Award Winner

Ruby Mild

3.6% ABV

Availability:

December - May

It is exactly what it is.

Ruby and Mild!

Ruby Mild - Or to give its full title EHM - Ruby Mild (EHM stands for East Hoathly Mild) was brewed to fill the increasing demand for Milds.

A strong Dark Mild is next on the list - just a matter of when I get round to it!

Award:

Silver

Mild Category

Macclesfield

CAMRA

Beer of the Festival Competition

May 2011

Hop Pocket

3.7% ABV

Availability:

Occasional

Very light/pale coloured beer

with an assertive citrus/floral

hop flavour.

Hop Pocket - A big sack (about 7ft) that hops

are packed into at the hop farm.

Festivale 30

3.8% ABV

Availability:

September - October

Light/pale coloured beer with

an unexpected under tone of

fresh apple and floral sweetness.

A custom brew for Chiddingly Festival to

celebrate their 30th anniversary.

Original

3.9% ABV

Availability:

Occasional

Chestnut coloured standard

bitter with a pleasing balance

of malt and hop makes this a

good, reliable trusted brew.

Our very first brew, hence the name - We were

forced to be more imaginative with the later

beers having used up the obvious one on the

very first brew!

Brew-Master

3.9% ABV

Availability:

All Year

Chestnut/brown standard bitter

with a non-standard flavour.

Great taste, depth and flavour.

A new brew to replace Original. Same ABV,

same quaffability, but a completely

different taste and character.

Triple Champion

4.0% ABV

Availability:

All Year

Deep Chestnut coloured

deeply flavoured, full bodied traditional style English ale.

Brewed to mark the third County Championship

win for Sussex County Cricket Club.

Declaration

4.1% ABV

Availability:

May - July

Very light/pale beer with a

clean crisp taste and gentle bitter finish. Ideal for a summers day.

A custom brew for Waldron Cricket Club

(cricket again?!) to celebrate their

250th anniversary and to raise some money

whilst drinking - very sporting!

Lammas Ale

4.2% ABV

Availability:

August

Amber/brown full bodied great tasting beer with a satisfying

balance of malt and hop.

Lammas means "Loaf Mass" and celebrates the first wheat harvest of the season.

Lammas Ale is a custom brew for Eastbourne Lammas Festival which, amongst other things, is a fund raising event for the RNLI.

Raising money whilst drinking - brilliant idea!

Armistice Ale

4.2% ABV

Availability:

November

Deep mahogany, full  bodied but mild drinking old style ale.

The first brew to use the current season's hops

from our local hop farm in Burwash.

Brewed to raise money for the Royal British

Legions Poppy Appeal and recognised by

them as an official fund raiser.

OK, a recurring theme of raising money by

drinking, but this one started it and its

importance should not be underestimated.

Ginger No. 1

4.2% ABV

Availability:

November - March

Deep amber colour, an unusual

blend of smoked malted barley

and fresh root ginger creates an amazingly complex but satisfying flavour.

All depends whether you like your consumables smoked and infused with ginger, of course!

Why Ginger Nol? Oliver Cromwell was a red head, believe it or not, and his nickname was 'Old Nol'. Therefore,  Ginger for the red hair,

and Nol, which means lump or stump - loosely translated meaning head - simple!

(Yes, that is another clue to the brewery name

- clues coming thick and fast now!)

As everyone insists on calling this beer 'Ginger No. 1' we have relented and changed the name to just that. We have also lowered the abv from 4.7% to 4.2%

Double Award Winner

Three Threads

4.3% ABV

Availability:

April - May

Deep brown, full bodied with

a deep, complex flavour.

Takes a bit of explaining, this one....

An 18th Century custom for mixing three

types (or Threads) of beer - Mild, Pale and

Brown - into one tankard.

We have tried to achieve this in a single brew

and not by blending three different existing

brews.

Almost impossible to categorise, but we

call it a Mild!

Awards:

Silver

Mild Category

SIBA S. E. Region Beer Competition 2007 Paddock Wood Hop Farm

Silver

Porters, Strong Milds, Old Ales & Stouts

SIBA S. E. Region Beer Competition 2009

Juddians Rugby Club, Tonbridge

Double Award Winner

Signature

4.4% ABV

Availability:

All Year

Very pale, light crisply

refreshing ale with a pleasing

bitter back taste.

We achieved early success with this brew.

A double award winner on only its second

brewing. (See, much more imaginative name

and quite apt really, as it is our most popular

beer - our Signature brew, in fact).

Name inspired by the signatures on the

'Warrant of Execution' for Charles I which

was ratified prior to his execution in

January 1649.

(It doesn't say specifically on this website

where the name 1648 Brewing Co. ltd.

comes from, but this is a clue).

Awards:

Silver

Best Bitter

SIBA S.E. Region Competition Reading Beer Festival 2004.

Silver

Best Bitter

Duel Varierty of Hops

NHA 'Beauty of Hops' Competition 2004.

Saint George

4.5% ABV

Availability:

April

Chestnut/amber brown,

traditional style, full bodied

English Ale.

Brewed for Saint George's Day (you might

have guessed that). Remember, a Patron

Saint is available every day, not just on

23rd April (Yes, that is Saint George's Day)

Saint George will one day be available

all year round - once we get bottling!.

Double

Award Winner

Bee-Head

4.6% ABV

Availability:

May - September

Honey coloured ale gently

flavoured with pure Sussex

Honey but balanced with a

gentle biscuit edge.

The biscuit edge prevents the honey from

becoming too overpoweringly sweet.

The name Bee-Head has a double meaning

and is a bit of a pun. Whilst referring to the

honey in the beer, it also refers to a certain

execution method popular in the 17th Century,

but not with regal victims, obviously.

(Another clue!)

Awards:

Beer

of the

Festival

South Downs Beer & Cider Festival

June 2009

Best Sussex Microbrew

Eastbourne Beer Festival 2010

Smoked Ale

4.7% ABV

Availability:

November - March

A derivation of Ginger Nol.

Brewed without the ginger leaves

this beer with a deep and satisfying smokey flavour. Deeply warming

for the long cold winter nights.

As this is Ginger No. 1 without the ginger we

decided to call it Smokey Nol.

Whilst the explanation for the name Ginger Nol

holds together, we are unaware at this time as

to any smokey attributes Oliver Cromwell

may have had!

Having decided to change the name of Ginger Nol to Ginger No. 1, (see above) we have now decided to change the name of this beer also - it is now simply called Smoked Ale.

Winter Warrant

4.8% ABV

Availability:

November - March

Very dark, rich ruby colour.

Full bodied, deep intensity of coffee/chocolate/nutty flavours.

Name inspired by the 'Warrant of Execution'

for Charles I - a copy of which is in

The King's Head, where the brewery is based.

Most of the signatures on the warrant were

collected in 1648 after Charles I was over-thrown

and imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell. The final signatures were hurriedly added on

January 29th, the day before Charles I execution.

(Must have got it with that clue!)

Award Winner

Gold Angel

5.0% ABV

Availability:

Occasional

Gold coloured, medium bodied

with a light malt and citrus hop character.

Charles I minted a 'Gold Angel' coin in 1644.

On the reverse was his 'Declaration' to the

people - see how nicely that links in with

Declaration Ale?

(The final clue)

Award:

Bronze

Premium Bitter

SIBA S. E. Region Beer Competition 20078 Paddock Wood Hop Farm