New Year Dark Beer Festival!

Indeed, from today to Sunday (3rd-5th January 2025), The Jolly Fisherman, 3 East Beach Street, Hastings TN34 3AR is holding a Dark Beer Festival (facebook): Opening at 13.00 today, and 12.00 Sat/Sunday.

There will be a large choice of styles amongst the cask and keg beers available, includes:

Stouts and Porters.

Other dark beers from abroad, and Belgian style brewed in UK.

Mild Ales and not so strong. But, whenever you visit, whatever you drink, do enjoy Hastings this weekend, and enjoy the Festival, cheers!

This Weekend (6-8 January 2023)

Walking by a couple of hours ago, but across the road, and I noticed the Jolly Fisherman was open earlier than usual, surprised (I shouldn't have been) their annual Dark Beer Festival is on at this excellent micropub this weekend, open now, and at 12.00 noon tomorrow (Saturday) and from 14.00 on Sunday (facebook). Some very interesting beers available, cheers!

Also, tomorrow, at the Electric Palace Cinema in the High Street, there is a celebration of the Eastern Orthodox Christmas (website), which celebrates the Christmas festival according to the old Julian Calendar, and has been organised to raise support for 3 Ukrainian charities. From 2.00 to 6.00pm there will be a 'pop-up' craft fair with Ukrainian craft items on offer, and from 7.30pm, a screen showing of Vodurudu (which means Will, Thought, Movement, Spirit), and is a film dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the death of Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych.

Dark Beer Festival this weekend

By Steve the Beermeister:

Much nicer than potential traffic holdups in Hastings, this weekend there is a Dark Beer Festival (3-5 January) on at The Jolly Fisherman  micropub at East Beach Street TN34 3AR (facebook), open from midday: this will include up to 5 dark real ales and 5 dark crafty keg beers at any one time. Now, the image above was taken on Thursday, so I had a crafty early drink with 2/3rds of a pint of The Kernel Brewery Export Stout (7.0%), and it was smooth dark and gorgeous. You will not be disappointed, but it could well be very busy in the evening, I have little doubt, but do enjoy, and cheers!