You can now download the final Yapton 2016 programme here. Hopefully all the beers listed will turn up — if not, we’ll have a blackboard listing the changes in the main hall.
Tickets are now on sale for Yapton Beerex 2016!
To book, please send an SAE and a cheque payable to Western Sussex CAMRA to Western Sussex CAMRA, 22 Kingsmead Road, Middleton on Sea, PO22 6NG. (No personal callers, please.) Don’t forget to say which sessions you want tickets for!
You can also buy tickets over the bar at the Selden Arms and the Brooksteed Ale House in Worthing, the Chichester Inn in Chichester, the Wilkes Head in Eastergate, and the Maypole Inn in Yapton.
The Yapton Beer of the Festival results are in:
Equal 2nd place:
Dancing Man Big Casino IPA (5.0%)
Tiny Rebel Cereal Killer (3.0%)
1st place:
Downlands Devil’s Dyke Salted Caramel (5.0%)
Equal 3rd place:
Dancing Man Big Casino IPA (5.0%)
Downlands Root Thirteen (3.6%)
2nd place:
Downlands Devil’s Dyke Salted Caramel (5.0%)
1st place:
Vibrant Forest Radicale Oat & Coffee Stout (5.7%)
3rd place:
Double Vision Cider (7.4%)
2nd place:
Sheppy’s Farmhouse Cider (6.0%)
1st place:
Heck’s Red Pear (6.5%)
Congratulations to all the winners! The presentations will take place over the next couple of months — look for them in the branch diary.
A draft version of the Yapton Beerex 2015 programme is now available to download.
This is the final version, so it should reflect what’s available (assuming what’s delivered matches what we ordered!)
Yapton Beerex tickets are now on sale, both by post and over the bar in local pubs.
More details on Yapton Beerex 2015, including ticket sales details.
Congratulations to the Inglenook, Nyetimber, on being voted Pub of the Year for 2015.
As well as the regular London Pride and Young’s Special, the pub has several guest beers, including some strong ones that are unusual for the area. (If you overindulge, accommodation is also available!)
They also have a pub cat, who is on the mend after a recent car accident, and a pub parrot — an unusual feature!
Congratulations to Tony, Edna, Garry and their staff.
UPDATE: The award will be presented at 2pm on Saturday, March 14.
Restoration work has finally started at the Gribble Inn in Oving after a great deal of hassle for Simon and Nikki. The estimated completion date is the end of February 2015.
In the meantime, the Gribble Brewery Tap will be open in the old skittle alley on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Opening time is 12:00 on all three days, with Friday closing at 22:30 and Saturday and Sunday closing at 18:00.
The beer list will necessarily be a bit more restricted than it was in the pub, but at least you’ll be able to drink it!
Please do pop in if you can.
As you already know, the Wilkes Head, Eastergate, is branch Pub of the Year for the third time running — but it’s now been confirmed that it has won the Sussex Pub of the Year for the third time running as well!
Congratulations to Trevor, Sonia, and the staff.
The results are in!
LocAle of the Festival:
4th place: Downlands Devil’s Dyke Honey Porter
3rd place: Brighton Bier Company Grand Porter
2nd place: Burning Sky Plateau
1st place: Langham Jubilee Saison
Beer of the Festival:
2nd place: Tiny Rebel Hank
1st place: Downlands Devil’s Dyke Honey Porter
It’s good to see so many porters winning this year, but particularly impressive for the LocAle of the Festival award to be won for the second year running by a brand new beer! Congratulations to all the breweries.
UPDATE: The Old Barn reopened under new management in mid-2013, and is no longer a “problem pub”. We’ve visited on various occasions and found a friendly pub with good beer.
The text below dates from January 2013, and is out of date. It is included here for reference.
The Old Barn, Felpham, has had its licence revoked at a licensing committee hearing on January 18, following evidence of drug activity, serving alcohol to minors, and other crime and disorder.
Anyone wanting to reopen the Old Barn as a pub would need to apply for a new licence; given there are other pubs in the area, it seems unlikely that the council will grant one.
Of course, this will also stop Tesco and the like from marching in and turning it into Yet Another Supermarket™, unless they don’t want to sell alcohol. So a change of use to residential seems a likely outcome here, much as we’d like to see the pub reopened.
