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Great news - The Pretty Bricks reopens in Walsall

Black Country Inns have purchased the property and brought it back to it's former glories.

Many of you will know that this pub is where Walsall CAMRA first met back in the 70's, so it's fitting that the pub should be brought back to life now nearly 40 years later.

They opened their doors at 7pm Thursday 27th October, so please go and show your support whenever you can find the time. They have a range of Black Country Ales cask beers plus a variety of guest ales to complement the choice available to their eager audience.

J D Wetherspoon offers

Malthouse, Willenhall offers card carrying CAMRA members all beers for £1.99 per pint each Wednesday from 26th October.

Please call in and let them know what beers YOU would like to be on sale!

@WalsallCAMRA

Ale Trail Polo shirt recipients

Below are the people who completed the Independent Ale Trail this year. Please can you collect your shirts from either the branch meeting in October or, the AGM in November. If you are unable to do either, then contact April chair@walsallcamra.co.uk so arrangements can be made.

Thanks to all who took part.

I Isaacs	Willenhall	A Durbin	Walsall
T Colpitts	Walsall	L Harding	Walsall
S Orford	Walsall	J Hayward	S. Coldfield
N Bracey	Walsall	D Homer	Walsall
M Hughes	Cannock	M Hayward	S. Coldfield
C Gilbert	Cannock	C Gilbert (Mrs)	Cannock
C Pearson	Cannock	M Pearson	Cannock
P Tolley	Cannock	D Higgins	Walsall
A Whitmore	B Ham	G Timmins	Walsall
M McDivitt	Walsall	K Green	Walsall
V Green	Walsall	T Crouch	Walsall
D Swann	Walsall	D Irvine	Walsall
P Rambould	Hednesford

LocAle Campaign needs your help

Download the PDF of the CAMRA backed LocAle campaign, whether you are a beer drinking pub customer or a publican. The scheme works and is gathering pace around the country.

Click the brochure thumbnail to open the PDF provided you have a PDF reader on your machine
File size approx 3Mb

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Festival T-shirts and Polo shirts for sale!

The Branch has a number of T-shirts (£12) and Polo shirts (£16) for sale. If you are interested, please contact Branch Chair April Reece at chair@walsallcamra.co.uk to check if we have your size.

New Brewery in Halesowen

Nick Pritchard of Angel Ales, a 5 barrel brewery based in Halesowen, reports that they are set to produce their first beer on Friday 5 November. For more details, go to www.angelales.co.uk

Another Award for Beowulf

Phil Bennett has collected another award at the 2010 NationalWinter Ales Festival held in Manchester with Dragon Smoke Stout scooping the Silver award in the Stouts category.

National Winter Ales Festival 2010 - Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2010 - Winners List

Old Ales and Strong Milds category-

Gold- Breconshire, Ramblers Ruin (Brecon, Powys)

Silver- Leeds, Midnight Bell (Leeds, West Yorkshire )

Bronze- Beartown, Black Bear (Congleton, Cheshire )

Porters category-

Gold- Elland, 1872 Porter (Elland, West Yorkshire )

Silver- Sulwath, Black Galloway (Castle Douglas, Dumfries & Galloway)

Bronze- RCH, Old Slug Porter (Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset )

Stouts category-

Gold- Acorn, Gorlovka Imperial Stout (Barnsley, South Yorkshire )

Silver- Beowulf, Dragon Smoke Stout (Brownhills, Staffordshire)

Bronze- Wapping, Stout ( Liverpool , Merseyside)

Barley Wines category-

Gold- Robinsons, Old Tom (Stockport, Cheshire )

Silver- Kinver, Over the Edge (Kinver, Staffordshire)

Bronze- Otley, O8 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan)

Overall result

Gold- Elland, 1872 Porter (Elland, West Yorkshire )

Silver- Breconshire, Ramblers Ruin (Brecon, Powys)

Bronze- Acorn, Gorlovka Imperial Stout (Barnsley, South Yorkshire )

Beowulf Brewery wins West Midlands Beer of the Year

At the recent West Midlands Beer of the Year awards, Phil Bennett of Beowulf Brewery picked up a hatful of awards.

Having already won the awards for the Best Porter at Coventry Beer Festival with Finns Hall Porter, the Best Old Ale/Strong Mild at Stoke Beer Festival with Dark Raven and 3rd place in the Stout category judged at Birmigham Beer Festival with Dragon Smoke Stout, he went on to collect both first and second places in the overall competition with Finns Hall Porter and Dark Raven respectively.

Backyard Brewhouse wins award

The Backyard Brewhouse from Brownhills has recently brewed a new traditional IPA called East India which has seen it win 2 awards at the Nottingham Beer Festival. The new brew has taken home the Gold Medal for Strong Ales (Over 5.6%) and is the Silver Medal Winner for overall Champion of SIBA Midlands Regional Beer Competition 2009. Congratulations to Austen & his team.

New Socials Page

Visit our new Socials Page for details of forthcoming trips.

Manor Arms voted best canalside pub in the UK

Congratulations are due to the Manor Arms, which has been voted the best canalside pub in the UK in a competition run by British Waterways. For more information, see the article on the Express and Star website here: http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/01/05/popular-pub-is-voted-number-one/

CAMRA announce early success for 'LocAle'

CAMRA is delighted to announce today that 22 CAMRA branches have signed up to the CAMRA ‘LocAle' scheme since the national launch in July 2008. Read More

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