Booze + Donating to wounded Vets = Spitfire Ale.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:11 am

A fund-raising campaign in support of wounded members of the armed forces is getting a boost from Kent brewer Shepherd Neame.

A Help for Heroes Spitfire Ale is going on sale for six months, with all the brewery's profits going to the charity.

Help for Heroes aims to raise Â£5m for a swimming pool and gym complex within the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, Surrey.

About Â£1.3m has been raised since the appeal began at the start of October.

Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame said the special edition Spitfire Ale was in aid of an "outstanding initiative".

"Part of Spitfire beer has always been about charity, we've raised a number of funds over the years," he said.

Public swimming pool

Boxes of the ale are also due to be sent as Christmas gifts to armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to those being treated at Headley Court.

The centre helps wounded personnel recover from injuries such as burns, head trauma and limb amputations. Help for Heroes has been tasked with improving its facilities.

Appeal chairman Bryn Parry, himself a former Royal Green Jacket with 10 years' experience, said: "At the moment they're being put in the back of a minibus and taken down to Leatherhead, where they're swimming in one lane of a public pool... so I want to change that.

"When some of them are wounded and have to leave [the armed forces], they're heartbroken and that's why we have to look after these people."

Mr Parry said fund-raising with a Spitfire Ale helped "link the service personnel of today with previous war heroes".

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:14 am

Is there a link or somewhere where we can look into ordering?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:30 am

Unless someone else in Kent is making Spitfire Ale, this would be their website. Link No ordering link, but there's a contact form so feel free to ask 'em.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:24 pm

Query: Does either Iraqi or Afghani law contain a prohibition against alcohol, like the laws of several other Islamic states?

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:25 pm

I believe Iraqi does. Not sure about Afghani.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:28 pm

They didn't seem to when I was there.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:13 am

I could have sworn there was already an ale called Spitfire. I have consumed several bottles of it, I'm sure.

Edit, checked the link, me clever. 'tis the same stuff.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:05 pm

frigidmagi wrote:They didn't seem to when I was there.

Yeah, Iraq doesn't have one because a significant part of the population is Christian/Yazidi, neither of whom (though the Sabaeans do) have a prohibitation against the consumption of alcohol. Not like that really matters; you could mark the camps of French troops in Saudi Arabia by the massive piles of wine bottles left at them. The French drink on active service quite legally and being in the home of Islam does not stop them.

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