The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

The official launch of HowlinGale will take place at the Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Hampshire) on the evening of Thursday 3rd April 2014. After the brewery launch we will be going into Reading afterwards to celebrate further at up to three different multi award winning CAMRA real ale pubs who will have HowlinGale available on their handpumps that night. HowlinGale is a 3.9% abv dark old ale which is a rebranded version of Wild Weather’s very popular Black Night ale.
Please contact Alan Hope (07946 292557) or Derrill Carr (07803 292557) if you would like to attend this very special launch event.

Howling has officially become the first ever political party leader to become a member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and he is already actively campaigning and making a real (ale) difference.
Howling has given his full support to the campaign to freeze beer duty in the budget later this month but has gone a step further and proposed to CAMRA that beer duty should be reduced not just frozen.
Howling pointed out that it was the OMRLP who first campaigned for all day pub opening hours which was seen as loony at the time but is now the law. Alan also flagged up that his latest Co-ALE-ition partner was a Green micro brewery and by drinking Wild Weather’s HowlinGale you were helping to save the planet.
Emily Ryan (CAMRA Campaigns Manager) has written to Alan this week thanking him for his long standing (30 years in the pub trade) valued support for beer and pubs. Emily goes on to say in her letter, “We have been following  the success of your Party’s Co-ALE-ition initiative with interest and we are pleased to see how well the beers are doing.” Finally Emily says regarding CAMRA’s latest freeze beer duty campaign, “Lets hope the Govt once again listens to reason and follows your lead.”
Kevin Travers (CAMRA’s Deputy Regional Director for Surrey) who attended the main Co-ALE-ition launch event back in Sept 2013 at the Prince Arthur in Fleet also wrote to Howling this week, “That’s good, cant get too much support and profile raising.”

This year is the 30th anniversary of ‘The Official Monster Raving Loony Party’ used as a name to stand in an election. Our first election was on the 24th February 1983 when Screaming Lord Sutch stood in Bermondsey and polled 97 votes. We celebrated by having a ‘meet the brewer‘ in the Pommelers Rest which is a Wetherspoon outlet, in Bermondsey, on Tower Bridge in London.
Chris Gill, the head brewer of Ascot Ales in Camberley, Surrey presented a showcase of his beers. This included his hugely popular contribution to our Co-ALE-ition range called ‘Hope and Glory’. This was the first time that ‘our ale’ had been tapped in Central London. The customers were quite taken aback at the sight of a full posse of Loonys, The Howling ‘Laud’, Baron Von Thunderclap, The Lovely Lady Linda Landers and Knigel ‘big fibber’ Knapp, were on hand to roll out a few loony policies. If all those present who declared they had voted Loony 30 years ago, did, then there must have been some sort of voting fiddle, because Sutchie would have won!
A big thank you to Chris obviously, and Reggie the landlord, plus Vicky and all the staff who all joined in. It was also nice to meet up with Mr Wetherspoon aka John Paul Adams, he is their No1 fan and has his own web site all about them. We may see you all again sometime in the future , because it was suggested that we could have a ‘Loony Day’ up there, like we did on Westminster Bridge a few years ago, do you remember?
The Howling ‘Laud’

The Hampshire News & Mail newspapers have published a great story about our sixth Co-ALE-ition beer ‘HowlinGale’ read it here

Here is the final version of the pumpclip for the latest Co-ALE-ition ale which will be officially launched in March. Derrill Carr approached Wild Weather brewery in Silchester (Berkshire) early in February to see if they would be willing to re-brand their dark old ale called “Black Night” for the Loony Party. He had identified an excellent fit which is the Wild Weather brewery, owner and head brewer is Mike Tempest and the Loony Party have Howling. Derrill already had a name in mind “HowlinGale” which can be pronounced two ways i.e. Howlin Gale which fit perfectly with the weather related names of all the other Wild Weather brewery ales and of course Howling Ale which of course it is as well. HowlinGale is a 3.9% dark old ale with a hoppy malty taste which fills a supply gap for a Co-ALE-ition ale as it is less than 4% abv and also a dark ale that can easily be supplied to pubs in Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire.