{"id":571,"date":"2019-11-20T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=571"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T16:50:36","slug":"news-extra-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/news-extra-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"News Extra – November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CURRENT AFFAIRS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

C<\/strong>AMRA is,\nof course, a non-party political organisation. We do not align ourselves with\nany particular party. We draw our views to the attention of all politicians and\nhope that some take them on board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently, CAMRA will be asking its members to\ncontact their parliamentary candidates to ask them if they will support our\nPledge for Pubs, which is, if elected, to <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.Celebrate and promote great beer; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.Support action to help pubs thrive; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.Represent the interests of pub goers, beer and\ncider drinkers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a CAMRA memorandum <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IT\u2019S THE SEASON FOR STINGO! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

F<\/strong>or the\nfirst time since they withdrew Museum Ale some 25 years ago, Samuel Smith\u2019s\nhave introduced a new cask beer, available until Christmas. It is a draught\nversion of their Yorkshire Stingo barley wine at 8 to 9% ABV, served from oak\ncasks. Their website describes the bottled version (which is bottle\nconditioned) as having \u2018raisin, treacle toffee, Christmas pudding and slight\noaky flavours\u2019. It is reported to be available at the Olde Cheshire Cheese, the\nFitzroy Tavern, the Chandos, the Princess Louise, the White Horse (Soho) and\nthe Cittie of York. It costs \u00a37.40 per pint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readers may be interested to know that Sam Smith\u2019s\nare selling a t-shirt that has a logo saying \u2018mobile, tablet and laptop free\nzone\u2019 with the legend \u2018Let\u2019s just talk!\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was incidentally a pub called the Yorkshire\nStingo Tap in Homer Street,\nMarylebone which was built around 1680 but disappeared in 1964 under the Edgware Road\nflyover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHEPS ARRIVE IN SOHO\nIN STYLE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S<\/strong>hepherd Neame have completed the restoration of the Compton Cross (previously Molly Moggs, on the corner of Old Compton Street and Charing Cross Road) which they acquired in April. They have also restored the pub\u2019s original name, the Coach & Horses. The pub is Grade II-listed and dates from 1731. The exterior has been painted a smart dark green and a new sign has been specially commissioned. This means that there are now three pubs called the Coach & Horses in Soho \u2013 a mini-crawl possibly? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SIGNATURE BREW EXPAND AND REBRAND <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A<\/strong>fter a\nsuccessful crowdfunding campaign, Signature Brew have opened their new brewery\nin Walthamstow which will enable them to quadruple their annual output to\n20,000 hectolitres (4 million pints). The company, which was founded by\nmusicians and music fans and makes a point of supplying music venues and\nfestivals, hopes to move towards national distribution. The brewery will have a\ntap room, the Brewer\u2019s Bar, which will be open to the public on Friday evenings\nfrom 5pm to 11pm, Saturdays midday to 11pm and Sundays midday to 6pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the brewery have rebranded their\nproducts. The range of art styles aims to mirror the brewery\u2019s love of music of\nall genres, the creativity of their brewers and the diversity of the musicians\nthey work with. Co-founder Sam McGregor said, \u201cWith the increased capacity\nand branding that reflects the creativity and quality of our beers, we\u2019re\nlooking forward to more drinkers being able to enjoy our beers at venues, bars,\npubs and festivals throughout the UK,\nEurope and beyond<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FULLER\u2019S FINANCES <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I<\/strong>n the 32\nweeks ended 9 November, Fuller\u2019s sales increased by 5.2%. According to the Morning\nAdvertiser <\/em>however, they are experiencing higher than anticipated\ntransition costs from the sale of their brewing operation to Asahi. They are\nhowever expecting their profit for the full year ending 28 March 2020 to be\n\u2018broadly in line with the prior year on a comparable basis\u2019 at \u00a331 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 19 November, Fuller\u2019s held what they called \u2018The\nGet Together\u2019 to celebrate the 174th anniversary of the signing of the\nagreement for the partnership of Messrs Fuller, Smith and Turner. On the day,\ncustomers who had registered on-line were able to buy three drinks at \u00a31.74\neach in their managed pubs. A number of pubs also held special events such as\nlive music and games nights. Apologies for not being able to let readers know\nof this in good time but the press release was only received on 14 November. As\nusual these days, it was done through \u2018social media\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BATTERSEA BREWERY NEWS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

B<\/strong>rewery\nLiaison Officer Peter Sutcliffe reports that some interesting real ales are\ncoming up for the festive season at this new-ish project near the Power Station\ndevelopment. These include a Mosaic Pale Ale (4% ABV), an ESB also around 4%\nABV hopped with Bramling Cross and a Chocolate, Coffee and Milk Stout at around\n5% ABV. If you hurry there now, you might hit the last cask of the superb Red\nRye Ale (5% ABV) brewed with Columbus, Simcoe and Chinook hops. There will\nalways be one and often two of these casks available at any time, together with\nan extensive selection of craft keg beers. Go to hello@batterseabrew.co.uk <\/em>for\ndetails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VE DAY EXTENSION APPROVED <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/strong>he Home Office has announced that to celebrate the\n75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, pubs which are only licensed to 11pm\nwill be permitted to stay open until 1am on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 May. The\nMay Day bank holiday is being moved from Monday 4 to Friday 8 to make a long\nweekend of it. I suspect that beer will be in more plentiful supply than it was\nin 1945 although there will be considerably fewer pubs in which to drink it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

RUGBY<\/strong> FALLOUT <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/strong>his seems a touch ungrateful. Having done well out of the\nrecent World Cup, Young\u2019s chief executive, Patrick Dardis, has complained that\nthere will not be the usual international games this autumn. He was quoted in\nthe Evening Standard<\/em>, \u201cThe internationals normally bring four solid\nweekends of fully packed pubs in our south west London heartland.\u201d <\/em>The day of the final\nwas a November record for Young\u2019s and sales at the Ship in Wandsworth were\ndouble the usual. His opposite number at Fuller\u2019s, Simon Emeny, reported that\nhis company sold a record number of breakfasts, more than twice the previous high point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMEMBERING THE BLACK CAP <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I<\/strong>n a comment article in the Evening Standard <\/em>(4\nNovember), the broadcaster Petroc Trelawny reminded us that the pub\u2019s\nsupporters still hold a vigil outside it every Saturday morning. Sadly it\nremains boarded up and the future of this legendary LGBTQ+ venue in Camden Town\nremains at stalemate. As Mr Trelawny says, \u201cThe dedicated activists who\nstill fight for the Black Cap deserve to have their energy and commitment\nrewarded.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LATE NIGHT LEVY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

R<\/strong>edbridge Council have postponed their decision to introduce\na Late Night Levy. There are therefore still only eleven local authorities in\nthe country which have done so. Realising that the problem was its\ninflexibility, the Government accepted that changes needed to be made so that\ncouncils could target certain specific locations or streets rather than their\nwhole area and extend its coverage from just alcohol-licenced premises to\ninclude late-night refreshment outlets. Unfortunately, no doubt distracted by\nother issues, the Government has not carried out the necessary consultation\nprocess to decide the level of charges that will apply to the food shops.\nProgress is therefore in limbo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHANGES AT CHARLES WELLS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A<\/strong>s the completion of their brand new \u00a313 million 30,000\nhectolitre brewery on the outskirts of Bedford\napproaches, chief executive Justin Phillimore is standing down after thirteen\nyears with the company. He had previously been finance director and brewing and\nbrands director. He will be replaced by Peter Wells, who will take the role of\ngroup managing director. Mr Wells is the latest of five generations of the\nWells family to head the business. Mr Wells confirmed to the Morning\nAdvertiser <\/em>that the new brewery would open in the summer and that the\ncompany was still looking to increase its operations in both the UK and France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compiled by Tony Hedger<\/em><\/strong> \u000e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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