Brighton & South Downs CAMRA

CONTENTS & LINKS

Branch EVENTS List – Festivals, Socials, Trips & Meetings.
PUB NEWS by our Branch President – a collection of news and views on pubs in our Branch Area.
YOUNG MEMBERS' PAGE for the under 35-ish reader.
BREWERIES in Sussex, 20 of them.
The four other CAMRA Branches' websites in Sussex: Arun & Adur, North Sussex, South East Sussex and Western Sussex.
Basic PUB List Good Beer Guide and Summer 'Ale Trail' Pubs in the Brighton & South Downs Branch.
Sussex Drinker our CAMRA magazine for Sussex. The link takes you to the Western Sussex website where you can possibly download it (PDF). Summer 2010 edition.
'The Quaffer, an independent (i.e. non-CAMRA) real ale, pub and beer festival guide for Sussex: No 25, March 2010 "Beer in Burwash". A PDF.
ALE TRAIL – The 2010 Trail starts May 31st with Launch in Lewes the night before.
National CAMRA Website

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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