We are pleased to announce that The Sheffield Brewery Company has won three gold awards at the recent SIBA North & East Regional Beer Awards, earning us a place in the national final at next year’s SIBA BeerX in Liverpool.
Our seasonal special American pale ale,
Get Thi’Sen Outdooerz (4.0%), not only picked up the best beer in the Cask Session IPA category but was deemed to be the Overall Best Cask Beer in the competition.
Having started life as a one-off two years ago as part of the Ten of the Best series, celebrating The Sheffield Brewery Company’s 10th anniversary,
Get Thi’Sen Outdooerz has since become a firm favourite of all those who have graced bars across the area, trying (and failing in some cases) to pronounce its name with as much Yorkshire gusto as thirsty punters can muster. Therefore… (drum roll please!) we are pleased to announced that this award winning beer is now a part of our permanent core range, available in cask, keg and bottle.
We were also thrilled to pick up Gold in the Bottle/Can British Dark Beers 4.5-6.4% category for our breakfast stout,
Berlin Black (5.7%). This thick, luscious stout is everything you’d have for breakfast – only in a beer. Cereals, oats, milk (lactose milk sugar), and sausages… wait. Sausages?! Yep – Weyermann Smoked Malt (ahh!), all topped off with
Frazer’s Coffee Roasters‘ cold-brewed coffee.
In other news, every year, we introduce first time students to the greatest city on earth with our annual release of Fresh Start. And this year, we have a fresh start of our own. Our new Head Brewer, Marv White, has introduced his first two beers to the brewery’s repertoire.
Fresh Start (2018-19 Edition) (4.5%) is a beautifully pale, sessionable, go-back-for-moreish, solid pale ale, with ample amounts of Cascade, Calypso, Chinook and Centennial.
Not only is Marv an excellent brewer, but he is also a semi-professional musician. Drawing from his musical influences, currently fermenting his Marv’s first solo beer (see what we did there!).
Lucille (4.5%) – named after BB King’s guitar – is a New England IPA, dry hopped with 10KG of Citra. Full of ester notes and hoppy tones, this fruit beer is a sure-fire hit for your playlist… erm, bar!
For more info, as ever, check out
www.sheffieldbrewery.com.
Nick Law 
We’ll start with the first of our new brews, Burning Firedog (4.3%). A robust, dry and roasty porter, it’s brewed to a traditional recipe using blackened British malts, and peppery English hops. Perfect for chilly evenings at the pub!
Our next new brew this month is perfectly themed for October and aptly named Wheatsheaf. The Welbeck estate has for centuries been a farm and woodland, growing wheat as one of its major Autumn crops. Our brewing team wanted to show the fabulous brewing qualities of malted wheat through a true Oktoberfest-style, clovey wheat beer that boasts a stellar 5.8% ABV!
Lastly from our Brewers Choice range we have Claire’s High Koalaty and pays tribute to our fearless leader Claire. Her favourite style of beer is what she terms a ‘dangerous IPA’. (fruity, refreshing and devilishly strong). She adores the slightly apricot flavours the ‘Summer’ hop from Australia brings, and has used them to infused this 5% IPA with lashings of seasonally fruity notes.
Lastly, our 2019 brewery tour dates will be released later this month, so make sure you check out our Facebook page for dates and ticket details!
Jess Low 
If you want to try any of these brews your best bet is to head to the Sheaf View, Blake Hotel or Wellington or to call into our brewery tap room, which will be open on Saturday 6 October and Saturday 7 November. Popping down to our tap room will also give you the chance to see the facelift our brewery shutter doors have undergone courtesy of local artist, Zoe Genders, who has done a fantastic job painting them with an original hop cone design.
We are also delighted to once again be sponsoring the Steel City Beer Festival. Festival glassware will be branded with our logo and there will be five of our beers available on hand-pull throughout the festival, as well, hopefully, as a collaboration brew we’ll be involved in that is still to be confirmed at the the time of writing.
Gavin Martin 
Providing all goes to plan, we’ve got another collaboration out this month, this time with Haand Bryggeriet who joined us all the way from Norway to create our first ever Brut IPA, a style which is very much in the spotlight at the moment. Splash It All Over will be a 6.5% brut-ifully aromatic and bone dry IPA with Ekuanot, Enigma and Eureka hops. It’ll also be the next release showcasing the artwork of Lewis Ryan… we hope you’ve saved your Creeping Brett label as this collaboration is to be the next piece of our little jigsaw!
Seeing as it’s October, we’re as usual embracing Halloween and will be bringing back the much acclaimed Iced Tea Dead People (4.6%), a peach infused iced tea inspired beer using the “Princess Peach” blend from our friends at Birdhouse Tea Co. Pilgrim (5.0%) is also making a return with a delicious combination of autumnal spices and I’m ridiculously excited about this one heading into can this year!
Beyond that, I ain’t promising anything other than Moonshine. There’ll always be Moonshine.
Laura 
Recent collaborations have included three at Imperial, a super-bitter Transatlantic Pale Ale called You’re My Mate in aid of the charity Mind, a rhubarb & custard white stout which was devised entirely to fit the name, Let’s Get Ready to Crumble, and in conjunction with the Rutland a citra & topaz Transatlantic Pale Ale entitled Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here (named after the Anaal Nathrakh album, not the quote from that Shakespeare bloke, obviously).
The next brew is another collab with the Rutland, once again a beer devised to fit the name, in this case Black Cascade (a Wolves In The Throne Room album, as you’ll all know…). As you might expect, the concept is a Cascade-hopped Black IPA, but the twist is the brew will be split with one batch being a Sour Black IPA.
Dave Unpronounceable 
On the form you need to fill in your details and the hours you wish to work. Our staffing officer will then register you and allocate you a job and reserve you a free staff t-shirt (note only a limited stock of t-shirts have been provided by our sponsors so these are first come first served).
There are a variety of roles available depending on your experience and availability, and all volunteers receive a free entry and free beer tokens as well as their t-shirt. Of course, the biggest reward is the satisfaction of being part of an enthusiastic team that makes the festival such a highlight of the Sheffield calendar!
The most obvious roles include serving beer and cider at the bar but we also need staff at the entrance dealing with admissions, glasses, programmes and customer service; staff on the various stalls including merchandise, membership, beer tokens and games; staff in the office for various admin duties and of course members of the cellar team looking after the beer behind the scenes!
We also really need volunteers to help on the site team setting everything up in the days before we open and taking everything down on the Sunday – we move in to an empty site on the Monday and build all the bars etc and have to leave an empty site with everything back in storage on the Sunday!
We are always especially short of helpers taking down and packing away on the Sunday – we do close a little earlier on Saturday where some of the take-down jobs will begin before the staff social, but there will still be plenty to do on Sunday including van runs to our storage location. There’s no beer to be drunk but we do provide some refreshments, for example last year there were bacon sandwiches and coffee.
Working a beer festival is generally enjoyed by all – some roles can be hard work, of course, but it’s also fun and if you have a passion for good beer or cider then a successful event makes it all worthwhile! 
