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HQ - 230 Hatfield Rd, St Albans, AL1 4LW. Tel:01727
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CAMRA campaigns for real ale, real pubs
and consumer rights. We are an independent, voluntary
organisation with 90,000 members and have been described
as the most successful consumer group
in Europe. CAMRA promotes good-quality real ale
and pubs, as well as acting as the consumer's
champion in relation to the UK and European beer
and drinks industry. |
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Please
note Rosie O'briens not closed as previously stated
in pub news (see pub news for info) |
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nottingham
camra takes
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At
the recent AGM & members weekend Nottingham
camra branch took both the best newsletter
award and for the Nottingham Drinker and Steve
Westby receives the first ever camra campaigner
of the year award.
The long awaited award for best newsletter
is due to the hard work of David Mason over
recent years in bringing the publication to
the high standard we see today, and recently
by Spyke (Peter Golding) and the editorial
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campaigner of the yearaward is new national
award this year and it was well deserved by
our very ownSteve Westby for his work not only
with LocAle but forthe years of hard work in
organising not only our ownbeer festival but
several others including Newark's. His contributions
to the ND and the brewery section of the good
beer guide are just some other of his achievements
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New
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coors
museum to close |
After
31 years at the Victoria Leisure Centre the Nottingham
Beer Festival has found a new home – and it
promises to be bigger and better than ever! Subject
to licensing approval, the 2008 Festival will be
held in the attractive grounds of Nottingham Castle
from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th October. To mark
this momentous change the festival will be re-styled
as “The Robin Hood Beer Festival”, but
rest assured that it will have all of the key elements
of the previous festivals including well over 400
quality real ales and ciders.
For further details visit the new Festival
web site |
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Coors
visitors centre and brewing museum, the former Bass
museum at Burton on Trent is under threat of closure
from it's giant American brewing owners who say they
cannot afford the 1million a year to keep it open.
For hundreds of years, the historic town of Burton
upon Trent has been recognised as the capital of British
brewing. The town's rich brewing history has been
kept alive in what is, for many, Britain's only national
brewing museum. The closure will mean a loss to one
of the towns major tourist attractions with the consequential
loss of jobs.
You can sign the online petition by clicking
here |
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ilkeston
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Half
Pint hype |
Ikeston
beer festival would like your help. If you fancy
helping out at this event please use staffing form
download
here and return to the address on the bottom
of the form. (Please do not email this site)
The event is being held on May9th-10th. |
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Some pubs seem to be
hyping the price of a half pint by as much as 20p
to 30p. The consumer should have the choice to drink
by the pint or half pint without getting stung by
having to pay extortionate prices for the privilege.
Some pubs do round the price of a half by a few pence
because they do not want to deal with odd coppers,
but to hype 22p on a half of Timothy Taylor Landlord
to £1.50 when the pint is £2.55 is just
not acceptable and very unfair to the consumer (I
will not name the pub at the moment) but as a survey
to see how bad this situation is please, if you know
a pub that is doing this please let me know.
Webmaster
Responces
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VICTORIA
LEISURE CENTRE CLOSURE |
Please note that
though we give our support to this campaign,
the site, the action and the information
it contains is totally independent of
CAMRA |
Earlier
this year Nottingham City Council
indicated the closure of the Victoria
Leisure Centre. It has now had a reprieve
until at least the end of this year.
The campaign to save the centre is
far from over as closure is still
threatened for 2009 unless the council
change their mind
If you want to
find out more or get involved in action
against the closure you can visit
the action web site as follows
www.savevictoriabaths.org.uk/
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trail 2008 |
What
is Mild
Mild
is one of Britain’s most traditional
beer styles
and it is enjoying a pleasing revival
in today’s
real ale market. Usually, but not
always, dark
brown in colour, it is less hopped
than bitters
and often has a chocolaty character
with nutty
and burnt flavours.
The darkness of dark milds, comes
from the
use of darker malts and/or roasted
barley which
are used to compensate for the loss
of hop
character.
However, not all milds are dark. Yorkshire
brewed Timothy Taylors Golden Best
is one of
the best examples of a light coloured
mild, as
is Robinson’s Hatters Mild.
With some notable
exceptions milds in the more recent
past have
tended to have an ABV in the 3% to
3.6% range,
although now a lot of the microbreweries
who
try their hand at mild are bringing
the alcohol
content back up somewhat! Mild wasn’t
always
weaker though. In the latter half
of the 19th
Century, milds were brewed to about
the same
strength as bitters as a response
to the demand
for a sweeter beer and in those days
most bitters
were around 6 to 7% ABV.
What is mild?
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Thornbridge
newsleters |
Thornbridge
brewery are producing their own seaonal
newsletter. You can download these here
in PDF format.
Winter
08
Spring
08
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mild
trail 2008 |
26th
April to 7th June
What You Have To Do
If you pick up the April/May edition
of the Nottingham Drinker (you will
find it in pubs around Nottingham)
and inside you will find the Mild
Trail supplement. This gives you instructions,
map, pubs taking part and transport
information (remember don't drink
and drive). You visit each pub and
for every half or pint of cask Mild
you get a sticker. You don't even
have to do all the pubs,
only 8 stickers from different pubs
will get you a Bronze certificate.
16 for a Silver, 31 for a Gold and
for those brave enough to get all
50 will get a Black Gold.
Entries sent in by 14th June 2008.
Please be patient with pubs and bar
staff, if Mild is not on when you
visit, there is probably a valid reason,
you may have to wait for a cask to
be changed for instance. But never
be duped into accepting a Keg alternative.
If the Mild is not on and you have
made a special journey to that particular
pub, choose a cask alternative (bitter
etc) and still ask for you sticker
as we are about promoting real ale
not keg rubbish.
All pubs will have stickers but sometimes
staff do not realise this, again be
patient and point out they should
be behind the bar somewhere
This is a CAMRA campaign and any problems
please email siteadmin
don't argue with bar staff.
If you cannot get
hold of a drinker you can download
the supplement here
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CARTOONIST
REQUIRED |
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someone who can turn their hand at producing
cartoons to be printed in the Nottingham
Drinker. This would be on a volunteer
basis and require a regular input. If
you think you are capable of producing
something like this example
then contact Spyke at nottingham.drinker@ntlworld.com |
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Nottingham
CAMRA teamed up with Nottinghamhamshire
Campaign for Better Transport to
promote the "Locale" scheme.
This is "Drink local ales in local
pubs". Inspired by the recent closure
of Hardy & Hansons brewery at Kimberley
and the fact that once locally brewed
ales are now being brewed at a distant
national brewery only to be transported
all the way back by road for local sales.
This transportation of beer back
to where it should have been brewed
in the first place is costly to the
environment and as it has turned out
the beers are no where near to the origional
drink.
This promted the idea to promote local
breweries and to get people drinking
local beers, by encouraging pubs to
always stock at least one local ale
(within 20 miles) and making it easy
for people to recognise a local ale
by displaying the LocAle crown. To find
out more and download literature etc
use following link.
To find out more
click here |
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Full
Pint Campaign |
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New
figures from CAMRA show that a whopping
26.6% of pints served in pubs contain
less than 95% beer.
CAMRA is taking its campaign for a full
pint straight to the top by launching
a national petition calling on the Prime
Minister to put an end to short beer
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Full
Pints Key Facts
26.6% of pints are more than 5% short
measure, short measure costs consumers
£481 million a year, or over £1.3
million a day
Pubs serve customers 208 million more
pints than they buy in
CAMRA needs your help to ensure you
receive a full pint of beer every time.
Please sign CAMRA's National
Full Pints Petition at www.takeittothetop.co.uk
calling for an end to short beer
measures.
Please email me - topup@nottinghamcamra.org
- on you tales about asking for top
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