The latest London Drinker magazine has just been printed. An electronic version can be read here. I list below those imminent festivals that have chosen to advertise in the magazine.
April
8th-10th Bexley CAMRA, Sidcup Sports Club www.camrabexleybranch.org.uk
9th-10th Hook, Surbiton www.hookbeerfest.org.uk
15th-18th Waltham Forest Council S&SC Walthamstow
22nd-25th Red Cow, Richmond
23rd-24th Willoughby Arms, Kingston www.thewilloughbyarms.com
30th-3rd Harefield Harefield Village
30th-3rd White Horse (LocAle) Parson's Green www.whitehorsesw6.com
May 6th-9th Aldborough Hall Farm, North Weald www.aldboroughrealale.co.uk
8th Five Bells www.thefivebells-chelsfieldvillage.co.uk
20th-23rd Hope (Mild), Carshalton www.hopecarshaltonpub.co.uk 28th-31st Red Lion (Champions) Isleworth www.red-lion.info
June 8th-12th Thurrock CAMRA, Grays
17th-20th Hope (Summer LocAle), Carshalton www.hopecarshaltonpub.co.uk
25th-26th Kingston CAMRA, Workmen's Club and Institute
July 2nd-4th Princess of Wales Morden Rd, S Wimbledon www.powmerton.co.uk
Showing posts with label London Drinker. Show all posts
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Friday, 9 April 2010
Thursday, 25 September 2008
London Drinker
The lastest issue of London Drinker magazine has been published and will be delivered to the pubs over the coming days.
For those who cannot wait, or who do not visit a pub that stocks the magazine, the online version is identical and is now easy and quick to view and download, either as a complete magazine or is smaller chunks.
The electronic version is available here. Click on publications, the latest issue is 2008, volume 30, issue 5.
London Drinker circulation is now 46,000 copies every two months. 30,000 are distributed by JD Wetherspoons throughout their pubs in the London area. The rest are distributed to London's pubs and beer festivals by CAMRA volunteers.
Circulation is only constrained by the number of volunteers. We print as many copies as we can logistically distribute quickly. Copies are collected by volunteers from the Royal Oak, SE1 and taken to their local pubs.
For those who cannot wait, or who do not visit a pub that stocks the magazine, the online version is identical and is now easy and quick to view and download, either as a complete magazine or is smaller chunks.
The electronic version is available here. Click on publications, the latest issue is 2008, volume 30, issue 5.
London Drinker circulation is now 46,000 copies every two months. 30,000 are distributed by JD Wetherspoons throughout their pubs in the London area. The rest are distributed to London's pubs and beer festivals by CAMRA volunteers.
Circulation is only constrained by the number of volunteers. We print as many copies as we can logistically distribute quickly. Copies are collected by volunteers from the Royal Oak, SE1 and taken to their local pubs.
Monday, 8 September 2008
London Drinker
I don't get much correspondence for the attention of the London Drinker editor but this one arrived in my inbox recently.
Dear Mr. Geoff editor Sir,
I wish to take this opportunity to ask you as to how the very name for you're publication came about and if you think it portrays a positive image to the pub going public at large? I have to say that for me at least as well as others to whom I have spoken, the name conjures up rather unfortunate images of old homeless on the proverbial park bench of life as well as young loutish tearaways on buses abusing their use of liberty as well as other transport users. I guess that this is merely an oversight of some sort on the part of the organising committee and for all I am aware the magazine itself may have been in existence for many years (I've now been reading it with pleasure for five point five of those) but in light of the current political climate concerning the issues of 'drink', I wonder if a change of 'branding' would not be slightly more apropos of caution? as I for one would hate the very thought that some may (mis?)construe the name as portraying a negative image of the ale drinking populace as a whole.
As it is many of the ale drinking faces that I see and rub shoulders with do not to my own mind at least seem to be portraying a particularly what I would describe as positive image of the community that are likely to read and probably contribute to the London Drinker as a whole due very much of the unclean or unwashed appearance that so many of them seem to want to live up to. This I have to say is particularly prevalent in the older generation (s?) of beer drinkers whereas those of a much younger age group that I see at some of the beer festivals (fashionable facial stubble aside, rather than mandatory facial OVERgrowth)seem to laugh quite audibly at their elder counterparts because of this. I am one who sits back with my pint and observes the world passing by with interest and sometimes concern at those things in which I have a vested interest.
So on that note of corporate if that be the correct turn of phrase image I wonder what the thinking is or was behind the naming of such a platform? Maybe a competition could be featured in the LD to guess this as in "win a case of....." or such. Or perhaps one to rename the future of it. Hoping and trusting that I have not and am not causing any offence in any way or means by making these light hearted suggestions and enquiry.
Yours with indifference.
Cnt. Arthur Strong esq
Reader
London Drinker magazine receives various rants over the course of a year and it is often hard to spot the spoofs from the real nutters. However, a quick google unearths the following :
"Count Arthur Strong is a fictional comedy character created by English comedian Steve Delaney. He is an elderly pompous out-of-work deluded thespian from the North of England who is challenged by attention deficit disorder and memory loss. He is apt to use malapropisms in his attempts to sound educated"
Hang on, that sounds just like ..... nope probably best not to go there !
Dear Mr. Geoff editor Sir,
I wish to take this opportunity to ask you as to how the very name for you're publication came about and if you think it portrays a positive image to the pub going public at large? I have to say that for me at least as well as others to whom I have spoken, the name conjures up rather unfortunate images of old homeless on the proverbial park bench of life as well as young loutish tearaways on buses abusing their use of liberty as well as other transport users. I guess that this is merely an oversight of some sort on the part of the organising committee and for all I am aware the magazine itself may have been in existence for many years (I've now been reading it with pleasure for five point five of those) but in light of the current political climate concerning the issues of 'drink', I wonder if a change of 'branding' would not be slightly more apropos of caution? as I for one would hate the very thought that some may (mis?)construe the name as portraying a negative image of the ale drinking populace as a whole.
As it is many of the ale drinking faces that I see and rub shoulders with do not to my own mind at least seem to be portraying a particularly what I would describe as positive image of the community that are likely to read and probably contribute to the London Drinker as a whole due very much of the unclean or unwashed appearance that so many of them seem to want to live up to. This I have to say is particularly prevalent in the older generation (s?) of beer drinkers whereas those of a much younger age group that I see at some of the beer festivals (fashionable facial stubble aside, rather than mandatory facial OVERgrowth)seem to laugh quite audibly at their elder counterparts because of this. I am one who sits back with my pint and observes the world passing by with interest and sometimes concern at those things in which I have a vested interest.
So on that note of corporate if that be the correct turn of phrase image I wonder what the thinking is or was behind the naming of such a platform? Maybe a competition could be featured in the LD to guess this as in "win a case of....." or such. Or perhaps one to rename the future of it. Hoping and trusting that I have not and am not causing any offence in any way or means by making these light hearted suggestions and enquiry.
Yours with indifference.
Cnt. Arthur Strong esq
Reader
London Drinker magazine receives various rants over the course of a year and it is often hard to spot the spoofs from the real nutters. However, a quick google unearths the following :
"Count Arthur Strong is a fictional comedy character created by English comedian Steve Delaney. He is an elderly pompous out-of-work deluded thespian from the North of England who is challenged by attention deficit disorder and memory loss. He is apt to use malapropisms in his attempts to sound educated"
Hang on, that sounds just like ..... nope probably best not to go there !
Monday, 28 July 2008
London Drinker
The latest issue of London Drinker magazine should be arriving at a pub near you shortly. London Drinker has been written, edited, published and distributed by CAMRA volunteers in London 6 times a year for nearly 30 years.
The magazine continues to be available free in over 200 London pubs and thanks to a distribution deal with Wetherspoons you will now also be able to find the magazine in every Wetherspoon pub within the M25.
If you are not able to find one of the 46,000 copies around town, the magazine is also now available in web-mag form here.
The magazine continues to be available free in over 200 London pubs and thanks to a distribution deal with Wetherspoons you will now also be able to find the magazine in every Wetherspoon pub within the M25.
If you are not able to find one of the 46,000 copies around town, the magazine is also now available in web-mag form here.
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