local beer festivals and events - see page 20 - Nottingham CAMRA

Nottingham Mild Trail Results68 pubs certainly whittled down the number ofpeople visiting all of the hostelries on the Mild Trail,just eleven managed to do them all. Encouraginglythe number of new entrants and those doing 8 or 16pubs were well up.We asked for your votes on the Best Pint whichresulted in a triple tie, the Best Display was won by the Falcon for avery simple “in your face” poster at the bar, for those entrants who“saw no displays” we have photos of the winners plus a few others.We were particularly encouraged by the amount of material displayedin the Hardys & Hansons pubs on both the Cursed Galleon and MildTrails.Whilst most pubs scored at least one vote the Plough at Radford andthe Rose of England were clear winners of the Friendliest Pub, onlyone vote separating them. The Newshouse, Horse & Groom Basford,Station at Newstead and The Lamp also scored well.Best Display: 1 - The Falcon, Canning Circus. 2 - The Lion at Basford.3 - The Newshouse, Canal Street.Best pint: Joint First - The Plough, Radford; The Rose of England;The Three Crowns, Ruddington.Fourth - Old Moot Hall, followed by The Fox & Crown, LincolnshirePoacher and Victoria Beeston.Best Cursed Galleon: 1 - Lord Nelson, Sneinton. 2 - Crown, Beeston.3 - Nelson & Railway, Kimberley. 4 - Nurseryman, Plainsman, RoyalOak and White Hart, Lenton.Winners of the goodies were: Everyone who entered is entitled to afree pint at this year’ s Nottingham Beer and Cider Festival. 90 winnersof special edition T-shirt kindly donated by Hardys & Hansons.The FalconBeekeeperThe Lion Mel from the LionThe displays from the TrailNewshouseThe Bell Innwww.thebell-inn.comTen Traditional Cask Alesalways availableThe Belfry RestaurantMon - Fri 12 - 3pm and 6 - 9.30pmSat 11 - 9.30pm Sun 12 - 6pmLive BandsWednesday - Commercial RockThursday - CoversLive JazzSunday Lunch, Monday and Tuesday Nights18 Angel RowMarket Square0115 9475241 bellinn@hardysandhansons.plc.uk25 th - 29 th August - ‘Test Match’Beer Festival - 12 strong beersCAMRA Pub of Excellence 2005Colin Fletcher becomes Brewer for a Day at Castle Rock and takeshome 36 pints of his very own Beer. Dave Buxton wins a Meal forFour at the Bridge at Gamston.Eight Pints of Beer from Tynemill go to Jeremy Dawson and Mr P.Shelton.Jeff Cresswell can look forward to a Gallon of Beer from The ThreeCrowns, Ruddington. If any of you guys need any help, just let usknow!Finally a big ‘Thank You’ to Hardys & Hansons, Castle Rock andTynemill, The Bridge at Gamston, Three Crowns Ruddington and toall the licencees and bar staff who once again have made The Trailsuch a success.Keans HeadGoing for GoldOlympic Flame is the newest beer to be brewed byRadford based Nottingham Brewery. This 4.2%golden ale is distinctly hopped. It’s been brewedto celebrate Britain winning the bid for hosting the2012 Olympics. The beer was launched in July atthe Gatehouse and is in all the local Pub PeopleCompany outlets including the Lion Inn, Basfordand the Bunkers Hill, Hockley.Philip Darby of the Nottingham Brewery told ND,“Britain winning the Olympic tender has obviouslybeen shadowed by recent events in London. Inlight of this we thought it would be a good idea toproduce a beer celebrating the winning bid in orderto remindpeople of thesuccess of thesubmission tothe Olympiccommission”.page 2www.nottinghamcamra.org