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3.8% Hophead
An extremely clean-drinking pale gold-coloured ale with a strong floral aroma and elderflower notes. This beer is full-bodied despite its very quaffable strength and dryness.
4.0% Best Bitter
Classic Sussex style session bitter. The slight malty flavour is complemented by the East Kent Golding hops.
4.2% Espresso
A black beer brewed with roasted barley malt and challenger hops BUT with freshly ground espresso coffee beans also added to the copper for a few minutes after the boil to provide a rich and complementary coffee aroma.
5.0% Festival
A chestnut bronze-coloured bitter with a smooth mouthfeel and freshness; a classic Sussex style strong bitter.
5.0% Dark Star Original
The brewery’s eponymous former Champion Beer of Britain. A dark, strong and bitter beer with a complex malt flavour.
Seasonal ales
4 .5% English Pale Ale (January - February)
Challenger hops provide the bittering while a copious draught of East Kent Golding hops are added late in the boil to provide a freshness. The Maris Otter and Cara malt makes this a very drinkable light straw-coloured ale.
4.7% American Pale Ale (March - May)
The yeast strain used for the brewing of the pale, dry, American Ales was specially imported from the USA, along with some Chinook and Centennial hops, to produce this pale ale. The low colour Maris Otter malt provides a perfect light colour and dryness to balance the crisp taste and full aroma of the hops.
4.8% Sunburst (June - September)
A hint of initial sweetness adds to the fruitiness of this summer ale without detracting from its clean flavour and rich hop aroma.
4.8% Summer Meltdown (June - September)
Well-balanced, golden bitter with the warm flavour of Chinese stem ginger and other spices. The perfect thirst quencher for a summer’s evening.
5.5% Porter (October - December)
Dark Star Porter uses an old established recipe with brown and black malts blended into the grist and then boiled with the robust Target hops to produce this full flavoured beer.
