The Dark Star Brewing Company was born in 1994 in the cellar of The Evening Star Pub, in Brighton.   With a brew plant only marginally bigger than an enthusiastic home-brew kit the characteristic style of hoppy beers was developed and tried out on the willing guinea pigs at the bar.

Within a few hard working years it was obvious that the brewery could not keep up with the growing thirst of the Evening Star's drinkers, yet alone the demand for its beers from other local pubs and beer festivals.

In 2001 the brewery relocated to a new purpose-built, 15 brewers barrel brewery in Ansty, near Haywards Heath. A few years on, and once again, the brewery is expanding and moving to a bigger site. This time to a new brewery in Partridge Green, 10 miles west of the Ansty site.
Stand Up Inn
The Duke of Wellington
The new brewery was officially opened by Roger Protz on January 26th 2010
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