Devonshire Licensee Wins CAMRA's National Cider Campaigning Award - 18/10/10
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Press Release
Devonshire Licensee Wins CAMRA's National Cider Campaigning Award
Issued: Monday 18 October 2010
Status: For immediate use
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Richard Knibbs, licensee of Ye Olde Cider Bar, Newton Abbot wins CAMRA's national Pomona Award for his dedication to real cider and perry over the last 40 years
CAMRA's annual Pomona Award is named after the Roman Goddess of apples and is presented to the person, place or thing that has done the most to promote real cider or perry in the last 12 months or for their ongoing outstanding work in this field.
CAMRA received many entries for the award from CAMRA members and members of the public but it was Richard Knibbs, licensee of Ye Olde Cider Bar, who won the committee's approval to receive this prestigious accolade.
Andrea Briers, CAMRA's Cider & Perry Campaigning Chair said, "Richard Knibbs thoroughly deserves CAMRA's Pomona Award this year. He has provided the community of Newton Abbot with an outstanding range of quality real cider and perry for the last 40 years in a bar that has changed very little in the last 100 years. Scrubbed tables and settles and not a cushion in sight!"
Cider houses have dwindled over the centuries. They are not pubs and do not sell any beer or any spirits and at the last count there were only three* surviving cider houses in England. Ye Olde Cider Bar is one of these extremely rare and special places.
Pomona Award winner Richard Knibbs said, "I am absolutely delighted to win this award for my passion and dedication towards real cider over the last 40 years. I am also very pleased that CAMRA supports this wonderful, traditional drink. I am a person who does not like change and this is why the Cider Bar has been kept the same over the years with real cider being the core product sold."
CAMRA will present Richard Knibbs with the Pomona Award at Ye Olde Cider Bar tonight at 7.30pm.
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For further information:
CAMRA Press Office - 01727 798443
Andrea Briers, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee Chairman - 07732 754888
Sarah Newson, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee Chairman (Yorkshire) - 07769660454
Gillian Williams, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee (Derbyshire) - 07847 504074
Mick Lewis, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee (London) - 07952 244687
Rhys Jones, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee (Wales) - 01974 241255
Alistair Boyd, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee (Scotland) - 0141 9442016
John Lewis, CAMRA Cider & Perry Committee (Shropshire) - 01743 357017
Notes to Editors:
*The other two Cider houses in Britain are the Monkey House, Defford, Worcestershire and the Cider House, Quatt, Shropshire.
CAMRA's Cider and Perry Month is an annual campaign that takes place in October.
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