4:52pm Sunday 11th October 2009
Real ale pubs and micro breweries are bucking the recession.
That’s according to Roy Bond, joint organiser of the 13th annual Worthing Beer Fest.
Hundreds of beer buffs from as far as Lincolnshire are this weekend attending the festival at the Richmond Room in Stoke Abbott Road.
They are sampling dozens of ales, some brewed locally and others brought from Yorkshire, the festival’s chosen region this year.
Roy, a member of the Arun and Adur branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, said: “There seems to be a real growth in micro breweries all over the country.
They’re everywhere.
“They seem to be appealing to what people want with their individual, quality products.”
Roy said the Crown, in the centre of Littlehampton, a town badly hit by pub closures, had recently reopened and was now selling six or seven real ales.
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