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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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…
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Blue Bee Brewery
As the festive season begins we keep ploughing forward with new specials non of which are particular festive (Bah Humbug). The first of which is yet another in our seies of Geek beers which always uses what has to be our favourite hop Mosaic. We have showcased this American hop in Voyage Geek 5.0% which…
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thanks…
The organisers of the recent Steel City Beer & Cider Festival would like to thank the following for donating items to the festival tombola and to sell for the festival charity – The Sheffield Children’s Hospital:- Tom & Brigitte (Hillsborough Hotel), Steve Cook, Richard Butler, Chris (Shakespeares), Tom (Portland House), Pete Gardener, Josh (Blue Bee…
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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!…
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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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The Bar Stewards Micro Pub
The Bar Stewards is a new micropub and bottle shop due to open next year, in the meantime a number of temporary ‘preview’ openings are taking place on a temporary licence with the venue as a work in progress. The first of these advertised was the last weekend in October with the pub being spartan…
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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…
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Inn Brief
The Original Bierkeller on West Street have installed two handpumps on the smaller of the two bars in the venue with beer from Stancill available. The Graduate and the Globe have both benefited from a refurbishment, real ale continues to be available at both. The former Varsity bar on West Street, which had been closed…
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Blue Bee Brewery
As summer draws to an end we keep ploughing forward with new specials. The first of which is brewed with the one of our favourite hops of the moment: Equinox. We have showcased this American hop in Equinox Pale 4.2% which has big tropical fruit and grapefruit flavours accompanied by pie like flavours leading to a dry finish.…
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Steel City Beer & Cider Festival – Volunteer Staff required!
The annual Steel City Beer & Cider Festival is now only a few short months away, and we are on the lookout for more volunteers to help make the festival even better than before. If you have a day or two, (or more, or just half a day even) you could spare between 17th and…
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Blue Bee Brewery
As summer begins we keep ploughing forward with new specials. The first of which is brewed with the marmite hop: Sorachi Ace. We have showcased this love it or hate American hop in Sorachi Pale 4.5% which has a clean, crisp malt flavour allowing the coconut and lime flavours from this distinctive hop of Japanese…
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Neepsend Brewery
Our latest brews have included Osiris – a 4.2% New Zealand Pale Ale hopped with Green Bullet and Pacific Jade. It is clean, crisp and zesty with a smooth bitterness and notes of citrus and grapefruit – and a tweaked version of our stout utilising even more varieties of dark malt. Our latest IPA, which…
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Neepsend Brew Co
Our latest brews have included Solaris, a 4.3% pale ale with generous late editions of Sorachi Ace, Equinox and Calypso hopes giving plenty of distinctive Sorachi lemon and dill notes backed up by the fruity flavours of Equinox and Calypso.