Welcome to The Drinks Edit: Silver Rocket Brewing

It all started in 2016, when Matt & Ben signed up for a 1-day course entitled: ‘How to Make Craft Beer’.

This got cancelled when the tutor got sick, so instead they had a great day out in Brighton drinking craft beer.

Not to be discouraged, they booked another date. And this one went ahead, and they succeeded in making beer for the first time in their lives. This made them feel exceptionally happy. They wanted to do it again.

Over the following months they bought, borrowed and cobbled together a standard homebrew kit and they got to work brewing some beers. They focussed on the kind of beers they liked to drink themselves: session-strength hoppy pale ales. Things went well. Everything they brewed tasted good. Friends and wives tried it and said nice things.

After a while, Matt & Ben started to invest (just a few quid) in some more bits of kit. They made more nice, drinkable beer. And their friends and wives continued to say nice things. Which got them thinking:

‘Is it actually any good? Would people who don’t already know and like us, drink our beer and say nice things about it too…?’

So they took the plunge and created Silver Rocket Brewing. They registered Matt’s house as a brewery, jumped through some regulatory hoops, and then, curiously, just like that, and much to their surprise and delight, they were a real and actual brewery.

Their first official batch was brewed right there, in Matt’s kitchen in Hassocks. They only had the capacity to make around 40 litres, which they hand-bottled and hand-labelled.

Their beer was sold in a few local shops, to people who didn’t already know and like them, and they did say nice things about it.

Now Silver Rocket Brewing have won some awards and have made one of the very best Alcohol Free Pale Ale's that we've ever come across.

We stumbled across them at a local fair - we tried their Two States A/F Pale Ale and fell in love.

Brewed to be exactly like a full-ABV ale, it is generously dry hopped with Azacca, Mosaic & Comet for an abundance of citrus, tropical & grapefruit notes.

This is proper beer, just without the ABV.

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