Burning Sky Brewery

Microbrewery in Firle, East Sussex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated Venue: Burning Sky
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Established in 2013

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Place Barn, The St, Firle, BN8 6LP, England
Description
Burning Sky, a brewers dream. The dream of a long term brewer with a love of both punchy hop forward pales and of the beautiful Belgian beer tradition. A brewers brewery, we are fortunate to be blessed with a talented team.

Whilst industrial units are convenient, they seldom inspire, so we chose to locate ourselves within the beautiful and inspirational South Downs, occupying refurbished farm buildings in a slightly quirky village. A true farmhouse brewery.

Producing our first beer in the Autumn of 2013, we were rewarded far beyond our expectations – not just with a couple of orders but with Mark being voted ‘Brewer of the Year 2014’ by The Guild of British Beer Writers, and the brewery being named 4th Best New Brewery in the World 2014 by Ratebeer.

Whilst ambitious, we do not wish to grow out of, or beyond the buildings we occupy. Instead we are investing heavily in the areas that we wish to grow in. The first craft brewery in the UK to install oak foudres for ageing beers in, we have just (at the end of 2016), completed the restoration of a Grade 2 listed building to expand upon this and our barrel ageing program. The beginning of 2017 saw us install a bespoke coolship in this space – a traditional vessel used for cooling hot wort. We will be using this to produce spontaneously fermented beers.

And all the while that this goes on, we continue to refine and pay particular attention to our core beers, making sure that we (and you), have something refreshing to relax and dream with at the end of the day.

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7/10
Tried from Can from House of Cans - SOHO on 12 Jul 2025 at 08:15

8.3/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 9 Overall 8
Tap at craft beer junction. Second attempt. A pale yellow straw coloured pour with a a lasting white foam. Aroma is nice delicate dry grains, straw, cereal, light fennel, grass, clove, saison yeast. Flavour is composed of light earthy grains, straw, hay, hedgerow, delicate floral, chamomile,. Palate is semi crisp, airy carbonation, super crushable. Perfect summer time beverage.
Tried on 10 Jul 2025 at 17:01

7.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from HITM at home. Slight rose colour with a thin head. Aroma and taste are berry and floral. Taste tart to sour. Medium body.
Tried from Bottle from Trembling Madness Online Shop on 08 Jul 2025 at 19:11

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle vintage 2024 Verdins 2025-07-03 Göteborg
AR: caraway seeds and lemon sourness,
AP: hazy yellow, frothy white foam
F: caraway seeds and lemon sourness,
Tried from Can from Systembolaget webbeställning on 06 Jul 2025 at 20:31

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2025 at 17:35

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
From tap at Salt Horse, Edinburgh. Strong Sauternes BA influence, malt, raisins, alcohol, more red wine, touch of vanilla, toffee, grape. Moderate to medium sweet, hint of tartness, bit boozy. Complex and damn tasty.
Tried from Draft at Salt Horse Beer Bar on 03 Jul 2025 at 23:01

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 8
On tap at Low Key Taproom Ashford. Cloudy pale gold colour lasting white head. Good deep saison funk aroma. Now that is good. Lovely depth of flavour. Not overly sour. Some sweetness even. Lovely saison farmyard. I thought pretty much amazing. I melted. It's lovely.
Tried from Draft on 03 Jul 2025 at 17:52

7.6/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Gyllen med lys beige skum. Ser nydelig ut. Lukter karamell, svisker. Kraftig. Smaker karamell, appelsinskall, alkohol.
Tried from Can on 01 Jul 2025 at 18:12

7/10
Slight bitterness, nice hope flavor through. Good cask pale.
Tried from Cask on 29 Jun 2025 at 17:13

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap. Golden pale and unclear pour, white and frothy foamy cap. Nose: ripped tropical fruit aroma, dunk feel, mango. Mouth: crispy body, coconut and tropical fruits. Hops did their job here, nice execution tough.
Tried on 28 Jun 2025 at 17:45