Sheffield Beer Week

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A Decade of Beer Week Celebrations in Sheffield

4th to 10th March

Can you believe it’s our tenth annual Sheffield Beer Week!?! 2024 is going to be an exciting year. Through a challenging climate, Sheffield’s beer businesses have survived in a buoyant local market.

2024 sees the revisiting of Sheffield University’s commisioned ‘Beer Report’ which has broadcaster Pete Brown reviewing the regional beer landscape once again. Look out for a launch during Sheffield Beer Week.

Key Beer Week strands include ‘Beer and Food’, ‘Community’ and ‘Heritage’; with ongoing organic strands including International Women’s Day events, 10 years of Beer Week, and celebrating our access to vital green spaces alongside The Festival of the Outdoors. Visit Sheffield’s The Festival of the Outdoors has become a vibrant month of annual activities in March. There’ll even be a running and beer event which includes a brewery tour during the beer week from Triple Point Brewery, Hop Hideout and Run Talk Run. Heist Brew Co are also collaborating with The Foundry Climbing Centre on a beer to go alongside their beer and climbing social.

There’ll be more special beers being released for Beer Week including Triple Point Brewery collaborating with Indie Beer Feast, Sheffield Beer Week and The Festival of the Outdoors to highlight the South Yorkshire green spaces and Peak District campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite.

Lost Industry and Thornbridge are both brewing their own International Women’s Collab Brew Day beers. While Abbeydale are re-releasing their 2023 Sheffield Beer Week collab Cloud Peak due to demand; this year it will include a limited art print alongside.

Beer shop Hop Hideout is collaborating with Heist and Indie Beer Feast on a super limited sour-style beer. While new microbar The Wonky Labrador are collaborating with Triple Point on a birthday beer. Just to name a few!

With a influx of breweries heading to Indie Beer Feast, you’ll find a number of tap takeovers and meet the brewers happening at venues like Pangolin (Turning Point Brew Co), The Beer House S6 (Amity Brew Co) and Kelham Island Tavern (Siren), and more to be announced.

The Rutland Arms, The Crow Inn, Beer Central, The Riverside Kelham, Heist Brew Co Tap, Shakespeares Ale & Cider House, Hop Hideout, The Wonky Labrador, Dog & Partridge and The Old Shoe have all started to plan events and will be announcing in the coming weeks.

Thornbridge Brewery are set to host Bundobust, Newbarns and Red Willow at their pubs – The Greystones, Hallamshire House and The Stag’s Head. Brewery tap openings so far confirmed include Brewery of St Mars of the Desert, Fuggle Bunny Brew House, Heist Brew Co., Triple Point Brewing and Tapped Brew Co.

Beer historian Dr Christina Wade, who specialises in the hidden histories of women in the brewing trade, will be launching her new book – The Devil’s in the Draught Lines (published by CAMRA Books). Hop Hideout will be celebrating with a collaborative beer alongside Dr Wade and Torrside Brewing which takes its inspiration from historical women’s recipes featured in the book. In addition to hosting a Queer Brewing tap takeover (owner Lily was commissioned to take photographs for the book).

On the weekend of 1st to 2nd March, to start the week, Sheffield’s craft beer festival, Indie Beer Feast is back at Trafalgar Warehouse. It’s a celebration of great independent craft beer with brewery bars, street food, low intervention wines and fine cider. The beer festival champions and supports The Everyone Welcome initiative. British Guild of Beer Writers’ members and leading UK
award-wining beer writers David Jesudason (current Beer Writer of the Year), Pete Brown and Adrian Tierney-Jones will be heading up to host pop-up tastings. David will be discussing his latest book ‘Desi Pubs’ and Pete will be launching ‘The Beer Report’. Hop supplier Barth Haas X have sponsored the talks and tastings and will also host their own trade panel discussion. Dr
Christina Wade will be celebrating her new book launch and Henry Kirk of soon to launch new brewery, Sunken Knave, will be discussing his passion for Old Ales. Look out for more talks to be announced.

Breweries pouring include Sheffield outfits Heist, Triple Point, Kelham Island, Grizzly Grains and Abbeydale. In addition to Manchester’s Track, Liverpool’s Neptune, Leicester’s Round Corner, Reading’s Siren, Leeds’ Amity Brew Co and Tartarus, Wales’ Sobremesa Drinks, Derbyshire’s Thornbridge and Torrside, North Yorkshire’s Turning Point Brew Co and Hitchin’s Crossover Blendery.

Jules Gray, Sheffield Beer Week founder shared that, “A decade of showcasing great independent beer in Sheffield is something to be hugely proud of as a city and community. A city with a long-standing heritage of beer and brewing, that goes back hundreds of years. It’s a testament to everyone involved and everyone who supports the beer scene. Beer is part of the city’s fabric, it’s culture, it’s heritage, jobs, economy and keeping the high street vibrant.”

Jules Gray

For the latest information on Sheffield Beer Week events visit their website and follow their socials. Most of the events can be easily reached by public transport and the maximum single fare charged in Sheffield is currently £2 on buses and £2.80 on trams, alternatively a range of daily and weekly unlimited travel passes are available, see travelsouthyorkshire.com for all your timetables, maps and ticket information.

Events listed at time of publication (more likely to be added, check their website & socials). Note some events require tickets booking in advance.

Thursday 29 February:

  • 12:00 The Devil’s in the Draught Lines Queer Brewing Tap Takeover & Torrside Beer Launch, Hop Hideout (City Centre)
  • 12:00 Kernel Irish Whisky BA Imperial Brown Stout Launch, Rutland Arms (City Centre)
  • 13:00 Amity Brewery Tap Takeover & Meet the Brewer, Beer House S6 (Hillsborough)
  • 18:00 Turning Point Brew Co Tap Takeover & Meet the Brewer, Pangolin (Hillsborough Park)
  • 19:00 Crossover Blendery Meet the Brewer, The Crow (West Bar)

Friday 1 March

Saturday 2 March

Sunday 3 March

Monday 4 March

  • 11:30 Brew York Keg & Black Iris Cask Tap Takeover + Pie Week, Riverside (Kelham Island)
  • 12:00 Liquid Light Cask Takeover, Shakespeares (West Bar)
  • 12:00 Acorn brewery tap takeover, Red Deer (City Centre)
  • 16:00 Bundobust Brewery Tap Takeover & Paired Food Menu, Greystones (Greystones)
  • 16:00 Lord’s Brewing Co new brand launch, Oxbow (Woodhouse Mill)
  • 21:00 Blue Bee one off cask beers + quiz with beer theme, Kelham Island Tavern (Kelham Island)

Tuesday 5 March

  • 11:30 Brew York Keg & Black Iris Cask Tap Takeover + Pie Week, Riverside (Kelham Island)
  • 16:00 Neon Raptor tap takeover, Oxbow (Woodhouse Mill)
  • 16:30 Big Walk 2024 Launch with Thornbridge Brewery, University Arms (City Centre)
  • 18:30 South Yorks Beer Girls Social, Hop Hideout (City Centre)
  • 19:00 Lords Brewing Rebrand, Wonky Labrador (Nether Green)
  • 20:00 Sheffield Beer-Themed Quiz, Triple Point Brewing (City Centre)

Wednesday 6 March

  • 11:30 Brew York Keg & Black Iris Cask Tap Takeover + Pie Week, Riverside (Kelham Island)
  • 16:00 Exclusive Heist Brew Co Cask Launch, Heist Tap (Neepsend)
  • 16:00 Celebration of dark beer, Dog & Partridge (City Centre)
  • 18:00 Wonky Labrador’s First Birthday, Wonky Labrador (Nether Green)
  • 19:00 Newbarns Tap Takeover & Tutored Tasting, Stag’s Head (Nether Edge)
  • 19:00 Balance Brewing & Blending Meet The Brewer Event, Old Shoe (City Centre)
  • 19:00 Sheffield & District CAMRA Pub of the Month & Quiz, Oxbow (Woodhouse Mill)

Thursday 7 March

Friday 8 March

Saturday 9 March

Sunday 10 March

  • Funky Fluid Barrel Aged Beer Bottle Tasting, Rutland Arms (City Centre)

PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO VENUES

  • Beer House S6 – Hillsborough tram stop or buses to Hillsborough Interchange
  • Crow Inn – bus 31
  • Dog & Partridge – City Hall tram stop or various City Centre buses
  • Dore Moor Inn – buses 65 and 271/272
  • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse – buses 26/26a, 74 and 80/80a or walkable from Halfway tram terminus
  • Greystones – bus 6
  • Hallamshire House – bus 95/95a
  • Heist Tap – bus 7 and 8
  • Hop Hideout – Castle Square tram stop or various City Centre buses
  • Jabbarwocky – buses 75/76, 86 and 97/98
  • Kelham Island Tavern – buses 57/57a, 81/82 and 86
  • Magna – bus X1/X10
  • Old Shoe – Cathedral tram stop or various City Centre buses
  • Oxbow – buses 52 and X5
  • Pangolin – Hillsborough Park tram stop
  • Red Deer – West Street tram stop or buses 95/95a
  • Riverside – buses 7/8
  • Rutland Arms – various City Centre buses
  • Shakespeares – buses 57/57a, 81/82 and 86
  • Sheffield Tap – train or tram to Sheffield Station, buses at Sheffield Interchange
  • Stags Head – bus 218
  • St Mars of the Desert – buses 9/9a and 52/52a
  • Trafalgar Warehouse – various City Centre buses
  • Triple Point – buses 1/1a, 24/25 and 51
  • University Arms – University of Sheffield tram stop or buses 51, 52/52a and 257
  • Wonky Labrador – bus 83
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