June 2009

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It’s our first birthday this month and to celebrate we will be at Steyning Farmers Market on the 4th of July giving away our beer. While stocks last you will be able to take away a bottle (one per person) or have a pint on the spot (also one per person).

Have one on us!

Also, don’t forget another opportunity to try our beer at the Pete Brown reading at the Steyning Bookshop on the 23rd. Contact me for tickets.

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Both the Devil’s Kitchen and Dick Puddlecote have covered this extraordinary issue of the Lancet that is dedicated to alcohol. It’s obviously intended to be another salvo from a medically lead temperance movement.

Most of the actual articles are behind a subscription wall although I was amused to see that on the same page the Lancet offering that oh so embarrassing ‘ moderate drinkers die less young than teetotalers’ article. One of the authors of the articles in this Lancet is extensively quoted here where he says:

Alcohol-related death rates were highest in Europe – 10 percent.

Now that’s just fascinating because as was pointed out in the Kitchen article:

According to the ONS, there were 509,090 deaths in England and Wales in 2008 and there were 6,541 deaths related to alcohol in England.

Now we’ve just been told that ten percent of all these deaths were caused by alcohol so that’s 50, 909. But that only 6541 happened in England. So the remaining 44368 deaths must have happened in Wales!

Good heavens – what are they drinking over there ?

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From the Times, via Dick Puddlecote and Leg Iron.

The article alleges that the police have been taking bottles away from people who have just purchased them at off-licenses. That seems unjust somehow, and I think also against the guidelines. You can take a look at the guidelines for yourself here.

Another case of local nit-wits abusing poorly drafted laws intended for another purpose ?

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Pete Brown is coming to Steyning on Thursday 23 July to help us celebrate our first birthday. He will be giving a reading and talking about the adventures described in his latest book Hops and Glory: One Man’s Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire and this exclusive event will be refreshed with free beer provided by the brewery. It will all happen at 19.30 at the Steyning Bookshop.

Space is very limited, so entry will be by ticket only. Tickets are free.

If you’d like to come along to what promises to be a fun evening, don’t delay, apply for your ticket immediately, because they will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.

Email me andy at adurbrewery.com Put ‘Pete Brown Tickets’ as the message subject, and be sure to include your name, full postal address and telephone number (stating day or evening).

You can also write to Andy Dwelly, Adur Brewery Ltd., Adur Business Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex BN43 5EG making sure you include all the relevant details as above.

I’ve currently got 18 tickets left.

I’ll be announcing our other big birthday event shortly.

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We are coming up to our first birthday and as part of this, Pete Brown, author of Hops and Glory will be visiting us on the 23rd of July to give a reading at the Steyning Bookshop. Beer will be served (what a surprise!).

Entrance will be by ticket – but tickets will be free; details on how to get them will be posted here as soon as we have worked them out.

Review here.

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It reads:

Dear Mr. Dwelly

The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you for your recent letter that was recent letter that forwarded to him from Buckingham Palace. The views you expressed have been carefully noted.

Yours sincerely

MR G EDWARDS

There’s been an unmarked military helicopter hovering over Steyning all day!

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Based on the results of the study, researchers recommend moderate consumption of beer as a part of athletes’ diets.

Full story here.

Via Dick Puddlecote.

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The redacted expenses are published today. You can find them here.

I had a quick wander through our MP’s expenses. The only conclusion I can draw is that he – or someone in his office – has the worst handwriting in the world!

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Part of the dual life I lead is involved with software development, and some of that software runs at Ascot handling their TV systems. It’s Royal Week this week when ‘you know who’ turns up and watches her horses run on her own racecourse. It became clear over the weekend that I was needed over there and much of the week has been spent frantically trying to arrange matters so that I could.

It’s a pretty strange occasion and when you’ve spent some time there it becomes obvious that the actual horses are nothing more than an excuse. Ascot is actually all about hats. Tall ones, ribboned ones, bizarre paisley patterned ones. And that’s just the men!

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