Eastbourne Beer Festival News

Real Ale lovers have flocked to get first dibs on Friday night tickets for the 2012 Eastbourne Beer Festival with all 1,200 tickets flying out the door already!

Eastbourne Beer Festival returns to the Winter Garden this year from 4 – 6 October and with Friday night always proving the most popular selling out before the event.

Those who missed out on Friday night tickets still have chance to book for the Thursday or Saturday evening sessions or for the Saturday day session.

Caption Competition

This was a competition with a chance of winning two guest ticket's and a set of tokens to Eastbourne Beer Festival 2012 on the Thursday evening. All entrants had to do was simply like VisitEastbourne on Facebook and add a humorous caption on the weeks photo!

Our competition winnners enjoyed a fantastic evening and thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment and atmosphere.

Photo-Tag

Festival visitors are being invited to smile for the Beer Fest camera for their chance to win amazing prizes (to be announced). Our official Beer Fest photographer will be snapping groups enjoying the festival to share on the Visit Eastbourne facebook page. Simply tag your picture for the chance to win!

Eastbourne Beer Festival enjoyed a record breaking weekend this year with its biggest ever takings at the box office.

With Friday and Saturday nights selling out in record time and Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon almost reaching capacity, the event saw an overall increase in paid ticket sales by 11% on last year.

Almost 4,400 paid ticket holders attended this year’s festival, with visitors drinking 13,326 pints of ale, 2,800 pints of cider & perry, 1,236 glasses of wine and 1,680 international bottles of beer.