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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Blue Bee Brewery
March sees the return of Sheffield Beer Week and we can’t wait to enjoy some of the great beery events planned throughout the city. We were really pleased to welcome Luicenne from the Shakespeare down to the brewery to brew a beer for their Collabracadabra brew fest, the beer in question is a style we…
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Brewery Bits
Sheffield Brewery Company are having regular film nights on Thursdays from 26th March in association with Kelham Island Film Club and their bar is now open every weekend, from 4pm Fridays and 2pm Saturdays. Brewery tours are being relaunched soon. Neepsend are on the move! The brewery tap session held on the February Peddlers weekend…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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