More than 75 events celebrating food and drink are planned for Lewes’s fifth OctoberFeast.

Among the highlights is the Great Beer Exposition with OctoberFeast chair Tony Leonard joining Burning Sky Beer’s Mark Tranter. Tranter, former head of Dark Star Brewery, will share a personal selection of British cask and keg beers and host a homebrew competition (Oct 3 to 5, The Snowdrop Inn, South Street, Lewes, Fri, 5pm, Sat and Sun, noon, free).

Food writer Hattie Ellis will read from her book on honey at The Hearth in Eastgate Street in Spoonfuls Of Honey: A Tasting & Talk (Monday, Sept 29, 7.30pm, £5, www.leweslivelit.co.uk).

A day of workshops and a supper with baker and cake-making maestro Dan Lepard (Tuesday, Sept 30, from £20, call 01273 470755), and a Food From The Levant evening with acclaimed Syrian cook , Chadwan Al Yaghchi, (Sunday, September 28, 7pm, call 01273 470755) are also at The Hearth.

Breaky Bottom’s Christine and Peter Hall celebrate the vineyard’s 40th anniversary with wine buff Olly Smith and poet Paul Agard over dinner.

The Oyster Project is offering a free lunch in exchange for donations to the Oyster FoodBank at its soup kitchen (Friday, Oct 3, The Chapel Cafe, High Street, noon to 1.30pm, www.oysterproject.org.uk).

And learn how to cook Scandinavian cuisine in the Nordic Kitchen Harvest Special, (Lewes Community Kitchen, Phoenix Works, North Street, Thursday, Sept 25, 6.30pm, £30 including dinner, www.nordickitchen.me.uk).

www.lewesoctoberfeast.com.