Andy has been actively involved in CAMRA since the early 2000s after being recruited to sit on a National Younger Members Task Group.
Since then he has held roles on the branch committee including Secretary, Membership Secretary, Magazine Editor, Chair and now Social Secretary.
Andy has also been involved with the Steel City Beer & Cider Festival almost every year since becoming active in the branch.
Peak Ales have successfully brewed a batch of Bakewell Best Bitter at their new, bigger brewery at Ashford in the Water. An open day is planned soon to celebrate!
Following the brew day at Blue Bee, a number of Steel City Beer Festival organising committee members visited Sheffield Brewery to brew another beer to promote the upcoming ruby anniversary festival – the pump clip carries the festival logo and the beer is called Ruby Ruby Ruby. Look out for it in local pubs and at the festival itself, which runs from 29th October to 1st November.
Intrepid is a new brewery that has set up in Brough (between Hope and Bradwell) and supplies beer to the Anglers Rest at Bamford, which is community owned, along with the free trade. The beers have also been noted at the Yorkshire Bridge.
The brewery has three regular staff, brewer Ben McIntyre who previously worked in I.T. and was involved in getting the Anglers Rest up and running, Beck McIntyre who looks after sales and marketing and Paul Towers who delivers the beer.
A range of three regular beers are currently brewed – Explorer – a 4% Blonde beer, St Bernard – a malty, brown ale and a Porter.
After a very busy and successful 2013 things settled down for us during 2014 and with the onset of 2015 approaching we will be revising all our core range and monthly specials. From January 2015 all recipes will have been assessed and tweaked accordingly. We will be producing one Monthly special, four Seasonal specials and perhaps one or two weird and wonderful brews(Watch This Space).
We now bottle our full core range of beers and these are available from several outlets in the Sheffield and local areas.They are all bottle conditioned and come in 500ml bottles of which the Yellowood IPA performs particularly well.
With the help of our resident Do It All Man we now have a fully functioning mobile bar which can serve up to 10 hand pulls and is available for events and functions.
The Hillsborough Hotel above the brewery will be holding several themed nights during October through to 2015 and are also taking bookings for their festive menu throughout December along with their Christmas day lunch, but be quick places are going fast.
The Roebuck Tavern in Sheffield’s bustling centre continues to perform extremely well. A Festive menu will be running throughout November and December, details can be found on their website www.theroebucksheffield.co.uk
Woodstreet Brewery Ales are available at both venues along with quality guest ales from our brewery friends.
The White Hart at Bradwell is now under the management of Hawthorne Leisure and landlord James Bacon. The beer range includes Tetley Bitter, Timothy Taylor Landlord, Wells Bombardier Bitter and a guest ale.
Terry and Helen Bedford are now running the Sir William in Grindleford
The Star in Tideswell is now run by Tim and Amy McVey.
The Red Lion in Litton has a new landlady, Julie
Tom is leaving the Anvil, Stannington at the end of the month
The Shakey in Hillsborough now has real ale
The Castle Inn at Bradway has now had work completed to replace the bar’s pipework, something managers Craig and Marie were keen to see done, as a result the temperature the real ale is being served at is more consistent. Although we had no reports of quality issues before, this is of course good news! A regularly changing range of 3 real ales are available and a discount is offered to CAMRA members. Recently featured have been a couple of green hopped beers, one from Abbeydale and one from Ossett.
Rotherham CAMRA’s New York beer festival has been postponed due to an U19 football match subsequently being arranged at the stadium the same weekend. The new dates for the festival are 8th to 10th January. Check their website for the latest information.
It is reported that the Sportsman on Cambridge Street has closed as a rock pub with the management moving around the corner to the former Yorkshireman pub (more recently known as Lions Lair).
This month’s guide to pubs along bus and tram routes is focused on the City to Totley part of bus route 97, operated by First South Yorkshire. In the City Centre this runs from High Street, the Peace Gardens and Moorfoot before heading out onto London Road, Abbeydale Road and Baslow Road, terminating at Gillifield Wood – the county boundary! Arriving back in the city centre Eyre Street and Arundel Gate is served.
Additionally TM Travel bus 218 runs from Sheffield Interchange and follows the same route from Moorfoot to Totley before continuing to Matlock.
These buses are supplemented by others as far as Broadfield – First buses 75, 76 and 98 along with Stagecoach bus 87.
Once in Totley, local bus M17, operated by TM Travel, provides connections to some other local pubs in the Dore, Totley and Bradway area during the daytime.
A day ticket for First buses in Sheffield (FirstDay) costs £3.80 or a day ticket on all buses and trams in Sheffield (Citywide) costs £4.50. These tickets are sold by the bus driver.
A classic pub with a modern makeover, three real ales are available which generally fall into the ‘local favourite’ category and bar snacks are served. Very busy with Sheffield United fans on match days.
Good beer range can be found in this long thin pub that could have its look described as ‘shabby chic’ where you will find football supporters and musos happily rubbing shoulders. Bar snacks available.
Located underneath the old Abbeydale Picture House, you descend a staircase from an almost anonymous frontage into a smart lounge which is a modern and fashionable design with a nod to the building’s art deco style. Three real ales are available, additionally interesting bottled beers from both the UK and rest of world are featured with guest bottles listed on the blackboard, these are sourced via Hop Hideout. As well as the lounge containing the bar, there is a diner and games room.
Part of the Forum Group and nicely refurbished with a vague railway and alehouse mixed theme, when you enter there is a central bar with a dining area to the left and drinking area to the right. An extensive beer range is featured with something interesting always available and on the food side of things the pub is famous for its pies.
Part of the Ember Inns chain with their usual homely interior design and food menu, the bar features 10 handpumps generally with a variety of 5 beers on at any one time, the other pumps being prepared for the beers coming up next.
Wagon & Horses
Part of the Flaming Grill chain, this place is mostly about the dining with burgers, steaks etc, however it does have a proper pub section. Beers are mostly well known national brands.
Located under the Beauchief Hotel, this is a comfortable cellar bar, however if the weather is nice there is also a pleasant beer garden. The beer is from Thornbridge.
A gastropub with hotel rooms in the adjoining building and an artificial beer garden at the rear. Although much of the pub is a dining area where good food is served and staff look the part, those just popping in for a drink are still made most welcome. A choice of three real ales are available, including a changing guest beer.
Walk from the main road down Hillfoot Road to reach the following two pubs:
proper country pub with a selection of well known beers and home cooked food.
Cricket Inn – a long established pub located next to the Cricket green (the pub’s beer garden is on the same field!). This is part of the Brewkitchen chain of gastro-pubs which is a partnership between Thornbridge Brewery and Richard Smith’s restaurants.
Via bus M17 – board on Baslow Road, next stop down from Cross Scythes:
Offers a range of around 6 real ales with a mixture of local brews and well known national brands. Large multi room pub with lounge, pool table room and an adjoining wine bar/bistro.
Looks like a row of terraced cottages from the outside, the pub is long and thin with two rooms, one a comfortable room catering for diners enjoying the value for money menu, the other a more basic tap room for drinkers. Real Ales are normally Tetleys Bitter, Abbeydale Moonshine and a guest.
A fairly modern pub in a farmhouse style building next to Bradway bus terminus, inside the bar area is L-shaped and offers mainly fixed seating. The pub is owned by Samuel Smiths Brewery and offers all their own products at reasonable prices. Food served at most meal times.
At the end of a row of terraced cottages above the railway cutting, this pub has three cosy rooms – tap room, lounge and restaurant along with a beer garden at rear. The three real ales change regularly and are mainly from breweries in Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Lunchtime meals are served daily except Monday, evening meals Tuesday to Saturday.
Still under the Stephens’ Empire (ahem, Reet Ale Pubs) umbrella, the Three Tuns has recently seen the promotion of Kate Major to Imperial Overlord, following in the footsteps of Emperor Andy himself.
Under this new regime the first Major change will be our new Sunday opening times. From November 2nd we will be open from 12-6pm for delicious, homemade Sunday roasts. With the well-known and well-loved cider pig sandwiches, halloumi burgers, bangers and mash, and changing specials board growing ever more popular, we decided it was time to venture into the Kelham Island Sunday lunch trade. Our food times during the rest of the week are remaining the same, Monday-Friday 11.30-9pm, Saturday 12-9pm.
Another change is our new cider hand-pump, serving cellar cooled real cider on the bar to compliment our 6 rotating real ales. Blue Bee obviously show their beery faces a lot on our bar, with their regulars and specials making frequent appearances, but we are also excited to be able to showcase beers from other exceptional nearby breweries, such as Great Heck, Red Willow, Acorn, and many more.
Finally, thank you to all who made it down to our Pub of the Month party in September, we all had a thoroughly good night, although the Friday lunch shift afterwards was fairly painful.
However, we are not satisfied, we need more parties!!! Our first birthday is being celebrated on Thursday 6th November, right here at the Three Tuns, and you’re all invited. Starting at 7pm, there will be beer, food, and even more sherbet than at PotM.
The Harley Hotel, located across the road from the University of Sheffield tram stop, offers a bar that opens until the early hours all week, often with live music or DJs at night. The food operation there is the Twisted Burger Company and we have news that Twisted Burgers will be providing a late night diner facility in the bar until 4am Sunday to Wednesday with a special night time menu served in takeaway boxes after 10pm – this is based on the menu offered at their outside catering unit which goes to festivals.
As part of the University of Sheffield’s recently published Campus Masterplan, the University Arms could be demolished to make way for more university buildings.
The largest of the three development options for the Hounsfield Site envisages the destruction of the building. The other two options, both smaller in size, retain the Arms.
The masterplan includes only one aerial view of the three proposed options (p.71 of a 109 page document). In this, the pub is replaced by yet another tower block.
The University Arms opened in January 2007, having previously functioned, for many years, as ‘Club 197, ‘ the University Staff Club. It has appeared in every CAMRA Good Beer Guide since 2010.
The University of Sheffield Campus Masterplan is currently available at: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.403903!/file/campus-masterplan-all.pdf
If you are not familiar with the micropub concept, it is basically a small pub based in a converted shop unit where the operating costs are low, there is no entertainment, food is limited to bar snacks such as cheese, pork pies, crisps and nuts and the drinks range is a limited specialist selection including cask ales. They offer a relaxed and friendly environment that is all about good beer and conversation.
There are two notable established micropubs in Chesterfield – the Chesterfield Alehouse on West Bars and the Beer Parlour at Whittington Moor – both of which have been recent recipients of Chesterfield CAMRA Pub of the Season awards.
Here in Sheffield, the closest we have is a pop-up Micropub in the form of the Walkley Beer Company which opens on selected weekends in a former florists shop with temporary tables and seats, 3 cask ales served on gravity and an interesting selection of bottled beers. There are plans for this place to become a more permanent fixture.
However there is another on the horizon in the shape of the Beer House. Planning permission has now been granted to convert a former e-cigarette shop at 623 Ecclesall Road, by Hunters Bar roundabout, that has been standing empty into a micropub and it is hoped to be trading by Christmas. The pub layout will see a bar area down the left hand side as you walk in, toilets at the back and a seating area in the middle. The bar will offer a range of cask beers and imported lagers. Behind this project is Chris Sinclair who owns the Dronfield Arms along with business partner John Harrison. You can follow progress on Twitter by following @BeerHouse623
However, we are not satisfied, we need more parties!!! Our first birthday is being celebrated on Thursday 6th November, right here at the Three Tuns, and you’re all invited. Starting at 7pm, there will be beer, food, and even more sherbet than at PotM. 
However, we are not satisfied, we need more parties!!! Our first birthday is being celebrated on Thursday 6th November, right here at the Three Tuns, and you’re all invited. Starting at 7pm, there will be beer, food, and even more sherbet than at PotM. 
As part of the University of Sheffield’s recently published Campus Masterplan, the University Arms could be demolished to make way for more university buildings.
The largest of the three development options for the Hounsfield Site envisages the destruction of the building. The other two options, both smaller in size, retain the Arms.
The masterplan includes only one aerial view of the three proposed options (p.71 of a 109 page document). In this, the pub is replaced by yet another tower block.
The University Arms opened in January 2007, having previously functioned, for many years, as ‘Club 197, ‘ the University Staff Club. It has appeared in every CAMRA Good Beer Guide since 2010.
The University of Sheffield Campus Masterplan is currently available at: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.403903!/file/campus-masterplan-all.pdf 
