Real ale

REAL ALE AND OTHER FOREIGN BEERS

Official site of the Campaign for real ale Why not join Camra when visiting the site?
The Chiltern Brewery This family owned and run micro brewery was founded in 1980 and was one of the first of the "new wave" micro-breweries in England. It is now by some margin the oldest working brewery in Buckinghamshire, the brewery has pioneered not only several new types of product with a unique beer relationship, but a revolutionary style of operation too. Please visit their website www.Chilternbrewery.co.uk for details of their products, tours, functions and the brewing process.
Rebellion Brewery Co. The Rebellion Beer Company was chosen as the name for the new brewery. Brewing equipment was designed and purchased. Towards the end of 1992 all the planning had been completed and all that was left to be done was to find suitable premises. Eventually, two small adjacent industrial units were found on the Rose Business Estate in Marlow Bottom. The surrounding chalky Chiltern hills providing water high in minerals and salts essential for producing high quality and distinctive real ale. The first commercial beers were brewed and tasted in April 1993 and the company soon developed a good local following for its cask conditioned ales. By spring 1995 the brewery was running at it’s full capacity of 50 barrels per week. New premises were required for various reasons and at the beginning of January ’99, after the extensive renovation of two barns, the first brew was completed at the new site, Bencombe Farm in Marlow Bottom, 1 month after the closure of the old site. Please visit their website www.rebellionbeer.co.uk/ for details of their products, tours, functions, etc.
Banbury Beer Festival – 11th May 2012
Drinking ale is a tiring business :)	Sheila
	Alastair
Clive
The Craft– 25th February 2012
The bar	Jezza’s brother & wife
Jezza, Theresa, Jezza’s brother & wife	Emma, Jezza & Theresa
The Cask, MikeK & Jennie’s visit– 27th January 2012
Jezza, Theresa & Clive	MikeK & Jennie
MikeK & Jennie + bump
Brew dog – 14th January 2012
Tactical Nuclear Penguin
The Craft – 15th October 2011
Emma	Clive & Emma
? & Jezza	? & Teresa
	Clive & Emma
Clive & Emma	Ceiling
Theresa	Theresa, Jezza & Clive
Clive
The Harp – Camra Pub of the year 2010 – 17th September 2011
The Bar	Dark Star beer mats
Dark Star beer mats
King William IV - Brodies brewery tap – 3rd September 2011
Simon & Jackie	Theresa & Jezza
Emma & ChisO	ChrisO & Ian Harrison
Jezza & Clive
Southampton Arms & The Craft – 20th August 2011
	Milton Brewery Colossus
	Martin
Simon	Jackie
Martin & Clive
Southampton Arms & The Craft – 13th August 2011
Southampton arms clock, does it ever show the right time?	Southampton Arms mirror
Southampton arms mirror	Southampton Arms menu
Simon & Jezza	Theresa & Jackie
Ceiling	Jackie concentrating deeply
Simon & Jezza	Clive
Clive
The Craft – 23rd July 2011
Ian Harrison & friends	Ceiling
Craft bar
The Craft – 9th July 2011
MikeK in the Craft	MikeK in the Craft
RayB in the Craft	Emma in the Craft
RayB	Craft taps
Craft ceiling	Mirror in Craft
Kernel Brewery
Oxford and RayB’s summer house – 21st May 2011
White Horse
	Clive, Jezza & Theresa

White Horse

	It’s this way!
	It’s definitely this way!
	The summer house
Jezza












The Cask Pub & Kitchen, London – 19th Febuary 2011
Jezza – First there was one	Jezza – Now there are two!
The Cask Pub & Kitchen, London – 5th Febuary 2011
Simon & ?	Jackie
Ruth & Chris
The Cask Pub & Kitchen, London – 8th January 2011
Martin	Angela & Brian

The Harp, London – 1st January 2011

The Southampton Arms & The Euston Tap, London – 29th December 2010

The Cask Pub & Kitchen, London – 11th December 2011

The Cask Pub & Kitchen, London – 20th November 2010

The Southampton Arms & The Euston Tap, London – 6th November 2010



The Library Club, The Victoria, London – 29th May 2010
Dai & David	Jezza
Thom & Jezza	Teresa
Clive	Thom, Jezza & Snuffel
Jezza	Dai & David
Snuffel	A very comfortable Nellie
Nellie & Snuffel	Nellie
David, Snuffel & Dai	Theresa & Debbie hiding :)
Brief visit to the Edgar Wallace, London – 30th April 2010

Mini pub crawl, London – 27th March 2010

The White Horse, Parsons Green, London – 20th February 2010
Jezza & David	Theresa
Theresa & Debbie	Larua & Maria
Jezza & Debbie	Mike
Clive & Teresa	Clive
David & Jezza
The Harp, Chandos Place, London – 6th February 2010

Mat’s birthday at Ely beer festival – 16th January 2010
David & Thom	Jezza
Mat & David	Johan & Clive
Mat cutting the cake	The cake
Clare & Mat	Theresa
Thom
The Harp, Chandos Place, London – 29th December 2009
window	Window
window	Window
Teresa	Window
Clive	Landlady
Beer mats
Brighton – 19th December 2009
Debbie & Jezza	Jezza
Jezza	Theresa
Mat & friend	Nellie
David pouring a large bottle of Guldren Draak	The Gulden Draak bottle
Jezza with bottle of ?	St Feillien Christmas in a box
Bottle of St Feuillien Christmas	Mat’s friend
Mat & friend	David
Mat & Clive	Mat
Debbie & Teresa	David
? & Mat	Mat’s friend 2
Mat & Clive
Old Ale Festival, White Horse, Parsons Green – 27th & 28th November 2009
Theresa & Debbie	Jezza
Simon & Jackie	Theresa & Jezza
	Clive, Lorenzo & Teresa
Simon, Lorenzo & Matt	Clive & Matt
Clive & Matt	Jezza
Emma & Clive	Jezza
Thom & Jezza
Clive & Teresa	Jezza, Theresa, Debbie & David
Theresa & Debbie	Theresa

	ChrisO
Greg, Jezza & Emma	Greg, Paula & Emma
David
The Harp & Ship and Shovel both near Trafalgar Square– 25th July 2009
The Harp	The Harp
The Harp	The Harp
Clive in the Snug at The Ship and Shovel	The Ship and Shovel
The Ship and Shovel
The White Horse, Parsons Green – 3rd July 2009 US Beer Festival
Ian	Thom
? & ?	Martin
Ian & ?	Thom & ChrisO
ChrisO & Clive	MatW & Podge
?, ? & Ian	Theresa
David, Jeremy & MatW	Mes
? Sorry I forgot, blame the beer!	Jezza and hmmm MatW
David, Martin & Jezza	Pete
	Clive
MatW & Emma	Jezza
Thom, Martin & Jezza
The Cellar	More Cellar
Stuart
The Victoria near Paddington – 21st March 2009
The Library	Pub sign
The Library	more of the Library
The Library again	Theresa
Paulette & Thom	Teachers Debbie & Theresa !
Jeremy at the flip chart	and Clive joining in too
David & Debbie	Theresa
Jeremy & Clive	Nellie
David & Jeremy	Debbie
Teresa	Clive
David & Jeremy	Theresa & Debbie
Paulette & Thom
White Horse, Parsons Green Old Ale Festival - 29th November 2008
Denise, Paulette, Thom & Ray	Ray & friend
Sim, ChrisO & Paul	Theresa, David & Debbie
Paulette, Thom & Ray	Pete & ErikH
David & Debbie	Emma & Theresa
Clive & Emma	? & ChrisO
Pete, Jezza & ErikH	Dean & Lynne (non babblers)
Pete & Paul	Pauline & ChrisO
Paul & Sim
Woking Beer Festival - 8th November 2008
Jezza, Theresa, Teresa, Thom & Paulette	Jezza, Theresa, Thom, Paulette & Clive
The Wurlitzer	Len
Wurlitzer	Clive doing the Dambusters
The Wurlitzer hall	Thom, Theresa, Jezza & Paulette
Len at the Wurlitzer	Theresa singing along
Jezza get off of that stage you naughty boy!
Zeitgeist at the Jolly Gardeners - 10th October 2008

Fuschen Alt	Andy


	Hmmm, What next!
	Evi
Clive & Andy	Clive & Andy
Beer Exposed at the London Design Centre - 27th September 2008
Alhambra Brewery	Harviestoun – Bitter & Twisted
Little Valley Brewery – 100% organic	Brasserie Duyck – Jenlain beers
Exmoor Brewery
Part of their beautiful bar runner, it was too big to get it all in	The beast bottles on the Exmoor stand
Fullers Brewery	Jonathan from Fullers
Rothaus Brewery – German organic beers	Left Hand Brewery (Brewer?)
Beers from Left Hand, Rogue, Goose Island, Great divide, Anchor, Sierra Nevada & Flying dog	Rogue banner
Brooklyn Beers	Brooklyn banner
Brooklyn stand staff
Cumbrian beer festival at the Bricklayers Arms, Putney 12th September 2008

The Victoria – Mini Babblefest 30th August 2008
Teresa, Paulette (It was this big) & Thom	Jezza
Jezza	Theresa & Clive
Theresa & Jezza	Dave & Debbie
Clive	Nellie, Theresa & Jezzie
Teresa	Thom, Paulette, Dave, Theresa, Teresa, Debbie & Clive
Thom, Teresa, Paulette, Dave, Theresa, Jezza & Debbie	Nellie
Thom, Teresa, Paulette, Theresa, Dave, Debbie & Jezza	Teresa, Paulette & Thom
Thom, Paulette, Theresa, Teresa, Dave, Debbie & Clive	Teresa & Paulette or should that be Zombie!
Nellie	Teresa (hmm not sure what I was doing there), Paulette & Thom
Theresa	Teresa & Paulette
Thom, Dave & Debbie	Teresa (how did so many pictures of me get on my camera?!) & Paulette
Thom & Dave	Paulette & Thom
The White Horse Parsons Green – Pre GBBF Babblefest 8th August 2008
Paulette, Pete & Jezza	Theresa
Paulette, Pete, Theresa, Jezza & Thom	Theresa, Paulette & Thom – What am I drinking?
Pete, Stuart & Theresa	Jezza, ?,? & ? (sorry I forgot)
And the most important attendee of all - Nellie
The Library at The Victoria a very nice Fullers pub near Paddington 2nd February 2008
Paulette & Debbie	Theresa
Nellie	Thom
Clive	Jezza
David & Thom	Nellie
Teresa & Paulette	David
Jezza	Clive
Paulette & Debbie	Theresa & the obligatory dance ! ;)
The great surroundings	More of the Library


GBBF 10th August 2007
The 1/3 pint glass
Piers

Johan
Chris O and friends
Piers & Martin	Me
	Clive

Jeremy & Theresa held a US beer tasting on the 28th July 2007 below are the photos of the excellent afternoon and evening in Wimbledon.
Pivovar Herold (CZ Rep) & Dogfish Head – Golden Revolution	Heavyweight, NJ – Ste-ve
Van den Bossche, BE – Pierre Celis Memoirs	Nectar, CA – IPA & Bear Republic, CA – XP Pale Ale
Skagit River, WA – Scullers IPA	Bison, CA – Organic IPA
Stone, CA - 9th anniversary ale (2005)	Lagunitas, CA - Lucky 13 anniversary ale
Full Sail, OR - Slipknot Imperial IPA	Arcadia, MI - Hopmouth Double IPA
Middle Ages, NY - Wailing Wench	Deschutes, OR - Hop Henge Imperial IPA
Alaskan, AK - Smoked Porter 2002	Captain Lawrence, NY - Smoke from the Oak
Breckenridge, CO - 471 small batch IPA	Goose Island, IL - Imperial IPA
Speakeasy, CA - Double Daddy Imperial IPA	Russian River, CA – Damnation (back)
Russian River, CA – Damnation (front)	Moylans, CA - Hopsickle Imperial Triple Hoppy Ale, Stone, CA – Ruination IPA & Speakeasy, CA - Double Daddy Imperial IPA
Russian River, CA – Damnation, New Belgium, CO La Folie & Moylans, CA - Hopsickle Imperial Triple Hoppy Ale	Russian River, CA – Temptation & Damnation
Lagunitas, CA - Brown Shugga (X2)	Goose Island, IL - Imperial Brown Goose 2006
AleSmith, CA - Old Numbskull	Full Sail, OR - Old Boardhead Barley Wine & Great Divide, CO - Hercules Double IPA
Great Divide, CO - Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout	Heavyweight, NJ - Old Salty 2005
Martin & Matt	Chris & Martin
Nellie – “I could help you finish the food!”	Theresa & Jeremy
This sausage is hot!	Theresa & Ruth
Jeremy chatting up Nellie!	Thom & Matt
Matt	Ruth & Chris
What’s in here then?	Ah it’s the empties!
Food – well we didn’t just drink!	Nellie – That food looks good!
There’s bits in my beer!	Martin & Chris
Dave & Debbie

Chris & beer	Matt & Jeremy
The party moved indoors and YMCA was being played!	Jeremy & Monkey best of friends
Jeremy & Monkey again	Me & Monkey
Jeremy & Theresa dancing	Paulette & Emma dancing
and Monkey joined in too	no comment!



We were supposed to be going to the Reading beer Festival on the 5th May 2007 but on arriving there we found that there was a two hour queue to get in! So we turned around and went back to the Victoria in Strathearn Place London a pub that has been a favourite of ours for several years and a very pleasant evening was had by all
Part of the Victoria interior	More of the interior
Not too sure what the hand signals were!	Clive
Teresa	Painting of the pubs namesake hanging on the wall
Jeremy & Theresa	It was this big!
Chris the Victoria's boss	Theresa & Paulette
Teresa, Theresa & Paulette	theresa & Paulette
Teresa & Jeremy	Paulette, Thom, Teresa & Jeremy
Good food provided by the Victoria	Fullers anniversary ale
Paulette & Thom	Teresa & Jeremy
Jeremy & Theresa	Paulette & Tom
Teresa & Clive	Grrrrrr
Paulette & Thom	Teresa, Jeremy, Theresa, Paulette & Thom
The Old Ale Festival at the White Horse Parsons Green - 27th January 2007
Thom& Paulette	Theresa, that handbag & Martin
Enjoying the Cellar tour
Mark our magnificent host	Shaun from the US in the cellar
A real cellar!	more tasting
	Mark
?	Bill & Shaun
?	Bill
David	Warren & US beers
Warren, Podge & Bill trying a US beer	Jeremy - now which do I drink first?
Emma & Jeremy	Peter, Theresa & Emma
David, Max & Paulette	Peter & Martin
Podge in full flow	Shaun, Theresa & Jeremy
Podge advertising the Chelmsford beer festival	David & Podge
Deep in conversation	Bill, Clive, Mark, Jeremy & Shaun
Clive, Theresa & Shaun	Mark & Bill engrossed in a bottle
Steve, Theresa, Teresa & Thom	Bill & Warren
Chris O & Tom R	US beers
Lee‘s Harvest Ale	I thought this was a beer festival not water!
Someone spilt beer on me	Steve & Theresa
Clive & Teresa	Yes we are drinking beer too
Steve, Warren & Theresa	The soggy paper fight!
I couldn‘t resist this one
The Great British Beer Festival, was held this year at Earls Court we went on the 4th August 2006 The festival is run by CAMRA whose website is a source of much information relating to real ale in the UK, see link at the top of page The following photos are provided by a friend of ours thanks Jeremy, they were taken at the beer festival and at the White Horse in Parsons Green after the festival.
Johan, Thom, Jeremy, Me & Clive at the GBBF (4th August 2006)	Mat & Clive at the White Horse (4th August 2006)
Me at the White Horse (4th August 2006)	Me & Jeremy at the White Horse (4th August 2006)