When long standing owners and licencees Pat and Eddy retired and sold up, a whole bunch of regulars put money into a community enterprise (Gardeners Rest Community Society) that now operates the pub. As before it is a great real ale pub with a choice of rooms, bar billiards, traditional music performances and slightly eccentric riverside beer garden but the community element has been cranked up a notch or two which is reflected in the people working there and the groups using the meeting room upstairs.
The pub is currently opening part time (afternoons Wed-Sat) for take home beer sales, check their social media for current opening times and beer choices.
Pub of the Year 2020 (North Sheffield)
Our North Sheffield Pub of the Year is awarded to the Gardeners Rest in Neepsend.
When long standing owners and licencees Pat and Eddy retired and sold up, a whole bunch of regulars put money into a community enterprise (Gardeners Rest Community Society) that now operates the pub. As before it is a great real ale pub with a choice of rooms, bar billiards, traditional music performances and slightly eccentric riverside beer garden but the community element has been cranked up a notch or two which is reflected in the people working there and the groups using the meeting room upstairs.
The pub is currently opening part time (afternoons Wed-Sat) for take home beer sales, check their social media for current opening times and beer choices.
When long standing owners and licencees Pat and Eddy retired and sold up, a whole bunch of regulars put money into a community enterprise (Gardeners Rest Community Society) that now operates the pub. As before it is a great real ale pub with a choice of rooms, bar billiards, traditional music performances and slightly eccentric riverside beer garden but the community element has been cranked up a notch or two which is reflected in the people working there and the groups using the meeting room upstairs.
The pub is currently opening part time (afternoons Wed-Sat) for take home beer sales, check their social media for current opening times and beer choices.
The Prime Minister has announced that alongside changes to social distancing requirement pubs will be permitted to open from Saturday 4th July – but subject to conditions including table service and customers registering their contact details for the NHS track and trace system.
Not all pubs will be ready to open on the 4th July and some may continue offering take home sales.
We will add any updates about individual pubs that we are made aware of to the pub’s entry on 
The Dorothy Pax at Victoria Quays in Sheffield City Centre is currently operating as a shop for take home drinks but has now revealed how things will operate there when the government gives pubs the go ahead to reopen..
We’re currently making plans to welcome you back to the Pax Beer Garden as per current guidelines set out by the government. As it stands at the moment this will be Saturday 4th July.
As you can appreciate we’re proceeding with caution as this may change. Our safety procedures will exceed over and above government guidelines. The safety of staff and customers is our absolute top priority. Therefore we will be serving delicious beverages in our socially distanced beer garden under a table booking system only whereby drinks are ordered via an app.
It’s going to be a while yet until we can get back to pre-lockdown party times, but we have been closely following advice and guidelines throughout. This policy outlines what we understand will be a safe way for us and you to get back to a sense of normality whilst protecting us all and exceeding any government guidelines for when we are allowed to reopen the best beer garden in Sheffield. We are so very excited and from what you’ve told us you are too… but we must be safe.
In order to provide the safest environment possible, drinks will be served at the Pax only under a table booking system in the beer garden to facilitate safe social distancing for all of us. You will be able to book a table for a slot for multiples of 2 hours at no cost of course. But we’d ask you to do so, so we can ensure we’re here to look after you Pax Purfect. Rest assured all tables and benches will be deep cleaned from one booking to the next and we will also supply a hand sanitizing station for each table. The capacity of the tables, for you, your small humans and hounds will follow government guidance at that time.
Please try to arrive at the booking on time, by introducing yourselves at the door, then you’ll be shown to your table. For those arriving later in the evening on those sunny days, we recommend the “upper-decks” where sunlight lasts longer (table no 16 to 30). For those who want some shade we recommend those in front of the bar no (table no 1 to 15). Cancellation of tables can be made online, please let us know in good time so we can allow a fellow customer to book them if something crops up.
Grizzly Grains had arranged to do a collaboration brew with Heeley City Farm for their fundraising beer festival, which of course got cancelled due to the Coronavirus restrictions. However they went ahead and brewed the beer anyway and have bottled it to drink at home!
The beer is Belgian inspired and brewed with tons of Heather Honey from the farms own bees, hopped with Amarillo and Mandarins Bavaria for subtle orange flavour and comes in at 6% ABV. The brewery is donating £1 from every bottle of “Honey, I Brew up the Farm”, sold to Heeley City Farm.
A second beer is also being released at the same time, Mangopocalypse, an 8% mango DIPA.
Both beers will be available to order online along with bag-in-box cask beers for home delivery, their web shop launches on Thursday 28th May at 
The new business will provide a mix of Carlsberg’s mass-market lagers and Marston’s cask, and will also supply Carlsberg beers into Marston’s estate of ~1,400. Commenting on the proposed joint venture beer company, Chief Executive of the Campaign for Real Ale Tom Stainer said:
“This announcement about a proposed new Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company is a red flag to beer drinkers and pub goers across the UK and gives us cause for concern about the future of British beers, brands and breweries.
“If this joint venture goes ahead, we would see further consolidation of the brewing industry into just a few large, international players – to the detriment of our national brewing heritage, consumer choice, the diversity of beer in pubs across the country and the access to market for the small, independent brewing industry.
“CAMRA wants to see Carlsberg and Marston’s protect jobs and protect pubs, as well as to resist any brewery closures or moves which would see existing beers losing their identity, or regional character, as part of a merger.”
In our branch area there are several pubs who could be affected. These include, in Derbyshire, the Eyre Arms (Calver), the Scotsman’s Pack (Hathersage) and the Star (Tideswell). In Sheffield, Marston’s have the Double Top (Halfway), Eighteen Ten (Carbrook), the Hare and Hounds (Oughtibridge), the Howard (City Centre), and the Milestone (Crystal Peaks).
We also have concerns regarding the internationally unique Marston’s Brewery. This is the only one in the world to use the ‘Burton Union’ system of brewing: a Union set consists of large wooden casks, on their sides in rows, suspended off the floor in a frame by large metal axles. Each barrel is fitted with a bottom valve that leads to a bottom trough. A cooling coil is in each barrel to control fermentation. The barrels are linked together by a series of pipes so that liquid can be evenly dispersed throughout the Union. Fermenting wort is introduced at the feeder vessel and flows into the barrels. As the yeast ferments, it is forced out of the barrels in bursts. As the fermentation proceeds, a large amount of healthy yeast is retained in the top trough and the beer in the barrels gradually becomes bright. The yeast is collected from the top trough for subsequent use. After about six days, the fully fermented beer is moved to a finishing vessel, blended with other beer, or packaged in casks.
The Burton Union at Marston’s is currently only used to brew Marston’s Pedigree.
Dave Pickersgill 
Obviously we were looking forward to staging another great festival, but with the current social distancing measures looking set to continue for some time, it became obvious that we couldn’t ensure the safety of our visitors and still retain the atmosphere that makes it such a special event.
Rest assured we are already looking forward to 2021 and in fact have two events planned. The 