We are delighted to confirm that the 2026 CAMRA North Sussex Spring Equinox Beer & Cider Festival is able to go ahead again, with the same session times as last year.

The venue remains the Drill Hall, Denne Road, Horsham town centre, RH12 1JF, which is about 15 to 20 minutes’ walk from the railway station and less from the bus station.

As in previous years, there will be a mix of over 50 light and dark ales available. The keykeg bar will include a 0.5% strength beer for the first time, to reflect the ever-improving quality of these beers and the increasing demand for them, plus there will be a selection of other low alcohol beers available in cans.

All our excellent Branch brewers will again be featured at the event, alongside other breweries from near and far. Sussex cider makers will feature on Stringer’s Cider bar, with a mix of traditional and flavoured ciders and perries.

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 final session still have an interesting and exciting selection to the end. We also anticipate reducing beer and cider prices for the final hour on the Saturday afternoon.

Food and snacks will be available at all sessions.

If you are not already a CAMRA member but go to several CAMRA festivals a year, the decision to give members free entrance to all festivals run by CAMRA offers a great incentive to join. If you decide to sign-up at our event in March, we will additionally give you £10 of beer tokens to spend at the Festival.

Tickets are priced as follows:

Friday 11am - 4pm session - £8 Friday 6-10pm session - £10 Saturday 11am - 4pm - £7

Your entry fee includes a festival glass which can be returned at the end of the event for a £2 refund if you wish.

CAMRA members will receive beer tokens on presentation of their membership card equal to the value of their ticket price less £2.

Tickets will be available to buy on the door, except for the Friday evening session which sold out several weeks in advance last year and is highly likely to do so again.

Tickets go on sale in early January from:

Horsham - Beer Mine Horsham - Anchor Tap Crawley - Brewery Shades East Grinstead - Engine Room via Tckty online at https://www.northsussex.camra.org.uk/equinox.

For more info contact:

moc.liamg@xoniuqe.armac, or northsussex.camra.org.uk, or via X @CAMRAEquinox or northsussexcamrabranch on Facebook

The beer list will be published here in due course,