The Beer Liststarts here… in alphabetical order of Brewery1648 – East Hoathly, East Sussex✹ Lammas Ale (4.2% SPECIALITY)Celebrate the new harvest; Amber, clear clean and smooth the addition of malted wheat.✹ Spiced Frog (5.2% SPECIALITY)Normally only available as a bottled-beer; dark gold and full bodied in the French/Bel-gian style, lightly hopped full malty flavour which a touch of spice.✹ Three Threads (4.3% SPECIALITY)Award-winning dark beer combines three different styles of beer in single ale.

360 DEGREE – Sheffield Park, East Sussex✹ Pacific Pale #49 (4.9% SPECIALITY) Full of hops from the USA and Australia; this ischestnut-coloured, modern pale ale with fruit and floral flavours and crisp bitterness.✹ West Coast IPA #56 (5.6% GOLDEN ALE)Light coloured, hoppy and moderately bitter for an American Pale ale style beer. Wellbalanced and easy drinking despite its strength.

ADNAMS – Southwold, Suffolk✹ Southwold Bitter (3.7% BITTER) Aromas of toffee apple, caramel and sulphur. Taste is a complex mix of malt toffee androast bitterness with hops. Malty bitter and apple flavours linger into the aftertaste. 40

BANKS’S – (part of Marston’s PLC), Wolverhampton, West Midlands✹ Bitter (3.8% BITTER) A pale brown bitter with a pleasant balance of hops and malt;hops continue from the taste through to a bittersweet aftertaste. 40✹ Mild (3.5% MILD) Amber-coloured, well-balanced, refreshing session beer. 40

BASELINE – Small Dole, West Sussex✹ Englander Weissbier (4.0% SPECIALITY) German by name but English by nature.This beer doesn’t comply with Berliner Weisse wheat content, nor does it taste like yourtypical Wheat Beer. This beer is an original English take on a German style, it is moreheavily hopped and with more citrus than a traditional Wheat Beer.

BATEMANS – Wainfleet, Lincolnshire✹ Black & White (3.6% MILD) Gentle roast fruity airs preface this red-brown, caramel-infused brew. Malt and a stewedplummy sweetness initially give depth. Caramel dominates the short simple finish. (40)✹ XB (3.7% BITTER) A well-rounded, smooth malty beer with a blackcurrant fruitybackground. Hops flourish initially before giving way to a bittersweet dryness that en-hances the mellow malty ending. 40

BEDLAM – Albourne, West Sussex✹ Light Pale Ale (3.6% BITTER) A brand new ale; sorry no tasting notes yet. ✹ Porter (5% PORTER) This is a traditional dark, hoppy porter.

BLACKJACK – Manchester✹ Black Sparrow (ABV 6.1% IPA) Malty, hoppy aroma with notes of coffee, dark choco-late and pine needles which are also present in the taste.

BOGGART HOLE CLOUGH – Manchester✹ Ginger (ABV 4.4% SPECIALITY) Very pale ginger beer complimented with floral hops and a hint of coriander.

BRAINS – Cardiff✹ Bitter (3.7% BITTER) Amber coloured with a gentle aroma of malt and hops. Malt,hops and bitterness combine in an easy-drinking beer with a bitter finish. 40✹ Dark (3.5% MILD) A tasty, classic dark brown mild, a mix of malt, roast, caramel witha background of hops. Bittersweet, mellow and with a lasting finish of malt and roast.40✹ SA (4.2% BITTER) A mellow, full-bodied beer. Gentle malt and hop aroma leads to amalty, hop and fruit mix with a balancing bitterness. 40

BRIGHTON BIER CO. – Brighton & Hove✹ Underdog (4.2% BITTER) 100% English hops set against a complex malt bill of 6 different grains including Rye andMunich malt. A crisp hop bitterness and a rich satisfying malt flavour.✹ West Pier Pale Ale (4%) A classic, hop-forward, flavour-packed pale ale. Simcoe,Centennial and Cascade hops are set against a satisfying malt base.

BURNING SKY – Firle, East Sussex✹ Arise (4.4% IPA) A rare chance to sample a cask, as most of the brew will be kegged;straw gold in colour, a balanced malt bill gives a great mouth feel and a finish that keepson giving. Restrained bitterness followed by massive peach, pine & resinous hop flavoursto keep you satisfied. A session IPA that’s perfect for the end of the day (or the start).✹ Devils Rest (7% STRONG ALE) A full strength IPA; named after a nook on the South Downs near the brewery. It has aburnt orange colour and full flavour, due to the huge amounts of Simcoe & Centennialhops used during the brewing process, with even more added post fermentation.

BUXTON – Buxton, Derbyshire✹ Blonde (4.6% GOLDEN ALE) A classic blonde – clear and crisp; Blonde is mashed with a blend of lager malt andwheat for a zesty, fruity character. It is hopped with only continental European varieties.

CROUCH VALE – South Woodham Ferrers, Essex✹ Yakima Gold (4.2% GOLDEN ALE) Very pale with delicious Amarillo hops, therefore earthily aromatic and highly drinkable.Yakima Valley is the area of Washington State in which the hops are grown.

DANCING DUCK – Derby, Derbyshire✹ Amberillo (4.8% BITTER) Easy drinking amber ale; earthy aromatic American hopsare balanced with biscuit malt flavours leading to a spicy, peppery finish.

DARK STAR – Partridge Green, West Sussex✹ Hophead (3.8% GOLDEN ALE) Golden-coloured with a fruity/hoppy aroma and acitrus/bitter taste and aftertaste. Flavours remain strong to the end.✹ Original (5% OLD ALE) Former Champion Beer of Britain; a dark strong and bitterbeer that defies classification – you decide.✹ Victorian Ruby Mild (6% SPECIALITY) Mashed with mild ale malt along with acareful blend of other speciality malts; a mix of European & US hops that are then addedin the copper, give the gentle bitterness and provide a take on a less well-known Mildtradition for strength and soft complex flavours.

DOWNLANDS – Small Dole, West Sussex✹ Anglo Pale Ale (4.7% GOLDEN ALE) Anglo Pale Ale made entirely with UK-growningredients. Who'd have thought it possible?✹ Pale (4.1% GOLDEN ALE) One beer, continually different hops, deliciously differentflavours; who knows what this evolution will bring?

ELGOOD’S – Wisbech, Cambridgeshire✹ Cambridge Bitter (3.8% BITTER) This has fruit and malt on the nose with increasinghops and balancing malt on the palate with a dry finish. 40

EVERARDS – Narborough, Leicestershire✹ Beacon Bitter (3.8% BITTER) A light, refreshing, well-balanced pale amber bitter in the Burton style. 40✹ Tiger Best Bitter (4.2% BITTER) Mid-brown, well-balanced best bitter crafted forbroad appeal, benefiting from a long, bittersweet finish. (40)

FRANKLINS – Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex✹ 1066 (3.9% GOLDEN ALE) A golden ale brewed to a traditional country recipe anddry hopped with Citra & Cascade to give it a crisp hop bitterness.✹ Regaler (4.7% SPECIALITY) This lager-ale hybrid; is a cold-fermented lager-style ale,amber in colour using entirely German malt and hops.

FULLER’S – Chiswick, London W4✹ Chiswick Bitter (3.5% BITTER) Refreshing pale brown bitter with some citrus notes on the palate fading in the aftertaste,which is hoppy and slightly dry. Aroma is of hops with a trace of biscuit. 40✹ ESB (5.5% BITTER) Bitter orange marmalade with hops, creamy toffee and someraisins are all present in this multifaceted strong brown bitter. A satisfying long, bitter, dryfinish balanced by a malty sweetness. 40

GOLDSTONE – Ditchling, East Sussex✹ Amarillo (4.5% GOLDEN ALE) American hop variety of 'Amarillo' provides strongaromas of grapefruit and gooseberry with a dry bitter finish.✹ Ruddy Duck (4.1% OLD ALE) Medium bodied, very dark ale with notes of caramel,chocolate and coffee; there is a dry finish readily suited to drinking in quantity.

HARVEY – Lewes, East Sussex✹ IPA (3.5% BITTER) With a delicate grassy and earthy hop aroma, the refreshing bitter-ness of this beer is balanced by the subtle malt flavours which make for an extremelydrinkable pint that has a dry finish and lasting after taste. 40✹ St. Richard’s Ale (ABV 5% SPECIALITY)Brewed with six different varieties of hops from six different Sussex growers. Named inhonour of the Patron Saint of Sussex, whose Feast Day (16th June) is Sussex Day.✹ Sussex XX Mild (3.0% MILD) A dark copper-brown colour ale; roast malt dominatesthe aroma and palate leading to a sweet, caramel finish. 40HOLDEN’S – Woodsetton, West Midlands✹ Black Country Mild (3.7% MILD) This good, red/brown mild is refreshing with alight blend of roast malt, hops and fruit, dominated by malt throughout. ( 40

HOLT – Cheetham, Manchester✹ Bitter (4.0% BITTER) Copper-coloured beer with malt and hops in the aroma. Malt,hops and fruit in the taste with a bitter and hoppy finish. (40)✹ Mild (3.2% MILD) A dark brown/red beer with a fruity, malty nose. Roast, malt, fruit and hops in the taste,with strong bitterness for a mild, and a dry malt and hops finish. 40

HOOK NORTON – Hook Norton, Oxfordshire✹ Hooky (3.5% BITTER) A classic golden session bitter; hoppy and fruity aroma fol-lowed by a malt and hops taste and a continuing hoppy finish. 40✹ Hooky Mild (2.8% MILD) - A chestnut brown, easy-drinking mild. A complex maltand hop aroma give way to a well-balanced taste, leading to a long, hoppy finish. 40

HURST – Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex✹ Founders Best Bitter (4.2% BITTER) Named after the Founder of the original Hurst Brewery, George Saltmarsh. Nutty brownin colour, has a rounded malty taste and is suffused with subtle caramel.✹ Keeper’s Gold (4.4% GOLDEN ALE) Smooth, amber gold ale with a floral aroma; itsunmistakable citrusy notes are finely balanced with a subtle infusion of South Downshoney and a refreshing hoppy finish. It is brewed to celebrate the long history of beekeeping along the base of the South Downs.

JENNINGS – (part of Marston’s PLC), Cockermouth, Cumbria✹ Bitter (3.5% BITTER) Malty with a good mouthfeel that combines with roast flavour and a hoppy finish (40)✹ Dark Mild (3.1% MILD) A well-balanced, dark brown mild with a malty aroma,strong roast taste, not over-sweet, with some hops and a slightly bitter finish. 40

KISSINGATE – Lower Beeding, West Sussex✹ Rosa Black (4.8% STOUT) A decadent stout infused with rosewater and New Zealand hops, unfined.✹ Stout Extreme Jamaica (6% STOUT) A fulsome bitter and slightly less sweet stout; intense liquorice, coffee, molasses and sub-tle rum flavours balanced with fruit bitterness derived from Pacific Jade hops. Each cask isheavily dry hopped to add intensity to the drinking experience.

LAINE – Brighton & Hove✹ Crazy 8 (5.3% IPA) This Black IPA is brewed with 4 different American hops and thendry-hopped with a 5th, combining with dark malt to give a full earthy, sweet backdropwith a huge hop hit and bitter finish.

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FORTY YEARS OF OUR BRANCH

WITH this year’s Festival celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Brighton &South Downs Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, the decision has been

taken to source 40 beers (or their nearest present-day equivalent) that werebeing brewed in 1974. These beers are indicated by 40 at the end of the notes.Also we are using coloured cask-end labels to denote the different beer styles:-BITTER: WHITE MILD: LIGHT BLUEIPA: ORANGEOLD ALE, PORTER, STOUT: LILACGOLDEN ALE: LIGHT YELLOWSPECIALITY: LIGHT GREENSTRONG ALE: PINKThe percentages on the drinks indicate “A.B.V.” which stands for Alcohol by Volume. Thisis a measure that gives the percentage of alcohol in the finished beer, cider or perry; thehigher the figure the stronger the drink.OUR FESTIVAL CHARITY is HEADWAY, based at Hurstwood Park, Haywards Heathwho rebuild lives after brain injury. Any spare Beer Tokens that you wish to donate in thebox as you leave would be gratefully converted into cash for them. Thank you. JOIN CAMRA AND JOIN IN: If you’re not a Member please visit the Membership Stallhere for details, or phone 01727 867201 or see www.camra.org.uk/joinus

LEES – Middleton Junction, Manchester✹ Bitter (4% BITTER) Copper-coloured beer with malt and fruit in aroma, taste and finish. 40✹ Brewer’s Dark (3.5% MILD) Formerly GB Mild, this is a dark brown beer with amalt and caramel aroma. It has a creamy mouthfeel, with malt, caramel and fruit flavoursand a malty finish; becoming rare to find. 40

MARSTON’S – Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire✹ Burton Bitter (3.8% BITTER) Overwhelming sulphurous aroma supports a scatteringof hops and fruit with an easy-drinking sweetness. The taste develops from the sweet mid-dle to a satisfyingly hoppy finish. 40

McMULLEN – Hertford, Hertfordshire✹ AK (3.7% MILD) A pleasant mix of malt and hops leads to a distinctive, dry aftertastethat isn’t always as pronounced as it used to be; has been previously described as both alight MILD and a BITTER. 40✹ Country Bitter (4.3% BITTER) Full-bodied with a well-balanced mix of malt, hops and fruit throughout. 40

ORKNEY – Quoyloo, Northern Isles✹ Skull Splitter (8.5% STRONG ALE) An intense velvet malt nose with hints of apple,prune and plum. The hoppy taste is balanced by satiny smooth malt with fruity spicyedges, leading to a long, dry finish with a hint of nut.

PIN-UP – Southwick, East Sussex✹ Milk Stout (4.5% STOUT) A luscious Milk Stout, brewed using milk sugars (lactose).✹ Summer Blonde (4.8% GOLDEN ALE) Newly-brewed summer seasonal; expect citrus notes throughout.

RECTORY – Streat, East Sussex (also brewing at Harvey’s micro-plant)✹ O Valiant Hearts (4.7% MILD) A strong Mild, reminiscent of those brewed just be-fore the beginning of the First World War; the brew has reverted to the original recipe toproduce a dark rather than a light coloured ale.✹ Rector’s Revenge (5.0% BITTER) Traditional style mid-brown coloured strong bitterwith good balance of malt and hops and a long bitter finish.

ROBINSON’S – Stockport, Cheshire✹ 1892 (3.3% MILD) 1892 is an excellent easy drinking nut brown Cheshire ale with adry roasted nutty malt palate and a delicate Golding dry hop aroma; finishing with athirst quenching balance of t and hops. 40✹ Unicorn (4.2% BITTER) Amber beer with a fruity aroma. Malt, hops and fruit in thetaste with a bitter, malty finish. 40

ST. AUSTELL – St. Austell, Cornwall✹ Dartmoor Best Bitter (3.5% BITTER) Easy-drinking, copper-coloured session bitter. Smooth and balanced sweet malt, fruit andspicy hop bitterness flavours with some astringency throughout. 40

SHEPHERD NEAME – Faversham, Kent✹ Master Brew Bitter (3.7% BITTER) A distinctive bitter, mid-brown in colour, with ahoppy aroma. Well-balanced, with a nicely aggressive bitter taste from its hops, it leavesa hoppy/bitter finish, tinged with sweetness. 40

STANLEY CRAFT ALES – Portslade, E.Sussex (currently brewing at Downlands)✹ Wolseley Best Bitter (4.1% BITTER) A typical Best Bitter with malt leading the aroma and taste.

TIMOTHY TAYLOR – Keighley, West Yorkshire✹ Golden Best (3.5% MILD) Refreshing, amber-coloured traditional Pennine light mild, malty throughout, fruit in thearoma increases to complement the delicate hoppy taste. 40✹ Landlord (4.3% BITTER) – A more-ish best bitter combining citrus peel aromas, richmalt, spicy hops, an underlying marmalade sweetness and long bitter finish. 40✹ Ram Tam (4.3% OLD ALE) A black beer with red highlights topped by a coffeecoloured head. Roast coffee bitterness is balanced by fruit and malt with burnt caramelcoming through in the dry and bitter finish. 40

THWAITES – Blackburn, Lancashire✹ Nutty Black (3.3% MILD) A sweet, fruity mild with gentle roast bitterness and resid-ual hops; a well-balanced, low strength ale. 40

✹ Original (3.6% BITTER) Hop-driven, yet well-balanced amber session bitter. Hopscontinue through to the long finish. 40

TOP-NOTCH – Haywards Heath, West Sussex✹ Flare Path (5.5% SPECIALITY) An American Amber-ale; toasted caramel and malty sweetness balanced with smoothgrapefruit bitterness, tropical fruitiness and citrus aroma.

TURNERS – Ringmer, East Sussex✹ American Pale Ale (4.7% GOLDEN ALE) Aromas of clean crisp hops in typical American excess this zingy beer is full of light or-ange and citrus flavour complimented by the delicate caramel sweetness of the malts;this distinctive beer is complex yet very refreshing.✹ Porter (4.9% PORTER) A luxuriously silky body, its impeccably balanced rich flavours, its light and dry bitternesswith aromas of hedgerow fruits, all combine to make this effortlessly drinkable.

TYNE BANK – Newcastle upon Tyne✹ Silver Dollar (4.9% GOLDEN ALE) Hoppy American ale with lasting bitterness and citrus kick.

WADWORTH – Devizes, Wiltshire✹ 6X (4.3% BITTER) Copper-coloured ale with a malty and fruity nose, and some balancing hop character.The flavour is similar, with some bitterness and a lingering malty, but bitter finish. 40✹ Henry’s IPA (3.6% BITTER) A classic session beer with malt-led flavours. 40

WELLS – Bedford, Bedfordshire✹ Eagle (3.6% BITTER) Refreshing amber session bitter with pronounced citrus hoparoma and palate, faint malt in the mouth and a lasting dry bitter finish. 40

CIDERS✹ BLACK PIG ORCHARDS cyder, (West Sussex) 6%, Medium DryFrom cider apples, beautiful blend, clean and fruity.✹ HECK’S varietal cider, (Somerset) 6.5%, Medium SweetBrown’s Apple cider apples in oak. A guaranteed hit every year.✹ JB cider, (West Sussex) 7.5%, MediumFrom cider apples – tannic dryness in a lively, fruity blend✹ JB 'Raspberry' Cider, (West Sussex) 7.5%, MediumCider apples with raspberries.✹ PORTSLADE 'Wild Thing' cider, (East Sussex) 7.2%, Medium DryScrumps from The Downs; young and fresh, zingy grapefruit hit.✹ SHEPPY’S cider (Somerset) 6%, MediumFrom cider apples, NCCP favourites since 1981 – Gold Medal 2014.✹ SNAILS BANK ‘Tumbledown’ cider (Herefordshire) 5.2%, SweetFrom cider apples. Very clean, very accessible, very smooth.✹ SOUTH DOWNS cider (East Sussex) 6%, MediumCulinary and dessert, some cider apples. Well-balanced blend.✹ UNCLE STOAT’S Handcrafted Sussex cider (East Sussex) 6%, MediumFrom culinary and dessert apples. Regional Cider winner 2014.✹ WILCE’S cider (Herefordshire) tbc%, MediumFrom organic cider apples. National Bronze 2014; traditional cider orchards.

PERRIES✹ BLACK PIG ORCHARDS perry, (West Sussex) 6%, Medium DryFrom perry pears. Well-blended, good fruit.✹ OLIVER’S perry, (Herefordshire) 6.3%, Medium SweetFrom perry pears. Clean, clear and very fruity.✹ PINE TREES FARM 'Pear O'Dudda's' perry, (Kent) 5.5%, Medium

From culinary and dessert pears. Hot Day – empty cask!

Pressure of space this year meanswe cannot include everything we’d

like, so please see our websitewww.brightoncamra.org.uk

MORE BEER FESTIVALSJuly 11–13: CAMRA TENT at Ardingly VintageVehicle Show, S.outh of England Showground, Ardingly, www.ardinglyvcvshow.org.ukAug 12–18: CAMRA’s GREAT BRITISH BEERFESTIVAL, London Olympia, www.gbbf.org.ukAug 29–31: ‘Ale at Amberley’ at the Museum,01798 831370 www.aleatamberley.co.ukOct 17–18: WORTHING BEER FESTIVAL inSt Paul’s Centre, Chapel Road, 01903 692370,www.aaa-camra.org.ukOct 9–11: EASTBOURNE BEER FESTIVAL,Winter Garden, 01323 412000www.visiteastbourne.com/beer-festival

Ruth Anderson Festival Organiser

Fri. 20th June11am to 3pm and 5 to 10.30pm

Sat. 21st June 201411am to 8pm

HARVEYS

..traditional draught SussexBitter, Mild and Old Ales

Bridge Wharf Brewery6 Cliffe High St,Lewes BN7 2AH

01273 480209 www.

harveys.org.ukJOIN THE 2014 ALE TRAIL – ask at the Membership Stall for details. PUB BOOKSFOR SALE on the Merchandise Stall, from Dr. Janet Pennington. “I used many of these for

background information when studying for my PhD in Sussex Inn & Tavern History(2003).” Well-priced, many quite rare, with a % from the sale price to our Festival Charity.

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