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.
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask, handpump at The Tower, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, Sunday 3rd May 2014 Pours vibrant gold, it looks superb with a small white head. Best beer of the day (probably weekend) thrusty furry bitterness, juicy with a great hoppiness, some lemon, absolutely gorgeous. Also big thumbs up to the pub, great range of beers. A7 A5 T9 P14 Ov17 4.2
Tried
from Cask
on 04 May 2014
at 09:19
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the Reading beer festival. Golden-amber. Big grapefruity and pine hops. A little thin on the palate. Needs more maltbto balance. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2014
at 15:33
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ The Rover. Pours tiny hazy pale golden with a frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some sticky lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly phenolic with white bread, baked pears, white pepper corns, dry soil, hay, apple skins and plums. Taste is slightly sweet, tiny bitter and phenolic with white bread, hay, dry wood, grape skins, pears, cider apples, pepper corns, coriander and hints of soap and orange zest. Mouthfeel is slightly dry, tiny astringent and light to medium bodied, finish is bitter and phenolic with white bread, dry wood, apple skins, grape skins, hay, dry soil, orange zest and pepper corns. Bit too heavy on the phenols. Don’t get and Brett or lacto...
Tried
on 28 Apr 2014
at 09:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from mother Kelly; hazy dark amber pour with big fluffy off white head, sweet fruit aroma, sweet jammy taste with a hint of caramel and grapefruit, decent bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2014
at 07:36
7/10
Tried
on 26 Apr 2014
at 16:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draught (Hanging Bat, Edinburgh) - Amber in colour. Peach, yeast and banana in the aroma. Tangy and slightly spicy taste with peach, coriander and apricot.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2014
at 14:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the kings arms bethnal green. Clear golden colour with a lasting sticky white head aroma is grassy lemon and tea. Flavour is crisp lemon clean pale ale, tea and grassy lemon . nice palate with medium
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Apr 2014
at 08:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Craft Beer Co Clerkenwell, Farringdon EC1. Pours a hazy yellow color with a white head. Has a fruity citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity citrus hoppy bitter flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Apr 2014
at 11:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
På fat. Smak och doft av humle, belgisk jäst, citrus, örtig. Frisk, lagom beska med tydlig beska med smak av citrus.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2014
at 12:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Keg at Hanging Bat. Hazy amber pour, no head. Aromas of stewed apples and dough, and dried mixed peel. Taste is a bit sour, very cold though. As it warms up, light white pepper, then mint. Odd.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2014
at 11:15