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LIST BREWERIES Paul Skelton

Aug 2015

Samphire Brewery

Closed 2017

Sandgate Road

Folkestone

01303 250373

www.easyhomebrew.co.uk

Easy Home Brew 2016

Above photo, 2016.

 

From the Dover Express, 27 October, 2016.

From home brew kits to devising beer recipes.

 

Matt Fieldwick

HAPPY BREWER: Matt Fieldwick with bottles of his beer, Samphire Stinger.

MATT is co-owner of Easy Home Brew in Sandgate Road Folkestone.

Inspired by winning the homebrew competition run by Folkestone beer festival in 2015 he founded Samphire Brewery Ltd in a converted back room of the shop.

Here he tells us more about Samphire Brewery..

Q: Matt how long have you been brewing?

A: Probably about 10 years, I started brewing with ‘kit’ brews which give excellent results, then wanting to develop my own recipes learned to brew from scratch using grains and hops, I find the infinite variety of factors such as from malts from caramel to chocolate flavours, different hop combinations give floral, herbal, woody or citrusy notes and the different characteristics given by English, American, Belgian and German yeasts fascinating.

Q: What have you got brewing?

A: Our first offering is ’Samphire Stinger a 5.6 per cent abv ale brewed with Kent Goldings hops and wild foraged nettles for a bit of zing, in development an Elderflower IPA and a Christmas brew which has been likened to ‘liquid mince pies’.

Q: Where can we buy some?

A: Currently we are only selling from Easy Home Brew where we also have a range of craft beer from around the world.

Q: What else do you offer?

A: As a micro-brewery we can also offer bespoke brews for any occasion such as birthdays, weddings and anniversaries with consultation as to desired beer style and strength with bespoke personalised labelling.

We have learn-to-brew day courses coming soon.

 

The Samphire Brewery Ltd., 118 Sandgate Road, CT 20 2BW, was registered in August 2015 by Matthew and Nichola Fieldwick to brew in a room behind their “Easy Home Brew” shop, later moving to premises in Cauldham Close, Capel-le-Ferne.

Production, beginning with Stinger (5.6%abv) which used Kent Golding hops and wild foraged nettles “for a bit of zing”, was limited and ceased early in 2017.

Application was made to strike the firm from the Register of Companies in June of that year. In case you might be wondering about the brewery name; nearby lies the Samphire Hoe nature park which was created on some 4.9million cubic metres of chalk spoil from the Channel Tunnel excavations and this was no doubt named for a species of edible succulent coastal plant. The name derives from a corruption of the French “Sainte Pierre”, the Patron Saint of fishermen.

 

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