Brighton & South Downs CAMRA

CONTENTS & LINKS

Branch EVENTS List – Festivals, Socials Trips and Meetings.
BREWERIES in Sussex, 19 of them.
The four other CAMRA Branches in Sussex: Arun & Adur, North Sussex, South East Sussex and Western Sussex.
PUB NEWS by our Branch President – a pot pourri of news and views on pubs in our Branch Area.
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). The Summer 09 one is now out with a new editor and in colour.
'The Quaffer', an independent (i.e. non-CAMRA, but done by a CAMRA member) real ale, pub and beer festival guide for Sussex: No 22, June 2009 "Fernhurst & Henley". A PDF .
ALE TRAIL – The 2009 Trail is now on until the end of September.
National CAMRA Website

Our 2009 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 2010).

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 2009 winner is The Stanley Arms in Portslade. Our Cider Pub of the Year is Stand Up Inn at Lindfield. Judging is now in progress for the Regional Pub of the Year.

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 (provisionally Thurs 11– Sat 13 March 2010) 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 four 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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