Belleville Brewery may have to change its name.
It would become Northcote Brewery following threat of legal action by Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The founders of Balham based micro Belleville Brewery may have to change the name of their brewery after receiving a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of the world's largest drinks company, the giant multi-national Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The letter stated that the Belleville named beers could easily be confused with the Belle-Vue Belgian Lambic fruit beer brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev and as such it called for the micro brewery to stop using the name Belleville or it would face action in the courts.
The small brewery was named originally after the local Belleville Primary School which is attended by the children of each of the brewery's ten 'founding fathers'.
Discussions are ongoing but if the name change goes ahead the brewery will be known in future as the Northcote Brewery, named after the local Northcote Road. Currently one of the six beers they brew is Northcote Blonde, 4.2% ABV.
Read the original Mail on Sunday report from 9th June 2013.
PLEASE NOTE: Apparently there is no chance of confusion between either of these breweries' beers and those from the totally differently named Bellevue Brewing Company of Washington State or the Belleville Brewing Company of Belleville, Illinois.
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PUB OF THE YEAR 2012: EAGLE ALE HOUSE WINS.
The CAMRA SW London Pub of the Year 2012 is the Eagle Ale House. The result was announced by the Mayor of Wandsworth from the stage at the Battersea Beer Festival on Thursday 7th February 2013.
There were seven pubs on the shortlist. As per CAMRAswl branch rules the previous year's winning pub is ineligible for this year's vote. The Trafalgar in Merton was the 2011 champion.
- 1st. Eagle Ale House, 104 Chatham Road, SW11 6HG.
- 2nd. Sultan, 78 Norman Road, SW19 1BT.
- 3rd. Bricklayer's Arms, 32 Waterman Street, SW15 1DD.
This was a well deserved win for the Eagle Ale House which had been in second place for each of the previous two years.
See camraswl.org.uk/PotY/2012/ for details, photos and videos of the presentation which was held at the pub on Wednesday 1st May 2013.
Beer Duty Escalator scrapped
The Beer Duty Escalator was scrapped and duty cut by 1p in the budget on Wednesday 20th March 2013. Click the image above to read CAMRA's reaction on the main CAMRA website.
Battersea Beer Festival
Lost Property
Friday cloakroom mix up:
Would the holder of orange cloakroom ticket 221 please contact us as your waterproof jacket is still at BAC.
It seems that the holder of ticket 221 may have received the one belonging to ticket holder 227 by mistake.
See batterseabeerfestival.org.uk for details.
Notebook Found in Main Hall:
The 'wilko handy jotter' containing notes on the Wallington Beer Festival and beers has not been claimed.
If it's yours please contact Martin Butler with your details and he will arrange its safe return: martin.butler@camraswl.org.uk.
LOCALE
The CAMRA LocAle initiative is the accreditation scheme to promote pubs that sell locally-brewed real ale, reducing the number of ‘beer miles’ and supporting local breweries.
Several pubs in our area now have LocAle accreditation. This entails a pub permanently stocking at least one real ale produced within thirty miles of the pub.
For more information and a list of accredited LocAle pubs in our area see our LocAle page.
CAMRA’s ON-LINE HERITAGE PUB GUIDE
The National Inventory is CAMRA's pioneering effort to identify and protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country. It has always been part of the campaign's mission to not only save real ale but also Britain's rich heritage of pubs. See for yourself at www.heritagepubs.org.uk.
OBITUARIES
Read the online Obituaries [http://camraswl.org.uk/obits] for some CAMRAswl stalwarts who have passed on.
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