Popped into the Fox the other night and spoke to Carl about the beers he has ordered for the beer festival on Sunday 22 August. They will have Green Jack Orange Wheat (Suffolk); RCH PC Steam (Somerset); St Austell Proper Job (Cornwall); Blindmans "Just the beer talking" (Somerset); Oakleaf "Some are drinking" (Hampshire); Skinners Spriggan Ale (Cornwall); Hop Back Summer Lightning and Timothy Taylor Landlord. Also a Westons Scrumpy Cider "Bounds".
The band is Sly Dogs who played at the May beer festival and they are very good.
Sounds like a good day out wih lots of new beers to try. 

Well Derek and Jim were correct about Bamberg being worth a visit. With 8 breweries in the town alone and 50 more in the surrounding countryside not much larger than Renfrewshire it's been a great trip. Cycled right down the Rhine before entering Bavaria so the variety of beers has been great.
Now in Belgium on the journey home and of course having a few of their beers of an evening.
Won't make the August branch meeting but will see you in September.

Brian

In a break from tradition, the branch will be getting together on the first Friday in August (the 6th) for a social gathering across two Real Ale pubs in Johnstone. It has been noted that The Thorn Inn has Real Ale on hand pump, so we'll be popping in there to show our support, before heading on down to Callums for a bite to eat and a few pints. All in moderation, of course.

We'll start off in The Thorn about 6pm before meandering on down to Callums for about 7pm. If you can't meet us that early, I'm sure we'll be in Callums for a few hours so please come and join us.

The Fyne Ale Brewery are holding a beer festival on the 19th of June. 

The details for the bus is now available and are as follows:

Saturday 19 June trip to Fyne Ales Beer Fest coach leaves Charleston Bowling Club, Stock Street, Paisley at 10:00am with a stop/pick-up at the Argyll Bar, Old Sneddon Street at 10:10am with a probable arrival at Fyne Ales around 11:30am.

Leave Fyne Ales at 5.00pm arrive Paisley just after 6.00pm.

I hope everyone is on time and in good spirits.

Hi All

Tomorrow is the Accord Hospice Fun Day in Paisley Town Hall - we at Kelburn are helping to run "the bar" and as such we will have Pivo Estivo on sale with all proceeds going to Accord. Please come along and support it if you can!
Hope to see some of you there,

Karen
 

I looked under Links and found the Scottish Beer Festival info. They have a staffing form to print out on line and posters for people to print out and advertise the event themselves. Possible ideas for us in the future? Just wanted to know what others think have a look and see what you think?

If you have any comments or other ideas that would be useful for next years Beer Festival just click the 'Comments link' below.

The Branch will be having a "Wash-Up" meeting tonight at the Last post in Paisley.

This will allow us to finalise everything that happened and let us deal with niggles left to be sorted so all are welcome and if you have any input on the festival (this years or next) please let us know.

Meeting starts at 7:30PM

The Fyne Ale Brewery are holding a beer festival on the 19th of June. I have decided to run a bus due to the amount of interest in this event. The entry cost to the event if we book in advance is £6 and on the day it will be £7.The cost of the bus will be solely determined by how many people are wanting to go and how big the bus would be.

Please contact me by clicking here

I would like to remind you this is not our Annual Fyne Ales trip which will happen later on in the summer.

The Alloa May Fest Real Ale Beer Festival is back again this year and will be held this weekend.

The festival will be held in the Alloa Town Hall (click here for a map) and will be on during the following dates:

Friday 7th May 6pm - 12am
Saturday 8th May 12pm -12am
Sunday 9th May 12pm - 6pm

Entry is £5 (with concession with Camra members of course) and includes a glass. Tokens are in operation at this festival and entry includes a free drink.

Over 50 Real ales Ciders and Wines will be available along with food and entertainment on all 3 nights.

Head over to the Forth Valley Camra website for more information.
 

We have created a facility on the website to host the past minutes of our branch meetings. The first file available is the minutes of the March meeting held in Coanes in Johnstone, and is available here. All other minutes will be held in the branch file section in which you can find if you follow this link.

Note you can only view the files if you are a member of the site and you are a regular branch meeting attendee. As not everyone is yet on the site if you find you can't access the file you might not have the correct permission yet. If so please click here to send me a message and I'll get you set up right away.


If anyone has any other copies of previous minutes that we can have online for reference please send them to the branch email address or contact me on the above link.