Hand Brew Co

06/05/2026

Worthing Festival in June!
What an incredible line up and an amazing thing to do for free. Music, art, community!
Love it! X

🌞The Worthing Festival 2026 programme has landed 🍃

This June, Homefield Park transforms into a weekend of live music, wild and beautiful art, creative mayhem, dancing, workshops, food, kids activities, community and very good vibes.

Featuring:
⚡ Macka B
⚡ Fujiiya & Miyagi
⚡ Lakuta
⚡ Erin Bloomer .bloomer
⚡ Abi Flynn
⚡ Holy Youth Movement
⚡ Gina Larner
⚡ The Roebucks
⚡ Lydia Shute
⚡ Gyratory Allstars
⚡ Sara Oschlag’s Big Five Swing
⚡ Louie Le Vack
⚡ DJ Melly & MC Lilly Wolfe
⚡ AudioActive: Kustom Vibes
⚡ &
⚡ DJs from &

💥 Plus loads more across the weekend

Expect:
🌿 Festival Art Trail & Sound Garden wanderings
🎶 Three stages of live music
🎨 Workshops, installations & roaming creativity
🎈Children’s creative workshop tent
🍔 The best of our local food & drink scene
✨ A park full of brilliant people

📅 19–21 June
📍 Homefield Park
🎟️ Completely free

And that’s right in the middle of June, when Worthing Fringe takes over the town for the whole month.

See you in the park 💫

18/03/2026

Kate’s on the road with heading to

18/02/2026

We are aware that there has been confusion regarding the relationship between Hand Brew Co and the contract brewing company, Beercraft, and we would like to clarify the position.

Hand Brew Co and Beercraft are separate and independent businesses.

We do, however, recognise how this misunderstanding may have arisen. The owner of Beercraft previously managed Hand Brew Co for several years while operating from the same site as Beercraft (and a number of other breweries). During that period, the owner increasingly focused on contract brewing through Beercraft and subsequently stepped down from their role at Hand Brew Co.

Over the years, there was some operational overlap, including team members undertaking work across both businesses and Hand Brew Co events being hosted at the shared site. We appreciate that this may have contributed to a lack of clarity.

Hand Brew Co continues to be owned and operated by its original founders, Clark and Jen Left, alongside Head Brewer and Product Director, Kate Hyde.

If you have been affected by the closure of Beercraft, we empathise deeply, but we kindly ask that you direct any enquiries to Beercraft directly, as we are unfortunately unable to assist in this matter.

We wish you all the best and thank you for your continued support.

23/01/2026

All together!

Head Brewer Kate was up in Birmingham yesterday to collaborate on a very delicious sounding Paloma Sour with our good friends at Attic Brew Co in honour of International Womens Collaboration Brew Day

She spent a brilliant day with a gaggle of talented, fascinating and beer-curious Babs (picking up the local lingo, iykyk) brewing, learning and even throwing pottery with our old friend

We're excited to taste the final results and hope to get our hands on a few kegs and cans for our webshop and pubs, so stay tuned.

Money raised from the brew will go towards two of our favourite organisations: and
This was made possible by generous sponsorship from supplier titans and

Attendees were treated to some great talks from Paul at WHC, Steph at Crisp, and the always fascinating on the subject of Beer Festivals told via the stories of 3 women.
Kate also gave everyone a bit of a dive into the wonky world of Tower Brewing at the

Special thanks to the team at for hosting us so generously and especially to queen for putting together such a wonderful and important event.

Stay tuned for launch details and more IWD chat.

20/01/2026

We've Moved In!

A lot to do and more news to come, but for now, it's a big hoorah!

15/12/2025

If you're after beer gift boxes or party cases this Christmas, get your orders in before midnight on Sunday for Monday shipping. We've got:

Toadlicker Grapefruit Pale - 4 can and pint glass gift box
Threads Elderberry Sour - 4 can and Card Deck gift box
Shaka Pale - 4 can and pint glass gift box
Wiener Dawg Vienna Lager - 4 can and schooner gift box
or Mixed Cases and
Gift Cards to spend at the webshop

Check out our store at handbrewco.shop and link in bio.

06/11/2025

Clap your hands! Our incredibly awesome Head Brewer Kate has won Women in Beer’s Brewer of the Year! Congratulations !!

Between being shortlisted for the British Guild of Beer Writer’s Brewer of the Year at the end of 2024 and winning this, it’s been a very busy year for Kate.

Aside from keeping our customers in Shaka, Toadlicker, Bird and everything else, she also created our first AF with Shaka Lo and has been all over the country making new friends and delicious one-off beers…

-Handheld - India Pale Ale with in Wokingham
-Earl Grey and Bergamot Lager with the team from and
-Mum’s the Word - Mandarin Pale Ale with and in Hackney, London
-Shimmy Up - a mountain style juicy DIPA for with 60 friends and and in Worthing
-Kindred - a Copper Mild with at our brewpub
-Dayglow - our seasonal saison with local foraging teams from Brighton and Worthing
-Acronymious - ESB with great pal
-Beau Riso - a soft and pillowy NEIPA with our pals in Worthing
-Lobo - our seasonal summer special hazy NE Pale
-Bright Young Things - a stunning Watermelon Margarita Gose with in Scotland
-Walden - a Gooseberry, Cucumber and Mint summer session sour with and in Scotland
-Kora - our treacly Old Ale winter special
-Threads - a velvety Elderberry Dark Sour as this year’s Art You Can Drink collab with the wonderful in Brighton with a special thanks to our friends
-Noki - a Shwarzbier with at our brewpub
-Vega - a Transatlantic IPA with in Bakewell
-Tamper - an extra special Coffee Porter made with and at our brewpub

At some point in-between all of this, she also managed to… (see comment)

02/11/2025

Guess who’s number 5 in the i newspaper’s Britain’s 20 Best Brewery Taprooms…

That’s right! It’s only the in lil ol’ Kemptown Brighton. Featured with some absolute bangers.

Thank you to everyone that sails with us in the good ship Hand in Hand.

And thank you to:
📸 ✍️ .mellows

01/11/2025

THREADS // ELDERBERRY DARK SOUR
5.5%

Threads Dark Sour is brewed with foraged wild elderberries in Collaboration with couture kaftan queen and mistress of the most spectacular of dark arts, Fumbalinas.

Elegant and extravagant, Threads is a velvety shade of deep purple in the glass, offering aromas of sharp, earthy hedgerow berries that mingle with the dark chocolate and molasses offerings of toasted malts.

A sprightly sourness and spritzy carbonation lift the aromas into lasting flavours of ripe earthiness, dark berry sweetness and just a touch of burnt bitterness delivering a compelling pentacle of flavour and balance.

Threads is our 2025 Art You Can Drink Collaboration Project.

Cans and gift packs containing limited edition Threads collection card deck and tarot guide now available on the Hand Brew Co webshop and via link in bio.

Threads collection now available via the Fumbalinas website.

Artwork by Kim Thompson ( )

20/10/2025

We get asked where our name comes from a lot, and with us currently looking for a new home for our big brewery, we thought it’d be a good time to talk about our original home - our little Brighton brewpub.

Check out the blog about our name here: https://www.handbrewco.com/blog/viva-the-hand