Docker Brewery and Taproom

Docker began in 2006 in a small shipping container on in East Yard at Folkestone Harbour. Docker has grown into a thriving retailer, wholesaler and community providing exceptional bread and beer across East Kent.

We are now located at Five Acre Estate, Park Farm - which is next to Folkestone Screwfix. We are serving our beer from 500L serving tanks so that you can try the beer as fresh as possible!

Our beers use the highest quality UK malts, interesting contemporary yeast variants and juicy, vibrant and dank hops from UK and New World locations. Our beer draws on the brewing history of this country, bringing classic styles into the modern age to be reimagined and reinvigorated. We approach our work as continually in progress as we seek to tweak recipes and processes in order to find new ways of producing the best beers we can. Our primary in-house style is a fruit-forward and dank hop profile on a light pale malt base with a soft mouthfeel and juicy yeasts to help bring out the best of the fermentation process. We believe good beer should be full of flavour with all the vibrancy that modern brewing processes and ingredients can offer.

We’re one of only a handful of breweries in the UK brewing with a new regeneratively farmed malt from Wildfarmed, the initiative founded by Andy Cato (Groove Armada), Edd Lees, and George Lamb. The beer, called Homegrown, also features hops grown by the local community across Folkestone and Hythe — in back gardens, allotments, and even outside our own bakery and brewery.

We aim to to work in as sustainable a way as possible paying attention to the impacts that the brewing process has upon the environment. We make use of reusable kegs and fully recyclable aluminium cans.

We also have local food residencies - check out our socials for the latest news and opening times, or if you are in nearby Sandgate, check out the Docker Bar in the High Street