New brewery and visitor centre for Belvoir - Nottingham CAMRA

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Cask Marque News
The following new outlets have recently
received Cask Marque accreditation:
The Golden Fleece, 105 Mansfield Road;
The Belle Vue, 680 Woodborough Road,
Mapperley; The Gladstone Hotel, 45 Loscoe
Road, Carrington; The Runner, 16 Alfreton
Road, Canning Circus; The Hemlock Stone,
Bramcote Lane, Wollaton.
Horse and Groom
10th anniversary
beer at 1998 price
The Horse & Groom on Radford Road,
Basford, is 10 yrs old on 3rd February, and in
order to celebrate they are going to be
offering Star Bitter (similar to Shipstone’s
Bitter) for the same price that they sold it on
their opening night. They are hoping that
many of you will turn out to enjoy not only
this special offer, but also the many other
things that will be happening on this historic
night – full details of which are available at
www.bartschinns.com.
This promises to be a great night out if it is
anything like their recent launch of their new
hand pump which is to be totally dedicated to
LocAle. Not only was Star from Belvoir
brewery on sale on the new pump, but in the
back room 8 other LocAle beers were
availble, the most popular seller being Ouija
Mild from Full Mash. I tried it myself, but my
glass kept sliding around the table!
During the night there was a debut
performance from the recently formed band
Park and Ride, who proved very popular and
kept everyone entertained. There was also a
very special visit from two City Hospital Staff
form the Neonatal ward who were presented
with a cheque for £1000. The management
would like to say a special thank you to
everyone who helped raise this money during
the summer festival.
Lancashire comes
to Nottingham
The Horse and Groom is holding a
Thwaites Evening on Thursday 6th March.
There will be at least 4 of their beers,
traditional Lancashire food, and a chance to
meet some of the people from the brewery.
Thornbridge
spread the word
around the globe
Thornbridge were delighted when their
bottled version of Jaipur IPA was selected
by the Beer Writers Guild committee to be
the beer to accompany the main course
(“Spiced Loin of Castlebridge Beef”) at the
writers of the year awards dinner.
Thornbridge have also been spreading the
word for British beers across the USA after
a consignment of Jaipur and Saint
Petersburg were despatched in early
December. Feedback on the beers has been
received from North Carolina, Chicago,
Pennsylvania and the following from a
verbose fan in Arizona:
Marks:15/20 - Jaipur poured from cask at
Papago...a clear golden orange with a fluffy
white head that lasts all the way down to
the bottom of the glass leaving behind a
trail of pillowy lacing. Aroma is a mild mix
of pale malt, lemon, skunky pine hops and
some wood. Medium body with a creamy
cask texture. Flavour is similar to the
aroma...muted with some hop spice and
earthiness and finishing with some floral
notes.
New Thornbridge beers being brewed in
the next month are Halcyon (7.7% - draws
inspiration from the days when big hoppy
pale ales were double crossing the
equator), Ember (3.4% - a smoky pale ale)
and a new pale ale.
Norwegians at
Magpie
A recent visit to the Magpie Brewery had
a Monty Python feel to it. Those of a certain
age will remember a sketch involving a
dead parrot ‘with a beautiful plumage’ - a
‘Norwegian Blue’ and the photo shows Lars
Flaten and ten very cold Norwegian friends
enjoying a Magpie ale! Lars and friends
agreed that the Magpie beers were
excellent and enjoyed a range of LocAle
beers during their recent weekend visit to
Nottingham.
Editor’s note: I’m just glad one wasn’t
called Lars Torders!
Steve’s smashing
time for Pudsey
As part of the 2007 charity bash that is
Children in Need, thirty six Hoveringham
villagers set Steve Taylor, head chef at the
village’s Reindeer Inn, the challenge to
‘ready steady cook’ each of them a two
course meal within 20 minutes. The diners
then donated what they reckoned was the
meal’s value to BBC Children in Need. And
a total of £608 has duly been passed on to
the charity.
Steve says each brought £5 ingredients with
them on the evening and the oddities
included coconut, eggs and chocolate.
“I have to admit the dessert ingredients
proved the hardest to use within 20 minutes
and I ended up making a table decoration
with some,” he says. “The chocolate could
have been a problem but luckily I had a
marinade recipe at hand for their venison
and chicken.
Chocolate and chicken…!!!!”
10 www.nottinghamcamra.org February/ March 08