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Pub & Brewery News<br />
Pub News<br />
ARBORFIELD<br />
As we went to print the BRAMSHILL HUNT was<br />
closed due to lease renegotiations. We hope to see<br />
this popular pub reopen again soon.<br />
Further up the road, the SWAN is on the market<br />
as a free house. We understand that the current<br />
tenants Mike and Lynne plan to leave in September.<br />
CAVERSHAM<br />
The BARON CADOGAN on Prospect Street now<br />
hosts a weekly pub quiz, starting every Monday<br />
at 8pm. The house beer in this Wetherspoons<br />
is from the local Loddon Brewery (Ferryman’s<br />
Gold rebadged at Cadogan’s Gold) and other<br />
microbreweries are also represented, along with<br />
real cider and often perry.<br />
There’s a planning application to convert the<br />
upper floor of THE ISLAND into flats. This is<br />
the bar on Piper’s Island in the Thames, accessible<br />
only by river or by a footbridge off Caversham<br />
Bridge. Naturally, given that it’s in the middle of a<br />
river, the site is part of the functional floodplain so<br />
residential use may be a problem. That said, given<br />
the long history of noise and licensing issues with<br />
the bar, many local residents will be disappointed<br />
that it’s only the upper floor proposed for<br />
conversion.<br />
IMAGE © FLOWING SPRING<br />
Our friends at South Oxon CAMRA were so<br />
impressed that they awarded the Flowing Spring<br />
their Pub of the Season award for this summer.<br />
Seen here at the presentation are David Cooper,<br />
the Chairman of South Oxfordshire CAMRA,<br />
with the Flowing Spring’s new owners Hazel<br />
Lucas and Nick Willson.<br />
GRAZELEY GREEN<br />
The OLD BELL has been offering a regular guest<br />
beer from Loddon brewery. As a Chef and Brewer<br />
pub, it also offers a 10% discount on cask ales for<br />
CAMRA members – just show your membership<br />
card at the bar.<br />
PLAYHATCH<br />
The FLOWING SPRING has new owners. Nick<br />
and Hazel, who have been the tenants for the last<br />
six years, have bought the pub from Fullers and<br />
it’s now a free house for the first time in its 220<br />
year history. It’s been a long process but the sale<br />
finally completed at the end of June.<br />
Up to six real ales, two real ciders and a wide<br />
choice of gluten-free, vegan and alcohol-free<br />
wines, beers and ciders are on offer. The home<br />
cooked food also includes a wide range of glutenfree,<br />
vegetarian and vegan options. We hope to<br />
feature more about this pub in the next issue.<br />
READING<br />
The ELDON ARMS in Eldon Terrace closed in<br />
April after brewery Wadworth sold the building,<br />
and licensee Russell MacKenzie moved on to a pub<br />
in Pewsey, Wiltshire. Shortly after closure a sign<br />
appeared in the window advertising for new bar<br />
staff and the pub subsequently reopened in June<br />
– and you may recognise a couple of members of<br />
Mine’s A <strong>Pint</strong><br />
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