A DRINK THE SEASONS SUBSCRIPTION · SPRING 2026 NOW OPEN
DRINK
THE
SEASONS
A quarterly box of six small-batch botanical drinks, brewed with the plants of each season.
Four boxes a year. Six bottles per box. Foraged from British hedgerows. Fermented by hand. Delivered direct from Old Tree Brewery.
FREE UK DELIVERY · CANCEL ANYTIME
VOL. 1
Spring· 2026
— A DIFFERENT WAY TO BREW
Head Brewer Iside preparing a brew of our oak-leaf kombucha
No Shelves.
No Middlemen.
Just us, and you.
Most drinks are made to survive shelves, wholesalers and supermarket logic. Ours are made to follow the seasons.
They are alive, fermented, small-batch and made with plants that have their own way of doing things.
Which is what we love about them! But it also means they don’t fit easily into a system built for identical products, long shelf lives and tiny margins. By the time the shop, the distributor, VAT and duty have all taken their cut, we're left with less than 10p in every pound.
Drink the Seasons is our way of going direct.
When you subscribe, more of your money goes where it should: into the plants, the brewers, the harvests, the experiments and the community around Old Tree.
Help us fund the nature restoration work that drives everything we do.
— A Community Supported Brewery
Old Tree · Glynde,
East Sussex
— WHAT YOU GET
Six bottles.
Different every season.
Every quarter, a box of six bottles — every drink brewed exclusively for subscribers.
You won't find these in our shop or anywhere else.
The seasons set the menu: spring is birch and nettle, summer is elderflower and hawthorn, autumn is hedgerow fruits and orchard apples, winter is oak, pine, roots and spice. Each box also comes with seasonal extras — hydrosol shots, botanical sweets from our fermentation by-products, and illustrated guides to the plants we're celebrating.
— VOL. 1 · SPRING 2026 · GOING OUT TO FOUNDING MEMBERS SOON
What's in the first
Drink the Seasons box.
Spring is led by birch and nettle.
All foraged from Sussex hedgerows and forests. Brewed by Iside, Harry and the team at our Glynde brewery.
Birch Sap Bubbly
Wine · 750ml
A celebratory sparkling ferment made with fresh birch sap, apples, pears and grapes from a local market garden. Delicate and orchard-led, with the mineral lift of the sap running through.
Nettle Beer x 2
Beer · 500ml
A lightly sparkling herbal beer brewed with young nettles and Boadicea hops. Earthy, grassy and refreshing, somewhere between old folk tradition and springtime experiment.
Spring Tonic Kombucha x 2
Kombucha · 750ml
A bright, herbal spring tonic brewed with dandelions, cleavers, nettles, mint and live kombucha culture. Fresh, green and gently wild.
Nettle Cordial
Cordial · 500ml
A vivid coppper-cordial made from fresh nettles. Mix with still or sparkling water for a bright, nostalgic spring drink with a hedgerow edge.
— HOW IT WORKS
Four boxes a year.
Brewed with you.
As a subscribing member, you don’t just receive the drinks, you help shape them. We’ll share recipes, ideas and tasting notes for each box, and members get first chances to join foraging days, tastings and workshops. Come harvesting with us, and you may literally help make the drinks that end up in the next box.
Six bottles per box
Wines, beers, kombuchas, cordials and small-batch experiments. We'll tell you what's in each one and the story behind it.
Delivered to your door
Packed and shipped from the brewery in Glynde, East Sussex. Local deliveries by electric van. Coastal Postal on electric cargo bikes in Brighton & Hove.
You shape what we brew
Members get first invitations to tastings, harvest days, workshop places and feedback sessions. Your notes help shape what we brew next.
Four boxes a year
Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Each one different. Each one led by what the land is offering at that moment.
June / Sep / Dec / Mar
Plus seasonal extras
Free UK delivery
Subscriber-only
— THE LOOP
Come and harvest with us.
Drink the Seasons is not just a box in the post. Across the year we’ll be creating chances to come closer to the plants, the brewery and the people behind the drinks.
There’ll be opportunities to forage, taste new brews, and spend time with the Old Tree community. No expertise needed, just curiosity and a willingness to get a bit more hands-on.
The hawthorn we pick in May goes into the summer box. The elderflower we gather in June goes in too. The apples we press in October, the rosehips, the sloe berries, the mugwort, it's all land to hand, then bottle to door.
No events at the moment
— WHY THIS MATTERS
Changing what we drink
changes what we grow.
The future food system has to be based on trees.
— the principle behind everything we brew
12yrs
COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
CIC
FERMENTING THE HEDGEROWS
60acres
100%
RAGMAN'S LANE DRINK FOREST GARDEN PILOT SITE
OF PROFITS BACK INTO LAND
The vast majority of what's on the shelves in this country is artificially carbonated, full of preservatives, and produced from monoculture crops that strip biodiversity from the land.
We believe in trees that cycle nutrients, create oxygen, store carbon, cool microclimates. Perennial plants that help soils recover. Our ancestors knew these plants as food and drink. Our gut bacteria still do.
When people value these plants as drinks, there is more reason to plant them, protect them, harvest them and learn from them again.
Every Drink the Seasons subscription directly funds nature restoration: hedgerow planting, foraging education, community composting, and our partnership with Ragmans Lane Farm — a 60-acre organic permaculture site in Herefordshire where we're piloting education and regeneration through fermentation.
— PEOPLE ARE STEPPING IN
A different drinks culture is
taking root.
230
People are drinking with the seasons
£50K+
Raised toward community -supported brewing
People are hungry for drinks rooted in land, season and place, not just mass production and supermarket shelves.
— FROM OUR FOUNDER
Every subscription helps fund local jobs, biodiversity, foraging, fermentation and a practical alternative to extractive food systems.
— WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Over 230 people backed the first step. Now we’re building the next one: a community-supported brewery shaped by the seasons.
— OLD TREE FOUNDING MEMBERS
— SUBSCRIBE
Ready to drink with the seasons?
Choose your membership below..
Seasonal Box Membership
£31.66
— PER MONTH · £350 PER YEAR
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24 exclusive small-batch bottles a year
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Four seasonal boxes, six bottles each, delivered quarterly
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Seasonal extras: hydrosol shots, botanical sweets, illustrated guides
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Subscriber-only tasting sessions & feedback rounds
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Free UK delivery on every box
Drink the Seasons
+ Monthly Kombucha
£56.67
— PER MONTH · £680 PER YEAR
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Everything in Seasonal Box Membership,
plus —
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A case of our award-winning oak-barrel kombucha delivered every month
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The full Old Tree in-the-fridge experience, year-round
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Priority on workshop & immersion bookings
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You save £58 vs. paying for both separately
Already getting our monthly kombucha? Email hello@oldtreebrewery.co.uk and we'll upgrade you to the bundle price.
Some drinks are made for shelves.
Ours are made for seasons.
QUESTIONS? hello@oldtreebrewery.co.uk