Feastbourne Provides a Flavour of Things to Come

24 October 2007

 

Eastbourne’s new food and drink festival, Feastbourne, proved a hit last week with sell out events, fresh local produce and fantastic fireworks. 

 

Kicking off with the sell out success of the Eastbourne Beer Festival, the festival continued to fill up many of the master classes presenting everything from organic veg with the Observer Food Monthly’s award winning Bills of Lewes to a tasting of the best chocolate in the World from a Master Chocolatier.

 

Eastbourne Borough Council Spokesperson for Tourism, Councillor David Elkin said “With such excellent fresh local food and drink right here on our doorstep, I am delighted that Feastbourne has been so well received, however this is only a small taster of things to come.  With the support of all those local businesses and organisations involved, we can look forward to an even bigger festival next year.”

 

Eastbourne Beer Festival brought in the biggest crowd as over 3,500 visitors sampled over 1,600 gallons of real ale, cider and perry.  The new Thursday evening Jam session format also proved popular, returning on the Saturday night due to high demand. 

 

Festival visitors voted on their favourites and chose Harvey’s homage to the town, the Star of Eastbourne, which won Beer of the Festival.  Awards were also presented for best Sussex beer, won by Dark Star Brewery’s Hophead and best beer outside of Sussex to Westerham Brewery’s British Bulldog.

 

On Saturday, Produce on the Prom brought hundreds of shoppers keen to try fresh Sussex produce and local school children brought their prize winning pumpkins to display before fireworks closed the show.

 

Feastbourne which ran from 12 – 22 October is sponsored by Cooden Cellars, University of Brighton, Glyndebourne, SCS Marketing, Grand Hotel, The Waterfront, Eastbourne Hospitality Association, Eastbourne & District Chamber of Commerce, The Sussex Wine Company and is supported by Eastbourne Borough Council.

 

For more information visit www.feastbourne.com or telephone 0906 711 2212 (calls cost 50p per minute at standard rate).