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Burning Sky Brewery

🌍 United Kingdom · Regional · Known for a full range of styles
Known for a full range of styles

Founded in 2013 by Mark Tranter, previously head brewer at Dark Star Brewing, Burning Sky Brewery is based in former farm buildings on the Firle Estate in East Sussex. Saisons and Belgian farmhouse ales sit at the core of the range, supported by a coolship programme producing spontaneous and mixed-fermentation ales. The brewery was voted 4th Best New Brewery in the World by RateBeer in 2014. IPAs, pale ales, and porters round out a catalogue that also includes a Flanders Red and wild fruit ales.

28Beers
7Styles
5.9%Avg ABV
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
89%
catalogue avg 43%

Beers by Burning Sky Brewery

28 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 28 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 28 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
citrusy
16 of 28 beers
dry
23 of 28 beers
earthy
19 of 28 beers
funky
14 of 28 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad28 beers · 7 style families
Farmhouse 12Sour 6IPA 5Belgian 2Stout 1Pale Ale 1Porter 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesBurning Sky Brewery
in no beersin every beer
earthy
in 19 of 28 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Far more earthy than typical.
funky
in 14 of 28 · typical similar styles brewery: 1 in 5
Notably more funky than typical.
oak
in 11 of 28 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more oak than typical.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 30%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
26 / 28
beers above the median
#594
best ranked beer
Porter

Their beers place in the Top 30% of the catalogue on average, across 28 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Burning Sky Brewery

Founded in 2013 by Mark Tranter, previously head brewer at Dark Star Brewing, Burning Sky Brewery is based in former farm buildings on the Firle Estate in East Sussex. Saisons and Belgian farmhouse ales sit at the core of the range, supported by a coolship programme producing spontaneous and mixed-fermentation ales. The brewery was voted 4th Best New Brewery in the World by RateBeer in 2014. IPAs, pale ales, and porters round out a catalogue that also includes a Flanders Red and wild fruit ales.

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