Welcome To Cerne Abbas Brewery

Beer Shall Come First , The Rest Shall Follow!

Our Beer...

Our beer is brewed using only high quality green sand-filtered water.

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Visit our Brewery and Tap

Open for Brewery Tap and Takeaways

Monday to Thursdays 12 to 4pm

Fridays and Saturdays 12 - 6pm

(later if busy/event)

Check out our Events 2025 Page for what's occurring and when...

Most Saturdays We have hot food with visiting Food Vans, Check our Events page above link for info

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 Bronze for our Gurt Coconuts Rum Stout at both Dorchester Beerex and the National Finals at Beer of Britain 2026 and Silver and finalist for our Blonde at Cambridge & Totnes Area Finals.

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Visit our Brewery

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 Papa 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.

History of Brewing in Cerne Abbas

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.