Category: Breweries

We’ve currently got a few special ales out at the moment for you to enjoy. First up is Kelham Islander (4.0%). This refreshingly smooth, slightly malty, single hop pale ale is brewed entirely with Centennial hops to give a subtle fruity, herbal aroma and a crisp dry finish. Our last batch sold out in record time, so there will be plenty more of this appearing in the not-too-distant future! Next, we have Mod Mild (3.7%), a mild ale that is easy drinking with a smooth, somewhat sweet palate, beautifully balanced with a pleasant bitterness from our addition of the choicest English hops. It’s a real flavour of the swinging sixties. Last but certainly not least is Wild Rider (5.5%). This strong, full-flavoured, IPA is brewed with a renegade band of hops from around the world, making for a massive, explosive hop aroma. Wickedly juicy, this beer is mouth watering and satisfyingly aromatic.

Farmers World Cup Ale, a light pale hoppy beer with a kick of fruit, is available throughout June (and into July if the England team make it that far!) in cask and five-litre mini kegs. Here’s hoping the England players have their kicks on form for the World Cup! Sticking with sport and Farmers Wim-Bull-don has had a pump clip facelift to celebrate its 12^th year appearance on the brewing schedule. A pale, fruity and refreshing ale, it will flow down nicely with your strawberries and cream, and will be available from 25 June. Work has now started on the revamp of newly acquired King & Miller in Deepcar. We are aiming for a summer opening of what will be a family friendly Bradfield Brewery Tap with a range of Farmers Ales on the bar, in both cask and keg. Jackie

A certain international football tournament kicks off in June (like what I did there?!) but if you’re already fed up of listening to people talking about bags of wind being flung around a big field, we’re on hand to help with the release of Ball Relief (4.0%). Expect a sessionable, grassy pale with a bitter finish… let’s just hope that’s not a premonition for any last minute goal disasters! We’re also absolutely delighted to be rebrewing Birdhouse Tea Beer (4.2%), our original collaboration with the lovely team at Birdhouse using a bespoke blend created just for us. With flavours of jasmine, summer fruits and hibiscus coming through, it’s absolutely perfect for summer and for the first time this year will also be available in cans! Look out on our social media for details of a special launch event too. Moving on to look at what’s new in the Brewers Emporium and we have three new beers which we are all very excited to share with you. Our first DIPA, Deliverance, went down an absolute treat, so we’ve gone and made Deliverance 2! We’re keeping the ABV at a weighty 9.0%, but have mixed up the hop grist which this time will showcase Ekuanot, Amarillo and Centennial for a gorgeously vibrant, fruity DIPA. We’re also creating a tasty hybrid sour IPA which is to be the next of the Unbeliever series, the first of the range to be available in cask on general release, so we look forward to hearing your thoughts! And finally, we’ll be launching our next Salvation stout, influenced by one of our very favourite cocktails, the Espresso Martini! Laura

We’ve had a kinda busy month. We spent a little time representing Sheffield at the Molde Olfestival in Norway, where we served a number of our beers (and local collabs) including: Off Your Coconut (a collab with Brewdog Sheffield), Emmeline (Sheffield Beer Week collab with Hop Hideout, Neepsend and the Devonshire Cat), Dirty Bassett (collab with Heist Craft) and Rad Beets (collab with Shakespeares). Much beer was enjoyed and a huge amount of pizza was devoured, Norwegians really like pizza!  We came fourth overall in terms of beers sold which wasn’t bad in a festival that included Haandbryggeriet, Nogne, O/O, Lervig and many other incredible brewers. As a result of all this our stock is a little depleted so we have several upcoming brews.  We brewed a Fruit Tea Braggot with our friend Drew at Boutelliers, 1 Mutual Friend (7.4% mango and bergamot with raw Yorkshire honey).  Zeste de Sariette (6.0% lemon and bay saison) is making a return and we’ve just brewed a Cinnamon Mochaccino Stout (approx. 6.2%).  We’ve also started another batch of Mojito Sour (5.3%) and we’ll be brewing more Shades of Pale (4.6%) and 10 Grain (6% stout), when we have some fermenter space.

Steel City, along with Lost Industry and Emperor’s, presented the second Stout Wars tap takeover on Star Wars Day, this time at the Shakespeare. The beers sold unbelievably fast, with Episode IV: A Tiramisu Hope was gone by 8pm and Episode VI: Return of the Cake was not far behind. We suspect a few people may have suffered the Revenge of the Fifth the next day… OK we’ll stop now.   An ultra-rare beer to look for in the Rutland is Ancient Rites, a Flemish Oude Bruin (Ancient Rites being a Flemish metal band). Starting out with a complex mix of malts including Special and Abbey, minimal hopping(!) and a Flemish yeast, initially the beer was like a smooth chocolate, but was then blended with a sour blonde to give an even more complex flavour.  The next brew is a mega-collab involving up to eight breweries, and is a similar concept to Stout Wars in that one mash will be split into several fermenters to have different adjuncts added. The base is a white stout, variants will include inspiration from Crunchie (cacao, honey and cinder toffee) and Old J (cherry spiced rum). Dave Unpronounceable

June sees the return of two old favourites into our range: Triple Hop (4.3%) and Hopnotised (4.0%). Both are pale session ales brewed with combinations of our favourite American hop varieties. In pub news, the Harlequin now has a dedicated cask ale pump serving vegan-friendly ales. The unfined beers will rotate through the Exit 33 range as well as guest ales. Pete Roberts

Our special release for May is Citra SMaSH (6.5%). SMaSH stands for Single Malt and Single Hop. Whilst most beers build flavour and aroma with several malt and hop combinations a SMaSH beer is the perfect way to truly experience the flavours of the single malt and hop variety and we choose Norfolk extra pale winter barley and Citra hops. Large additions of late hopping and continuous dry hopping throughout fermentation ensures the distinctive citrus flavour imparted by the amazing Citra hop is there in abundance. Meanwhile, Exit 33 continues to support the local community. The brewery raised £460 to help the Sheffield Tree Action Group (S.T.A.G) with our beer Yellow Ribbon. The Harlequin continues to raise money by selling STAG badges behind the bar, with £80 donated so far. To date they have also raised over £1,700 for the animal rescue charity, and £400 split between Refuge and Women’s Aid charities. The pub will also be hosting a monthly charity quiz night from June onwards and is asking patrons to nominate their chosen charities. Pete Roberts

First up, we have some news on an award for our wonderful Moonshine! We are pleased to announce that at this year’s Champion Beer of Yorkshire competition, held at Rotherham CAMRA’s beer festival in March, our beloved flagship ale brought home the Gold medal in the Best Bitter category, and was awarded Silver in the overall “Champion of Champions”! It’s great for us to see our core range getting some love and we’re very proud that Moonshine continues to hold its own amidst a beer market which sees hundreds of new releases every single week. Talking of those new releases, as always we’ve got a few of our own coming up this month. Following on from Waltzer, the next in our Fairground series designed by Carl Flint will be Carousel (4.1%), a pale ale with Sorachi Ace and Mount Hood hops for herbal notes with a zing of fresh lime. We’ve also got a collaboration with Manchester’s Alphabet Brewery on the cards, and between us we’ve rustled up Kid Rynamite – a Baltic-style porter with a hefty amount of rye in the malt grist for robust spiciness alongside the classic roasted flavours you’d expect. This one is to be released in cans as well as cask and keg so keep your eyes peeled! Doctor Morton’s Non Stick (4.1%) is making a comeback having last been seen on bars in 2016. A deliciously refreshing golden ale with mango and subtle melon flavours and a crisp, bitter finish. We absolutely guarantee this one won’t stick in the glass for long! The Wanderer returns this month, and this time it will be a Bergamot and Grapefruit Tea Beer (4.5%), using the delicious Duchess Georgiana blend from our friends at Birdhouse Tea Co. We’re all really looking forward to trying this one and it sounds a perfect springtime brew. Let’s just hope we start getting a bit of beer garden weather to sit and drink it in! Until next month, cheers and beers! Laura

Loxley Brewery commenced brewing on 26 February 2018. This microbrewery in situated in the cellar of the Wisewood Inn (Loxley Road, S6 6RR) and uses water from a natural spring which runs some 70 metres under the pub. The brewing kit, made by Sheffield company Northern Fabrication, was installed in mid-January. There are two fermentation vessels each with a capacity of 6 bbl (700 litres, 16 casks). The first brew, Wisewood One, a 4.0% Pale Ale utilising Chinook Hops, made its way upstairs to the bar, and disappeared very quickly. Wisewood Two, a 4.3% New Zealand hopped golden ale quickly followed.  Wisewood One is likely to remain the core brew. Head brewer, David Woodhead, and his assistant, Michael Hampshire, aim to increase brewing from weekly to twice-weekly with an increasing variety of styles. Their first outside sale was at the Norfolk Arms at Ringinglow. The Wisewood Inn itself has a long history. It was a Tennants Pub, and then Greene King (via Hardy’s & Hanson’s) before it was purchased from Mayfair Leisure. It reopened in August 2015 and was awarded Sheffield and District CAMRA Pub of the Month in July 2017. The pub takes all its water from the natural spring. Hence, it is one of few businesses in Sheffield who do not pay water rates. There are plans to add CO₂ and bottle this natural spring water in the future. The brewery logo, a crow, was originally drawn as part of a college project by the son of the owner, Steve Wesley. Branded beermats, glasses, casks, T-shirts and tote bags are all available. Dave Pickersgill

Fresh back from the National Beer Competition at SIBA X in Liverpool (we didn’t win but we had a jolly good time anyway and did well just to get to the final with our porter, Brunswick Black), we’ve been putting into action the new phase of The Sheffield Brewery Company.  Having built upon our core range, re-inventing the recipes of all our core beers, we’re now looking to the future with creating some bigger, bolder beers throughout the course of this year. Over the coming months, we’ll be releasing beers in a variety of beer styles from across the globe. These include Common People (4.6%), a dry, hoppy California Common beer often referred to as ‘Steam Beer’, as made famous by Anchor Brewing Company.  Berlin Black (6.5%) will be a hearty breakfast stout made with coffee beans, smoked malt, oats, and lactose sugar.  And our biggest beer to date, Renovator (8.0%) will be a mahoooosive Double IPA with a serious hop bill that would make even the Treasurer faint! And, you’ll be pleased to know, we’ve just invested in some more bottling equipment to get these bad boys from fermentor to bottle whilst they’re super fresh. Don’t forget, as ever, the Brewery Tap Room is open during the first weekend of every month with beer being served fresh from our beer cellar, street food from a variety of artisan food vendors, and live music from local artists.  Be sure to check out www.sheffieldbrewery.com and our social media feeds for all the latest updates. Nick Law