C.A.S.K. Events
Every beer is unique and so are the brewers that produce the beer. We have hosted some of the best in Sussex.next guest brewery
Burning Sky
Date: Thursday 26th May
Coming up
Abyss
Three Acre
Riverside
Firebird
Loud Shirt
Furnace Brook
Bedlam
past breweries
UnBarred 31/03/22
Hepworth and Co. 24/02/22
Cellarhead 27/01/2022
Harveys 16/12/2021
360 Degrees Brewing 26/11/2021
Langham Brewery 28/09/2021
Long Man Brewery 30/09/2021
DARK STAR 26/07/2021
Cloak + Dagger/Hand Brew Co. 29/07/2021
Only With Love 24/06/2021
Franklins 27/05/2021
Downlands 26/11/2020
next event
Thursday 26th May, 2022
Burning Sky
Burning Sky was set up in 2013, and in their short life of 9 years have been a phenomenal success, now being regarded as one of the very best breweries not just in the UK, but internationally! They were voted 4th Best new Brewery in the World in 2014 by Ratebeer, and the star who set up the brewery, Mark Tranter, was voted Brewer of the Year in 2014 by the British Guild of Beer Writers. In 2018 they were voted best UK Drinks Producer by the BBC Good Food & Drink awards – this covers ALL drinks producers, not just breweries!
The brewery is in a beautiful refurbished barn at the back of lovely Firle, right at the foot of the Downs. There is no taproom, or shop – you can only order their beer on line, or get it in pubs & craft beer outlets. They brew 2 cask beers which feature regularly locally in pubs like the Black Horse, Brewer’s Arms, Gardener’s, & Snowdrop – Plateau, a pale ale at 3.5% (not a million miles away from Dark Star Hophead..) and Aurora, a premium heavily – hopped pale ale at 5.6% (rather similar to Dark Star Revelation…). Burning Sky have gone more for keg beers from the start, and again you will find Arise, a 4.4% Pale Ale, and Easy Answers, a 6% IPA in many local pubs.
previous events
Thursday 31st march, 2022
Unbarred
UnBarred was established in 2014 from the shed of the founder and Head Brewer Jordan Mower. Born of a passion to brew uncompromising and exciting beer, the original flagship IPA won the Bev Robbins Award for the Best Sussex Beer in its first year of production. Soon outgrowing the shed they moved onto gypsy brewing, enabling them to grow production and hone the craft, working together with other fabulous breweries.
Thursday 24th february, 2022
Hepworth & Co.
Andy Hepworth started brewing in Reading almost directly after University. He moved to Horsham in 1980 and within five years became the youngest Head Brewer in the country, winning many awards.
The long-standing tradition of brewing in Horsham came to an abrupt halt in 2000 with the sale of its last brewery and so Andy, determined to maintain that tradition, joined up with the key members of the brewing team in order to create Hepworths, an independent brewery aiming to build its own range of quality brands, while maintaining flexibility for contract work.
Response to the new venture was huge; finance was built from pooled redundancy payments and contributions from family and friends. The Company was established in 2000 and started production in 2001; it is constantly expanding.
Thursday 27th january, 2022
Cellarhead
Cellar Head Brewing Company is an award-winning independent microbrewery on the East Sussex & Kent border. A brewery to appeal to multiple generations, beer tastes and styles. Using the finest of English grown malts and hops as well as selected others from around the world.
Thursday 16th december, 2021
Harvey’s
£480 raised for the St Peter and St James Hospice.
This month we have a special Christmas event where we welcome Harvey’s and a selection of their beers; there is also a cheese pairing and quiz included in your ticket. Harvey’s are donating their fee to charity and as C.A.S.K. we have decided to emulate this gesture. This means that we have increased the event fee as a one-off to £20 with all event proceeds being donated to St Peter and St James Hospice.
Thursday 25th november, 2021
360 DEGREES BREWING COMPANY
360 started brewing in 2013, and have steadily increased sales & capacity ever since. The brewery is based at Sheffield Park, East Sussex, right alongside the famous Bluebell Railway. Their name comes from the fact that the brewery is situated right on the Greenwich Meridian.
Thursday 28th october, 2021
LANGHAM BREWERY
Langham is an independent steam-heated microbrewery situated between the Sussex towns of Midhurst and Petworth in the beautiful South Downs National Park. Their passion is to produce innovative, distinctive and flavoursome craft beers using quality ingredients and traditional and contemporary skills.
Thursday 30th SEPTEMBER, 2021
LONG MAN BREWERY
Long Man are rooted in sustainability and believe in looking after the environment. They produce Naturally Excellent Beer whilst giving back to the land.
Long Man define craft as handmade, locally sourced, and above all sustainable, they believe this is evident in every pint of their award winning beers. Using lovingly grown ingredients to brew a golden craft pale ale with a distinctive hoppy aroma and a crisp, clean bitterness on the finish.
Thursday 26th AUGUST, 2021
DARK STAR
The Dark Star Brewing Company was born in 1994 in the cellar of a pub in Brighton. With a brew plant only marginally bigger than an enthusiastic home-brew kit the characteristic style of hoppy beers was developed and tried out on the willing guinea pigs at the bar.
As with all the best ideas, the business was planned on the back of a beer mat, driven by a few beers and funded with money we didn’t have.
A few years on, well 25 plus actually, we find ourselves in Partridge Green, just south west of Horsham, West Sussex, with a 45 barrel brewhouse. It’s all been a bit of a blur really.
None of us really wanted to leave the cellar of the pub, but apparently more and more people liked drinking the same beers as us, so we needed to brew more…
What’s in a name…
The brewery is named after a song by the band The Grateful Dead, although if you have a heard a different story, use that, never let the truth stand in the way of a good yarn.
Thursday 29th july, 2021
Cloak + Dagger/Hand Brew Co.
Our guest brewery for July was Cloak + Dagger near Worthing. Hand Brew Co. share the space and we will have beers from both,
In late 2020 the teams commissioned a brand new, high quality, steam heated brewery in Worthing, West Sussex. It features a 2,000 litre brew kit with four 4,000 litre fermenters, an automated canning line and large 5oC cold store meaning they can produce, package and store beer in the best possible conditions.
The space is shared by Hand Brew Co. and Cloak + Dagger Brewing, both breweries beers feature in the taproom.
Shop links below, enter KSTON15 and you’ll receive 15% off your entire order.
ONly with love – 24/06/2021
Our guest brewery for June is the Only With Love Brewery, who are based near Uckfield.
You may remember the excellent Holler Brewery, originally called Holler Boys based near Blackboys. They opened a brand new brewery / taproom just off Preston Circus, in Brighton. This was then taken over by the Unbarred Brewery.
Only With Love is a new project started by the brewer who started the Holler project.
As before, apart from plenty of lovely beers to taste in the hall, there should be a chance to purchase further supplies to take home, so bring some cash.
franklins – 27/05/2021
Franklins is based in Ringmer…..
downlands – 26/11/2020
Downlands Brewey is based in Small Dole…..
cask meetings
Last Thursday of the Month
7PM - 10PM
location
Kingston Parish Hall
Contact
hello@craftalesociety.com