The Sussex Brewery: Emsworth's 250-Year-Old Sausage Pub With a Big Heart
With a 4.5-star rating from 541 Google reviews, this Main Road pub mixes history, sausages, events and the kind of welcome that keeps Southbourne regulars loyal.
SOME pubs are loved because they are new. The Sussex Brewery is loved because it is not. According to the pub's own public profile, this Main Road local has been trading for more than 250 years, making it one of the oldest pub names around Emsworth and Hermitage.
That history would not mean much without present-day loyalty, but the numbers are strong too: a 4.5-star Google rating from 541 reviews, plus a wider review trail across Tripadvisor, Facebook and local listings. This is not a hidden newcomer. It is a proper community pub with deep roots.
What Reviewers Keep Mentioning
Tripadvisor lists The Sussex Brewery with 355 reviews and a 4.1 rating, but the useful detail is in the snippets. One reviewer says: "we had a fantastic experience at the pub and we felt very welcome and looked after". Another recent review calls it a "lovely, friendly little pub with a big heart".
Then there is the food identity locals still recognise. An older Tripadvisor review describes it as "the Sausage Pub", praising its "vast array of delicious sausages" and vegetarian varieties with chutneys on the side.
Those three phrases explain the appeal neatly: welcome, heart and sausages.
A Pub Built Around More Than Pints
The Sussex Brewery also has an events side that keeps it feeling active rather than preserved in amber. Search results mention bands, functions and a Facebook following of more than 2,600 people, which says plenty about how many locals keep an eye on what is happening there.
The location helps. At 36 Main Road, Southbourne, it sits slightly away from Emsworth's busiest centre, giving the pub a neighbourhood feel while still being close enough for anyone heading between Emsworth, Westbourne and the coast.
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For anyone who likes their pubs historic, friendly and a little bit characterful, The Sussex Brewery is exactly the sort of place Emsworth should be glad to have: old enough to have stories, busy enough to keep making new ones.