The Canterbury Ales

23/12/2025

Last minute gift hunting? Gift a summer festival treat of tickets to Chickenstock Festival. Great music, camping or glamping, great beer too. Family friendly fun for all. 😃

Merry Christmas from the team at Chickenstock Festival!

Get your tickets for 2026 now at www.chickenstockfestival.co.uk - the ultimate Christmas gift!

We can’t wait to be back in the New Year with lots more announcements for you! ❤️

21/11/2025

Great review of an iconic pub. The Red Lion Snargate. https://www.kentonline.co.uk/secret-drinker/i-ve-reviewed-300-kent-pubs-and-this-could-be-the-best-on-332830/ And our beer was on too!

Keep it schtum! Secret Drinker reveals one of the county’s best-kept secrets

01/10/2025

Do you want to try 5 Green Hop beers all in one place and hear from the head brewers? Then join us & 4 other brewers at the Broadstairs food fest! https://broadstairsfoodfestival.org.uk/event/celebrate-the-kentish-hop-harvest/ have organised for us to be there Sat 4pm. Still a few tickets left.

01/10/2025

Do you want to try 5 Green Hop Beers all in one place and hear from the head brewers? Then join us and 4 other brewers at the Broadstairs Food Festival https://broadstairsfoodfestival.org.uk/event/celebrate-the-kentish-hop-harvest/
have organised for us to be there at 4pm on Saturday. There are still a few tickets left!

Celebrate the Kent Hop Harvest - Browse all of the events taking place at this years food festival!

18/09/2025

Green & Gold. Final green hop brewed 2 days ago! Three hop pockets of Ernest go into this head banger of a strong, full bodied, green hop ale. Thats 60kg hops!!! Gorgeous...

05/09/2025

Yesterday we brewed our Green & Pale. Our quintessential green hop low abv pale. Lovely and light but intensely grassy & fresh with those green hops. From the bine to the boil in under an hour!

03/09/2025

Green & Black brewed yesterday. First green hop of the season and using Fuggles this year. So if a black green hop sounds wrong give it a try and see for yourself it works!

18/07/2025

We’re getting ready for chickenstockfestivaluk ! Beautiful hops in this year’s festival brew - Amarillo, Cascade, Citra & Mosaic. It’ll be an aromatic, fruity, hoppy, thirst quenching accompaniment to some great music! Will you be there?

25/06/2025

We’re in the news! We were recently interviewed by Kent Current an independent news provider. We enjoyed giving them the low down on our motivation - from brewing in the 70s to have something half decent to drink to the delights of tudor brewing. There’s also some advice in there for any would-be brewers and alot more about us. Here’s a link to the full article: https://www.kentcurrent.news/i/164990173/award-winning-and-kentish-canterbury-ales

15/06/2025

Happy Father’s Day to all those Dad’s. Happy Beer Day to all those beer lovers too!

30/04/2025

Look out for EH19 3.7% Pale in pubs throughout Kent. The 'EH' in the name – stands for experimental hops!

Charles Faram, Charles Faram & Co Ltd one of the biggest hop suppliers in the UK has an important hop development programme and as part of that a number of brewers in the South East have been asked to brew with varieties of their new hops. We felt very honoured to have been included.

The only information we had was that the hop had an alpha-acid of 3.4% (this is a measurement of bitterness) and that it had flavours of boiled sweets. Well, we got the boiled sweets from the aroma of the dry hops but once brewed we got subtle flavours of stone fruits and berries and a gentle fruity aroma. The result is a delicious low abv beer. Perfect for summer supping!

29/04/2025

Last week we brewed with EH19 an experimental hop from Charles Faram & Co Ltd . We love our hops and to be one of a handful of brewers getting to brew with hops before they’ve been named excites us greatly. All we knew when we brewed is they’ve got an alpha-acid of 3.4% and flavours of boiled sweets… The brew is smelling lovely so watch this space for more detailed tasting notes…