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THE CHILTERN TAPLER WINTER 2015/16

MIDCHILTERNS BRANCH CAMRA

THE CHILTERN TAPLER

NEWSLETTER OF MID CHILTERNS CAMRA WINTER 2015/16 www.midchilternscamra.org.uk

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CONTENTS

p.3 Beer Scores

p.4 Branch visit to Leighton Buzzard and

Phipps Breweries

p.6 Hook Norton and Malt the Brewery

p.7 LocAle pubs list

p.8 Lost Pubs of Buckinghamshire – pt. 2

p.11 Pub News and Brews

p.12 Around the Branch

p.18 Brewery News

p.21 Australia/New Zealand Beer Festivals

p.22 Festivals Calendar

p.22 ‘Puboku’ puzzle

p.23 Branch Contacts and Diary Dates

HELP!! WE NEED YOUR BEER SCORES –

WHY?

Because now most Branches use beer scores (as

per CAMRA’s recommendations) in order to decide

their shortlist for the Good Beer Guide pub

selection. We are nearing that point again and

starting to look at the scores in December for the

2017 GBG, for which nominations have to be

submitted by the end of February 2016. Shortlisted

pubs also have to be surveyed by the committee. If

you want your favourite pub to stand a chance of

meeting the criteria, please submit beer scores for

the quality of their beer. Mid Chilterns Branch has

800 members but only about 20-25 of those submit

scores.

The National Beer Scoring System (NBSS) is an

easy-to-use system that has been designed to

assist CAMRA branches in selecting pubs for the

Good Beer Guide and also monitor beer quality by

encouraging CAMRA members from any part of

the world to report beer quality on any pub in the

UK. If you are a CAMRA member, we want you to

tell us about the quality of beer in the pubs you

visit.

You can score your beer online at home or, if

you have a smartphone, in the pub!

To submit your scores just visit

http://whatpub.com. Log into the site using your

CAMRA membership number and password

(which in most cases is your postcode without a

space). Once you have found a pub on the site,

you can start scoring. You can find out more at

http://whatpub.com/beerscoring.

You need to record the location and name of the

pub (WhatPub mobile can work this out!), the date

you visited the pub, the name of the beer and

brewery, and a score out of 5.

The scores mean the following:

0. No cask ale available

1. Poor. Beer that is anything from barely

drinkable to drinkable with considerable

resentment.

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2. Average. Competently kept, drinkable pint

but doesn’t inspire in any way, not worth

moving to another pub, but you drink the

beer without really noticing.

3. Good. Good beer in good form. You may

cancel plans to move to the next pub. You

want to stay for another pint and may seek

out the beer again.

4. Very Good. Excellent beer in excellent

condition.

5. Perfect. Probably the best you are ever

likely to find. A seasoned drinker will

award this score very rarely. You can also

enter half scores, e.g. 3.5 for good to very

good beer.

Once beer scores have been submitted

online, CAMRA branches can download them and

use them to help in the CAMRA Good Beer

Guide selection process. For more information, go

to http://camra.org.uk/nbss.

It is REALLY important that we get more branch

members scoring as the committee can’t get to

every single pub in the branch (nearly 200) more

than once a year, if that, so we rely on local

members scoring their local pubs. Landlords often

ask us why they aren’t in the Guide, as do

members occasionally, but we need at least five

different people to put in a score per pub each

year and at least 10 different visits to the pub in

order for it to have an average score and a

chance of being on the shortlist. PLEASE help us

and the local pubs by submitting scores on a

regular basis. We also ask landlords to

encourage their regular CAMRA members to put

their scores in. Thanks very much.

BRANCH VISIT TO LEIGHTON BUZZARD AND PHIPPS BREWERIES

A fine September day saw a 22 strong party of

Mid Chilterns members pay a visit to two

breweries in two counties. A well worked out pick

up strategy had been devised by Gill, Mid

Chilterns Social Secretary, and by the time the

last group had boarded the bus in Tring, we were

dead on schedule.

We arrived at the Harmill Industrial estate,

Leighton Buzzard, to a warm welcome from Jon

d’Este-Hoare, brewer of Leighton Buzzard

Brewing Company. Tables and chairs had been

set out in the shade of the brewery and three pins

of beer had been placed at the ready. We soon

got stuck into ‘Narrow Gauge’, a light golden ale

of 3.9% ABV, ‘Borrowers Bitter’ (3.6%), plus a

delicious brown best bitter weighing in at 4.6%

under the name of ‘Restoration Ale’, aptly named

after our early start! We walked around the

brewery, our generous hosts providing the

background and origin of the names of their

beers: one of their most popular is ‘Rebel Yell’, a

smooth black IPA at 5%, so named by Jon who

has a passion for the history of the American Civil

War; it was the battle cry of the Confederate

soldiers who yelled it to intimidate the enemy.

Eventually, just after noon while Gill tried to usher

us onto the bus, we had one more for the road,

thanked our hosts and climbed aboard for the trek

to Northampton.

After some detouring around a road closure near

Woburn Sands we eventually arrived at Phipps

Northampton Brewery Company’s Albion

brewery in Kingswell Street about 30 minutes

late. The Phipps brewery was originally founded

in 1801 in Towcester; the present 15 barrel

brewing plant was installed in 2014 in the old

Phipps premises. We were warmly greeted by

Sarah who issued us with a token each, which we

quickly converted into a pint of beer from one of

the seven hand pumped beers at the bar and

moved, beer in hand, to the brewery situated

behind, to be entertained by Sarah’s introduction

to the working of the plant. More liquid

refreshment was waiting for us on a table in front

of three small vessels comprising a mini brewing

plant installed to try out new recipes. The main

plant of fermentation vessels, mash tun and boiler

surrounded a spacious central area, the boiler

itself resplendent in a one micron-thick layer of

electro-plated copper, shining proudly in a forest

of stainless steel. The first mashing vessel was

Gillie

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fed via a flexible Archimedian screw to raise and

transfer malt from the mill to the mash tun.

Sarah’s husband Mel Tudno-Jones, Brewery

Manager, took over and guided us down to the

cellars where the King’s Well is situated. It had

recently been dug out (it was last used in 1966 to

make beer), the water tested, and found to be

beautifully pure. Plans are in mind to use its water

for brewing beer once again. Mel spoke at length

about the history of Phipps from 1801 to the

relaunch in 2008 of Phipps IPA and Red Star a

year later, the resurrection of Ratliffe’s Celebrated

Stout, the purchase in 2013 of the Hoggley’s

Brewery business and the move back to the

restored Albion brewery in 2014. A large tunnel in

the basement which had been sealed until the

1980’s was found to contain up to 10,000 glass

lemonade bottles amongst some old wooden jam

barrels! The latest plan is to make use of its cool

atmosphere to blend and store Northampton

whisky.

We ascended a stone spiral stairway to the top

floor to be met with a surreal scene of cultivated

tomato plants growing in trays, stacked furniture

and various odds and ends. The side windows

allowed spectacular views over the city including

the storage towers belonging to the nearby

Carlsberg Brewery. The plan is to convert the

whole floor area into a restaurant.

By this time we had worked up a thirst so we

descended to the brewery bar to get stuck into

the delights of ‘Hung Drawn ‘n Quartered’ and

‘Windrush Ale’ from North Cotswold brewery, and

of course Phipp’s Red Star, IPA and Diamond

Ale. We drank our fill (nearly), said goodbye to

our generous hosts Sarah and Mel, and

proceeded down the road to the Malt Shovel, a

GBG-listed tavern in Bridge Street, where we

topped off the day with a choice of twelve ales,

including five changing guest beers along with a

selection of six craft and Belgian draught and

bottled beers. As we settled in to a good session

in the Malt Shovel, all too soon it was time to

stagger out to the waiting bus for our return

journey to Herts and Bucks.

We had spent a most enjoyable day. My thanks to

Gill for organising the whole outing and to Jamie,

our ever-patient driver who put up with us all!

Wheels



'HOOK NORTON BREWERY' AND 'MALT THE BREWERY' TRIP, 2ND

MARCH 2015

The morning of Saturday 2nd May arrives and I'm eager to catch the minibus to take us on our journey into the wonderful Cotswolds. Our destination: the pretty village of Hook Norton where one of the

finest old Victorian tower breweries exists, Hook Norton Brewery (www.hooky.co.uk).

This amazing brewery, hidden from view if you are just passing through the village, is very comparable to a working museum. Apart from the fine beer brewed here, one of the delights on visiting the brewery is that on the first Saturday of the month, the magnificent shire horses are on display along with the Victorian steam engine fired up (oil

fired now). The beer is still delivered to their local pubs by the shires and the brewery still operates by use of the steam engine (not many buttons to press here, mostly levers)! The first part of the visit took us to meet the shires, Nelson, Major and Albert. We enjoyed an informative, amusing and enthusiastic demonstration of how the horses (two are used at any one time to pull the dray) are harnessed and prepared for work by Roger, the dray man.

After this preparation the dray was pulled through the brewery yard and into the village, affording many photo opportunities for the brewery visitors. We then proceeded on the guided tour, led by Malcolm, who said he loved his job (who wouldn't, working in this lovely brewery). Malcolm explained to us that only British hops and malt are used, showed us the varieties and gave us samples to handle and taste. Needless to say, the hop room was full of heady aroma.

It is quite amazing that in the 21st century a brewery with Hook Norton’s brewing capacity can still operate successfully and competitively using very traditional means and methods in the brewing process. Long may this continue!

And so to the hospitality area, which is comprised of a shop, bar and museum. Malcolm, with the help of the very friendly bar staff, served us with samples of the ales available. My

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personal favourites were the Mild (2.8%) and Lion (4.0%). The Double Stout (4.8%) was not available on draught but many bottles of this superb bottle-conditioned ale were purchased to enjoy at home. Fresh and ample portions of food prepared on the premises, including ploughman’s, sandwiches, pork pies, are available at reasonable prices. Thanks to Charles and Julie, several of us tucked into a rather large pork pie with home-made pickle. After several beers we loaded ourselves and purchases into the minibus and made our way back to Bucks and Malt the Brewery at Prestwood www.maltthebrewery.co.uk. This microbrewery was set up in 2012 in an old dairy on a farm and has achieved various SIBA and CAMRA awards. Nick, Jenny and the staff at Malt always give a warm welcome to their customers, and during our visit we were offered samples of their beers, a very generous and much appreciated gesture.

There is a tasting and seating area which overlooks the brewery. Some of the beers on offer that I tried were Malt Golden Ale (3.9%), Prestwood Best (4.4%) and IPA (5.0%). Other beers brewed are Missenden Pale Ale (3.6%) and Dark Ale (3.9%). Seasonal ales include Summer Daze (4.0%), Harvest Ale (4.1%), Winter Ale (4.4%) and Cloudy, a wheat beer (3.9%). If anyone has not had the pleasure of visiting Malt yet, then try to get there, it's well worth a visit. Malt finished a fine

day out and many thanks to both breweries for their hospitality and making it an enjoyable day at two contrasting breweries, both old and new. Last but not least, a special thanks to Jamie our mini bus driver and Gill for organising it all.

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LOST PUBS OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE – PART 2

Five Bells, Tyler’s Hill, Chesham – a one-

time popular pub that suffered from the

major disadvantage of being located at the

end of a country lane that went to the

hamlet of Tyler’s Hill and nowhere else. I

don’t recall it as anything other than a free

house, although I think that it may at one

time have been owned by Allied Breweries.

Popular with bikers in the mid-seventies, it

gained a reputation for selling nothing but

the strongest real beers. Given its location

this was perhaps ill-advised.

In the 1980s it was bought by the golfer

and ex-U.S. Masters Champion, Sandy

Lyle who, I believe, installed his brother-in-

law as manager. At this point it was

seemingly still going reasonably well but

clearly suffering a drop in trade due to the

drink-driving laws. The end came round

about 2002 when it was sold to a local

property developer who immediately put in

a planning application to change the

building into a substantial house. The local

council grumbled for a bit but inevitably

caved in and another nice little country pub

became history.

Boot & Slipper, Buckland Common

closed right at the beginning of the branch’s

existence and all I can remember is seeing

the fairy lights which habitually festooned

the building from the garden of the White

Lion, St. Leonard’s.

The Crown, Chalfont St. Giles – best

known as Mr. Mainwaring’s bank, a role

which it assumed for the filming of Dad’s

Army, this was another unprepossessing

little Allied pub which, oddly, still had a jug

and bottle right up until its final demise as a

pub. A budget makeover in the late

sixties/early seventies was seemingly

expected to last for thirty years as I don’t

recall much else was being done to it.

Since it stuttered to a halt as a pub, it has

had a rather fitful existence as a wine

bar/restaurant.

The Pheasant, Chalfont St. Giles – now a

vet’s surgery, this used to be a popular halt

on the road between London and

Aylesbury. My first recollections are of a

rather narrow bar with a collection of

stuffed creatures in glass cases and of

course the ubiquitous (and thoroughly

dismal) Ind Coope Superdraught Bitter. I

seem to recall that at one point, its name

was changed to something wholly

inappropriate, which occasioned howls of

protest from the villagers and was then

fairly swiftly changed back. In later life the

Pheasant improved substantially and from

selling the revered Burton Ale it went on to

stock any number of excellent real ales, but

for whatever reason its days were

numbered. Quite why the pub company

wanted to disinvest is unclear as it

occupied a prime location and had a

substantial car park. Once having ceased

to be a pub, it traded briefly and one must

assume unsuccessfully as a fish restaurant

before opening its doors to all creatures

great and small in the 2000s.

Rosebery Arms, Cheddington – now split

into two houses. Named after the Victorian

prime minister who occupied the nearby

Mentmore Towers, this was one of Charles

Wells’s rare incursions into the area. My

memories are of a comfortable and far from

run-down establishment decorated with the

kind of wallpaper once beloved of Indian

restaurants but now more often seen in

1970s sitcoms. I believe that it may also

have been a hotel.

The Red Lion, Chestnut Lane,

Amersham was totally intact on 12th July

2012 but on Friday 13th it was certainly not

their luckiest day because the demolition

team moved in and, despite a quick

response from the police following a 'phone



call', the demolition was allowed to

continue. The last landlord moved out

within hours the week before and the pub

group who owned the pub were not very

forthcoming concerning the future,

especially for a pile of rubble. Several

houses have been built on its site.

The Cock, Chesham – in a prime position

opposite the war memorial, The Cock

graced many an old photograph of

Chesham, normally with a ‘Salter’s Ales of

Rickmansworth’ sign above the guttering,

although in the 1970s it was in the Allied

Breweries estate. It was a small pub whose

excellent location never seemed to

translate into attracting a large clientele.

Very much a working man’s pub, it

probably suffered more than most when

The Last Post opened not 50 yards away,

offering cut-price and, to be honest, higher

quality beer. Few will

mourn but with the

usual lack of

investment from

various owners over

the years, it never

really stood a chance.

The Elephant &

Castle, Waterside,

Chesham – with its

faded green exterior,

industrial location and

general air of neglect,

I never felt moved to cross its threshold. In the

seventies it was Chesham’s only Courage pub

but it doesn’t appear as if any attempt was ever

made to exploit this advantage, however

marginal. It closed in the early 2000s.

The Golden Ball, Church Street, Chesham –

this was a pretty little pub which got left on the

busier or town side of St. Mary’s Way when the

road was built in the late sixties. The building,

which was probably 18th century and had at one

time been the town’s customs house still exists

today and has passed through several owners

since its demise as a pub in the early eighties.

This was only the second pub in the town (after

the Queen’s Head) to re-install real beer but its

tie to Allied and a lack of any kind of investment

robbed it of the ability to exploit this fact.

King’s Arms, King Street, Chesham was a

small but generally quite neat pub on the corner

of King Street and Amy Lane. From the

seventies to the nineties, it was an

unremarkable Allied pub which for most of this

period didn’t even sell real beer. However, in the

late 1990s the tie was relaxed and it started to

sell three or four beers from the independents

and for a time even gave the Queen’s Head a

run for its money. But it wasn’t to last. The

landlord(s) left and by the time they were

replaced, the customers had drifted away. The

new tenants were never able to make a go of it

and the pub sat empty before being sold as

residential accommodation

in about 2010.

White Horse, Amersham

Road, Chesham

(pictured) – rather typical

of Allied’s approach to its

pubs at the time, this

otherwise pleasant

Victorian building sported

the most horrendous late

1960s budget flat-roofed

extension which, to quote

Bob Dylan, fitted ‘just like a

mattress fits on a bottle of wine’ and would have

looked more in keeping as an outbuilding at

nearby Chesham Hospital. On the few

occasions I drank there, I found it nice enough, if

a little too bright to be homely and massively

underfunded. For the last dozen or so years of

its life, it traded under the name of ‘The Wild

Rover’ but now seems to be a kind of impromptu

second-hand car lot.

Del



PUB NEWS & BREWS

AMERSHAM. A visit to the old town in mid

- September found the following ales and

ciders: Crown Rebellion IPA, Swan

Fuller’s London Pride, Rebellion IPA and

Sharp’s Doom Bar, Eagle Fuller’s London

Pride, Haresfoot Conqueror’s and Sharp’s

Doom Bar, Elephant & Castle Marston’s

New World Pale Ale, St Austell Tribute

and Wychwood Hobgoblin Gold, King’s

Arms Brakspear Bitter, Rebellion IPA,

Titanic Steerage and Westons Old Rosie

and Rosie’s Pig Cider. AMERSHAM

COMMON. In late September, the

Pomeroy Inn offered Fuller’s London

Pride and Sharp’s Doom Bar. APSLEY.

The Paper Mill celebrated its fifth birthday

in August. ASHERIDGE. When visited in

July, Young’s Bitter, Fuller’s London Pride,

Courage Directors and Westons Rosie’s

Pig Cider were available at the Blue Ball.

ASHLEY GREEN. During a September

visit, the Golden Eagle was selling

Fuller’s London Pride, Greene King IPA

and Young’s Bitter. Down the road at the

Bellcote were three Marston’s beers,

Pedigree, Flyer and King of Swing plus

Wychwood Hobgoblin. BOTLEY. Local

beers have been seen in the Hen &

Chickens recently. Ales from Malt and

Paradigm have appeared alongside

Young’s Bitter, Sharp’s Doom Bar and

Wells Bombardier. BOVINGDON. In the

Bell, the regular beer is Sharp’s Doom Bar

with the two guest beers usually from

Tring Brewery, however Paradigm Win-

Win was noted recently. Wells Bombardier

had joined Young’s Bitter in the Halfway

House by late September. BOXMOOR.

The Steam Coach was selling Robinsons

Unicorn alongside Greene King IPA,

Abbot Ale and Ale’Oha, the latter sporting

a grass skirt-style pump clip! Down the

road in the Three Blackbirds, Tring Side

Pocket for a Toad and Cottage Golden

Arrow were available. CHARTRIDGE. The

Bell continues to support local breweries

with beers from Haresfoot, Tring, Vale and

Malt noted recently. CHEDDINGTON. The

Three Horseshoes pub offered Greene

King IPA plus Sharp’s Doom Bar and

Atlantic Pale Ale when visited in late July.

In the Old Swan, Timothy Taylor

Boltmaker, Haresfoot Wild Boy, Sharp’s

Doom Bar and Greene King IPA were on

the bar during a June visit.

CHIPPERFIELD. One time long-standing

Good Beer Guide entry Royal Oak is now

an Indian restaurant. Two beers were

available in Blackwells recently, Greene

King IPA and Sharp’s Doom Bar.

DAGNALL. It is usual to find beers from

XT, Haresfoot, Tring and Vale breweries in

the Red Lion. HYDE HEATH. In early July

the beers were Fuller’s London Pride and

Haresfoot All Rounder, with Cockeyed

Devon Jasper and Westons Old Rosie the

ciders in the Plough. IVINGHOE. Beers

from Cornwall, Devon and Somerset could

be found one June evening in the Rose &

Crown when Butcombe Bitter, St Austell

Trelawny, Skinner’s Betty Stoggs and

Otter Summer Light could be found. LEY

HILL. A September visit found Fuller’s

London Pride, Wychwood Hobgoblin Gold,

Saltaire Amarillo Gold and Cornish

Orchards Farmhouse cider in the Crown.

Next door at the Swan, Hop Back Citra, St

Austell Tribute, Tring Moongazing, Great

Heck Dave and Westons Family Reserve

cider could be found. LITTLE

CHALFONT. A good selection of beers

could found in the Sugar Loaf Inn during

a late September visit. They were:

Timothy Taylor Boltmaker, Wells Try Time,

Otter Over the Bar and Caledonian

Autumn Red. Down the road, the White

Lion offered XT8, Red Squirrel Red Tail

Citra and Malt Missenden Pale.



AROUND THE BRANCH

SUMMER STARS – PENN STREET AND LEY

HILL

The two bigger Beer Fests in our Branch area

have both been well established for nearly 10

years and cover mainly local ales. The Penn

Street BF is split between The Squirrel and Hit

or Miss pubs run by the Macken families with the

Squirrel concentrating on more well-known ales,

whilst Hit or Miss covers a wider brief. Both have

local bands playing outside. A particular star was

the Windsor & Eton Magna Carta, a strong beer

but one that hit the mark, and Skinner’s Heligan

Honey was also very good.

The second, Ley Hill, is also a Beer & Music

festival with a stage set between The Swan and

The Crown and they showcase two local

breweries, Red Squirrel (Crown) and Tring

(Swan) in the tents, with some interesting other

beers available inside both pubs. The music was

superb with the ever popular Robin Bibi Band

(pictured below) followed by a Santana tribute

band (Oye Santana) on the Sunday.

All four pubs served varied and superb food to

give the occasion a great feel; the sun also

helped!

KINGS ARMS, TRING

The new boss has now been in situ for well over a

year and has now made his own great

improvements to this already wonderful and

popular venue. Rob Muirhead and his team are

back in the Good Beer Guide and he has

converted the old outhouses that they used on

the weekend of the beer festival into a large

dining area. In the back patio area there was

some great music on all weekend, including the

very folky and long-standing ‘Devines’ starring

multi-instrumentalist John Devine and an

extremely wonderful girl vocalist who entranced

the appreciative crowd on Saturday afternoon.

The star beers were Calico Jack Coconut Stout,

among other good dark beers, and the new Tring

Pale Four. There were 17 ciders and perries and

36 beers. The food consisted of very generous-

sized burgers etc. Keep an eye on this pub

because now Rob has really got his feet under

the table he has taken it to the next level.

WINTER ALES

Winter Ales are brewed for a higher alcohol level

with more malt than usual,

which also gives a slightly

sweeter taste. The extra

alcohol is to warm you up

against the winter chills. Nearly

all our LocAle brewers offer one

or more. Expect Chiltern

Three Hundreds Old Ale and

Foxtrot, Concrete Cow Old

Bloomer, Fuller’s Old Winter

Ale and Black Cab Stout, Malt

Winter Ale, Oxfordshire Ales Winters Inn,

Rebellion Roasted Nuts, Red Squirrel Winter’s

Tale, Tring Old Chestnut, Vale Black Beauty

Porter and XT 9.

If you want to try these beers then head for your

local pubs in November; most will have one.

Those I know about at the time of writing are: The

Bell (Chartridge), The Black Cat (Lye Green),

The Boat (Berkhamsted), The Brewery Shop

(Berkhamsted and Chesham), The Crabtree

(Leverstock Green), The Craft Beer Shop (Little

Chalfont), The Crown (Berkhamsted and Ley

Hill), The Crown & Sceptre (Bridens Camp), The

Crown Inn (Little Missenden), The Eagle

(Amersham), The Full House (Hemel

Hempstead), The Gamekeepers Lodge

Dave B.

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(Chesham), The Greyhound (Wigginton), The

Hen & Chickens (Botley), The Jolly Sportsman

(Chesham), The Kings Arms (Tring), The Misty

Moon (Chesham), The Paper Mill (Apsley), The

Pheasant (Chesham), The Plough (Hyde Heath),

The Queens Head (Chesham), The Red Lion

(Chenies and Marsworth), The Rising Sun

(Berkhamsted), The Robin Hood (Tring), The

Rose & Crown (Ivinghoe), The Saracens Head

(Amersham), The Sugar Loaf Inn (Little Chalfont)

The Valiant Trooper (Aldbury), The White Hart

(Whelpley Hill) and The White Lion (Little

Chalfont). You will find an excellent choice at the

Winter Ales & Ciders Festivals at The Queens

Head from 30th October to 2nd November and The

Rising Sun from 26th to 30th November.

METRO LOUNGE BAR

The new Metro Lounge Bar is now open in Hill

Avenue, Amersham, but has no real ale as yet. Is

this the start of a ‘top’ Amersham revival?

THE BLACK HORSE RE-BORN

The Black Horse in Chesham Vale has seen the

best of times and the worst of times. Since

Sandra Taylor left, having run it with great

success, it’s had a very chequered history. Now

thanks to two local businesswomen, Alison Giles

and Gita Cassidy who have bought the place, and

its extremely enthusiastic landlord Dave

O’Halloran with the help of Sonia (both pictured

below), the four have helped turn it back into a

true food and now real ale oasis in Chesham’s

variable pub scene. Dave has been in situ for the

last 3 months and turned the place around with

dedicated work and past knowledge.

This Luton man, who says he enjoys it at the

Black Horse after his time in a very volatile Luton

pub, and the new owners have plans to take it to

the next level by enlarging the kitchen and food

area and making the most of its large garden.

Dave’s enthusiasm is infectious and his quiz

nights on a Monday with free buffet, etc. are

becoming very popular. One tip is to watch out for

his card skills! We wish all those involved in this

venture great success.

FESTIVE FUN

Christmas is a time for getting together with loved

ones and exchanging gifts. It’s also a brilliant

excuse to have some good old-fashioned fun.

Singing Christmas songs, ancient (carols) and

modern (pop), has been associated with pubs for

centuries and it still goes on. Most are planned

but others just happen. These are the ones I

know the dates of (all December): 18th - concert at

7pm from the Salvation Army on the lock at The

Rising Sun (Berkhamsted) and carols in

Haresfoot Brewery (Berkhamsted); carols on

Christmas Eve at The Red Lion (Chenies and

Chesham) and The Sugar Loaf Inn (Little

Chalfont); DJs with Christmas songs at The

George & Dragon and The Misty Moon (both

Chesham).

I don’t know the dates of the following events so

check with the pubs if you are interested:

Christmas concert and ‘Winter Wonderland’ at

The Bell (Chartridge); carols at The Black Cat

(Lye Green), The Crown (Ley Hill), The Jolly

Sportsman (Chesham) and The Misty Moon

(Chesham); Singing Santas at The Eagle

(Amersham); carols at The Gamekeepers Lodge

(Chesham); carol concert by St. George’s Church

Choir at The Hen & Chickens (Botley); carol

concert by members of the Chess Valley Male

Voice choir at The Queens Head (Chesham);

carols with mulled cider and mince pies at the

Rising Sun, carols with the Tring Silver Band at

The Robin Hood (Tring) and carol singers at The

Swan (Ley Hill). Listen for the charity floats

visiting our towns and villages: carol singers

perform on the commons outside The Plough

Dave B.

Dave B.

Dave B.

(continues on p.15)



(Hyde Heath) and The Plough and The Potters

Arms (Winchmore Hill). If you can’t/won’t sing

there are quizzes in The Hen & Chickens

(Botley), The Plough (Hyde Heath) and on the

17th at The Queens Head (Chesham). The Craft

Beer Shop (Little Chalfont) is holding a Christmas

Cheer Market from the 11th to Christmas Day.

The 12th has Winter Wonderland at The White

Hart (Whelpley Hill), raising money for Cancer

Research UK and the Peace Hospice: fairground

rides, food, music, games, beer, a winter forest

and plenty more! Book for the Swing party at The

Greyhound (Wigginton) on the 15th. On the 17th

enjoy comedy with Bob Mills at The Potters

Arms (Winchmore Hill). On the 19th there is a

Kids’ Christmas party at The Gamekeepers

Lodge (Chesham), followed with fun for the

adults in the evening and the Christmas Jumper

Party at The Queens Head (Chesham). Don’t

forget the Christmas Panto and Poem, ending

with carols, at The Kings Arms (Tring). And just

about every pub that does food will have a

Christmas Menu for family, friends and works’

parties.

Christmas Ales are unmissable with eye-catching

pump clips and spicy tastes. Look out for LocAle

favourites: Oxfordshire Ales Uncle Scrooge,

Rebellion Yo Ho Ho, Red Squirrel Winter’s Tale –

“…spicy, blackcurrant notes…”, Tring Old

Chestnut, Vale Good King Senseless and XT 25

Xmas Ale. Cider drinkers are not forgotten: some

pubs will have mulled and/or spiced choices.

Most pubs will have a Christmas ale; I know

about: The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Cat (Lye

Green), The Craft Beer Shop (Little Chalfont),

The Crown (Berkhamsted), The Crown (Ley Hill)

– plus mulled cider, The Crown & Sceptre

(Bridens Camp), The Crown Inn (Little

Missenden), The Eagle (Amersham), The Full

House (Hemel Hempstead), The Gamekeepers

Lodge (Chesham), The George & Dragon

(Chesham), The Greyhound (Wigginton), The

Harte & Magpies – plus home-made mulled

cider, The Hen & Chickens (Botley), The Jolly

Sportsman (Chesham), The Kings Arms

(Amersham), The Kings Arms (Tring), The Misty

Moon (Chesham), The Pheasant (Chesham),

The Plough (Hyde Heath), The Potters Arms

(Winchmore Hill), The Queens Head (Chesham)

– plus mulled cider, The Red Lion (Chenies and

Chesham), The Red Lion (Marsworth), The

Rising Sun (Berkhamsted) – plus home-made

mulled cider, The Robin Hood (Tring), The Rose

& Crown (Ivinghoe), The Saracens Head

(Amersham), The Sugar Loaf Inn (Little

Chalfont), The Swan (Ley Hill), The Valiant

Trooper (Aldbury) The White Hart (Whelpley Hill)

and The White Lion (Little Chalfont).

The Misty Moon will be holding a mini-fest of

Christmas Ales and Ciders from 19th to 27th

December.

We always have a bit of fun as our towns and

villages turn on their Christmas lights, usually in

the High Street or equivalent. The shops stay

open for Christmas purchases, there is

entertainment for the children and local societies

take stalls. The pubs make an effort to tempt in

passers-by and some have ‘pop-up’ bars so you

can stay with your kids.

The earliest I can find are on Friday 27th

November: Chesham goes for it (look out for the

pop-up bar from the The Misty Moon – avoid

those divorce points) and Tring has the Tring

Together Traditional Christmas Festival. Kings

Langley lights up the High Street on Saturday 28th

while Chalfont St. Giles illuminates the village

green. Berkhamsted has its Festival of Lights on

Sunday 29th. Into December and Amersham Old

Town has its fun on Friday 4th (pop-ups at The

Crown and The Kings Arms) as does Chalfont

St Peter with their Christmas Fun Night.

Amersham-on-the-Hill lights its Christmas Tree on

Saturday 5th. Apologies for any I have missed.

CENTRAL SOUTHERN REGIONAL CLUB OF

THE YEAR – MARLOW ROYAL BRITISH

LEGION

Alan Shepherd, one of Aylesbury Vale &

Wycombe Branch’s long-serving stalwarts, is now

the steward of this truly wonderful club that puts

real ale at its heart and had six beers on from all

over the country when some Branch members

Brian



visited recently. Some of them were actually

picked up by club staff. Alan held various

positions in his branch before becoming the main

man at the Legion Club. It is in the Good Beer

Guide 2016 and rightly so, and they hold various

beer fests throughout the year. You can get in

with your CAMRA membership card and it is well

worth checking out. It’s in Station Approach SL7

1NT, 50 yards from the railway station.

BUCKS STAR, WOLVERTON

Five of our less time-constrained members were

invited up to Milton Keynes’ latest brewing

venture. Bucks Star (possibly the first solar-

powered brewery in the UK) is run by Datis and

Daria and is now officially open. Their BLO, Jenny

Ellway (pictured below with Datis), who holds

numerous committee positions in Milton Keynes

Branch, opened it to a very attentive and

appreciative crowd.

The only beer on offer so far is additive-free

organic bitter called ‘No.1’ which is light and

refreshing. Datis and his friends also entertained

us with their vocal talent, giving a rousing

variation of the Sound of Music’s “Do Re Me” with

their own beer-related lyrics. Their family helped

on the day and we hope it’s the first beer of many.

REMEMBRANCE ALES

A century ago, the British Army was recovering

from a spring/summer of catastrophic offensives

on the Western Front. The Russian Army was in

retreat from Austria and Germany on the Eastern

Front. The British were fighting the German navy

on Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. British and

(mainly) Indian troops were failing to defeat the

Turkish Army in present day Iraq. ANZAC and

British officers were trying to work out how to

retreat from Gallipoli. Bulgaria was booting the

Serbian Army out of Serbia. Italy was fighting

Austria on the Isonzo River. German mines and

submarines were having considerable success in

and around the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but

the British and allied navies’ blockade was

working. All in all, 1915 was a bad year with

massive casualties.

Once again, brewers are supporting The Royal

British Legion’s Poppy

Appeal with special ales

and most pubs have

poppies on the bar for us

to buy. The Royal British

Legion sends out around

40,000,000 poppies every

year and the nation

pauses on Remembrance

Sunday (8th November

this year) to hold a two-minute silence ‘at the

eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh

month’ - Armistice Day - the end of the First World

War. Amongst our LocAle brewers Red Squirrel

has WW1 Centenary beer and XT is offering Lest

we Forget.

These pubs have told me they will be putting on a

Remembrance Ale so we can honour the

casualties: The Bell (Chartridge), The Black Cat

(Lye Green), The Brewery Shop (Berkhamsted

and Chesham), The Craft Beer Shop (Little

Chalfont), The Crown (Berkhamsted), The Full

House (Hemel Hempstead), The Gamekeepers

Lodge (Chesham), The George & Dragon

(Chesham), The Jolly Sportsman (Chesham),

The Misty Moon (Chesham), The Pheasant

(Chesham), The Plough (Hyde Heath), The Red

Lion (Chenies and Marsworth), The Rising Sun

(Berkhamsted) and The White Lion (Little

Chalfont).

So raise a sombre glass: we will remember them.

Dave B.

Dave B.

Brian



MILTON KEYNES BRANCH MILK THE BEST

IMPROVED NEWSLETTER AWARD

‘Beer Moos’, the newsletter of Milton Keynes

Branch, is the baby of long-serving stalwart Jim

Scott (pictured below with Jenny Ellway from

Milton Keynes Branch), and he has now taken it

to the height

of “Most

Improved

Newsletter”

in the

country at

the CAMRA

AGM in

Nottingham.

A very

proud man

and rightly

so, Jim is

known all

over the

South Central Region as a CAMRA supporter in

every sense of the word, including working at

many beer festivals. Jim and the Milton Keynes

Branch are rightly very pleased with this

achievement.

CHILTERN BREWERY CELEBRATES A

DOUBLE FIFTY

Three of our members were invited to attend the

launch of new brew “Double Fifty” on 22nd

September and thoroughly enjoyed the well-run

and worthwhile event. See the Brewery News

section on p.18 for more details.

TWO BIG DAYS FOR (HONORARY) SCOTS

Saint Andrew’s Day, on 30th November, is

Scotland’s national day and is marked formally

there by the public, schools, politicians and

artists. It is also a significant day (sometimes

week) for the Scottish Diaspora but it doesn’t

seem to have caught the imagination of the

Scottish brewers. I have tried to find Saint

Andrew beers brewed in Scotland and all I can

find is Belhaven’s St Andrews Ale – but the pump

clip shows the Old Course so I suspect it is meant

for golfers on any day of the year.

We have Scottish expatriates on our patch and a

few of our pubs are putting on Scottish real ales

for them. Try The Craft Beer Shop (Little

Chalfont); The Crown (Berkhamsted); The

George & Dragon, The Jolly Sportsman, The

Misty Moon, The Queens Head, The Red Lion

(all in Chesham) and The Full House (Hemel

Hempstead).

On 25th January Scots celebrate the birthday of

Robert Burns as the last of their three winter

celebrations; the other one is of course

Hogmanay. There are formal events where the

haggis is paraded to the accompaniment of the

bagpipes and eaten with mashed neeps (swede)

and tatties (spuds), toasts are drunk, speeches

are made and Burns’ poetry is read.

If you want to try just the haggis, neeps or tatties

you have a growing choice, and many pubs will

also have Scottish malt whiskies and ale. Visit

The Bedford Arms (Chenies), The Bell

(Chartridge), The Crown (Amersham), The

Crown (Berkhamsted), The Full House (Hemel

Hempstead), The Gamekeepers Lodge

(Chesham), The George & Dragon (Chesham) –

lunch, The Plough (Hyde Heath) – on the 27th,

The Queens Head (Chesham), The Red Lion

(Chenies) – with a veggie option and Cullen skink

soup, The Red Lion (Chesham) and The White

Lion (Little Chalfont).

If you don’t fancy haggis, neeps or tatties try the

Scottish ales laid on in The Black Cat (Lye

Green), The Craft Beer Shop (Little Chalfont),

The Misty Moon (Chesham) and The Pheasant

(Chesham).

AND THE WINNER IS...

In the Autumn issue we launched a competition,

inviting members’ ideas for social activities and

innovative ways in which we could get CAMRA’s

message out to more people. We can now

announce that the winner, by a country mile, is Mr

A. Pathy, with his suggestion of....absolutely

nothing. Congratulations!

Dave B.

Dave B.

Brian

William



BREWERY NEWS

CHILTERN BREWERY: This year both The

Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and

The Chiltern Society are celebrating 50 glorious

years of helping to protect the

tranquil landscape of the

beautiful Chiltern Hills. We were

delighted to be invited jointly by

both organisations to brew a

special draught ale to

commemorate these landmark

anniversaries. Chiltern Double

Fifty, named in a competition by

member of the public Larry

Griffiths, is an autumn dark

amber ale 4.2% ABV with

complex and rich smooth roast

malt and citrus aromas. It was

launched in style in The

Gatehouse Chamber at The Chiltern Brewery’s

tap, The King’s Head Aylesbury, on 22nd

September to highlight the important roles The

Chilterns AONB and The Chiltern Society have

played in shaping and preserving the landscape

of our region.

Chiltern Double Fifty will be widely available in

pubs across the local region as well as the

Chiltern Brewery Shop at Terrick and 5p from

every pint sold will be donated to the societies.

Long time Chiltern Brewery employee Dave

McGovern has been awarded a highly valued and

well-respected Diploma in Brewing Qualification

from The Institute of Brewing & Distilling, a great

and well deserved achievement which both he

and Head Brewer Tom Jenkinson are absolutely

thrilled about.

But Dave isn’t the only ‘graduate’ at ‘Chiltern

Brew-niversity’. New recruits Lloyd Ellis and Ben

Collard, both from the local area, joined the

brewery as apprentices this summer. Both are

university graduates and have made a big

commitment to a profession that needs a lot of

training and hard work. “It’s wonderful to see

these young lads make the decision that they

want to be brewers and to acquire the age-old

skills of brewing that were, at one time, in danger

of dying out” says Head Brewer Tom Jenkinson.

“We are an active local business investing in local

people for the future and proud of that” says

brother and Director George Jenkinson. “We

would encourage all employers to follow this route

and to see the pleasure and satisfaction that it

brings to everyone involved. Well done Dave.”

HARESFOOT: Well first news on our new beers.

Finding its way into pubs as we write – look out

for Harefoot’s

latest offering - a

Red Ale weighing

in at a

comfortable 4.2%

ABV. And to

follow on, our

eighth beer

coming soon as

the nights draw in – a 4.8% Plum Porter! These

are limited-edition beers and you’ll see them

appearing in pubs under our white label branding.

It has been an exciting summer for Haresfoot as

we entered our second year of producing beer!

August saw our first and longest serving ale, Lock

Keeper’s, at the Great British Beer Festival,

where it went down very well.

We have also been delighted to welcome many

new faces at our brewery tours where the Indian

and Jamaican food, accompanied by a plentiful

range of Haresfoot beers, seems to be enjoyed to

the full!

And last but definitely not least – there has

continued to be an array of events at Haresfoot

brewery. Haresfoot Folkfest raised £785 for

suicide prevention charity Hector’s House. In a

packed brewery the audience enjoyed eight

superb music acts throughout the evening,

headlined by Radio 2 and Radio 6 featured artist

Kelly Oliver. We’ve had a very successful quiz

night, provided the beer at Berkofest helping to

raise money for local charities and on a recent

very sunny Sunday afternoon we were delighted



to host Superheroes – a charity event in aid of the

Pepper foundation which funds home palliative

care for life-limited children and young people

living in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

Check out www.haresfoot.com and

www.facebook.com/haresfootbrewery for the

latest news on our beers and what’s on!

MIX BREWERY'S latest continental beer, "Tripel

Nipple", is ready for release. Yes, it is a Belgian

Tripel and one for sipping at 7.1% ABV in 500ml

bottles. You may find it in Dallings, Kings Langley

or The Beer Shop, St Albans. We also have

"Choccy Wocky Stout" back again. This is a big

heavy, double chocolate stout at 6% abv.

Just what you need on a cold winter night!

We also released our first beer in cask for the

recent St Albans Festival. "Hookey Street" has

only been on sale as a bottle-conditioned beer

until now. It is a complex malty special bitter at

4.7% ABV with a deep copper hue.

Apparently it was well received as the two firkins

came back empty.

Should any landlord wish to have some bottle-

conditioned beer please email Mick Harrison at

[email protected]. The website

(www.mixbrewery.co.uk) has a list of beers

currently available. Cask is available on brew-to-

order.

TRING BREWERY: At the time of writing we've

just stopped celebrating from picking up a total of

5 gold and silver awards at the SIBA East Region

championships, with Moongazing taking silver in

the overall

champion

cask beer

category and

our new

Pale+Four

taking silver in

the overall

champion

bottled/

canned beer

category. The first of four brews of Moloko, a full

bodied milk stout is about to leave the fermenter

as part of a 380 firkin delivery for the JD

Wetherspoon OctoberFest.

As we've now slipped into the "darker" part of the

year, our seasonal special has switched to the

Mount Hood hopped Squadron Scramble.

October's monthly offering is the rich, dark

Thunderdell, a beer that has won the hearts of all

here at the brewery.

XT BREWERY have been working on a

significant building project, and during in the next

few weeks the structure will be finished and the

internal fit out can begin. The new space will

provide more brewing, storage plus a significantly

improved tasting room and shop area.

The Lest We Forget Amber Ale (4.2%) has been

brewed in collaboration with the British Legion to

raise funds for the Poppy Appeal. This year the

project will be extended across the country – XT

and the Legion have been working with a network

of other micro-breweries to brew the Lest We

Forget jointly to the same recipe and hopefully

raise more for the appeal this year. XT hope to

get some of the collaboration brews in for you to

compare and contrast.

The Animals have been raiding the hop store this

month … with a unique six-hop-red ale:

Animal Swish (4.6%) has a blend of

internationally punchy hops from North America

and Eastern

Europe.

The Animal K-9

has also made a

welcome return to

the fold – the

brewery took

delivery of some

more of the limited-

availability Amarillo

hops, and used the

opportunity to re-

brew this single hop

beer to showcase its characteristic flavours once

more.

http://www.haresfoot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/haresfootbrewery

mailto:[email protected]

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CASK ALE AND REAL CIDER IN A KEG CONTINENT

The continent in question is ‘Australasia’, which

by definition includes New Zealand and other

islands. It is some years since I attended the

Great Australian Beer Spectapular (GABS) in

Melbourne or Beervana in Wellington (NZ) so I

decided it was time to go again before I

became too old for such long-distance travel.

GABS is one of my favourites as the heart of it

is two huge bars where you can taste 118

beers from Australian, New Zealand and a few

other countries’ home and commercial brewers,

“as long as they’ve never brewed it before.”

Other bars around the

hall had regular beers.

The new beers were

classified as “Easier

Drinking”, “Moderately

Challenging” or “More

Challenging” – we had

been warned! A

typical example was

Kill Patrick from Black

Hops Brewing: the

festival programme’s

definition was, “…

Brewed with fresh

oysters, smoked barley and spiced with

tamarind, molasses, ginger and clove. It has

subtle characteristics of the sea with a hint of

bacon and Worcestershire sauce.” Amongst

the others an IPA with pineapple and coconut,

Pina Colada from Two Birds Brewing, was

surprisingly good; an IPA with added lemon

peel and juice, Sour Puss from Baird Brewing,

less so; a split green pea and ham Porter, Pie

Cart, from Vale Brewing (not our own Vale

Brewery) was weird – it seems a pie cart used

to be outside South Australian pubs at

chucking-out time so you could attempt to eat

your way to sobriety. The one that convinced

me that it was time to move on to regular beers

was an oak barrel re-fermented Imperial Porter

with Black Doris plums and Brettanomyces

yeast, Pucker Up, from Mike’s Organic Brewery

- undrinkable.

Back in the real world my first visit was to the

Cask Ale Bar (see picture), a bit of a

disappointment as they have not yet got to

grips with fining, but at least the temperatures

didn’t lead to the usual ice-cream headache.

The rest of the festival was keg. Over four

sessions I tried a good few and some were very

tasty, especially Brunswick East Anytime IPA,

Croucher Anzus IPA, Holgate Brewhouse

Temptress Chocolate Porter, Mismatch

Brewing IPA, Moa South Pacific IPA, Nelson

Brewery Hotel Three Sheets APA and Panhead

Brewery Pale Ale.

I had saved the

Sunday session for the

ciders and was

pleased to find that

most of the producers

were working in line

with the CAMRA

definition; some even

had contacts with

CAMRA and were

organizing to educate

customers. My

favourites were Willie

Smiths (Tasmania)

Organic and Bone Dry ciders.

Beervana has really grown since my last visit and

moved from Wellington Town Hall to the Westpac

Stadium, home to cricket, rugby, football and

concerts. The festival takes place in the covered

crowd circulation area under the stands. It is run

on a 21st century cashless system: everyone got

a wristband with a microchip into which you

downloaded ‘money’ from official people/stands –

cash, credit/charge cards and so on were

accepted in exchange. Bars, stands and

concessions had scanners and uploaded from

your microchip. Much easier than paper tokens

or ‘poker chips’. My favourite tastes were Fork

Godzone Beat New Zealand Pale and

Townshend’s Bodger My Badger, a bitter served

by hand pump from a cask – I had several tastes

of that.



Both festivals were ‘book-ended’ by special beer

events in their cities: Melbourne Good Beer

Week and The Road to Beervana – maps and

details were available at the tourist offices and

participating venues. I took full advantage of this

and on two evenings in Wellington I enjoyed pub

crawls where I drank only hand pumped ales

(usually bag-in-box) without visiting the same pub

twice.

I hope I stay fit enough to do this again in another

few years.

Brian

Festivals calendar

NOVEMBER

26TH – 30TH Beer and Cider Festival, Rising Sun, Berkhamsted

DECEMBER

1ST – 5TH Pig’s Ear Beer Festival, Round Chapel, Hackney, London E5 0LY;

19TH - 27TH Christmas Beer and Cider Fest, Misty Moon, Chesham

We expect more festivals to be announced closer to the time. For the most up-to-date info, please check www.midchilternscamra.org.uk.

For all the latest info on beer festivals, Branch socials and

meetings and much more visit our website:

www.midchilternscamra.org.uk

Not getting a full pint in your local?

Let your Trading Standards Office

know. Call 0808 156 2259 (Bucks)

or 08454 04 05 06 (Herts).

http://www.midchilternscamra.org.uk/

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Branch Contacts

Chairman and Press Officer

Dave Badminton 01494 581797 [email protected] Vice Chairman Liz Doughton [email protected] Treasurer/Brewery Liaison Officer (MIX) Charles Teuma [email protected] Membership Secretary/Brewery Liaison Officer (Tring) Richard Healey 01494 724686 Membership@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk Locale Officer/Brewery Liaison Officer (Haresfoot) Roy Humphrey [email protected] Brewery Liaison Officer (Red Squirrel) Chris Pontin [email protected] Tapler Editor/Branch Contact William Powell 07913 939761 [email protected] [email protected] Beer Information Officer John Lomax 01494 783198 [email protected] Cider Officer Ian Williams [email protected] Beer Scores Officer Nigel Harris 0845 644 6700 BeerScores@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk Webmaster/Social Secretary Gill Badminton Webmaster@MidChilternsCAMRA .org.uk [email protected] Branch Secretary/Young Members Officers Gareth Hawden (Branch Secretary) & Rachael Frost [email protected] [email protected] Pubs Preservation Officer Jack Watford [email protected]

DIARY DATES. (S) = SOCIAL. (M) = MEETING.

NOVEMBER

4th

Valiant Trooper, Aldbury (then Greyhound if time), 8 p.m. (M)

14th

Regional Meeting, The Olde Reindeer, Banbury, noon

18th

Queens Head, Long Marston, 8 p.m. (S)

21st Tring Crawl – start at Anchor, noon, then Kings Arms, Castle,

Akeman, Black Horse, Bell, Robin Hood (S)

28th

Branch Darts Match – Black Cat, Lye Green, Chesham, from

noon (S)

DECEMBER

5th

Amersham Old Town Crawl – The Eagle, noon, then The Swan,

Elephant & Castle, Kings Arms, Saracen’s Head, Chequers (S)

9th

The Bell, Chartridge, 8 p.m. (M)

12th

Branch Xmas Dinner – venue TBC (check website for details),

noon (S)

16th

Greyhound, Wigginton, 8 p.m. (S)

JANUARY

6th

White Hart, Whelpley Hill, 8 p.m. Committee only. (M)

9th

Markyate – Plume of Feathers, noon, then The Swan (S)

16th

Bourne End crawl – Anchor, noon, then White Horse, Three

Horseshoes at Winkwell (S)

20th

Three Horseshoes and Old Swan, Cheddington, 8 p.m. (S)

30th

Chenies crawl - Red Lion, noon, then Bedford Arms (S)

All members are welcome. Please check the Branch website

for the latest details. Contact the Social Secretary for more

information.

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