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The Good Beer Guide 50th edition

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The Guide, which surveys 4,500 of the best pubs across the UK, is the definitive beer drinker’s guide to the very best pints in the most picturesque and friendly pubs. Compiled by thousands of independent volunteers, it helps identify significant trends and themes across the pub sector. 

The 50th anniversary edition features a new cover design by Neil Gower, a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (22 August 2022) and an introduction to each region by Laura Hadland – award-winning author of 50 Years of CAMRA. It brings together pub and brewery information for the first time, making it easier than ever before to find your next local brew 

The first edition in 1972 was just 96 pages in length and listed around 1,500 pubs with a brewery section covering just 105 brewing companies. Today, the Good Beer Guide features 1,864 breweries across the nation. 

Just five pubs across the UK have made it into each edition of the Guide – known as the “famous five”. These pubs include the Star Tavern and the Buckingham Arms in London, the Roscoe Head in Liverpool, the Square & Compass in Dorset and the Queen’s Head in Newton, Cambridgeshire. 

To be listed in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide is a fantastic achievement for a pub. The Guide is based entirely on personal recommendations made by local CAMRA members, which are rigorously reviewed by branches and editors. 

Recommendations consider beer quality as well as the history and architecture of a pub and various aspects such as food, gardens, family and disabled facilities and special events. CAMRA does not take any fees for listings to ensure the guide remains independent and unbiased. 

CAMRA’s National Chairman Nik Antona said: “It is a huge achievement that we’re able to celebrate 50 years of publishing the Good Beer Guide, and a real testament to the hard work and dedication of our volunteers, who undertake the assessments. 

“What makes the Guide unique is that all the entries are compiled and vetted by a huge volunteer team based around the country. We work hard to ensure that all areas of the country are covered and, unlike some competitor titles, inclusion in this book is dependent on merit – not on payment. 

“The last few years have been an incredibly difficult time for the industry, and we need more support than ever before to keep our nation’s pubs open and thriving. I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s Guide to visit the very best pubs across the UK and support them for generations to come.” 

The Good Beer Guide, sponsored this year by Cask Marque, is set to be published on 27 October 2022. Paul Nunny, Director of Cask Marque said: “Cask Marque has sponsored the Good Beer Guide for a number of years, because it is important that we recognise great pubs with a CAMRA endorsement. 50 years of actively supporting our industry is a great achievement and coincides with Cask Marque championing beer quality for 25 years!” 

To order, visit the CAMRA online shop. 

Sheaf View

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We’ve been busy sourcing some excellent beer for our second Winter Ales Festival. We’re confident that all bases are covered, there will be traditional styles, hop forward, unfined, soupy numbers, along with a healthy dose of ridiculous imperial keg beer, (that will be offered in ⅓ pints) There will be delicious pizza from Sunshine Pizza Oven to soak it all up and music playing in the beer garden to dance it off, if you’re that way inclined!

Here are some of the splendid breweries, old and new, that we’re lucky enough to be showcasing…

  • Neepsend Brew Co… We are very proud to have been affiliated with these guys from day one. Their fresh, generously hopped pales have always been a hit. We’ve barged our way into the brewery and chucked a handful of Sabro hops into a cask of their Radogost, hazy IPA and shoved some Cascade hops into their (award winning!!) session New England, Myron. They don’t do stouts as often, but my gosh… when they do!! We dug out a keg of Gogmagog from the back of the cold store, a 9% tonka and vanilla stout, brewed back in December 2020. It was exceptional back then, we’re hoping it’s even better now.
  • Torrside! Brewing in New Mills since 2015, we were late to the Torrside party, having first served their beer at our summer festival this year… We’re making up for lost time! They are masters of any style they turn their hand to, but boy do they know how to do smoked beer! I’m off to the brewery to collect a cask of “Persist and Resist”, a 5.6% ESB with beach, oak and cherrywood smoked malt. Ok, they do deliver to Sheffield, but who’d turn down a day out in the High Peak, a nose around the brewery and chance to swap my hard earned wages for some bottles of exceptional, small batch beer, the likes of which I may never taste again?!
  • Bang The Elephant. They’ve been on the scene since 2017, we were lucky enough to get some of their early brews through swaps with Neepsend. I remember doing a double take at their name, but it didn’t take me long to realise that this brewery deserved a name as bizarre as its beers! Don’t get me wrong, they do a banging APA, DIPA etc, however, adjuncts, barrel aged impy stouts are particularly their bag. We’ve got our hands on a keg of “WACK!” a 10.6% bourbon barrel aged Belgian Quad style beer. BtE themselves have described this beer as “A freak of Nature” so we’re certainly in for a treat!
  • Marble, celebrating their 25th birthday this year! My real ale drinking career (hobby, habit, whatever) started down south in the early 2000’s in a Young’s pub, so you can imagine my delight at moving up north and trying Marble beer for the first time. They were trailblazing then, but unlike many similar breweries, they’ve kept up with the trends and continue to be awesome! We have a cask of “Ogden’s Foreign Extra Stout” the winner of a home brew competition. It’s gone on to win at Stockport Beer Festival, so there is no doubt we’re on to a winner!
  • Lost Industry, the Sheffield legends! If it can be brewed, it shall!! Egged on by their mates (Steel City, Beer Ink, Weird Beard and many more!) they will brew owt, from a sensible oatmeal stout to an Iron Brew sour… and a lot in between!! We’ve got a cask of Watermelon Wheat Beer. I’m not sure it should be in a cask, but it is and we shall enjoy it!
  • Big Trip , new kids on the block! (well, sort of) This lovely duo have hailed from Night Jar (previously Slightly Foxed). I’m not sure where we found them. They don’t seem to be on the internet yet (the epitome of hipster!) They’re from Manchester(ish) and their beers are juicy, hoppy delights!

The beers mentioned are guaranteed to be on, but we also have a load of favourites from the likes of Ashover, Pentritch, Distant Hills, Mallinsons, Triple Point and many more!

We hope to see you all there!

Jo

The Winter Ales festival takes place at the Sheaf View from 4pm on Friday 11 November and on Saturday 12 November. The pub can be found at 25 Gleadless Road in Heeley. Nearest bus routes are 20/24/25/43/44/X17 on London Road or alternatively buses 1a/11/18/252 on Prospect Road.

Abbeydale Brewery

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For those of you who’ve been following the journey of our new brew kettle, we’re pleased to report it is indeed now fully commissioned and we’ve got some fantastic beers coming out of it already! Fortunately everything ran to schedule meaning we have some tasty Christmassy beers on the way. As well as Wishlist, a 4.2% pale ale with Willamette and Columbus hops, the next version of Salvation (4.5%) will have a festive twist – it’s a Chocolate Orange Stout! A classic combination and an absolute treat, with a roasty toasty background, layers of silky smooth sweetness and a zesty finish. It’s mine! 

We’ll be bringing back Wilderness (4.5%) for winter, too – we’ve gone for the same hop combination as last year’s release (Amarillo, Nelson Sauvin and Simcoe Cryo), but at a slightly more sessionable ABV. This one’s a hazy, juicy, New England style pale with low bitterness and a clean, refreshing finish.

Fresh Hop Heathen is also back for 2022, but this time it’s also a Cryo version! Allllll the buzz words, luckily also all the flavour, still weighing in at a tasty and very pintable 4.1%. This year we’re pioneering the use of YCH 301 Mosaic hops from the Yakima Chief Hops Elite Product Trial programme… freshly harvested, unkilned hops, processed into Cryo form! This state of the art process keeps all those delicate fresh hop aromas and flavours but in a punchy little pellet. Expect blueberry and tropical notes to come through on the aroma along with a refreshing, tasty grapefruit and stone fruit character. This one sold out on pre-orders last year and we’re not expecting it to hang around for long. 

And in the new year (HOW is that coming around already?!) we’ll be seeing the return of our 2.8% Restoration Table Beer and the always popular Citra hopped Dr Morton’s Duck Baffler, PLUS rumour has it there might be a Lost Souls shaped big boozy stout on the way to get 2023 off to a corker of a start. 

Hop Hideout is 9

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Small business success sees Sheffield indie beer shop collaborate to celebrate

At a time when we’re hearing the hardships many small businesses face, it’s also a good time to reflect on those who continue to survive and thrive. As one of a handful of 100% female owned beer shops in the UK, Jules Gray has from the very start championed women brewers and breweries as a passionate core ethos of Hop Hideout. She knows and values how much visibility counts in making the beer world a broader, diverse and ultimately more rounder and improved place to be for those in it and providing her customers with outstanding beers to enjoy. After a two year challenging period over the Covid-19 pandemic, Jules stated, ”I wanted to celebrate women that really light up the beer scene, who I not only look up to, but who provide so much positivity and inspiration to the whole beer community.”

This November Hop Hideout celebrated their ninth anniversary as an independent beer shop and tasting room, releasing their beer collaboration, a flapjack stout, brewed at Wild Card Brewery with Crafty Beer Girls. From Friday 11 November they poured Wild Card Brewery beers as part of a tap takeover including their special birthday collaboration release with Crafty Beer Girls and the brewery.

On Saturday 12 November, they hosted a relaxed celebration tasting with Jaega from Wild Card and Crafty Beer Girls organisers in attendance.

On Sunday 13 November they hosted a free and fun family social. As a new parent Jules knows how much of a challenge it can be to find a welcoming social space that’s easily accessible and with baby changing.

She continued, ”I’m absolutely delighted Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery and Natasha and Natalya of Crafty Beer Girls agreed to this collaboration. Jaega is a phenomenal technical brewer, having just released her first brewing book and presents on national shows such as the BBC Food Programme. The Crafty Beer Girls is a beer community safe space created for women and non-binary folks to come together in their enjoyment of beer. Co-organised by two passionate and brilliant women Natasha and Natalya. Through the pandemic I turned to this group for support and really valued their virtual meet-ups.”

The celebrations continued at Wild Card Brewery’s new pub in Walthamstow, London – The Tavern On The Hill on Thursday 17 November with a Crafty Beer Girls London meet-up.

Hearth of the Community

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It’s scary out there at the moment isn’t it? Whether you read this as a drinker, a landlord or a hospitality worker, you’ll have either a shared or individual reason to be concerned. Sadly, that doesn’t seem to be going to change anytime soon either. There’s the overall Russian concern, concerns over job stability and, for our beloved pus and bars, concerns over financial sustainability. Like those sitting at home, how are they going to pay their electricity bills?

With everyone, myself included, facing imminent price hikes for utilities, food and other bills, will there be room for beer in our budgets? Will we be able to venture out to our locals (or beyond) for a pint in a bid to ‘do our bit’ and help them keep their lights on? Well, we just might be able to…

It’s impossible to avoid the numerous saddening news stories of venues closing (The Griffin in Castleford being one of the latest) but between them, there are small glimmers of hope, and opportunity for those able. Pubs have been the beating heart of communities for generations now and if we’re not careful, we’re in danger of losing that. Whilst the word ‘pub’ might instantly mean beer that could, particularly over the winter, change to warmth.

In a world where home-working has become the norm, sitting at home might not be as comfortable as it once was. Instead of staring at the thermostat with scrutiny before sticking on a tenth layer of clothing, pubs and venues could provide the answer; allow people to work from them. For a fee of some sort, perhaps with a pint or cup/s of tea/coffee thrown in, not only could someone work remotely in relative comfort, but the pub can also cover a portion of their heating/electricity bill at the same time. And, let’s be honest, who isn’t going to stop for a pint after work too?

This isn’t a new or ground-breaking idea either as venues such as Springwell, North Brewing’s taproom, and Horsforth Brewery cater for those needing a workspace, but it’s one I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of. Not only can those working from home find some company and conversation by working outside of their own four walls, but the pub could find itself some new customers too.

Of course, this isn’t going to be applicable to every venue across the district, but how many would otherwise potentially be heating an empty space wishing for customers? Not only is it beneficial for both parties if done correctly, but it could be the first crucial step in re-connecting with the local community and prolonging the pub being the centre of its local community. If people are happy to work there, they’re certainly going to be happy to eat, drink and socialise there after. Done properly, the pub could become people’s second homes, much like they used to be, with a thriving community look and feel.

It’s a novel idea, and one that may not generate thousands in income but, in the current climate especially, surely something is better than nothing? The potential long term effect is worth considering too, with plenty of opportunity to advertise upcoming events & community projects, enticing further revenue and support.

If I worked from home and my local offered such an idea, I know where I would rather be sat. Imagine being able to say, “I’m going to work,” meaning the pub and having the best of both worlds; a comfortable & welcoming space in which to work, then having a pint after. Sounds perfect to me.

Stephen Carter, Points of Brew 

https://pointsofbrew.beer/

Wendy Woodhouse

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Wendy Woodhouse 1944-2022. By Chris Bamford.

It is with great sadness that we are passing on the news that one of the most important, influential, respected, and downright nicest people in the Sheffield pub scene, Wendy Woodhouse, passed away in late September.

Although many already knew Wendy from her many years running a newsagents on Ecclesall Road, and from her many other business interests, she became well known in the real ale scene after opening The Harlequin in October 2006. The Harlequin, in the former Manchester Hotel on Nursery Street, took its name from a much-loved pub on Johnson Street around the corner, which was unfortunately demolished, despite Wendy’s attempt to save it. In typical Wendy fashion, she was not to be deterred and simply bought The Manchester instead, a former Wards pub which had fallen on hard times.

Under Wendy’s stewardship, and later that of her step-daughter Hannah after Wendy’s partial retirement, The Harlequin fast established itself as one of the best real ale pubs in a city not short of such places. Having diligently learnt her craft during a short stint at the Kelham Island Tavern, and through friendship with other highly respected Sheffield publicans, the pub soon became famed for its beer festivals and vast array of new and rare beers from around the country, as well as local favourites. Before long, the pub was the recipient of several CAMRA awards. Characteristic of Wendy’s dedication to authenticity, there was also a nod to the history of the building’s past life as The Manchester, in being one of the few places still serving John Smith’s Magnet on cask.

Driven by Wendy’s love of rock and roll, the pub hosted regular live music nights, including frequent performances from Sheffield’s legendary guitarist Frank White. There were quiz nights, folk music sessions, good value food at lunch time, and a function room hosting all manner of events, emphasising another of the values Wendy held most dear – community spirit.

Perhaps the story from the Harlequin that best reflects Wendy’s sheer determination was the fact the pub, despite being located only a road width away from the banks of the Don, did not close during the 2007 floods – a fact of which Wendy was most proud. This is reflected in this correction issued in an online local history group when it was suggested otherwise: 

“The information you give about The Harlequin during the Flood is incorrect.  I was the licensee at the time and the pub did not close, not even for one day.   I continued to trade the whole time by selling Kellham Island Brewery bottled beers.   The pub and cellar were cleared and cleaned, the cellar sanitized and re-equipped and up and running with cask ale by Friday the 6th July. On Saturday the 30th June we catered for a couple who were celebrating their joint 50th and 60th Birthdays, again with bottled beers but it was nonetheless a huge success.  By the way its original name was the Manchester Lincoln and Sheffield Railway Hotel.”

Wendy was never one for taking it easy, and after leaving The Harlequin it wasn’t long until she popped up behind the bar of another of Sheffield’s resurrected pubs. Shortly after it reopened, she fast became a weekend evening fixture behind the bar at Shakespeares on Gibraltar Street. With Wendy entertaining the regulars, many of whom came specifically to see her, she was always on hand to provide advice, parkin, and support. It wasn’t long before Shakespeares, as the Harlequin had before, established itself in Sheffield’s beer scene. She was part of the team when Shakespeares won Sheffield CAMRA Pub Of The Year in 2013, and kept her regular shift up until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

Not content with this already impressive impact on the pub industry, 2018 saw the start of another chapter in the story of Wendy’s influence. After thwarted attempts to save a couple of other Sheffield pubs (sadly now lost to us), Wendy bought the building housing the former Crown Inn on Scotland Street, then operating as The Sleep Hotel.

With significant investment, not to mention her drive, resourcefulness and experience, this has become The Crow Inn, which opened in June 2019. With Wendy available for assistance, advice and with her unwavering enthusiastic support behind the tenants, this too has become an award winning pub, and seven room hotel. In fact, The Crow will be presented with its second CAMRA Pub of the Month award on Thursday 3rd November, an occasion of which Wendy would have been immensely proud.

Most people would be content to be involved in one award winning pub. To have been part of three, which have in many ways helped shape the evolution of the real ale and craft beer scene in Sheffield, is testament to the sheer energy with which Wendy approached everything throughout her life. She will be sorely missed.

About Wendy and Me

I first spoke to Wendy on Christmas Eve 2007, when she called me to ask if I still wanted a job at The Harlequin, after having dropped in my CV a couple of months earlier. Soon I was being trained in her diligent methods on the bar and in the cellar as I worked with Wendy through the handover to her step-daughter Hannah in 2008. Wendy kept a watchful eye on proceedings over the next couple of years from her shifts on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays while I became assistant manager. While I was the general manager of Shakespeares I hired Wendy (in as much as anyone could ever hire Wendy) once she left The Harlequin. After we took over the running of The Rutland Arms, myself and Kate accompanied Wendy to auctions and near-derelict buildings on her quest to find one more pub. We worked closely alongside Wendy during the refurbishment transforming the Sleep Hotel into The Crow Inn, and are the current tenants there. Without Wendy’s guidance, advice, support and more, I very much doubt I’d have the career I have in this industry.

Award gallery

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Paul Crofts presents Richard Henderson with the Dorothy Pax’s Pub of the Month award
Phil Ellett presents the North Sheffield Pub of the Year award to the team at the Blake

Dronfield CAMRA Chairman Nick Wheat presents their Pub of the Season award to Drone Valley Brewery’s tap (a marquee next to the brewery!)

Abbeydale Brewery

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Hopefully by the time you read this, our new brewkit should be back in full working order and producing plenty of beer for you to enjoy! Doctor Morton’s Desert Sand (4.1%) is planned as the first special to be brewed on the new kettle, a refreshing pale ale with Cascade and Vic Secret hops for notes of peach, citrus and pine. 

We’re pleased to be bringing back our Deliverance collaboration with Yakima Chief Hops (7.0%), featuring Sabro, Talus (previously known as HBC 692) and HBC 472, which still doesn’t have a name but is very tasty nonetheless. Aromatic and flavoursome, with juicy citrus and lashings of creamy coconut flavour. Probably my personal fave from this range so I for one can’t wait for this one to be available again! 

And we know it’s a bit early, but we’re already shouting about all things Christmas here at Abbeydale HQ (sorry not sorry!). Excitingly, we’ve been able to create our very own advent calendars this year which are available exclusively on our online shop, so do take a peek at those! The festive theme will start to creep over into our beers by the end of the month too, with Doctor Morton’s Christmas Hamster, a 4.1% pale ale with Green Bullet, Citra and Cascade hops, coming up.

Finally, our “Baltic Up North” brew which some of you may remember from a few years ago has found a new home in our Brewers’ Emporium range as Restoration – Baltic Porter (7.0%). Brewed with lager yeast and fermented cold, expect a smooth and spicy dark beer with a delectable roast character and a very more-ish finish. This on cask in a cosy pub is going to be an absolute treat.

Collyfobble brew day

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During the COVID pandemic and the lockdowns, lots of people have turned their hands to a wide range of additional skills and pastimes, be it baking, gardening and in my instance, I turned my hand again to homebrewing. Ive been on and off brewing at home for a good number of years and the pandemic gave me a huge boost to get going again.

This passion for brewing ale has subsequently flourished and a number of recipes have been repeated time and time again. One recipe in particular is a pale/ blonde ale hopped with Nelson Sauvin I call “Lawnmower”.  It started life as a brew to sip in the garden during lockdowns where there was so little to do other than mow the lawn.

At a recent CAMRA meeting, the upcoming Sheffield Beer Festival was mentioned and a gem of an idea was formed. Would Sheffield Beer Festival like a cask of “Lawnmower”.  As a homebrewer this is a real test of brewing skills, to be judged amongst professional brewers and the ego boost of seeing a pump clip on a bar was just too tempting to miss out from.

I had met the brewer at Collyfobble, Ash Linnett at a previous CAMRA meeting and after a few phone conversations a date was set to brew a batch of Lawnmower on a full size brewery. Collyfobble Brewery is based at the recently redeveloped Peacock Pub in Barlow. The brewery itself is a beautiful showpiece example of a small scale commercial brewery, housed in an impressive building at the side of what is arguably one of the most picturesque landscapes in the region. The brewery supplies the pub with great core range beers; in recent months this range is being extended to supply other venues.

The brew itself went through the brewery and transferred to the fermenter without a hitch, Ash showing his depth of brewing experience at key points in the journey. As the hops were added, the brewhouse was filled with delicious fruit aromas of grapes, passionfruit and gooseberries exactly as it does at my home. I am proud to say that the beer is fermenting well and initial samples are nearly identical to previous batches brewed at home. I cannot wait to see it at Sheffield Beer Festival on an actual bar.

Sheffield’s 46th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival takes place from 19 to 22 October at Kelham Island Museum. All the details are here.

Kelham Island beer is back!

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  • Sheffield’s oldest independent brewery, has been saved from closure.
  • The brewery is a significant part of Sheffield and the UK’s brewing history.
  • Its award-winning flagship beer, Pale Rider has previously been named Champion Beer of Britain and will return on cask at the Fat Cat and at CAMRA’s Steel City Beer Festival on the 19th October.

Kelham Island Brewery, Sheffield’s oldest independent brewery, has been saved from closure by a group from Sheffield.

The brewery’s rescue is a collaboration between Tramlines co-founder and Sheffield venue owner James O’Hara, his brother and financial analyst Tom O’Hara, Simon Webster and Jim Harrison of renowned Thornbridge Brewery, Peter Donohoe, founder of Sheffield based creative studio Peter and Paul and Ben Rymer marketing manager from beer festival organisers, We Are Beer.

James O’Hara, who put the group together after hearing about the brewery’s closure, said: “Kelham Island Brewery, and its flagship beer Pale Rider, are known and revered beyond Sheffield. It’s heritage that we, as a city, should be really proud of. We couldn’t let that just disappear, it means too much within the city and to the UK’s beer culture for it to become another Wikipedia entry.”

A pioneer for the UK’s craft beer scene, Kelham Island Brewery has played a significant role in Sheffield’s brewing history and heritage. The brewery was founded in 1990 by Dave Wickett and was the first new independent brewery in Sheffield for over 100 years. From humble beginnings in the garden of the Fat Cat pub in Kelham Island it flourished, with many of its brewing talent going on to set up and work for the likes of Abbeydale, Thornbridge, Magic Rock, Bradfield and Brewdog.

Simon Webster from Thornbridge Brewery commented, “Kelham Island Brewery has always been linked with Thornbridge. They were the reason we started the business. Theirs were the first beers we brewed and Dave Wickett was a guiding hand in the early days of Thornbridge. When I first heard about the closure, I immediately thought, how can we help? How can we save the heritage that the Wickett Family had built? I chatted passionately about what we could do with James and we formulated a plan to try to save those great beers. I’m so pleased we have been successful. We’re looking forward to brewing the beers and keeping Kelham Island Brewery alive in Sheffield and beyond.”

Pale Rider, the brewery’s flagship beer, won the Champion Beer of Britain in 2004, it was the first winner to use hops from the USA and is still the only beer in South Yorkshire to have ever received the accolade.

Ben Rymer, who works for beer festival organisers We Are Beer, a celebration of all things in modern beer culture, said: “American hops form the backbone of the modern craft beer scene, but what Dave was doing was really revolutionary. He really went out on a limb at the time and was a true visionary. No one was setting up breweries back then and the craft beer industry as we know it now simply didn’t exist. The fact that Dave had to sell the beer he made in his own pub wasn’t about creating a scene, it was a necessity. Most pubs at the time were all owned by big pub companies.”

Jim Harrison from Thornbridge Brewery said: “Dave was a good friend and really understood beer and its regional variations. He understood that to be successful you needed to get your beer to people outside of the area. He was years ahead of his time and I’m so proud that we have been able to save these beers from being lost forever.”

Ed Wickett, former Kelham Island Brewery owner and son of founder Dave Wickett said: ‘I’m really pleased the brewery is in such safe hands. It’ll be great to serve Pale Rider in the Fat Cat again’

The first pour of Pale Rider will be at the Fat Cat on lunchtime of the 19th October, it will then also be pouring at CAMRA’s Steel City Beer Festival taking place, fittingly, at Kelham Island Museum starting on the evening of the 19th October for four days. The beer will then be delivered to the wider on-trade from week commencing 24th October.

NB – we understand that until the brewery on Alma Street is restored to working order (the kit etc was sold off when the original company was liquidated), the beer will be brewed by Thornbridge in Bakewell.