A big thank you to all those who attended the 2023 Redhill Beer Festival and made it such a success. We welcomed nearly 900 people through the doors and served around 3,600 pints over the three days of the event.

The joint winners of the Beer of the Festival were Surrey Hills Brewery Collusion XXX and New Bristol Cinder Toffee Stout. The Cider of the Festival was Barnards Surrey Medium Cyder, made in the branch area at Abinger Hammer.

We also raised £811 for our festival charity, St. Catherine’s Hospice.

The evening of Monday 9th of October saw us at Kingswood Village Club not only for our branch meeting, but also to present the Club with our branch 2023 Club of the Year certificate. The Club has now won this award 11 times, so is well worth a visit.

CAMRA members can gain access by showing their membership card.

Members of the branch paid an evening visit to Cobbett's in Dorking on Tuesday 5th September 2023 to present them with the branch’s 2023 Cider Pub of the Year certificate. This is Cobbett’s first win of the award. We found 4 draught ciders available, including one from local cider maker Barnard’s, who are based in Abinger.

Pictured are our branch chairman, Rob Wells, handing over the certificate to Helen and Tim from Cobbett’s. Helen commented that they always tried to avoid mass produced ciders when making their selections.

Luckily as it was a Tuesday, all drinks were 10% off - a regular offer at the venue.

The 2023 Oxted Festival committee is offering all CAMRA members discounted entry tickets for Friday 7th July.

Please visit https://www.oxtedfest.co.uk, select the booking page and input the discount code "CAMRAOF23" and you will receive 30% off the price of your admission ticket.

Kim Cooper from the Festival says "We have the best real ale bar in the country and a great selection of locally brewed craft lagers. Come try them all and support our fun festival!"