Burning Sky Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Firle,
East Sussex,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: Burning Sky
Associated Webshop: Burning Sky
Established in 2013
Contact
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.
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.
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg @ Port Street Beer House. Golden with a very slight haze and a thin head. It’s quite fizzy and active in the palate with a less stated tropical fruit taste than in its nose.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 13:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Hanging Bat. Pours amber, taste is sweet toffee, passion fruit, bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2014
at 12:40
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg @ The Font, Manchester. Pours golden amber with white head. Quite a flavoursome pale with juicy citrus and grapefruit bitterness in the taste with a touch of pith and spice. Nice.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2014
at 12:30
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Keg at Mother Kelly’s - London. Pours clear, pale yellow with a foamy, white head. The nose holds some dried wheat, zesty lemon, faint yeast and straw. Light sweet flavor with nips of zesty ginger, further wheat and straw, lemon zest, low bitterness. Light bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Nicely balanced and refreshing on the finish with dry doughy wheat flakes, straw, light bitter straw. Very nice beer.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2014
at 11:29
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught @ Craft Beer Co - Clerkenwell, 82 Leather Lane, Farringdon, Greater London, England EC1N 7TR. [ As Burning Sky Saison Le Printemps ].Hazy matt medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, wheat, moderate yeasty, orange, baking yeast, fruity, candy, butter notes. Initial flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, butter, yeasty, candy, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20140415]
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jul 2014
at 14:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Keg at the hanging bat... Hazy. Yellow... Big white head... Dry zezty lemon... Soft fruits nose... Over fizzy... Light herbal bitterness.. Soft lemon
Tried
on 23 Jul 2014
at 08:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Hanging Bat. Pours pale yellow, nose is floral, sweet toffee, taste is dry, tart, flowery, gooseberry.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2014
at 11:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the Evening Star, Brighton. It pours pake golden with a decent white head. The nose is doughy, straw, ginger, hay, grass and barnyard. The taste is lightly tart, bitter, doughy, straw, white grape skin, lemon peel, pear skin, spice and barnyard with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Crisp and refreshing. Very quaffable on a hot summer’s day.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2014
at 07:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Craft Covent Garden. Hazy gold lasting white Head. Grapefruit aroma. Ok. Some tangerine. Wanted it to be better
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2014
at 07:50
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask @ Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge. Golden blonde with a thin head. It’s strong tasting but there’s a pale ale texture just about evident with some fruitiness.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2014
at 07:18