What the website says…
We brew outstanding examples of the best beer styles from around the world in our modern brewery situated in a renovated old brickworks.
We love our beers and our brewery and we hope you do to.
Our take on Firebird Brewing…
Firebird Brewing offer a diverse variety of beers – IPAs, old ales, pilsner lager, wheat beers etc… – but that’s not surprising when you learn the two chaps at the helm, Richard and Bill – friends since brewing college – have decades of brewing education and experience in them.
What is surprising though, is how long this fantastic range has managed to stay off our radar for so long, and that it was far more eclectic and modern than the cask beers we’ve ocasionally seen and enojyed in Brighton pubs.
The brewery are boldly nailing balanced modern beers and morish traditional classics, seeming with ease, and delivering both subtle and full bodied flavour depending on the style. We’re really impressed with the flavour they get into their low abv beers as well such as their Two Horses pale.
Their phoenix logo is a nod to the cradle of craft brewing, America, and Firebird Brewing aren’t afraid to try brand spanking new styles coming out of the motherland, such as the Mojave Brut IPA.
A bit of history…
Richard and Bill both attended Brewing School in Birmingham in the early 80s and then took their seperate paths through the beer and drinks industry.
In 2012 they met for a beer and by the second pint had decided to open a brand new brewery together, the first two styles brewed in 2013 were their Heritage Sussex Best and Bohemia Pilsner, both still available today.
The Firebird Brewing team is now 10 strong, and that doesn’t even include the staff running the connected brewery tap bar.
How local are they?
Firebird Brewing are another out of town rural Sussex brewer who have made their home in an old brickworks west of Horsham.
Our favourites 🍺
One of our favourites is also one of their first. Their Bohemia Pilsner at 4.8% starts crisp, thin and oh so satisfyingly refreshing. It then builds to deliver a lovely body of caramel apple sweetness, hop mustyness and a bitter backbone that quickly gives way to a clean malty finish. The conditioning time and traditional Czech ingredients and methods have delivered a fantasticly balanced, clean and really quite addictive beer.
Firebird Brewing’s Brut IPA is not only the first we’ve ever tried, but must be one of the first in the UK, as it’s a brand new style only developed in San Fransisco in 2017. The idea is that it’s the Champagne of the beer world and it does a good job of mimicing that mouth feel.
It hits you crisp and creamy with peaches and cream and there’s loads of carbonation invoking that Champagne-like tingle. Overwhelmingly it’s a refreshing and hoppy beer with a full golden body that’s not heavy as it slips down easy leaving a lingering dry mineral hop finish.
This is a delicious and rich beer, one to be savoured on special occasions rather than sessioned, but also won’t knock you for six at only 5.6% abv (6% on tap).
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Gun Hill
East Sussex
TN21 0JY
01323 700 200
What the website says…
We brew outstanding examples of the best beer styles from around the world in our modern brewery situated in a renovated old brickworks.
We love our beers and our brewery and we hope you do to.
Our take on Firebird Brewing…
Firebird Brewing offer a diverse variety of beers – IPAs, old ales, pilsner lager, wheat beers etc… – but that’s not surprising when you learn the two chaps at the helm, Richard and Bill – friends since brewing college – have decades of brewing education and experience in them.
What is surprising though, is how long this fantastic range has managed to stay off our radar for so long, and that it was far more eclectic and modern than the cask beers we’ve ocasionally seen and enojyed in Brighton pubs.
The brewery are boldly nailing balanced modern beers and morish traditional classics, seeming with ease, and delivering both subtle and full bodied flavour depending on the style. We’re really impressed with the flavour they get into their low abv beers as well such as their Two Horses pale.
Their phoenix logo is a nod to the cradle of craft brewing, America, and Firebird Brewing aren’t afraid to try brand spanking new styles coming out of the motherland, such as the Mojave Brut IPA.
A bit of history…
Richard and Bill both attended Brewing School in Birmingham in the early 80s and then took their seperate paths through the beer and drinks industry.
In 2012 they met for a beer and by the second pint had decided to open a brand new brewery together, the first two styles brewed in 2013 were their Heritage Sussex Best and Bohemia Pilsner, both still available today.
The Firebird Brewing team is now 10 strong, and that doesn’t even include the staff running the connected brewery tap bar.
How local are they?
Firebird Brewing are another out of town rural Sussex brewer who have made their home in an old brickworks west of Horsham.
Our favourites 🍺
One of our favourites is also one of their first. Their Bohemia Pilsner at 4.8% starts crisp, thin and oh so satisfyingly refreshing. It then builds to deliver a lovely body of caramel apple sweetness, hop mustyness and a bitter backbone that quickly gives way to a clean malty finish. The conditioning time and traditional Czech ingredients and methods have delivered a fantasticly balanced, clean and really quite addictive beer.
Firebird Brewing’s Brut IPA is not only the first we’ve ever tried, but must be one of the first in the UK, as it’s a brand new style only developed in San Fransisco in 2017. The idea is that it’s the Champagne of the beer world and it does a good job of mimicing that mouth feel.
It hits you crisp and creamy with peaches and cream and there’s loads of carbonation invoking that Champagne-like tingle. Overwhelmingly it’s a refreshing and hoppy beer with a full golden body that’s not heavy as it slips down easy leaving a lingering dry mineral hop finish.
This is a delicious and rich beer, one to be savoured on special occasions rather than sessioned, but also won’t knock you for six at only 5.6% abv (6% on tap).
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