The 20th Sussex Beer and Cider Festival will be held at the Hove Centre (or Hove Town Hall in the old money) from March 11–13. Well over 220 beers available, plus a large selection of ciders, perries, country wines and bottled beers from both Britain and abroad.

Tickets available from the usual outlets. Brighton & Hove: Brighton Centre, Hove Centre, Evening Star, Sir Charles Napier. Shoreham: Buckingham Arms. Horsham: Beer Essentials. Lewes: Gardener’s Arms. Worthing: Selden Arms. Also by post from SCBCF Ticket Sales, 13 Rudyard Road, Woodingdean, Brighton, BN2 6UB (tel 07807 105803). Please state the sessions you want tickets for, enclose a large SAE, and make cheques or postal orders out to “CAMRA Sussex Beer Festival”.

TICKETS FOR FRIDAY EVENING ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT.

It’s that time of year again! Details of Yapton Beerex 2009 are just a click away…

The Maypole in Yapton is holding a beer festival over the Easter weekend; 20 beers from the North, plus a hog roast on the Sunday (followed by the music quiz at 7pm)

Edit: the festival was previously listed as running until April 13; it finishes on April 12.

The Four Chesnuts in Chichester is having a beer festival from Feb 27 to Mar 1 with 16 real ales (should be available from Friday lunchtime) in the skittle alley. There’ll be live music both evenings, and they’ll have the rugby on the telly in the bar.

The 19th Sussex Beer & Cider Festival, organised by the Sussex branches of CAMRA, will be held at the Hove Centre, Hove on March 12–14.

As sales of real ale continue to increase, there will be nearly 230 traditional beers on sale to cope with the expected big demand. A record 4,000 people attended last year’s festival, and we’re planning for a similar figure next year.

Ciders, perries and country wines will also be available, as will British and foreign bottled beers. Hot and cold food will be available at all times, and there will be live entertainment on Saturday night only.

For more information, please visit www.sussexbeerfestival.co.uk or call festival organiser Ursula Lockyer on 07784 944277.

Tickets will be available from the usual outlets:

or by post from SCBCF Ticket Sales, 13 Rudyard Road, Woodingdean, Brighton, BN2 6UB (phone: 07784 944277). For postal applications, please state the sessions for which you require tickets, and enclose an SAE with your payment in the form of a cheque or postal order made payable to “CAMRA Sussex Beer Festival”.

Tickets are available now.

Beer festival at the Maypole, Yapton, all day Friday to Sunday.

This event has been cancelled.

More details here

Another beer festival at the Four Chesnuts in Chichester — this time sponsored by Gribble Brewery, so expect a couple of their beers to be on…