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Beer of the Week (w/e 27th April 2025) with Thuck Phat
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Patch
This is a craft beer venue, beers ranged from dark to light and there was also a very interesting sour. The pub opens early and does a very good breakfast which we enjoyed before the days crawl and proper builders tea. We also called in the night before the crawl as space is limited, the locals were friendly and my stout went down a treat along with the Soor Plooms. Well worth a visit.
On 17th April 2025
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Patch
A charming ,small indie beer bar with an eclectic and constantly changing selection of keg beers from 10 wall mounted taps.Walk past the bar and there are two sections with seating and a darts board. I chose a Brew Toon Soor Plooms ,mixing both sweet and sour notes ,very refreshing after a long days drinking.The other taps were offering brews from Gun,Vibrant Forest x2,Saison Dupont,Triple fff,Pilot cider,Six North,FLOC,and Westmalle.There were a mix of styles including a stout ,and some continental brews .Food is available ,simple cheesy chips tasted very good.
Worth a visit to sample interesting indie beers and a friendly welcome,I would always pop in on any crawl around town.
On 12th April 2025
- rating: 7
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David Walton left this review about The Patch
The Patch is undoubtedly the place to go for craft beer choice in Lewes. There are a number of very decent pubs for cask enthusiasts in the town and so I like to think Lewes makes for a great place to head to for a town crawl, particularly when you add in the two immediately local breweries Beak and Abyss and now an outlet in the town for another local brewery Only With Love. The place is well described physically in the reviews below. More enjoyable of a weekend afternoon when the venue isn't being shared between those heading there for a sarnie or to work on their laptop and those there for its primary function!
The line up on my latest visit (9 of the 10 taps were dispensing) was Atemporal Pale from Heathen Brewers, Chouffe Session, Point Blanc from Little Monster, the stout from Moor, Pilot - a cider from Ascension, Albion - a Helles from UnBarred, a rhubarb Belgian beer that I didn't note the details of, Vatted Porter from Burning Sky and a DIPA called Broz Night Out from the Veil brewery.
Visited yesterday late afternoon and the venue became busy after a number that had headed to Lewes to attend a beer festival at Beak had to find some (indoor) alternatives as the weather resulted in the cancellation of the Beak festival. Am sure most if not all of those affected would have thought of Patch as their venue of alternative choice yesterday.
On 16th June 2024
- rating: 7
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Strongers . left this review about The Patch
The Patch is a small café bar with ten craft fonts on the back bar and a fridge that houses soft drinks and some canned craft lagers. There is also a fridge full of sandwiches for the morning/afternoon crowd. The serving counter and fridges are found to the right and a couple of open doorway arches lead to a thin strip of seating along the front windows to the left where there is some very cosy (read tight fitting) furniture. I sat at the beer shelf that runs across the front windows, the stools were very small meaning my fat backside hang over all four sides, not the most comfortable. Whilst it looks like three units have been knocked together, I’m unsure because they would have been extremely small.
Mainly local craft was available, I went for ABYSS Brewery’s It Came from God which is a very tasty stout, and the lowest ABV of the two available at 6%. There were another four craft beers available, and I noted the ever growing hoard of old pump clips on the walls indicating an ever changing range. I found the staff to be friendly and there was a decent atmosphere with it being three quarters full during my Saturday afternoon visit. At busier times I doubt it is possible to even get in the door. Worth a look if in the area.
On 9th January 2024
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about The Patch
A pretty decent cafe craft bar, indeed it was covering both aspects seamlessly with both a couple of tables taken by drinkers and a couple more taken by office workers having a coffee and sandwich while glued to their laptops.
Three seperate rooms that have been opened out into one long one with a good number of tables throughout. The walls had several framed prints for sale, presumably by local artists.There are ten keg taps on the back wall of thr servery with some decent top rate craft breweries represented, my choice was a Downlands Duvet Days which doubled up with a Stilton and something or other sandwich. Not a normal pub by any means but nice all the same.
On 8th September 2022
- rating: 7
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Patch
The Patch seems to be the main place to go for craft beer enthusiasts in Lewes. By day, it is more of a cafe, but by evening it turns into a bar. That's not to say that the beers aren't available during the day, but that it's focus appears to be more on food during daylight hours.
9 craft beers were being served from Pohjala, Mad Squirrel, Beak (x2), Siren, Neoraptor, Deya, Silver Rocket & Vault City. There was also a nice fizzy cider (Ascension Aeronaut).
We enjoyed our lunchtime visit sufficiently to return in the evening and try more of the craft beers. One of the beers had changed by then and both the daytime barman and the evening barman were clearly knowledgeable about their stock and the local drinks scene.
I'm sure we'll be back here the next time we are in Lewes.
On 30th August 2021
- rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about The Patch
A craft beer place describing itself as a "beer café", which sums it up. Appears to have been a couple of tiny shops knocked through and given a café feel. It is generally decorated in bright colours and various artwork round the wall is for sale. The tiny bar fronts a bank of 10 keg taps serving crafty stuff, with the obligatory canned beer fridge alongside plus a large sandwich display. Despite the lack of real ale, a sampled stout was very drinkable and not overgassed, and it is not an unpleasant place to visit.
On 16th October 2019
- rating: 6
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