The following pub and brewery news was reported at the branch meeting on Wednesday 1st February 2017.

The CAMRA Discount Scheme enables pubs to promote their business to our members easily, and to hopefully encourage more trade. The discount given will be advertised free of charge in our branch magazine, Drake’s Drinker, as well as on this website CAMRA Discount Scheme and the National CAMRA website. We can also provide posters to advertise the offer to visitors. If you are the licensee of a pub and are interested of taking part in this scheme, please contact our Pubs Campaigns Coordinator, Andy Richardson, at ku.gro.armac.htuomylp@swenbup

The pub discount information has been notified to Plymouth CAMRA and is given in good faith, but is liable to change at short notice. Some discounts may be modified or restricted when special promotions are on offer.

Pub News

There have been no Cask Marque changes to the official list of pubs by Cask Marque; Fler, Looe Street, Barbican, no longer offers a CAMRA discount; the Noahs Ark is to close mid-February to mid-March for refurbishment; the Boringdon Arms recently had a beer festival with seven extra beers; the Boringdon Arms , Turnchapel, Horse & Groom, Bittaford, Clovelly Bay Inn, Turnchapel, Minerva Inn, Barbican, Whod Have Thought It Inn, Milton Combe, Prince Maurice, Eggbuckland, and the Dolphin Hotel, Barbican, all have beer festivals in the next two months; the Dolphin Inn in Kingston has a new manager; the Swan Inn in Noss Mayo has new tenants – the beer garden will re-open at Easter; & the Forest Inn at Hexworthy has re-opened.

Brewery News

Stannary Brewery is expanding from 300 to 800 litre run. They are also supplying two more pubs since Christmas. Summerskills is releasing a new Summerskills Stout (4.4%). CAMRA have decided to change the way in which the “CAMRA Says This Is Real Ale” for bottle conditioned beers is verified. Basically, the brewery are responsible for sending the bottled beer(s) to Brew Lab in Sunderland, along with a cheque for £15.00 to cover the technical issues involved in testing the beer for fermentable products. One bottle of each beer is sufficient for testing. The brewery should contact CAMRA head office in the first instance for full details on 01727 867201 and speak to reception.

We would like to wish all new publicans all the very best in their new ventures.