Happy new year to all readers, and especially our local members in Sheffield & District CAMRA!
We’ve already started planning the branch diary for 2026 which will see
- monthly branch meeting
- monthly pub award presentation
- monthly pub trip social – this will be a walk around an area of Sheffield in the winter, bus or train trip out into the Derbyshire countryside in the summer.
- monthly RambAle during the spring/summer (these are country walks incorporating stops at pubs along the way)
- occasional beer tasting nights, brewery visits and dining socials.
You can find listings of everything we’re doing for the next month or two in the back of Beer Matters magazine and on our website, sheffield.camra.org.uk.
We’re also starting to plan our 50th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival which is to take place at Kelham Island Museum from 21 to 24 October. If you’d be interested in joining the organising committee please come along to the next planning meeting at the Gardeners Rest on 17 February, for more details email festival@sheffield.camra.org.uk. We will of course also be looking for volunteers to help out at the event nearer the time!
There are also more opportunities to volunteer with us – as well as committee roles we need a few more people helping distribute Beer Matters magazines – if any of the pubs in our area you drink in regularly don’t get any copies and would like some, we’d appreciate it if you could deliver some there – pick copies up from the Dog & Partridge snug and let us know you are doing so by emailing beermatters@sheffield.camra.org.uk.
We’d also find it incredibly useful to receive pub updates for the national online guide at camra.org.uk/pubs (for example if opening hours, food offering or beer range has changed or you’ve taken a good photo we can use), these can be submitted using the link on the pub’s page. Also don’t forget to score your beers on there!