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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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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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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Toolmakers Brewery
Watch this space: Toolmakers Brewery Bar is now fully licenced and we have some exciting things awaiting in the pipeline so keep your eyes peeled for what’s to come. Not to worry though, we still have a booking system in place for any private functions that hire the bar space. Whether this be private parties,…
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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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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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Steel City Brewing
Steel City attended the European Parliament All Party Beer Group’s pre-xmas bash with their AFA pale and Mayhem stout. The beers went down well, and the latter raised both eyebrows and chuckles depending on political allegiance! A particularly interesting reaction was observed from a Tory MEP… Both beers are available (at time of writing!) from…
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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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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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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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Dronfield Most Improved Pub
Tom and the team at the Hyde Park have very recently won the most improved pub award for the Dronfield Area. This award is only given out when it is seen that a special effort has been made to improve a venue. Recently this pub was shut and was on the way to being boarded…
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Inn Brief
The New Inn on Hemsworth Road is under new management and has relaunched. The Beer Stop in Dronfield no longer offers real ale, it is now concentrating on it’s bottled range and operating as an off licence. Wood Street Brewery is no more, the kit was removed prior to the sale of the Hillsborough Hotel.…
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Toolmakers Brewery
Following a successful series of open days at the brewery in the run up to Christmas, another one is planned for Saturday 7th February. It is expected to then become a monthly event.
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Steel City Brewing
Steel City’s first brew of the year is an away collaboration… Dave realised that he’d somehow managed to not do a single collaboration with Raw in 2014, so put this right with a visit to brew Ceremony of Opposites (name inspired by the Samael album, obviously…), an oxymoronic Black IPA with the tropical-flavoured Galaxy and…
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Toolmakers Brewery
After our very successful first open day we will be holding further ones on the 6th and 13th December.
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Toolmakers Brewery
Toolmakers Brewery and The Forest together will be having another weekend where our ales will be £2 a pint and guest ales at £2.50. This event will be happening on the 8th November 14.
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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…
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