vanilla milk stout.

This was followed up by “In Our Veins” (4.5%), a double dry hopped red ale in the second half of January. Both beers were received well by our loyal drinkers in our Tap & Bottle Shops, as well as going down well in the wider trade. We managed to brew 22 different limited-‐edition beers in 2018, and have provisionally pencilled in 25 for this year, a couple from last year are returning, but the majority are new brews. De La Pod did not make it into cans (just cask and keg) but the plan is almost all other limited-‐edition beers will be packaged into small-‐pack as well as being on tap.

On the 22nd of January we welcomed Nick from London Beer Factory to the brewery for a day, to take part in our first collaboration brew of the year. “Triumvirate” (6.7%) is a passion fruit sour IPA, brewed with Vic Secret hops and kettle soured for a fruity, hoppy and tart refreshing beer that drinks well below

its ABV. This is the first of several collabs lined up for 2019. As with all other breweries, our thoughts had turned to Tryanuary in the first month of the year. On Friday 25th we held a special tasting evening at the D20 Café in Watford. The event was sold out with 35 people crammed into the back room of the café. Our man on the ground Tim guided the group through the story of our company and six different Mad Squirrel beers over the course of the evening, the response was universally positive with lots of laughs, questions and good cheer throughout the event. Plans are being drawn up for another evening at D20 later in the year, due to demand. There are also plans for a similar tasting evening at the Cake Shack in Chipperfield on Friday 1st March, tickets for which are now available directly from the Cake Shack. In mid-‐January we were thrilled the receive three awards in the 2018 Ratebeer Best Awards. These awards are given out based on the reviews left on the website, which is one of the most popular beer forums on the web. It was great to hear that we won best brewery in the region (Herts), best beer in the region (Herts) for $UMO, and best beer destination in the region (Bucks) for our High Wycombe Tap & Bottle Shop. We are now installing three new triple fermenting tanks into our brewery. This expansion has been over 12 months in the planning and involves a meticulous process of removing the roof of the brewery, craning the new tanks into position and then replacing the roof, before plumbing in the new tanks and installing an overhead walkway. The new tanks are each capable of holding 9000 litres of fermenting liquid and will be dedicated to the production of our two most popular beers $UMO (A.P.A 4.7% ABV) and Zealous (Pilsner 4.4%ABV, previously called Flying Squirrel). Once these new tanks are in place, they will increase our annual production by 79.2% meaning our total yearly output will now exceed 2 million pints, meaning even more Mad Squirrel beer available for the Mid-‐



Chilterns and much further beyond! Also, as the Tapler is going to press, we are pleased to say that our core range pale ale Hopfest (3.8%) is now being served in the Strangers Bar at the Houses of Parliament. Obviously, there is much tension in the current political climate and so we are hoping that MPs from across the political spectrum can find common ground between them and a way forward for our country, whilst enjoying a pint of Mad Squirrel beer. Many Thanks to the Right Honourable Sir Mike Penning, MP for Hemel Hempstead for helping us get Hopfest listed. Already we are booking ourselves up for beer festivals and events for the rest of 2019. First up is TOM’s beer festival, a new event held in The Old Market in Brighton at the start of February, this small boutique festival sees us join a well curated line up of some of the best UK breweries such as Verdant, Unbarred and Cloudwater. At the end of February, we return to Craft Beer Rising for the second year running. We had an absolute blast at last year’s festival, which is held in the old Truman brewery in Brick Lane, London and features nearly 200 different breweries. We will be looking to build on our success from last year and expose Mad Squirrel to even more drinkers.

We were over the moon to be invited to showcase two beers at Cask19, a beer festival focussing on innovative, progressive cask ale producers, which is held in mid-‐March on the Bermondsey Beer Mile. The ethics of this festival, which focusses on quality over quantity and a fair price for a specialist product, is very much aligned with the values we would like to see more of in the cask ale market. Across the two sessions we will be showcasing an exclusive, last ever firkin of “Bust le Nut” (8.0%) Double Hazelnut Milk Stout and a freshly racked

cask of “High Score” (4.8%) India Pale Lager. Its an honour to be showcasing these beers alongside brews from some real industry heavyweights such as Siren Craft, Five Points, and Moor Beer.

Due to their increasing popularity, we have now increased the frequency of our open brewery tours, from one a month to one every other week. Tours are at midday on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. Tickets are £25 per person and include a full, hour long tour, 6 x third pint of different Mad Squirrel beers and a pizza per person. Tickets can be booked via our website. Private tours for groups of 20 or more can be booked in for any

evening from Monday-‐Saturday by calling the brewery directly on 01442 256 970. Finally, we are already in the planning stages for our next Tap & Bottle Shop. We’re keeping the location under wraps for now, until things are more finalised, but needless to say we are incredibly excited. This new site will be the seventh in our chain of outlets, joining our already established sites in Amersham, Berkhamsted, Chesham, Harpenden, High Wycombe and at our brewery in Potten End.



THE STRENGTH OF IT The alcoholic strength of drinks in Britain used to be measured by a system involving a pile of gunpowder. ‘100 degrees proof’, the magic strength, is the concentration of alcohol which will allow gunpowder, when soaked with it, to burn with a steady flame. A weaker mixture will make it smoulder or put it out, whereas a stronger mix can lead to a nasty conflagration. In the more reasonable French scheme of things, strength is measured in percent of alcohol by volume. The percentage figure is expressed as so many degrees Gay Lussac : 100 degrees means 100 percent alcohol. Our UK 100 degrees proof means 57.1 percent alcohol. To further confuse the matter, US proof is, like the US gallon, just a little smaller. Absolute alcohol is 175 degrees proof; it is 200 degrees US proof. In short, they simply double the Gay Lussac figure. Applied to the drinks we know, there are four main categories of strength. Beer is the lowest. Roughly speaking, table wine is twice as strong as beer, fortified wine is twice as strong as table wine, and spirits are twice as strong as fortified wines. Before distillation was invented in the Middle Ages, table wine was the strongest alcoholic drink made. Yeast, which makes alcohol by feeding on sugar, itself succumbs to the effects of alcohol when wine reaches a strength of about 15 percent. Anything stronger has to be made by the artificial method of distillation. The still is simply a device for removing some of the water which makes up about 80 percent of the wine, and more of the beer. Spirits are the concentrated products of the still: distilled wine is brandy; whisky, gin and vodka are distilled from near relations of beer. They are much stronger when they drip from the still than in their eventual bottled form. Evaporation of alcohol through wood lowers the strength of brandy and whisky, which mature for years in cask; gin and vodka are bought down to drinkable strength with distilled water. 70 degrees proof (40 percent alcohol) is the standard strength for home consumption. Export whisky is 75 degrees proof which reads on American labels as 85 degrees proof, leading the English visitor to overwater this or her whisky. Liqueurs can be very strong (Green Chartreuse is 96 degrees British proof or 56 percent alcohol), or very weak (Crème de Cassis is 15 percent alcohol). The strongest (legal) spirit meant for drinking is Polish rectified spirit at 166 degrees proof (95 percent alcohol), it is not recommended to be drunk neat! Surgical spirit and methylated spirits are 90 percent alcohol, but the one tastes as bad as the other. The intermediate drinks between wines and spirits are the fortified wines: a mixture of the two. Their strength, about 20 percent alcohol, happens to be the exact concentration at which the human body absorbs alcohol the fastest. Although they are only half as strong as straight spirits, they do in fact intoxicate more rapidly. Thus, whisky diluted with water 50/50, i.e. about 20 per cent alcohol (the strength of port, sherry or vermouth) is quicker in its effect than when it is neat. If the mixer is carbonated it is quicker still. Simple alcoholic strength is not alone in determining the effects of drink. Its other components, the sugar, acids and oils which impart flavour, aroma and colour, although they may be present in tiny traces, can make tremendous differences. Cognac may keep one awake at night while it makes another sleep like a log. Armagnac, its close cousin whose chemical difference is contained in a two hundredth part of its volume, may have the reverse effect. Not much is known about the congenerics, as these important traces are called in spirits and their effect on the body. What seems certain is that the less there is of them the fewer ill effects there will be. Vodka, which has virtually no congenerics having been distilled and redistilled until there is nothing left but alcohol and water, is easily absorbed by the body, and easily got rid of. Malt whisky in contrast is full of congenerics. They are at the same time the reason why it is much more delicious than vodka, and so much more ‘lethal’! Richard Healey



Dates Events Details

22nd to 24th February

Beer & Cider MiniFest Black Horse, Chesham Vale

18th (Eve) to 22nd April

Mini Beer Fest Red Lion, Marsworth

19th (eve) to 22nd April

Mini Fest (Quiz Sunday and live Music daytime Monday)

The Bell, Chartridge, Nr Chesham

19th to 22nd April

Beer & Cider MiniFest The Jolly Cricketers, Seer Green

19th to 22nd April

Beer & Cider MiniFest Black Horse, Chesham Vale

27th April Berko Beer Fest Berkhamsted Cricket Club

3rd (eve) to 6th May

May Day Mini Beer Fest Red Lion, Marsworth

24th (eve) to 27th May

Late May Mini Beer Fest

Red Lion, Marsworth

Sat 1st June

Beer & Cider Fest (live music)

Amersham & Chesham Lions Club annual beer fest – Chesham United Football Club - noon

23rd (eve) to 26th August

Mini Beer Fest Red Lion Marsworth

Local Beer Fests 2019

Are you holding a beer festival in the Mid-Chilterns or surrounding area? Contact the Webmaster with details, and have your event posted on this site.

Details of Beer Festivals are correct to the best of our knowledge but it would be worth checking with the pub before you plan to visit a

venue. We can’t accept responsibility for festivals not being on as we have been given the information above in good faith by the pubs.



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What a month! Tryanuary began with the an epic CAMRA pub crawl through Hemel old town, smashing expectations with huge numbers. Over 30 CAMRA members ended a cold New Years’ evening in Monks Inn, Hemel. To keep up early momentum, local beer writer Alec Latham released

‘A Short Beer History of St.Albans’, telling the story of ale in the historic city; home to many traditional pubs and indeed the Campaign For Real Ale. A week to the day of the epic Hemel crawl, Mid-‐Chilterns CAMRA were at it once again, this time with a jovial crawl through Chesham. Days later Alec Latham released his second blog exploring ‘Five Beers That Make Hertfordshire‘. McMullen’s, Pope’s Yard, Paradigm, Mad Squirrel and Tring Brewery all stood to define beer and brewing across the county.

On Wednesday 18th, a sold-‐out crowd of 30 attendees huddled into the backroom of The Rising Sun Pub in Berkhamsted, for a special collaborative pairing. Nigel Oseland from BerkoBeerFest teamed up with Mark (culinary genius at ‘The Riser’), curating six beer and food matches. Sour beers, smoked ales and weizenbier were paired with the likes of salmon blinis, thai chicken skewers and stilton cheese –

with vegan options available for all! The ticket sales for the event went entirely to DENS (Dacorum Emergency Night Shelter). Two days later at Ye Olde Fighting Cocks (the oldest pub in England) Roger Protz hosted a Farr Brew Tap Takeover with Matt from Farr was on hand to talk beers. Roger Protz (Founder of the British Guild Of Beer Writers) was joined by landlord Christo to give impassioned speeches about St.Albans’ beer scene.

The day following the tap takeover saw two different Tryanuary events, including a Mid-‐Chilterns CAMRA crawl of Berkhamsted. As beer lovers were crawling Berkhamsted, The Mikkeller Running Club St.Albans (a beer & fitness group) turned out in record numbers for a special 5K run, commencing and concluding at Tring Brewery. All runners took part in a brewery tour and tasting session, featuring the

exclusive launch of Tring’s Tryanuary ale.

Tryanuary 2019 Jared Ward-Brickett



Alec Latham kept us educated, publishing his third Trynaury blog ‘A Short Beer History Of Watford’, telling of the mighty brewer established in Hertfordshire’s largest city, and of promising times to come. Pushing into the last week of the month, Mad Squirrel took over the D20 Games Café in Watford for another sold-‐out Tryanuary event. Tim

from Mad Squirrel took the drinkers through a series of ales using his Sommelier knowledge, exploring the differing styles of Mad Squirrel beers. On Saturday 26th a ‘Beer & Biltong’ session attracted 30 visitors to Tring Brewery, pairing 5 different ales with just as many cuts of South-‐African cured meat. The event closed with the launch of ‘Death Or Glory Biltong’. Believed to be a commercial world first, the meat was cured at The Original Biltong Company’s location in Chesham, using Death Or Glory barleywine and Mexican Guajillo chillies. More Tryanuary literature was released this week, with Alec Latham telling of ‘Six Hertfordshire Beer Haunts’. Acting as a visitor’s guide to the county, Alec explores beery hot spots for those travelling through Herts. In the final week of Tryanuary a dedicated ‘Hertfordshire Day’ showcased some of the county’s best brewers across the campaign’s social media accounts, with the spotlight on both Pope’s Yard and New River Brewery. On the penultimate day of the campaign Alec Latham released the final part of his five-‐part series. ‘A Short Beer History Of Ware’ unveils the town’s historic significance, at one point the ‘world epicentre of malting!’ Drawing this month to a close I would like to acknowledge all of the donations, campaigning, events and launches that have made this year the most successful #Tryanuary yet! Thank you in particular to Alec Latham and Johan Conway who have been in my team of Hertfordshire volunteers, proudly waving the banner for our county. Thank you to the local beer scene made up of amazing pubs, bars, brewers and drinkers who have shown that even during the toughest month of the year; Herts’ beer scene is getting stronger by the day. Cheers to #Tryanuary!



The White Lion, Aplsey An Old-‐School Boozer

Do you ever enter a pub out of unquenchable curiosity? An A-‐board on the roadside advertising Oakham ales should help you along.. Frosted windows keep the interior of The White Lion in Apsley a closely guarded secret, something only known to those who venture in off the pavements of London Road. London Road is awash with small-‐businesses; high-‐fi, hardware and hair extensions can be found dangling in shop windows, interspersed by the occasional takeaway. The London Road in Hemel Hempstead tails off from a large business park adjacent to the A41 and can be seen as a gateway into ‘New Hemel’. Apsley Lock has enjoyed substantial rejuvenation in recent years

and now boasts many brand-‐spanking-‐new homes and ‘marina nightlife’; with restaraunts and pubs decorating a spotlit curving bridge, akin to newer parts of canal side central Birmingham. George, a vetted regular of The White Lion, would argue that Aplsey is a gateway to the town’s past also. There are records of a ‘White Lion’ pub in Apsley dating back to the 1600’s, at the time Apsley was a village, just like Boxmoor and Leverstock Green and also Hemel Hempstead old town. It was not until later in Hemel’s lifetime did it see the amalgamation of these suburbs and the creation of many more. In the 1600’s Aplsey was independent of Hemel Hempstead, and many local residents, including George, still sight distinction between local borders. Politics (no matter how localised) don’t belong in the pub right? Back to The White Lion. Records from the 1600’s show a ‘White Lion’ pub selling beer in Apsley at the time, it is interesting to note however that the pub is said to have been in Featherbed Lane, a couple of (small) roads away from where The White Lion proudly stands today. I could only rely on the landlords’ knowledge to solve this gap in the pub’s timeline. Peter and his wife Caroline took on The White Lion three years ago seeking to make a change for local drinkers. Although they saw the old-‐school charm of this boozer, they felt the offering to be a little dated – in a bad way. Previously a tied bar, Peter and Caroline applied for permission to curate their own beer pumps at the Fuller’s public house. Over a year since and the couple have not looked back. Peter professes to me that he is not a drinker himself, and I believe that implicitly, so why would a dry landlord want to curate a range of real ales? Because Peter and Caroline are devoted to their regulars, that is why.



With Watling Street, Paradigm, Tring, Haresfoot, Mad Squirrel and many more local brewers regularly on rotation through the four handpulls, drinkers of cask ale will never get bored in this beautiful street corner establishment.

Beery memorabilia graces the wooden backbar, peppered with several presentation cases of Fuller’s Vintage Ale, looming in the shadows. The wooden backbar accompanies the wooden front bar, which accompanies the wooden booths with seating in the form of wooden stools. The frames of the booths (which used to divide the lounge bar and the saloon) hold up beautiful stained glass windows. In the darkest of nights, glowing orbs of soft lighting can be seen floating

and dancing in the beautiful panes. Back to the history.. In the middle of the 20th century (just after World War II), close to 500 people signed a petition to extend the licensing of The White Lion, changing it from a beer house (exclusively) to a premise that could sell both beers and wines. Clearly the establishment had become a hub within the Apsley community. It was in the mid-‐1840’s when The White Lion relocated from Featherbed Lane to its’ current address on London Road. The move was due to the construction of the London and Birmingham Railway Line which required the upheaval of much earth throughout both Apsley and Boxmoor. The move would see the pub open its’ door to construction workers utilising what is now Aplsey’s main road, a road which falls directly in front of Frogmore Paper Mill. Frogmore Paper Mill houses the world’s first mechanised paper machine, and was owned by the industry leading ‘British Paper Company’ during the 20th century. When the whistle blew in Apsley, there were many, many workers in need of liquid sustenance! At this point I have pestered Peter and Caroline on a busy Friday night for long enough. Content with my findings, I retreat to finishing my pint of Watling Street (which had been kept in excellent condition), before disappearing into the night. This is where George comes in.

A tall silhouette shadow falls on outside of the frosted glass, already Peter can tell it is George and begins pouring his favourite brew into his jug of choice. Peter then proceeds to the entrance to give George a hand in. Sitting entranced by my mobile phone in the company of other drinkers in this ‘old-‐school boozer’ simply felt rude and inappropriate; I engaged George while polishing off my pint.



Four pints later and Goerge is still going, explaining to me the geographic boundaries of Aplsey, how his father used to drink in this very pub (and probably his father before him), and that the pub had once been a Mann’s tied house, before becoming a Benskins’ tied house. As George opens up the secrets of the pub’s past (some unknown even to the landlords), others begin to horseshoe around – we have an audience. It’s not just me asking the questions anymore. George entertains the whole front bar with the history of The White Lion. Anyway, back to the my drnking experience – I left The White Lion with a renewed appreciation of local history, and a strong idea where the pub itself had played a role within it. I had relished in the fact that Peter had offered me some Pope’s Yard ale, the first batch from a former Watford based brewer who have now set up production seconds away in Frogmore Paper Mill!

I had drunk with people I had never met before and shared stories over numerous pints of well-‐kept local ale. What was meant to be a pitstop flyby for a short-‐read piece had quickly unravelled. This piece became the case study of a place with one foot grounded in rich heritage – the other in the grassroots of Hertfordshire’s growing beer scene. The continually sidetracked nature of this narration is a perfect homage to the pub itself.

Take a trip to The White Lion in Apsley. Venture beyond the frosted windows. Peak around the stained glass booths. You might fall down a very beery rabbit hole… Jared Ward-Brickett



BRANCH CONTACTS Chairman and Tapler Editor: Jared Ward-‐Brickett -‐ [email protected] / [email protected]

Vice-‐Chairman/Membership Secretary/Brewery Liaison Officer (Tring) Richard Healey 01494 724686 Membership@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk

Treasurer/Brewery Liaison Officer (MIX) -‐ Charles Teuma [email protected]

Press Officer -‐ Dave Badminton 01494 581797 Locale Officer/Brewery Liaison Officer (Haresfoot) -‐ Roy Humphrey [email protected] Pubs Officer/Branch Contact William Powell 07913 939761 [email protected]

Brewery Liaison Officer (Mad Squirrel) Jon Humphries Beer Information Officer -‐ John Lomax 01494 783198 Cider Officer -‐ Ian Williams [email protected]

Beer Scores Officer -‐Nigel Harris 0845 644 6700 BeerScores@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk Webmaster/Social Secretary Gill Badminton Webmaster@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk [email protected] Branch Secretary/Young Members Officers – Gareth Hawden & Rachael Frost [email protected] [email protected]

DIARY DATES FOR MID-‐CHILTERNS BRANCH

MARCH 2019 Sat 2nd March -‐ Boxmoor Crawl: The Grapes, Fisheries, Boxmoor Social Club, the Post Office Arms, the Three Blackbirds, Steamcoach – (S) noon Wed 6th March -‐Queens Head, Long Marston (M) 8 p m Sat 16th March -‐ Chalfont St. Giles: White Hart, The Stone Place at the Feathers, Fox & Hounds, Merlins Cave, Ivy House – (S) noon 23rd March -‐ Chesham Royal British Legion Beer Fest, East Street, Chesham (S) APRIL 2019 5th to 7th April -‐ CAMRA Members Weekend – Caird Hall, Dundee Wed 10th April -‐ Red Lion, Dagnall (M) Sat 27th April -‐ Berkhamsted Beer Fest, Berko Cricket Club from noon (S) MAY 2019 Wed 8th May -‐ The Jolly Cricketers, Seer Green (M) Sat 11th May -‐ Chalfont St. Peter crawl: The Jolly Farmer, White Hart, Greyhound Sat 18th May -‐ Kings Langley crawl noon – Rose & Crown, Saracens Head, Old Palace, Toby Carvery, 2 Brews Café (KL Football Club) – (S) (S) = Social (M) = Meeting All members are welcome. Please check the Branch Website for the latest details. Contact the Social Secretary if you need more information *Please check the Branch Website for the latest details. Contact the Social Secretary if you need more information. **ADVERTISING RATES: Back Page A5 £140. Middle Page A5 £120. Full Page A5 £100. Half Page £60. Quarter Page £40. 10% discount for advance payment for one year/4 issues. Ask Editor for details. Deadline for advertisements/submissions/letters for Summer 2019 edition: Sunday 28th April Send to: [email protected] DISCLAIMER: Views expressed in ‘The Chiltern Tapler’ are not necessarily those of CAMRA LTD., its branches or the editors. COPYRIGHT © CAMRA Mid-‐Chilterns Branch 2018: All rights reserved. Produced & Published by the Mid Chilterns Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. CAMRA HQ: 230 Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts., AL1 4BR. www.camra.org.uk PRINTING: instantprint.co.uk

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