About
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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8.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can at home in Hackney - sourced from BS online. Pours clear, deep brown with a thick, creamy tan head. Medium sweet flavour with notes of leathery dark fruits, chocolate, raisins, earth, damp wood. Medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Wonderful balance to finish, soft roast, more earthy hops, dried and leathery dark fruits, berries, a nip of funk, cocoa. Superb.
Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2024 at 18:56

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can. Burning Sky online. Hazed pale straw gold. Lovely lacing lasting white foam. Fresh cut citrus fruit and fleshy pineapple. Light yeasty notes. Clean malts. Taste is light sweet with bright citrus bitterness. Light body with plenty of flavour. Foamy carbonation. Light bitter finish. Classy easy chugger.
Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2024 at 17:54

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 11/04/24. Almost clear pale golden yellow topped with a lasting white head. Nose is lemon rind, herb, hedgerow, damp straw, grains, barnyard note, subtle yeast esters, light floral tones. Taste comprises tarte citric shreds, barnyard, lemon rind, herb, Belgian yeast esters, green berry must, light acidic bimble. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spattered with a light dusty hop coating. Solid lightly funked saison.
Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2024 at 17:09

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
440ml can. Pours black with a big beige head. Aroma of roast malts, coffee, dark chocolate. Taste of roast malts, molasses, caramel, chocolate, light ashy, slightly sweet but finishes dry and bitter. Medium bodied, creamy, smooth. Lovely stout.
Tried from Can on 10 Apr 2024 at 21:49

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Can at home in Hackney - picked up from BS online. Pours cloudy pale gold with a billowing, frothy pure white head. Light-medium sweet flavour, fairly dank, notes of lemon peel, pale malts, a lit ripe tropical bite, nips of pine. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes lightly dank, but if cat pee, lemon peel, melon, grass. Interesting stuff and fairly tasty if not entirely cohesive.
Tried from Can on 07 Apr 2024 at 20:00

6.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Half-pint, cask ale at The RedHouse. Shared with Finn. Black in the glass, covering beige head, clingy lacing. Aromas of roasted dark malts, mid-sweet, promising. Fine malt-driven taste with chocolate and toffee. Very smoothly roasted ending, mid-sweet. Easy to drink. Likeable. (Newcastle upon Tyne, 19.03.2024).
Tried from Cask on 07 Apr 2024 at 06:50

6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Om tap at Platform Bar CoachWorks Ashford. Cloudy pale gold colour lasting white head . New england aroma. Some decent citrus fruits. No real bitterness on the finish. Very good fruit in the middle but not my style of pale ale.
Tried from Draft on 06 Apr 2024 at 15:02

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Can at home in Hackney - picked up from BS online. Pours misty gold with a fluffy, pure white head. Moderate sweetness, notes of grainy pale malts, a little bitter straw, semi-ripe citrus, perhaps apricot. Light bodied with massaging carbonation. Nicely balanced finish, some old bready, husky grain, hay, lemon rind. Nice overall.
Tried from Can on 05 Apr 2024 at 23:16

5.9/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Spandert av Rune. Delt på Vervet. Mørk stråfarget. Uklar. Spotlacing. Ananasaroma. Myk munnfølelse. Smaken søt frukt. Fersken. Tørr, lett bitter avslutning.
Tried on 05 Apr 2024 at 11:40

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Gravity Cask at Gadds Ramsgate, Thanet Easter Brewery Tour Beer Festival '24, 30/03/24. Pale golden yellow topped with a white cap. Nose is pissy NZ tropicals, kiwi fruit, guava, pine nip, mandarin. Taste comprises white grape, stoned fruits, mandarin, lychee, grass, light pine resin, mixed tropicana. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close spliced with juicy kiwi hop piss. Solid cask pale.
Tried from Cask on 04 Apr 2024 at 09:37