Old Tree Events

23rd - 26th October 🍎 SAVE THE DATE! 🍏 it’s happening! The apples are back! We can’t wait to celebrate with you all at the legendary Apple Land Festival 2025 in Abergavenny 🍎 tickets will be coming soon 🍏

No more brewing what’s supposed to fit on a shelf… Old Tree Brewery are going straight from the forest garden to your fridges, changing their central business model to go Direct to Community! Here are a few more gorgeous moments of connection from the Birch Rising which will be back again for 2027 🫙🌳

🤩 MEDIEVAL INSPIRED BOTANICAL BREWS 📣 Brewer on the left and in picture two, sign master @freya.does.stuff on the right 🫡 Its been a joy witnessing the creation process of all these drinks in @oldtreebrewery - a glorious fermentation of over a decade of experimentation in botanical brewing - blending science and creativity ✨🙌 these are drinks that would make our ancestors proud and it’s an honour to be serving them for @phil.cannaveda and crew behind the Beltane 🔥 Fire and Frivolity festival this weekend with our events team community 🤗 Looking forward to working with you @farawaywithdapixies @tenzinshares @kwazaru7 @daniel.j.g._painting and co. The creation of the Old Tree BELTANE TAVERN 🏰 (aka mainly our gazebo covered in hessian with some cool wooden things and people in medieval ish costume 😂) begins tomorrow! 🍻

We’re all set up in #oxford town this week serving the drinks for delegates of the @skoll.foundation forum at the amazing Side Bar project with @camerados_org The Side bar is a space for DIALOGUE NOT MONOLOGUE which is close to our hearts and all of the @oldtreebrewery drinks we’re serving here have been prepaid for in support of the breweries recent @crowdfunderuk campaign so the drinks are accessible to everyone. We love serving drinks in specs that can be completely relational and not transactional. If you are interested in a prepaid bar service for events to serve social and ecological transformation - we are your people and @oldtreebrewery are your drinks makers!

300 pledges to keep on BREWING FOR BIODIVERSITY 🥹❤️‍🔥 We raised £8000 over our initial target 🎯 60 people have signed up for the DRINK THE SEASONS box 📦 ! 🥂🍾🌸🐝 Over 300 people believed in us enough to make a donation of their hard earned cash 💸 We are properly a community supported brewery now! This means the world to us and gives us so much motivation. Nothing about the human scale and networked based regenerative botanical brewery we’ve been building is easy in this economy - despite how valuable it is. It needs a groundswell of support to succeed and now it has it 😊 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE involved in this campaign, from the team in the brewery that came up with it all, to @lukeflegg and @slacketyslackslack @hanski_grows and @compost.tom that have all worked so hard on the communication of it all…. To everyone that has supported us in the past @betheearth.foundation @realfarmingtrust and everyone that has just chipped in for an Old Tree future 🙌 and all of our incredible customers and clients from @seasonswholefoods to @rye_bakery and the community behind @oldtreeevents Couldn’t have done it and wouldn’t still here without every single one of you!! You all give us so much hope and inspiration. Thank you from bottoms our hearts 🥰 Can’t wait to get all these rewards produced and packed now!! And to UP THE REVOLUTION 💫 TO FERMENT A FOREST GARDEN FUTURE

🥹 Tears of joy and gratitude.. It’s so incredible to look through everyone’s comments and see all of this support… TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE SUPPORTERS and counting!!! There couldn’t be a greater motivation to keep doing this and as our friend Tom Morris says - get Old Tree into ‘dream territory’. We are brewing the change we want to see in this world and every one of these donations means so much. It’s a vote 🗳️ for the kind of future you all want to see and we are so honoured to be empowered to continue organising, foraging for and fermenting this! THANK YOU to the genius film maker @lukeflegg of @passionworksproductions for putting together this masterpiece that does justice to this crowd who have supported us on @crowdfunderuk with @avivauk match funding. You are a wizard Luke! And so are you @slacketyslackslack for all the story telling and communication support throughout this campaign we have been working on since November 2025!! Wha a journey it’s been… 😌 Can we get to 300 supporters for Drink the Seasons by the end of tomorrow!?! Last 24 hours is GO! 🍻✨🍻✨ 🔗in🌳 🌸🐝 #drinktheseasons #kombucha #brewery #testimonial #oldtreebrewery

🍺 A Tavern you say ? 🍺 🌳 Old Tree Brewery 🌳 Yes we are having the finest brewers in the land foraging far & wide alchemising Albions finest herbs & plants & trees🪴 into delicious concoctions perfect for Beltane! A Medieval drinks menu fitting for the region & conscious consumption of our unique little village… 🍯Bochet - medieval recipe - caramelised honey MEAD! 🧙‍♀️Witchcraft - dreamy full moon Mugwort and Wormwood KPA - kombucha pale ale 🍺Gruit Ale - herbal beer brewed with malted barley from ancient heirloom barley and wild pre-industrial botanicals! 🌳Oak Lore Kombucha - award winning Old Tree kombucha made with British oak leaves! 🍎Old Tree Cider Socially scrumped and totally scrumptious - local cider 🍏Small Orchard Soda ! Amazing low sugar soft drink with local apples and natural fizziness 🌿Spring Sting Nettle-ade Unbelievably refreshing spring lemonade with foraged Nettles 💚 🍕 Alongside @the.dancing.dough next to the @newagecollective_org main stage ! @compost.tom will also be hosting a talk explaining how alchemists forage, ferment and drink responsibly! Our policy is coherence, we invite everyone to partake with reverence for the land & community around.

WE JUST HIT OUR FIRST @crowdfunderuk TARGET 🎯 of £50,000 🌳🍻🌸🐝🥳✨🙌 This was the moment when our manager Tai came out of the office and shouted ‘WE’VE DONE IT’! Iside @iside_brewingwild had just come back from harvesting Lilac flowers for her next hedgerow wine creation🥂and @compost.tom happened to be painting our @oldtreesoil & @zofiapage collaboration Compost Loo trailer with @zyia_soul and who was in position to capture this beautiful moment of ☀️PURE JOY 😁 THANK YOU so much to our 225 supporters so far. Your support means the world 🌍 to us and we’re so excited to share more about Drink the Seasons with you soon and everything that comes next 💫 Our first stretch goal to amplifying the impact of all this and make Old Tree fly even higher 😇 is 75K - this has started now!! There are 3.5 days left of the campaign and still a few thousand pounds left of the invaluable match-funding by @avivauk - that means all new reward donations on our page are doubled!! #drinktheseasons #growoldtree #kombucha #sussex #brewery

Moving testimonial from our freind Luke @campesina.collective 🥲 If you’ve ever been to our community annual apple harvest celebration @threepools_permaculturefarm you’ll have eaten the incredible food that Luke creates. Food that is currently being served @singingwithnightingales along with our #kombucha 🤗✨ Luke is one the best and we’re honoured to receive this message from him on why he supported our campaign to change Old Tree, to fund the Drink the Seasons project and keep on brewing for biodiversity and #community - LOVE TO LUKE and gratitude for all the nourishment he’s given us through @oldtreeevents over the years.. Imagine we’ll be working alongside @campesina.collective for many years to come, give them a follow if you haven’t already folks 🫶 Thanks to all our supporters recently !! We so so grateful …We’re close to 50K now 🙏😊💫🌳🍻 just 3.5K left of @avivauk match-funding to support our positive climate impact. Now’s the time to get one of the epic rewards !!Luke got the @nickhayesillustration bundle 🤩 Legends all round here ☺️

Our current economies total addiction to fossil fuels and the fertilisers made from them is rapidly destroying our 🌎’s precious soil and ecosystems. From farming failure to war and climate breakdown - we have to change the way meet our needs for food and fuel and fibre production and start leaving the remaining #fossilfuels in the ground!! We passionately believe that returning to forest based systems for our food and farming sector is a powerful Sollution to pollution and that biochar creation for local composting is a Sollution multiplier. Using the heat from the smokeless #biochar creation process to replace the massive use of oil and gas in all our factories 🏭 would create demand for a revival of #coppicing and sustainably managed woodlands again… THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION COULD BE POWERED BY FOOD FORESTS !! If we want to carry on eating 🌎 here we need to start investing in this transition to #permaculture - to regenerativeagriculture We are excited to share more about this in our upcoming and workshop with @hayregenerativesoilscic and the @thesoilfactoryuk and one of the rewards on our campaign is a two hour deep dive talk and presentation with @compost.tom exploring the different ways of making biochar and the best ways to capture the hear 🔥 Hats off to those that have inspired us on this journey - Brian Carbonara @carbonconsciouscreations @carbonfarmers @carbon_gold_biochar and Ed Revell from @greengathering_ and events @fernhillfarm1 back in the early days! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

📍 Site Map 🗺️ Our new site has hosted many a gathering, we are proud to be working closely with @joechristlow and his Inipi crew who will bring the first Sundance to the UK this summer solstice. We value collaboration, this about establishing a culture of unity, trust between lineages. Devotion to the land and community is a nourishing way find common ground between communities. Along with @newagecollective_org we have the epic truck 🛻 for stage! They supported us last year at our glorified house parties ! They are doing the same this year and will bring a stomping set Saturday night! Asterix brings a beautiful sauna for us to relax of evening ! Hearth or Eros teepee workshop program soon to be announced and host of other artists coming too ! #celticwheel #beltane #fullflowermoon

Do you know why our main Kombucha flavour is called OAK LORE? 🌳🍻😇 This video 🎥 tells the story and how it’s going ✨ There is so much to say about Oak Trees!! We’re passionate about reclaiming our drinking culture by creating drinks that reconnect people to the seasons and the source of health and drinks that are relevant to land and place. Nothing could be more relevant to this island, to Britain 🇬🇧 , than the Oak Tree. Home to more #biodiversity than any #tree species here by a country mile. None of us would even exist without them! Our journey has been full of #fermentation revelations about how wild plants and trees can be fermented - one of the really memorable ones for was discovering Oak Leaf wine at @middle_farm_sussex ! Over the years of developing our Kombucha #brewery and experimenting with flavours - we’ve come to realise that you don’t really need the imported tea plant to make #kombucha at all! We can make a an amazing Kombucha from herbs and tree ingredients that grow everywhere here and this is exactly what we’re working towards!! In order to make a drink that can be popular enough to fund ecosystem regeneration though it has to be consistently brewed throughout the year and for this to be viable we need to DRY enough OAK LEAVES to use throughout the WHOLE YEAR!! This is the drying rack we have built especially for this!! Thanks to David - @compost.tom ‘s Dad for the carpentry 🪚 skills that have made this possible for us! Next week we will be serving the full brew of Oak Leaf Kombucha on tap @singingwithnightingales and in late May we’ll be organising a mass foraging meets forestry 🌳 trip to a sussex woodland to harvest 🚐 loads of fresh green oak leaves in a way that improves forest health!!! We’re offering the first British Oak Leaf Kombucha to all of the amazing events we hope to be supplying this year: @skolforum @celticwheelcollaborations @elderflowerfields @groundswell_agriculture @theorganicgrowersgathering @buddhafielduk @goodvibrationssociety @medicinefestival @in2wildfestival This is the beginning of an unstoppable reciprocal woodland drinking culture - tapping into the real abundance of this land.