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Celebrating the Real Ale Scene in Sussex Sussex Drinker Spring 2019 Free 29th Sussex Beer & Cider Festival 22nd – 23rd March 2019 PUBLISHED AND FINANCED BY THE SUSSEX BRANCHES Brighton Racecourse, OF THE Freshfield Road, CAMPAIGN FOR Brighton BN2 9XZ REAL ALE 29th Sussex Beer & Cider Festival We are off again for the Sussex CAMRA Advance tickets are now available until Branches 2019 Festival. Saturday 16 March from the following outlets: Evening Star, Brighton; Gardener’s The 29th Sussex Branches Beer & Cider Arms and Brewers Arms, Lewes; Duke of Festival will be at Brighton Racecourse, Wellington, Shoreham-by-Sea; Selden Freshfield Road, Brighton BN2 9XZ on Arms, Worthing; Beer Essentials, Horsham; Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2019. Eagle, Eastbourne; Tower, St. Leonards and There will be Brewery Shade, Crawley. 140+ real ales For postal sales, please state which available plus an session(s) you require, enclose a 9x4 SAE excellent with your cheque, made payable to “Sussex selection of real CAMRA Beer & Cider Festival” and send to ciders and SBB&CF Ticket Sales, 16 Connell Drive, perries. A variety Woodingdean, Brighton, BN2 6RT. Postal of food will be on Sales will be available until 16 March, but no sale, including vegetarian and vegan refunds will be processed after 13 March options. Crisps, nuts etc. and soft drinks will 2019 be on sale at the Products stand. All bars will operate a token system. Token As always, all the beer will be cooled refunds will be given only before ‘time’ is throughout the festival. This means that it called at the bar. Surplus tokens may be should be in consistent excellent condition. deposited in the charity box and will be Opening times and prices: - passed on to our Festival Charity, Sussex Friday 11.00am – 3.00pm £6 Heart. 5.00pm - 10.00pm £8 Brighton & Hove buses 2 and 22 from Saturday 11.00am – 8.00pm £5 Churchill Square stop very close to the NUS Card Holders £3 after 3.00pm (Door venue; bus 2 in Freshfield Road and 22 at only, no advance sales) the top of Elm Grove/corner of Freshfield If you are lucky Road; people arriving in Brighton by train enough to look may use the PlusBus facility with their rail under 25 years ticket. old, please bring The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. photo ID and note that you For more information, see the festival must be over 18 website www.sussexbeerfestival.co.uk. to gain If you would like to volunteer to work at the admission. Tickets for each session will be festival and have not done so in the past, available on the door. The ticket price please see the website includes a souvenir glass and programme. www.sussexbeerfestival.co.uk Card-carrying CAMRA members can also obtain £2 worth of beer tokens at the All enquiries to: CAMRA membership stand. If you join [email protected] or CAMRA on the day, you will also receive 07450 656148. Twitter @SussexBeerFest tokens valid for two pints and a copy of the Good Beer Guide. Please bear in mind that Peter Mitchell Publicity Officer for the popular beers sell very quickly, and, as it Sussex Beer & Cider Festival takes at least 48 hours for beers to settle, cannot be replaced once sold out. Sussex Drinker: Spring 2019 3 News of new developments and updates on Christmas. An extension is to be added to the Sussex pub scene will be gratefully create more space for diners. received by the Editor for consideration in Scratchings. The standard disclaimer on ■ BREDE p46 applies to all items. The Red Lion is under new management and the food is as popular as ever. Three ■ AMBERLEY beers are served, Harvey’s Sussex Best, one The Black Horse reopened on the 2nd from Greene King and the other a local December after a major refurbishment and beer. Rother Valley was the third brewery several years of represented on a recent visit. closure. It’s bar manager Johnny ■ BRIGHTON Robinson is keen The Cobden Arms in Cobden Road, to welcome Brighton, is the proud owner of the title drinkers with, Argus Pub of the Year 2018 after topping initially, three the polls. It received a total of 1,993 votes cask ales on; from loyal customers. The pub was taken Langham Hip Hop over two years ago by Andrea and Shaun will be the ‘house Manthorpe who were previously at the beer’ branded as Hikers Rest, they said that most of their Amberley Bitter, one customers do not come from the or two beers from surrounding area – something they are Arundel, possibly trying to change. Black Stallion or At the Great Eastern, Trafalgar Court Castle and Young’s (Corner of Trafalgar St); Ei Group, the pub’s Bitter. owner is looking to take back the pub from its current leaseholder, the small pub ■ ASHINGTON company Pleisure. The pub regulars are The Red Lion recently had Purity Goose on fearful that the pub might lose its as a guest. atmosphere in the change. An online ■ ASHURSTWOOD petition on Change.org has been started by The Maypole continues to sell a good pint drinks writer Andy Burnyeat, this aims to of Harvey’s Sussex Best, plus a couple of demonstrate the scale of public support regularly changing guest ales. Old Dairy and convince the owners to renew the Blue Top was noted (and tried) on a recent lease. Ei Group are also looking to take back visit and found to be in very good nick. The the Saint James in St James’s Street and pub also now has a café, which is open the Office in Sydney Street. Mondays to Fridays 8.30 a.m to 3 p.m, on Following their move into Brighton, Holler Saturdays this is 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Good value Brewery have opened a tap room in Elder food is available, including full English Place, off London Road.Holler Brewery & breakfasts, filled rolls are also available to Taproom is open from 4pm Monday – eat in or take away. Thursday and from 12 noon Friday, Saturday Just off the A22, work has started on and Sunday. Holler have teamed up with renovating the long-closed Three Crowns, Fatto a Mano to offer pizzas to taproom with scaffolding appearing before patrons. 4 Sussex Drinker: Spring 2019 Sussex Pub Scratchings — continued ■ BURWASH WEALD ■ CROWBOROUGH The Wheel Inn closed suddenly in The Cooper’s Arms in the St John’s district December. of Crowborough continues to provide some interesting guest beers. On a recent visit ■ COCKING Engineer’s Christmas Special and Bristol Many months ago the Bluebell ceased Beer Factory’s Milk Stout were both trading and was considered lost to the pub sampled and found to be in fine form. Also world and the word was that it would available were beers from Burning Sky as become a residential property. A local well as the ever-present Harvey’s Best group have now signed a written Bitter. agreement with the owner to retain the building as a pub. They have already ■ EASTBOURNE secured some funding but obviously Bottle Grove, require a lot more. Contact has been made a ‘Cafe and with the Plunkett Foundation. Craft Beer Specialist’ in ■ COOKSBRIDGE Grove Road, The Rainbow in Cooksbridge has been re- opened last opened by a company called Revived Inns. year, 2018. They were selling Harvey’s Best, Old and Greg, the Long Man Blonde when last visited. keen owner, ■ COOLHAM not only offers a wide range of bottled We hear that the lessee of the Selsey Arms beers for sale but also serves around four has dispensed with Doom Bar and now has local KeyKeg beers, as well as four, on Harvey’s Best, one from Long Man and sometimes five, local real ciders from Purity Goose; all now sourced in pins to Ascension in Hurst Green. maintain quality. Buskers Bar, mentioned in the previous ■ CRAWLEY issue, now has two real ales regularly on offer; Purity Brewery has proved popular The Moonraker, an Ei Group pub near Three Bridges station in Crawley has re-opened and one beer is always from there with the after a short closure with new licencees. other changing. Tony and Louise ran the pub many years A local branch member was surprised to ago and have already re-introduced hand find himself paying £4.60 for a pint of pumps selling Fullers London Pride, which Harvey’s Old in the Eastbourne Council when tasted was in top condition and also owned Stage Door. serve Sharp’s Doom Bar. The pub has new furniture giving it a welcoming feel. The ■ EAST GRINSTEAD pool table has gone but sports will still be There are several pubs in the town and a shown on TV. It is hoped that the pub will random selection were visited in the weeks have B&B accommodation and will serve leading up to Christmas. food in the near future. The Ship Inn (Youngs) offers three of their brews, with Harvey’s Sussex Best and The owner of the Royal Oak in Crawley St.Austell Tribute as permanent guest ales. Down has submitted plans for nine flats and a pub to be built on the existing site whilst The Crown is a popular food outlet with retaining the pub, which will re-open with three well-kept ales available. dining facilities. The pub has been closed Just around the corner from there can be for several years. found the Sportsman, a small wet-led pub, which offers Harvey’s Sussex Best direct 6 Sussex Drinker: Spring 2019 Sussex Pub Scratchings — continued from the cask.