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News round-up (general)<br />
DON’T GO TO ICELAND<br />
hat is unless you have very odd tastes. To celebrate the<br />
Tpagan festival of Thorrablot in February, the Stedji The<br />
i Brewery produced a beer which was flavoured with minced<br />
whale testicles (no, I didn’t either) that had been smoked in<br />
sheep dung. Brewers of London, please don’t take this as a<br />
challenge. Although this started quite early in<br />
t<br />
PARLIAMENTARY COVER UP<br />
ur politicians are a sensitive lot. The Strangers’ bar in<br />
Othe Houses of Parliament serves guest beers normally<br />
nominated T by MPs local to the brewery. Recently it<br />
was the turn of Cerne Abbas Brewery Ale. Alas, the<br />
pumpclip features the Cerne Abbas chalk giant which is,<br />
to The quote main Parliamentary changes have been Beer to Group simplify chairman, the hie<br />
Andrew Griffiths MP, ‘particularly well-endowed’. To save<br />
the blushes of the honourable The members addition (to of coin a new a phrase), media<br />
w<br />
The new key campaigns were unveiled along<br />
We now have some The 80 cam-<br />
breweries in Greater London.<br />
p<br />
a photocopy of a fig leaf was Blu-tacked in the strategic<br />
place.<br />
Christine Cryne gave the final prese<br />
CORRECTIONS<br />
pologies but two errors slipped through our normally<br />
Astringent proof-reading Ideas operation for activating last edition. the estimate<br />
On page<br />
28 the first sentence should have read: ‘Regular readers of<br />
London Drinker magazine will be well aware that the<br />
overriding concern amongst CAMRA Branches…’ while on<br />
page 48 in the last line, HD2 should be HS2. Come on, be<br />
fair; it is the next key along.<br />
Tony Hedger<br />
You can keep up to date with these and other stories via<br />
the CAMRA London Region Facebook page at<br />
www.facebook.com/GreaterLondonCAMRA (login not<br />
required) and on the news page of the regional website The<br />
http://london.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=1253<br />
a<br />
London, Capital of Brewing<br />
They are listed on the London CAMRA website: www.london.camra.org.uk<br />
Look for London beers in London pubs. We hope you will enjoy them,<br />
and please tell everyone about them.<br />
Not wishing to pre-empt other regional con-<br />
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