Category: Breweries

Sheffield Brewery to Crowdfund accessibility building works Sheffield Brewery will this month launch a Crowdfunding campaign to help pay for important renovations to make its premises more accessible. This is part of a bigger project to build a community tap room and kitchen based in Neepsend in the heart of the Kelham Island area. The brewery, which is based on the junction of Percy Street and Burton Road, currently opens as a tap room during the weekends of Peddlers Market. The building is in a Conservation Area and has lots of heritage with all entrances originally built up to five feet off the ground. Access to the bar from the courtyard is difficult for people with limited mobility due to a large ramp. The owners of the brewery have drawn up plans to improve the ramp access and then to add a lift, with completion of the first stage planned for October. Sheffield Brewery is asking beer lovers far and wide plus businesses and residents of Sheffield to help support its developments through a Crowdfunding campaign, by which supporters can donate online. In return, they can receive rewards of beer, access to events, brewery tours, ‘brewer for the day’ experiences and discounts when booking the brewery for an event. Sheffield Brewery owner, Pete Rawlinson, says: “Our planned building works mean that once we have access we will be able to open as a fully licensed venue, and can develop our real ale bar with a keg wall to showcase craft ales. We can then focus on some ambitious plans to develop a sustainable, ethically sourced kitchen, where we will employ and train disadvantaged members of the community. “Folk have been coming to our temporary bar for over seven years and we want to open every week so members and visitors can come to the brewery and experience what we’re all about – which is to enjoy great beer, live music and good company. Whilst we can only tackle this is in stages, the more we can raise, the quicker the project will move forward. “Initially we need to raise a total of £15,000 to complete all of the access works and balustrades. We are asking our supporters to get behind us and help us to crowdfund – and we promise that our customers and the community will reap the rewards!” The Crowdfunding campaign will launch later this month and you can find details of how to donate on Sheffield Brewery’s website: www.sheffieldbrewery.com and on Twitter: @sheffieldbrewer. Keeping it local with English hops Sheffield Brewery is backing English  hops with its new brew, Wise Cracker, a 3.9% English Pale Ale which uses Jester and Olicana – the finest English aroma hops around. Whilst American hops have been the popular choice for many brewers in recent years, homegrown hops – mainly grown in the warmer climate of Southern England – are becoming more and more desirable. Sheffield Brewery is keen to support the growth and sustainability of English hops to compliment hops from across the globe. Come along and decide for yourself when you try a pint of Wise Cracker – available in August! Claire

A couple of returning cask specials to tell you about this month, with Doctor Morton’s Djinn Jar Beer (4.2%) making an appearance. With a hit of real ginger amped up by just a prickle of cayenne pepper, this is a pale ale with a bit of a kick! We’re also bringing back one of the first beers we ever created, Matins (3.6%). Formerly part of our core range, it’s great to see this old favourite (known by some as brewery owner Pat’s “breakfast beer”!) popping up on bars again!

To the Brewers’ Emporium range, we have a new addition! Splendour (4.4%) sits alongside the seasonal releases which also include Pilgrim, Hibernation and Reverie. It’s a beautiful hazy pale ale with literally hundreds of lovingly hand sliced fresh oranges added, the first recipe created by our new sales team members Mick and Sam. We’ve also got our next Serenity session IPA (3.8%) which is the tenth in the series, this time with an All-C combination of Centennial, Cardinal and Citra hops. And we have a new Wanderer in the pipeline, which is to be a kaffir lime leaf and lemon grass saison at 5.0%.

The final piece of this year’s artwork puzzle from the series illustrated by Lewy is coming out this month too, which is an as-yet unnamed collaboration with Box Social, a 7.0% IPA with Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic hops.

Finally, a couple of Funk Dungeon releases might start to creep out towards the end of the month as we gear up for Funk Fest (7-8 September, tickets via bit.ly/funkfest19) so keep your eyes peeled for those!

Cheers,

Laura

A couple of new seasonals are being released for the summer. The first is Pint Break, 5.0%, A blonde fermented with lager yeasts for a sparkling crisp taste with a fresh hop palate from a brace of US hops. The perfect ale for car chases, sky dives or a blaze of glory on the ultimate wave!

Meanwhile, White Rider, 4.8% is an American style wheat beer with the addition of dark cherry; it has a smooth mouthfeel and is tangy with a sweet aroma and a sumptuous head. A KIB classic returns with a crimson vengeance!

Easy vibes with LA Ride If you’re into the laid back, low rider kind of life and dream of cruising down the Californian highway to your favourite soulful tunes, our new brew is for you. LA Ride launches this July and is the newest addition to our craft ale Gravity range. LA Ride is a low alcohol pale (2.5%) making it the perfect companion to the low rider lifestyle. Come and enjoy the virtues of a low alcohol ride on the freeway of good vibes, music and beer, this summer with the Sheffield Brewery. P.s. Cycling in the great Let’s Ride event in Sheffield on 14 July? Have a word with your landlord now to make sure you end your ride with an easy LA Ride. Been there, got the T-Shirt? We’re reight excited about our new beer T’s, which you can now get your hands on to spread the love for your favourite Sheffield Brewery beers! Available in GTSO (cut from Get Thi’Sen Outdoorz  – you know what it means!) and Blanco Blonde prints, our t-shirts are made from organic, ethically sourced high-quality cotton and hand screen printed right here in Sheffield. They are just £25 each and you can order yours by emailing: sales@sheffieldbrewery.com. New website now live! Head on over to SheffieldBrewery.com to see our new website. You’ll find a showcase of our core beers and our new Gravity range, in which we’re bringing you tempting and tantalising flavour combinations crafted by our dedicated brewery team. You’ll also find information about our tap rooms (including our own, right here in the brewery), upcoming music gigs that we are hosting and details about hiring out the brewery for parties, weddings and other events. Happy browsing!

A number of breweries from Sheffield had successes in the beer of the festival competition at the recent Doncaster CAMRA beer festival with Little Critters’ Raspberry Blonde winning the speciality category, Stancill ‘s Hopollo 11 winning the golden ales category and Triplepoint Debut IPA winning the IPA category. Triplepoint was also overall runner up. Recent specials from Blue Bee Brewery include a Cream Soda Pale Ale brewed with raspberries, lactose and oats; Hit the Ground, a 5.5% Simcoe Cryo hopped IPA and the second in their series of 3.9% Quad hopped pale ales, this time with the Simcoe, Columbus, Belma and Ekuanot varieties. Little Critters have brewed a coconut stout. Toolmakers Brewery are hosting an open mic night in their tap room most Sundays. Check their Facebook page for details. Neepsend Brewery has collaborated with Bullion Chocolate who are based in the Cutlery Works food hall to brew “Gold Standard”, a chocolate milk stout, which launched as part of a paired beer and chocolate tasting evening at the Boozehound bar in Cutlery Works. Abbeydale have brewed a beer in collaboration with Peddlers Night Market. Huckster Cryo is a 6% New England IPA. Heist Craft brewery in Clowne have brewed a beer for Sheffield United FC which will be available in the Blades Superstore at Bramall Lane to celebrate promotion to the Premiership. A special beer is being brewed for Tramlines music festival, however details were yet to be announced at time of going to press.

Happy July! Hopefully by the time you’re reading this it has started to feel like a bit more like summer and a bit less wet and windy! Either way, we’ve got some summertime specials that will get you excited. We’re kicking off July with Pineapple Lodge, a satisfyingly full flavoured IPA.  American and New Zealand hops offer notes of tropical fruits and are balanced with a rich and deep malt backbone from specialty Vienna Malt, giving an almost pineapple-like flavour. Next we’ve got Cathedral Beeches, a 3.7% English bitter full of heady herbal aromas from British Phoenix hops making it surprisingly delicious and certainly more interesting than many of its counterparts. And finally, from our popular Foraged & Found range we’ve got Respect Your Elders!  This 3.9% elderflower extra-pale has been brewed with fragrant and locally foraged flower heads courtesy of our team and wonderful community. Lastly, we’re excited to share that this month we will be launching a new line of craft kegged beers.  Our whole team has been involved in this venture and we will be releasing details in the coming weeks on our social media channels.  Keep your eyes peeled for details!  Now, COME ON SUNSHINE! Jessica.

Hello from the Brewery of Saint Mars of the Desert.  Our first spring has been fab and we keep seeing new faces in the taproom every week.  In addition to our taproom in Attercliffe, you may have seen our beers around town in some of Sheffield’s pubs. Recently we have sent a small amount of beer to Scotland, Leeds, York and Manchester. We have just premiered our new foeder-aged brown stout “Wudu”.  The foeder has recently come to us from Italy via a cooperage in Germany – it’s a 1200 litre former Barolo barrel constructed of oak and it has imparted a good character of its former use in our Wudu (4.3%abv).   People have also been enjoying our line up of hoppy and hazy pale ales, the latest of which is named “Bam Bam” (5.3%abv) with Olicana and Azacca hops.  We were looking to create a mango-like hoppiness and we think we succeeded. Upcoming we have a beer that was made in cooperation with local artist Tom Newell and Hop Hideout at Kommune.  This orange zest pale ale saw Martha zesting for the better part of two days and is called “Endless Toil” which matches the title of Tom’s upcoming show. Look out for limited release cans with for collectable labels, available in hop hideout and our taproom from June 20th onwards. Cheers!  Dann and Martha

Steel City had a brief hiatus in the spring due to Dave swanning off to all four corners of the globe, but are back in business with the latest ‘megacollab’.

Sadly unlike last year the weather conspired to prevent cricket being played so they had to get on with brewing instead, though there was still a barbecue and of course a piss-up in the brewery.

The base beer is a Chocolate Milkshake Stout, with small batch versions to include Coconut, Mint, and Raspberry, plus the fact that The Crow Inn have their own coffee blend meant that a coffee version was inevitable.

No names at the time of press, but with given milkshake element some far-right mockery is likely… A rather fine rum barrel has also been acquired so an aged version will be out later in the year.

Looking further ahead, September marks the 10^th anniversary of the first ever Steel City brew – where’s that time gone?! To mark the occasion hopefully former partners Gazza and Hannah are going to come along to the brewing of Hop Manifesto Reloaded – a recreation of that first brew, but with the hop content amped up for the 2019 generation (hard to believe that despite literally setting up Steel City to make hoppier beers than everyone else, a decade later that original recipe seems almost balanced!).