Campaign for Real Ale

Pub and Brewery News - August 2019

Monday 5 August 2019

The following pub and brewery news was reported at the August Committee Meeting on Monday 5th August

Pub News

Roam Brewery Tap, Western Park Road, will open this Saturday, 10th August, at 1200 until 2100, and then every Friday (1600 – 2100) and Saturday – Good Luck to John and Roam Brewery with their move into Peverell! Mount Pleasant, Millbay, is closed for refurbishment. Queens Head Hotel, Tavistock, has excellent beer quality and choice at weekends recently. Ker Street Social Club, Devonport, no longer serves real ale.

Cask Marque Accreditation

No pubs in our branch area gained or lost accreditation recently.

Brewery News

Reported last month as rumoured new breweries, these have now been confirmed as:- Anchor House Brewery, a cuckoo brewery who brew beer in an existing brewery which is not their own, and have an office in Plympton; Billy Ruffian’s, who have taken over the old Plymouth Brewery plant at City College, King’s Road, Devonport; Many Hands, Dunkeswell; New Devon Brewing, Woodbury Salterton; Steel Brew Co, Plymstock; Utopian Brewing, Crediton; Parkway Brewing, who bought the old Glastonbury Ales plant and took over the building lease; a new company, Glastonbury Brewing Company, have been formed, and are looking for suitable premises in Glastonbury; meanwhile, Parkway brew the old Glastonbury Ales beers under contract for this new company; and Yonder Brewing, of Binegar, Somerset.

Plymouth CAMRA would like to wish all new publicans, and brewers, all the very best in their new ventures!