Inn Brief

Loxley Brewery’s third associated venue has now opened on Sharrow Vale Road. This time it is a modern microbar rather than a traditional pub but has 3 of their cask ales on the bar plus craft beer from guest breweries on the keg taps. The name of the bar is quite simple and descriptive of the new opening – No3-Sharrow!

The Peacock Inn at Stannington, which is leased from Thwaites brewery, has won the brewery’s warm hospitality award.

Craft & Berry on Ecclesall Road recently celebrated their 5th anniversary with a festival of sours!

The Three Tuns in Sheffield City Centre reopened under new management after a few days of closure for a handover. It is pretty much business as usual with a quiz & bingo on Wednesdays at 6pm then karaoke & disco Friday and Saturday nights 8pm to 1am plus the occasional live entertainment. The real ale selection continues to be from the Heineken list such as Dark Star Hophead, Robinsons Unicorn and Titanic Plum Porter.

The Castle Inn at Bradway is expected to reopen by early December under new management, we understand the new lease has been taken by the same people that run the Millhouses. The expectation is it will continue to serve food but feel more pub like with locals dropping in the tap room for a pint in the evening and in the daytime those enjoying the local woodland walks popping in for a coffee or maybe something stronger!

The Norton at Meadowhead has been closed for a refurbishment and is expected to reopen by December. It will continue to operate under the “Sizzling Pub Co” brand.

The Harlequin on Nursery Street, near Kelham Island, has now introduced food. There are two menus – the lunch menu is served 12-3pm with a range of hot and cold sandwiches along with a soup of the day whilst the evening menu is served 5-8:30pm with a range of main meals including fish & chips, burger, sausage & mash, three bean chilli and curry served with rice and flatbread. During both food service times they also serve chip butties with a choice of sauces/sides! Food is served every day except Sunday.

The Dove & Rainbow in Sheffield City Centre normally see a whole bunch of metalheads pop in during the last weekend in November when the HRH Viking music festival takes place at the O2 Academy, just a few minutes away. Unfortunately with that venue closed until all the dodgy concrete is replaced, the festival isn’t happening, but the Dove is putting their own event on Friday 29 November regardless with their DJ playing viking metal and the bar serving beer, rum, mead and all the rest – bring your own drinking horn!

Hop Hideout , now located at Leah’s Yard in Sheffield City Centre, celebrated their 11th birthday over the week of 13-17 November. On the beer front a 7.8% ABV West Coast DIPA hit the taps, this was brewed as a collaboration between Round Corner Brewing and community focused group Women in Beer. Following up on that theme the second South Yorkshire Beer Girls Social was hosted on the Sunday. Alongside that another Thornbridge beer in a wooden pin was on the bar, this time filled with Rattlesnake, a 6.5% West Coast IPA. The beer from the wood programme at Hop Hideout is planned to continue until the end of 2024 and is expected to happen at roughly fortnightly intervals (as the pin will need to be cleaned and refilled at the brewery in-between each outing!).

Planning has started on Sheffield Beer Week 2025, an initiative launched and coordinated by Jules from Hop Hideout. The dates are 10-16 March, if you run a pub, bar, restaurant, brewery or suchlike and would like to take part by putting on an event please contact Jules via sheffieldbeerweek@gmail.com.

Winter has arrived at the Washington in Sheffield City Centre with mulled Old Rosie Cider and Mulled Buckfast available alongside the cask ales!

The Eyre Arms in Calver has now been renamed to the Calver Arms Sports Bar & Pub Kitchen. They’ve launched a new menu in collaboration with the kitchen team from the Barrel Inn at Bretton. The bar menu includes snacks in a basket, pot pies, stone baked pizzas and burgers. On Sundays they offer a carvery, served in “Ronnie’s”, the newly refurbished function room.

The community owned Anglers Rest pub, cafe and post office in Bamford have declared they are struggling with rising costs and other factors and are appealing for help to save the pub a second time (since they bought the pub being offloaded by a big pub company in 2013). They are looking for help in three ways – new shareholders to join the board running the enterprise, volunteers to help out with a few things and donations via their crowdfunding scheme. You can contact them by email – bamfordcommunitysociety@outlook.com or visit their Facebook page.

The Gypsy Queen at Beighton is due to close for refurbishment and rebrand in March 2025. It is currently part of Greene King brewery’s Hungry Horse chain and is to be converted into a “Hickory Smokehouse” bar and restaurant.

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