Pub Of The Season – Summer 2015

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Pi (Altrincham)The Trafford & Hulme Pub Of The Season for Summer 2015 is Pi, Shaw’s Road, Altrincham.

Pi opened in October 2012 as the third outlet for Chorlton based Pivo Inns. The original Pi on Manchester Road in Chorlton was Pub of The Season for Spring 2010 with Pi(Rose Lane) in the Liverpool suburb of Mosley Hill joining the family in 2011.

The Altrincham bar follows the same basic formula as its siblings – specialising in beer with a basic but hugely successful food menu based around the products of Bristol’s PieMinster. The concept of Pi was born out of owner Andy Ingham’s desire for a local bar that he would want to drink in – as nobody else was opening the kind of place he liked, he did it himself.

There are two handpumps on the bar, one selling permanent beer Tatton Blonde. The guest pump serves an ever changing range of guests with regularly featured breweries including RedWillow, Saltaire and Brightside. The cask ales are complemented by a wide range of distinctive draught beers – there are no national brands here – and a massive range of bottles from the “beer bible”. Essentially it’s a beer heaven.

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Pub News Shorts

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By the time you read this, the Quarrybank in Timperley will have re-opened after a major refurbishment. The pub closed at the start of June with it’s Bloomsbury Lane location turned into a building site for three weeks.  Meanwhile, there have also been changes at Sale’s The Moorside. Most striking is the changes to the … Read more

City Centre Branch Consultation Meeting – Tuesday 12th May @ 8.15PM

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As regular Branch meeting attenders will know there has been much discussion over the past couple of years or so about how the City Centre of Manchester is supported by its local CAMRA Branches, and how consistent support is to our City Centre pubs and bars.

There has been much discussion and consultation, and lots of confusion on what cannot and can be done from a CAMRA prospective, with members of the National Executive themselves contradicting each other.

Part of this discussion has been around what is needed to set up a new CAMRA Branch, and as part of this a group of CAMRA members have come together to propose and be the founding committee of a potential City Centre Branch.

Currently the City Centre is covered by three existing Branches – North Manchester, Stockport and South Manchester, and ourselves. The formation of a City Centre Branch would have a major effect on us as a Branch and as part of the process of proposing to set up a new Branch, the prospective Branch Committee is required to consult with the affected Branches and to consider the results of that consultation in coming up with a final business plan for the consideration of our Regional Director and the CAMRA Branches
Committee.

This Consultation meeting has been set for Tuesday 12th May at 8.15 at the Waterhouse in Manchester, a pub which if the new Branch is set up we will lose as a Trafford and Hulme pub.

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Club of the Year 2015 – Flixton Conservative Club

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pjk flixton conTrafford & Hulme Branch is fortunate in having a number of Clubs in its area doing an excellent job in selling and promoting quality cask ale. However, it is Flixton Conservative Club who continues to set the benchmark and for that reason they have been selected as the Trafford & Hulme Branch Club of the Year 2015.

T&H Chairman Paul King presenting the award to Nigel & Sharon Porter

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The Dockyard – a Proper Pub

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Media City’s The Dockyard has been serving real ales and much more beside to the staff of BBC, ITV and the many other companies based at the Salford complex. They have now expanded with a second Dockyard bar in Manchester city centre opening just after Easter. Taking over the former Café Rouge unit on Left … Read more

Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival 2015

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The Campaign For Real Ale & St Clements Church in association with  present The 11th Chorlton Beer & Cider Festival 2nd – 4th July 2015 – St Clements Church, Edge Lane, Chorlton   For more infomation, please visit the new festival website at www.chorltonbeerfestival.org.uk  Follow the festival on twitter at @ChorlBeerFest

New Navigation now open

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Broadheath’s The Navigation has re-opened after an extensive refurbishment. No walls have been knocked down or built but it is all new furnishings and freshly painted walls for the pub which stands on the corner of Navigation Road & Manchester Road.  The new Landlady, Julie, took over the last September and has spent the last … Read more