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WELCOME The Summer Soltice is upon us. The middle of the year, the longest day, and a period of festivals, rituals and holidays. The Cheers ethos is one of positivity, so let’s enjoy this full summer period – by some accounts a favourable one weather-wise – to the maximum. We’ve got an extensive list of things to do and places to go in our Events section to help you decide where to spend your leisure time – that is if you can tear yourself away from your local pub. We’ve had an incredible time in the region’s pub scene lately – Wylam Brewery opened its doors to the public at its new home in the palace of arts in Exhibition Park, Newcastle. The two words we heard most were “wonderful” and “rammed”. And good old Morpeth Town won the FA Vase by a convincing 4-1 which has raised the spirits of all Northumberland by several notches. In a recent editorial we mentioned that 29 pubs a week are closing across the country, but nobody tells us how many are opening. We’ve since been told that the Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) Pub Tracker Numbers are compiled by CGA Strategy on behalf of Camra and the figures it issues are net closures, taking new openings into account. Perhaps it would be more informative to declare that 39 pubs a week have closed but 10 have opened over the same period (or whatever the figure may be). That, at least, would be a little sunshine to spread around. Alastair Gilmour Editor, Cheers North East
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SMOKE-STACKED LIGHT THING
Two Northumberland companies have collaborated in a new, pale beer. There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about that, but when the 180-year-old Robson’s of Craster – world-renowned producers of kippers – agreed to smoke a consignment of malted barley for Morpeth-based Anarchy Brewery, it marked a unique approach to neighbourliness. The result is a powerful combination of hops, malt and oak smoke that pushes and prods flavour profiles that little bit further from the norm (although these days, is there a “norm”?).
COVER: MARK YOUNG OF ANARCHY BREW CO IN ROBSON’S CRASTER SMOKEHOUSE. PHOTO: PETER SKELTON
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WEST LANDS TOP OF THE SCOTS A stylish beer hall has been crowned Scotland’s best pub at the Pub & Bar Magazine Awards. West On The Green in Glasgow was presented with the award at a special event hosted by journalist and broadcaster Jay Rayner in recognition of its high level of service, product range, aesthetic design and entertainment schedules. “To be named the best in the country really is a remarkable achievement and honour,” said Petra Wetzel, left, founder of West On The Green.
SPACE IS THE PLACE FOR FAIR EXCHANGE Pubs and producers are used to doing “swaps” with beer aimed at giving us – the customer – even more choice, but one Newcastle microbrewery has gone one better by exchanging the full contents of its brewhouse with that of another. Ouseburn Valley’s Out There brewery caught sight of an announcement that Offbeat Brewery in Crewe, Cheshire, had decided to downsize and was looking for smaller vessels. At the same time, Out There’s owner Steve Pickthall was thinking about expanding. “It was my wife Jane who pushed me a bit – I’m a little bit more cautious,” says Steve. “Offbeat had had a load of interest in the kit but when we discovered that owner Michelle Kelsall wanted to downsize and with us wanting to grow, swapping was a neat solution for everyone. “Now we’re ready for an
Bye bye: Steve Pickthall sees off his old brew kit electrician to do a bit of rewiring and with a bit of general fettling we’ll make it nice and shiny again.” Steve’s first beers on the eightbarrel equipment will be new recipes in order to get the feel of it all, then when he’s satisfied with the different efficiencies of each vessel, he’ll get down to producing Out There’s core
range that includes Laika and Space Is The Place. “The brewery’s a lot bigger than the old one and we wanted to make bigger beers,” says Steve. “We needed a bigger mash tun but a new one would have cost as much as this whole brew kit. We’ll be up and running again in early June.”
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The region’s longest-running microbrewery – founded in 1982 – has given its image something of a style makeover. Big Lamp, based at Newburn, Newcastle, has coordinated its award-winning beers – Sunny Daze, Prince Bishop, Summerhill Stout, Keelman Brown Ale, etc – into a highly visible and memorable collection of pumpclips. Brewery co-owner George Storey believes that now isn’t the time to sit back and reflect on 34 years of producing award-winning
ales; with so much choice on the counter and decisions made quickly, the customer has to be constantly reminded that “here’s a great beer”. He says: “With everything that’s going on in the industry we thought we’d take a fresh look at ourselves and make our identity more prominent. We came up with the lamp shape and tried different colours to get a look that’s different from a lot of others. Now you can go into a pub and immediately see that they’ve got Big Lamp on.”
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NEW ADDITION TO THE FLOCK Black Sheep Brewery has added a new bottled beer to its range with the launch of a bold Yorkshire IPA. Black Sheep IPA (5.1% abv) has been brewed in homage to the original, highly-hopped IPAs that were exported to British troops stationed in India more than 200 years ago. The beer, brewed with Progress and Goldings hops to create a fresh, juicy hop character, has secured a three-month listing from June with Tesco and will be available from Black Sheep’s Sheepy Shop at its site in Masham, North Yorkshire, and also on its website.
The launch of Black Sheep IPA follows on from the successful rebrands of Black Sheep’s bestselling bottled ales – Black Sheep Ale and Golden Sheep Ale – with Black Sheep IPA featuring a similar labelling set.
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LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN – AND WOMEN Rugby League’s Magic Weekend, the annual tournament to show off the sport to the world, took place at St James’ Park, Newcastle, for the second year running. And, for the second year running, it spelled bonanza for city-centre pubs as thousands of supporters from the likes of Leeds, Warrington and Hull congregated in a super-friendly atmosphere to soak up excitement, sunshine, and a pint or two. Nobody was more delighted than Michael Hill, landlord of The Strawberry pub (pictured above) which sits a throw-in from the stadium. “It was another record-taking weekend,” said Michael. “Is there any other sport that can have 12 different teams jumping around together for two days solid? Absolutely fantastic.” The Magic Weekend is an annual event of Super League matches played at one stadium over a single weekend. Previous venues (since 2007) have been the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Murrayfield in Edinburgh, and the Etihad Stadium, Manchester.
SPOONS FOR SALE IN SURPRISE MOVE The future of three North East pubs is in doubt after their owners, JD Wetherspoon, put them up for sale. The iconic Union Rooms in Newcastle (above), the Leaping Salmon in Berwick, and Sunderland’s Lambton Worm are part of a 45-strong clutch of pubs across the country to be hived off. It comes as something of a surprise, as the Union Rooms – one of five Wetherspoons’ in Newcastle city centre – was bought by the company only six months
ago for £5.6m. A spokesman said at the time: “It was our first pub in Newcastle and it’s as popular now as it ever was”. However, assurances have been given to staff at all three pubs that if they are sold to another pub company there is a possibility of them being kept on by the new operator. The Union Rooms, on Westgate Road, was built in 1877 as a gentlemen’s club called the Union Club and functioned as such for almost a century.
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TYNE BANKS ON LOCAL SUPPORT
Newcastle craft beer producer, Tyne Bank Brewery, has whizzed past its investment target to fund a move to new premises. The initiative raised £213,320 from 360 investors in six weeks and marked the 400th crowdfunded investment by specialist company Crowdcube. Tyne Bank’s new building – mere yards away from its current base at Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley – will feature an events space, tap room and kegging, bottling and canning lines, along with a state-of-the-art brewhouse. “We are really thrilled at the level of investment and support we received both locally and nationally for our Crowdcube raise, achieving a significant amount above target,” says Tyne Bank owner Julia Austin, right. “We are now hard at work procuring shiny new tanks and
designing the interior of our new home at 375 Walker Road. It’s exciting work turning a building site into our new home. “We would like to thank all our supporters, especially Cheers magazine and its readers, for
championing the North East brewing and drinking scene. “We will keep you posted on the progress over the coming weeks and we hope to see you all soon at the opening in September.”
PEGGY’S TURN TO GET OUTTA THE PUB A legendary landlady has walked out of her pub for the last time. EastEnders star Peggy Mitchell stepped through the doorway of the Queen Vic in an emotional scene in which the BBC soap’s matriarch took her own life after discovering she had terminal cancer. Peggy – played, of course by Dame Barbara Windsor – vowed: “I will go as I have lived… straight back, head high, like a queen.” Barbara Windsor joined the EastEnders cast in 1994, making the role of Peggy Mitchell (previously played by Jo Warne) her own, ruling the pub with an iron fist and often declaring: “Get outta my pub”. EastEnders regularly draws audiences of up to eight million viewers.
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Cheers is proud to have been offered a set of booklets that might fill in a few gaps in people’s North East beer and pub knowledge. Regular reader Peter Smith from Gosforth, Newcastle, has been having a clear-out so he offered us a handful of significant publications that detail local Campaign For Real Ale (Camra) early-day efforts to persuade us to drink “proper” beer. The job lot was immediately snapped up by the chairman of the Tyneside & Northumberland branch – rightly – as too important to be lost in a skip. The collection includes a 1978 edition of Real Beer In The North East that issues a stark warning that “choice for the
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beer drinker has become a thing of the past”. It’s a lesson in history and nostalgia – what might have been – with the realisation that we’ve lost some brilliant pubs over the years. In Newcastle alone: The Haymarket Hotel, The Royal Buffet, The Portland, the Barley Mow, Broken Doll, Egypt Cottage and the Rose & Crown opposite… the list goes on. In Real Ale Pubs of Tyne & Wear (1992), the typographic style is rather “shouty” and stilted. For example, The Baltic Tavern is described: Large Single Roomed Pub On Two Levels. Lots of Exposed Brickwork And Very Popular With Students. The entry for The Bridle Path in Whickham,
Gateshead, warns ominously: “Try A Half First.” The lead story in the 1982 Canny Bevvy – issue no 28 – is headlined “Jennings Muscle Into Newcastle”, with a complaint that the Lake District brewery’s investment in The Cumbrian Wrestler pub in Pitt Street (formerly The Greyhound) has hoicked up the price of a pint by three pence to an astonishing 53p.
Also, the Camra assault on short measures can be traced back to the Eighties when Hugh Price – now Tynemouth Lodge supremo – revealed that less-than-full pints were a license to print money. He writes “with beer at £4.40 a gallon, I am talking about big money”. Fascinating stuff – perhaps this could initiate a North East brewing archive. Just a thought.
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INSATIABLE THIRST DRIVES EXPANSION Hawkshead Brewery in The Lake District has completed a £175,000 expansion project to allow a 40% increase in capacity. Part of a two-year plan, this will take the capacity from 10,000 hectolitres (6,000 barrels) to 14,000 (8,500 barrels) a year. In overthe-counter terms, that’s just shy of 2.5 million pints. The brewery, at Staveley, near Kendal, has a new cold conditioning room and fermentation room extended with new
vessels installed. Hawkshead’s owner and founder, Alex Brodie said it was a sensible business decision because “the demand from the traditional and modern craft markets for innovative and full-flavoured beers continues to outstrip our ability to supply”. “This expansion is not just about brewing more beer, It is about brewing more styles of beer, and giving us more flexibility to experiment and add to the already crazily wide range of beers we turn out.”
BREWERY REACHES LIFEBOAT TARGET Five years after Bill and Anna Scantlebury founded Cullercoats Brewery, they have raised an astonishing £25,000 for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The brewery has donated 3p from every pint sold to the organisation; a magnificent gesture that has been recognised by the presentation of a plaque from Cullercoats RNLI. Cullercoats Brewery’s beer names are drawn from local RNLI history, inspired initially by the stormy events of New Year’s Day 1861, when the Lovely Nelly ran aground off Cullercoats Bay. The lifeboat couldn’t set out because of the rough conditions and the story goes that the village’s fisherwomen pulled the lifeboat the two miles to Whitley Bay. The crew saved all the lives on the Lovely Nelly, except for 12-year-old cabin boy Thomas Thomson who sadly drowned. Cullercoats “dangerously good” core beers include Rocket Brigade IPA (5.5% abv), Shuggy Boat Blonde (3.8% abv) and Jack The Devil (4.5% abv) with special styles in its Shipping Forecast and Dry Hopping ranges.
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EU REFERENDUM
WHICH WAY? INN OR OWT? The EU Referendum is possibly too big, complicated and emotive a subject to be discussed in the pub. Like religion and party politics, we have individual beliefs that we’ll defend with everything at our disposal, so bringing the subject up over a pint might not be a great idea if friendships – and tempers – are not to be lost. One way of deciding which way to go while signalling your intent is by drinking a choice of beers – one In and one Out. Harrogate-based Daleside Brewery has created a somewhat lighthearted contest to see which beer proves to be most popular with consumers. The Daleside Beer Poll results are to be announced on June 22 on social media, the day before we all go out to put our cross on the polling card. On one side of the argument, former prime minister Gordon Brown has voiced his concerns over the risk of EU exit for the Scotch whisky industry. Writing in the Daily Record, he said: “We cannot forget it’s the exports
of whisky to Europe that make the industry the size it is.” The French consume 183 million bottles of whisky a year – a figure equating to £500m which highlights that more Scotch is sold in a month in France than Cognac in a whole year. Spain is the second biggest export market, consuming just under 60 million bottles and Germany is not far behind with imports of 50 million. On the other side, JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has been stressing what he believes are the benefits of leaving the EU. Martin, who founded the pub chain in 1979, said Britain would be better off out of the EU in the long-run and dismissed fears of a short-term shock to the economy if there was a vote to leave. The European Union is “bad for our business” he says, and that one reason Britain should vote Leave is for us to be able to frame our own laws. Back in the pub, it’s still a complicated business so we at Cheers are staying neutral, but would like to put forward our recommendation. On Thursday June 23, vote Inn or Owt.
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SEASON’S GREETINGS The Brewers Association, which represents craft brewers in the US, has sent out a list of summer seasonals to look out for – over there, obviously. We’ve selected a handful strictly on their names rather than style or flavour, so if they ever make it across the Atlantic, give them a go: Brenner Brewing Co Butterfly Farts, citrus ale (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Fiction Beer Co Do Not Touch The Flamingos, apricot saison (Denver, Colorado) Coronado Brewing Co Berry The Hatchet, ale brewed with berries (Coronado, California) Cricket Hill Brewing Co Jersey Summer Breakfast Ale, Belgian blonde session (Fairfield, New Jersey). www.brewersassociation.org
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SOCIAL ASPECT OF A CAN-DO ATTITUDE One of the region’s new wave microbreweries has reached its one-year milestone without its owners even realising it. Box Social Brewing, based at Newburn, Newcastle, only found out about the anniversary when someone tagged it on Facebook. “I’d forgotten all about being a year old,” says Ross Holland, who founded the business last year with his dad Steve, a former fireman. “It’s been non-stop since day one. We’re pretty much working at full capacity which we really didn’t expect to get anywhere near in our first year. “We started off doing two brews a week and thought two fermenters would cope – but we’ve had to buy another two and still thought there’s no way we could fill them. So we’re
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brewing four times a week now, which is hard graft.” Steve Holland echoes the “hard graft” sentiment by stressing how difficult starting a new business can be. He says: “For the first few months we thought ‘there’s an awful lot of money going out and not much coming in’. But it’s working out great now.” The first year has also brought an expansion in personnel. New recruit Jamie Barnett does everything from sales to being a jack-of-all-trades. Ross says: “My dad has a fire and safety training business which has really picked up, so sometimes it was just me, struggling to keep up and trying not to let people down.” As well as keg and cask beer heading for North East pubs and
Year in: Box Social’s Jamie Barnett, left, and Ross Holland a busy weekend brewery tap, Box Social adopted a beer can-do attitude which is showing all the signs of being a winner. “Cans have been a big selling point for us, they’re tasting really good,” says Ross. This has encouraged the pair to cast their eyes at the export market, having impressed a Spanish businessman quite by chance at the BeerX exhibition in Sheffield earlier this year. “He really loved the beers we took
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WE’RE SHMOKIN’ Ideas can come easy, it’s putting them into practice that’s the difficult part, writes Alastair Gilmour The curious mind will always find a new way to do things and try to improve on what is widely regarded as perfect. Making something better is about asking questions, researching and experimenting. Then doing it again. As part of this approach, Northumberlandbased Anarchy Brew Co – itself a re-creation of its original Brew Star name and ethos – holds regular brainstorming sessions where everybody pitches in ideas from all corners of the business. Everything in the company, from beer styles to delivery schedules and suppliers, is chewed over and if an idea emerges, it’s time to go for it. As an example, although it already produced a fine beer called Smoke Bomb, using German smoked malt for a classic Bavarian character, perhaps even that could be made better. Packaging manager Mark Young thought that if they could collaborate with another Northumberland company to smoke the malt to produce a niche beer it would tick a couple of boxes on the local provenance list. The next phone call was to Neil Robson at L Robson & Sons, world-renowned traditional smokers and producers of the legendary Craster kippers. “We’re looking to find new suppliers and to introduce local ingredients where we can,” says Anarchy Brew Co owner Simon Miles. “It’s about bringing local companies together to produce something from each other’s expertise for each other’s benefit.” Fourth-generation fish-smoker Neil Robson was up for the idea – he knows what he likes when it comes to ale – and such is his expertise that when Simon dropped off a bag of the 14 / CHEERS / www.cheersnortheast.co.uk
German malted barley, he knew exactly what level of smoking it had had. “Simon had asked the German company how they did it – for how long, etc – but they were very secretive about it,” says Neil. “We’ve been operating the smokehouses in Craster since 1856 but never smoked malt before. I gave it a sniff to work out how to do it. “We decided to smoke it on trays – you can’t hang it up like herring – and moved it around so it all got an even amount of exposure. It was very much ‘let’s see what happens’, but we got a result straight away, first time.” Neil Robson also wanted to sell the unique beer in the shop and restaurant attached to the Northumberland coastal business. Who could resist a beer made using the same methods that produced the kipper or smoked salmon on their plate, both emerging from the same small room? The beer, Neil insisted, should have a low alcohol content so that visitors could enjoy one with their lunch in the restaurant. Simon Miles says: “We used pale malt so we’ve got full control over the process – we already know its fermentable extract properties. The malt has already been kilned and what we’re doing is adding the smoked character. “We thought it was a brilliant idea from Mark. Up In Smoke is a 3.8% abv blonde ale that smells of Craster itself. This rural and coastal collaboration is a unique selling point for Northumberland. We’ll put it out in cask and also in bottle.” Neil Robson fully expects Up In Smoke to be a good seller, not only in his shop and restaurant, but in Waitrose who he has been
Smoke gets in your beer: Simon Miles, left, and Mark Young of Anarchy Brew Co on either side of George Gregory from Robsons of Craster
supplying with kippers since 1998 – “and that was when the nearest store to Craster was Newark in Nottinghamshire”. The herring used by L Robson & Sons – 350 tonnes a year – is caught in the North Sea, usually by Scottish boats, and landed in Norway where it’s stored. Loads are shipped to Grimsby then on to Eyemouth, all under cold store. The walls of the three Robson smokehouses glisten with a thick, black tar-like veneer
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from decades of fish oil. It’s like entering the ante-chamber to a nether world where a couple of glowing sawdust fires and choking smoke mesmerise the senses. Herring are smoked for 14 to 16 hours; long enough to change their character without actually cooking them. Salmon is ready after 24 hours. It’s an extremely labour-intensive business with each fish handled six times through the process of gutting, brining and hooking on tentersticks, but tradition is king. Even the wood Neil Robson uses for smoking has had to be carefully sourced. The oak sawdust that smoulders on top of strips of wood came variously from a joinery business in Berwick, then from a timber yard in Wooler, but cutting down oak trees locally is a thing of the past. “We now get our sawdust from France,” says Neil. “We order it in 25-tonne lots which lasts us two to three years.” Anarchy Brew Co will be about ready for another brainstorming session. What next? A voluptuous breakfast stout infused with Ethiopian Guji coffee beans? They’ve alreadt done that with Sublime Chaos (7.0% abv) which was elected Europe’s best stout in the 2015 World Beer Awards. Perhaps it’s better to simply wait and see. www.anarchybrewco.co.uk www.kipper.co.uk
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BREWERY NEWS
A RIGHT ROYAL OCCASION AT THE PALACE
Wylam Brewery has completed its long-awaited move to the Palace of Arts in Exhibition Park, Newcastle, the only building to survive from the region’s 1929 North East Coast Exhibition that was designed to show the world what we’re great at. A Friends & Family occasion introduced the brewery and events space before it opened to the general public.
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A summer of sport will be dominated by Euro 2016 – which our pubs are gearing up to take full advantage of The UEFA European Championships kick off on June 10 in Paris and run for a month. This means that a full 31 days featuring some of the world’s greatest footballers showing us why we hang on to their every dribble should spell bonanza for our pubs. Spain have won the last two Euros - in 2008 when Austria and Switzerland co-hosted the tournament and four years later when Poland and Ukraine shared the event. Can they make it a hat-trick? Will the potential of this
England squad be fully realised at last? Will the Kanes, Laffertys, De Bruynes and Ronaldos thrill and delight or frustrate and annoy? Could Iceland do a “Leicester City”? Pubs should be able to take full advantage of the competition with many pulling out all the stops to entice customers, which won’t be difficult for England’s matches against Wales and Russia, or Northern Ireland v Germany – but Romania playing Albania and Austria against Hungary might be more challenging for British fans. However, who’s to say they can’t be
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crackers of football matches? With a handful of exceptions, the vast majority of the 51 matches involving 24 nations over 31 days are being played with sensible pub-time kick-offs – 5pm and 8pm. But when England and Wales get down to the job on June 16, the 2pm kick-off might just provoke a snowstorm of sicknotes. Bosses have been urged to allow staff to take time off so they can watch those Euro 2016 football matches. Conciliation service Acas has launched new guidance to help business leaders prepare for potential issues and avoid workers being given a red card for sloping off to catch the afternoon games. The ingenuity that people display to be excused work means Acas might as well hiss against the wind. Nineteen pubs across England – including The Three Bulls Heads in Newcastle – have been renamed as part of a campaign ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. Carlsberg, the official beer of the tournament, has singled out the pubs as part of a series of “pubstitution” activities designed to generate a roaring
trade by calling them The Three Lions. The Three Bull’s Heads hanging sign has been replaced for the duration of the tournament by one showing England players Wayne Rooney, Gary Cahill and Joe Hart. The Centurion on Neville Street has also been singled out for special Carlsberg treatment. Beer-wise, Houghton-le-Spring brewery Maxim has produced Euro Stars, a 4.2% abv pale ale made with a variety of European hops to give a balance and slightly dry truffle flavours on the palate. What are going to be the Euro
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2016 highlights? Every one of the Iceland’s team’s names ends in “son” or “sson” – so say hello to Sigurdsson, Gunnarsson, Arnason, Bjornason, et al. The tournament’s “group of death” – the one than nobody wants to be in – is Group E which involves the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Belgium and Sweden. The Golden Boot, awarded to the tournament’s top goalscorer, could fit several players’ feet, from Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Will Grigg of Northern Ireland who scored 28 goals for Wigan Athletic in the season just gone. Then, what about the Scottish fans among us who have nobody to cheers on during the tournament? They could do worse than get behind Ukraine – their strip is a rather natty take on tartan. And, talking about Scotland, Glasgow-based West Brewery’s Courtyard bar will be showing every Germany game on a big screen – West is owned by German-born Petra Wetzel and as an adopted Scot and shrewd businesswoman, she knows how to milk an occasion.
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ALBANIA Raise a glass of: Rakia, a fruit brandy around 40% abv usually distilled from grapes but can also be from plums, mulberries and walnuts. Because: The best rakia is made in tiny batches by artisans who take real pride in their craft.
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Raise a glass of: Gusswerk Katharsis Old Ale (6.5% abv), is organic with a dried fruit nose – apricot – a rich, full body and a fruity tart finish. Because: Gusswerk was founded in 2007 in a former bell factory, so it rings the right notes.
WALES Raise a glass of: Purple Moose Ysgawen (4.0% abv), a refreshing elderflower-infused hoppy pale ale using the American Cascade variety for citrus and floral kicks. Regular beer festival medallist. Because: After a few you’ll be able to pronounce it perfectly. ICELAND
UKRAINE Raise a glass of: Obolon Premium Lager (5.2% abv). Very pale in colour with a sweet malt flavour and the addition of rice to the grist for softness. Obolon is the country’s biggest beer exporter. Because: Ukraine won Eurovision, so why not the football equivalent?
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RUSSIA NORTHERN IRELAND
SWITZERLAND Raise a glass of: 1936 Bière IPA (8.0% abv). Dark blonde, aromatic, full-bodied and unforgettable. Dry hopped with Cascade and Aurora. Organically brewed by the renowned Locher family (1936 is their postcode). www.1936biere.com Because: The water used in production filters through the Swiss Alps, taking 25 years to reach its resting place.
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SWEDEN Raise a glass of: Öl Ljus Lager (4.7% abv) is brewed in Halmstad, Sweden, for Ikea. Grainy malt and herbal notes align it with a classic German Pils. Because: You don’t need an allen key to set them up.
SPAIN Raise a glass of: Alhambra Mezquita (7.2% abv), a fullbodied wheat beer with caramel notes and hints of pepper. Because: They’re bound to be there or thereabouts in the final stages. 20 20 // CHEERS CHEERS // www.cheersnortheast.co.uk www.cheersnortheast.co.uk
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RUSSIA SLOVAKIA Raise a glass of: Topvar Svetlé Pivo (5.2% abv). Plenty of citrus fruit in this sunburst of a golden lager. Because: The brewery once produced a beer called Brigita, named after the Slovak finance minister Brigita Schmögnerovà. Imagine a George Osborne ale!
Raise a glass of: 1516 Brewery Pilsner (4.8% abv). Beautifully gold in colour with a biscuit aroma and hop flavour that builds to a long, bitter finish. 1516 is a Moscow brewpub that should be on every beer tourist’s agenda. www.1516pub.ru Because: It turns every Russian misconception on its head.
ROMANIA Raise a glass of: Ursus Premium Pils (5.2% abv). Lively carbonation, a malty aroma with hints of bread and fresh hops lead to lemony notes in the finish. Because: The town of Cluj Napoca in Transylvania hosts a beer festival in September.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS CZECH REPUBLIC Raise a glass of: Pilsner Urquell (4.2% abv). OK, it may be owned by the biggest brewing corporation on the planet (AB Inbev/SAB Miller), but it’s still an extraordinarily great beer with lashings of malt and hop influences. Because: Czechoslovakia won Euro 1976 – so it’s 40 years of hurt.
ENGLAND Raise a glass of: Big Lamp Sunny Daze (3.6% abv). Sensibly sessionable pale ale with wafts of malt and hop leading to a bitter finish (which we hope England won’t have). Perfect for summer sunshine quaffing. Because: Big Lamp is the North East’s oldest microbrewery (founded in 1982).
FRANCE Raise a glass of: Chateau Du Bos Graves Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot. Dark fruit aroma with hints of liquorice and tobacco and flavours of prunes and ripe fruit (£11.49, Carruthers & Kent, Gosforth, Newcastle) Because: The tournament’s hosts would approve.
GROUP A FRANCE/ROMANIA/ALBANIA/SWITZERLAND France v Romania: June 10 20.00 (ITV) Albania v Switzerland: June 11 14.00 (BBC) Romania v Switzerland: June 15 17.00 (ITV) France v Albania: June 15 20.00 (ITV) Romania v Albania: June 19 20.00 (BBC) Switzerland v France: June 19 20.00 (BBC)
GROUP D SPAIN/CZECH REPUBLIC/TURKEY/CROATIA Turkey v Croatia: June 12 14.00 (ITV) Spain v Czech Republic: June 13 14.00 (ITV) Czech Republic v Croatia: June 17 17.00 (BBC) Spain v Turkey: June 17 20.00 (ITV) Croatia v Spain: June 21 20.00 (ITV) Czech Republic v Turkey: June 21 20.00 (ITV)
GROUP B ENGLAND/WALES/RUSSIA/SLOVAKIA Wales v Slovakia: June 11 17.00 (BBC) England v Russia: June 11 20.00 (ITV) Russia v Slovakia: June 15 14.00 (BBC) England v Wales: June 16 14.00 (BBC) Russia v Wales: June 20 20.00 (ITV) Slovakia v England: 20th June 20 20.00 (ITV)
GROUP E BELGIUM/REPUBLIC OF IRELAND/ITALY/SWEDEN Republic of Ireland v Sweden: June 13 17.00 (BBC) Belgium v Italy: June 13 20.00 (BBC) Italy v Sweden: June 17 14.00 (ITV) Belgium v Republic of Ireland: June 18 14.00 (ITV) Italy v Republic of Ireland: June 22 20.00 (ITV) Sweden v Belgium: June 22 20.00 (ITV)
GROUP C GERMANY/NORTHERN IRELAND/UKRAINE/POLAND Poland v Northern Ireland: June 12 17.00 (BBC) Germany v Ukraine: June 12 20.00 (BBC) Ukraine v Northern Ireland: June 16 17.00 (ITV) Germany v Poland: June 16 20.00 (ITV) Northern Ireland v Germany: June 21 17.00 (BBC) Ukraine v Poland: June 21 17.00 (BBC)
GROUP F PORTUGAL/ICELAND/AUSTRIA/HUNGARY Austria v Hungary: June 14 17.00 (ITV) Portugal v Iceland: June 14 20.00 (BBC) Iceland v Hungary: June 18 17.00 (BBC) Portugal v Austria: June 18 20.00 (BBC) Hungary v Portugal: June 22 17.00 (BBC) Iceland v Austria: June 22 17.00 (BBC)
GERMANY Raise a glass of: Königsbacher Pilsener (4.8% abv) is golden, sparkling and aromatic with a thick, creamy head and continuous flow of grassy hop. Because: It goes well with Currywurst, a large Bratwurst sausage lathered in tomato sauce and sprinkled with curry powder.
HUNGARY Raise a glass of: Blonder Sörgyar Világos Lager (5.6% abv), a strong grainy beer with a high level of sweetness but some say it is “rough at the edges”. Because: Blonder Sörgyar is a microbrewery, so “rough at the edges” could be regarded as an attribute.
ICELAND Raise a glass of: Brennivín (40% abv), widely considered Iceland’s national drink. The potato-based schnapps is also referred to as Svarti Dauŏi (Black Death) which translates as “burning wine”. Because: Brennivín is traditionally accompanied by hakarl, a type of fermented shark meat.
ITALY KNOCKOUT PHASE LAST 16: Match 1: R unner-up Group A v Runner-up C June 25 14.00 Match 2: W inner B v Third-place A/C/D June 25 17.00 Match 3: W inner D v Third-place B/E/F June 25 20.00 Match 4: W inner A v Third-place C/D/E June 26 14.00 Match 5: W inner C v Third-place A/B/F June 26 17.00 Match 6: W inner F v Runner-up E June 26 20.00 Match 7: W inner E v Runner-up D June 27 17.00 Match 8: R unner-up B v Runner-up F June 27 20.00
QUARTER-FINALS QF 1: Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 3 June 30 20.00 QF 2: Winner Match 2 v Winner Match 6 July 1 20.00 QF 3: Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 7 July 2 20.00 QF 4: Winner Match 4 v Winner Match 8 July 3 20.00 SEMI-FINALS SF 1: Winner QF 1 v Winner QF 2 July 6 20.00 SF 2: Winner QF 3 v Winner QF 4 July 7 20.00 FINAL Winner SF 1 v Winner SF 2: July 10 20.00
Raise a glass of: Baladin Luna Riserva Teo Musso 2010 (11.5% abv), an incredibly complex barley wine with bags of toffee, charred wood and brown bread flavours. Because: The Italians do everything with such style. Everything.
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REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Raise a glass of: Galway Bay Brewery Of Foam & Fury (8.5% abv). Something of an ambassador for Ireland’s burgeoning craft beer sector, this double IPA is packed with new world hops for power – and fury. Because: It’s Irish and it’s not Guinness.
PORTUGAL Raise a glass of: Farsons Lacto (3.8% abv), a classic milk stout, soft on the palate, with lactose added after fermentation. Because: The country produces brilliant footballers and coaches but the national team seems to fall short on the pitch.
POLAND Raise a glass of: Koźlak Dunkel Bock (6.5% abv), a ruby red beer rich in malt and yeast flavours and a warming afterglow. Because: The brewery is a supporter of the Slow Food movement.
Raise a glass of: Bushmills Original Irish Whiskey (40% abv). A rich, warming, easy drinking and versatile blend of tripledistilled malt and lighter grain whiskies. Because: Northern Ireland’s manager Michael O’Neill scored 13 goals in 22 appearances for Newcastle United in season 1987-88. www.cheersnortheast.co.uk / CHEERS / 21
EURO 2016
EURO NIBBLES – A PIZZA CAKE?
It’s not enough for publicans to simply switch on the telly and wait for the football custom to roll in – they have to be proactive and present their pub’s food and drink offer like never before YServing a few straightforward treats with a side order of imagination will demonstrate that your pub really wants its customers engaging with Euro 2016 and create extra interest while staying ahead your rivals. The trick would seem to be to keep it simple during a period of high traffic. But keeping it simple with pizza for Italian games and tapas for those involving Spain might be doing a disservice. How about
Icelandic shark that’s inedible until it’s been buried for a period then fermented? Possibly an acquired taste, but a few bowls on the bar when Iceland play Hungary, Portugal or Austria might just create a frisson of interest to go with your pub’s ale offering (or Icelandic vodka). And that’s before we suggest fermented skate wings – another Icelandic speciality – cooked in the liquor from a smoked lamb dish. We’re all pretty familiar with Polish sausage (offered at Group
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Goal: Euro 2016 mascot Super Victor C matches which involve Poland, Germany, Northern Ireland and Ukraine), and that’s a decent starter. But let’s do a little bit of thinking: Poles are renowned for their love and knowledge of edible fungi. A counter populated with unusual mushrooms – the correct ones, of course – could do the business. Game dishes would be a hit too, such as bigos, a hunters’ stew that uses wild boar and even buffalo in its heady concoction. In Hungary (Group F) the
renowned goulash is actually more of a soup, but the nation is a lover of well-fried onions, cabbage, caraway seeds and potatoes. Dumplings also feature heavily in all their guises, as they do throughout Central Europe. The guilty pleasure, however, is pastries, taken with espresso or hot chocolate. So, the simple things might not help your pub stand out from the rest, but on the other hand, paella is easier to put together than fermenting a shark.
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EVEREST AFTER A LONG WALK Regular Cheers reader Ian Brown has filed reports for us in the past from all over the world – South Africa and Vietnam included. Now retired from lecturing at Northumbria University, he and his wife have more time to indulge their passions for travel, food and drink (Ian specialised in food studies) and he’s recently had a trekking trip to Nepal, a country they first visited in 2012. The region was devastated last year by an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale which killed 8,000 people and injured 21,000, but though there was severe damage around Pokhara, the area where the Browns travelled to, there was no loss of life. “Overlooking the lake is a
wonderful bar and restaurant,” says Ian. “It’s called Moondance after the 1970 Van Morrison album. I know John Platania, who played lead guitar on the album, and when I told him they’d named a bar after it he sent them a message of support. How nice is that? “Whilst the beers were great in quantity – 660ml bottles with names such as Sherpa and Everest etc, and in price – the flavour was a bit lacking. But after a day’s trekking, as long as they were ice-cold – which they were – you couldn’t really complain. “However, word is spreading about craft beers and the first one in Nepal has been launched by the Sherpa Brewery – Khumbu Kölsch (5.0% abv). Long may it continue.”
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES If you’re in Bordeaux, France, for the European Championships, you can’t fail to miss the Cité du Vin, a £60m high-tech, glass and steel museum dedicated to wine. Opened on June 1, the glass tower is said to be inspired by wine swilling round a glass, while its exhibition spaces are devoted to the world’s 80 wine-producing countries. Give’s a swirl.
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PUB NEWS
NOTHING STATIONARY IN THIS RAILWAY PUB Like many a city-centre pub, The Centurion on Neville Street, Newcastle, has to keep an eye on what its rivals are up to. Or more to the point, other pubs tend to check out the Central Station venue regularly to get some pointers for themselves. Railway station pubs are different; they might appear solely to cater for a transitory audience, but it’s surprising what level of regular custom they actually do attract. Lunchtime meetings, group gettogethers, or simply folks out for a decent beer and a well-prepared meal are all within the scope of places like The Centurion. But to keep your regulars you’ve still got to keep ahead of the game. “A lot of it is subconscious; people get attached to a place and we’re being recognised as somewhere you’ll always get a good pint,” says Centurion marketing manager Ryan McGee. “Things like going from stocking two types of gin to eight
give drinkers the opportunity to get what they want. “We’re powering on from last year which was the best we’ve had in four or five years. We’ve gone through a lot of change through staff training and attention to detail which means we’re already at this time ahead of last year.” Ryan then repositions a set of beermats where – subconsciously – you’d expect them to be. Attention to detail, he’s just said. “Being where we are, we’re the first port of call for football fans and we get people ringing up and asking what matches or other sporting events we have our screens. Also, we’ve been selected by Carlsberg as one of their Euro 2016 key venues.” That means eight-pint jugs with four taps will be offered to tables during televised matches, so football fans don’t have to get up and down like yoyos and can concentrate on watching the action on at least one of the ten screens.
“It’s all about customer relations,” says Ryan. “We’re also always looking at alternative suppliers, so we rotate guest beers from the likes of Mordue, Camerons, Box Social and Firebrick breweries to sit alongside permanents Black Sheep and Deuchars IPA.” House ale Grand Centurion Bitter (3.8% abv) is a gloriously golden ale with a pleasing hop flavour balanced well with a touch of malt and a bitter finish. It’s a fine beer and one to seek out. Newly opened is a small function
suite – The Secret Bar, pictured above – just off The Centurion’s grand hall which is aimed at client presentations, office parties, family gatherings or birthday celebrations – all in a relaxed atmosphere. It’s like having your own private club. “We’ve got conference rooms with all the facilities like hotels have, but we thought we’d convert one into something different,” says Ryan. It’s what the pub’s rivals are making note of – something different. It’s staying ahead of the game and one to seek out.
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SUMMER TIME AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY A selection of festivals, fun, food, music, arty and beery things to celebrate sunny days
EVERY WEDNESDAY PUB QUIZ Mr Lynch, Archbold Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 1DB (tel: 0191 281 3010) The Carriage, Archbold Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 1DB (tel: 0191 281 2151) The Mile Castle, Westgate Road, Newcastle NE1 5XU (tel: 0191 211 1160) The Bodega, Westgate Road, Newcastle NE1 4AG (tel: 0191 221 1552) EVERY FIRST THURSDAY AULD ROCKERS MUSIC QUIZ The Schooner, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE 8 3AF Auld Rockers Music Quiz is great fun for anyone interested in music from the 50s through to the 90s – from 8pm-ish once a month on the first Thursday. Fun and prizes at the second-best bar in Gateshead. www.theschooner.co.uk
EVERY SUNDAY PUB QUIZ The Brandling Villa, South 4RS (tel: 0191 281 0570) EVERY MONDAY Gosforth, Newcastle The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle QUIZ NIGHT Pub Quizzer every Sunday from 9pm. NE1 5DW (tel: 0191 232 6478) The Ship Isis, Silksworth Row, 50p per person and the chance The Central, Half Moon Lane, Sunderland SR1 3QJ to win a share of a great big 55 Prizes to be won from 8pm plus free Gateshead NE8 2AN (Tel: 0191 quid. There’s also some bottles of 478 2543 buffet. Wednesdays are Buskers booze to be won on the spot prize Nights – pints for players – and the question. Quiz runs for a couple pub is always on the lookout for new EVERY TUESDAY of hours. “If you want to bring yer QUIZ NIGHT talent to play on other occasions. own furniture, thats alreet with us.” Pub quiz at The Eye On The www.theheadofsteam.co.uk Check out the Pub Quizzer Facebook Tyne, Broad Chare, Quayside, Plus quizzes at: page www.facebook.com/ The Collingwood Arms, Brandling Newcastle NE1 3DQ (tel: 0191 TBF-12 Cheers ad awk.qxp_Tynedale Beer Cheers 1/3 page awk 23/03/2016 18:11 Page 1 groups/1663867257195683/ Village, Jesmond, Newcastle NE2 261 7385)
UNTIL JUNE 19 THERE WERE ISLANDS Baltic 39, High Bridge, Newcastle NE1 1EW BxNU MFA graduate exhibition featuring the work of the BxNU Master of Fine Art course delivered by Northumbria University in partnership with the Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art. Performance event on June 16 (6pm-8pm). www.balticmill.com UNTIL JUNE 26 PRESENT CONTINUOUS Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays NE8 3BE Present Continuous is the first comprehensive monographic exhibition in the UK by filmmaker Omer Fast. www.balticmill.com UNTIL JULY 9 CHARCOAL EARTH PAPER The Gallery, Gateshead Central Library, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4LN An exhibition by Colin Rose inspired by his use of earth and charcoal together when working in Australia. The exhibition of recent work presents Colin’s interest in using these natural materials with their intensity and contrast of colour and the richness they offer for making drawings. Open during normal library hours. www.gateshead.gov.uk/whatson UNTIL DECEMBER 31 BRAIN ZONE Centre for Life, Newcastle NE1 4EP Explore what makes you “you”.
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SUMMER EVENTS Scientists are discovering new things every day and you, and your brilliant brain, can help improve our understanding by visiting The Brain Zone and taking part in experiments. www.life.org.uk UNTIL JANUARY 3 2017 ANIMAL INSIDE OUT Centre for Life, Newcastle NE1 4EP Explore the intricate biology, zoology and physiology of the world’s most spectacular creatures, large and small in this fascinating new exhibition by Body World creator, anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens. Animal Inside Out takes visitors on an anatomical safari of more than 100 specimens, each painstakingly preserved by the remarkable process of Plastination. From goats to giraffes, elephants to eels and octopuses to ostriches visitors will discover the form and function of animals both exotic and familiar. Animal biology textbooks spring to life in this unforgettable museum learning experience. www.life.org.uk JUNE 2-JULY 25 SOUTH TYNESIDE FESTIVAL
South Shield Amphitheatre and Bents Park, South Shields Thursday and Saturday live music and Sunday concerts in a summer of great live entertainment. Free. Starring The Blow Monkeys, Alexandra Burke, The Proclaimers, Lindisfarne, Tony Hadley, UB40. www.visitsouthtyneside.co.uk JUNE 10-11 THE NORTH EAST BREWERS’ MARKET Wylam Brewery, The Palace of Arts, Exhibition Park, Newcastle Eight breweries, three sessions and you – featuring pop-up bars from Allendale, Almasty, Box Social, Camerons, Northern Alchemy, Three Kings, Wylam, plus special guest Northern Monk (Leeds) Fresh beer, food trucks, music. www.wylambrewery.co.uk JUNE 10-19 MANCHESTER BEER WEEK City-wide Manchester Beer Week includes a brewers’ market, collab fest and Big Buzzin’ Party at the iconic Granada Studios. Among others, Hawkshead
Brewery is hosting a series of events – meet the brewer evening and tap takeover, plus being involved in a brewers market and closing party. Hawkshead is also one of eight breweries teamed up to create four collaboration brews exclusively for the festival. The Cumbrian brewery has been paired with Runaway Brewery in this collab-off and have brewed a “Manchester-themed” beer. www.mrbeerweek.co.uk JUNE 11 SOUL FINGER #1 The Cumberland Arms, James Place Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle NE6 1LD DJs Rob Heron and Stagger Lee Fisher play rare soul records where nothing taken seriously apart from the quality of the music. 8pm-1am, £3. www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk JUNE 12 WOMEN MAKE MUSIC The Bridge Hotel, Castle Square, Newcastle NE1 1RQ Sue Ferris Quartet plus Ruth Lambert Trio. A concert in Jazz North East’s Women Make Music series where two of our outstanding North East artists
were invited to bring in bands, with an open remit to do whatever takes their fancies. www.jazznortheast.com JUNE 13-14 WHITLEY BAY PROPER FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL Spanish City Plaza, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear NE26 1BG More than 100 stalls of artisan foods from Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Scotland to eat in the open-air area or to take away. Full bar with entertainment, cooking demos and much more. 10am-7pm both days. www.properfoodanddrinkfestivals. co.uk Tel 07904 187 644 JUNE 15 BEER DAY BRITAIN The 2nd National Beer Day follows last year’s original idea – drink beer, ideally in the pub or a brewery taproom and join in the National Cheers to Beer at 7pm using the hashtag #CheersToBeer. Last year the National Cheers trended on Twitter so the challenge is to trend again this year. (No relation to Cheers magazine.) www.beerdaybritain.co.uk
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around the North East and way beyond, plus cider, wine, music and fun on a grand scale. Camping, free car parking. Just absorb the aromas of grass and canvas tinged with fine ale. Heaven. www.tynedalebeerfestival.org.uk JUNE 16-19 WILLOWMAN FESTIVAL Hillside Rural Activities Park, Knayton, Thirsk, North Yorkshire YO7 4AN Four days of stupendous music in the heart of North Yorkshire plus real ale tent, high quality food stalls, vintage market and trade stands. Featuring: The Undertones, Stereo MCs The Beat, Misty In Roots and a whole lot more. This year, audiences will be encouraged to play tribute to rock legend David Bowie through a fancy dress theme. Reckoned to be the UK’s best value four-day music festival. www.willowmanfestival.co.uk
JUNE 16-19 BORDERS BOOK FESTIVAL Harmony Garden, St Mary’s Road, Melrose, Scottish Borders TD6 9LJ Some of the biggest names in books, entertainments and public life take to the stage to bring their work to life. Headlined by Frederick Forsyth, Phil Jupitus, Evlyn Glennie (in conversation with Kirsty Wark), Rory Bremner Kathy Lette and Sarah Pascoe. Live music (including Scottish Opera), theatre performances, workshops, street market wine tastings, kid’s crafts. www.bordersbookfestival.org
Soul, Berlin era avant-garde synthetic pop and music and rare videos from all career era ch…ch…ch…ch….changes along with great tracks from Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Mick Ronson. Bowie character face painting. Best dressed Bowie Fan Trophy and raffle prizes. Tickets £5 advance or £6 on the door – 7pm till late. Proceeds and donations to the Teenage Cancer Unit at the Great North Children’s Hospital, RVI Newcastle. www.thecluny.com
JUNE 17-19 CYCLONE FESTIVAL OF CYCLING Various locations, Newcastle JUNE 18 The 2016 Cyclone Festival of Cycling THE JUNE GENIE weekend features the Virgin Money The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Tyne Six Bridges family rides (Friday Ouseburn, Newcastle NE1 2PQ Calling All The Young Dudes, Diamond evening June 17), followed by the popular Virgin Money Cyclone Dog Dystopian Dreamers, Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, Heathens Challenge Rides on the Saturday (June 18). Sunday June 19 will see and Blackstars. Come and join likeminded souls to celebrate the life, music top men’s and women’s road racing action in the Beaumont Trophy and and influence of the Late Great David Curlew Cup races. The traditional three Bowie. Let’s Dance and Freak Out to 34, 64 and 106 mile Virgin Money some of the greatest rock, pop, funk Cyclone Challenge rides have been and soul records ever made. Sound joined by a 90-mile option. And Vision: Bowie Video Disco. Loads HB_Northern_Craft_2016_A5_CAMRA_PRESS.pdf 10:26 www.cyclonecycling.com of classic Bowie records – Glam, Plastic1 24/05/2016
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SUMMER EVENTS JUNE 18 DURHAM BLUES FESTIVAL Gala Theatre, Durham Starring King King, Connie Lush And Her Band, Laurence Jones, Albany Down, Billy Walton Band, Blues Boy Kings, and Southbound. 2pm-10pm. Box office: 0300 026 6600 www. galadurham.co.uk JUNE 21-JULY 24 THE TOWN MOOR: A PORTRAIT IN SOUND Tyneside Cinema Gallery, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NE1 6QG An immersive installation by Chris watson celebrating the iconic green space that is Newcastle’s Town Moor through cinematic sound. Starts on the hour (Monday 10am-8pm, TuesdaySaturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am5pm). Free entry. www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/ chriswatson JUNE 23-25 GLASGOW REAL ALE FESTIVAL The Briggait, Bridegate, Glasgow G1 5HZ Ten mins from both Glasgow Central
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and Queen St Stations; five mins from St Enoch Subway with 150-plus beers, ciders and foreign beers. Hot food available. Open: Thu 3.30pm10.30pm; Fri Noon-10.30pm; Sat Noon-10.30pm. Prices £4 Camra membs/£6 non-membs. Price inc festival glass. www.glasgowrealalefestival.co.uk JUNE 24 SUE RICHARDSON: TOO COOL The Jazz Café, Pink Lane, Newcastle NE1 5DW A show devoted to the life and music of Chet Baker. Sue Richardson, herself a trumpeter and vocalist, works with a hand-picked North East group to recreate Baker’s music, adding original tunes of her own, and stringing the whole thing together with a spoken narrative developed with the help of actress Sylvia Sims. www.jazznortheast.co.uk JUNE 24 NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE BEER FESTIVAL Newcastle Racecourse, High Gosforth Park NE3 5HP The world-famous Northumberland
Berwick Food And Drink Festival Plate meeting includes a beer festival on the Friday evening in association with Box Social Brewing with seven races, including the Betfred Gosforth Park Cup. Real ales and ciders. Choose from our admissions tickets or hospitality packages. Beer tent is located next to the pre-parade ring – entry is included within your admission ticket price. www.newcastle-racecourse.co.uk JUNE 24-26 MILFEST The Red Lion Inn, Milfield, Northumberland NE71 6JD Featuring 20 real ales and ciders and live entertainment (Saturday) at this 18th Century sheep drovers’ inn. Tasting night Friday, family hog roast, Sunday. Huge marquee. B&B with four new, en-suite chalets. www.redlionmilfield.co.uk
JUNE 25 NORTHUMBERLAND LIVE South Beach, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland Brit award winners Scouting For Girls with their infectious indie-pop style plus an impressive support from local bands that includes Percy & The Piglets, David Neil, Shields, Dust Town Dogs, Sarah Holmes, Just So and Hayley McKay. Tel: 01670 854084 www.facebook. com/NorthumberlandLiveFestival JUNE 25 THE ART MARKET Grainger Market, Newcastle NE1 5QG Loveartnortheast’s latest art and design market. takes places on the fourth Saturday of every month inside the historic Grainger Market Arcade. Around 20 of the region’s best artists, designers and crafters pop up from 9am till 5pm. Tel: 07973108608
SUMMER EVENTS JUNE 28 TIM RICHARDS HEXTET The Black Swan Bar & Venue, Westgate Road, Newcastle NE11SG Leading UK pianist returns after a long absence, with a top flight crossgenerational sextet. The Hextet’s 2015 album Telegraph Hill was acclaimed for its “buoyant, grooving melodies and arrangements which sparkle with his players’ individual, improvisatory freedom”.Its this new material that will be at the heart of the Black Swan gig. www.jazznortheast.com JUNE 28 BEYONCÉ: THE FORMATION WORLD TOUR Stadium of Light, Sunderland SR5 1SU Beyoncé, one of the biggest female artists of all time, is set to light up the North East in the summer. Recognised as the most powerful woman in the music industry and Billboard’s Artist of the Millennium, Beyoncé will take to the stage at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light in what will be the prestigious opening night of the European leg of the Formation World Tour and is the iconic singer’s first-ever stadium performance in the
North East, with Sunderland selected as one of only five UK venues to host the global superstar and one of only two stadium venues in England, the other being Wembley. www.ticketmaster.co.uk www.livenation.com
spread across nine screenings in four venues across Sunderland, you’re sure to find something new and exciting to watch. Popular Sunderland band Hyde & Beat play Sunderland Minster after the first screening on June 30. www.sunderlandshorts.co.uk/2016
JUNE 28 INTERNATIONAL TAU DAY Hawkshead Brewery’s Key Lime Tau makes its return. Pubs, bars and bottle shops are joining the celebration to collectively launching the beer in keg and bottle. Tau Day is an annual celebration of the circle constant pi (τ = 6.28318) which takes place every June 28 (6/28 in the American calendar system). It proves that the equation τ = 3.1415926 (the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter) isn’t what it seems. Errr… don’t ask us. www.tauday.com
JULY 2 HAYDON BRIDGE BEER FESTIVAL Low Hall Park Football Ground, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6AE Festival number eight features ales, ciders and wine from around the world. Live music and entertainment from The Street Martins, Tyne Valley Big Band and The Promise – funds raised go to lcommunity causes with 2016’s main benefactor being Tynedale Hospice At Home. www.haydonbridgefestival.co.uk
JUNE 30-JULY 5 SUNDERLAND SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL Various venues, including Independent, NGCA and Sunderland Minster With more than 65 unique films
JULY 2-3 NORTH EAST CHILLI FEST Seaton Delaval Hall, Seaton Sluice, Tyne & Wear The fifth Chilli Fest features live music from Kenny Thomas, Smoove & Turrell The Din and Soulutions. Real
ale and cocktail bars, more than 80 independent food producers, top class entertainment, including the legendary chilli-eating contest. Early Bird advance tickets £4.50 (£7 when the Early Bird flies). www.chillifest-ne.co.uk JULY 5 SCULPTURE WALK Saltwell Towers, Saltwell Park, Gateshead Saltwell Park is full of pieces of sculpture and public art. If you want to find out what they are all about, join Anna Pepperall, public art curator, on this informal walk and talk. £3. www.gateshead.gov.uk/whatson JULY 7-10 SCOTTISH REAL ALE FESTIVAL Edinburgh Corn Exchange, New Market Road, Edinburgh EH14 1RJ Lothian Bus 35 or 4, 20, 34, 44 will get you there; Slateford Railway Station within 200yds. 160-plus Scottish real ales plus dider and perry. Camra products, tombola and games. Open: Thu-Sat noon-10.30pm. Hot food available throughout. Entry: £6/£4 Camra members. Free re-entry to all
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SUMMER EVENTS sessions with 2016 souvenir glass. Live music every night and Sat afternoon. www.sraf.camra.org.uk JULY 7-10 MOUTH OF THE TYNE FESTIVAL Live at Tynemouth Priory and Castle, Tynemouth, Tyne & Wear Featuring Bryan Ferry, James Bay, Will Young, Lulu and local heroes Hyde & Beat and Tunde Baiyewu (the voice of the Lighthouse Family). www.mouthofthetynefestival.co.uk JULY 8 LEGENDARY GOOD TIMES DJ NORMAN JAY MBE Wylam Brewery, The Palace of Arts, Exhibition Park, Newcastle As well as the good man himself there are food trucks, Jacks Gin Palace and a glorious selection of fine wines available (plus of course some fabulous Wylam Brewery beers). Doors: 6pm to midnight. Earlybird tickets: £10 – early purchase is advised :) www.wylambrewery.co.uk JULY 8-10 THREE MILE INN BEER FESTIVAL
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Three Mile Inn, Gosforth, Newcastle NE3 2DS Great selection of ales from local breweries, live music in this second beer festival. www.threemileinn.co.uk JULY 11-17 MASALA FESTIVAL Newcastle and Gateshead, various venues. A mix and blend of the finest South Asian arts and culture Featuring Riverside Ragas: The Monks of Majuli, Mini Mela, Shri Sriarm’s Just A Vibration. Film screenings, workshops and demonstrations of South Indian cooking, meditation, yoga, Bollywood dance and more. Tel: 0191 440 4124 www.gemarts.org JULY 21-23 NORTHERN CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL The Beer Hall, Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9LR Hawkshead’s 10th festival continues to draw beer lovers to The Lakes to witness craft brewing in the north of England at its finest. It’s all about British craft brewing... what’s new, who’s new,
what’s stood the test of time, but most of all... what’s good. It’s mostly cask, but there’s a fair amount of keg too. It’s a family affair... kids, dogs, babes in arms, great grandmas, weird brewers – all are welcome. There’s food all day, live music, great beer, good crack and no tickets – the Beer Hall is a pub, it doesn’t charge entry. www.hawksheadbrewery.co.uk JULY 21-24 SIXTH BATTLESTEADS BEER FESTIVAL Battlesteads Hotel, Wark, Northumberland NE48 3LS The fifth annual beer festival at Northumberland’s eco-friendliest pub, hotel and restaurant features great beers, lagers, ciders, food and live music from The Mudskippers and Alive And Kicking. This year’s charity is The Great North East Air Ambulance. Stay the weekend and unwind. Great sponsorship opportunities too. www.battlesteads.com JULY 22-24 SUMMERTYNE AMERICANA FESTIVAL Sage, Gateshead Quays NE8 2JR
The weekend-long party introduces another sizzling celebration of American roots music. The hugely-popular event this year features Imelda May, Mary Chapin Carpenter, ward Thomas and Striking Matches, plus many, many more (local and breakthrough). www.summertyne.com JULY 23 THE ART MARKET Grainger Market, Newcastle NE1 5QG Loveartnortheast’s latest art and design market. It takes places on the fourth Saturday of every month inside the historic Grainger Market Arcade. Each month around 20 of the region’s best artists, designers and crafters pop up from 9am till 5pm. Each month the traders taking part varies. Tel: 07973108608 JULY 25-29 SCIENCE SUMMER CAMP Centre for Life, Newcastle NE1 4EP A five-day event for 13- to 16-yearolds, offering the chance to do lots of exciting and cool stuff. Led by Life’s education team, participants will cover topics from astronomy to zoology. Tel: 0191 243 8210 www.life.org.uk
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Tasty: Craft Beer Calling JULY 28-31 KENDAL CALLING The Lake District’s music festival celebrates its annual success ( now a 12,000-capacity, three-day event) with a lineup that includes The Charlatans, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Madness, Jason Manford, Rudimental, Maximo Park, The Bottlemen, Peter Doherty, Donovan… and mountains more. See you in the fields! www.kendalcalling.co.uk JULY 30 CRAMLINGTON PROPER FOOD FESTIVAL Seven Oaks Park, Dudley Lane, Cramlington, Northumberland Sixty of the finest artisan food producers selling the best locally made food the country has to offer. Licensed bar selling real ales and ciders from Wylam Brewery and others, plus wine and cocktail bar.
A huge array of hot food. Producers selling the best food from around the world to eat in a huge outdoor picnic area. Live entertainment and lots more interesting stuff. www.properfoodanddrinkfestivals. co.uk AUGUST 3 GATESHEAD ART SOCIETY ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION St Mary’s Heritage Centre, Oakwellgate, Gateshead Gateshead Art Society’s amateur art work. Pictures will hang from the pillars for you to enjoy throughout the month of August. All of the pieces on display will be available to purchase. Free. www.gateshead.gov.uk/whatson AUGUST 6 DURHAM BREWERY BIRTHDAY BEER BASH Durham Brewery, Bowburn North
Industrial Estate, Bowburn, Co Durham DH6 5PF Celebrating its 22nd anniversary on August 6 (12noon-5.00pm), this brewery festival is now a yearly tradition on the first Saturday in August. It’s a great afternoon of good beer and food plus gin from Durham Distillery; a way to meet the brewery’s customers and say thank-you for their support. Steve, Christine, Elly, Georgie, Sean, Craig and Will will be available to answer any questions. At least six cask beers and four keg beers on offer – some old favourites as well as new beers launched on the day – with the first pint of 5% abv and under free. There’s also a massive range of bottle-conditioned beers to try with 10% discount on bottles, mini-casks, glasses or gifts from the brewery shop on the day. The visitor centre, marquee and main brewery will keep everyone dry should it rain. www.durhambrewery.com AUGUST 9-13 OLYMPIA, LONDON CAMRA GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL The Great British Beer Festival is organised by the Campaign for Real
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AUGUST 28 RIVERSIDE LIVE Riverside Park, Chester-le-Street Twelve hours of music and entertainment starring Lee Scratch AUGUST 20-21 Perry, Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club, NORTH SHIELDS PROPER The Undertones and The Ordinary FOOD FESTIVAL Boys. The highly eccentric Lee Scratch Northumberland Square, North Perry has collaborated in the past Shields, Tyne & Wear with Bob Marley, the Beastie Boys, A huge array of food and drink producers and hand-crafted products – Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. He’ll some familiar, others less so – including, be performing his masterpiece 1976 The Northumberland Cheese Company, album Super Ape in full. www.riversidelive.org Kenspeckle chocolates, Kittie’s Ginger Wine, The New Zealand Gourmet Pie AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 3 Company and The Brownie Bar. DURHAM BEER FESTIVAL www.properfoodanddrinkfestivals. Durham University Students’ Union, co.uk New Elvet, Durham DH1 3AN One of the region’s most popular AUGUST 26-31 beer festivals with 120 real ales, THE BOATHOUSE WYLAM BANK HOLIDAY BEER FESTIVAL ciders and perries, wines and spirits. Battle of the Beers competition. The Boathouse, Station Road, Entrey £10 includes glass, Wylam, NE41 8HR programme and three tokens. The award-winning pub’s annual August Bank Holiday Beer Festival with www.durhambeerfestival.org.uk
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SEPTEMBER 1-4 LINDISFARNE FESTIVAL Beal Farm, The Causeway, Beal, Northumberland TD15 2PB A music and creative arts festival for over 18s with music from a range of internationally renowned acts, as well as a selection of up-and-coming artists and North East talent. Indie rock, soul and funk, blues, folk, jazz and hip-hop sounds include The Cuban Brothers, Reef, British Sea Power, Beardyman, Little Comets, Molotov Jukebox, Rob Heron & The Teapad Orchestra, The Baghdaddies, James Taylor Quartet, Kathryn Tickell & Superfolkus… and much, much more. www.lindisfarnefestival.com SEPTEMBER 3-4 BERWICK FOOD AND BEER FESTIVAL Berwick Barracks, The Parade TD15 1DF Now in its ninth year and one of the
best places to buy fresh, local and seasonal produce. Organised by the town’s Slow Food Group, the event will highlight the region’s thriving food and drink scene. More than 40 local produce stalls, street food, children’s entertainment, demonstration kitchen. Berwick Beer Festival has up to 10 local artisan brewers from Alnwick and Amble to Galashiels and Wylam. www.berwickfoodandbeerfestival. co.uk OCTOBER 20-22 CRAFT BEER CALLING INTERNATIONAL BEER FESTIVAL The Boilershop, Stephenson Works, Newcastle The cream of the world’s leading craft brewers assembled under one roof for one weekend only. Gin palace, cider cellar, street food market, top-class DJs, what more do you need? www.craftbeercalling.com
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POETIC INSPIRATION TURNS A NEW PAGE A North East microbrewery, inspired by 19th Century writer Elizabeth Barret Browning, has embarked on a new chapter after rebranding its awardwinning beers. Sonnet 43 Brew House, based at Coxhoe, County Durham, has revisited the recipes for its five core products and renamed each of them in tribute to the poet, who was born at nearby Coxhoe Hall. The new literary-themed range, which includes The Raven Bourbon Milk Stout, Abolition Amber Ale, Impressment American Pale Ale, Aurora Pale Ale and Seraphim Blonde Beer,
is out in the trade and available from all Sonnet 43’s regular stockists. “A lot has changed in the craft world since Sonnet 43 launched in 2012,” says brewery founder Mark Hird. “Now, with an established reputation and several awards under our belt, it felt like the right time for a few tweaks and to really show how much we’ve progressed. “While we have made a number of subtle enhancements to the beers themselves, the big difference now is in the overall branding, which we hope will help Sonnet 43 stand out even further from the crowd.”
Newcastle-based Malhotra Group, which owns venues across Tyneside, has launched Maloyalty, a new rewards card. For every £1 spent, customers will receive five points (equal to five pence) which can then be exchanged for food or drink at any of the group’s participating leisure venues. Among the Newcastle bars taking part are The Butchers Arms, Byker; The Duke, Clayton Street and the Market Lane (The Monkey Bar) in the city’s Pilgrim Street. Osborne’s in Jesmond, Newcastle; The Three Mile Inn, Gosforth, and Scalini’s Italian restaurants, at Jesmond and Gosforth, are also included in the scheme, along with The Runhead, at Ryton and The Sandpiper, Cullercoats. Loyalty card holders will also receive bespoke offers and birthday rewards. “Each of our venues is fortunate in having a loyal customer base and this is our way of rewarding them for their continued custom,” said Malhotra Group director of operations, Atul Malhotra.
PUB KITCHENS MOVE UP A GEAR Great news for those who like a bite to eat with their pint – the winner and runner-up in this year’s North East Culinary and Trade Association (NECTA) Chef of the Year competition both work in pubs. In a very tight competition reckoned by the judges to be of the highest quality in ten years, Michael Hall of the Granby Inn, Longframlington, Northumberland, took the prestigious title, with Ray Hunter of the Angel Inn, Corbridge, in second place. Daniel Robertson of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle, was third. The hunt for the North East’s Future Chef 2016 resulted in Lee McKinnell from Gateshead College (and mentored by Marco Pierre White’s chefs at Hotel Indigo, Newcastle) taking the crown. Second place went to Newcastle College’s Alisha Goldsborough (mentored at Café 21) and third was Elliott Teasdale from Gateshead College (mentored at The Broad Chare, Newcastle), while runner-up was Chris Hall from Tyne Met College, mentored at The Keel Row, Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.
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A-Z PUB GUIDE Cheers is all about pubs in the North East and this should be a good place to start... COUNTY DURHAM BUTCHER’S ARMS
Middle Chare, Chester le Street, DH3 3QB t: 0191 388 3605
DUN COW
37 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN. t: 0191 386 9219
HALF MOON INN
130 North Gate, Darlington, DL1 1QS t: 01325 465765
HAT AND FEATHERS
Church Street, Seaham, SR7 7HF. t: 01915 133040
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THE CROWN
Mickleton, Barnard Castle, DL12 0JZ t: 01833 640 381
THE BLACKSMITHS
Station Road, Low Pittington Durham, DH6 1BJ 0191 3720287
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON Darlington Road, Durham DH1 3QN t: 0191 375 7651
THE DUN COW
Front Street, Sedgefield, TS21 3AT t: 01740 385 6695
THE FLOATER’S MILL
3 Reform Place, Durham, DH1 4RZ. t: 0191 3832173
Woodstone Village, Fence Houses, DH4 6BQ t: 0191 385 6695
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14 Horsemarket, Darlington, County Durham DL1 5PT t: 01325 466720
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South Street, West Rainton Houghton - le - Spring DH4 6PA. t: 0191 5841022
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North Road, Durham, DH1 4NQ t: 0191 3863395
THE GEORGE & DRAGON 4 East Green, Heighington Village, DL5 6PP t: 01325 313152
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86 New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3AQ t: 0191 3741918
Chilton Lane, Ferryhill, DL17 0DH t: 01740 655724
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Maiden Law, Durham, DH7 0QT t. 01207 520900
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12 Crossgate, Durham City, DH1 4PS t: 0191 386 4621
THE AVENUE INN
Avenue Street, High Shincliffe, DH1 2PT t: 0191 386 5954
THE BAY HORSE
28 West Green, Heighington, DL5 6PE t: 01325 312312
THE BEAMISH MARY INN No Place, Nr Beamish, DH9 0QH t: 0191 370 0237
THE BLACK HORSE
Red Row,Beamish, DH9 0RW t: 01207 232569
THE BRITTANIA INN
115 Sherburn Terrace, Consett, DH8 6NE t: 01207 502585
THE HALF MOON INN
THE HONEST LAWYER
THE OLDE SHIPS INN
Durham Road, East Rainton, DH5 9QT t: 0191 5840944
The Green, West Auckland, DL14 9HW t: 01388 834834
THE MANOR HOUSE INN
Carterway Heads, Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LX t: 01207 255268
THE MARKET TAVERN 27 Market Place, Durham, DH1 3NJ t: 0191 3862069
THE MILL
THE PUNCH BOWL INN
Edmundbyers, DH8 9NL t: 01207 255545
THE QUAKERHOUSE
2 Mechanics Yard, Darlington, DL3 7QF t: 07783 960105
THE QUAYS
5 Tubwell Row, Darlington, DL1 1NU t: 01325 461448
THE ROYAL OAK
7 Manor Rd, Medomsley Village, DH8 6QN t: 01207 560336
THE SCOTCH ARMS
Blackhill, Consett, DH8 8LZ t: 01207 593709
THE SHIP
Low Road, Middlestone Village, Middlestone, DL14 8AB t: 01388 810904
THE SMITHS ARMS
Brecon Hill, Castle Dene, Chester le Street, DH3 4HE t: 0191 3857559 Moor End Terrace, Belmont, DH1 1BJ t: 0191 3842667 Beamish Hall Hotel, Beamish, DH9 0BY. t: 01207 288 750
THE STABLES
THE CROSS KEYS
Front Street, Esh, DH7 9QR t: 0191 3731279
THE OAK TREE
Front Street, Tantobie, Stanley, DH9 9RF t: 01207 235 445
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RIVERSIDE LODGE
High Stanners, Morpeth NE61 1QL. t: 01670 512771
BARRELS
59-61 Bridge Street, Berwick, TD15 1ES t:01289 308013
BATTLESTEADS HOTEL
Wark, Hexham, NE48 3LS t: 01434 230209 www.battlesteads.com
BEADNELL TOWERS HOTEL
Beadnell, NE67 5AY t: 01665 721211
THREE HORSESHOES
Hathery Lane, Horton, Cramlington, NE24 4HF t: 01670 822410
THREE WHEATHEADS
Thropton nr Rothbury, NE65 7LR t: 01669 620262
TWICE BREWED INN
Newbottle Street, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4AN t: 0191 5120735
THE WHITEHILLS
Waldridge Road, Chester le Street, DH2 3AB t: 0191 3882786 Front Street, Chester-le-Street, DH3 3AX t: 0191 3872960 Frederick Place, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4BN t: 0191 5128050
THE FORESTERS ARMS West Sleekburn NE62 5XE 01670 813345
THE GOLDEN LION
Hill Street, Corbridge, NE45 5AA t: 01434 632216
THE GOLDEN LION
Market Place, Allendale, NE47 9BD t: 01434 683 225
THE HEART OF NORTHUMBERLAND
Market Place, Allendale, Hexham, NE47 9BJ, t: 01434 683246
Wall, Hexham, NE44 4EE t: 01434 681232
5 Market Street, Hexham, NE46 3NS. t: 01434 608013
CROSS KEYS
THE ANCHOR HOTEL
THE HORSESHOES INN
DIPTON MILL INN
THE ANCHOR INN
THE JOINERS ARMS
Thropton, Rothbury, NE65 7HX t: 01669 620362 Dipton Mill Road, Hexham, NE46 1YA t: 01434 606577 e: ghb@hexhamshire.co.uk www.diptonmill.co.uk
DOCTOR SYNTAX
New Ridley Road, Stocksfield, NE43 7RG, t: 01661 842383
DUKE OF WELLINGTON Newton, NE43 7UL t: 01661 844446
DYKE NEUK
Meldon, Nr Morpeth, NE61 3SL t: 01670 772662
ELECTRIC WIZARD
New Market, Morpeth, NE61 1PS. t: 01670 500640
Haydon Bridge, NE47 6AB t: 01434 688121 Whittonstall, Nr Consett, DH8 9JN. t: 01207 561110
THE ANGEL INN
Main Street, Corbridge, NE45 5LA. t: 01434 632119
THE BADGER
Haydon Bridge, NE47 6ER t: 01434 684376
JOHN THE CLERK OF CRAMLINGTON
The Peth, West Thirston, Felton, Morpeth, NE65 9EE. t: 01670 787370
THE BLACK BULL
THE OFFICE
THE BLUE BELL
THE OLDE SHIP INN
Matfen, NE20 0RP t: 01661 855395
Hillstreet, Corbridge, NE45 5AA. t: 01434 431143
• 14 Real ales on tap • CAMRA 2013 • Northumberland Pub of the Year Winner
KITTIWAKE
Clairemont Crescent, Whitley Bay NE26 3HL. t: 0191 251 3977
Wylam, NE41 8HR t: 01661 853431
THE BOATSIDE INN
Warden, Hexham, NE46 4SQ. t: 01434 602233
THE BRIDGE END INN
86 Hallgarth Street, Durham, DH1 3AS, t: 0191 3860465
LION & LAMB
• 5 Real Ales • Traditional family run pub • Folk & music nights
WOODMAN INN
NEWCASTLE HOTEL
Main Street, Acomb, NE46 4PW t: 01434 603909 Horsley, NE15 0NS t: 01661 852952 Front Street, Rothbury, NE65 7UT t: 01669 620334
Caterway Heads, Shotley Bridge, DH8 9LX t: 01207 255268
Ponteland, NE20 9UH t: 01661 822 684
JOINERS ARMS
Craster, Alnwick, NE66 3TR t: 01665 576461
THE MANOR HOUSE
THE BLACKBIRD
THE BOATHOUSE
JOLLY FISHERMAN
Newton-by-the-Sea, NE66 3EA t: 01665 576 112
THE MANOR INN
Front Street, Cramlington, NE23 1DN t: 01670 707060 Wansbeck Street, Morpeth, NE61 1XZ. t: 01670 513540
Rennington, Alnwick, NE66 3RS. t: 01665 577665
Street Houses, Ponteland Newcastle upon Tyne NE20 9BT t: 01661 871037
MINERS ARMS
23 Gilesgate, Durham, DH11 1QW t: 0191 680 8317
Hedley on the Hill, Stocksfield, NE43 7SW t: 01661 843 607
THE ALLENDALE INN
West Road, Ovingham Prudhoe, NE42 6BN t: 01661 832219
THE VICTORIA INN
THE FEATHERS INN
THE HADRIAN HOTEL
THE BLUE BELL
THE WHITE LION
THE DYVELS INN
Military Road, Bardon Mill, NE47 7AN t: 01434 344534
GENERAL HAVELOCK INN
Pit House Lane, Leamside, Houghton le Spring, DH4 6QQ t: 0191 584 2394
THE WILD BOAR
Newfield, Chester le Street, DH2 2SP t: 0191 3700565
Station Road, Corbridge, NE45 5AY. t: 01434 633 633
Bellingham, NE48 2JT t: 01434 220254
THE THREE HORSESHOES
THE MINERS ARMS
THE NEWFIELD INN
Barrasford Hexham, NE48 4AA t: 01434 681237
THE DIAMOND INN
RIVERDALE HALL HOTEL
Mount Pleasant, West Mickley, Stocksfield NE43 7LP t: 01661 843146
THE CLARENCE VILLA
13 The Green, Aycliffe Vilage, County Durham, DL5 6LX t: 01325 312273
ADAM & EVE
Humshaugh, Hexham, NE46 4AG t: 01434 681 231 Main Street, Ponteland, NE20 9BB. t: 01661 872898
Main Road, Wylam, NE41 8DL t: 01661 598060
WICKET GATE
THE COUNTY
NORTHUMBERLAND
The Wynding, Beadnell, NE675AX. t: 01665 720 272
Stanegate Road, Newbrough, Hexham, NE47 5AR t: 01434 674226
FOX AND HOUNDS
Durham Road, Rainton Bridge, DH5 8NG t: 0191 5843211 41 Manor Road, Medomsley, DH8 6QN t: 01207 560428
Hawkshead Brewery, Mill Yard, Staveley, LA8 9LR t: 01539 825260
RED LION INN
West Herrington, Houghton le Spring, DH4 4ND t: 0191 584 9226
1 Archer Street, Darlington County Durham, DL3 6LR t: 01325 463787 Durham Road, Coxhoe, County Durham, DH4HX t: 0191 377 3773
THE BEER HALL
THE CROWN INN
Front Street West, Bedlington, NE22 5TZ t: 01670 536160
BARRASFORD ARMS
Mountsett, Burnopfield, NE16 6BA t: 01207 570346
THE STABLES
THE MANOR HOUSE HOTEL
CUMBRIA
RED LION
THE PLOUGH
THE JOHN DUCK
North Road, Chester le Street, DH3 4AJ t: 0191 3871162
Vicars Lane, Manfield, DL2 2RF t: 01325 374243
THE CRASTER ARMS
60 Bridge Street, Blyth, NE24 2AP t: 01670 368346
The Bank, Barnard Castle DL12 8PH t: 01833 690 130
THE SPORTSMANS ARMS
THE LAMBTON WORM
THE CROWN INN
OLIVERS
Prudhoe Station, Low Prudhoe, NE42 6NP t: 01661 832323 ROBIN HOOD INN Military Road, East Wallhouses, Corbridge, NE18 0LL BAMBURGH CASTLE INN t: 01434 672549 Seahouses, NE68 7SQ t: 01665 720283
THE OLD WELL INN
Croxdale Bridge, Croxdale, DH1 3HP t: 0191 3783782
91A Claypath, Durham City, DH1 1 RG
NORTH YORKSHIRE
THE CARTS BOG INN
Langley on Tyne, Hexham, NE47 5NW. t: 01434 684338
Main Street, Haltwhistle, NE49 0BS t: 01434 322588
THE NORTHUMBERLAND ARMS
The Old Toll House, Castle Sqaure, Morpeth 9 Main Street, Seahouses, NE68 7RD t: 01665 720 200
THE PACKHORSE INN
Ellingham, Chathill, NE67 5HA t: 01665 589292
THE PERCY ARMS
Main Road, Chatton, NE66 5PS. t: 01670 215244
THE PILOT INN
31 Low Greens, Berwick upon Tweed, TD15 1LZ. t: 01289 304214
THE PLOUGH
Village Square, Cramlington, NE23 1DN t: 01670 737633
THE PLOUGH INN
Front Street, Ellington, NE61 5JB t: 01670 860340
THE RAILWAY HOTEL
Church Street, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6JG t: 01434 684254
THE RAILWAY INN
Acklington, Morpeth, NE65 9BP t: 01670 760 320
THE RAT INN
Anick, Hexham, NE46 4LN t: 01434 602 814
THE RIDLEY ARMS
Stannington, Morpeth, NE61 6EL t: 01670 789216
THE SHIP INN
BRIDGE TAVERN
THE SUN INN
7 Akenside Hill Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3UF t: 0191 232 1122
THE SUN INN
• Selection of real ales • Food served daily • Roof terrace
Monkseaton, Whitley Bay NE25 8DP. t: 0191 251 3677
Acomb, NE46 4PW. t: 01434 602934
High Church, Morpeth, NE61 2QT, t: 01670 514153
THE SWINBURNE ARMS
31 North Side, Stamfordham, NE18 0QG t: 01661 886015
THE TANNERY
Gilesgate, Hexham, NE46 3QD t: 01434 605537 • Beer & Whisky room • Live music • Dog friendly
THE TAP & SPILE
Eastgate, Hexham, NE46 1BH, t: 01434 602039
THE TRAVELLERS REST
Slaley, Hexham, NE46 1TT t: 01434 673231 www.travellersrestslaley.com
THE WELLINGTON
Main Road, Riding Mill, NE44 6DQ t: 01434 682531
THE WHITE SWAN
Main Road, Ovingham, Prudhoe Northumberland NE42 6AG t: 01661 833188
THE WHEATSHEAF
St Helens Street, Corbridge, NE45 5HE t: 01434 632020
THE VICTORIA HOTEL
1 Front Street, Bamburgh, NE69 7BP, t: 01668 214431
THE VILLAGE INN
Longframlington, Morpeth, NE65 8AD t: 01665 570268 www.thevillageinnpub.co.uk
TEESSIDE BEST WESTERN GRAND HOTEL
Swainston Street, Hartlepool, TS24 8AA t: 01429 266345 e: grandhotel@tavistockleisure.com
BRITANNIA INN
65 High Street, Loftus, TS13 4HG t: 01287 640612
CLEVELAND BAY
Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, TS16 0JE t: 01642 780275
THE CLEVELAND HOTEL
9-11 High Street West Redcar, Cleveland, TS10 1SQ t: 01642 484035
TYNE & WEAR ALUM ALE HOUSE
Ferry Street, South Shields, NE33 1JR
ASHBROOKE SPORTS CLUB
BRIDLE PATH
101 Front Street, Whickham, NE16 4JJ t: 0191 4217676
CHESTERS
Chester Road, Sunderland, SR4 7DR t: 0191 5659952
COPPERFIELDS
Grand Hotel, Grand Parade Tyne And Wear, NE30 4ER t: 0191 293 6666
CUMBERLAND ARMS
12 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2571820 www.cumberlandarms.co.uk
DELAVAL ARMS
Old Hartley, NE26 4RL t: 0191 237 0489
CROWN POSADA
31 Side, Newcastle, NE1 3JE t: 0191 2321269
FIRE STATION
York Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 1AB t: 0191 293 9030
FITZGERALDS
60 Grey Street, Newcastle, NE1 6AF t: 0191 2301350
FITZGERALDS
10-12 Green Terrace, Sunderland, SR1 3PZ t: 0191 5670852
FITZGERALDS
2 South Parade, Whitley Bay, NE26 2RG t: 0191 2511255
FOX & HOUNDS
Coalburns, Greenside, NE40 4JN t: 0191 4132549
FREE TRADE INN
St Lawrence Road, Byker, Newcastle, NE6 1AP t: 0191 265 5764
GOSFORTH HOTEL
Roker Terrace, Sunderland, SR6 9ND t: 0191 5671786 e: info@rokerhotel.co.uk
HUGOS
29 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2578956
ISIS
Worcester Terrace, Sunderland SR2 7AW
LA TAVERNA
Stella Road, Ryton NE21 4LU t: 0191 413 2921
BIERREX
• Tapas • Real Ale • Chicken
BRIDGE HOTEL
LADY GREY’S
82 Pilgrim Street, NE1 6SG Castle Square, Newcastle, NE1 1RQ t: 0191 232 6400 e: info@sjf.co.uk
NE27 0BJ t: 0191 2680711
THE HASTINGS
THE POTTERS WHEEL
MARKET LANE
• Large selection of real ales • Regular food & drink festivals • Food served
THE HEAD OF STEAM
72-74 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, NE1 6SG t: 0191 232 0251
MARQUIS OF GRANBY
Streetgate, Sunniside, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear NE16 5ES t: 0191 257 4831
NEWCASTLE ARMS
57 St Andrews Street, Newcastle, NE1 5SE t: 0191 260 2490
ODDFELLOWS
7 Albion Road, North Shields, NE30 2RJ. t: 0191 4358450
OSBORNES BAR
61 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle, NE2 2AN t: 0191 240 2811
PUB & KITCHEN
13/14 Albion Road, North Shields NE30 2RJ t: 0191 2573199
RED LION
Redcar Terrace, West Boldon, NE36 0PZ. t: 0191 536 4197
ROCKLIFFE ARMS
Algernon Place, Whitley Bay, NE26 2DT t: 0191 2531299
ROSIES BAR
2 Stowell Street, NE1 4XQ t: 0191 2328477
SHIREMOOR HOUSE FARM Middle Engine Lane, North Shields, NE29 8DZ t: 0191 2576302
SUN INN
20 Shakespeare Street, Newcastle, NE1 6AQ t: 0191 2323606
THE BROAD CHARE
25 Broad Chare, Trinity Gardens, Quayside, Newcastle, NE1 3DQ t: 0191 211 2144
THE CAUSEY ARCH INN
Beamish Burn Road, Marley Hill, Newcastle, NE16 5EG t: 01207 233925
THE CENTRAL
Half Moon Lane, Gateshead, NE8 2AN t: 0191 4782543 e: central@theheadofsteam.co.uk
THE CENTURION
Neville Street, Newcastle, NE1 5DG, t: 0191 261 6611 • Real ales • Food available • Live sports shown
THE CHILLINGHAM
Chillingham Road, Newcastle, NE1 1RQ t: 0191 265 3992
THE CLUNY
36 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ t: 0191 230 4474
THE COPT HILL
Seaham Road, Houghton le Spring, DH35 8LU t: 0191 5844485
Market Lane, Swalwell, Gateshead, NE16 3AL t: 0191 442 9393
THE COTTAGE TAVERN
THREE MILE INN,
THE COUNTY
Great North Road, Gosforth, Newcastle, NE3 2DS t: 0191 255 2100
TILLEYS BAR
105 Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AG t: 0191 232 0692
TOBY BARNES
TRAVELLERS REST
Allan House, City Road Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 2BE
IVY HOUSE
BEST WESTERN ROKER HOTEL
Sunderland, SR6 0NU t: 0191 5671402
HOTEL DU VIN & BISTRO
BACCHUS
Front Street, Longbenton NE7 7XE t: 0191 2661512
Haddricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, NE3 1QL t: 0191 2840490
Durham Road, Sunderland SR2 7RB, t: 0191 5285644 www.tobycarvery.co.uk
Ashbrooke Road, Sunderland, SR2 7HH. t: 0191 528 4536
BENTON ALE HOUSE
THE BRANDLING VILLA
1 Camden Street, North Shields, NE30 1NH t: 0191 257 4831
High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HQ t: 0191 2856617
26 Silksworth Row, Sunderland, SR1 3QJ t: 0191 5147684
42-48 High Bridge, Newcastle, NE1 6BX. t: 0191 2611008
MAGNESIA BANK
North Road, Wide Open NE13 6LN t: 0191 2366300
TWIN FARMS
22 Main Road, Kenton Bk Ft, NE13 8AB t: 0191 2861263
TYNE BAR
Maling Street, Newcastle, NE6 1LP
TYNEMOUTH LODGE
Tynemouth Road, North Shields, NE30 4AA t: 0191 257 7565
THE BEEHIVE
Hartley Lane, Earsdon, NE25 05Z. t: 0191 2529352
North Street, Cleadon, SR6 7PL t: 0191 519 0547 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HB. t: 0191 285 6919
THE COURTYARD
Wheatridge Row, Seaton Delaval, NE25 0QH t: 0191 237 6868 2 Neville Street, Newcastle NE1 5EN t: 0191 230 4236
THE HEAD OF STEAM
3 The Arcade, Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4BS t: 0191 272 8105
THE HOTSPUR
103 Percy Street, Newcastle, NE1 7RY t: 0191 2324352
THE JOB BULMAN
St Nicholas Avenue, Gosforth, NE3 1AA t: 0191 2236320
THE JOLLY STEWARD
Fulwell Ave, South Shields, NE34 7DF t: 0191 427 2951
THE KEELMAN
Grange Road, Newburn, Newcastle , NE15 8NL t: 0191 267 1689
THE KEEL ROW
The Gate, Newcastle, NE1 5RF t: 01912299430
THE KINGS ARMS
Beech Street, Deptford, SR4 6BU t: 0191 567 9804
THE KINGS ARMS
West Terrace, Seaton Sluice, NE26 4RD t: 0191 2370275
206 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HD. t: 0191 2858060
THE RAVENSWORTH ARMS Lamesley, Gateshead, NE11 0ER. t: 0191 487 6023
THE RED KITE
Spa Well Road, Winlaton Mill, NE21 6RU. t: 0191 414 5840
THE RISING SUN
Bank Top, Crawcrook, NE40 4EE. t: 0191 4133316
THE ROSE & CROWN
North Street, Winlaton NE21 6BT. t: 0191 4145887
THE RUNHEAD
Holburn Lane, Ryton, Tyne & Wear, NE40 3HJ t: 0191 413 9517
THE SANDPIPER
Farringdon Road, Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear, NE30 3ER t: 0191 253 5050
THE SCHOONER
South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3AF t: 0191 477 7404
THE SIR WILLIAM DE WESSYNGTON
Brewhouse Bank, North Shields, NE30 1LL t: 0191 2576038
2-3 Victoria Road, Concord, Washington, NE37 2JY t: 0191 418 0100
THE STAITH HOUSE
Arts Centre, Biddick Lane, Washington, NE38 8AB t: 0191 219 3463
THE MERCHANTS TAVERN
1 St Peters Wharf, Newcastle NE6 1TZ. 0191 5971212
57 Low Lights, North Shields, NE30 1JA t: 0191 2708441
THE CUMBERLAND ARMS
THE MID BOLDON CLUB
THE STEAMBOAT
THE MILE CASTLE
THE TANNERS
THE MILL HOUSE
THE THREE TUNS
James Place Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle, NE6 1LD t: 0191 265 6151
DAT BAR
11 Market St, Newcastle, NE1 6JN t: 0191 244 2513
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON High Bridge, Newcastle NE1 1EN t: 0191 261 8852
THE DUN COW
9 High Street West, Sunderland SR1 3HA t: 0191 5672262
THE FIVE SWANS
St Marys Place, Newcastle, NE1 7PG t: 0191 2111140
THE GREEN
White Mare Pool, Wardley, Gateshead, NE10 8YB t: 0191 4950171
THE GREY HORSE
60 Front Street. East Boldon, NE36 0SH 52 Westgate Rd, NE1 5XU t: 0191 2111160 Blackfell, Birtley, DH3 1RE t: 0191 415 1313
THE MILLSTONE HOTEL
Hadricks Mill Road, South Gosforth, NE3 1QL t: 0191 285 3429
THE NEW BRIDGE
2 -4 Argyle Street, Newcastle, NE1 6PF t: 0191 2321020
THE NORTHUMBRIAN PIPER
Sheriffs Highway, Gateshead, NE9 5SD. t: 0191 4870666
THE TOWN WALL
Pink Lane, Newcastle, NE1 5HX www.thetownwall.com
• Selection of real ales • Food served daily • Cinema room available
THE OLD GEORGE
Killingworth Road, South Gosforth, NE3 1SY t: 0191 285 1254
THE PACKHORSE
THE HARBOUR VIEW
THE PAVILION
Benedict Street, Roker,
1 Byker Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2NS
THE TURKS HEAD
THE GREY HORSE
Old Penshaw Village, Houghton-le-Spring, DH4 7ER. t: 0191 512 6080
27 Mill Dam, South Shields NE33 1EQ t: 0191 454 0134
Fawdon House, Red House Farm Estate, Gosforth, NE3 2AH t: 0191 2856793
THE BRIAR DENE
176 High Street, Gosforth, NE3 1HD. t: 0191 28540
THE QUEEN VICTORIA
THE LOW LIGHTS TAVERN
North Parade, Whitley Bay t: 0191 251 3877
125 Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AG. t: 0191 221 1552
THE BRANDLING ARMS
Front Street, Tynemouth NE30 4DX. t. 0191 257 8302
• Cask & craft beers & ciders • Fab food to feast on • Old school, not retro
Old George Yd, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EE t: 0191 260 3035
71 The Links, Whitley Bay, NE26 1UE. t: 0191 2520926
THE PRIORY
THE KING GEORGE
Front Street, East Boldon, NE36 0SJ t: 0191 519 1796
THE BODEGA
Sunniside, Newcastle, NE16 5EE. t: 0191 488 8068
Crookgate, Burnopfield, NE16 6NS t: 01207 270283 Hotspur North, Backworth,
41 Front Street, Tynemouth, NE30 4DZ t: 0191 2576547
THE VICTORY
THREE HORSESHOES HOTEL
Washington Road, Sunderland Tyne & Wear, SR5 3HZ 0191 519 2006
YE OLD CROSS INN
Ryton Village, NE40 3QP t: 0191 4134689
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FUN STUFF
SIGN OF THE TIMES A rather surreal notice spotted in Pedalling Squares, a cyclingthemed café/bar in Swalwell, Gateshead.
THE FIRST ELEVEN FOOTBALL PUZZLERS TO CELEBRATE THE 2016 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 What nation’s top league is called the Eredivisie?
THREE HELL’S ANGELS WALKED INTO A BAR… …AND APPROACHED A MAN ENJOYING HIS LUNCH. THE FIRST HELL’S ANGEL TOSSED HIS CIGAR STUB INTO THE CUSTOMER’S BEER, ANOTHER GRABBED A HANDFUL OF CHIPS, THEN THE THIRD PICKED UP THE PLATE AND THREW ON THE FLOOR. THE CUSTOMER GOT UP, WALKED OUT QUIETLY, SAYING NOTHING. “NOT MUCH OF A MAN,” SAID THE FIRST HELL’S ANGEL TO HIS MATES. “NOT MUCH OF A DRIVER, EITHER,” SAID THE BARMAN. “HE’S JUST REVERSED HIS TRUCK OVER THREE MOTORBIKES.”
EEH! NUMBER
£114
2 Viktoria Plzen are this season’s Czech Republic league champions. What famous beer is made in the brewery next door? 3 How many English managers have won the Premier League (or Premiership) since it began in 1992? 4 Which Italian club did Dennis Law play for? 5 Which player headed 35 of his 68 Premier League/Premiership goals? 6 What was the name of the dog that found the Jules Rimet (World Cup) trophy after it was stolen in 1966? 7 In 1999, who was named European Player of the Century? 8 Which English league club did Ian Botham play for (1980)? 9 Who was England captain in the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain? 10 Which English team’s name starts with five consonants? 11 What is unusual about Scottish club St Johnstone?
The cost of a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino 2011 at Scott’s in Soho ordered by Jesus Perez, assistant to Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino, at a recent twohour lunch with wine-lover Sir Alex Ferguson. “Myself and Sir Alex spoke and Jesus drank,” Pochettino told The Guardian.
QUOTE OVERHEARD IN A SMALL AND QUIRKY NEWCASTLE BAR THAT FEATURES A COUNTER FULL OF CASK ALES AND CRAFT KEG BEERS:
“GOT ANY JOHN SMITH’S?” “SORRY, WE DON’T SELL JOHN SMITH’S, BUT WE’VE GOT A GREAT RANGE OF ALES (BARMAID FLOURISHES HANDS).” “NAW, DARLIN’. PINT OF SNAKEBITE. ANY LAGER. SWEET CIDER.”
QUIZ ANSWERS 1 Netherlands. 2 Pilsner Urquell. 3 None. 4 Torino. 5 Duncan Ferguson. 6 Pickles. 7 Johan Cruyff. 8 Scunthorpe United. 9 Mick Mills. 10 Crystal Palace. 11 It’s the only British senior club with a J in its name.
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