Brighton & South Downs CAMRA

Brighton & South Downs CAMRA

CAMRA stands for The Campaign for Real Ale, a British consumer organisation founded 1973 to campaign for the quality of traditional British beers. This now includes good pubs and traditional cider & perry. It has local branches all over Britain and the Brighton & South Downs Branch is one of the five branches covering the County of 'Sussex' (i.e. East & West Sussex).

New CAMRA Campaign: Fair Deal for Your Local logo For this go to www.fairdealforyourlocal.com

HELP US SELECT GOOD PUBS FOR THE GOOD BEER GUIDE – SEE 'WHAT WE DO' No.2 BELOW*

BRANCH COMMITTEE and how to contact some of them

Chairman - Keith Newell chairman@brightoncamra.org.uk

Treasurer - John Kirkland treasurer@brightoncamra.org.uk

Pubs Officer - Adrian Heft pubsofficer@brightoncamra.org.uk

Membership Secretary ------------contact chairman-----------------

Social Secretary - Jack Wilkinson socialsec@brightoncamra.org.uk

Cider & Perry Rep - Jackie Johnson ciderperryrep@brightoncamra.org.uk

President - Pete Coppard president@brightoncamra.org.uk

Webmaster - Adrian Towler

CONTENTS & LINKS

EVENTS List – Festivals, Socials, Trips & Meetings.
PUBS DATABASE We are building a basic list of all pubs in our Branch Area, to feed into a national database. If we have missed any that you know about, please tell us.
(The Young Members' Page suspended as they re-group.)
See our FACEBOOK page
BREWERIES in Sussex, about 40 of them.
SUSSEX CAMRA BRANCHES – The four other CAMRA Branches' websites in Sussex: Arun & Adur, North Sussex, South East Sussex and Western Sussex.
SUSSEX DRINKER – our local CAMRA magazine for Sussex. This link takes you to the Western Sussex website where you should find it as a PDF, or try the Arun & Adur website. Summer 2013 edition should be available.
ALE TRAIL – Our Ale Trail 2013 'Underground AleWay' starts on 27th May.
National CAMRA Website

Our 2013
Branch Chairman is
KEITH NEWELL

BRIGHTON & SOUTH DOWNS CAMpaign for Real Ale

Over 1,300 CAMRA members live in our area, which is Brighton & Hove, Lewes, Newhaven, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Shoreham-by-Sea and the area in between. So what do we do, apart from drink beer and run this website?

1. Organise the annual South Downs Beer Festival in The Old Town Hall & Corn Exchange, Lewes, 21 & 22 June 2013. More info on Events page.

*THE GOOD BEER GUIDE: 2. Select the pubs from our area for inclusion in CAMRA's annual Good Beer Guide (now 27 entries). CAMRA Members who wish to help in this process (for the 2015 Guide as entries for 2014 have been selected) need to use CAMRA's National Beer Scoring System (called NBSS) between June and November 2013 link here or our Branch's booklets/slips which do the same job, and bring completed ones to a Meeting or post in. Booklets at Meetings or download an A4 sheet of scoring slips here. Meetings in January & February complete the process. Thanks for your help.

3. Choose one as our Pub of The Year. Our 2013 winner is The Brewers Arms, Lewes. The runner-up is The Gardeners Arms, also in Lewes with Country Pub of the Year being The Horns Lodge, Chailey. See events page (socials) for dates of presentations.

4. Organise weekly socials, usually on a Thursday or Friday night, in pubs that serve good real ale, run surveying and recruiting trips locally by minibus, and visits to breweries.

5. Assist in organising the Sussex Beer & Cider Festival at Hove Town Hall, Feb/March 2014, which is in our Branch area.

6. Help with the distribution of Sussex Drinker, quarterly colour magazine about the local real ale scene, available free in lots of Sussex pubs.

7. Represent CAMRA and campaign on CAMRA issues in our area, minibus trips to pubs with literature, stalls at festivals, etc.

8. Liaise with and report on the several and increasing number of Breweries on our patch to CAMRA headquarters, and put their news in the 'Bru News' section of Sussex Drinker.
9. Run a Summer ALE TRAIL and its associated 'Cider Rider' - from May to October around our area, with prizes for visiting 20, 30 or 40 pubs.

10. Compile a database of local pubs... PUBS DATABASE. The Ale Trail page will list the 40 participating real ale pubs, which you may like to try, otherwise for recommendations please see CAMRA's current Good Beer Guide .

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