Welcome to the Arun and Adur Branch.

At Arun and Adur we love to campaign for real ales, visit many of the pubs in and out of our area and we also run the Worthing Beer Festival.

Our branch covers the area between the rivers Arun (in the west) and Adur (in the east) and the A272 (in the north), with the sea being the southern boundary.

Local Guides

Discover the heart of our local pub scene with the new Local Guides section on our website. This series features exclusive interviews with publicans and curated tours to help you explore the best pubs in our area. Begin your adventure with any of these:

• Walking tour of Arundel
• Walking tour Worthing Town Centre (East)
• Walking tour Worthing Town Centre (Central)
• Walking tour West Worthing & Tarring
• Bus tour Littlehampton to Goring

Goldmark Craft Beers

Goldmark Brewery has begun a new chapter. The brewery has passed into the hands of new owners Ethan and Spence, who take the helm following founder Mark's decision to step back from the day-to-day after signing a new recording contract and heading out on tour. Rather than see Goldmark wind down, Ethan and Spence — who had long dreamed of the opportunity — stepped in to keep the brewery brewing and to build on what Mark started.

Meet the new team

• Ethan, Head Brewer. A CIBD-qualified and commercially trained brewer, Ethan brings the technical grounding and hands-on production experience behind everything that comes out of the tanks.
• Spence. An RAF veteran and former software product lead, Spence looks after the direction of the business, bringing an operational and strategic background to the venture.
• Marta. Joining full-time to complete the small founding team, Marta comes from customer relations and administration roles and takes on the customer-facing and back-office side of the brewery.

Together the three form a compact team determined to see Goldmark stay local, keep its identity, and thrive under new stewardship.

What we'll be pouring this Autumn

For the Autumn season, Goldmark will be stocking a core selection spanning easy-drinking session ales through to the brewery's award-winning porter range. Tasting notes for each are below.

• Dave Best — Best Bitter, 3.8%. A dependable chestnut-brown best bitter, beautifully balanced and rounded out with noble Sussex hops. An honest, everyday pint and a reliable friend at the bar.
• Liquid Gold — Golden Ale, 4.0%. A multi-award-winning golden ale bursting with tropical fruit and blueberry character, dry-hopped with Mosaic for a bright, fruity finish.
• Microbus — Session IPA, 4.0%. A refreshing session ale full of citrus and tropical-fruit flavours, dry-hopped with Simcoe and Mosaic. Plenty of hop character at a sociable strength.
• American Pale (APA) — 4.8%. Award-winning and generously hopped, with massive grapefruit and citrus flavours from a dry-hopping of Citra and Comet. Punchy and aromatic.

The Porter Range — all 5.2%

Goldmark's celebrated porters return for the darker months, each built on the same smooth, rich black porter base:

• Black Pearl Porter. A smooth black porter with roasted toffee and coffee flavours — the classic of the range.
• Vanilla Black Porter. A double-GOLD-award-winning porter, smooth and rich, aged with vanilla pods in brandy for a warming, rounded sweetness.
• Amaretto Porter. Smooth and rich, steeped with amaretti biscuits and almonds soaked in brandy for a nutty, indulgent character.
• Black Cherry Porter. Black, smooth and rich, cold-steeped with black cherries in vodka and chocolate — a decadent finish to the range.

Goldmark Brewery — 01903 297838. Casks (9-gallon and 4.5-gallon pins) and 30-litre Sankey kegs available; deliveries across the Arun, Adur, Brighton and Hampshire areas. Do drop in and raise a glass to the new team.

Draft Pick Brewing Company — A New Sussex Brewery Joins the Line-up

Sussex has a new brewery on the way. Draft Pick Brewing Company, based in Arundel, is a new brand from the same team now running Goldmark — a direct-to-trade operation built around keg beer, with a handful of signature cask lines alongside. The aim, in the team's own words, is to bring bold flavours and styles to Sussex and the surrounding area, balanced with classic, familiar styles to keep the roster well rounded.

The name is also the method. Draft Pick treats its beer list the way a sports franchise builds a squad: every recipe is scouted, tested and selected for what it adds to the line-up rather than chosen in isolation — hence the tagline, Every Pick Counts. Sussex ingredients come first wherever they fit, but the brewery is unapologetic about going further afield when a particular hop does the job better. Its guiding line, Sussex Born, Nation Bound, sets out both where it's from and where it intends to go.

The team

The brewery is run by the same small team behind Goldmark. Ethan Belfield is Head Brewer, qualifying in early 2026 after an apprenticeship at Brolly Brewing, with West Coast and hazy IPAs as his specialism. Spence, an RAF veteran with a background in corporate transformation, looks after brand and direction. Marta Spencer joins, bringing account and client-management experience to the customer-facing and administrative side. Overseeing morale, and lending their names to the flagship beer, are Leonard and Benson; the owners' dogs and full-time brand ambassadors.

The launch roster

• Lenson — Hazy IPA (NEIPA), 4.2%. The flagship, named after the two brewery dogs. Hopped with Crush, Citra and Nectaron for aromas of mango, passionfruit and fresh peach; soft and pillowy on the palate with low bitterness and a clean, gently dry finish. Juice-forward and built for a second pint.
• My Name's Jeff — West Coast IPA, 5.5%. The uncompromising one. Chinook-led and properly bitter, with pine resin, grapefruit pith and a crack of white pepper; lean, dry and bracing through a long, clean finish.
• One Club Man — Traditional Sussex Bitter (cask), 4.0%. The straight-down-the-line cask beer of the range: a smooth, traditional Sussex bitter, amber in colour and biscuit-malt forward, with a nutty finish and an earthy note from the hops. Balanced, restrained and sessionable, with a clean finish.
• Until They Come Home — Flemish Brown Ale, 4.5%. A Remembrance release available in October and November only. Dark and rich in colour, with a light, bready maltiness and flavours of toffee and a touch of chocolate. A quiet, unshowy beer for the season, with a donation from every cask sold going to a veterans' charity.

Draft Pick Brewing Company, Arundel, West Sussex. A direct-to-trade brewery — look out for the pump clips on untied bars across Horsham, Arundel, Worthing and Brighton as the range rolls out. Call 01903 297838 for enquiries.