News from the Cheshire Region

CAMRA, in conjunction with several pub owning companies has launched this exciting initiative. Held annually, typically in February, the idea is simple: we want to encourage people to use the pub.
We are losing about 20 pubs a week across the UK, mainly in country areas. Pubs need trade, and too many people are drinking at home, dining elsewhere or simply spending less. We feel that you must use them or lose them. This initiative is to encourage people to go to the pub, whether for a simple social evening with friends, family or neighbours, for a meal or to meet new people. Regular readers may need no such injunctions, but you can still help. Take someone to the pub for a meal, or persuade your colleagues to go to a good pub for a social gathering.

If you are visiting this site, it means that you quite enjoy visiting the pub. Well, next time you think of popping into your favourite, you might find it boarded up and closed!

Many pubs are getting into the spirit of things by holding special events or promotions: pop along and see!
Community Pubs Week 2008 runs from Saturday 16th February to Saturday 23rd February.
Ask at your pub what they are planning.
You can find more information on the CAMRA national site here.

Out Inn Cheshire is an invaluable and informative read. With print run per issue now at the record level of 10,000, this magnificent, hard-hitting and readable journal goes from strength to strength. Full colour and glossy, it is invaluable for the pub-goer and a darned fine read!

If you ever drink beer or cider, or ever go to a pub, then you need to get hold of a copy!

If you run a pub, off-licence, brewery, or indeed any business that would benefit from being brought to the attention of getting on for 30,000 discerning readers in the second wealthiest county in the UK, then you should be advertising in it! E-mail your requirements to editor@outinncheshire.co.uk

We want to feature full colour photographs, so get those cameras out and let us have your best efforts for publication!
This is also a great opportunity for advertisers, old and new, to make a real splash.
Much of the newsletter pages will still be in black and white for the foreseeable future, so a colour ad will be highly noticeable.
It will really say something about your business. Call the editor to talk about your preferences.

Members of CAMRA are urged to provide material for publication, either in the newsletter or on this Web-site. Pub Food articles would be particularly useful, as we enhance our coverage of this important topic.

Make mine Mild!

One of Britain’s best-known beer styles is revealed as a personal favourite of HRH Prince Charles.

On a visit to Tim Taylor's brewery in Keighley, the Heir Apparent sampled a number of cask beers, including the regular Award Winner, Landlord. He then revealed that his favourite was the rich and creamy Dark Mild (ABV 3.5%). We understand that he also ordered a cask of Porter for delivery.

Out Inn Cheshire is pleased to see that our Monarch-in-waiting has sufficient perception and taste to recognise the rich heritage we have in this country. Too few people see beyond the glitzy and shallow advertising campaigns and use their own judgement to find really tasty and distinctive drinks.

May is the month in which the Campaign traditionally makes a big fuss about Mild, British Brewing’s Best Kept Secret. Once a great deal more widely consumed than bitter, it was overshadowed when the major brewers started to advertise in a big way in the Seventies. Such was the expense of these campaigns that they had to focus on only one style, and they plumped for bitter. Mild consumption declined, a situation not helped by the unspeakable habits of a few unscrupulous landlords and their slop buckets.

Fortunately, we now value this style for what it is. Not too bitter, for those who prefer their drinks more subtle Not so strong, which is a good idea for lunchtimes. Usually a good bit less expensive. But every bit as flavoursome. Guess what a recent Champion Beer of Britain was? Yes, it’s a mild; Black Cat, from Moorhouses of Burnley.

Visit the CAMRA national web-site for more about this fascinating beer style.

So, be like Chuck:

Make yours Mild, and Ask for Cask!

We want to identify all the Cheshire pubs with exteriors, interiors, rooms or features worthy of preservation.

We invite all our readers to let us have details of any they know. Whether you are a Licensee or a pub-user please get in touch.

Contact details are shown in each branch section, or you can E-mail the editor at editor@outinncheshire.co.uk Don’t delay: these pieces of our heritage are under threat!

Visit the CAMRA national web-site for the full story.