About Us
The Dark Star Brewing Company was born in 1994 in the cellar of The Evening Star 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...
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Six Hop - A sturdy malt backbone supports the huge weight of hops in this pale ale. Six different varieties are used during six different stages including a big dose of dry hops while the beer conditions after fermentation.
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Whilst all of our pubs are very different, we like to think that two common threads hold them together: the love of great beer from the great breweries we’re lucky enough to have in this country, and the provision of a place for people to get together and share life experiences. At...
Read MoreSix Hop now in bottles, finally!
I’m dead chuffed to announce that we have finally managed to get our act together and bring a new premium bottled beer into the Dark Star camp. Since I first brewed Six Hop, about 4 years ago, it has proven to be a runaway success in cask, selling out before it’s even fermented. So, pestering the rest of the team at Dark Star and pulling on the shirt sleeves of the MD...
Read MoreRevelation
With a fairly full roster of beers to keep us busy through the year, it is rare that we contemplate adding a new beer...
Read MoreBanksy…at Dark Star
We turned up this morning to find this on the brewery wall – surely it’s not a Banksy, is it? Quite fun...
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