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. It has local branches all over Britain and we are one of the five branches covering the County of Sussex (i.e. East & West).

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Our 2010 Branch Chairman
STEVE PARDOE

     

 

BRIGHTON & SOUTH DOWNS CAMpaign for Real Ale

Over 1,000 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 (June 2011). Tickets on sale from May 1st.
2. Select the pubs from our area for inclusion in CAMRA's annual Good Beer Guide (normally 36 entries).
3. Choose one as our Pub of The Year. Our 2010 winner is The Evening Star, Brighton.
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, March 2011, which is in our Branch area.
6. Help with the distribution of Sussex Drinker, quarterly newsletter about real ale, 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 three 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. And sometimes, publish a local Pubs Guide. The last one was in 2001 but we have listed our current Good Beer Guide and Ale Trail pubs, which we keep a regular eye on, on the PUB GUIDE.

 

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