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Brewery for biodiversity.
Award winning kombucha.
Brewed in Oak. Drink to help us spread forest gardens & community.
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Our Oak Lore kombucha has ALSO won a Great Taste award - ‘Outstanding ⭐️⭐️’ in fact! We’re so pleased that our original flavour was so well received by the judges.

If you also love Oak Lore, or want to try an award-winning kombucha, you can find it in our online shop. It’s available in 330ml or 700ml bottles with a discount on a crate, and also available on monthly and bi-monthly subscriptions. Every sale keeps us brewing, so thank you for your continued support 💛
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#greattasteawards #greattasteawards2025 #kombuchalover #authentickombucha #smallbatchkombucha #microbrewery taken in Forest Row Sussex by @oldtreebrewery

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Twelve years ago someone wrote “imagine a garden” on an abandoned petrol station in Brighton.
Strangers turned up with plants and compost and ideas.

That garden led to a woodland.
The woodland led to a brewery.
And the brewery led to everything that followed!

Since then we’ve been foraging, fermenting and experimenting with delicious creations like Rose petal kombucha. Elderflower wine. Mugwort witchcraft ale. Hawthorn berry shrubs. Nettle lemonade. Hundreds of plants. Thousands of drinks. All from the hedgerows and forests around us.

We live in an edible landscape that is literally medicinal to our human bodies. And most of us walk past it every single day!

This film tells our story. Where we’ve been, where we’re going, and why we need your help now.

It’s make-or-break time for a tiny community brewery trying to prove that a business can give back to the land instead of taking from it.

We don’t want to grow one huge brewery. We want to be one of a thousand tiny ones - supported by a community network sharing learning and helping regenerate the landscapes we depend on.

It’s not creating another franchise. It’s planting a new forest 🌳

Our Drink the Seasons crowdfunder is live.
Every donation is matched by Aviva up to £250 per person.

If this story speaks to you please head to our page on @crowdfunderuk Share it widely.
Back the project 🙏✨#

Link in bio 💚

Film by the brilliant @passionworksproductions 🎬

With gratitude to the many thousands of people who have been part of this journey.

Let’s drink to the hedgerows. Drink to the orchards. Drink to the forests. And together we can heal our soil 🙏💚🌳
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#microbrewery #kombucha #kombuchabrewery #lewes taken in Old Tree Brewery by @oldtreebrewery

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7 months ago

Brewing for biodiversity 🌱 🍾

How does a nanobrewery work? And what does it mean to put nature first? We met the team @oldtreebrewery and they showed us their brewing process from start to finish.

From foraging locally to labelling the finished product and the all important taste test, this video is a corker (😉) and you can see what we learnt via the link in our bio ⬆️

#brewerytour #microbrewery #brewing #kombucha by @oldtreebrewery

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More dates released! It’s been incredible to see this little film making some big waves….be sure to catch one of these final screenings!

#thenutfarmerofglastonbury by @oldtreebrewery

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There’s power in community and here at Higher ground we deeply appreciate this. Working with local business is all part of what we do.

Come along and try the beautiful award winning Old Tree Brewery lemon balm & lavender kombucha

Old Tree Brewery share our passion for community and the environment. Check their page out- @oldtreebrewery by @oldtreebrewery

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6 days ago

The second round of the Drink the Seasons’s boxes 📦 have been making their way to 🏡 doorsteps all round the country and we LOVE seeing our members enjoying it!! 😍 This box arrived with @zofiapage one of the founders in of the incredible @formedway_ organisation just in time for their full team meeting recently and the special Rose and Mugwort Kombucha was shared and they raised a glass to us! We’ve also heard accounts of exceptionally vivid dreams which our Mugwort brews are increasingly known for.

Drink the Seasons is a way of supporting the reclamation of our drinking culture and creating regenerative livelihoods - the drinks are completely unique foraged and fermented co-creations with the earth and bio-diversity that is most abundant locally - to celebrate the phenomena of reciprocity and life by embracing the immense variety of the worlds of plants and microbes!!

Thank you to everyone that has supported this movement and joined since our crowdfunder - like our friends here @formedway_ we are really happy to see it being loved 🥰🌳💚🍻

You can join Drink the Seasons via the link in our bio and every purchase supports our community interest company to do more work re-weaving people and culture with the land by @oldtreebrewery

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Great to see our 2nd round of the Drink the Seasons boxes 📦, this one celebrating SUMMER reaching our community today!!

For all those who have caught our @oldtreeevents team at the events for the past few summers you will recognise Stephan of the wonderful Wildner family 🤩

Stephan always jokes that they are Old Tree’s biggest fans but worst customers (as they brew all their own #kombucha already and both Stephan and Judith are trained biologists!!) BUT they supported our @crowdfunderuk campaign for Drink the Seasons and are very happy customers of this which is something so unique delivered to your door it - there’s nothing like it in the world!! 🌍 💫 we have just 20 more boxes available for this season! You can subscribe to an annual subscription anytime but if you want to fast the summer of 2026 in the form of 💯 wild foraged and fermented live botanical brews. Head over to our website and this box of treasure coudl be with you in a week!! 🙌

Stephan is a huge fan of Witchcraft, which is the brew we make for our @landworkersalliance @landskillsfair and @oxfordrealfarmingconference freinds and this one is a special one made with Yarrow that @iside_brewingwild foraged from the green verges of Glynde.

🫶 #drinktheseasons #oldtreedrinks #witchcraft by @oldtreebrewery

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9 days ago

Make You own Fire Cider Workshop with Iside this Saturday at the brewery

Fire cider is an immune boosting folk remedy, you'll leave with a jar to take home

Come ferment and forage, meet and gather with us this Saturday, bring a friend or gift it to one

Tickets can be bought via our website or link in the bio

#ferment #sussexworkshops #firecider by @oldtreebrewery

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11 days ago

Our Drink the Seasons Summer Box is due out soon
We have some exciting flavours to share with you!

Here's a sneaky peak from Iside @iside_brewingwild , lovely video made by @zsofipeto

To find out more about the Drink the Seasons box and to subscribe, check out the linktree in the bio

#seasonaleating #botanicalpickmeup #brewery
#sussex #drinklocal by @oldtreebrewery

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We’re all set up at the incredible @organicgrowersgathering with the @oldtreeevents team. A real honour to brew the drinks for this community and be celebrated as agro-ecological drinks makers to quench the thirst of the organic farmers in the UK !
Yesterday @compost.tom went on stage with Muji @uk.forestmedicine and delivered a short talk and drinks tasting called awaking a thirst for #agro-forestry. It was the beginning of a talk and workshop we want to develop to inspire people to stop buying mass-produced drinks and start revaluing what the land is offering us - the abundance of biodiversity that grows wherever peasants work!
This is the past and the future of our drinking culture..
Drink Forest Gardens!! 🍻💫🍻 by @oldtreebrewery

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SO PROUD of our town of LEWES for being the first council to publish the ROOTS (Right of our Trees) CHARTER. We are a botanical brewery that started here in 2013 and we are now based in the small village of Glynde, which is just a mile and a half away as the birds fly. We love our town, its flora and fauna, its rivers and its people. We make the best kombucha out of oak leaves that we #forage locally in reciprocity with old trees. If we are able to make a profit as a community interest company we are committed to investing all of it in forestry restoration and agroforestry transition - our mission is brewing for biodiversity and fermenting a regenerative future. If you haven’t tried our drinks yet you can get them all over #sussex and special shout out to @seasonswholefoods both in #lewes @theseasonslewes and in #forestrow
We want to live in a reforested world where trees of all shapes and sizes receive the love and praise they deserve… for giving us everything that they do.
We will be making and spreading the creation of drinks to celebrate trees standing for life…
DRINK FORESTS
🌸🐝🌳💚🍻✨ by @oldtreebrewery

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APPLE season is upon us!! 🤩
We are gearing up for another season of small orchard #applepicking and pressing in the west of England and south wales.
Our Apples for life collaborators Mickey and Finch have been scoping out the #harvest this year at the Ragmans Lane orchards where we will base the majority of our month of social impact work - making sure as much of the precious fruit as possible gets put to good use 🍎💫

There was wonderful blossom 🌸 here in the spring and a reasonable looking crop of #apples developed but then it was stunted by the huge drought this summer and it looked like the apple crop this year would be numerous but small…
NOT SO for this #heritage variety called HOWGATE WONDER though…
look at the size of these 🤩

We can’t wait to be back in the orchards again - the most abundance precious fruit forests of this land 🇬🇧 it’s always so enlivening and socially connective to pick fruit with people and it’s a culture we need to keep investing in…

3 major apple events are being released in partnership with the other Old Tree branches @oldtreeevents & @oldtreesoil this year - Apple Land (the micro-harvest festival) Apple Core (a 10 day apple picking and pressing party at Ragmans Lane) and Apple Crumble (a post Apple land gathering focussed on resilience and reorganising the future for our social impact work with trees and people)

If your interested in getting involved - you can get an Apple Land ticket 🎫 now by the 🔗’s in our 🌳 and you can email oldtreesoil@gmail.com to@be the first to be invited to join the table for Apple Core and Apple Crumble ✨

Big up again @freya.does.stuff and @stephaniesohail for making the art work for this years orchard adventures and celebrations that really capture the soul of what and why we do this every year 🙏🤗🍏😇🌸 taken in Ragmans Lane Farm by @oldtreebrewery

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