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	The Brewery	The Dark Star Brewing Company was born in 1994 in the cellar of The Evening Star Pub, in Brighton. It was soon apparent that the brewery could not keep up with the growing thirst of the Evening Star’s drinkers, yet alone the demand for its beers from other pubs. In 2001 the brewery relocated to a new purpose built brewery in Ansty, near Haywards Heath, from where it still supplies the Evening Star with a selection of its beers, along with its sister pubs: The Stand Up Inn, Lindfield and The Duke of Wellington, Shoreham. The name “Dark Star” comes from Rob Jones’ distant past when, as head brewer at Pitfield Brewery, he developed a strong dark ale called Dark Star after the Jerry Garcia (www.dead.net) anthem. The beer was voted Champion Beer of Britain in 1987 and later The Champion of Champions in 1996. (The same ale is now brewed to the same recipe by Dark Star Brewery)
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