Walled canopy of life
Sign up for the York Beer Census Now!
Well hopefully the Within the Walls Crew will be looking after Goodramgate for this as we’re already signed up, but with well over 100 pubs to survey CAMRA need your support, a perfectly good reason for a pub crawl in your beautiful City! Details from CAMRA follow….
York is one of the best real ale cities in the country. We have so many wonderful pubs, selling a wide range of beers, most within easy walk around our historic city centre. In this celebration year of York 800 we at York CAMRA want to spotlight our city pubs and celebrate the fantastic work of the publicans and local brewers who bring us great beer each week.
So on 30th June, members of York CAMRA in conjunction with Pints of View writer, Gavin Aitchison will be organising an army of volunteers to perform the York Beer Census to survey the beers and ciders in all the pubs of York. As you an imagine, this is no easy task so we need your help!
If you would like to be involved then please complete the form below. Tell us what area(s) of the city and/or pubs in the city centre you would like to survey, or if you are happy for us to allocate some for you. We’ll provide survey forms and confirm the pubs to survey. Then, on the day, you need to visit the pubs, have a beer (or not, its up to you!), write down the beers and ciders they have on sale and bring the results to the Waggon & Horses. We’ll be there all day from midday, so you can do your surveys and bring your results at any time during the day of Saturday 30 June. We’ve got refreshments for all who take part and the chance to win some quite nice prizes!
If you want any more info then please email us at beercensus@yorkcamra.org.uk
Enthusiasts recruited to take part in York’s first “beer census” (From York Press)
BEER enthusiasts are set to embark on a mammoth pub crawl to try to declare York the real-ale capital of Britain.
An army of volunteers is being recruited to take part in York’s first “beer census” to discover the full range available in the city.
Between them, the foot-soldiers will visit every pub in the City of York area on June 30, and log every beer available. Drinking is optional, but organisers say volunteers will be urged to act responsibly.
York’s branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) and The Press’s pub columnist Gavin Aitchison are organising the event, and hope to beat the figures of 176 different real ales recorded in Derby and 257 in Sheffield, both of which have claimed the crown.
Lucy Buykx, one of the organisers,said: “York has a buzzing beer scene, with great pubs and a growing range of really good beer.
“That doesn’t come easy – it’s down in the main to the hard work and enthusiasm of our city’s landlords and pub managers.
“In doing a beer census we can celebrate their hard work and gather data that shows how they contribute to this fine city. And we can enjoy a few beers along the way.”
Sounds like a cracking idea to me, might even be able to cover a few more un-reviewed pubs, two birds, one stone, quite a lot of beer!
Review - Gibson’s Rock Café
New review online, here’s the summery:
Formally Monty’s Rock Café this venue has shown great promise over the years but as times have changed and the focus of the industry has turned to authentic real ale customer driven quality they seem to have been somewhat left behind, hence the recent closure and reopening by a different landlord. Allegedly having a refurbishment but the only evidence is some fake plaster effect on the walls and the fact that they pretty much removed most of the furniture and closed off the pool/table football room completely. The dingy and sparse atmosphere wasn’t particularly helped by the goth-like clientele but upon finding out that they only had two beers on draught and neither pump was working we can understand their melancholy expressions. It’s not like the place was even good value for money. The only redeeming feature we can see is their rather impressive long courtyard which could be very pleasant in the summer, but other than that it’s really not somewhere we’d ever return to. Let’s hope that someone takes the initiative to change the place around as it was once such a friendly vibrant pub. With competition of the likes of Brigantes on Micklegate I’m sorry you’ll have to do much better than that.
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