WE DELIVER BEER LOCALLY FREE OF CHARGE
We will carry out this mission with pride and passion.
Not a sausage of quality will be compromised in the brewing of our beers.
Beer shall come first, and the rest shall follow.
We are a modest brewery with Giant integrity,
rooted in experience and understanding of the noble art of brewing.
Not a sausage of quality will be compromised in the brewing of our beers.
Beer shall come first, and the rest shall follow.
We are a modest brewery with Giant integrity,
rooted in experience and understanding of the noble art of brewing.
Our Beer...
Our beer is brewed using green sand-filtered water is of the finest quality, Maris Otter barley organically grown in the Cerne Valley by Will Best at Manor Farm, and other top-quality ingredients.
Brews News
Visit our Brewery and Tap
Open for Brewery Tap and Takeaways
Monday to Thursdays 11 to 3pm
Fridays and Saturdays 11 - 6pm
Check out our Events 2024 Page for what's occurring and when...
Most Saturdays Papa Cheese will be found serving food from the Barn Bar and Grill.
For Free Local Delivery call us on 01300 341999
What people think of our beers...
We think our beer’s great, and we are not the only ones. We won our first CAMRA beer festival (2014) with our Cerne Abbas Ale, and achieved both first and second place at the 2016 CAMRA festival (with the Gurt Rum Cask Coconut, and Gurt Stout respectively). We took a bronze at the SIBA South West Beer Awards in 2016 with our Styrian Wolf. We were really chuffed to win Love Local, Trust Local Dorset Food and Farming Award
2021 for best drink.
Most recently we won Silver for our Gurt Coconuts Rum Stout at the Great British Beer Festival Winter 2024.
Come and enjoy the freshest Dorset ales in our beer garden.
We have benches and tables for you to use and you will be welcome to bring your own picnic.
Most Saturdays Papa Cheese is serving food from the Barn Bar and Grill. Check out what's occurring on Pappa Cheese's Facebook Page
Alternatively you can purchase the ingredients for the best of picnics from Cerne Stores and consume it in our beer garden or follow your visit to the brewery with a meal in our local pubs.
We are dog friendly, however this is a working farm so please keep your four legged pal on their lead!
We look forward to welcoming you.
In 2016 after over 130 years break, brewing returned to Cerne Abbas.
The brewery is nestled into the Cerne Valley, some of the barley we use is grown by Dorset’s longest standing organic farmer Will Best at his Manor Farm in Godmanstone. Once spent, the barley returns to Manor Farm and Pound Farm in Nether Cerne to feed the dairy herds minimising waste and food miles. We use exceptional ingredients to recreate the beer Cerne Abbas was once so famous for and exported to New York and London. The green sand and chalk geology of the area makes the water supremely ideal for beer making.
The brewing history of Cerne Abbas, along with its notorious chalk giant provides the brewery with a strong pedigree and instantly identifiable product. Seasonal beers which celebrate past brewers, village characters and the exceptional local landscape are building the brewery’s reputation in Dorset and beyond. It is these elements which combine with local accommodation, tea houses and pubs promote and bolster rural tourism and employment in the Cerne Valley.
We look forward to welcoming you to our village.
