Brighton & South Downs CAMRA

CONTENTS

Branch EVENTS List – join us!
15th ALE TRAIL – now on.
BREWERIES in Sussex, 20 (possibly now 21) of them.
Links to the three other CAMRA Branches in Sussex which have websites: Arun & Adur, South East Sussex and Western Sussex.
Sussex Drinker our CAMRA magazine for Sussex: Summer 2008. You can download this now from the Western Sussex website which is where the link will take you (PDF 4.3Mb).
Local PUB Guide This lists over 550 Pubs in the Brighton & South Downs Area; updated June 2006 so rather out of date and will be reduced to a simple list shortly to avoid confusion.
'The Quaffer', an independent (i.e. non-CAMRA) real ale, pub and beer festival guide for Sussex: No 17 March 2008. A PDF to download.
National CAMRA Website

2008 Branch Chairman
STEVE PARDOE
enjoying a visit to Dark Star Brewery, one of several of our Branch activities last year.

BRIGHTON & SOUTH DOWNS CAMpaign for Real Ale

Approximately 950 CAMRA members live in our area, which is Brighton & Hove, Lewes, Newhaven, Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Shoreham-by-Sea and the areas 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 2009).

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 2008 winner is The Stanley Arms in Portslade, which goes forward to CAMRA's National contests. The 2008 all-Sussex winner is The Royal Oak at Friday Street.

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 2009) which is in our Branch area.

6. Help with the publication and 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 five 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.
Please note the following corrections to opening times shown in the passport.
Alma, Uckfield. Opening hours are 11-3, 5-11 (Mon - Sat) 12-3, 6-10.30 (Sun).
Pig and Butcher, Five Ash Down. "We open at 9am for breakfast, coffee, etc and stay open all day until 11pm. We're one of the few pubs that stay open all day".
Stanley Arms, Portslade is not open weekday lunchtimes. Opening times are wrong in the Passport but correct in the advert on page 10, i.e. Monday 4 – 11pm; Tuesday to Friday 3 – 11pm; Saturday Noon – 11pm; Sunday Noon – 10.30pm

10. And finally... publish the occasional local Pubs Guide. The last was in 2001: sold out, but the pubs list has been revised in 2006, and can be viewed - see PUB GUIDE text .

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