Summer Newsletter 2024
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Membership: thanks to everybody who has renewed their membership. We are now sporting 90 members. Ernie Hill’s daughter Mary and husband David renewed in Wigan. Welcome back!
Our member Steve Pratt has had a piece published in the Brewery History Society Newsletter, all about traditional Black Country ales highlighting Simkiss Brewery of Brierley Hill. Steve writes under the name of Steve James.
The trip to Wigan was a great success, with 43 on the coach and a rendezvous with past members Mary and David Moore in the town. I think everybody managed to do at least 6 pubs, some a lot more. Five hours just flew by and then we went to the ‘Holy Inadequate’ in Etruria, for a quick one on the way back. I think we should consider a return visit to Wigan next year. We are working on an ‘Awayday’ to Wolverhampton on Saturday 20thJuly for a pub crawl, so those with bus-
I recently went on a coach trip to Folkstone and found a couple of good pubs; the local Wetherspoons ‘The Samuel Peto’ is named after an Admiral and is a converted church; and the ‘East Cliff Tavern’ which is a terraced house pub in East Cliff which is a 10 minute walk from the harbour. I was drinking Kent Brewery ‘Prohibition‘ here, an American Pale Ale of 4.8% at £4.20 a pint. Richard the landlord only keeps 1 beer on at a time to reduce wastage but it’s always a local, light and hoppy one. We also went to Canterbury, and you want to try the ‘Foundry Brewpub’ in Stour St. just off the High St. (Foundry ‘Torpedo’4.5% -
Burton Bridge Brewery has been sold to Planning Solutions who operate the Conkers tourist attraction nearby. It previously ran the National Brewery Centre in Burton, prior to Molson Coors’ decision to close it. With that closure, Planning Solutions retained the Heritage Brewery brand, with beers since brewed under contract by Burton Bridge. The brewery’s 5 pubs were sold off before the deal.