Old Tree Brewery

25/08/2026

It’s now been a week since we returned from our biggest ever bar service operation yet MEDICINE

Thank you to everyone that has ordered on our website after finding the printed material we gave out there - your orders are being dispatched this week and really support our small business.

The work has begun of washing over 85 empty kegs!! We are also harvesting and drying some more late summer Oak leaves so that we will have enough to make Oak Lore with Oak leaves, just like the W A S I N G brew - all year round 🌳🍃🌞🍂💧

23/08/2026

A moment of appreciation for all the dedicated brewing and bar service we provided for last weekend.

Great to meet the co-owner and founder of again after first introducing ourselves over a decade ago and share some 🙌 respect ☺️

We pressed 9 of our Oak 🌳🪵 Barrels into action from the end of July to mid August, the equivalent of an additional 3 weeks peak summer production, to forage and ferment 1900 litres of kombucha for this event.

We delivered it all cold direct from the brewery the day before the event kicked off and
and .tom set up 7 of our tap systems across the incredible Medicine teams catering and drinks venues across the site of on the morning of the eclipse!! 🌒

We were blown away by the 🫶 and 💯 positive feedback we received when giving away tasters to support the awareness and flow of good Booch on all the bars.. 💚💧✨🥂

The rickshaw 🛺 oak 🌳tasting bar was our best effort to demonstrate the values of our community interest company in physical form for the event and it was many moments like this that made it all worth it 😌. The cold kombucha we were serving, made from the trees that were shading us felt like it was the perfect offering for the crowd in the hot weather.

Oak Lore was welcomed into Medicine festival and we hope that these interactions and new relationships were all seeds for the future alchemy of transformation of our collective drinking culture together… for a reciprocal relationship with the land and waters that give us all this freedom to express our gifts.

Special thanks to all the awesome crew that invited us to be the supplier for this and did so much epic hard work to pull off the feat of feeding and watering over 10,000 people for 5 days in an extended heat wave.. you are all titans.
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15/08/2026

We are proud to be the official supplier of MEDICINE 26 that we have brewed 1800 litres of our Oak Lore and Foragers garden kombuchas for are currently being enjoyed on tap across 7 venues here W A S I N G

It’s been a joy to meet and reconnect with so many great people here that share our values and appreciate real kombucha.

We’ll share more about the whole operation here and the mobile rickshaw 🛺 bar we have created for it to bring Trees on tap to people but these are a few pics from the first days of the festival where we set up all the taps across the site.

We met Davina McCall buying an Oak Lore at the K A R M A C E U T I C A L S bar and it was amazing to hear how much she loved it and the story of how we made it with Oak Leaves from the incredible old Oak Tree leaves 🍃 here.

Thank you to all the organisers and volunteers that make this festival - it’s so delicious and inspiring to be part it.

Together we can brew our forests back! 🙌💚🌳

06/08/2026

Long overdue GRATITUDE post! 💌

The past few months have been relentless and we couldn’t have made it through without some of the most exceptional human beings that have commited to help and work for us.

First of all we would like to thank Emma for pouring so much energy into Old Tree for a third of this year! Emma is moving on now but she was such an incredible energy and organisational force for us when we needed her skills so much! THANK YOU EMMA you are what it says in the last photo 👌😊

Secondly - thank you to our core team! We have all been ensuing extreme heat recently and it’s been demanding AF but everyone in the has been so solid. Tai and Jon Jon Slack have done SO MUCH for Old Tree before and since the Crowdfunder
Iside Brewing Wild whose been brewing, bottling and kegging thousands of litres every month in the extreme heat.
Big thanks to Tenzin Shares 🌻 for helping us to harvest and dry the oak leaves for MEDICINE that we are excited to be brewing more oak leaf kombucha for than this island may have ever seen! 🤩
Thanks to freya.does.stuff for showing up to paint every sign when it was needed and our legendary new foraging freind called Moss (second last photo) has been unbelievably helpful and kind. 💚 MOSS

Thank you to brilliant photographer Daisy Wingate-Saul for capturing some high quality pictures of our drinks and gathering - manufacturing operations with Oak leaves recently 🙌 couldn’t recommend Daisy 📸 more 😇
Thanks to all the volunteers for Old Tree Events - it has been a joy to share these experiences with you

last but not least THANK YOU to all our customers and clients that keep supporting

It feels good to share about the relationships we’re grateful for. We’d like to see MORE GRATITUDE being expressed in the world. There’s a quote that’s inspired us in this by Plato:

‘Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all others’ 🤌

If you can be anything, be kind. If you can be everything, BE GRATEFUL 🙏

Finally, ThankYOU for reading all this and following Old Tree on the journey

We’d love to hear what you’re grateful for today in the comments. 🧺💚

04/08/2026

Sneak preview of our new solar powered Oak Tree wagon! 😃🌳💚

Tom Thomas Daniell has been busy upgrading our old Rickshaw into an Old Tree mobile!! Roaming Rickshaw bar? Tricycle Tree Tap? Old Oak Trike? Name still to be decided!! Tricycle signage and decoration still in the making..

This is a project that we have been working on to take to MEDICINE next week where we are supplying the Kombucha on tap to 7 of the amazing food and drink venues across the site W A S I N G and the plan is to be roaming around spreading the word of Oak and foraging abundance whilst quenching as much thirst as possible and let everyone taste what they can experience from the main bars on this.

Huge thanks to Good Vibrations Society for the support in having us this weekend to give it its first public outing serving our hand foraginf drinks to the wonderful humans there.

We have invested in this with Old Tree Events as a tool to do more Offgrid and solar powered events.

Electrically assisted and renewable power pedal powered vehicles are the future!

Diesel generators and fossil fuel reliance ro power our gatherings has to end.

28/07/2026

💚 have you been to the Hideaway Spa in Shoreham yet? It’s incredible! Check it out!!

28/06/2026

We want to express our gratitude for the life of Rob Jones. He was a pioneer of the craft beer and microbrewery movement in the UK and the father of Eve Jones who was our much loved head Brewer for several years in Brighton.

Rob helped us with sound advice, connections and even in gifts of equipment as we were getting started and learning about brewing and serving drinks.

His lifes work is one of the reasons that we were able to do and are still doing what we do.

Last time we were in his pub, the Duke Of-Wellington in we were proud to see some of our first labelled kombucha bottles in the window shelf, still on display, next to the stage 😀. The are one our first and longest pub stockist with many regular kombucha lovers.

Above the bar in the Welly, there is a sign that reads:
‘If you’ve heard of it before, you won’t find it around here.’ The Welly in Shoreham is an incredible pub, where the spirit of Rob resides and we can all drink to his legacy.

We will also always carry the big wooden pump tap he gave us for the bars with Old Tree Events This tap is made of Oak and is so good it can draw a pint in one pull ! It’s one of our best heritage tools for the archaic and creative cultural drinks revival that Rob lived and was such an inspiration and instigator of. We are also grateful to his family for there support of Old Tree in multiple ways and just want to share our condolences and say THANK YOU and Rest in Peace, Rob Jones.

Since Rob's passing we've had some lovely tributes & obituaries which we though folks might like to read. Rob wasn't one to blow his own trumpet so we'll do it for him! Not only did he bring us The Welly, he was also a brewing genius & quite the revolutionary in the industry....

BBC South East Today
https://youtu.be/lXE8_mQyKi0

Pellicle Magazine https://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/6/9/obituary-rob-jones-sussex-brewings-dark-star

Morning Advertiser
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026/06/09/rob-jones-dark-star-brewery-founder-dies/F

Fat Boy Slim Tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXE8_mQyKi0&t=1s

28/06/2026

We are so excited that the DRINK THE SEASONS boxes 📦 are half way through being completely sent out and the rest will be arriving with our Crowdfunder top supporters this week! 🙌

This was a lovely moment when our dear freind and river activist opened up her box and was so excited by the bottle of Nettle Beer 😀 and other brews

💚 checkout the page on our website that’s now live if you’d like to be part of this too!

It’s a completely new service - x 6 bottles of completely foraged and fermented biodiversity supporting botanical brews - delivered to your door each season. 4 boxes a year. A box to celebrate and give thanks to each season.

All profits made by our CIC are committed to supporting the unfolding social and ecological movements for Earth repair.

Head over to our website to find our more 🍻✨

25/06/2026