Forthcoming Socials

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A record 16 members (one behind the camera!) - just over half of those who currently subscribe - and 2 guests attended our 1^ST Social in 2023

2024 Events

Proposed:

Saturday, 31^ST August

'West Sussex Taprooms & Pubs'

Noon - Horsham Tap, 3, Blatchford Close, Horsham, RH13 5RG Good Beer Guide 2024 then:

1.30pm - Brolly Brewing, Unit 8, Redkiln Close, Horsham, RG13 5QL then:

2.30pm - Black Jug, 31, North Street, Horsham, RG12 1RJ then:

3.30pm - Malt Shovel, 15, 15, Springfield Road, Horsham, RG12 2PG Good Beer Guide 2024 then:

4.30pm - King's Arms, 64, Bishopric, Horsham, RG12 1QN then:

5.30pm - Anchor Tap, 16, East Street, Horsham, RG12 1HL.

Should Sit & Sip, Piries Place, Horsham, RG12 1DG be open, that venue may be added-in or subsituted for any shut on the day.

Further details regarding travel arrangements to & from Horsham will be posted here shortly.

A further Social this year is being planned for:

Bristol Breweries & Taprooms: October

For 2025, Socials are being pencilled-in for:

Dodo Micropub & The Grosvenor, Hanwell, Owl & Pussycat & Forester, West Ealing (jointly with APPFEL) (winter)

Pembury Arms Lager Festival, Hackney (spring)

Belgian Brewer, Nag's Head, Beer Shop & Wheatsheaf, Bishop's Stortford (summer)

Nicholas Nickleby, Stroud Green (autumn)

Proposed (short term):

'Bill English Memorial Trip to Amsterdam & Antwerp (possibly including Ypres) - tba

Further details will be posted here in due course.

Proposed (medium term):

'Pröflokaal Rembrandt removed'

It ain't much if it ain't Dutch, 67-8, Enid Street, Bermondsey, SE1 9QB - autumn 2024?

The relocation of the Pröflokaal Rembrandt bar from the first floor at the closed Bolton ph in Earl's Court should provide us with another opportunity to revisit aspects of the Bermondsey 'Beer Mile'.

Proposed (long term):

'Further London Lager Microbreweries'

Noon - Antwerp Arms, 168-70, Church Road, Tottenham, N17 8AS then

1.30pm - True Craft (ex-West Green Tavern), 68, West Green Road, South Tottenham, N15 5NR, then

3pm - Bohem Brewery Tap Room, Unit 5, Littleline House, 41-3, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0RE then

4.30pm - One Mile End Brewery Tap Room, Unit 2, Compass West Estate, 32, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0XL then

6pm - Redemption Brewery Tap Room, Unit 16, Compass West Estate, 32, West Road, Northumberland Park, N17 0XL Closes 7pm

(All taprooms are adjacent to each other, One Mile End moving into Redemption's premises when the latter relocated and Bohem moving nearby to create a venue adjacent to their resited brewery additional to that at Bowes Park.)

CAMAL membership badges should be worn - by those who have them! - by all participating members at every event.

This depiction of mediæval monastic brewing appears to have the CAMAL tankard clearly in view!

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Sunday, 7^TH July

'Ringing the Newcastle Beer Furlong'

Noon - Tilley's Bar, 105, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 4AG Good Beer Guide 2024 then:

1.30pm - The Gunner Tavern, Neville Street, Newcastle, NE1 5DF then:

3pm - Mosaic Tap, Arch 7, Forth Banks, Newcastle, NE1 3PG then:

4.30pm - Beer Street, Arch 10, Forth Street, Newcastle, NE1 3NZ. Good Beer Guide 2024

We continued after Beer Street to The Head of Steam, 2, Neville Street, and Newcastle Tap, 4, Neville Street, both NE1 5EN and GBG 2024, from 6pm.

The theme here reflected the numbers of micropubs which had established themselves along Forth Street in the last decade, hence the 'Beer Furlong' tag, but which, due to spiralling rents and rates, have had to relocate elsewhere. Arch 11 once housed Split Chimp and Delta Lounge respectively (Arch 9 once being the GBG-listed NORA off-licence!) with only Beer Street now remaining. [Split Chimp resited to Arch 7 along Westgate Road, gaining GBG 2024 accreditation, but which has since closed!] The route south of the station is alongside the long-closed Northern Clubs' Federation Brewery.

Saturday, 25^TH May

'Peterborough in Microcosm'

12.30pm - Frothblowers, 78, Sterrington Way, Werrington, Peterborough, PE4 6QP then:

2.30pm - Oakham Brewery Tap, 80, Westgate, Peterborough, PE1 1AA then:

4.30pm - Wonky Donkey, 102^C, High Street, Fletton, Peterborough, PE2 8DR then:

6.10pm - Stoneworks, 8^B, Church Street, Peterborough, PE1 1XB then:

7.30pm - Bumble Inn, 46, Westgate, PE1 1RE.

We, mostly, all convened at St. Pancras Thameslink station entrance (below the suburban platforms) at 10am ready for the 1016 train to Peterborough.

Delaine's 101 bus was then taken to our first venue in Werrington (the 1 being used for our return) and, after lunch, buses 5 or 5^A to/from Fletton were used.

Appropriately, the Frothblowers regaled us with a craught Pot Belly Lager Bräu (ie on handpump) together with a range of 39 ciders/perries (making this a de facto APPFEL social too!). This and the other micros all had dark beers available, including mild, porter and (milk) stout, as well as the usual PAs whereas the Oakham Brewery majored on the latter only (probably as a more suitable accompaniment to the Thai food available there).

Although our intended return train to St. Pancras Thameslink was scheduled to depart Peterborough at 2054, that - and the 2154 - were cancelled so we took the 2124 instead.

Saturday, 9^TH, March

'Berks Stumbling around Breweries, Micropubs & more'

11.45am - Sit & Sip, 8, Peach Place, Wokingham, RG40 1LY then:

1pm - Outhouse Brewery, Unit 4, Southgate House, Alexandra Court, Wokingham, RG40 2SL then:

2.30pm - Lord Raglan, 30, Denmark Street, Wokingham, RG40 2 BB.

We then visited:

Crispin, Broad Street Tavern & Queen's Head in that order.

We'd convened outside Wokingham station at 11.30am from where a short walk led to all venues. Trains, ex-Guildford 1043/Farnborough North 1101, ex-Reading 1105 and ex-Waterloo 1020/CJ 1028, arrived there at 1119/19/27 respectively.

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