A huge thank you to everyone to helped us celebrate the official launch of 50 years of the North Sussex Branch.

We are particularly grateful to The Red Lion, Turners Hill for hosting us and providing a delicious buffet, to Harvey's Brewery for laying on a special treat of our own Ale (including its own special pump clip) and to Bunny Lucas from Kissingate Brewery for her delicious cake.

Please come an look at the memories board - along with our 'Present Day's board - at the membership table at the Equinox Festival.

We want everyone to join in with our big birthday celebrations so, along with our centerpiece events, we have commisioned a special Ale Trail with the chance to win beer voucher prizes.

It will launched at our lunch on Saturday March 16th and will run until the AGM on May 14th.

You don't have to be a CAMRA member to enter - full details can be found HERE

The finalists for Branch Pub of the Year (BPOTY) have been agreed and members are now invited to choose a winner.

To vote, please place the pubs in your order of preference from 1st up to 6th (note that you don't have to vote for every one).

There are two ways to vote:
1) by email to:
ku.gro.armac.xessushtron@yraterces (include your membership number),

or 2) in person at the branch meeting on March 12th in the Brewery Shades Crawley at 7.30pm, The winners will be announced there later in the evening.

The finalists are:
Brewery Shades - Crawley
Engine Room - East Grinstead
Malt Shovel - Horsham
Billi Tap - Billingshurst
White Horse - Maplehurst
Kings Arms - Horsham

Members are also invited to vote for the Branch Cider Pub of the Year in the same way. The finalists are:

Brewery Shades - Crawley
Engine Room - East Grinstead
White Horse - Maplehurst
Black Jug - Horsham

Remember - in the interest of fairness - you are encouraged to visit them all before deciding (now there's a great excuse!).

Congratulations to all of the finalists, they were up against a lot of really strong competition.

The last of this seasons apple tree blessings took place at Bignose and Beardy with branch members joining in and enjoying the mulled cider, sausage rolls and singing.

Every year the branch organises its popular stroll around some of our favourite bars in Horsham during that quiet time between christmas and new year.

This year we included the recently re-opended Bear, as well as visiting regulars: Malt Shovel Anchor Tap Piries Bar Black Jug before heading to local breweries Brolly Brewing and Horsham Tap

The branch runs lots of social events throughout the year - all are welcome to come along and join in the fun.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the beertwixmas walk, it was a fantastic day, and we hope everyone enjoyed themselves.

The branch outing to the famous London Pigs Ear beer festival was another great success.

Remember that we arrange regular days out to events and festivals to which we warmly invite all CAMRA members

Congratulations to Kissingate Brewery who have scooped yet another award for their much decorated Black Cherry Mild. This time its a silver in the CAMRA Champion Beer of Britain catagory - London & South East (2023).