Managing Director Wilf Nelson holds forth to the CAMRA branch at a recent brewery tour. The Salopian Brewery range has won many awards and covers the whole range of beer types, (except mild). There are regular seasonal beers. Blackwater Brewery beers are also brewed here.
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Callow Inn
Taken on a recent CAMRA monitoring trip, the Callow Inn gave us a warm welcome. In the deep west of rural Shropshire, and you can tell it's a hilly part!
Unfortunately, the pub only had one real ale on when we visited, but at least it was well kept.
Stables Inn, Hopesgate
A deeply rural pub in Shropshire, well placed, like the Callow Inn, for many lovely walks. The Stables carries three and sometimes four ales. The small mountain in the corner of the bar turns out to be the pub dog!
Three Fishes, Shrewsbury
The Three Fishes in Fish Street in Shrewbury is in the visibly oldest part of the town, in the shadow of the 15th Century tower of St Alkmund's Church. It is itself a historic building, pprobably from the 16th Century, and carries 8 real ales and a real cider.
Like the Loggerheads, the Three Fishes was first recorded as an inn in 1780, but might well have been one before its official recognition.
Wheatsheaf, Frankwell, Shrewsbury
Lee (formerly of The Salopian) has now taken over this historic pub in the Frankwell area of Shrewsbury, just over the Welsh Bridge from the town centre. Lee has already made a significant difference to the quality of the beer, and I expect the improvement will continue!
There are two Wheatsheafs in central Shrewsbury. If you aim for one but get the other it's not a disaster, as they both serve good beer.
POTY
Shrewsbury and West Shropshire CAMRA branch voting for our Pub of The Year (POTY). I won't tell you the result yet, but you might have seen that The Salopian was a runner up.
By the way, this is the back room of the Admiral Benbow in Swan Hill, itself no mean real ale supplier, and always a ready outlet for Bishop's Castle beers(and real ciders) in Shrewsbury.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Spotted
Nigel Bevan holding forth in the back bar of the Coach and Horses in Shrewsbury. In fact, we heard Nigel's dulcet tones in the other bar first, and then spotted him on the CCTV above the front bar. I like the idea of this photo.
In the Coach
On a walk round Shrewsbury, Sue and I bumped into CAMRA's illustrious Branch secretary and Simon, off duty from the Salopian, in the Coach and Horses, which was serving Mud CIty Stout in addition to its usual beers and some other guests. We walked on for a bit, but this is the last photo worth showing. If Nigel's mouth seems a bit blurred it's because he didn't stop talking...
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Salopian IPA festival
The steep angle of most of the barrels in this shot shows that the Salopian's first IPA festival has gone well. The badges show a mixture of local beers and those from a little further away. After the festival, there will still be seven real ales available!
Salopian Presentation
Ollie Parry, owner of the Salopian Bar in Smithfield Road, Shrewsbury, with his certificate for Runner Up in the Shrewsbury and West Shropshire CAMRA's Pub of the Year competition 2010.
Salopian Presentation
The Salopian has won Shrewsbury and West Shropshire CAMRA's Pub of the Year for the last two years. In 2010, it has been pipped at the post by the Three Fishes in Fish Street, but still managed Runner Up with distinction. Here Keith Davies presents owner Ollie Parry with his certificate at the end of the pub's IPA festival (18 April 2010)
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The brick frontage covers a stone core which dates from at least the 16th century. There has been a pub here since at least 1780, and it has been known as The Loggerheads since 1831
A Banks' house, it carries a wide range of Marston's products. It always has a good pint of Draught Bass and Jennings Snecklifter along with standards and seasonal beers.