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The 21st Sussex Beer & Cider Festival will take place at Hove Town Hall on
10th, 11th & 12th March 2011
Welcome to the Sussex Beer Festival

16th July 2010: Biggest Ever Success at Hove!

This year’s Sussex CAMRA Branches’ Beer and Cider Festival, which was held on 11-13 March at Hove Town Hall, was the most successful festival ever. Of the five sessions, four were completely sold out; the Friday evening session sold out in a record of 5 days and only the Friday lunchtime still had tickets left.

Headway, this year’s festival charity, based in Newick, raised an extraordinary £1,500: £951 was collected in unused tokens, and the Headway team collected another £316.60 in cash. A special "Thank You" to the Kissingate Brewery, who donated a barrel of their excellent First Kiss, which raised another £200. The rest was rounded up by the Festival. The picture below shows Ingrid Sharp, newly elected organiser for next year, with Gerry Harris from Headway at the Brighton & South Downs Beer and Cider Festival held at Lewes, where the cheque was handed over.

Counting the voting slips and comment forms yielded the following results:

  • Beer of the Festival: Crouch Vale Amarillo
  • Bev Robbins Trophy: Harvey's Lewes Castle Brown Ale
  • Cider of the Festival: Hunt's Cider (this was incorrectly listed as Sedlescombe
  • Cider, Sedlescombe is where Hunt's are based)
  • Perry of the Festival: Heck's Blakeney Red

Most people’s comments were positive: super festival, with great beers, good food, friendly staff and a fantastic atmosphere. A very big “Thank You” to everyone who helped to make this possible. The most common criticism was that the hall had been too cold, and we shall endeavour to address that. If you would like to provide some feedback yourself, please contact the committee at sussexbeerfest@yahoo.co.uk .

Next year’s festival will be held 10-12 March. For this, the organising committee is seeking dedicated CAMRA members to help with organising the Trade Session, co-ordinating equipment needed at the festival and getting involved with membership. If you are interested or simply want to find out more, please get in touch via the above email address.


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