Inn Brief

Hartlepool based Camerons Brewery has acquired The Old Monk. This City Centre venue is the company’s 16th managed operation and its first in Sheffield. The Monsal Head Hotel including their Stables Bar has a new manager, Danny, who is looking to reinvigorate the beer offering there. Look out for beer festivals planned for the future. The Grafton Hotel in Worksop is holding a beer festival from 8th to 10th July. Changes are afoot at the Castle Inn, Bradway. By the time you read this it will have closed down for Enterprise Inns to refurbish, with the new leaseholders moving in soon. The new management are chefs Jack Baker and Jack Windsor, who have left Brewkitchen to start their own gastropub venture, hopefully they have the vision to make the Castle a success again. The Noah’s Ark in Crookes has reopened. Planning permission has been applied for to convert a shop unit in Broomhill on Glossop Road into a micropub.