Author: Dominic Nelson

And so Autumn is steadily creeping on us already… luckily we have plenty of beers coming up to help you make the transition that bit easier! The fifth Voyager and Salvation are joining our ever-growing Brewer’s Emporium roster. The next Voyager IPA (6.0%) is a big-hitting American-inspired hopbomb packed with Simcoe and Mosaic, whilst our upcoming Salvation will be a coffee and doughnut stout! Our new bright beer tank is due to arrive any day too, so we plan to be able to offer more of these delicious limited edition brews in cans in future. Watch this space! We will be brightening up bars with Illumination, a 4.8% hoppy golden ale with a full-bodied bitterness and a powerful bouquet. A popular Doctor Morton’s creation is making a comeback in the form of Djinn Jar Beer (4.2%), brewed with fresh root ginger for a spicy kick. And finally, we have another beer from the archives but with overhauled artwork thanks to the very talented Luke Bailey – the New Zealand hopped Damnation (4.5%), a classic pale bitter with deliciously fruity overtones. In brew news, we’re SO excited to be welcoming some friends we made in North Carolina last year, as Ass Clown Brewing cross the pond to create something absolutely outrageous! Our lips are sealed for now on the recipe, but trust us when we say you’ll be squealing with joy (that may or may not be a clue)! Look out for more details coming in October’s Beer Matters and of course keep those eyes on our social media for lots of brewday behind-the-scenes action on September 14th. Cheers! Laura Rangeley

As usual we have kept the new beers rolling over the last month. Karpo is a 4.3 Tropical pale hopped with Citra, Sorachi Ace and Motueka for lime, coconut and tropical notes that seemed to disappear from the brewery in no time at all. Theia is a 3.6% Transpacific Session Pale made with US and NZ hops that packs a nice bitterness and has bags of flavour for its low strength. Keep a special eye out for Willis, a 5.0% Citra Simcoe Wit beer (the name may or may not be a silly pun…). We put a fairly eye watering amount of – exclusively post boil – hops in this one and the result is a juicy, fresh and full-bodied wheat beer. Naturally hazy due to the wheat malt and chock full of pine, citrus and tropical deliciousness. We’ve also returned to an old favourite in Triton, a 4.5% pale ale hopped with a trio of American hops, which is one of our most requested beers. Alder will be a 4.3% golden ale brewed with Manadrina Bavaria and Amarillo,the next single hopped IPA will be Ekuanot IPA using one of the hops of the moment and a brand new Vanilla Stout will be available from late August. Gavin Martin

Now then folks, having had a much needed rest in August to enjoy the English summer, the brewery tap room will be open again for the Peddler weekend 1-2 September with artisan food, live music and plenty of fresh beer, including on our newly installed keg line. Alongside your favourite Sheffield Brewery beers, including our recent special Red Rye, Dolly Grinders (4.3%), we’ll be serving up a special mango version of our beloved Razor Paste. Don’t expect a crystal clear beer; this beast – with a kilo of mango puree added direct to keg – will be cloudier than a day out in the Peal District on a Bank Holiday weekend! Bottled Beers This month also sees the launch of our first bottled beers in 330ml. Hand bottled and naturally conditioned, look out for our flagship beer Seven Hills (4.1%) – now with even more hops added late in the boil, producing even more flavour – Razor Paste (5.6% American IPA) with enough Mosaic and Citra to make moustaches curl, and a very special beer… True Luv is available in small quantities and is our 5.2% strawberry shortcake red ale. Made with a variety of biscuit malts, lactose sugar and strawberries, and named in honour of the local entrepreneur, Arthur Truelove, who was fundamental in the original polish factory where the brewery now resides, True Luv is a pure delight of fruity, biscuity, and creamy flavours. Brewery Tours and Parties Whether you’re interested in a guided brewery tour, throwing a party, hosting an event, or want a unique experience as as brewer for the day, The Sheffield Brewery Company is the perfect fit for you. Located in an original, brick built Victorian polish works, our brewery is full of charm, history and character. With its own reclaimed bar from Sheffield University’s Ranmoor Halls of Residence, our brewery and tap room can cater for a range of events, parties, private tours. In addition, our brewery tap room is open to the public on the first Friday and Saturday of each month, opposite Peddler Night Market. We offer brewery tours exclusively for groups, with an option of a pie and pea supper. Group brewery tours are available on Friday and Saturday evenings (subject to availability) and require a minimum of 3 weeks advance notice prior to the event. For individuals, we offer an open brewery tour on a Saturday afternoon every other month. After being shown around the brewery, you will be able to relax in our brewery tap room with a couple of free pints. Tickets are purchased online at sheffieldbrewery.com/brewery-tours and need to be shown upon arrival at the brewery. The next tours for individuals are on Saturday 2 September and Saturday 4 November. Tickets are selling fast so don’t miss out! Nick Law

Two years ago, I dreamed of a time when Emmanuales would be considered a ‘microbrewery’.  I have to remind myself these days when I’m ‘only making 6BBL’ (that is 6 brewers’ barrels, or 981L) of Oh Hoppy Day that in 2015 I was lucky to come away with 25L of the stuff, and now I’m handling more Citra (a most desirable hop) than most home brewers have ever seen in their life. It’s easy to look at how far there still is to go. It’s better to look at how far you’ve come. As the Apostle Paul writes, ‘Let us only live up to what we have already attained’. In that spirit, here’s what we’re living up to right now… Core Range Let’s face it, however wide the variety of craft beers on the market, everybody without fail goes back to their old favourites. Whether it’s a pint of London Fuller’s Pride or a Brewdog Punk IPA, the largest brewers are all famous for one or two core brands. We are continually developing our core range of beers.  Jonah and the Pale (Transatlantic Pale Ale 5.0%), Ryejoice (Red Rye 5.4%), As The Deer Pants For Porter (5.0% Smoked Porter) and Oh Hoppy Day (6.1% 60-Minute India Pale Ale), and now Beer Thou My Vision (3.8% Pale Ale), our desire is to have a small range of beers as the cornerstone of our business that will bring joy time and time again. We decided to add our latest addition, Beer Thou My Vision, on account of landlords wanting Emmanuales cask beer that wasn’t ‘outrageously strong’.  We’ve been sitting on the name for some time, and decided it was prudent to offer something that wasn’t going to knock your socks off if you had a few.  Hopped with Columbus, Liberty, Azacca and Oliciana, Beer Thou My Vision is crisp and full of peachy flavours.  Available now in 330ml bottles. American IPAs are pretty dominant on the shelves at the moment.  It’s easy to throw every hop in the cold store at an IPA and hope that it makes the drinker’s eyes water.  But a truly epic IPA will have the right balance of malt sweetness, dryness, and hop aroma leaving you wanting more.  Oh Hoppy Day is our attempt at creating such a beer.  Hopped with Centennial, Chinook, Cascade and Citra every five minutes throughout the boil, and dry hopped with Azacca, Simcoe and Nelson Sauvin, we’re confident that Oh Hoppy Day is our best batch yet.  Available now in 330ml bottles and in cask. A Fortunate Fall of Citra and Nelson Sauvin At the heart of Emmanuales is a desire to be creative. Some of the best works of art throughout history have been painted in the name of Christ on church and chapel walls across the earth. Somehow, despite these rich creative roots, the Christian art and music of today has become tame and mediocre at best. Therefore, we’re always striving to create beers of biblical proportions; interesting, creative beers made with imagination and originality. Our latest offering is this fruity little number… Felix Culpa (8.7% Wheat DIPA) is our first Double IPA.  Fermented using a Bavarian Wheat Yeast and dry hopped with biblical amounts of T90 pellets, Felix Culpa is a fortunate fall of Citra and Nelson Sauvin; fruity like the Garden of Eden… in a good way!  Available in limited numbers in 330ml bottles. Other News We recently featured on the Hopinions (Beer O’Clock Show) podcast, a great podcast all about – you guessed it – beer.  Steve and Martin crack open The Gospale According To… series and share their thoughts.  You can listen back to their opinions by visiting iTunes to download the episode. Finally, we want to give a huge shout out to Adam and Dan from Heist Craft for putting on a selection of Emmanuales keg beer on their bar over the last weekend, including our 10% passion fruit DIPA collab, The Passion of the Heist, and Almighty Stout, Ex Nihilo.  In true English fashion, people queued at the bar all night long to sample our beers of biblical proportions. Nick Law