Sheffield Beer Week – a guide to what’s on

Sheffield Beer Week is a week-long festival celebrating the region’s brewing landscape – old and new! It’s also about highlighting the wonderful world of beer taking inspiration from across the globe. Collaboration is key with Sheffield’s bars, pubs, breweries (local, national and global) and restaurants joining forces to host beery events. Sheffield Beer Week happens across the whole of the city in multiple venues. Imagine a week where breweries hold open days for visitors to explore, pubs host beer festivals, bars have tap takeovers and restaurants offer menus with tailored beer pairings. Every day there will be a unique beer event to enjoy! Sheffield Beer Week is held the same week that the SIBA BeerX is in town, which combines an independent brewers’ conference, trade show and beer festival which means a lot of people from the beer trade are in town. It is also looking likely that True North and Sentinel will both be in their new breweries and offering the opportunity to visit.

Brewery News

Events are gathering pace with a number of breweries planning new beers to launch during #SheffBeerWeek. With St. Patrick’s Day falling in the week, it looks like a few breweries are taking inspiration from the classic Irish stout style, but I’m sure they’ll be big twists! Breweries announced so far include Thornbridge,Abbeydale (who celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2016) andTrue North Brew Co (who are collaborating with Manchester breweries BlackJack and Runaway). They’ll be lots of Tap Takeovers and Meet the Brewers going on around the city during Sheffield Beer Week. Exit 33 and Emmanuales will be joining forces to host an event at Exit 33 tap The Harlequin. Stancill and The Red Deer, on Pitt Street, are also planning a joint event to build on last year’s.

Events

Here is a list of events planned at the time of going to press. More may well have been added – visit www.sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk for the latest information. ALL WEEK Manchester tap takeover at the Broadfield SATURDAY 12TH MARCH Beer Week launch party at True North Brew Company and the Old House SUNDAY 13TH MARCH Speed Tasting hosted by Hop Hideout MONDAY 14TH MARCH Twitter Hour – Beer Cocktails at Picture House Social TUESDAY 15TH MARCH Fourpure tasting at the Sheffield Tap Brooklyn Brewery big bottle tasting at Hop Hideout WEDNESDAY 16TH MARCH Five Points meet the brewer at Brewdog Hump Day Social with Feast & Glory, various City Centre venues Beer Week Pub quiz at the Francis Newton Karma Citra Beer & food pairing at the Greystones Belgian Beer tasting at Shakespeares Meet the Brewer Traffic Street Special/Castle Rock at the New Barrack Tavern Beer tasting competition at the Three Tuns Brass Castle Meet the Brewer at the Kelham Island Tavern SIBA BeerX at Ice Sheffield THURSDAY 17TH MARCH Brass Castle meet the brewer & food pairing at the Tramshed bar Stancill Brewery tap takeover and meet the brewer at the Red Deer St Patricks Day Stout & Porter tasting at Shakespeares Chantry Tap Takeover and meet the brewer at the Railway Hotel (Bramall Lane) SIBA BeerX at Ice Sheffield Steel City beer festival award presentations at BeerX FRIDAY 18TH MARCH Founders Brewing tasting at Hop Hideout SIBA BeerX at Ice Sheffield SATURDAY 19TH MARCH Twitter Hour: The ingredients of beer at Sentinel Brewhouse & Taproom SIBA BeerX at Ice Sheffield SUNDAY 20TH MARCH Sheffield Beer Week Closing event hosted at Sentinel Brewhouse & Taproom Sheffield Beer Week Closing afterparty at Picture House Social