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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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).…
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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…
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Inn Brief
From 9 April, the Sentinel Brewhouse on Shoreham Street will have extended opening hours: Mon-Thu 4pm-11pm, Fri 12pm-12am, Sat 11am-12pm, Sun 11am-8pm. The Blind Monkey (formerly the Firwood Cottage) has a revised opening date of 27 April. The Masons Arms in Crookes is currently being redecorated and signs are that the pub could reopen soon.…
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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,…
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Sheffield brewers enjoy Rotherham awards
A number of Sheffield’s brewers were among the winners in the Champion Beer of Yorkshire awards which took place during the recent Baas, Bands and Beers festival at Magna in Rotherham. To mark the 25th anniversary of the Rotherham CAMRA festival, each of the previous Gold medal winners was invited back and entered into the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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
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