There should be around 200 different cask beers available at this years’ festival, with some served on hand pump, some by gravity and some direct from brewery bars themselves. The beers will be located in the Upper Hall, in a marquee and in the room to the right after entering the Museum.
This year sees an exciting new feature at the Steel City Beer & Cider Festival with the addition of a Guest Breweries bar.
The plan is to invite 3 different breweries each year to bring their own bar and highlight their range of beers in both cask and keg. We’ll have at least one member of their staff on the bar at all times to answer any questions you may have.
We’ve got a great line up to kick things off, and we’re sure you’ll enjoy chatting to them and sampling their beers.
Turning Point Brewery
Based in Knaresborough, Turning Point are particularly well known for their pales, including their flagship Disco King, but also some great collaboration brews.
Radio City Beer Works
Coming all the way from Chelmsford, Radio City started up just before (and survived) Covid as a small craft keg brewer, and have recently expanded in to producing cask. You can be sure they’ll have something new for you to try.
Ossett Brewery
Hailing, strangely enough, from Ossett in West Yorkshire, they also own Salt, Rat & Ratchet and Riverhead breweries, and will be bringing a real mix of things for your delight.
Cask beer will also be available in the Millowners’s Arms within the Museum complex.
A feature of the festival is that we try and obtain cask beer from all current breweries that fall within the Sheffield & District branch of Camra area, so expect to see about 18 Sheffield area breweries represented with a cask beer. One of Sheffield’s newer breweries, Duality, will hopefully be featured.
St. Mars of the Desert, a well-respected keg only brewer in Sheffield have collaborated at Thornbridge Brewery to brew a cask beer and we hope to have a cask of that. There should also be another special Thornbridge beer brewed on the Union system.
We also have one of only 2 casks (the rest will be canned) of Triple Point Brewery Sheaf, a 6.2% NEIPA brewed in collaboration with the Sheaf & Porter Rivers Trust, a charity whose mission is to conserve and improve Sheffield’s urban rivers, the Sheaf and the Porter Brook.
Two special beers are in the pipeline. The first is a beer in support of this year’s festival charity – The Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity and the proceeds from the sale of this beer will be donated to that charity. The second marks the 50th anniversary of Sheffield & District’s branch magazine. It started life in the summer of 1975 as the Parish Pump and became Beer Matters in September 1978. It is now, possibly, the only branch magazine to still be issued on a monthly basis. If ready, all beers will be available from opening on Wednesday 15th October.
check out the website on the week of the festival for a full interactive list of all the beers featured this year!