Monday 24 August 2015

Live@Langhams coming up on Saturday 29th August!

Mini beer fest with 13 Langham Ales available plus a couple of surprises! Local cider and other liquid lubrication. Excellent local BBQ from Richline Farm Shop at Cocking…eat the steak burger, plus yummy lamb roast, jumbo sausages, veggie option and homemade cakes with tea and coffee!

Music and comedy and dancing! Incredible line up including some top UK acts: Fred's House, Cardboard Caravan, Jonas and Jane, Mantic Muddlers, Ed Goodale and Lucy Budge, Brighton Funny Woman from the Komedia! Plus the marvellous Martlet Morris dancers, interactive Morris Dancing :) Plus loads more acts to be announced.

Start 1 pm. Finish 11.00 pm Camping will be available. Free entry. Child and dog friendly. Contributions to be given to Snowdrop Trust (home care for terminally ill in Sussex) and one other local charity to be decided on FB

https://www.facebook.com/events/1588493034701571/

  • at 13:00–23:00
    5 days from now
  • The Granary, Langham Lane, Lodsworth, West Sussex, GU28 9BU 
Plans underway for our next Live@Langhams this summer! Our usual relaxed style; a full day of festival fun, full of frolics and fine food, here at the brewery!! 

Music management is in the capable hands of Midhurst's Heard and Seen, arranging great music with a diverse programme showcasing local musical talent, Morris Dancing and comedy!

Line-Up includes.....

Cardboard Carousel
Ed Goodale - Singer/Songwriter
Fonsleberry and the Wolseys
Fred's House
Joe Dunsford
Jonas and Jane

KATYA
Lucy Budge - Comedian
Martlet Sword & Morris Men - MORRIS DANCING
The Mantic Muddlers
Tom Baird Music 


FREE ENTRY

Friday 21 August 2015

The Great Jenny Lind Beer Run

Inspired by the Beaujolais Runs of the 1980s, Linda Challis & KC decided it would be great to offer their customers at the Jenny Lind, Hastings Old Town, a selection of 2015 Champion Beer of Britain Category Winning Beers over this August Bank Holiday weekend. Having attended the Great British Beer Festival on 11th August, when the winning beers were announced, they immediately sampled each beer (for audit purposes, of course) before returning home. They then made contact with each winning brewery to organise collection of three firkins of each beer (if available) the following week.

The following few days were spent calculating the most economic way to travel around the UK visiting each brewery, commencing 17th August. Their journey took them to:

East Markham, Nottinghamshire, Gold Award Bitter Category, Pheasantry Best Bitter;

Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, Gold Award Golden Ale Category and overall Silver Supreme Champion, Kelburn Jaguar;

Partridge Green, West Sussex, Gold Award Strong Bitter Category, Dark Star Revelation;

Burslem, Staffordshire, Gold Award Speciality Beer Category, Titanic Plum Porter;

Lower Beeding, West Sussex, Silver Award Speciality Beer Category, Kissingate Black Cherry Mild;

Keighley, West Yorkshire, Joint Bronze Award Bitter Category, Timothy Taylor Boltmaker;

Porthmadog, Gwynedd, North Wales, Joint Bronze Award Bitter Category, Purple Moose Madog’s Ale;

Unfortunately two well deserved winners, Cwtch from Tiny Rebel of Newport, Gwent (Gold Award Best Bitter Category and overall Supreme Champion) and Black by Williams Bros of Kelliebank, Alloa, Scotland (Gold Award Mild Category) were out of stock, but it is hoped bring you these later in the year if possible. Follow the pub’s Facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/jennylindhastings?fref=ts

But they did add the Sussex Microbrewery Winner of the 2014 CAMRA Eastbourne Beer Festival: Long Man Brewery Long Blonde, from Litlington, East Sussex, always featured at the Jenny Lind.


The beers were returned to the Jenny Lind for storage in the new purposely-built cold room to prepare them for sale commencing the evening of Friday 28th August, the start of the Bank Holiday weekend, when the pub will be promoting this showcase of eight beers from eight great breweries with a great, live musical act every day of the four-day event.

The cost of the sponsorship of this event will be borne by Keith & Linda Challis and will no-way be reflected in the normal retail pricing policy of The Jenny Lind operated by The KC Pub Co Ltd. For more information on the Jenny Lind, please visit http://www.jennylindhastings.co.uk/


Friday 14 August 2015

Save the Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton

The Rose Hill Tavern Action Group has less than two months to save the Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton. Their campaign has already won recognition of the Tavern as an Asset of Community Value, but ACV status only provides protection from development for a year before another planning application can be made. The pub was purchased from Enterprise Inns by Evenden Estates who put it back onto the market after their proposal to turn it into flats was rejected by Brighton and Hove City Council.

The only way to guarantee that the pub will not once again be bought by property developers is for the locals to buy it themselves. But they have only until Friday 2 October to raise the money to make a purchase and secure it as a community facility. Can you help?



Please visit the web site www.therosehilltaverncommunitypub.co.uk. From there you can do any of the following:

• Pledge to buy shares: these will be launched in August but you can pledge now on Crowdfunder.

• Share your professional skills: people are urgently needed with finance, legal or property expertise.

• Donate to the fighting fund: money needs to be raised right away for a structural survey.

• Show the level of community support: add a goodwill message to the Supporters Wall.

• Say what you want from the Rose Hill Tavern as a community asset: it can be whatever we decide it to be!


The Rose Hill Tavern is one of the few remaining traditional neighbourhood pubs left in the rapidly changing London Road area. There has been a pub on the site since the 1870s. The present building, with its distinctive green tiled exterior and leaded stained glass windows, dates from a 1934 improvement by architect Stavers Hessell Tiltman for the now-defunct Portsmouth and Brighton United Breweries. There have been changes to the interior since then: most notably the removal of the Bottle & Jug in 1950 and the later bringing into use of a large room at the rear-left. Nonetheless, at the time of its closure, the pub retained a two-bar layout and was a potential candidate for the CAMRA South East Regional Inventory of Heritage Pubs.

The Rose Hill Tavern has always welcomed everyone in the community, young and old. The action group want to see the space put to good use and are asking local people what they would like from their community pub. Suggestions so far include a microbrewery, space for business meetings, training for people learning the pub and catering trades, and a venue for pop-ups. Please send through your ideas and suggestions.

Email: contact@therosehilltaverncommunitypub.co.uk

Web: www.therosehilltaverncommunitypub.co.uk

Facebook: Save The Rose Hill Tavern Brighton (please ‘Like’ us)

Wednesday 12 August 2015

Champion Beer of Britain 2015 Results



Three Sussex breweries win category awards at this year's Champion Beer of Britain Competition


Champion Beer of Britain 2015
CAMRA are pleased to announce this year's Champion Beers of Britain as follows: 
Supreme Champions
Supreme Champion Rosette - Gold
Gold 
Tiny Rebel - Cwtch
Silver
Kelburn - Jaguar
Bronze
Dancing Duck - Dark Drake
Mild
Mild Rosette - Gold
Gold
Williams Brother- Black 
Silver
Rudgate - Ruby Mild 
Bronze
Great Orme - Welsh Black
Best Bitter
Best Bitter Rosette - Gold
Gold
Tiny Rebel - Cwtch
Silver: 
Highland - Scapa Special 
Joint Bronze:
Barngates - Tag Lag
Salopian - Darwin's Origin
Speciality
Speciality Rosette - Gold
Gold
Titantic - Plum Porter 
Joint Silver 
Kissingate - Black Cherry Mild 
Saltaire - Triple Chocolate 
Bronze
Hanlons - Port Stout
Bitter
Bitter Rosette - Gold
Gold
Pheasantry - Best Bitter

Silver 
Acorn - Barnsley Bitter

Joint Bronze
Purple Moose - Madog's Ale
Timothy Taylors - Boltmaker
 
Golden
Golden Ale Rosette - Gold
Gold
Kelburn - Jaguar
Silver
Adnams - Explorer 
Bronze
Blue Monkey - Infinity
Strong Bitter
Strong Bitter Gold
Gold
Dark Star - Revelation
Silver
Salopian - Golden Thread
Bronze
Grain - India Pale Ale
Champion Bottle-Conditioned Beer
Bottled Beer Rosette - Gold
Gold
Harveys - Imperial Extra Double Stout
Silver
Fyne Ales - Superior IPA
Bronze
Mordue - India Pale Ale