Category: Breweries

The countdown to Christmas has started here at the brewery and we are busy brewing up a storm in festive preparation.  Our specials this month are sure to get you geared up for the holiday season. Let’s kick off with a brand new special, Lost Boys.  Brewed in honour of those who fought for us during the Great War, this complex brew is crafted using British Propino barley blended with Kentish Pilot and new world hops. Hearty bready undertones from the malt and a sharp bitterness from the Pilot hops are uplifted by tropical fruits from the American varieties. Mistress of the Robe is our next brew this month and she’s an old favourite. This honeyed blonde beer is brewed with sweet malt and juicy New Zealand hops, giving it a luxuriously silky taste. Lastly from our Brewers Choice range we have a super-stellar collaboration with Ashover Brewery, bringing you Smashing Pumpkins. This spiced pumpkin beer is a North American favourite, and with an abundance available from the farm manager at Welbeck, we have decided to use their natural sweetness to make a deliciously warming, cinnamon-spiced red beer (I mean seriously, yum right?). Lastly, don’t wait last minute this Christmas and pick up some of our Brewery Tour – its the perfect gift for the real ale lover in your life (and you can always get one for yourself too!).  Tickets can be purchased via our website or at the Welbeck Farm Shop. Jess Low

Just a quick update from us this time… Our latest beer is now available – yes, you guessed it: Wisewood Six is our American pale ale (4.2%). In other news, our new beer van is now out and about at events and the next big event here at the Wisewood Inn is our firework display and BBQ on Saturday 3 November.

It was announced on Wednesday 12 September that the Sentinel Brewhouse on Shoreham Street (the tap room part of Sentinel Brewing Co.) had been put into liquidation the previous day and ceased trading with immediate effect. The brewing side of the business is set to continue and will provide cask and keg beer for other pubs throughout the city and beyond.

The brewery and the tap room had been in operation since April 2016, but following their well-documented financial trouble last year the two were split into separate entities. Efforts to make the bar and restaurant business profitable proved unsuccessful, as did attempts to find a buyer, leading to this recent unfortunate decision. Meanwhile, Sentinel Brewing Co. continues to look for suitable partners or investors to take the business forward.

We are pleased to announce that The Sheffield Brewery Company has won three gold awards at the recent SIBA North & East Regional Beer Awards, earning us a place in the national final at next year’s SIBA BeerX in Liverpool. Our seasonal special American pale ale, Get Thi’Sen Outdooerz (4.0%), not only picked up the best beer in the Cask Session IPA category but was deemed to be the Overall Best Cask Beer in the competition. Having started life as a one-off two years ago as part of the Ten of the Best series, celebrating The Sheffield Brewery Company’s 10th anniversary, Get Thi’Sen Outdooerz has since become a firm favourite of all those who have graced bars across the area, trying (and failing in some cases) to pronounce its name with as much Yorkshire gusto as thirsty punters can muster. Therefore… (drum roll please!) we are pleased to announced that this award winning beer is now a part of our permanent core range, available in cask, keg and bottle. We were also thrilled to pick up Gold in the Bottle/Can British Dark Beers 4.5-6.4% category for our breakfast stout, Berlin Black (5.7%). This thick, luscious stout is everything you’d have for breakfast – only in a beer. Cereals, oats, milk (lactose milk sugar), and sausages… wait. Sausages?! Yep – Weyermann Smoked Malt (ahh!), all topped off with Frazer’s Coffee Roasters‘ cold-brewed coffee. In other news, every year, we introduce first time students to the greatest city on earth with our annual release of Fresh Start. And this year, we have a fresh start of our own. Our new Head Brewer, Marv White, has introduced his first two beers to the brewery’s repertoire. Fresh Start (2018-19 Edition) (4.5%) is a beautifully pale, sessionable, go-back-for-moreish, solid pale ale, with ample amounts of Cascade, Calypso, Chinook and Centennial. Not only is Marv an excellent brewer, but he is also a semi-professional musician. Drawing from his musical influences, currently fermenting his Marv’s first solo beer (see what we did there!). Lucille (4.5%) – named after BB King’s guitar – is a New England IPA, dry hopped with 10KG of Citra. Full of ester notes and hoppy tones, this fruit beer is a sure-fire hit for your playlist… erm, bar! For more info, as ever, check out www.sheffieldbrewery.com. Nick Law

Autumn has well and truly arrived here at the brewery and it feels like we’re already gearing up towards Christmas (yes, I said it!). We’re kicking off the season with three banging specials, including two brand new ones! We’ll start with the first of our new brews, Burning Firedog (4.3%). A robust, dry and roasty porter, it’s brewed to a traditional recipe using blackened British malts, and peppery English hops. Perfect for chilly evenings at the pub! Our next new brew this month is perfectly themed for October and aptly named Wheatsheaf. The Welbeck estate has for centuries been a farm and woodland, growing wheat as one of its major Autumn crops. Our brewing team wanted to show the fabulous brewing qualities of malted wheat through a true Oktoberfest-style, clovey wheat beer that boasts a stellar 5.8% ABV! Lastly from our Brewers Choice range we have Claire’s High Koalaty and pays tribute to our fearless leader Claire. Her favourite style of beer is what she terms a ‘dangerous IPA’. (fruity, refreshing and devilishly strong). She adores the slightly apricot flavours the ‘Summer’ hop from Australia brings, and has used them to infused this 5% IPA with lashings of seasonally fruity notes. Lastly, our 2019 brewery tour dates will be released later this month, so make sure you check out our Facebook page for dates and ticket details! Jess Low

As ever we’ve been busily brewing new beers alongside a few old favourites in recent weeks. Just some of these include: Metis, a 5.5% shape-shifting nine grain stout we have released in a number of versions – including Chilli, Coffee, Almond Chocolate & Coffee and Maple Syrup – in very small runs; Gaia, a 4.3% dry hopped American amber ale; Mokoia, a 4.8% fruity and bitter Comet, Nelson and Citra hopped pale; Annona, a 4.2% Mosaic oatmeal pale; Aristaeus, a 4.7% heavily hopped lactose pale brewed with oats, wheat, dextrin malt and milk sugar for a full-bodied and tropical pale ale; Hesperidio, a 4.2% citrus peel pale; Appaloosa, a 6.0% New England IPA  rewed with a New England ale yeast and featuring bucket loads of late and dry hops; Mentha, a 5.0% mint chocolate milk stout and; Ekuanot IPA, a 5.5% single-hopped IPA.   If you want to try any of these brews your best bet is to head to the Sheaf View, Blake Hotel or Wellington or to call into our brewery tap room, which will be open on Saturday 6 October and Saturday 7 November. Popping down to our tap room will also give you the chance to see the facelift our brewery shutter doors have undergone courtesy of local artist, Zoe Genders, who has done a fantastic job painting them with an original hop cone design. We are also delighted to once again be sponsoring the Steel City Beer Festival. Festival glassware will be branded with our logo and there will be five of our beers available on hand-pull throughout the festival, as well, hopefully, as a collaboration brew we’ll be involved in that is still to be confirmed at the the time of writing. Gavin Martin

I just wanted to quickly kick off our news this month by saying a huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Funk Fest. It was something totally out of the ordinary for our brilliant beery city, but you all embraced it! And it was a really proud weekend for us all to see our sour and mixed fermentation beers going down so well alongside releases from other breweries at the absolute top of their game. Cheers! Onto what we’ve got coming up during October. Our brew plan is having to be a little on the flexible side this month as we’re undergoing another expansion! With four new tanks on the way, it’s a very exciting time for us but does mean that telling you all when we’ll be releasing things gets a bit more tricky as we get everything into commission. Providing all goes to plan, we’ve got another collaboration out this month, this time with Haand Bryggeriet who joined us all the way from Norway to create our first ever Brut IPA, a style which is very much in the spotlight at the moment. Splash It All Over will be a 6.5% brut-ifully aromatic and bone dry IPA with Ekuanot, Enigma and Eureka hops. It’ll also be the next release showcasing the artwork of Lewis Ryan… we hope you’ve saved your Creeping Brett label as this collaboration is to be the next piece of our little jigsaw! Seeing as it’s October, we’re as usual embracing Halloween and will be bringing back the much acclaimed Iced Tea Dead People (4.6%), a peach infused iced tea inspired beer using the “Princess Peach” blend from our friends at Birdhouse Tea Co. Pilgrim (5.0%) is also making a return with a delicious combination of autumnal spices and I’m ridiculously excited about this one heading into can this year! Beyond that, I ain’t promising anything other than Moonshine. There’ll always be Moonshine. Laura

Steel City’s Stout Wars collab with Emperor’s and Lost Industry was a massive pain in the proverbial to brew, and they would never be so silly as to try anything like that again and how about we do another version bigger and stronger and barrel-ier? The guys got together in August to drink rum and cause havoc brew a new Stout Wars trilogy, the grain grist was the same as last time but with slightly less water (sorry, liquor) and extra demerara sugar. As a result the OG was a huge 1118. Unlike last time the whole brew will be barrel aged, and to put the ‘wars’ in Stout Wars this time there’s an element of competition – each of the three breweries selected a different barrel and a different adjunct, and at the launch event at the Rutland (late this year or early next year) anyone who tries all four parts of the trilogy (very Douglas Adams) will be able to vote for their favourite. The fourth part of the trilogy is similar to last time, the second runnings of the grain being soured, fermented, bretted, and aged in a red wine barrel with cherries. The three ‘main’ episodes are being kept under wraps for now, we could tell you but we’d have to kill you… Recent collaborations have included three at Imperial, a super-bitter Transatlantic Pale Ale called You’re My Mate in aid of the charity Mind, a rhubarb & custard white stout which was devised entirely to fit the name, Let’s Get Ready to Crumble, and in conjunction with the Rutland a citra & topaz Transatlantic Pale Ale entitled Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here (named after the Anaal Nathrakh album, not the quote from that Shakespeare bloke, obviously). The next brew is another collab with the Rutland, once again a beer devised to fit the name, in this case Black Cascade (a Wolves In The Throne Room album, as you’ll all know…). As you might expect, the concept is a Cascade-hopped Black IPA, but the twist is the brew will be split with one batch being a Sour Black IPA. Dave Unpronounceable

Kelham Island Brewery’s head brewer, Nigel Turnbull, has retired after a career spanning more than 45 years. Nigel had been working for breweries around Sheffield since 1971, when he joined the Hope Brewery on Claywheels Lane as a lab technician straight from school at the age of 16. He moved to the Stones Brewery on Rutland Road in 1993, which was followed by a spell in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, after production moved there. In 2009, Nigel joined Kelham Island as head brewer, where he worked until his retirement. The brewery itself was built in 1990 next door to the Fat Cat on Alma Street by the late Dave Wickett, whose son Ed now runs the operation. Sheffield & District CAMRA would like to wish Nigel a happy retirement.

Farmers Cherry Beer is returning to the brewing schedule for the sixth year running. Back by popular demand, this 4.2% ale is light on the palate with a hint of cherry and will be available in cask and 5-litre mini kegs from Monday 3 September The Bradfield Brewery Tap, the Nags Head at Loxley will be holding the annual harvest auction on Saturday 29 September. From 7:30pm onwards there will be a live performance from Bolsterstone Male Voice Choir followed by a charity auction with all proceeds being donated to Weston Park Cancer Charity. Bradfield Brewery are once again proud title sponsors of Sheffield Steeldogs ice hockey team for the 2018/2019 season. This will be the fifth year of title sponsorship for the brewery and the club are looking forward to an exciting and successful season. Staying with sponsorship and sport and we are also pleased to announce a further season as title sponsors for Stocksbridge Rugby Club. A pre-season friendly tournament marked the occasion, where teams competed in the tournament for the chance to be crowned Bradfield Brewery Cup Winners. Jackie