Cheers! Me with Stewart Campbell at The Hop and Vine.

I wanted to speak with someone from CAMRA (that's the Campaign for Real Ale if you didn't know) and Stewart kindly said that I could interview him in his pub, obviously I jumped at the chance!!

I spoke to Stewart about the newly formed The Great Newsome Brewery at Winestead and how they'd brewed some beers which were named after local sayings and things. I learnt that the name "Pricky Back Otchan" (which is one of their brews) comes from an old Yorkshire phrase for a hedgehog - "the prickly backed urchin". Another is "Stoney Binks", which is named after after a shale bank off the coast of Spurn Point.

At the time of my visit The Hop and Vine was holding it's own beer festival, where ales from independent breweries such as Great Newsome where on sale. Stewart told me that running his own real ale pub had proved there was a demand for such products and people wanted variety rather than the same gas-filled lagers and smoothflow bitters.

To date, The Hop and Vine has won two awards from the local CAMRA branch, in 2007 the bar was voted "Joint Hull Pub of The Year" and "Runner up Hull Cider Pub of The Year".

The interview was recorded at The Hop and Vine during my dinner hour, you can't beat a liquid lunch!

Related Links:

• Mike Brown Radio Show webpage.
• The Hop & Vine website.
• The Great Newsome Brewery website.
• CAMRA's website.