We decided we needed to do something pretty special to celebrate our first anniversary and we think we have put together a selection of beers you will hardly believe.

We will release details soon but we think it will be the finest selection of beers ever seen together in the UK.

Prepare to be amazed!

Saturday 30th June & Sunday 1st July

Join us as we celebrate great beer

This time we’re showcasing/matching/pairing/enjoying IPAs and Chili.

You can buy tickets at  www.bit.ly/ipaandchili 

We’ve got six amazing single variety chlli sauces, and six beautifully hand crafted IPAs to match together.

Attendees (we don’t like that word) will get a fun evening of food and beer tasting, complete with six IPAs, unsalted pitta chips and chili tasting. Arrive for just before 7pm so we can get you all checked in and taken to our private and bespoke upstairs lounge where you will be guided through the tastes, textures and scents by Tom Cadden.

It is certainly funny times as we have been spending more time than normal in Brighton for the last several months as we have been finalising a deal on the 2nd Craft Beer Co site. Loving Brighton, its people and the its free spirit we decided where better to open our next site.

On Monday 1st March we got a call telling us that Brightons Iconic ‘Spotted Dog’ had been been handed back to the landlord. We were very sad indeed to hear about this turn of events, because we had always heard wonderful things about Dominic McCartan, the well known and respected man behind this and a few other Brighton pubs.  We also knew the manager Emma Cole and thought she was a great young woman who we would love to work with – so we mulled over what to do.

Things all moved very quickly indeed and after a refurbishment which would have made changing rooms proud we relaunched CASK Pub and Kitchen Brighton on Friday 23rd March.

The new look pub maintains a wonderful traditional feel to it but also seems much bigger now  although we have kept exactly the same number of seating spaces in the pub.

The pub has eight hand pumps serving the best real ale from across the UK and eighteen keg taps serving the incredible beers we are well known for plus a bigger share of UK keg beers. If that was not enough we also have around one hundred bottled beers and a fantastic food menu.

We are really excited about this new venture and really encouraged by the amazing response we are receiving so far.

Your probably asking yourself, what about The Craft Beer Co Brighton, well thats still on track and coming soon. Brighton might just become the new epicentre of the UK craft beer revolution!

One last thing, this doesn’t mean we have forgotten about London or the rest of the UK, keep your ear to the ground, we will have some more extremely exciting news to announce very very soon….

Martin & Peter

Medina is a Morrocan style saison brewed with coriander, ginger and orange peel.

Join us this Wednesday for this launch.

If you’ve never been to a tasting session before then don’t worry – there is no prior knowledge of beer needed only an open mind and a willingness to try new and exciting beer.

Tickets are available online at http://imperialstouttasting.eventbrite.co.uk/ or behind the bar.

Praise and accolades have poured in from every quarter including from respected publications in the USA and we have nearly 3000 followers on Twitter.

We created The Craft Beer Co to be the ultimate venue in the UK for drinking hand crafted small batch artisan beers and we would like to think we have done a pretty good job.  Looking around the changing landscape of the UK pub scene we feel really proud for playing a part in making people try harder and think outside the traditional box. We love the fact that so many good bars have opened recently as it makes us try even harder to stay at the pinnacle of the UK craft beer scene.

2012 is going to be a very exciting year and you will see further venues opening both in London and outside at a place very close to our heart, more details will follow soon about this.

Our mission is very clear and will never change, no matter what. We will scour the earth for the finest hand crafted small batch artisan beers, we will always have the best of British in cask and we will bring this together with the finest beers in keg and bottle from around the world. No other bar in the UK (except out sister pub CASK) today would have on its bar at the same time beers from Darkstar, Thornbridge, Magic Rock, Brodies, Mikkeller, Evil Twin, Haand, De Molen, Cantillon, Southern Tier, Cigar City, Clown Shoes and Dark Horse. We take great pride in having a totally unique beer range and we will make sure during 2012 and beyond that we keep getting better!

Tasting starts at 6:45pm, Monday 27^th Feb and tickets are available from the bar! There are very limited spaces available to this event so get your tickets while you can!

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Thanks for all the support during our first six months open, we are committed to delivering we are committed to delivering even bigger and better things in 2012.

We are closed from Saturday 24th of December until Monday 2nd of Janaury.

We reopen on Tuesday 3rd.

 Thanks from Martin, Tom and all the team.

We are very excited to announce a weekend of De Molen beers at The Craft Beer Co.

De Molen is the father of the European Craft Beer movement and it is very very exciting to have these special beers showcased.

We will have ten De Molen Beers on tap this weekend.

Hope you can join us.

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