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Cains beers will be returning once again, thanks to Mikhail Hotels & Leisure Group, who have invested millions into some of Merseyside’s most striking venues including Punch Tarmey’s and Doctor Duncan’s.
Andrew Mikhail, the man behind The Mikhail Group, said of this exciting new venture, ‘Cains beer is synonymous with Liverpool, I love the Cains brand. The beer they call ‘Liverpool in a pint’ has been missed by many since it disappeared from bars almost 10 years ago. I feel incredibly proud to be bringing this iconic brew back to life and I’m sure that there are many Real Ale fans looking forward to enjoying that first pint of Cains.’
Andrew continues, "Cains is a resilient brand just like Liverpool and we're really excited to be bringing Cains Brewery back to life, albeit with a new direction that will bring national attention to Liverpool for all the right reasons,".
The new venue, expected to create around 40 local jobs, will be spread across 3 floors and promises to offer the perfect synergy between the past and present of Cains being based within the original and oldest building within Cains Brewery where brewing originally started over 160 years ago.
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CAMRA’s Champion Beer of Britain (CBoB) is one of the most prestigious beer competitions in the world. Liverpool Beer Festival (LBF) was one of the first major beer festivals in the country to return after the protracted absence due to the pandemic and it was also one of the first opportunities to recommence face-to face judging for CAMRA’s CBoB competition.
Liverpool Beer Festival hosted the regional finals for 2 of the 12 CAMRA beer style categories, Session Bitters (up to and including 4.3% ABV) and Session Stouts and Porters (up to and including 4.9% ABV). The redefined styles are detailed in ‘CAMRA Beer Styles Brochure Winter 2020’
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Knowsley Planning department have recently give full planning consent to convert the existing first floor licensee accommodation into residential flats.
The existing ground floor pub area is to be re-vamped into a bar/bistro, but the planning application drawings showed no alterations to this area. The Queens Arms is listed by CAMRA as a Pub with an Historic Pub Interior and is a particularly good example of a late 1950s interior and schemes of this quality have now become very rare.
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Hello, everyone, Matt, your Pub Of The Year co-ordinator here. Nobody could have predicted, 2 years ago, what would unfold on a global scale, nor the impact events would have on things like our annual Pub Of The Year competition. As has already been well-publicised, we could not hold the competition last year, so it was decided to carry over the winner for 2020, The Lion Tavern on Moorfields, as the winner for 2021 also.
I thought the latest edition of MerseyAle (our first physical, rather than online-only, copy for a while) would be an ideal opportunity to remind you of the procedure for deciding upon our branch Pub Of The Year for 2022- will Dave and the team in the Lion retain the title they won in 2020, or will it be someone else’s turn, this time around?
As some of you may remember, the current system was agreed at an EGM which was held in October 2018, and is as follows:
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CAMRA is dedicated to supporting pubs, as well as promoting best-quality beers and ciders. In particular, we are widely regarded for our work on identifying and helping to protect the UK’s most important heritage pubs through the compilation of our “Inventories of Pubs with Historic Interiors” – the most precious survivors.
CAMRA defines heritage pubs as those that are wholly or mostly unchanged or retain important historic rooms or features from before 1970. Since then, huge numbers of pubs have been expertly refurbished, and many have been established in buildings previously used for other purposes. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of new pubs in both urban and rural locations are really good and deserve to be recognised and applauded.
CAMRA have, therefore, begun a project to identify, preserve and protect pubs that are Outstanding Conversions and Restorations (OCR).
