Neepsend Brewery won awards at three beer festivals during 2016 – Sheffield, Stockport and Chesterfield Market. They celebrated their 100th gyle brew back in December which was Century IPA, a 6.6% ABV beer brewed with a combination of Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and Centennial hops.
The final brew of 2016 for
Exit 33 Brewing was a new batch of Triple Hop, using Chinook, Eldorado and Simcoe whole leaf hops.
Bradfield Brewery are sponsoring the shirts at Stocksbridge Rugby Club.
North Union Brewing are selling their kit ahead of impending redevelopment of the area they are located. It is understood family commitments are being given priority before relaunching the brewery in the future. If you are interested in buying a brewery you can direct message on Twitter, @NorthUnionBrew.
Hopjacker‘s latest new beer is their modern interpretation of a Biére de Garde. It has a strength of 7.4% and a lovely spicy, earthy flavour from the Abbaye yeast, sweet maltiness and subtle bitterness. It is dry hopped with Comet, Mosaic and Vic Secret for citrus and tropical flavour and aroma.
Beers recently available from
Intrepid Brewery alongside their regular Blonde and Porter has been a Breakfast IPA brewed with coffee from Buxton Roastery, a single Hop Pale Ale brewed with Galaxy hops, an American Pale Ale and a Dunkle.
You can now order sweets that claim to pick you up when suffering from a hangover!
Thornbridge Brewery have teamed up with Simpkins of Sheffield, who have been manufacturing confectionary since 1921, to produce Thornbridge branded hangover sweets containing Glucose, Ginseng extracts and fruits of the forest flavours.
Drone Valley Brewery have collaborated with Clifton Park WI to brew a Cherry Belles Porter, this 5.8% ABV beer debuted at the Barrack in Apperknowle mid January.
Emmanuales new series of specials for 2017 are being brewed under the banner of ‘The Gospale according to’ with the first being Saint Centennial, a single hop, dry hopped IPA.
Mitchells Hop House have established their core range of beers – Madness (IPA, 5%), Independent (Blonde, 4%), Marilyn (Golden, 4.3%), Dennis (Pale Ale, 4.5%) and Butchers Beer & Beef (Bitter, 4%). Looking ahead there are plans to invite cuckoo brewers to the Hop House for collaboration brews.
Sheffield Brewery Company are again to produce a series of specials for 2017, this year the theme is ‘finely polished beers’. Actually the series was launched in December 2016 with Brunswick Black, followed by ‘Razor Paste’, a 5.6% IPA ready for the new year.
Tapped Brewco had a SMASH (Single Malt, Single Hop) beer on the bar at the Sheffield Tap as part of their TRYanuary campaign in the new year.
The Dark Star range once tasted will forever live in the memory. Sue provides a text and email alert service for customer favourites and is open to suggestions for new beers. Recently I had an alert received whilst in Abu Dhabi for Dark Star American Pale Ale. Couldn’t quite make it back for that one!
The pub retains its old charm and consists of a large Bar Saloon with original long bar and furnishings and a very comfortable large lounge which is available for private bookings, birthdays weddings and wakes! It’s on the doorstep to Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium. The pub has a real community feel and offers a warm welcome to all.
Sue is keen to maximise the use of the Lounge. There are planned events including live bands, folk nights, and a community market 4 x year with donations going to local charities. The lounge is available to young families late afternoons at weekends with its own toy corner. It’s also available for private hire. There is a monthly book club, and a general knowledge and bingo quiz night on a Thursdays. Other planned events include Brewery tastings and Gin nights and even Ukulele Workshops. You can check out on what’s coming up by following the Facebook page.
Due to start soon is a coffee and music morning the first Saturday in every month
There is outdoor seating ideal for snatching an early sneaky one after work on a summers evening.
Sue provides hot home cooked food on Fridays using the best local ingredients. This is very popular 6.00 – 8.30
It’s now on the 86 and 96 bus routes so you can get off on Archer Road at the Laycock’s Social Club and amble along Fraser Road to the BOTTOM of the hill 5 mins from the stop. The Alehouse is a must for anyone looking for a great pint with friendly staff and customers. It’s located in that real ale desert almost a no-man’s land between the Broadfield and Woodseats. A great stop off to be included in any real ale pub crawls in the area. It is so inspiring to see a local pub make such a determined come back from what would have been eventual closure and demolition.
Here’s to the many Alehouses out there!
Note the Alehouse is open Tuesday to Friday 4.00-11.00; Saturday 3.00-11.00pm and Sunday 3.00 -10 00 pm – Food on Fridays
Dick Williams 
A belated happy new year to you all, and a great big welcome to our new look core range artwork! Rest assured that the beer behind the pumpclip is exactly the same brew that we all know and love, but with a fresher appearance that looks more at home on a 2017 bar.
As usual, we’ve got new beers galore for you this month!
Heathen was our fastest-growing beer of 2016, and this year will see us create a new range with the same look (artwork created by the wonderful James D Murphy), but which will be available in both cask and keg.
First up, we’ll have Salvation stout – coconut edition (5.5%), packed full of Sorachi Ace hops and 50kg of coconut toasted by our own fair hands.
Coming later in February we will be releasing the first iteration of our new Voyager IPA, and the inaugural Reaper cereal beer, which will initially take the form of a Hopfenweisse. We’re really looking forward to use this range to explore new ingredients and expand our outlook on exciting beer styles. Look out for other limited edition beers in this series later in the year too.
Our Animal Vengeance series is back with a… erm… vengeance, too.
Lion Tamer (4.3%) will roar across the tastebuds with citrus and pine flavours from the Cascade and Chinook hops. Doctor Morton’s Cattle Prod is an old favourite making a return: a classic 4.1% pale ale with notes of refreshing orange and melon.
Finally, our next Beerhead is a little Excuser (3.6%), promising to be a light session IPA brimming with fresh fruity twists and an uplifting floral aroma.
Cheers! 
Steel City attended the European Parliament All Party Beer Group’s pre-xmas bash with their AFA pale and Mayhem stout. The beers went down well, and the latter raised both eyebrows and chuckles depending on political allegiance! A particularly interesting reaction was observed from a Tory MEP… Both beers are available (at time of writing!) from Hop Hideout and Beer Central.
Due to forthcoming changes at host brewery Toolmakers, Steel City’s tenure there is ending. The swansong brew was a home collaboration with Lost Industry, in for a penny in for a pound, those mad bastards Jimmy and Nathan convinced Dave to go big or go home, so Steel City wil be signing off with an Imperial Pale Stout.
Master of Puppets will hopefully approach or hit double figure ABV, with all the mouthfeel and roasty flavour of an imperial stout, but pale.
The brew involves grains selected to provide stout flavours without colour (so the opposite of Black IPA!), supplemented by coffee, cacao nibs and vanilla, along with Bramling Cross and Sorachi hops. It will be available in cask at the Shakespeare, and keg at Sentinel during Sheffield Beer Week.
The Shakespeare will also have a special version Pastor of Muppets, with some sort of adjunct (possibly including wafers, red wine and the tears of choristers).
The mini kit was also pressed into use – normally the mini kit uses first runnings to make a stronger beer, but this time once the main brew was in the copper the runnings were still at 1050… So it seemed a waste to not use them! For the simple reason that it seemed a good idea at the time, the brew is a stollen pale stout, Drink It Like It’s Stollen, yes made with real stollen.
Also available during the Beer Week will be the return collab, no details as yet but expect sour…
Negotiations are ongoing regarding a new home, in the meantime there should be plenty of ‘away’ collabs in the UK and abroad!
This month will also see the return of some old favourites, including the rich and fruity Farrier, a premium amber bitter with blends of sweet caramel which boasts an impressive 5.5% ABV and last but not least the lovely Henrietta Grande, a stronger, hoppier version of our award-winning Henrietta. This 4.0% Golden Ale is packed full of wonderful hop character from German, British and American hops.
Finally, we are also happy to announce that we will once again be hosting guided brewery tours this summer! We have 6 tours running from April to September, and tickets are already selling fast. For details on how to book please see our ad on