Sheffield Brewery
The Sheffield Brewery Company is pleased to announce that at the recent SIBA North & East Beer Completion, we came Gold in the small pack Mild Ales category for our light but highly flavoursome 3.5% porter, Brunswick Black. The award was collected in person by our brewer, Nick Law, whose happy accident led to this slightly sweet porter (you can read the full story in a recent back issue of Beer Matters).
In other news, our Brewery Tap Room will be open again on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 October. Serving up a range of fresh keg and cask ales, food, and live music, our venue is the perfect place to hang out for good beer, good bands and good times.
Finally, you’ll be pleased to know that over the next few months, we’ll be relaunching our Beer Club with a range of events including tap take overs, meet the brewer, specialised homebrewing courses and competitions, music nights, and more. Our desire is to make The Sheffield Brewery Company the hub for all things beer, fostering a community of hop heads who are as passionate about the production – and particularly the consumption – of beer as we are. Members will enjoy discounts on the bar as well as a range of other benefits.
Details to follow at www.sheffieldbrewery.com.
Nick Law
Meanwhile, Brad Fitton has joined Stancill Brewery as director of sales. Brad has held previous roles at the now defunct Crown Brewery and Retford-based Springhead Brewery. In 2014, he was part of the original Stancill team who launched the brewery, and was responsible for developing the company’s sales strategy before leaving to pursue other opportunities. Brad returned to Stancill in August 2017, where he will be responsible for overseeing the company’s business growth strategy.
Brad said: “Returning to Stancill Brewery is a really exciting challenge for me. I’ve spent quite a bit of time working in the brewing industry during my career and it’s great to re-join the brewery team. I enjoyed working with Tom and Adam when they first launched their business. It’s incredible to see how much they have achieved in such a relatively short period of time and I’m looking forward to helping support the brewery’s ambitious future growth plans.” 
Following a lengthy negotiation with owners Punch Taverns and meeting with the local community group, Tom and Adam received the keys to The Closed Shop at the end of August. Behind the bar, additional hand pumps have been added, increasing the range of hand pulled beers to ten, which will include a selection of changing guest beers as well as a selection of Stancill beers. Additional craft beer lines have also been installed and a selection of more than 30 gins and whiskies will also be available. The pub’s kitchen is currently being refurbished and is due to re-open in the next few weeks.
A number of regular events are planned to take place, including the return of the fiercely competitive Closed Shop quiz, which will take place every Wednesday with Jam Nights, food and drink evenings and after work drinks specials planned to be added in the future. The pub will be managed by experienced manager Hayley McPhie, who was responsible for overseeing the re-opening of the Norfolk Arms, Grenoside, which has been run by Stancill since November 2016 and the brewery is calling on former staff who worked at The Closed Shop to get in touch.
Thomas Gill, Managing Director, Stancill Brewery said: “The Closed Shop is a special pub for both Adam and I. When we heard that the pub had been forced to close unexpectedly we decided to contact Punch Taverns and see whether we could secure the future of a pub which we’d both spent many happy hours in during our student years.
“We’re hoping to replicate the winning formula which we’ve achieved in our other pubs in Sheffield, combining a changing selection of drinks, building a friendly and relaxing atmosphere where friends can meet and socialise and perhaps most importantly of all, placing the pub at the very heart of the local community.”
The Closed Shop will open from 2pm-12am Monday – Saturday and 2pm-11pm on Sundays. 
First up – earlier this year we brewed an “away” collaboration, a strong Tripel style beer called Trials and Tripelations, with the excellent chaps at Twisted Barrel Ale in Coventry. The barrel aged version of this has just been released by Twisted Barrel, and so we thought it a perfect time to have the guys back for the return leg. Together we’ve concocted a fruited rye ale, Forest Fruit (4.4%) with additions of blackberries, redcurrants, raspberries and chuckleberries.
You may have spotted on our social media that we’ve had some Americans in the brewhouse! All the way from North Carolina, Ass Clown’s head brewer and keen foodie Matt has created a maple bacon ice cream stout with us! Don’t Go Bacon My Heart (7.1%) contains 30kg of actual bacon from the lovely folks at Whirlow Hall Farm and beechwood smoked malt in the grist, balanced out with lactose and some lovely chocolatey malts for a slightly bonkers but magnificent flavour combination!
And from closer to home – after the success of last year’s “Getting Caught in the Rain” Pina Colada beer (we reckon we started a trend there) with Blue Bee, Josh has made the trek back across Sheffield to brew with us here. Introducing Are There Hops in Hell? – a 7.3% big fat hoppy rye IPA that will be making its debut at Steel City Beer Festival from 19 October.
We’re also really excited to announce that Brewdog Sheffield have selected us to partner up with them for Collabfest for the second year in a row, and our lemon curd on toast inspired Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy (5.5%) will be launched at their bar on 20 October, available on general release the following week.
And finally, we are of course releasing some beers that we’ve made all by ourselves! Especially for autumn, we’re introducing Pilgrim (5.0%) to the Brewers Emporium range, a spiced ale based on the flavours of pumpkin pie and a real favourite of the whole team here. Look out also for Destiny (4.3%), a light golden beer with Simcoe hops, and Restoration (4.2%), a pale ale loaded with Chinook and Cascade for a citrusy flavour and a lasting bitter finish.
Hope to see plenty of you for a pint down at Steel City Beer Festival!
Laura 
One for the Road (4.3%) is a pale ale brewed with a fantastic blend of hops including El Dorado, Amarillo & Azacca, which make for a hoppy full-flavoured session ale.
And as the weather turns autumnal we’re also bringing back Carbon Copy (6.0%), our dark Cascadian ale. This beer is complex; made with speciality German malts, it is very dark, with a good malt profile and then the hops hit you! A heady mix of Columbus, Bravo, Simcoe and Zeus.
Pete Roberts 
The ‘old oak room’ is a fine example of a 17th century panelled room with vine trail plaster frieze and enriched cross beam ceiling; if it was situated in a tourist hotspot, paying customers would visit on a daily basis. We find it difficult to see how the suggested conversion of the building could do anything but harm this historic part of our culture.
Carbrook Hall is also one of only eleven Sheffield pubs which have ACV (Asset of Community Value) status. Hence, we continue to look forward to the owner putting forward a comprehensive repair and restoration plan that meets the approval of Historic England, Sheffield planners and crucially, the communities that use it.
Dave Pickersgill