ISSUE ONE
Tom Young He chats about his bodyboarding & surf photography adventures.
The Rebel Brewing Co. Rebel describes what goes into making their unique beers.
Holographic Leather Jacket Rory talks about their ‘love making-sex funk music’ 1
ART DIRECTOR Jessy Edgar jessyedgar.com
GRAPHIC DESIGN Jessy Edgar jessyedgar.com
Ashley Saunders twitter: @ashleyconner91
Alice Letherbarrow aliceletherbarrow.tumblr.com
Fraser Donaldson
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Welcome This is the first issue of The Font. We hope you survived the storms, unfortunately Castle Beach Cafe collapsed under the harsh Valentine’s Day waves, hopefully they’ll return for the summer. We battled through to explore how ale is really made with The Rebel Brewing Co and Black Rock Brewery and even got a little soaked in our thirst for discovery. We have had lots of fun making the first issue and we can’t wait to get on with the next, we hope you enjoy it.
Lewis Langham
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PHOTOGRAPHY Tom Bangham
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WRITERS Chris Veall
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Annie Harrison
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Diana Mote dianamote.co.uk
Jack Kenyon jackkenyon.net
Chris Roberts No 4 & Untitled 4 Killigrew Street Falmouth Cornwall TR11 3PN info@no4anduntitled.co.uk no4anduntitled.co.uk untitledbarfalmouth.co.uk
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Contents
The Rebel Brewing Co.
Dermerara Daiquiri
Tom Young
The Brewing Process
Holographic Leather Jacket
The News, Alain De Botton
Harbour Brewing Co.
Wild Pony
Coming Soon
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The Rebel Brewing Co. The Font’s chosen Brewery of the Month for March is the unique and exciting Penryn based The Rebel Brewing Co. Winners of 2013 Falmouth Beer and Cider Festival’s Champion Cornish Ale and Specialist Beer awards for their ‘Mexi-Cocoa’ (a chocolate and vanilla infused stout), Rebel specialise in artisan and craft beer, with an eclectic range of exotic and revolutionary flavours and ingredients outside the box of traditional beer making. To mark their arrival at No 4, we met with trade sales manager Matt Kemp to ask him some pressing questions about the company. What’s your favourite beer at Rebel and why? My favourite has got to be either the award winning Mexi-Cocoa or Bullhorn Black Lager which is the only Black lager available to buy in Cornwall - it’s one for the beer aficionados. Why start a brewery in Cornwall? What are the benefits of having a business in the county? There’s a really wide market for artisan and craft beer in Cornwall, we specialise in brewing beer to quality but still keeping it as a craft product.
There are endless possibilities here and Cornwall is the most beautiful part of the southwest. We’ve got three or four Cornish employees with great knowledge, and there is an obvious real ale theme in Cornwall that we cater to. We want to raise the profile of Cornwall, prove that it’s not just pasties and miners and we’re trying to create drinks which reflect the artisan, crafty nature of the county at a price that competes with any other beer on the market. Your exotic flavours are pretty rare in beers, what processes do you go through to find the right flavour combinations? It’s down to the range of skill and knowledge of the brewers. Our cornish brewers take the old, traditional knowledge and modernise it to bring in a unique edge to the drinks. The Mexi-Cocoa for instance was created by a biochemist at Rebel. We get hops from all over all over Europe and America, places like Slovenia for example. What are your plans for the future? We’re already selling our beers in Rick Stein’s, The Eden Project and a fifteenth restaurant in Newquay. Recently we were in
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Bristol’s Beer Emporium at their weekly ‘tap over’ where we spoke to the individuals who bought our beer and answered their questions - that’s something we’ll be doing at No 4 soon. Really, we want to raise the profile of Rebel throughout Cornwall and beyond. With a mission statement like ‘pushing the boundaries of beer’, who wouldn’t want to give it a try? Rebel will be featured at No 4 all through March, so come and have a sample of their brilliantly strange range of beers and ales while you can. Words by Chris Veall
Tuesdays at No4 & Untiled
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Every 1st Tuesday of the month is rum club, a chance to taste and learn about rums from all over the globe. The first month concentrates on light and golden rums in the form of the daiquiri, starting on 04/03/14.
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Every 2nd Tuesday we will be hosting an ale tasting, meet our brewer of the month and taste your way through the west country! Starting with Rebel brewing on 11/03/14.
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Every 3rd Tuesday we will be delving deep into our favourite botanicals with gin club. Every month we will learn about different botanicals and how to flavour match this wonderfully complex spirit, beginning with a tasting session and discussion about juniper on 18/03/14.
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The 4th Tuesday of each month will be creative club, where we will be host to an array of external artists, writers and musicians. Workshops include: speed sketching, silk screen printing and live music. The first art club will be on 25/03/14.
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Demerara Daiquiri The simplest of mixes are often the best & I’ve decided to start this series with one of the most basic of cocktails, the daiquiri. Daiquiri (pronounced dahy-kuh-ree) is the name of a small village near Santiago in Cuba. The origins of this drink are widely disputed. Some say that mining engineer Jennings Cox from the daiquiri iron mines invented it when he ran out of gin. Others claim that the drink was evolutionary due to the abundance of lime & sugar on the island. Not dissimilar to the ‘grog’ that the British navy created for their daily rum ration or ‘tot’, the daiquiri is a mixture of lime, rum & sugar. The cocktail started life as a tall stirred drink with cracked ice, but it has evolved through the years to a shaken drink, often served strained in a cocktail glass. Famous drinker of the daiquiri, Ernest Hemingway, had his own variation of the drink. This can be made by simply replacing the sugar with Maraschino & grapefruit juice.
Usually served frozen, Hemmingway described this creation as ‘[having] no taste of alcohol and felt, as you drank [it], the way downhill glacier skiing feels running through powder snow’. The daiquiri is the perfect way to compare the flavour profiles in white and light rums. UNTITLED’s first rum club will focus on the daiquiri. In this session you will be able to try different rums and different daiquiris in a search for the finest daiquiri for you. UNTITLED Demerara Daiquiri: Ingredients 50ml of El Dorado 5 year old rum 12.5ml of simple syrup Juice of one large lime Method Add all ingredients to the shaker Fill to the brim with ice Shake hard Strain over fresh ice into a tumbler Words by Hannah Marven
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Tom Young Described as ‘one of West Cornwall’s finest photographic exports’, Tom Young will be showing some of his favourite work in Untitled this Easter. With the finer details still to be announced, the exhibition will focus on Tom’s travels around the globe and his photos based in and around the ocean. Known for his stunning bodyboarding and surf photography, Tom’s work has featured in ThreeSixty Magazine and The Telegraph to name but a few. Raised in Cornwall and having lived on the coast for most of his life, Tom’s fascination with the sea fuels his photographic exploration around the world. For Tom, photographing the sea and its surroundings was just a ‘natural progression’ from bodyboarding and cliff jumping, a way for him to capture some amazing memories whilst he’s in the thick of it. After studying Journalism at Falmouth University Tom took some time out, packed up his camera and
his board, and went off to explore the warm shores of Indonesia, Australia and Tasmania, capturing the waves and the adventures that accompanied them. Based in New South Wales, Tom spent months traveling Oz and sampling the waves down under. From these journeys Tom has produced some of the freshest pictures on the bodyboarding and surfing scene, with his work being published in a variety of sports magazines and many seeing it as ‘top of it’s game’.
he can, eventually returning to Australia and Tasmania, and with a bit of luck, after his adventures, he’ll keep bringing the results back to show the folks of Cornwall.
Tom describes his travels and turning up somewhere completely different to snap the waves as ‘reigniting the fire’, with new horizons allowing him to ‘see things differently’, letting his creative juices flourish. Now Tom has brought that creativity and his photos back to Cornwall, and as he has said, you can really see the contrasts between home and abroad. Looking to the future Tom hopes to keep snapping and traveling whenever
Words by Annie Harrison
‘photographing the sea and its surroundings was just a natural progression’
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You can find a host of Tom Young’s pictures from his journey through Oz and Tasmania, as well as shots from his home turf here in Cornwall below; Website: teewhyphotos.com Blog: tee-why.blogspot.com Flickr: tomyoung123 Facebook: teewhyphotos
Upcoming Ales The selection of ales will showcase the best of the southwest from breweries in Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset and Avon Some of the breweries that will be used are: Somerset: Branscombe Vale, Dorset Brewing Company, Isle of Purbeck, Piddle, Sunny Republic & Palmers in Dorset. Bath Ales, Glastonbury, Moor Beer Co, Arbor, Cheddar Ales and Bristol Beer Factory. Devon: Avon Exmoor, Clearwater, Bays, Teignworthy, Otter and Hunters. Cornwall: Black Rock, Cornish Chough, Kelteck, St Ives, Driftwood Spars and Penpont. Pick of the Counties would be: Sunny Republic - Beach Blonde 4.4% (Winterborne Kingston, Dorset) Highly quaffable at 4.4%, it has a brilliant straw blonde appearance. Its tantalising tropical aroma of mangoes, grapefruit and lychees come from our unique blend of New Zealand, Australian and West Coast American hops. The
upfront bitterness gently yields to a light malt body provided by barley that is sourced solely from farms around the brewery. Bristol Beer Factory - Milk Stout 4.5% (Bristol) The renown ‘Factory’ bring you artisan ales made in small batches. This one is a multi award winning smooth Stout. Smooth, chocolatey sweetness and balanced coffee bitterness with hints of dark fruit. Clearwater Brewery - Proper Ansome 4.2% (Torrington, Devon) During the last three years, Clearwater’s reputation for distinctive, quality beers has expanded from its north Devon heartland to neighbouring counties and now much further afield across England & Wales. A bitter beer for the more discerning drinker. Full flavoured, dark, malty goodness, as the name suggests ‘Proper Ansome’ Black Rock Brewery - Pale Ale 4.2% (Falmouth, Cornwall) Small batches of Black Rock’s beer are hand crafted with
MILK STOUT creamy full bodied champion stout. 4.5% abV
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precision and great care, to make sure it’s ready to set off whenever you are, no matter what the plan is - even if there isnt one. With a crispy, fruity hop flavour, a gorgeous golden colour and a slight citrus nose. It goes down a treat, it’s the sort of beer you could sup at all evening while feathering with your friend for some mackerel at Pendennis Point, overlooking this fine beers namesake. Our selection of ciders also change all the time. We will again have ciders from Cornwall and neighbouring counties. In the next couple of months look out for Ciders & Perrys from Cornish Orchards, Green Valley, Sandford Orchards, Orchard Pig and Ashridge. For something different try Mr Whiteheads Blackberry cider, all the way from Hampshire. A medium sweet cider that with a maroon colour from thos blackberries. Tastes like it should but without the crumble or custard.
Through-out the next few issues we will be going into detail about the brewing process with the help from Falmouth’s only brewery: Black Rock. Jack Williams (Brewer) will talk us through how ales are made from grain to pint.
Key: 1. Hot Liqour Tank 2. Mash Tun 3. Underback 4. Copper 5. Fermentor 6. Pint! ‘The Brewing Process’ - Lewis Langham
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Holographic Leather Jacket Holographic Leather Jacket (I want one!), are a four piece funk, rock and indie fusion that came together in Falmouth; they have been heavily influenced by Bad Rabbits, The Chillies and Foals. This unconventional mix of influences begets a unique style of music full of charisma, depth and outright cheeky lyrics. The band is made up of Joshua Clowes on guitar, Jack Rundell on vocals, Rory Mapes on drums and Max Ellis on bass. All of the members are third year music students at Falmouth University who have been together less than a year and are eager to continue their already successful path as a band, playing gigs, recording in the studio and even having other artists remix their songs. HLJ danced onto the music scene when they won a battle of the bands event at Falmouth University after being together for only one month, its no surprise then, that they were then invited to play at The Princess Pavilion
Less then a year later the band have now recorded their first EP titled Nefelibata (check the dictionary), which enables them to deliver their love of funky rock in a personal expression. ‘Brought together by the funk. Try everything. Experience all,’ is what they state in their bibliography; this concoction of experiments is explained by drummer Rory Mapes as ‘love making-sex funk music’. At the moment they are focussing on writing more songs and expanding their live shows, with the possibility of recording an album and breaking out of Falmouth, and up to Bristol to expand their horizons. This will expose a wider audience to their naughty lyrics and funky vibes, inviting more people to a naughty, funky dance. Rory added ‘if I haven’t earned a pound, but have managed to have dinner every night and play gigs, then... thats more than fine with me’. This mentality has driven
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HLJ to form an innovative style present in songs such as She’s Coming and When The Night Comes, and has also pushed them to realise that they want to make it as a group, and if that requires living in the back of a van, then so be it. Words by Chris Roberts
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The News: A Users Manual The latest book by author and philosopher, Alain De Botton, is an inquiry into how ‘the news’ affects our lives and how we can avoid some of the negative consequences. I interviewed Alain about the book and his motives behind it. Why did you decide to write this book? To make sense of one of the most powerful sources at work in the world today. If you were an alien what do you think your reaction would be to news consumption? I’d be most surprised not by the fact there is so much news, but the way that we don’t prepare people for how odd this is. We don’t train people in the consumption of news. Yet there’s no more powerful force in modern society than the news. It shapes how we see the world, what we judge to be good and bad, important or silly, right or wrong. And yet too often, we don’t see the extent to which the news is forming our mentalities.
Once our formal education is over, the news is the teacher. Do you think many people have an awareness of the psychological affects of reading the news? We don’t interpret things at all. We let them wash over us. It’s like a cult, like a religion... In the developed economies, the news now occupies a position of power at least equal to that formerly enjoyed by the faiths. Here, too, we hope to receive revelations, learn who is good and bad, fathom suffering and understand the unfolding logic of existence. As far as habits of consumption, do you have any recommendations? We should go a little easier on ourselves when it comes to indifference to the news - and recognise that we’re one of the first generations to have to deal with the torrent of information about things very far removed from our own lives. The modern idea of news is pleasantly flattering. Yet it’s really quite
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strange. We keep getting information that isn’t really for us to know what to do with. No wonder we’re sometimes a bit bored. Do you think the news will continue to define our societies virtues? Yes, but hopefully, it will take its responsibilities more seriously. There are few more influential jobs out there... (The News: A Users Manual by Alain De Botton is available in all major bookstores) Words by Chris Jack Kenyon
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Harbour Brewing Co. Passionate surfers and beer drinkers, Rhys Powell and Eddie Lofthouse met at a Padstow pub in 2011 to discuss their dreams of one day owning their own brewery, and after a few pints, decided to make their wishes a reality. Harbour Brewery was established in 2012 and Powell and Lofthouse set out on making their dreams come true, focusing on using systems ‘with the versatility to allow the brewing to be as creative as possible’. Scouting innovative systems, they settled on a 10 British Brewers Barrel system designed in California and built in Hungary by US firm Bavarian Brewing Technologies which would give them the facilities to produce unique and interesting craft beer. Using Powell’s degree level knowledge of brewing and distilling (earned at Heriot Watt University no less) and Lofthouse’s traditional experience running a family business, they produced ales that would stand out in a
saturated drinks market. Their statement pale and light ales such as the Amber Ale (heady toffee and caramel flavours) and Indian Pale Ale (modern twist on a British classic, incorporating ‘citrus characters and robust yet balanced bitterness’) certainly do their job, flying in the face of the bog-standard beers you see on the supermarket shelves. Whilst Harbour are proud of their Cornish heritage, this young brewery has got high hopes, having already visited international cask days in Toronto and featuring at nationwide events including the Indy Man Beer Con in Manchester and Liverpool Craft Beer Expo. Remarkably, they’ve also successfully secured a regular stock in supermarket giant Sainsbury’s across the country. It doesn’t stop there, however. The duo have announced that they will be showcasing a new and innovative ale flavour dubbed
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the Mango and Chilli pale ale in due course, only serving to show that there is no end to the eclectic tastes you can cram into a brown glass bottle. With the craft and artisan beer market really taking off in the county in recent years, it is impressive that such a new company in Cornwall has managed to hit such lofty heights in such a short space of time. Harbour Brewery’s drinks are not to be missed, and with No 4 hosting them as the Brewery of the Month for April, you have no excuse not to give it a go. Words by Chris Veall
Wild Pony Wild Pony is a vintage and urban apparel store that was founded in November 2012 by Georgia and Charlie. They offer quirky vintage items of clothing as well as various pieces by streetwear brands. The main shop is located on Arwenack Street (near Trago Mills) but they also operate a pop up shop just down the road next to the Meat Counter burger shop, this pop up shop offers items on a budget for both genders and all ages. The main
store stocks various accessories and footwear, vibrant jumpers, checked shirts, head scarves and sheepskin jackets as well as brands such as Levis, Harrington, Barbour and The Quiet Life. Despite this list of popular brands Wild Pony’s prices are affordable allowing students and young people to shop without feeling guilty, stock is also replenished on a regular basis keeping up with seasonal and on-going trends.
For more information and updates check out Wild Pony’s sites below: Email: info@wild-pony.co.uk Facebook: WILD PONY Vintage and Urban Apparel Twitter: @WildPonyVintage Online Shop: ebay.com/wildponyapparel
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Coming Soon to Untitled
Wunderkammer 10/04/2014 - 16/04/2014 a selection of work from the BA (HONS) Illustration third year at Falmouth university Š Laura Plant
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