Why Pigs Ear?  because it’s Cockney rhymning slang for beer Parts of this page were updated 29 July 2010. All events start at 8p.m. unless stated. . August Thu 12^th COTY presentation 8pm (for 9pm) Leyton Orient Supporters’ Club. Sat 21^st South/East London overground line crawl in conjunction with Croydon & Sutton and SE London Banches 9am George 17-21 George St CR0 1LA, 10.30am Moon & Stars 164-166 High St SE20 7QS, 11.30 The Capitol 11-21 London Rd SE23 3TW, 12.30pm Orchard 5 Harefield Rd SE4 1LW or Brockley Barge 184 Brockley Rd SE4 2RR, 2pm Moby Dick 6 Russia Place SE16 7PL, 3pm Mayflower 117 Rotherhithe St SE16 4NF, 4pm Town of Ramsgate 62 Wapping High St E1W 2PN, 5pm Old Rose 128 The Highway E1W 2BX, 5.45-7pm food break around Whitechapel, 7pm LHT Urban Bar 176 Whitechapel Rd E1 1BJ (if found closed Good Samaritan 87 Turner St E1 2AE), 7.45pm The Owl & The Pussycat 34 Redchurch St E2 7DP, 8.30pm Stags Head 55 Orsman Rd N1 5RA, 9.15pm walk from Haggerston stn to The Scolt Head 107A Culford Rd N1 4HT then finish at Duke of Wellington 119 Balls Pond Rd N1 4BL (close to Dalston Junction stn). September Sat 4^th / Sun 5^th Informal social, come when you will Brodies Birthday Bash William IV 816 High Rd E10 6AE. Thu 16^th Branch mtg 8pm Hand & Shears 1 Middle St EC1 7JA Fri 24^th Woodford crawl 7.30pm Railway Bell 87 George Ln E18 1JJ, 8.15pm The George 70-74 High Rd E18 2QL, 9pm Cricketers 229-301 High Rd IG8 9HQ, 9.45pm Rose & Crown 31 Mill Ln IG8 0UG, Travellers Friend 496-498 High Road IG8 0PN. Branch mobile (contact John Pardoe) 07757772564 will be on all socials. East London & City CAMRA Branch Facebook http://tinyurl.com/camrapigsear Pigs Ear Beer Festival Event Facebook Event  http://tinyurl.com/qlgjja Twitter ye not? Twitter here http://twitter.com/pigsearcamra Welcome to the The East London & City Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Serving postal areas E1-E18 and EC1-EC4 Join CAMRA News Festivals Disclaimer and Copyright Notice: *All pages, their contents and related items are provided "as is". Thus no liability, consequential or otherwise, arising from them is accepted. Where not already belonging or assigned to others, all material remains our copyright. CAMRA East London & City © 2010 Local Camra Beer Guide Old Beer Guides London Drinker Information Old Images Beery Links Campaigns Downloads Committee Looks like the Bull & Crown E4 will reopen as the Bull on the Green. From Ben at the Sun E2:Just thought you would like to know we have had a fourth beer engine installed. We have also changed our regular beer to Sharp’s Doom Bar. We now always offer 4 ales with three of them guests. E2 The Lord Hood has been demolished and building is in progress. E4 the ‘For Lease’signs have come  down at the Prince Albert and looks like work is in progress. The Prince of Wales E4 has been demolished. Rumour has it that the Ship Aground E5 is open but without real ale. Know of any closed pubs? Tell it to http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/ from Chistine at the Sekforde Arms EC1: Youngs Bitter, Youngs Special, Bombadier and Winter Warmer.   Next week we will swap the Bombadier for Courage Best and the Winter Warmer for Tribute.  The week after its probably going to be Courage Directors and Youngs Gold (last years Kew Gold by any other name!)  We will always have 4 ales on, and in two weeks time we are starting an evening steak menu, which we think will be excellent value for money (especially in clerkenwell) Try this site out www.insidebeer.com from Jeff Evans. E10 Bakers Arms is now a Paddy Power betting office. In E17 the Pig & Whistle will close and Dukes Head will be open Thurs Sun only and closed Mon-Wed.Not Rumour but fact he reports from E12 Burnell Arms has been completely demolished. Nothing built on the site yet. Ruskin Arms. Closed and fenced off. Buildings at the side (music room) and back (restaurant) demolished. A block of flats called Star Lodge has been built on the former site of the Star in Snowhill Road. Earl of Essex still open. No real ale. E17 Essex Arms, planning application received from Tesco to convert to a four storey building with retail outlet on ground floor and 17 residential units above. Application no. 2009/1429 if you want to object. HELP - Photograph some pubs. Do you have a digital camera? Do you think you can photograph pubs? It has been 25 years since we last photographed all our pubs. A dozen or so of us set out with maps and pub lists to obtain a photographic record in glorius black and white. Now is as good a time to do it again, this time in technicolour. Here is a spreadsheet for you to download, enter your name and an expected completion date against the pub or pubs you wish to photograph and email them back to me with the word photograph in the subject box  and rename the picture “postarea and pub.jpg, e.g. e1alma.jpg. If you don’t have a spreadsheet then look at this htm file and email me and I will update the file so that we are not all photographing the same pub! You will notice a “status” column and it is up to you if you want to photo the site of former pubs. Beware that if you are to photograph City pubs you may need a wideangle lens of about 33mm or below and that it would best be done at weekends when there are fewer people and traffic to mar the picture. Mobile phones may not be suitable to provide printable pictures. Set your camera to maximum quality. See some pubs here. If you fancy helping to do E6 or E7 contact David French. RETURN TO TOP . A Quarter of Pints in the UK are served less than 95% Full CAMRA CALLS FOR CONSUMERS TO “TAKE IT TO THE TOP” Take It To The TopA new survey by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has revealed that one in four pints in the UK are served less than 95% full and this is costing beer drinkers a staggering £481 million every year! CAMRA has launched a nationwide petition calling for the Government to end short measures as they promised a decade ago. For the first time in its 35 year history, CAMRA has taken out advertisements in national media in order to let consumers know how to make a stand against this unfair practice. The CAMRA survey of local authorities’ trading standards departments has revealed: A shocking 26.6% of all pints served are over 5% short measure The worst example found was 13% short of a full pint 76% of pubs goers want the Government to stick to its promise to ensure drinkers get a full pint Beer drinkers lose £1.3 million every day by paying for a full pint but receiving less than 100% liquid in the glass. Labour had made an election promise to legislate against short measures in 1997. This promise has not been fulfilled and has cost the consumer £4.5 billion over the last decade. CAMRA Chief Executive Mike Benner said: "It is a disgrace that up to a quarter of all pints served in the UK are less than 95% liquid when the consumer is paying for a full pint every time. Labour had promised to introduce legislation to end this unfair practice ten years ago and the continuing cost to beer drinkers from the Government"s inaction has now run into billions of pounds." CAMRA has set up a petition for consumers calling for the government to introduce legislation that a pint will not be less than 100% liquid. As well as being online at HQ, copies of the petition will be at CAMRA beer festivals across the UK. Petition postcards will be sent out to CAMRA’s 85,000 strong membership nationwide to sign. Mike Benner added: "This is not just a problem that affects real ale drinkers. Lager drinkers and cider drinkers are being short changed too. "It is time the Government met its promise and made sure pub goers get the full pint that they pay for every time. I would urge all beer drinkers that are fed up with being ripped off at the bar to sign CAMRA’s ’Take it to the top’ petition and help us make a difference." RETURN TO TOP Download the Beer Guide and updates here. The method you use to download or print depends on the browser you are using. For most versions of Internet Explorer you can either use the right mouse button to bring up a menu, and select the "Save Target As..." option, and then load the document into Microsoft Word as usual. Alternatively use the left mouse button to open the document in the browser window, and then print the page. Guide30.doc. The guide (977k 168 pages) with updates to July 2009. Be aware that new information along with old information is side by side. Look at Updates 1-46 to December 2009 to get information on what the last update was and when. Download as Updates 1-45.doc. Use the link to the left or to take you to the online version of the guide.    Latest update (46) to December 2009. Online guides are now a feature of lots of CAMRA local websites so to find out which do go to this page in the HQ site. List of pubs? Trace a publican? Rather than use the online beer guide you may wish a list of pubs (why?) See this file for such a list. Pub names in CAPITALS indicate they serve real ale according to our database. Bars in the main have been ignored. Pubs in lower case should have a comment on them. A list of pubs and bars has been compiled by John Adams. Updated to March 2009. There are three lists:– Central, East and Essex.  Interested in pubs or publicans? Try this website and its links. Google Map. I did try to add a Google map section to the guide but it took too long to download so it’s:HERE. Ideal to arrange a pub crawl. Eastside Jazz Club. The Eastside Jazz Club meets on Tuesday nights at the Lord Rookwood E11. Here you can find a list of the ’turns’. The Shepp Something Arms?. Anyone know where this pub was? All I can make out is Shepp.....Arms. Supposidly in the East End and could be Bow or Bromley by Bow E3. John Murphy from north London  has no personal knowledge of the pub but investigate the 'Brilliant Old & Mild Ales', seen across the front. That suggested a brewery called Brickwoods of Portsmouth, who spread all through Hampshire, had an off-licence in Fulham, a presence in Sussex,and reached up to Surrey. http://www.brickwoods.co.uk/Brewery1.html. Finally, he says “Shepperton is in Middlesex, on the Surrey borders and not far from Sussex or Hampshire, so perhaps that ties everything together ? Only a considered guess, of course, and it goes against the statement that it is supposedly in the East End, Bow or Bromley by Bow !” . RETURN TO TOP THE NEXT SOUTH EAST BEER FESTIVAL IS IN BISHOPS STORTFORD THEN THE BIG ONE AT EARLS COURT - THE GREAT BRITISH BEER FESTIVAL. 29-31 Jul (Thu-Sat) 2nd Bishops Stortford Beer Festival 2nd Bishops Stortford Beer Fest, British Legion Club, Windhil, Bishops Stortford. 25+ beers. Open:Thu 6pm-midnight; Fri/Sat 11am-midnight. Last admissions 10pm. More info Graham.Darby@essex-camra.org.uk or www.heb- camra.org.uk/bsbf Starts:July 29 2010 Ends:July 31 2010 Website:2 Contact: Graham Darby Graham.Darby@essex-camra.org.uk Venue British Legion Club Windhill Bishops Stortford Britain's biggest beer festival 3-7 August 2010 Earls Court, London FESTIVAL DETAILS. THE BEERS OTHER BEER FESTIVAL DETAILS. Want accomodation? try www.tubehotels.com  Chair: John Pardoe     * Treasurer: Bill Green     * Secretary and Brodies Brewery Liaison Officer: Marion Robbens Contact the branch    * Pigs Ear Festival Organiser: Derek Jones     * Press Officer Bill Green.     * Social Secretarys Terry Lavell and Ray Wright.     * Young Members Officer Richard Pearce.     * Pub Officer Mick O’Rorke        * Membership Andy Kinch     * Website and pub database Keith Branch Mobile 0775 777 2564 Join CAMRA ? To Join CAMRA Click the pint E–mail camra@camra.org.uk Website camra.org.uk Telephone 01727 867201 overseas: (+44) 1727 867201 Fax :01727 867670 overseas: (+44) 1727 867670   Good Beer Guide 2010  Buy it here RETURN TO TOP Plan your journey now! Here as well Train and Planes! East London & City Branch East London & City Branch East London & City CAMRA Branch Facebook  Pigs Ear Beer Festival Event Facebook Event Twitter ye not? Twitter here