Our booch, brew & soda lovers on Instagram...
The Lewes Community Brewcafe
Join Us!Way Back When
One Sunday back in 2018 Roger and Steve met on a football pitch in Lewes. Steve was getting on 40, Roger a few years ahead. Steve was up front that day, Roger running hard to keep up in defence.
After a big night, both were a bit worse for wear - their best balling days behind them, heads full of dust, lungs bursting, and all on the back of a 4am wake up call from the kids.
'What do you do when you're not playing?' wheezed Rog when the ball went out for a corner. 'I'm a brewer,' said Steve. 'You?' 'I drink too much,' Rog replied.
(Some say decay necessity is the mother of invention...)
Hello Brewery
Skip forward to 2020, and the new brewery arrives. Built during lockdown, the guys have created a different craft beer outfit.
Sustainably created, packaged and delivered, Only With Love produces a range of award-winning drinks for better minds, bodies and spirits.
We are the wellbeing brewery.
We do good things with our beer and soda, giving better choices to people who love their brews.
Today we brew zero to 5% ABV: an award-winning range of fun, premium AF (alcohol free) beers, kombuchas, hop sodas and regular beers that are perfectly in step with today’s mindful drinker - from breakfast to closing time.
Our Mission
The post-match napkin sketches of 2018 have been updated a little, but some things will always remain.
We care for better nights out and better nights in; better sleep and better days; better energy and better time with family, friends and colleagues... more joy, health and happiness.
Meanwhile, Steve and Roger drink a lot better than they used to - and Fridays and Sundays they still play the beautiful game.
Hot Merch
Shop NowSCOOPS!!! Recipes, Backstories, Freebies, Parties...
Read the BlogHello Lewes Beer Mile!
6th March 2024... We’re super excited to announce the Lewes Beer Mile, kicking off this Friday at 6pm. We've clubbed together with our friends at Beak, ABYSS and...
Assistant Brewer Wanted!
15th Feb 2024... We’re looking to expand our production team at Only With Love. We have an upcoming slot for a full time assistant brewer, based here near...
Hello Lewes Brewcafe / LAUNCH PARTY FRIDAY 22nd / Come Along!
18th September 2023... We’re super excited to announce the launch of our new Brewcafe in Lewes, where all week long we’ll be serving up teas, coffees, biscuits, great food,...
Our New Lewes Brewcafe Crowdfunder... Let's Make this Happen!
23rd Aug 2023... We had a terrific night on Saturday down at the Malling Community Centre in Lewes, sharing the plans for our new Brewcafe. Sunshine, beers, AFs, booch and sodas...
The Wellbeing Brewery
We believe in the power of mindful drinking. We produce a range of international award winning alcohol free beers, session beers and sodas for better minds, bodies and spirits.
We believe in the power of great community spaces. In tandem with community enterprises, we transform unloved and underserved public venues into vibrant eating, drinking and meeting places.
In a world full of chaos, public under funding and increasing isolation, these two basic principles bring people together in helpful ways for good social sustenance and better wellbeing.
Putting this in action, you'll find us running hospitality at Lewes Community Football Club (aka 'Equality FC') - the first football team in the world to pay their mens' and womens' teams the same amount of money; and at the Lewes Brewcafe (our first major venue) in association with Lewes County Council. We've also been working with The Big Issue - via a collboration to help young entrepreneurial types get skilled up in the drinks and hospitality trade.
We'll be adding more partners and venues to the list soon. Please do get in touch if you're a brand or a social enterprise that needs help with activating its community venues or hospitality strategy.