At the Eastbourne Beer Festival, an award is made for the Beer of the Festival from a Sussex Microbrewery. It is not unknown for there to be a tie when the votes of the festival goers have been counted, but for the first time two beers from the same brewery tied at the festival in 2019. So it was a double celebration when branch members visited Battle Brewery to present the awards to Rob and Jo for Abbey Pale and Alan the Red.