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Celebrating the Real Ale Scene in Sussex Sussex Drinker Autumn 2018 Free 22nd Worthing Beer & Cider Festival Assembly Hall Worthing Friday 26th and Saturday 27th of October 2018 PUBLISHED AND FINANCED BY THE SUSSEX BRANCHES OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR REAL ALE 22nd Worthing Beer & Cider Festival Anchored in Worthing Brooksteed Ale House, Worthing Green Man Ale & Cider House, Worthing The Selden Arms, Worthing The Georgie Fin, Goring by Sea The Henty Arms, Ferring The Stanley Ale House, Lancing The New Inn Littlehampton The Duke of Wellington, Shoreham The Evening Star, Brighton For up to the minute information please see our website: https://aaa.camra.org.uk/ worthingbeerfestival.html This year’s festival will take place on the 26th & 27th of October 2018 at the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ Assembly Hall Worthing, Stoke Abbott worthingbeerfestival/ Road, Worthing BN11 1HQ. Or follow us on Twitter: @CAMRA_WBF As in previous years there will be plenty of Session times and pricings are shown space and seating. We are aiming for below: around 103 beers, 25 ciders and the • Friday 26th October, 11am – 4pm (£5.50) Egremont Gin Bar will be returning. • Friday 26th October, 5pm – 11pm (£6.50) We will be supporting the breweries in the • Saturday 27th October, 11am – 9:30pm* Arun & Adur Branch area by providing (£6.00) brewery bars offering their beers. • Late entry on Saturday 27th October, after 5pm (£2.00) As usual a souvenir Pint glass will be * or until the beer runs out included in the ticket price and the beer and cider will be available in thirds, halves or The venue is easy to find and is only a 10 pints (there will be no extra cost for halves minute walk from Worthing Station. or thirds). The first 100 CAMRA members Closest bus stops are in: for each session will also receive £2.50 in Chapel Road – outside Worthing Town Hall beer tokens on production of their Richmond Road – outside Worthing Library membership card. High Street – near Waitrose The Piggery and Magpies Magnificent Pies For more details see the Worthing Theatres will be returning to provide a good website. selection of food to accompany your drinks. This year we have chosen St Barnabas There is a slight change to the running House as our festival charity. St Barnabas order of the festival. The Friday will remain House provides specialist palliative care to the same with 2 sessions, but on the adults with life-limiting illnesses, both Saturday there will be just one session (see within the hospice and in the comfort of below for details) patients’ homes across West Sussex. Tickets go on sale on the 1st of August and Please note over 18s only, If you are lucky are available from the Worthing Theatres enough to look under 25, please bring website: https://worthingtheatres.co.uk/. photo ID. Or in person from the Box Office as well as from the following pubs: Sussex Drinker: Autumn 2018 3 News of new developments and updates on ■ BOGNOR REGIS the Sussex pub scene will be gratefully Bognor’s received by the Editor for consideration in first Scratchings. The standard disclaimer on micropub p47 applies to all items. the Dog & Duck opened ■ BATTLE at the During the beginning of World Cup June in a large crowds former small gathered at shop unit in Battle Norfolk St, just off the western end of the Brewery’s High Street and within sight of the sea. The Taproom to interior is cosy and features tall pine tables, watch the enough space having been found for a bar action on a counter at the rear with beers served by big screen. gravity from cooled casks stillaged behind. Their three At least 3 local beers are available, core beers were on draught, all in excellent increasing to 6 at busy times, and real cider condition, plus the new Imperial Russian comes from boxes in the fridge. In common Stout in bottles. This all added up to a great with many micropubs they are closed atmosphere at the brewery. completely on Mondays, but they open 12- ■ BELLS YEW GREEN 10pm Tues-Sat and 12-6pm Sundays. For In April full details see their entry on whatpub.com. Digby and The Alex re-opened in early July with Katie Sharp’s Doom Bar and Bath Gem on the Furneaux hand pumps, which is what the previous took over tenant had on. the Brecknock ■ BRIGHTON Arms, close The to Frant Hanover, Station. Their focus is more on food than Queens before but they are mindful of a loyal Park Road; clientele of regulars at this traditional the Harvey’s village pub. Therefore, while the owners restaurant section has been upgraded with were new furniture and it’s now much brighter, given permission to knock it down and the bar area and seating remain largely as build nine houses on the site in 2002. Only they were. Opening times have been three houses were built, on the pub’s beer considerably extended. As would be garden, but this means that the whole expected, beers are from the Harvey’s permission is still valid. Now, they have range - Sussex Best Bitter and IPA with an applied for a variation on the permission, additional alternating ale. When visited, the moving the position of the houses Sussex Best was in excellent form. earmarked for the building’s footprint 6 Sussex Drinker: Autumn 2018 Sussex Pub Scratchings — continued forward to create back gardens. The Pearce enjoyed on a recent visit. family says they are just adjusting the permissions in case Indigo Leisure, which ■ COOLHAM runs The Hanover, decide to stop operating The Selsey it as a pub and there are no immediate Arms is an plans to proceed with demolition. unspoilt village pub The Ranelagh, St James’s St has a tenancy on the A272, available with an ongoing cost of £10,250 which and a rent of £31,000. abounds with local BURGESS HILL ■ history, was the local branch Pub of the Year The in the 1990’s, and has a pleasant suntrap Watermill garden. Ei Group Lessees Kenny Easton and Inn, Belinda Grover offer Harvey’s Sussex Best Leylands and Long Man Long Blonde Road has re- opened and ■ CRAWLEY at the time At the time of writing the Swan, Horsham of the visit, Road is closed until Ei Group can find a new was selling tenant. Rob Brindley the long term licensee the regular of the Swan has left, and we thank him for Harvey’s Best Bitter, with guests Robinsons his contribution to the pub tapestry of Dizzy Blonde and Sambrook’s Wandle. The Crawley, and wish him well for the future. pub will close for a few days in October to enable a new bar counter area to be The Railway, Brighton Road, now has some installed, this will replace some the timber real cider alongside the range of real ale. and mirror fittings on the left-hand side of ■ CROWBOROUGH the bar when viewed from the front of the After being pub, with stainless steel providing a in the same hygienic food preparation area. hands for ■ BURY more than The Squire & thirty years Horse, traditional situated at country pub the foot of the Boar’s Bury Hill on Head Inn has the A29, is a new management. Licensees Megan and pleasant Gary plan to expand their cask ale offer to roadside pub, four beers. Harvey’s Best Bitter remains as with a patio the regular with up to three guests, mainly garden to the side, and usually has Harvey’s from local breweries. It’s just one mile north Sussex Best, Arundel Gold and or another of Crowborough on the A26. LocAle. The Blue Anchor recently changed hands again with a new licensee, Amy. This large ■ COCK MARLING restaurant-type pub usually has two, The Plough, on the Udimore Road out of sometimes three, cask beers from the Rye, has three beers on including Cellar Shepherd Neame portfolio. Head and Three Legs. The latter was 8 Sussex Drinker: Autumn 2018 WILKES HEAD Church Lane, Eastergate, West Sussex, PO20 3UT Tel: 01243 543380 Historic 17th century Inn 20 minute walk (1.3 miles) from Barnham mainline station Six Ales always on tap In the Good Beer Guide Cask Marque Approved Secluded beer garden Open Every Day All Day 20% off food when you present Food served this advert Tuesday to Sunday Sussex Pub Scratchings — continued ■ DIAL POST Card-carrying CAMRA members get a The Crown is an excellent welcoming village discount in here. pub, found just off the A24, and has much On the to offer as well as well kept Downlands Best outskirts of and two other changing LocAles. town, Old ■ EASTBOURNE Dunnings Mill After being is a large closed for Harvey’s pub repairs and with four of redecoration their ales to for five choose from, months the during May it was good to see both types of former Mild available. Buccaneer in A recent visit Compton Street reopened in June with a to the Crown new name - the Stage Door. This council- on East owned pub is now managed by Devonshire Grinstead’s Park Catering, who run the restaurants, High Street cafes and bars in the adjacent theatres and had a well- conference centre. A new menu and range kept Adnam’s of drinks have been introduced with Real Lighthouse Ale now from Harvey’s and Long Man, (3.4%) on tap, however it’s now one of the more expensive as well as Landlord and Harvey’s Best. pubs in town. A new outdoor area at the There is a well-priced menu available all day side of the front entrance has tables with and friendly service.