Category: Breweries

Chantry have launched a one-off beer for the Virtual Magna Real Ale & Music Festival. It is a fairly traditional Yorkshire bitter brewed with Maris Otter Malt and hopped using British Goldings, Fuggles and Challenger. With the usual charity event unable to take place due to the lockdown an online replacement is taking place. You can buy tickets on the festival website for an online live music performance streamed from the stage of the Cutlers Arms pub on 20 March while drinking this special beer out of a festival branded glass, both available to order from the brewery website. Additionally there will be an online beer tasting event with Little Mesters on the 19 March.

The brewery based underneath the Dronfield Arms pub, which started out life as Hopjacker, is available for lease. The kit is a 5BBL Brewery including 2x 5BBL fermenters and 1x 2.5BBL fermenters along with 2x 330 litre pressured conical vessels for craft keg. To find out more and discuss terms contact Chris, the pub owner, on 07834 950693.

Ward & Houldsworth, who produce flavoured beers under the Original Infused brand, have released a couple of beers without the added flavourings: Original Pale Ale (5.2%) and Original Blonde (4.0%).

Crosspool Alemakers Society brewed a couple of small batch desert porters. Both are 5.5%, Conejacker is a mint choc ice cream flavour and Shut Yer Cake Owl is cherry chocolate cake.

New beers from Little Mesters include DXCI Pale and Spiced Rum & Raisin Stout.

The latest brew at Grizzly Grain is a sessionable, fruity, New Zealand hopped pale ale.

Saint Mars of the Desert have brewed a tart cherry fruit beer, 7.1% called Confounded Mister Sisyphus. This beer involved their foeder being used to create sour wort, fruit, a bit of blending, barrel ageing and champagne yeast. You can read the background of the name and a bit more on the process on their brewery blog.

Neepsend Brew Co. have brewed a 5.0% strawberry and rhubarb sour. We’re told the strawberry sweetness and rhubarb tartness combine really well perfectly for a refreshing, mouth-puckering springtime sour. Available to order online in cans imminently.

Eyam Brewery are hosting a pop up shop every Saturday 10:30 to 13:30 starting from 20th March.

A thing that is happening… once again the crazy trio Steel City, Emperor’s and Lost Industry are getting together for some imperial silliness, and this time it’s sour.

The first trilogy will be released from barrels in summer (assuming we’re allowed out to play!)

sneak preview of Episode I: The Cranachan Menace. Whisky barrel, 15kg raspberry puree, and 20l heather honey mead. The rest of the mead will have 5kg raspberry and a dash of whisky added and be sold as cranachan mead.

We can’t wait!

So we’ve got at least another few weeks before we’re able to start visiting all of our city’s fantastic pubs again, but there is plenty of hope on the horizon for summer time pints! Because of this, the releases shown below are all due to come out in can, although we’re carrying on brewing and hope to be as prepared as possible to supply pubs when they’re ready. Plus we’ve still got plenty of 5L minikegs in stock, and a selected handpulled cask beer is available to pre-order and pick up from the brewery, so get in touch if you fancy a pint or two for beers at home! 

The next of our Dr Morton’s series is out early March – Angler Management (4.1%) is a Chinook and Centennial hopped pale ale. Light, hoppy and refreshing with flavours of citrus fruits and pine, and a tempting bitter finish. Not for small fry!

This year we’ve decided to brew two different versions of our spring special, Reverie – they’re both going to be 4.2% dry hopped pale ales, but with distinctly different hop characters. The first is a rebrew of the Citra & Cascade edition which we’ve released previously, and has a fresh, fruity and floral character. The second is a new recipe which features HBC472 and El Dorado hops. This one is punchy and resinous, with bright tropical fruit flavours on the palate.

The next in our Salvation series sees us return to the first ever recipe we released under this range with a Coconut Stout (5.5%). This one’s been requested a few times so we’ve brought it back! Velvety and full bodied, with the coconut boosted by Sorachi Ace hops. Creamy and delicious! 

We’re also running our Crowler Clubs on Fridays for those of you who are missing your post work pub trips, these take place virtually over Zoom and are growing every week, so please do look them up if you fancy some friendly beery chat!

Cheers, 

Laura, Abbeydale Brewery

Beer can be ordered online for collection or delivery at abbeydalebrewery.co.uk.

Komrade IPA is Stancill‘s first beer to be developed, brewed and launched entirely during lockdown. It is fully loaded with Citra and Mosaic hops and, at 6% ABV, it’s also their strongest beer yet!

A couple of new brews from Neepsend. First up is a Kolsch style beer using that type of yeast along with Pilsner Malt, the second beer is called Acadia and is a 3.9% New England session pale that will be going in cask and can.

Kelham Island Brewery are selling 12 can mixed cases again online, these contain three each of Overseer (5% IPA), Nightrider (4.5% stout), 30 Years (7.2% pale ale) and Stop Telling Us What To Brew (4.3% session pale).

Little Mesters Brewing have released a new batch of their Hazy IPA with a revised recipe. This 6% double dry hopped beer delivers a big refreshing bitter hoppy blast of flavour and a subtle sweet finish.

New from Crosspool Ale Makers Society is On the Loose, a 5.1% ABV gluten free New World IPA.

Chantry Brewery have launched a new 4.1% red ale, Wentworth Red, brewed with Amarillo hops. Available in bottle to order for home delivery via the brewery’s website.

Intrepid are updating their fining regime with all new brews going forward becoming vegan whilst still pouring an attractive clear pint! The first beer produced suitable for vegans is Amica, a 4.5% modern US style pale ale involving Azacca, Ekuanot, Rakau & Columbus hops.

As I write this we’re back in national lockdown again – this isn’t the start any of us wanted to 2021, but there is hope on the horizon and we hope you’re all doing ok.

We’re really missing all our amazing pubs – much of our production has now shifted to canned format, but we’re making sure we keep brewing so that we maintain supply of delicious cask stock too, ready for when pubs are able to re-open. So look out for our minikegs which we hope bring a little bit of pub experience to your home! We’re also currently offering collection of freshly handpulled cask beer from the brewery door (served in two or four pint sealed containers – pre-order online before popping down to collect!). As I type the beer available is Grus, a delicious 4.0% easy drinking pale with a lovely ripe nectarine kinda character. 

Onto our new beers! We’ve just re-released Huckster, one of our most requested beers of all time. Originally brewed in collaboration with Peddler Market, this beer a 6.0% NEIPA that’s super juicy, with added cryo hops for even more of a flavour boost.

And in big news… Brimstone is back (soon)! The first beer to be released in celebration of our 25th anniversary, many of you may remember it as being part of our core range from 2006 to 2016. It’s a tasty Amarillo hopped American brown ale and a real favourite here at the brewery, due to be released in the first week of February.

Also out in February, we’re looking forward to the next in our Deliverance series, which this time is a West Coast DIPA (8.0%), hopped with Simcoe, Amarillo and Centennial. This one is influenced by one of our brewer Jim’s favourite beers, inspired by a 2019 trip to California. We might not be able to travel at the moment but at least we can do our best to take your tastebuds on a journey!

And finally we’ll be releasing a new iteration of our puddingy Indulgence beers – a raspberry and vanilla muffin pale (4.5%) Previously released under the name Lady RaRa as part of our signature series in 2016 and now returning as part of our yummy range of dessert inspired beers! It’s a pale ale with a delicate hint of pink, creamy and cakey with oats, lactose and Vienna malt, plus of course oodles of raspberries and sweet vanilla. We hope you’re as excited as I am that it’s back!

Cheers, Laura

abbeydalebrewery.co.uk

After a very unpredictable 2020 for the whole population – including our beloved beer industry, and us here at Abbeydale Brewery, we’re finding things to look forward to in 2021. One thing we can be sure of is that we will be celebrating our 25th anniversary! We feel very fortunate to be here and certainly feel it’s a milestone well worth celebrating.

Throughout the year we’re planning on releasing a series of anniversary beers, which will be marked with our special commemorative logo. We don’t want to give too much away just yet, but suffice to say we’ve got some amazing surprises up our sleeves with some completely new brews and some twists on popular favourites on the way.

We’re kicking off the year’s special releases with two returning beers… the first of which has been brewed this week! Our Amarillo hopped American Brown Ale, Brimstone, was a much loved feature of our core range from 2006 until 2016 before we had to take the difficult decision to retire it, but it’s back as a limited release in early February… including in can for the very first time! It’s a favourite beer of our Sales Director, Dan Baxter – who himself has worked for the company since 2007. Starting out at one-time Abbeydale pub The Moon, he began working at the brewery as a brewer and salesman in 2008 (following in his granddad’s footsteps, who used to work at the old William Stones Cannon Brewery on Rutland Road), and he’s never looked back. Dan’s very excited to get Brimstone back in his life, and we hope you are too! 

Also in February we have the return of Last Rites, our always popular dry hopped barleywine – we can’t wait to welcome it back to our line-up.

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Kelham Island Brewery are having a January sale on their online shop with discounts on all their packs of cans.

Thornbridge Brewery also have an online sale with 10% off everything, use the discount code NEWYEAR10.

New beer releases from Abbeydale Brewery mid January include the latest edition of their Salvation series of flavoured stouts (this one involving Sea Salt and Caramel) along with the return of Huckster Cryo, a juicy 6% New England IPA with a plethora of hops including the Ekuanot Cryo variety. Also making a temporary comeback is one of the more traditional seasonals, “Dr Morton’s Duck Baffler”, a sessionable 4.5% ABV classic pale ale brewed with Citra Hops which impart a zesty and refreshing flavour to the beer. All three are available in cans to order direct from the brewery online.

The newest brew at Neepsend Brew Co is Hiero, a 4.6% American pale hopped with Summit, Centennial and Eureka. The majority of this beer will be available in can (available to order online for home delivery) although a limited quantity will be put in cask for outlets still able to sell it.

Little Critters Brewing have a launched an online shop on their website selling their beer in cans along with brewery merchandise for home delivery. Free delivery is available for orders over £65.

Loxley Brewery will be at John Lewis in Sheffield City Centre from 7 to 13 December manning a stall selling their bottled beers and merchandise, handy for Christmas shoppers!

Grizzly Grain have brewed another batch of their Tilt Hammer Stout, which is now available in bottles.

Crosspool Ale Makers latest beer available in cans is Straight Outta Crosspool, a gluten-free West Coast IPA.

Drone Valley Brewery continue to offer home delivery of their bottled beers along with an increased selection of merchandise, additionally in the run up to Christmas they have opened a shop at their brewery in Unstone.

Little Mesters Brewing are now selling online for click and collect orders, the collection point is their brewery next door to Mitchell’s Wines at Meadowhead. Beers are available in cans or mini-kegs and the range includes a traditional 3.9% bitter, a hazy IPA and a lager. Merchandise including t-shirts is also available to order.

Abbeydale Brewery currently have a variety of 24 different beers available in cans and for those wanting to create a beer advent calendar for December they are offering a variety box containing one of each of the 24 beers to order online with free home delivery (alternatively click and collect is available from the brewery). The selection is diverse ranging from the 3.8% Daily Bread traditional bitter up to the 12.4% Strawberry Tigers and Rooftop Jacuzzis stout!  Some of the beers are also available individually in 9 pint mini casks.

Recent brews from Neepsend include Arion, a 5.4% Hopfenweizen and Bramble, a 4.8% Blackberry Porter.

Neepsend now has a brewery shop selling their beer in cans and mini-kegs along with merchandise. You can also order online for home delivery. One of the beers recently canned is Paikea, a 4.4% New Zealand Pale and yes, they’ve spotted the typo on the label…

Crosspool Ale Makers have brewed a Gluten Free 4% ABV Pilsener called “He Ain’t Heavy”. It is available to order online in cans for collection or delivery.

Grizzly Grain‘s latest beer is Auto Barn, a 4.5% ABV Spelt and Rye Hefeweizen, available in bottles for home delivery. The next beer, currently being brewed, is an American Brown Ale.

Drone Valley Brewery are now offering Christmas gift packs, available to order online.

Triple Point Brewery now have a separate shop located in the warehouse next door to the brewery and bar which you can buy cans, minikegs, merchandise etc from without having to order in advance. Latest brews include Kokos, a coconut stout; Parkin, a 7.2% AVB Treacle and ginger ale; and Substantial Meal, a 4.5% session IPA.

Recent beer releases from Abbeydale Brewery include “Through The Sticks”, a 5.1% lightly smoky sour beer with rosemary & lemon brewed in collaboration with Little Earth Project and the latest version of “Indulgence”, this time a Honeycombe Chocolate Stout. Both beers are available in can and can be ordered online either to collect from the brewery or for home delivery.

The Kelham Island Brewery 30th anniversary special beer, which some of you may have tried on cask at the Fat Cat or other pubs, is now available in cans from the brewery shop or to order online for home delivery.

Sheffield Brewery Company temporarily closed their brewing operations at the start of lockdown v2 on 5 November, with their taproom already forced to close under tier 3 restrictions towards the end of October. They are hoping to be back in business in December after lockdown when the pubs are able to reopen. (UPDATE – from 27th November they will be commencing weekly deliveries for beer ordered online).

Little Critters beers are now available in cans and minikegs from selected off licences or to order direct from the brewery for delivery. The latest beer to be canned is “C-Monster”, their 6.5% Citrus IPA.

Little Mesters Brewing is up and running and their website is due to go live soon and are also promising an imminent announcement about beer and merchandise! They are based at the former Mitchell’s Hop House brewery, which is next door to Mitchell’s Wine Merchants at Meadowhead and have a tap room upstairs.

Eyam Brewery have introduced a “1665 series” which sees some of their regular beers jacked up a few notches. The latest release in this series is a Black Death Imperial Vanilla Stout at 11% (their regular Black Death Vanilla Stout is 7% ABV) offering deeper, more complex flavours than normal! It is available in 750ml bottles.