This year's Ale & Cider Trail, the 31st Annual event, is currently taking place, finishing on the 30th of September, taking in 40 Pubs or Taprooms around the area of the Brighton & South Downs Branch of CAMRA.

The full list of participating Pubs/Clubs is shown below; Passports are now available from each one.

This year it commemorates the 125th Anniversary of the founding of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club in 1901

Cider drinkers can participate by having a pint of Real Cider, where available, in any of the listed Pubs/Clubs; a Cider T-Shirt will be available as an alternative to the Trail T-shirt, on request, as shown in the centre pages of the Passport

Dependent upon demand, there may be an Ale Trail Bus Tour this year.

If you are interested in an Ale Trail bus trip on either Sat 22nd August or Sat 5 September, please send an email to ku.gro.armac.nothgirb@tcatnoc on or before Sunday 19 July.

Please check this Website Page for further News:

Participating Pubs:

Brighton

Basketmakers Arms
Battle of Trafalgar
Brighton Bierhaus
Great Eastern
Haus on the Hill
Hole in the Wall
Lord Nelson Inn
Mitre Tavern
Prince Albert
Round Georges
UnBarred Brewery & Taproom

Burgess Hill

Signalbox

Chailey Green

Five Bells

Ditchling

White Horse

Falmer

Swan Inn

Firle

Ram Inn

Glynde

Steamworks Glynde
Trevor Arms

Hassocks

BN6 Craft Beer & Tap

Haywards Heath

Hop Sun Taproom

Hove

Beer Belly
Blind Busker
Neptune
Watchmaker’s Arms

Isfield

Laughing Fish

Lewes

Black Horse
Brewers Arms
Gardener’s Arms
Lewes Arms
Rights of Man
Royal Oak

Newhaven

Newhaven Tap

Newick

Crown Inn
Royal Oak

Portslade-by-Sea

Stanley Arms

Seaford

Old Boot Inn
Steamworks

Shoreham-by-Sea

Duke of Wellington
Piston Broke

Southwick

Southwick Beer Engine

Prize Distribution

Please check this Website Page or the B&SD Facebook Page during October for details of prize collection dates which will be in November 2026