Breweries

Local breweries

A 2024 report commissioned by the University of Sheffield found that the city and its wider region have more breweries per capita than anywhere else in the country, giving it the title of the “real ale capital of the world.”

Sheffield

  • Abbeydale Brewery

    Abbeydale Brewery

    1996-present

    abbeydalebrewery.co.uk

    8 Aizlewood Rd, Sheffield S8 0YX

    The longest-standing brewery in Sheffield, Abbeydale has been a cornerstone of the city’s beer scene since 1996.

    Now employee-owned and the recipient of multiple awards, it ranks among the largest in the area, producing over 220 barrels per week.

    Continued investment and a spirit of innovation drive the brewery forward, with a core range complemented by at least one new beer released each week.

    Abbeydale also explores more experimental territory through its Funk Dungeon project, which focuses on barrel-aged, small-batch brews.

    Their beers are widely available, including via an online shop and at their pub, the Rising Sun in Nether Green.

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  • Blue Bee Brewery

    Blue Bee Brewery

    Established in 2010, Blue Bee is a small, independently-owned 10-barrel brewery known for producing quality cask ales, with regular distribution across Sheffield and beyond—especially throughout Yorkshire and the East Midlands.

    Although one of the smaller breweries in the city, it has a strong local presence, particularly at the renowned Kelham Island Tavern, which shares the same ownership.

    Blue Bee is known for its ever-changing specials and frequent collaborations with like-minded breweries.

    Their beers often showcase New World hops, with an IPA always available—including the long-running and evolving American 5 Hop Pale Ale, now in its 75th incarnation.

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    • Brewery Bits

      Don Valley Brewery, who operate the Blind Monkey pub in Walkley, have launched a new Wheat beer called ‘Teenage Dirtbag’. Lost Industry brewing are holding a 4th birthday celebration at their tap bar on Sidney Street on 7th December. The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert are opening their tap room in Attercliffe every…

    • Kelham Island Tavern

      At the end of July the Kelham Island Tavern had a full cellar refit which included a complete replacements of all the beer line and hand pumps. As well as the addition of more keg lines which means they now have four rotating keg taps featuring the top end of UK brewing, including at least…

    • Blue Bee

      With summer drawing to a close we are coming up to our busiest time of year at Blue Bee. Which means we have plenty of specials out and in the pipeline. First up is Calypso Session 3.5% a cracking refreshing, tropical session pale ale showcasing the fruity American Calypso hops so hopefully the sun will…

    • Award winning pubs & clubs

      Pub of the Year Overall Winner – The Gardeners’ Rest CAMRA members joined pub regulars, musicians and others at the Gardeners Rest for beer, food and music on the evening of Friday 21st June as our branch chairman presented their winners certificate. District (Derbyshire) Pub of the Year – Three Stags Head, Wardlow Mires On…

    • Sheffield CAMRA – Breweries we have known

      In 1975, when the Sheffield Branch of CAMRA was founded, the City of Sheffield had four large and long-established breweries; Stones Cannon Brewery (1865), Wards Sheaf (1896), Whitbread Exchange (1851) and the often-forgotten Hope Brewery on Claywheels Lane (1939). Almost 45 years later, none of these remain. Today, we have 23 functioning brewing companies. Each…

    • Brewery Bits

      Recent new beer releases from the Brewery of St Mars of the Desert (SMOD) in Attercliffe include “Leavy Greave”, a 7.7% New England Double IPA and “Triple”, an 8.2% Belgian style golden triple. Blue Bee Brewery have celebrated their 600th brew by producing a 7.3% mosaic single hopped Brut IPA.

    • Limited edition Steel City Beer & Cider Festival 2019 beer mats

      The limited edition set of 12 Beermats advertises the 45th.Annual Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF45). On one side of each mat is the SCBF45 logo, with the reverse printed for the sponsor. The logo-side, when arranged, gives a large image of the festival poster. The image is based on a 1979/82 TV series which was…

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    • Brewery Bits

      A number of breweries from Sheffield had successes in the beer of the festival competition at the recent Doncaster CAMRA beer festival with Little Critters’ Raspberry Blonde winning the speciality category, Stancill ‘s Hopollo 11 winning the golden ales category and Triplepoint Debut IPA winning the IPA category. Triplepoint was also overall runner up. Recent…

    • Annual Beer Census – the results

      On Saturday 30 March, members of the Sheffield & District branch headed all around the city and its surrounds to complete the Annual Beer Census (although we were unable to do one last year). The purpose of the event was to take a snapshot of the range and cost of real ales and real ciders available…

    • Pub of the Month June 2019

      Congratulations to the Dog & Partridge for becoming a worthy winner of the Sheffield and District CAMRA Pub of The Month. This award is designed to highlight pubs serving good real ale in friendly and comfortable surroundings. The Dog scores on all points, with beer quality always high. To enjoy the celebrations, join us on…

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    • Pub of the Year 2019

      Following suggestions that followed a motion at our branch AGM last year, we’ve made some changes to our Pub of the Year competition for this year in order to give a better chance of recognition to pubs outside the most visited locations (ie the City Centre and Kelham Island). As always, the qualifying pubs are…

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    • March Pub of the Month presentation

      Nestled in the midst of all the Sheffield Beer Week celebrations around the city was our regular Pub of the Month presentation. March’s worthy winner was the Red Deer on Pitt Street, a veteran of the Sheffield real ale scene which last won the award back in August 2015. The torrid weather might have put…

    • Poppy’s Sheffield roundup

      At the end of March myself and Dom will be leaving Sheffield to spend some time exploring the beer scenes in Eastern Europe. Unlike many 20-somethings setting up in the city, I’m not from Sheffield nor have I studied at either of its universities. Though I never really thought about this before moving, it is…

    • Pub of the Month March 2019

      Hidden away behind West Street, the Red Deer on Pitt Street is definitely one of the gems of the City Centre real ale scene. Originally dating from 1825, the pub originally comprised three small rooms with a central bar area. This was opened out in the 1980s and the bar repositioned to provide the present…

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    • Kelham Island Tavern

      A few weeks before Christmas it was announced that Trevor Wraith, landlord of the Kelham Island Tavern, was to retire after 17 years in charge of the multi award-winning pub. Mexborough-born Trevor’s pub career began as a barman before he and friend Philip McKenna took over the Rutland Arms on Brown Street in the early…

    • Blue Bee Brewery

      We are back into the swing of things after the New Year here at Blue Bee and it’s been a busy start. The first brew of the year was the returning Amarillo IPA (5.0%), this single hopped IPA showcases the American hop’s floral, citrus and orange characteristics beautifully. On the brand new beer front, following…

    • Blue Bee Brewery

      First of all we’d like to wish a Happy Christmas from everyone at Blue Bee Brewery. Here’s an update of the beers we have been brewing recently… First up we have Citra Session (3.4%), a vegan, single-hopped session oat pale showcasing American Citra hops which impart big flavours of mango and lychee. Oats are added to…

    • Cathedral Quarter

      Traditional locals to café bars

    • SCBF44 beer mats on eBay

      Four limited edition sets of 12 mint-condition beer mats advertising the 44th annual Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF44) will be auctioned on eBay. On one side of each mat is the SCBF44 logo, with the reverse printed for the sponsor. The logo side, when arranged, produces a large image of the festival poster (see below).…

    • Beer mat mania!

      Beer mat collectors take note – the Steel City 44 festival beer mats have now been released and should soon start appearing in your local pubs and bars. Like last year, the mats will feature a sponsor’s logo on one side and a section of the official festival poster on the reverse. To get the…

  • Bradfield Brewery

    Bradfield Brewery

    Bradfield was established in 2005 on a working dairy farm on the edge of the Peak District, initially as an exercise in diversification but following the success and expansion of the brewery it has pretty much replaced the farming business!

    The brewery has its own Millstone Grit spring providing the water to brew with and produces a range of mostly simple, classic beers with the biggest selling being Farmers Blonde.

    There is a shop at the brewery whilst the original tap pub is the Nags Head Inn, a short distance from the brewery in Loxley (bus 61/62 Hillsborough-Bradfield go there); since then three other tap pubs have been added – the King & Miller in Deepcar and Wharncliffe Arms (both on bus route 57/57a Sheffield-Stocksbridge) along with the White Hart in Bradwell (on bus route 271/272).

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  • Dead Parrot Beer Co

    Dead Parrot Beer Co

    The brewery name is a bit of a family in joke, as the brewer’s brother is the manager of the Frog & Parrot which used to have a brewery in the cellar under previous ownership and the family used to run Henry’s bar and associated Aardvark Brewery which has since been demolished – much of the equipment has come from both dead ventures!

    The brewery produces a broad range of cask ales at their site on the edge of Sheffield City Centre, shared with their tap bar Perch and an events yard.

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  • Emmanuales

    Emmanuales

    This is a very small scale brewery producing interesting beers with a Christian theme to the names.

    Originally it was a cuckoo brewing operation, now the kit is based at the brewers’ home.

    The beer is usually available only in bottles but occasional cask is produced for special events.

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  • Fuggle Bunny Brew House

    Fuggle Bunny Brew House

    Fuggle Bunny Brew House opened in 2014 as a family business with a theme of beers that tell a story – the pump clips are designed like book marks.Ownership has since changed but remains independent.

    A bar in the brewery opens for tap sessions every Friday and it is a 10 minute walk from Halfway tram terminus (Blue route) or buses 26, 26a, 80 and 80a stop close by.

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    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse

      Fuggle Bunny is pleased to announce their latest beer Chapter 8 – Jammy Dodger 4.5% ruby red ale won silver in the Best Bitter Category at the CAMRA Steel City Beer & Cider Festival at Kelham Island Museum in October 2015. The Bunny is well Hoppy… 🙂

    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse

      It is that time of the year when the cold is creeping in so Fuggle Bunny has some great new beers for you to try. We are launching our brand new beer Chapter 8 – Jammy Dodger 4.5% ruby red ale with aromas of liquorice and blackcurrant. Back again by popular demand is our Halloween special…

    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse

      Fuggle Bunny Soapstar You may think Fuggle Bunny has been quiet of late……however quite the opposite we have been hopping all over the place. We had raving reviews from our beers that were commissioned for the CLA game fair, with Angus the premium pale Ale beer being a real showstopper.

    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse

      What an extraordinary year. We moved into our unit on 1st February 2014 and started producing our ales on 26th April.

    • Awards Gallery

      Steel City Beer Awards – Porter Category and overall winner, Thornbridge Cocoa Wonderland, brewed in collaboration with the Cocoa Wonderland chocolate shop on Ecclesall Road. Pictured are Thornbridge brewers with chocolatiers Anne Ashforth and Kate Shepherd. Steel City Beer Awards – Stout Category, Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse Russian Rarebit – the Fuggle Bunny team pictured with…

    • Inn Brief

      The Miners Arms at Hundall has had more handpumps installed with 5 real ales now available. The regular beer on the bar is Abbeydale Moonshine with the other 4 beers regularly changing – on the day the extra pumps went live breweries represented included Shiny, Fuggle Bunny, Oldershaws and Lincoln Green. The Dronfield Arms, under…

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    • Steel City Beer Awards

      Several teams of judges blind tasted all the beers in the festival by category on the opening night. The category winners were then judged against one another to produce an overall winner.

    • Fuggle Bunny Brew House

      The brewery will be celebrating its first anniversary of brewing in March 2015, there is going to be a Limited Edition Birthday Ale to celebrate their success.

    • Belfry, Beighton

      The Belfry is holding a Cask Ale Festival on 6th December of 3 local breweries – Abbeydale, Fuggle Bunny and Bradfield – the three of them are hosting their own stands of which the proceeds  from the sale is going to the Charity ‘Safe at Last’.  There is going to be a Live Band, etc it is going to be a…

    • Fuggle Bunny Brew House

      Well, well, well….. The winner goes to Fuggle Bunny Brew House Limited for their latest creation Imperial Black Russian Stout – Chapter 7 – Russian Rare-Bit 5% – scooped First Place in the Stout category at the CAMRA Sheffield 40th Ruby Anniversary Beer & Cider Festival at the Kelham Island Museum.

    • Steel City Beer & Cider Festival

      Sponsorship A great way to support the beer festival and local charities is though sponsorship, why not sponsor a barrel of beer? Fancy a works do at this year’s festival, why not promote your business at the same time? Group of friends who fancy doing something different on a night out? Something to celebrate? You…

    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse

      We opened our Brewery on the 1st of February 2014 and since producing and selling our beers in April of this year we are going from strength to strength.

    • Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse launches

      On Friday 4th April a select number of CAMRA members were invited to the Fuggle Bunny Brewhouse at Holbrook (just off the main road from Halfway tram terminus to Killamarsh) to see the brewery and try the first two beers.

  • Heist Brew Co

    Heist Brew Co

    Heist started life as a craft beer bar in Clowne, Derbyshire, in 2017 with an on site brewery opening a year later.

    They relocated to an old industrial building in the Neepsend area of Sheffield in 2020 and converted it into a brewery and tap room, which opened to the public towards the end of the Coronavirus pandemic.

    The brewery produces mostly modern craft styles of beer in keg and can although now and again do very interesting one off cask ales. The Heist Brew Co tap room features 30 lines showcasing their beers and guests, a gaming area and is home to a branch of Slap & Pickle burgers.

    Buses 7 and 8 stop outside or Infirmary Road tram stop (Blue and Yellow routes) is less than 10 minutes walk away.

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  • Little Critters Brewing Company

    Little Critters Brewing Company

    A small batch, family owned microbrewery opened in 2015 operating on a 10 barrel plant.

    The regular beers carry wildlife themed names and artwork including their Nutty Ambassador hazlenut milk stout which won Champion Beer of Sheffield in 2018, alongside these is a series of one-off specials.

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    • Little Critters

      Happy New Year from all at Little Critters! 2017 was an exciting year with additions to the core range including King Crow (Imperial Espresso Stout, 7.2%) and Nutty Ambassador (Hazelnut Milk Stout, 6.0%) which were previously limited-batch runs (and therefore not truly inducted into the critter zoo!) in 2016. The Nutty Ambassador can also be…

    • Dom’s Casks of the Month

      Well, it’s been another fine month for real ale around Sheffield! This time, all three featured beers come from local brewers, showcasing what a great selection we have around the Steel City. Here they are, in no particular order: What: Cold Conscience (4.5%) – Abbeydale (Sheffield) Where: Head of Steam This mango and lychee pale…

    • Welcome Freshers!

      It’s that time of year again when Sheffield welcomes around 20,000 new students who are beginning their degrees at one of our two excellent universities. Sheffield & District CAMRA would like to welcome you to what we think is the best city in the country for real ale! There are more than 300 pubs in…

    • SCBF43 beer mats on eBay

      Four limited edition sets of 15 mint condition Beermats, advertising the 43rd Annual Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF43) are to be auctioned on eBay. On one side of each mat is the SCBF43 logo, with the reverse printed for the sponsor. The logo side, when arranged, gives a large image of the festival poster. The…

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    • Sheffield CAMRA pops in to visit Little Critters

      A small group of Sheffield CAMRA members recently visited the Little Critters brewery at Neepsend. Head Brewer, Will Inman, currently brews three times/week on their 10 bbl plant. As well as selling beer to the free trade, they supply their own two pubs. The widest range is available at the Fox & Duck in Broomhill…

    • Sheffield Beer Week 13th-19th March: Collaboration beers

      A number of brewers, publicans and beer writers have teamed up to brew special beers that will be on various bars over Sheffield Beer Week. Below is a summary of the details we know at the time of going to press although they could of course change before then and there may be more we…

    • Sheffield Beer Week 13th-19th March: Whats on

      Here is a roundup of the events advised at the time of going to press. It is likely there will be many more events over the week – check out sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk for more details and of course these are in addition to the quizzes, music nights etc that take place in Sheffield’s pubs week in…

    • White Lion, Heeley

      The White Lion celebrated two years of ownership of Jon and Mandy on February 23rd and goes from strength to strength. Having won multiple awards last year, their policy of swapping all the beers for new varieties after just one barrel is a great reason to visit. They’ll be joining in with Sheffield Beer Week…

    • Local Brewery Taps – Part Two

      In part one we illustrated the best places to drink beer from some of our local breweries including  Abbeydale, Blue Bee, Bradfield, Drone Valley, Exit 33, Hopjacker, Kelham Island, Little Critters, Neepsend, Sheffield Brewery Co and True North. We hope you managed to get to some of those pubs and enjoy some great local beers!…

    • Local Brewery Taps – Part One

      So you want the best pubs to try local beers? The official taps are probably a good start! Abbeydale The original Abbeydale tap is the Rising Sun at Nether Green near Fulwood on bus routes 83a or 120. This has recently seen huge investment in an extension and as well as offering a large range of…

    • Local Brewery Taps

      Try local beers at official brewery tap pubs

    • Annual Beer Census results

      At the beginning of September a number of CAMRA volunteers went out and did various pub crawls across the City to undertake our annual beer census – also known as the Beer Capital Survey – to record the beers out there on the bars on a single day, giving an idea how many different beers…

    • Steel City Beer & Cider Festival goes Beermats mad!

      The first sponsored items for this years festival have begun to appear at pubs, clubs and various venues across the city. Beermats! Lots of them. A number of sponsors have kindly contributed to a bumper print run of 90,000 mats, which started appearing in early July to put the festival in front of the 100,000…

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    • Pub news Inn Brief

      The New Barrack Tavern is holding a charity weekend in aid of the Childrens’ hospital from 10th to 12th June, this features a busy programme of live music plus of course beer and food as usual. Sentinel Brewhouse & Bar is now open for beer and food, shortly after this issue of Beer Matters hits…

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    • Little Critters Brewery

      Little Critters is based on an industrial estate near Wadsley Bridge and run by the same people as the Doctors Orders Pub near the University of Sheffield and the Fox & Duck in Broomhill, with the Doctors Orders being the place to try all their ‘beta’ brews and offer your feedback. Beers so far include…

    • Little Critters Brewing Company

      Little Critters is a new brewery based on Parkwood Road industrial estate, near Wadsley Bridge. The people behind it are the same folk that run the Doctors Order pub near the University of Sheffield and the Fox & Duck at Broomhill with a head brewer that may be familiar to some. At the time of…

    • Pub news Inn Brief

      The Sportsman, Norton, has had a short closure for minor refurbishment. The Abbey at Woodseats reopened after a short closure but at the time of writing had closed once again – this time for a major refurbishment of five weeks and £3oo,ooo. The Banner Cross is now open again under new management following a significant refurbishment.…

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  • Little Mesters Brewing

    Little Mesters Brewing

    Little Mesters Brewing, based at Meadowhead, are named after the traditional Sheffield craftsmen who manufactured things like knives on a small scale and this is a small brewery based in a shop unit neighbouring Mitchells Wine Merchants who sell their range of bottles and cans.

    There is a small range of regular beers plus the occasional special, mostly traditional beers given a twist.

    The brewery has an upstairs tap room which is currently just used for special tasting events but there are plans to open it as a public bar in the near future.

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  • Loxley Brewery

    Loxley Brewery

    Based at the Wisewood Inn, Loxley Brewery was established in 2018 and uses a five barrel plant. Buses 61/62 (Hillsborough-Bradfield) go there.

    They also have a second pub where you can try their beers, the Raven in Walkley.

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  • Neepsend Brew Co

    Neepsend Brew Co

    An independent brewery established in 2015, since moved premises into their current Burton Road location.

    Their regular beer is a blonde with an ever changing line up of beers brewed alongside it, available in cask, keg and can.

    Their nearby tap pub is the Wellington, located by Shalesmoor tram stop (Blue and Yellow routes), where cans and minikegs can also be picked up.

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    • Pub of the Month July 2018

      If travelling by tram for a pub crawl in the Kelham Island area, first call will usually be the Wellington on the corner of Henry Street and Infirmary Road, which is almost adjacent to the Shalesmoor (for Kelham Island) tram stop. The pub was built around 1840 for A. H. Smith’s Don Brewery, which was…

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    • Neepsend Brew Co

      It’s been a while since we’ve contributed to Beer Matters but that owes more to my lack of organisation than a lack of news as we’ve certainly been busy. We’ve brewed plenty of new beers and brought a few old favourites back in recent weeks and months. Just a few of these include: Godgifu (4.5%), an…

    • Heeley City Farm Beer Festival

      On 11-12 May, we’ll be hosting our first Beer Festival here at Heeley City Farm. Eight local breweries (and one local distillery) have donated ale (and gin) for the public to purchase to raise funds for the upkeep of the farm. Thanks to the kind donations from: Abbeydale Brewery, Welbeck Abbey Brewery, Neepsend Brew Co,…

    • Pub of the Month presentations

      Since last month’s Beer Matters came out, we have had the pleasure of presenting two pubs with their Sheffield & District CAMRA Pub of the Month awards. On Saturday 27 January, a minibus-load of members headed out into the Peak District for the first of the two presentations. After visiting a few other excellent pubs…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      We’ve had a busy few weeks at Neepsend Brew Co. with a number of exciting things to update you on. Neepsend are getting involved in Sheffield Beer Week in a big way this year and celebrating the collaborative and friendly nature of the beer industry by joining forces with a number of other breweries to…

    • Pub of the Month February 2018

      Our Pub of the Month winner for February 2018, voted for as always by CAMRA members, is a pub that needs little introduction. Since being refurbished and reopened as a freehouse in 2000 by James Birkett (who also owns the Wellington at Shalesmoor and the Blake Hotel in Walkley), the Sheaf View in Heeley has…

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    • Dom’s Casks of the Month

      It seems like a long time since I last wrote this column; Beer Matters‘ hiatus for Christmas has given me twice as long as usual to find the finest cask ales on offer around the pubs of Sheffield. As always, there was a fantastic variety on offer and it was especially difficult to narrow it…

    • Best of the Fest

      The recent Steel City Beer & Cider Festival, which for the fourth year in a row was held at the Kelham Island Museum, proved as popular as ever. More than 6,100 visitors attended over the four days, between them drinking over 14,500 pints of cask ale, 2,300 pints of cider and perry, 1,400 pints of…

    • Dorothy Pax, Victoria Quays

      If you haven’t heard a new bar has opened on the canal at Victoria Quays. The Dorothy Pax has been operating on temporary event notices throughout the summer but at the end of October received its permanent license, which means the bar is now open from 12pm until 11pm Wednesday to Saturday and 12pm until 6pm on…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      It’s been a great year for us at Neepsend Brew Co. and we’d like to take the opportunity to say thanks to everyone who has enjoyed our beer over the last twelve months and for the lovely feedback we get, which is always very much appreciated.  We’ve got big plans for 2018, including installing a…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      By the time you’re reading this our 200th gyle celebratory brew, Double Century IPA (7.2%), a beast of an IPA brewed with a sextet of hops in extremely generous quantities will have flown the brewery nest and hit bars. We’re really excited about this one and would love feedback. Following the example of our 100th…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      We are very excited for our 200th brew, which will be available this month. For number 100 we brewed Century IPA (6.6%), a beast of an IPA featuring our biggest hop bill to date, so naturally for number 200 we are going for the imaginatively named Double Century IPA. We’ll be going all out on…

    • Exit 33 Brewing

      The Sheffield Brewers Collective again provided the bar at the Folk Forest in Endcliffe Park as part of Tramlines festival. Open for eight hours on each day of the weekend, there were beers from Exit 33 Brewing, Neepsend Brewery, Blue Bee Brewery and Sheffield Brew Co, all served by the brewers themselves. In just sixteen…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      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…

    • Neepsend Brew Co

      We’ve recently gone into our back catalogue for fresh batches of a couple of beers we’ve brewed previously. Annona is a 4.2% Oatmeal Pale showcasing one of our very favourite hop varieties, Mosaic, to give bags of tropical fruit and blueberry flavours complemented by the smoothness and body the addition of oats provides. This one…

    • Heritage Pubs – The Wellington

      Congratulations to the Wellington – it has recently become part of the CAMRA National Inventory of Pub Interiors in the SRI (Some Regional Importance) category. There are now 21 Sheffield pubs listed in the three inventories: pubheritage.camra.org.uk. Built in 1839, the Wellington was the brewery tap for the A.H.Smith and Company, Don Brewery. In 1916,…

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    • Neepsend Brew Co

      It’s been some some time since we last contributed to Beer Matters but that’s not because of a lack of news. In the months since our last contribution we’ve been fortunate enough to pick up a few awards, have increased our brewing capacity with new vessels, bought new casks and brewed dozens of new beers.…

    • Pub of the Year 2017

      Our Pub of the Year competition each year celebrates our area’s best pubs for drinking real ale that embraces CAMRA’s consumer values. The winning pubs are selected in a two stage process. We start with all the pubs that have either won a Pub of the Month award over the last year or are listed…

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    • Sheffield Beer Week 13th-19th March: Whats on

      Here is a roundup of the events advised at the time of going to press. It is likely there will be many more events over the week – check out sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk for more details and of course these are in addition to the quizzes, music nights etc that take place in Sheffield’s pubs week in…

    • Brewery Bits

      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…

  • Saint Mars of the Desert

    Saint Mars of the Desert

    SMOD to its friends, opened in the Attercliffe area of Sheffield after Dan Paquette and Martha Holley relocated from Boston, Massachusset in 2018 with over 20 years brewing experience.

    The brewery is one of only a few in the UK with a koelship and the beer range has an international influence including rustic ales, Monastic type beers and Koelship hopped lagers.

    The beer is available in keg and can. The brewery site is two small buildings – brewery and tap room around a courtyard. The tap room, which opens at the weekend, offers table service, Dan and Martha are usually around to answer any questions about the brewery. Note no cask beer and payment is card only.

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    • The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert

      Hello from the Brewery of Saint Mars of the Desert.  Our first spring has been fab and we keep seeing new faces in the taproom every week.  In addition to our taproom in Attercliffe, you may have seen our beers around town in some of Sheffield’s pubs. Recently we have sent a small amount of…

    • The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert

      It’s been a mad first few weeks at the brewery of SMOD. We’ve enjoyed meeting so many of you during Sheffield beer week, at the brilliant Indie Beer Feast and in our own taproom. If you haven’t made the trip out to Attercliffe yet, we hope to meet you soon. Right now we have both…

    • Two Days in Dundee with CAMRA

      A year since the much-discussed revitalisation vote and the formal approval of ‘good beer,’ the annual CAMRA Members weekend took place recently. Held in Cairns Hall, Dundee, this was the first AGM since the new beginning. Following the Friday social evening, the event commenced with Jackie Parker chairing her first, and last, AGM. Nick Antonia…

    • Saint Mars of the Desert

      A great big hello to Sheffield and Beer Matters readers from Dann & Martha at the brand new Brewery of Saint Mars of the Desert.  We are really excited to be part of this fantastic beer city and looking forward to meeting you all at some point. SMOD is a small 1,000 litre brewery and…

    • Indie Beer Feast

      On Friday 8 February, myself and some friends attended the second annual Indie Beer Feast beer festival at the Abbeydale Picture House. Now in its second year and expanded from one day to two, Indie Beer Feast focuses on the very best independent craft beer from both the UK and further afield. This year it…

    • Koelschip spotted in Sheffield!

      A recent addition to the Sheffield brewing scene, the brewery of Saint Mars of the Desert (SMOD) is perhaps unique as we believe it is the only Yorkshire brewery to possess a coolship. Based at 90 Stevenson Road, Attercliffe, SMOD commenced brewing in late 2018. The equipment was mostly supplied by Sheffield-based Moeschle (UK) Ltd.…

    • Sheffield Beer Week only a week away

      Sheffield Beer Week has a number of great local breweries involved in its fifth year such as Neepsend Brew Co, Kelham Island Brewery, Thornbridge and Abbeydale and also national and international breweries including Wander Beyond, Wild Card Brewery, Burning Sky, Moor, Orbit and Mikkeller. Brand new Sheffield brewery, Saint Mars of the Desert, will also…

    • Brewery Bits

      The Eyam Real Ale Company have left their old premises and moved next door into the former Crafty Red Fox unit at the Eyam Hall Craft Centre (S32 5QW). Beers from the 1.5bbl brewery will continue to be sold in the shop as well as at pubs and festivals around the region. The shop also…

    • Sheffield Beer Week 2019

      2019 sees Sheffield Beer Week celebrate its fifth year as a city-wide beer festival and umbrella beer focused event occurring in multiple venues, launching from Monday 11 March. It is with great excitement that the first few breweries have been announced for 2019 #SheffBeerWeek events. Follow updates as they are released via our Twitter. Not…

    • Brewery Bits

      The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert is the latest brewery on the Sheffield beer scene. Based at 90 Stevenson Road, Attercliffe, this small brewery and tap room currently only has a small range of beers on offer but more are being planned in the near future. Thornbridge have re-released long-time favourite AM:PM in…

  • Stancill Brewery

    Stancill Brewery

    Stancill brew a range of simple session ales and a lager using equipment relocated from the closed Oakwell Brewery, which had been known for its Barnsley Bitter.

    They have two tap pubs – the Albion on London Road and Closed Shop in Commonside (get there on bus 95 or 95a).

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    • Closed Shop, Commonside

      Food is back on the menu at the Closed Shop. Following an extensive refurbishment of the pub’s kitchen facilities, Stancill Brewery has appointed local chef Rose Heggie to develop brand new food offerings. Drawing upon her previous experience working at some of Sheffield’s best-known restaurants including Whirlow Hall Farm, The Summer House and The Rising…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Movember is upon us which means Stancill’s sensational seasonal stout is heading back to the pumps! Available throughout November, Movember Stout (5.0%) features roasted coffee and chocolate flavours which evolve and develop throughout the drink. The result is a pleasant, tasty beer with plenty of character. To mark the launch of Movember Stout, all male…

    • September Pub of the Month presentation

      Shakespeares showed just why they had been chosen for the September Pub of the Month award when members headed there for the presentation on 12 September, with nine real ales on offer, plus real ciders, and a range of craft keg and bottled beers. The regular ales, Stancill Barnsley Bitter and Abbeydale Deception were joined…

    • Stancill Brewery

      The latest special beer from Stancill Brewery is an experimental beer which has been named after the largest city in Kansas. Wichita is a 5.2% beer which features all the hallmarks of a classic American Pale Ale. Brewed using three different malts and generously hopped with a unique combination of Citra, Amarillo and Mosaic varieties.…

    • Closed Shop, Commonside

      Following months of uncertainty surrounding the future of a popular Sheffield pub, The Closed Shop is set to re-open its doors this weekend after two beer-loving entrepreneurs stepped in to secure the future of their much loved local. Thomas Gill and Adam Hague, perhaps best known as being the co-owners of Neepsend-based Stancill Brewery, first…

    • The Albion, London Road

      The newly refurbished Albion finally opened its doors to the public on Friday 28 July. The pub is the brainchild of Stancill Breweries Owners Adam Haigh and Thomas Gill, alongside their business development manager and area manager Katy Streets. They wanted to create a bar that was all about the beer. Katy said: “Stancill Brewery…

    • Stancill Brewery

      ‘Summit’ special There’s something a little unusual about Stancill’s latest beer offering, which showcases the powerful US-produced Summit hops within the new special. Taking its name for the hop variety featured in the new beer, Summit (4.5%) is a pale ale which explores many of the different flavour characteristics associated with the relatively new hop…

    • The Beautiful Game

      Around the grounds of each of the city’s clubs

    • Inn Brief

      The first of the SCBF43 beer mat auctions on eBay raised £23.15 for Weston Park Cancer Charity, so thank you to everyone who bid on them. The second auction is set to take place towards the end of August, ending on Bank Holiday Monday. The Bar Stewards micropub on Gibraltar Street is now open on…

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    • The Albion, London Road

      Stancill Brewery has confirmed the Albion will officially re-open its doors on Friday 28 July following an extensive refurbishment of the historic pub. Since receiving the keys to the building, which has been serving the people of Sheffield since the 1830s, Stancill has undertaken an extensive refurbishment of the interior, as well as overhauling The…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Stancill Brewery completes expansion After enjoying a record-breaking start to 2017, Stancill Brewery has been operating close to capacity in recent months and in order to meet rising demands for its award-winning ales, the brewery has invested in a new universal tank. The new 30bbl tank will enable the brewery to increase the number of…

    • NorFolk Festival

      On 29-30 July 2017, the Norfolk Arms over in Grenoside will be hosting their first ever NorFolk Fest, bringing the best in live music, craft stalls, children’s activities, lots of gin and an epic beer line-up. Since Stancill Brewery have taken over the site in October they have received much support from the community during…

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    • Stancill set sights on new city centre pub

      2017 has already been a busy year for Stancill. So far this year, they have launched a search for the region’s best home brewer, worked in conjunction with Penistone Armed Forces to produce a special, limited edition beer to commemorate the sinking of the HMS Sheffield and now, the Sheffield brewery is set to open…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Stancill heads to the South Pacific There’s been plenty of happy talk at Stancill Brewery this month, which is taking a trip to the new world with its latest special, South Pacific. Promising to be the perfect pint enjoyed every enchanted summer evening, the recipe has been carefully refined since its original launch, resulting in…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Stancill Brewery to commemorate Armed Forces Day with new special Veterans from HMS Sheffield are set to benefit from Stancill Brewery’s latest summer special, which has been brewed to mark the 35th Anniversary of the sinking of HMS Sheffield. Crew members of the destroyer gathered at the brewery in May as part of weekend dedicated…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Spring specials from Stancill Brewery Stancill Brewery have been exploring the ebony and ivory of the beer world and have spent time developing a new, not-to-be-missed chocolate porter as well as experimenting with a new hop variety to create what promises to be one of their hoppiest beers to date. Jarrylo is a new pale…

    • Stancill Brewery

      Black Gold It may be a certain Irish drink which dominates the Stout sector, but Stancill Brewery’s hearty stout recipes have proved to be a surprise hit with Sheffield’s beer drinkers: so much so that a new variation of the black stuff is back in production! Black Gold is a new 5% variation on its…

    • Stancill Brewery

      In addition to a successful and award winning range of core beers which includes Barnsley Bitter, No.7 and Porter to name but a few, the brewing team at Stancill has announced plans to produce not one, but two special brews each month throughout 2017. The brewery plans to launch a series of new experimental brews,…

    • Stancill Brewery – staff news

      It takes determination, grit, passion and something special to work in the pub industry, and the newest addition to the Stancill Brewery team has just that… and much more. Earlier this month, the brewery welcomed Katy Streets who joins as the brewery’s new Business Development Manager. She will work within the brewery’s newly established pubs…

    • Stancill Brewery – Home Brew Competition

      Stancill Brewery is launching a search to find Sheffield’s best home brewer, with a unique opportunity to see their home brew transformed into a pint which can be enjoyed by beer lovers across the steel city. The new competition which will be launched at the beginning of February will give the winner the opportunity to…

  • Steel City Brewing

    Steel City Brewing

    Cuckoo brews at Lost Industry Brewing about once a month, usually collaborations producing something a bit fun!

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      Steel City are back from their hiatus, with their latest transatlantic pale ale. Born To Be Riled features the ‘standard’ base of Low Colour Maris Otter and Wheat…

    • Steel City Brewing

      Steel City’s bank-holiday-enforced hiatus continued through May, but Dave did manage to find time between trips to Austria, Poland, and France to travel to the slightly less exotic Mexborough, to brew not one but two collaborations with Dale at Imperial. Well, sort of!

    • Steel City Brewing

      Steel City’s latest brew Protz’s Pleasure is currently doing the rounds in Sheffield and beyond, as well as appearing at the CAMRA AGM at the end of April.

    • Steel City Brewing

      Steel City are having a month of collaborations! First up, Grim Overlords is a ‘home’ collab with Sebastian Jarno from Great Heck…

    • Steel City Brewing

      Steel City have dark and light beers doing the rounds at the moment. On the Dark Side is Unholy Trinity, brewed with David from Raw and Chris and Robin from the Shakespeare.

  • Tapped Brew Co

    Tapped Brew Co

    Following the successful conversion of the old Edwardian dining rooms and first class refreshment rooms at Sheffield Railway Station into the Sheffield Tap bar, brewing began in 2013 at an onsite brewery with viewing gallery.

    Tapped Brew Co supplies beer to all the venues under the same ownership.

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  • Toolmakers Brewery

    Toolmakers Brewery

    Located behind the Forest pub in a former toolmaking factory (hence the name), the brewery was established in 2013 with a five barrel plant, principally supplying the pub and the brewery tap room which operates as a live entertainment venue.

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  • Triple Point Brewery

    Triple Point Brewery

    Triple Point Brewery is in a converted former carpet showroom which is home to their brewery, bar and the Twisted Burger Company.

    The brewery is visible from the bar area and includes modern equipment, manufactured by a German company with a great reputation with Sheffield Steel.

    Beer is dispensed from a mixture of cask, keg and tank. Many of the beers are gluten free.

    Triple Point won our Champion Beer of Sheffield competition in 2019 with Debut.

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  • True North Brew Co

    True North Brew Co

    Small brewery and gin distillery in Sheffield City Centre. The brewery was opened in 2016 and the company changed their name from Forum Cafe Bars to True North.

    They supply their bars which include the Broadfield, Waggon & Horses, British Oak, Forum Cafe Bar, Old Grindstone, Punchbowl and Horse & Jockey plus the free trade. In 2020 they started brewing the cask version of Stones Bitter, which is now a Coors brand but was originally brewed at the long since closed Cannon brewery in Sheffield.

    True North won our Champion Beer of Sheffield competition in 2022 with Devika.

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      Last month we brought to you the first batch of pubs, clubs and bars serving real ale until the early hours around Sheffield city centre. The current scene for beer-loving night owls is thriving, and here we have another eight locations where real ale connoisseurs can partake in a late night pint. Bierkeller West Street…

    • Late Night Beers – Part 1

      Going back 15 years or so, a big night out on the town in Sheffield generally involved going to a nightclub as pretty much every pub and bar closed at 11pm. It would cost £5-10 to get in the club (although there were cheaper offers if you went in before 11pm to beat the queues)…

    • A Grand Bank Holiday Day Out

      Being a Bank Holiday weekend, a more local day out was planned with the intention of doing a few pubs around the Chesterfield area and then stopping off in Mosborough on the way home. With the exception of the last port of call, all were visited by using a Stagecoach Explorer ticket costing £6.30 from…

    • Inn Brief

      The first of the SCBF43 beer mat auctions on eBay raised £23.15 for Weston Park Cancer Charity, so thank you to everyone who bid on them. The second auction is set to take place towards the end of August, ending on Bank Holiday Monday. The Bar Stewards micropub on Gibraltar Street is now open on…

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    • SCBF43 beer mats on eBay

      Four limited edition sets of 15 mint condition Beermats, advertising the 43rd Annual Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF43) are to be auctioned on eBay. On one side of each mat is the SCBF43 logo, with the reverse printed for the sponsor. The logo side, when arranged, gives a large image of the festival poster. The…

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    • June Pub of the Month presentation

      Sheffield & District CAMRA members headed to the Broadfield on Abbeydale Road on Tuesday 13 June to celebrate the Pub of the Month award for June 2017. With its wide range of real ales (there were nine handpumps available on the night with the usual selection of True North ales plus guests), good food and…

    • Inn Brief

      True North Brewery have announced a series of open days at their brewery tap at 47 Eldon St. The next dates are the 16–18 June and the 7–9 July. The Fox & Duck in Broomhill is set to improve its beer garden and install a kitchen. They’ll be bringing some of their culinary know-how from their…

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    • Pub of the Month June 2017

      Broadfield Our Pub of the Month awards are voted for by our members and are designed not as a competition between pubs as such, more to celebrate those pubs and bars around our area that serve great real ale in a friendly and comfortable atmosphere, day in, day out. This month’s winner, The Broadfield on…

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    • The pubs of Millhouses

      Millhouses is an area of Sheffield off the radar to many real ale drinkers, yet there are a number of pubs serving good beer all within an easy wander of one another and there are plenty of buses running out there! The Millhouses address: 951 Abbeydale Road, S7 2QD buses: 97,98,218 located on the main…

    • True North Brewery

      True North brewed a special beer for Sheffield Beer Week, an Earl Grey IPA containing tea and Chinook hops. They also held one of their brewery tap sessions at the weekend with the doors open for visitors to come and see the brewery and enjoy a beer at their pop up bar.

    • Wagon & Horses, Millhouses

      The Wagon & Horses by Millhouses park has now reopened under the new ownership of True North Brewery. The pub has had a refurbishment but no substantial change as its already a great building! The venue is however now split into a seperate dining end and drinkers end in a similar fashion to many of…

    • Hopjacker

      The recent Sheffield Beer Week, which ran alongside the SIBA BeerX, Beer Alive Festival and Beer Now conference, saw lots of folk in town from all over the world that appreciate good beer visiting pubs, bars and breweries all over the City that had laid on special events. Two of the events featured Hopjacker beers…

    • Sheffield Beer Week 13th-19th March: Collaboration beers

      A number of brewers, publicans and beer writers have teamed up to brew special beers that will be on various bars over Sheffield Beer Week. Below is a summary of the details we know at the time of going to press although they could of course change before then and there may be more we…

    • Inn Brief

      The Riverside on Mowbray Street now offers a 20% discount on hand pulled real ales for CAMRA members. Just show your membership card before ordering. There is a new rooftop bar in Shalesmoor as part of the Krynkl development, a building next door to the Ship Inn constructed from shipping containers The Hop at West…

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    • Stancill Brewery – staff news

      It takes determination, grit, passion and something special to work in the pub industry, and the newest addition to the Stancill Brewery team has just that… and much more. Earlier this month, the brewery welcomed Katy Streets who joins as the brewery’s new Business Development Manager. She will work within the brewery’s newly established pubs…

    • Inn Brief

      The Portland House, Welbeck Abbey Brewery’s micropub on Ecclesall Road, now offers a discount to CAMRA members of 10% off a pint of real ale if you show your membership card when you order. Following the sad news of the passing away of Stuart Burrows, the landlord of the Mount Pleasant on Derbyshire Lane, the…

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    • Blue Stoops, Dronfield

      The Blue Stoops on Dronfield High Street has now reopened following extensive refurbishment and renovation of this historical building by True North Brewery. The bar has four handpumps serving real ales from True North and guests along with various keg beers and ciders, a wide selection of gins and other spirits. Food is served all…

    • Local Brewery Taps – Part Two

      In part one we illustrated the best places to drink beer from some of our local breweries including  Abbeydale, Blue Bee, Bradfield, Drone Valley, Exit 33, Hopjacker, Kelham Island, Little Critters, Neepsend, Sheffield Brewery Co and True North. We hope you managed to get to some of those pubs and enjoy some great local beers!…

    • Local Brewery Taps – Part One

      So you want the best pubs to try local beers? The official taps are probably a good start! Abbeydale The original Abbeydale tap is the Rising Sun at Nether Green near Fulwood on bus routes 83a or 120. This has recently seen huge investment in an extension and as well as offering a large range of…

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  • Contour Brewing

    Contour Brewing

    A nano-brewery based in Grindleford.

  • Eyam Brewery

    Eyam Brewery

    This brewery started life in 2017 with a 1.5 barrel plant in the famous Peak District plague village of Eyam which has inspired many of the beer names. In 2019 they relocated up the road to the village of Great Hucklow with a bigger kit.

  • Intrepid Brewing Co

    Intrepid Brewing Co

    Intrepid is based in the Hope Valley in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. They commenced brewing in the summer of 2014 on an eight barrel plant. There are four core beers plus seasonal specials supplied in cask, keg and bottle. A pop up shop opens in the brewery most weekends and there are occasional […]

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