The 2025 Equinox beer and cider festival

We are delighted to announce that tickets go on sale for our 2025 event on Saturday Jan 18th.

The main change this year is that we are holding a Friday afternoon session instead of a Saturday evening session.

Tickets can be bought online by scanning the QR code on the poster or via https://tckty.camra.org.uk/e/329/camra-north-sussex-spring-equinox-2025-beer-cider-festival.

Tickets can be bought in person in Horsham at the Anchor Tap, Beer Mine and Malt Shovel, in Crawley at the Brewery Shades and in East Grinstead at the Engine Room. Tickets are £10 for the Friday 11.30am to 4:30pm session, £9 for Friday 6 to 10pm, and £7 for Saturday 11am to 4pm.  CAMRA members receive £5 of beer tokens, upon presentation of their membership card.  The ticket price includes a festival glass, which can be returned for a £2 refund if you wish.

We will again have a range of 50+ ales from Sussex and far beyond, including some from a keg wall, plus an excellent range of Sussex ciders and wine, and some low alcohol beers.

We aim to order sufficient beer and cider so that we run low but do not run out before the end of the festival, so that those attending the festival have an interesting and exciting selection to the end. We also anticipate reducing beer and cider prices for the final hour of the Saturday afternoon.

If you wish to volunteer, or would like further information, please email us at moc.liamg@xoniuqe.armac

Cheers


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The 2024 Equinox beer and cider festival

Our anniversary festival was a memorable event. Our thanks to everyone who helped make it such a success.

The usual range of 50+ ales from Sussex and far beyond, plus an excellent range of Sussex ciders and wine was complemented by several new beers, which were brewed for us by local brewers for the festival and for the anniversary events.

The Festival awards went to:

.Dark Beer of the Festival: Flying Trunk Way Past your bed time 7.5% stout
Light Beer of the Festival: Flying Trunk Day Break 5.1% Golden Ale
Cider/Perry of the Festival: 9% Black pig orchard Perry


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The 2023 Equinox beer and cider festival

was a rip roaring success following uncertainty as to whether the hall would be available this year.

Virtually all our brilliant team of volunteers from last year stepped up again, plus it was great to welcome a few new members to the team. Thank you to each and every one of you, for what turned out to be our slickest ever set up, and a virtually problem free event.

It was a pleasure to welcome Christine Cryne to run two very popular Cheese and Beer tasting sessions, attracting great feedback from attendees.

The range of beers were as popular as ever and record ticket sales enabled us to increase the number on offer from 50 to 54. It was great to have only just over 2 casks worth left at the end, but still 16 on sale at the close on Saturday evening.

The Dark Beer of the Festival award was jointly won by two wonderful 6% beers from local brewers. Kissingate’s dark beers have been a feature of the event every year and their latest new one, Horsham Ditty Porter, shared the award with first-timers Flying Trunk from Forest Row with Past Your Bedtime Stout.