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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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…
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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…
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Blue Bee Brewery
First of all, we were really pleased that our Ginger Beer (4.5%) came second overall at Sheffield Beer Festival back in October, it was a great event as ever. Ginger Beer will be available throughout the Christmas period, with its fiery ginger kick it is perfect to warm you up during these cold, dark winter…
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Bradfield Brewery
T’is the season… pay respect and be merry! Who else cannot believe we are in November already? Time flies when you’re having fun as they say! There’s a never a dull moment at Bradfield Brewery, the moments are instead very colourful – this month it’s all things red and blue! Red is for the poppies…
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Blue Bee Brewery
After a busy October, with students back in Sheffield and the Steel City Beer Festival, November looks just as hectic. First of all our cask beers will be feature at Peddler Market in Neepsend over the first weekend November; look for our Amarillo Pale, Ginger Beer and Waimea IPA all featured alongside some great street…
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Pub of the Month October 2017
Sheffield & District CAMRA are delighted to announce that the winner of the Pub of the Month award for October 2017 is the Itchy Pig Ale House in Broomhill. The Itchy Pig opened its doors in July 2016, taking over a unit formerly occupied by a gift shop, and in the first year of business…
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Blue Bee Brewery
We have had a busy September both at the brewery and on the road. After previous collaborations at our place with Abbeydale and North Riding we have finally got round to visiting them and brewing up a couple of great beers. Firstly, at Abbeydale we brewed a mega-hoppy rye and oat IPA, Are There Hops…
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Abbeydale Brewery
It’s all gone collaboration crazy this month as we’ve got LOADS of beers coming up that we’ve made with friends from all around the world! First up – earlier this year we brewed an “away” collaboration, a strong Tripel style beer called Trials and Tripelations, with the excellent chaps at Twisted Barrel Ale in Coventry.…
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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…
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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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Blue Bee Brewery
We have two of our personal favourite beers back for August. The first of these is Born in the USA, 6.0%. This IPA combines three great American hop varieties: Mosaic, Citra and Ekuanot which together give big tropical fruit flavours and resinous notes. Secondly is Ginger Beer, 4.5% – perfect for the summer this pale…
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Pub of the Year presentation
It will have come as no surprise to many that Sheffield & District CAMRA members yet again voted the Kelham Island Tavern as their Pub of the Year for 2017. Branch members descended on the pub in their droves on the evening of 22 June to see our social secretary Patrick Johnson present pub owners…
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Blue Bee Brewery
As we head towards the longer nights and hopefully better weather we have brewed a couple of session pale ales perfect for the sunny weather. First up is Cascade Pale 3.9% brewed with the classic American hop Cascade; the hops give citrus and floral flavours which lead to a dry crisp refreshing finish. Secondly we have managed…
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Blue Bee Brewery
There have been a few big changes at the brewery over the last couple of months. We have been asked plenty of probing questions but I can confirm that myself (Josh) and my partner Louise have taken over the brewery in order to secure its future. Unfortunately as I assume many of you are aware…
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Inn Brief
The Old Queens Head on Pond Hill (which won our April Pub of the Month) now has a guest ale pump, enabling them to alternate the Thwaites seasonals with interesting local beers. Brew Foundation is looking at converting the unit on Ecclesall Road that was previously Eccy Booze off licence into a micropub and craft…
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Rutland Arms, Sheffield Centre
The Rutland Arms pub business is now under new ownership! The lease has moved from Reet Ale Pubs to a company owned by Chris Bamford and Kate Major, who previously managed Shakespeare’s and the Three Tuns respectively. All the same staff are working at the pub, both on the bar and in the kitchen –…
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‘Brewnies’ prove to be winning formula
A former local government worker who left the rat race to devote her days to baking beautiful brownies has pioneered a unique recipe which is taking sweet-toothed shoppers by surprise after adding a secret ingredient to her culinary creations… beer! Heather Moore, who lives in Middlewood, set up her booming brownie business We Luv Brownies…
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Blue Bee Brewery
As I write this now we are currently racking Gyle 400 at Blue Bee. To mark this milestone we had originally planned on Brewing a 6% coffee milk stout using coffee from Frazers Roasters of Sheffield. However due to bad planning on our part we had to postpone this brew, not to worry though the…
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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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News Inn Brief
The Three Tuns in Sheffield City Centre have a new food menu offering good hearty food, sandwiches and chip butties. On 1st December they are hosting a Blue Bee Brewery tap takeover. The public beer festival at SIBA BeerX in 2017 will be called ‘Beer Alive!‘ and take place from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th…