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2008 Provisional Beer List

The 22nd Festival will be held on
8-10 March 2012
at Hove Town Hall, BN3 4AH

Below is the long awaited provisional list for the Sussex Beer Festival. There's over 220 beers listed, split into Sussex Beers and "the rest".

Tasting notes of the near-final list (may vary from that below) are also now available for download (right-click here and "Save As" - requires Adobe Reader). As always, alterations can happen right up until the last moment!

Sussex Beers
Brewery	Beer	ABV %
1648	Original	3.9
1648	Signature	4.4
1648	St George	4.5
1648	Triple Champion	4.0
Arundel	ASB	4.5
Arundel	Castle	3.8
Arundel	Gold	4.2
Arundel	Old Knucker	5.5
Arundel	Sussex Mild	3.7
Ballards	Best	4.2
Ballards	Nyewood Gold	5.0
Ballards	Trotton	3.6
Ballards	Wassail	6.0
Ballards	Wild	4.7
Beachy Head	Beachy Original	4.2
Beachy Head	Parson Derby's Hole	4.0
Custom	Cascade Special	4.8
Custom	Centennial Pale Ale	3.8
Custom	Smooth Mild	3.8
Custom	Spicee Jamaican Stout	5.0
Custom	Strong Mild	4.8
Dark Star	American Pale Ale	4.7
Dark Star	Critical Mass	7.8
Dark Star	Espresso	4.2
Dark Star	Hophead	3.8
Dark Star	Six Hop Ale	6.5
Dark Star	Spring Equinox	4.0
FILO	Cardinal's Porter	4.6
FILO	Crofters	3.8
FILO	Ginger Tom	4.6
FILO	Gold	4.8
Gribble	Bashful Beaver	4.3
Gribble	Pig's Ear	5.8
Gribble	Plucker Mild	3.5
Gribble	Reg's Tipple	5.0
Gribble	Toff's Ale	4.0
Hammerpot	FnL	6.0
Hammerpot	Madgwick Gold	5.0
Hammerpot	Meteor	3.8
Hammerpot	Porter	4.7
Hammerpot	White Wing	4.0
Harveys	1859 Porter	4.8
Harveys	Armada	4.5
Harveys	Best Bitter	4.0
Harveys	Hadlow	3.5
Hepworth	Iron Horse	4.8
Hepworth	Old Ale	4.8
Hepworth	Prospect	4.5
Hepworth	Pullman	4.2
Hepworth	Sussex	3.6
Kemptown	Kemptown Bitter	4.0
Kemptown	Old Trout	4.5
Langham	Halfway to Heaven	3.5
Langham	Hip Hop	4.0
Langham	Strong Ale	5.2
Langham	Sundowner	4.2
Rother Valley	Bodecia	4.5
Rother Valley	Copper Ale	4.1
Rother Valley	Honey Fuzz	3.8
Rother Valley	Smild	3.8
W J King & Co	Horsham Best	3.8
W J King & Co	Mother in Law	4.1
W J King & Co	Old Ale	4.5
W J King & Co	Red River	4.8
W J King & Co	Single Hop Target	4.3
Welton	Cassablanca	3.5
Welton	Off Piste	5.3
Welton	Old Ale	4.5
Welton	Old Cocky	4.3
White	1066 Country Bitter	4.0
White	Chilly Willy	5.1
White	Heart of Rother	4.5

The Rest of the Beers
Brewery	Beer	ABV %
Abbeydale	Beealez'bub	6.0
Abbeydale	Deception	4.1
Acorn	Cluster IPA	5.0
Arbor Ales	Snuffy Jack's	5.9
Bank Top	Dark Mild	4.0
Bartrams	Bantam Stout	4.8
Batemans	XXXB	4.8
Battledown	Four Kings	7.2
Battledown	Saxon Pale Ale	3.8
Bays	Best Bittern	3.7
Bazens	Knoll Street Porter	5.2
Black Sheep	Best Bitter	3.8
Blackdown	Premium	4.7
Blindmans	Golden Spring	4.0
Bowman	Elderado	3.5
Bowman	Nutz	5.0
Bowman	Swift One	3.8
Bradfield	Farmers Stout	4.5
Brains	Dark	3.5
Breconshire	Cribyn	4.5
Breconshire	Fuzzy Dragon	5.0
Brentwood	Spooky Moon	3.8
Broughton	Scottish Oatmeal Stout	4.2
Caledonian	Chocolate Drop	3.8
Castle Rock	Great Crested Grebe	4.2
Castle Rock	Starling	3.7
City of Cambridge	Atomic Ale	4.5
Coastal	Angelina	4.1
Coastal	Golden Hinde	4.3
Cotleigh	Golden Seahawk	4.2
Cotleigh	Tawny	3.8
Crouch Vale	Amarillo	5.0
Crouch Vale	Blackwater Mild	3.7
Crouch Vale	Brewers Gold	4.0
Derby	Dashingly Dark	4.5
Derventio	Versuvious	6.5
Downton	Euro Quad	4.0
Elgoods	Black Dog	3.6
Elland	Bargee	3.8
Elland	Calderd Ale	4.5
Empire	East India IPA	5.0
Enville	Ale	4.5
Enville	Ginger	4.5
Enville	Old Porter	4.5
Exmoor	Hound Dog	4.0
Festival	Ruby	4.7
Fox	Nelson's Blood	5.1
Gary Mitchell	Old Skool	5.0
Goachers	Gold Star	5.1
Goachers	Real Mild Ale	3.4
Grain	Tamarind IPA	5.0
Hambleton	Goldfield	4.2
Hampshire	Hampshire Hare
Hampshire	Penny Black Porter	4.5
Harviestoun	Schiehallion	4.8
Heather	Fraoch	4.1
Hogs Back	A.O.T.	9.0
Hogs Back	Hop Garden Gold	4.6
Hogs Back	O.T.T.	6.0
Hogs Back	T.E.A.	4.2
Holts	Nuts & Holts	4.1
Hop Back	Entire Stout	4.5
Hop Back	GFB	3.5
Houston	Auld Copperhead	3.5
Howard Town	Glott's Hop	5.0
Iceni	Fen Tiger	4.2
Iceni	Norfolk Lager	5.0
Irving & Co.	Frigate	3.8
Irving & Co.	Invincible	4.6
Kelham Island	Pale Rider	5.2
Leatherbritches	Dove Dale	4.4
Leatherbritches	Ginger Helmet	4.7
Little Valley	Hebden's Cloudy Wheat	4.5
Mauldons	Micawber's Mild	3.5
Maypole	Flanigan's Stout	4.5
Mighty Oak	Saxon Strong	6.5
Mighty Oak	Tricky Tackle	4.0
Milestone	IPA	4.8
Milestone	Tuck's Tipple	4.2
Millstone	Vale Mill	3.9
Moles	Molecatcher	5.0
Moorhouse	Pendle With	5.1
Nailsworth	Artist's Ale	3.8
Naylors	Pinnacle Mild	3.4
Nelson	Nelson's Blood	6.0
Nelson	Purser's Pussy Porter	5.1
Nethergate	Old Growler	5.0
Newmans	Red Stag	3.6
Oakham	Attila	7.5
Oakham	Haka	5.7
Oakham	JHB	3.8
Oakleaf	Blakes Heaven	7.0
Oakleaf	Hole Hearted	4.7
Oakleaf	Stoker's Stout	5.0
O'Hanlons	Original Port Stout	4.8
Orkney	Skullsplitter	8.5
Ossett	Real Ale Revolution IPA	4.8
Otter	Bitter	3.6
Palmers	200	5.0
Palmers	IPA	4.2
Peak Ales	Bakewell Bitter	4.2
Peakstones Rock	Black Hole	4.8
Phoenix	March Hare	4.4
Phoenix	Shamrock	4.4
Pilgrim	Moild	3.8
Quercus	Shingle Bay	4.2
Ramsbury	(New golden beer)	5.0
Ramsbury	Flintknapper	4.2
Ramsgate	Dogbolter	5.6
Ramsgate	Oatmeal Stout	4.6
RCH	Old Slug Porter	4.5
Red Squirrel	Ruby Mild	3.7
Red Squirrel	Scottish Ale	4.3
Robinsons	Hatters Dark Mild	3.3
Roosters	Leghorn	4.3
Sarah Hughes	Dark Ruby	6.0
Sarah Hughes	Pale Amber	4.0
Sharps	Doom Bar	4.0
Sierra Nevada	TBC
Sierra Nevada	TBC
Skinners	St Pirans Ale	4.5
St George's	St George's Cross	4.2
St George's	Tudor Rose	4.5
Stonehenge	Sign of Spring	4.6
Stroud	Teasel	4.2
Stroud	Tom Long	3.8
Surrey Hills	Albury Ruby	4.6
Surrey Hills	Ranmore	3.8
Surrey Hills	Sheer Drop	4.2
Teignworthy	Winter Daze	5.4
Thornbridge	Jaipur IPA	5.9
Thornbridge	Kipling	5.2
Timothy Taylor	Dark Mild	3.5
Timothy Taylor	Landlord	4.3
Titanic	Last Porter Call	4.9
Triple FFF	Moondance	4.2
TSA	Glencoe Wild Oat Stout	4.5
Wagtail	Best Bittern	4.0
Wagtail	English Ale	4.2
Waveney	Lightweight	3.9
Westerham	1965 Special Bitter Ale	4.8
Westerham	Finchcocks Original	3.5
Whitstable	Bohemian Pilsner	4.9
Whitstable	Native	3.7
Wickwar	Station Porter	6.1
Wolf	Woild Moild	4.8
Woodfordes	Sundew	4.1
Wylym	Haugh Porter	4.6
Yeovil	Star Gazer	4.0

2007 Beers of the Festival:

The Beer of the Festival: Palmers Best Bitter IPA.

The Cider of the Festival: Portslade Wildthing.

The Perry of the Festival: Ross-on-Wye Perry.

The Bev Robbins Trophy for the best Sussex Beer: Custom Beers Quality of Life.

You can also still see the Provisional Beer Lists from 2006 and 2007

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