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Beer and Pub News Round Up
The Dolphin makes a splash!
Holborn is a great drinking area with many real ale pubs. Red Lion Street (leading into Lamb's Conduit Street) makes a good street for a pub crawl – with no chance of getting lost! It's also a great street to find a restaurant with Italian, Chinese and Indian cuisines represented.
The Dolphin at the northern end of Red Lion Street has been a pub since the eighteenth century. But this tiny little street corner pub had to be rebuilt in 1915 when a German Zeppelin dropped a bomb on it. By the bar is a clock, which has stopped at 10.40pm, the time the bomb hit killing three men.
It's a cosy little place with copper and pottery artifacts giving it a cottage style feel. The seating is a mixture of bar stools around the edge with ledges to rest glasses and a number of booths.
The beer range consists of three staples: Adnams Bitter, Greene King IPA and Fuller's Pride. Food is served at lunchtime only. And if you are looking for a pub to stop in on a Sunday, you are in luck as the pub is open 7 days a week.
Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2001
Skullsplitter from Orkney Brewery has been named the Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain 2001 by a panel of judges at CAMRA's national winter celebration of beer.
The fruity, 8.5% ABV barley wine took the gong from a final selection of over twenty old ales, strong milds, stouts and porters. At the announcement, CAMRA Scottish Director Colin Valentine congratulated Orkney on their ability to produce beers to perform on the national stage with companies a hundred times their size. He said, "This is tremendous news for Orkney Brewery and a shot in the arm for Scottish brewing. It's the first time a Scottish brewer has taken the gold medal and it's a just reward for Orkney's commitment to brewing original and distinctive beers." Orkney Brewery was set up in 1988 in an old school building and is Britain's second most northerly brewery. Skullsplitter is named after Thorfin, the first Viking Earl of Orkney.
Orkney Brewery also won the silver award in the Strong Mild and Old Ale category of the competition with their Dark Island beer. The silver prize went to Sarah Hughes Brewery from Sedgeley with their superb Dark Ruby Mild and the Bronze award went to O'Hanlons Brewery in Devon for their splendid Port Stout.
Reproduced from the Full Pint, Issue 8.
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