This years festival was another hugely enjoyable success. Thanks to everyone who came along and also to our amazing team of planners, organisers and helpers.

The votes are in for the beers of the festival winners who are:

Dark Beer of the Festival: Kissingate Brewery & Taproom - Choc Cherry Dipper Porter (4.5%)

Light Beer of the Festival: Nightjar Brew Co – Lost in Ikea (4.2%)

Cider of the Festival: Nuthurst Orchard - Passion Fruit Cider (5%)

The Runners up:

Dark Beer: Vocation - Naughty & Nice Chocolate Stout, Flying Trunk – Coffee Way Past Your Bedtime Stout,
Light Beer: Aleworks – All Day Succa, Orkney – Man O’Hoy
Cider: Bignose and Beardy - This Little Piggy, Bignose and Beardy - Barcombe Mad

The certificate presentation to Kissingate will take place at their Spring Festival on 17th May and we will send out a message about arranging travel to the taproom in the next few weeks.

Finally another massive thank you for a new record amount for the event, raising almost £1,100 with your donations to our chosen charity the Horsham & Crawley branch of the Samaritans.