Eyam Brewery is in our branch area and their beer always prove popular at our Steel City Beer & Cider Festival so when they announced their third and final open day of the year and we hadn’t got anything on that day we arranged a branch social trip.
The Stagecoach 65 bus from Sheffield drops off in the centre of Great Hucklow village just around the corner from the brewery providing a handy way of getting there, with some fantastic Peak District scenery to enjoy as part of the ride.
We arrived in the village at 12:30pm, half an hour before the brewery was due to open so we visited the Queen Anne pub first, which had two real ales available – Bass and Castle Rock Harvest Pale. Food was also being served.
At the brewery a pop up bar was set up serving a varied range of 5 cask ales and 4 keg beers, most of which have plague themed names. All were delicious. Sunshine Pizza (who can also be found at our beer festival!) were pitched up outside to provide food to soak up the ale whilst next door the Ground Effect coffee roasters had opened up selling bags of their coffee, showing people around as well as serving cups of coffee to drink!
The bus back was at 4:47pm, providing four pleasant hours in the village for us all!




Great trip, beer and company