Category: Pub of the Year Winners

Our members voted the Blake Hotel our North Sheffield Pub of the Year winner.

We’ll be there to present the certificate from 8pm on Thursday 18 July.

The New Barrack Tavern on Penistone Road, although standing out on its own away from the centre of Hillsborough and the trendy hotspot of Kelham Island, has been a local stalwart on the real ale scene for many years now.

Also well established is Kev, Steph and daughter Rebecca being at the helm making it something of a family business with regulars that attend nearby sporting events at Hillsborough and Owlerton stadiums almost becoming part of an extended family!

Real ale drinkers are catered for with beers from Castle Rock brewery plus guests and regular live entertainment events are hosted including live music and a comedy club in this classic multi-roomed roadhouse style pub which also has an excellent beer garden (with outdoor stage!). It also has a function/meeting room with its own bar and a pool table.

The pub is also on CAMRA’s heritage pub inventory as a one star listing with an interior of special national historic interest.

The award we are presenting however recognises what a great destination the pub is for cider drinkers. Investment has been made replacing the kitchen with a cider cellar adjacent to the bar and a large range is available covering both traditional and flavoured options and the availability of cider is well promoted!

Our local CAMRA members in Sheffield & District voted the New Barrack Tavern as our branch Cider Pub of the Year, as a result it went forward into the Yorkshire competition in which it was runner up.

Join us there on Saturday 3 August from 7pm for a drink or two as we present both award certificates.

Our overall 2024 pub of the year and also Sheffield Kelham Island & Neepsend area pub of the year is the outstanding Kelham Island Tavern. The Kelham Island area is now a Sheffield beer tourist attraction, with excellent bus and tram connections from the City Centre.

Constructed in the 1830s as part of a terrace, and originally operating as the Sawmaker, the pub was later renamed the White Hart, and in 1995 became the Kelham Island Tavern, before closing in 1999. In March 2002, the derelict building was purchased and reopened, specialising in real ale.

Over the last 22 years, the pub has continued to thrive and since  2019, under the management of Josh and Louise, it has continued to offer a wide range of both cask (13) and craft keg beers always including a porter and stout along with many IPA’s and bitters. It has an excellent rear beer garden and the pub maintains the standards to which many others aspire.

The beer range is consistently excellent, always including at least one from Blue Bee. A simple snack menu is available including pork pies.

KIT is the only pub to be CAMRA National Pub of the Year two years running (in 2008 & 2009). It has been CAMRA Yorkshire Pub of the Year five times and Sheffield Pub of the Year on 17 occasions: a record which is highly unlikely to be overtaken.

Please join us on Wednesday 3rd July as we present the well deserved awards to Josh, Louise and the team.

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Full list of award winning pubs & clubs

• North Sheffield – Blake, Walkley
• East Sheffield – Chantry Inn, Handsworth
• South Sheffield – Sheaf View, Heeley
• West Sheffield – Itchy Pig, Broomhill
• Central Sheffield – Bath Hotel
• Kelham Island & Neepsend – Kelham Island Tavern
• District – Old Hall Hotel, Hope
• Cider – New Barrack Tavern, Hillsborough
• Club – Crookes Social Club

The Sheaf View at Heeley has again been voted as CAMRA Sheffield & District Pub of the Year (Sheffield South) by our members.

The 19th century pub, near Heeley City Farm became a real ale oasis since reopening as a free house in 2000. The walls and shelves are adorned with breweriana and provide an ideal background for good drinking and conversations.

The pub changed ownership becoming part of the Trust Inns estate (along with the Blake Hotel) in 2022. Day to day management however has remained unchanged. They now provide eight casks ales, 4 from Neepsend Brewery and 4 guest ales. A wide range of Belgian and other continental beers, an incredible selection of malt whiskies and traditional cider are also available.

They also have occasional events such as beer festivals and live music sessions.

This is a popular local pub and especially so on Wednesday quiz nights and Sheffield United match days.

The Sheaf View has now won the Sheffield South Pub of the Year award 5 times (every time it has been awarded since the area awards were started in 2019)

We are presenting their award on the evening of Thursday 6th June, all are welcome to join us there from 8pm for a beer or two!

The Sheaf View can be found at 25 Gleadless Road, Heeley, Sheffield S2 3AA. Buses 20, 24, 25, 43, 43a, 44 and X17 stop nearby on London Road by the railway bridge / Ponsfords furniture store. Car park also available.

The Chantry Inn (400 Handsworth Road, S13 9BZ) has been voted as Sheffield and District CAMRA East Area Pub of the Year for 2024.
 
This historic pub which was built around 1250 is uniquely one of only four pubs in the UK set in consecrated grounds being within the boundaries of St Mary’s parish church in Handsworth.
 
It compromises of three different rooms each with some original and unique features including real fireplaces, beamed low ceilings and even the bell pushes used in previous days to order the ale. There are also claims of various tunnels and passageways from the cellar to the church. 
 
It has had a varied past originally being a chantry and safe house for nuns, then a washhouse and a school before being a pub for much of the later years from the early 1800’s.
 
Chantry Brewery acquired the pub in early 2019, undertook a tasteful restoration and now deliver real quality beers. There are always 5 cask ales on tap from Chantry brewery with a rotating special including Steelos, Kaldos, Full Moon alongside the regulars of New York pale, Iron and Steel bitter, Special Reserve and Diamond Stout. There are also changing keg beers available often from Tiny Rebel or Beavertown as well as real cider options and Chantry brewery’s own Helles lager. 
 
Congratulations to all involved with the Chantry Inn including the brewery and the pub manager Terry and his partner Alison. The area pub of the year award presentation is planned for the evening of Tuesday 11 June and all are welcome to join the celebration. 

The Bath Hotel on Victoria Street, just off West Street has been crowned Sheffield City Centre Pub of the Year.

After a 10 year period of it being leased to Thornbridge Brewery, owners Brian and Ruth Johnson took the pub back in 2022 and successfully re-established it as a favourite on the real ale circuit.

Featuring 2 rooms largely unchanged from the refit by Ind Coope in 1931, the Bath is one of the more atmospheric of Sheffield’s pubs. They always offer a wide range of excellent well-kept real ales as well as a numbers of keg beers.

The award presentation will be taking place at 9pm on Thursday 14 May.  All welcome to come and join us for a beer or two!

Getting there – University of Sheffield tram stop or bus stops on Glossop Road/West Street are close by.

The winner of this year’s Sheffield West Pub of the Year award is the Itchy Pig in Broomhill.

Opened in 2016 by joiner and real ale enthusiast Ted Finlay, the Itchy Pig rapidly established itself as a must visit in the area.

Featuring 5 cask lines and 6 keg lines, as well as a range of wines, spirits and soft drinks, there is always something to suit every palate.

There is also a choice of different flavoured pork scratchings which were the inspiration behind the pub’s unusual name. Real Ale fans in Sheffield have taken the Pig to their hearts, as evidenced by the fact it has won this award twice previously.

Join us on Thursday 23rd May for the presentation at 9pm. It’s sure to be a good evening and Ted has promised to put on a “spread”! See you there.

Getting there: Buses 6 and 120 stop outside, buses 10, 10a, 51, 52, 52a and 257 stop a couple of minutes walk away.

The winner in the Derbyshire part of our Sheffield & District branch area competition, as voted for by our members and validated by our judges, is the Old Hall Hotel in Hope.

The main pub building is a 16th Century coaching inn sited on the main road through the village opposite the church which is split into three areas – the main lounge containing the bar, a smaller side room and a restaurant. Upstairs there are hotel rooms offering bed & breakfast accommodation with the breakfast served in the tea room, located in a newer building that is connected to the main pub.

The pub is traditionally furnished and in the winter gets quite cosy with the fire lit!

A selection of well kept real ales is available on the pub’s bar, generally leaning towards the more traditional styles. The pub is also proud of its scotch whisky selection with some of the stock arriving following road trips to the highlands and islands of Scotland!

On most bank holiday weekends a marquee appears on the pub car park hosting the Hope Valley Beer & Cider Festival with a large range of cask ales served on a mixture of handpump and gravity and the opportunity is usually taken to showcase breweries from or near to Derbyshire including the two most local brewers Intrepid and Eyam. The festival also features live entertainment and a snack bar.

The Old Hall Hotel is leased from Heineken’s Star Pub Company by Atlantik Inns, a local company run hands on by experienced pub landlord Rick Ellison and his team. There is a quiz night every Tuesday and various other events from time to time and attracts tourists staying in the area, hikers and day trippers as well as locals that live in Hope or other nearby villages.

Join us at the Old Hall’s beer festival on Saturday 25 May when we’ll be presenting them with the District Pub of the Year award at around 3pm.

Buses 173 (Bakewell-Castleton) and 271/272 (Sheffield-Castleton) stop close to the pub or Hope railway station (Sheffield-Manchester line) is a 10-15 minute walk away.

The Kelham Island Area is now a Sheffield Beer Tourist Attraction, with Bus and Tram connections from the city centre. The Kelham Island Tavern has consistently over the years been awarded Pub of the month, area Pub of the Year and Sheffield Pub of the Year. It is also a former CAMRA National pub of the year award winner, for two Consecutive Years. The Kelham Island Tavern has now been put in to the Yorkshire entry round of the National Competition.  The Kelham Island Tavern is included in the 2023 Good Beer Guide.

This Gem of a pub was rescued from dereliction back in 2002. At the rear of the L-shaped bar area is a conservatory and in warmer weather you can enjoy a pint in the multi award winning beer garden.

Thirteen Hand Pumps dispense an impressive range of beers, always including a Mild a Porter and Stout. The beer range includes Abbeydale Moonshine, Acorn Barnsley Bitter, Pictish Brewers Gold and 10 changing beers, often including Abbeydale, Blue Bee and North riding Brewery. A recent bar refit has also increased the number of craft Beers on Keg.

Congratulations to Josh, Louise and the Team. Please join us for The Presentation on Tuesday July 11 at 9pm. 

A pub has been sited here since the 19^th century, with its first appearance in the 1859 General Directory of Sheffield. The name is chosen for pubs facing east and receiving the early-morning sun, which the original building did.

The current pub opened when the then owners, The Sheffield Town Trustees, agreed to provide land for the widening of Fulwood Road free of charge in return for the demolition and re-construction of the original Pub. The existing building opened in July 1904, operated by the Sheffield Public House Trust Company. The University of Sheffield Students Union took over the pub in July 1922, with Abbeydale Brewery taking ownership just in time for Christmas 2005.

The Rising Sun is a community Pub and in the Good Beer Guide 2023. It acts as the tap for Abbeydale Brewery with Daily Bread, Deception, Moonshine and Absolution always available alongside 7 changing beers from Abbeydale and guests.  An ever- changing Cider is also available.

Food is served Tuesday – Saturday 12-9pm Sunday 12-7pm, with the dining room located in a recent extension to the pub. Other recent developments include a section of the car park given over to an upgraded outdoor drinking area.

Congratulations to Garry and the Team for the area Pub of the year 2023 (Sheffield West). We are presenting the certificate on the evening of Thursday 20 July, all are welcome to join us there for a beer or two from 8pm. Buses 83 and 120 stop right outside.