Burning Sky Brewery

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

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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7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
On tap at Borefts 2014. Pale hazy gold colour, lasting white head. Funky saison yeast aroma. Some light lemon. Light and really refreshing and rather nice
Tried from Draft on 01 Oct 2014 at 12:20

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How: Cask.
Where: CASK Pub & Kitchen, London.
Appearance: Opaque golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Hops, citrus, grapefruit, floral.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Citrus, grapefruit, grass, floral.
Tried from Cask on 01 Oct 2014 at 10:05

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How: Draught.
Where: CASK Pub & Kitchen, London.
Appearance: Hazy golden colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Sweet malt, sugar, citrus, fruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet malt, sugar, hops, fruit. A bit bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 01 Oct 2014 at 09:58

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Sampled draft @ Borefts 2014. Thank you! Golden, little white. Light orange nose. Very bitter pine hop taste, floral, citrus, dry. Bit bland, good but not top.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2014 at 12:35

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Sampled draft @ Borefts 2014. Thank you! Clear golden, no head. Smell is pencil scrapings, serious, 100 % pure pencil scrapings, bizarre, I sort of like it, lemon, touch eraser. Taste is lemon, light mineral, substantial citrus, fruity, juicy, faint white wine; Nice body. Good stuff.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2014 at 12:28

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Sampled draft @ Borefts 2014. Thank you! Clear citrus, creamy white. Oily lemon, herbal, citrus, lemongrass nose. Taste is grapefruit, citrus hops, quite bitter, lightly floral, touch bitter. Creamy. Quite nice. A lovely radler, how about that.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2014 at 12:24

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sampled @ Borefts Beer Festival 2014: Trübes strohgelbes Bier mit ordentlicher Schaumkrone. Geruch nach Sauerkraut und Gewürzen. Geschmack säuerlich fruchtig, bitter, Gewürze.
Tried on 30 Sep 2014 at 11:48

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap @ Borefts, small sample. Slight hazy yellow to golden color, short head. Aroma of lemon, citrus, flowery. Dry, bitter, sweet. Loved those burning sky brews.
Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2014 at 06:25

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At BBF 14 Pours clear yellow . Smell is lemon . Taste is straight , soapy lemon. Bit bitter. OK .
Tried on 30 Sep 2014 at 05:35

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At BBF 14 Pours clear blonde . Smell is hoppy, grainy . Bitter . Taste is bitter, hoppy, bit grassy . Some pine notes . Harsh. Low carbo ( its cask, after all ) . I prefer more carbo , but tastewise, this is pretty neat
Tried from Cask on 30 Sep 2014 at 05:31