Category: Breweries

Exit 33 will be releasing three new beers at the beginning of February. The first is Hoppy Hour (4.0%), a pale session ale generously hopped with Sorachi Ace, Zeus and Simcoe hops. Next up is Plan B (3.9%), a golden ale showcasing Bravo hops. Finally, we have Smooth Hoperator (4.2%) a session IPA with all the flavour profile of an India Pale Ale but a lower ABV. This one is hopped with Columbus and Citra. Cheers, Pete Roberts

It’s Christmas! And there’s no better way to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas than to come along to our spectacular Beer & Carols events, It Came Upon The Midnight Beer, on Friday 8 December, down at the Sheffield Brewery Company. We’ll be serving up a collection of beers including It Came Upon The Midnight Beer (4.7% Spiced Winter Ale), Ex Nihlio on keg (7.8% Almighty Stout), Glory, Glory Aleluia (4.6% American Amber Ale), Gloria (5.2% Chocolate and Raspberry White Stout) and Adore (5.1% American IPA). Leading the funked-up festival carols is our good friend Tom Read. Tom is an international singer-songwriter and producer, based in Oxford, who has written and collaborated with many Western and Asian artists, as well as performing and releasing his own music. Wood-fired pizzas will be served from 4pm onwards with The Al Fresco Pizza Company, a mobile wood-fired pizzeria that create fresh, authentic, Neapolitan pizzas in their converted Land Rover Defender, using the highest quality ingredients. Families are welcome, with activities for small ones between 4-6pm, and festivities (for the grown ups) lasts until midnight. In other Christmassy news, we have a shiny new website. Visit emmanuales.co.uk and our new web shop for some great gift ideas, including t-shirts, bottle openers and gift packs. Keep your eyes peeled for our limited edition Raspberry Baltic Porter, infused with cinnamon. God Rest Ye Berry Gentlemen (4.3%) is crisp, sharp and dark, and available in small quantities from both the brewery and local bottle shops. Finally, from all of us at Emmanuales and The Sheffield Brewery Company, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Hoppy New Year! Nick Law

Well, what a year! I think it’s fair to say that 2017 has been one of the best yet for us here at Abbeydale… we’ve undergone the first rebrand of our core beers in the brewery’s 21 year history, launched our magnificent Brewers Emporium range, had the BEST DAY hosting our first ever event in the brewery itself, embarked upon the beginnings of an exciting barrel aging programme and have even made the move into packaging our beer in cans! Next up we’d like to introduce a new series, with artwork created by Adam Cooper, who has designed a film inspired collection for us. Space Opera (4.3%) is being released just in time to coincide with a certain space themed epic franchise hitting the big screen! The pump clip will feature (in what we believe to be a first for beer!) a QR code which will lead you on to a little animated surprise once scanned, so be sure to give it a go! The merriment of the season is undoubtedly upon us, and so we have a couple of tasty festive beers to get you in the holiday spirit – Advent (4.6%) features Mount Hood and Liberty hops for spicy and herbal notes with a floral finish, and Doctor Morton’s Santa’s Helper (4.1%) – we hear the big guy prefers this to sherry so get on his nice list with this quaffable pale brew. Resolution (4.2%) will take us nicely through into 2018 with an orange peel aroma, citrus and bubblegum notes and a peachy finish. January will also witness the return of Doctor Morton’s ever popular Duck Baffler (4.1%), a pale beer with shedloads of magnificent Citra hops, for a wonderfully fresh and fragrant aroma, citrusy on the palate with a refreshing bitter finish. And finally we will have Bootlegger (4.4%) ready to take you on a swashbuckling adventure with flavours of grapefruit and citrus, balanced by a fresh piney character. We’re so excited to see what 2018 brings… we have a feeling it’s gonna be a good ‘un! Cheers! Laura

Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas from all of us at The Sheffield Brewery Company. What a year it’s been, with awards under our belt, increasing footfall at our tap room events, and the growth of our brewery. We want to thank all our customers for drinking our beers, so we thought we’d go out of 2017 with a bang by brewing up luscious beers just in time for Christmas. Since discovering a box of original polishes in the brewery from the Victorian era, we’ve been inspired to call our beers by these names, such as Razor Paste and Knife Power (although we decided that Furniture Polish didn’t quite give off he right connotations for a beer). However, there was one that we always felt needed to be reserved for a big, bold stout: The Don. With more oranges and cocoa nibs than you’ll find in a stocking full of Terry’s Chocolate Orange, The Don is a hefty, hearty stout reserved for those cold winter nights. Come and taste it at the Brewery Tap Room, along with our other beers, on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 December during our monthly opening. On the Saturday, we’ll be serving up a Bacon and Beer breakfast as part of the Hopinions (Beer O’Clock Show podcast) pre-Christmas crawl from 10am. Finally, share the love this Christmas with one of our Christmas gift packs, containing a selection of our newly bottled core range of beers. Available directly from the brewery, pick up a gift pack for £10. Thanks for supporting The Sheffield Brewery Company this year. We hope to move to dizzy new heights in 2018 with new beers, bigger events in the Tap Room, a homebrew competition, and a rebooted Beer Club. Keep an eye out at sheffieldbrewery.com for details. Hoppy Christmas everybody! Nick Law

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all customers! Our two Christmas specials will be available from mid November. Good for Your Elf (4.7%) is a cracker of a pale ale brewed with a selection of hops from around the world. As a contrast we have the ever popular Fairytale of New York (4.2%) – dark and full bodied, sweet & spicy notes with a hint of dark chocolate. Arriving in January we have the first of our ‘Comics’ series with Bring Me Sunshine (3.7%). A great golden ale which at under 4% must be OK even for believers in dry January. Our second January offering is the ever-popular Vincent Black Lightning (4.8%). If you are planning for Christmas don’t forget the Kelham Island Brewery Shop for your Xmas gift packs, bottle packs, t-shirts and much more, including beer in bottles and nine-pint cans. Also available to pre-order are 18-pint and 36-pint boxes for your Christmas and New Year parties. Our shop on Alma Street is open 7:15am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday. In December we will be open on Saturdays from 10am until 3.30pm. We have a late night opening on Saturday 2 December until 7pm and a Sunday opening on 3 December, 10am until 5pm. Mick

First of all, we were really pleased that our Ginger Beer (4.5%) came second overall at Sheffield Beer Festival back in October, it was a great event as ever. Ginger Beer will be available throughout the Christmas period, with its fiery ginger kick it is perfect to warm you up during these cold, dark winter months. On to the new beers we are brewing over next couple of months… after not brewing a Christmas beer last year, we have caved and decided to brew something with a slight Christmas theme. It’s Mine (4.8%) is a chocolate orange flavoured stout inspired by the classic stocking filler. On top of this our next single-hopped IPA will be Simcoe IPA (5.0%) showcasing this great American hop which imparts big flavours of citrus and grapefruit. We are also really excited about using US Eureka hops for the first time, brewing Eureka Pale (4.7%) an American pale that should let this relatively new hop shine through with its citrus, peach, stone fruit and pine-like flavours. Also keep an eye out for Azacca Pale (3.8%) and American 5 Hop Version 25 (4.3%) which should be making an appearance in December and January. Finally we would like to wish everyone a happy Christmas and all the best for 2018. Josh Jepson

The Christmas countdown is on and we’ve got some amazing special brews this season to fill you with that festive cheer! All three of our specials this Christmas are brand-spanking new and we are really excited to share them with you.We start December with Virgin’s Wing. This lightly hopped festive brew uses the German Mandarina Bavaria variety, giving a suitably seasonal hint of clementines. With a lower ABV of just 3.8% this beer is dangerously drinkable. Our next special is The Rink, named after an ice and roller rink built by the 5th Duck of Portland this stout was inspired by one of Big Brewer Tom’s home-brews. At a healthy 5.2% ABV this ale is brewed using a carefully chosen blend of roasted barleys and malted oats to create a sumptuously smooth, velvety stout this winter. Finally from our Brewers Choice range we have Jacob’s Jazzy Jumpers. Jacob is the first brewery child, the progeny of brewer Tom and manager Claire, and is famous for his array of Aunty Jean’s spectacular hand-knitted jumpers. He enjoys spending time at the local pub with the team, a pint (of milk), and a bowl of strawberries. This tremendously fruity IPA is made with Citra and Summit hops and boasts a spectacular 5.8% ABV. And lastly as always don’t forget to pick up some tickets for our 2018 brewery tour dates. Great as a Christmas gift for a friend (and of course for yourself), it’s the gift that keeps on giving! For details on how to book see our ad. A very happy holidays from all of us here at the brewery! Jess Low

It’s been a great year for us at Neepsend Brew Co. and we’d like to take the opportunity to say thanks to everyone who has enjoyed our beer over the last twelve months and for the lovely feedback we get, which is always very much appreciated.  We’ve got big plans for 2018, including installing a cold liquor tank and extra fermenting vessel in the brewery, expanding the malt store, a mini-kit for trial, experimental and strong brews and hopefully putting a bar in at the brewery so we can host monthly tap sessions. There are also some exciting collaboration brews in the pipeline. Should keep us busy! Of course there will be plenty of new and returning beers appearing on bars over the next few weeks. We’ve managed to get in a re-brew of Mosaic IPA (5.5%), showcasing one of our favourite hops. Maru (4.7%) is a brand new NZ Pale hopped with Waimea, Motueka and Rakau for lime, citrus and passionfruit notes. Breakfast IPA MkV (5.1%) is the latest in our ongoing series of breakfast-themed collaboration brews with our pals at Hopjacker Brewery. This iteration is a Bucks Fizz IPA brewed with champagne yeast, bucket loads of Amarillo hops and multiple orange additions for an orange zest-fest of an IPA. We’re teaming up with the good people at Rain Rescue Animal Shelter to brew a red ale called Raining Cats & Dogs, which will see 10p per pint donated to Rain Rescue. Klikitat (4.2%) will be an American Pale brewed with Citra, Simcoe and Mosaic – some of the juiciest US hops around – and a coconut stout may well be making an appearance soon too. The brew plan only goes as far as the end of November at the tine of writing so you can expect several other new beers too, though anyone hoping for a Christmas beer or anything involving cinnamon may be disappointed. 2017 was a busy and exciting year for us and we’re hoping for more of the same for 2018 as well as the chance to enjoy some of the many great independent pubs and breweries Sheffield has to offer over the festive period. Gavin Martin

Farmers Belgian Blue, the unique Christmas brew, has burst back onto the scene at fast pace! The launch at the Bradfield Brewery Tap saw more than 430 pints pass over the bar in 7.5 hours – that’s very nearly a pint every minute! Look out for the new Belgian Blue Silly Moo nose hanger beer mats – hang the mat to your nose, take a selfie and share with fellow Silly Moos on social media! Bradfield Brewery are kick starting 2018 with a new brew! Adding to the seasonal ale range will be Farmers Cold Start (3.8%), a smooth dark beer. This new ale will be created using Arctic hops to create a bitter sweet ale with winter floral tones. It will be available to pubs in cask from 29 January. Jackie

After a relatively quiet 2017, lots of action at Steel City in recent weeks! The rum barrel that was filled with Mayhem stout back in April was broached last month, and six months have certainly had an effect on the beer. Big rum aroma, then roasty and chocolatey flavour with a big rum aftertaste. 200 litres went into the barrel, only 190 litres came out… in whisky they call the 10 litres the ‘angel’s share’, perhaps in Steel City’s case ‘the demon’s share’ would be more appropriate. Four firkins of Scraping the Barrel went to Sheffield Beer Festival, the Rutland, the Shakespeare and Notyorkshire, while 72 bottles went to the usual outlets (Dave resisted the temptation to wax seal them to make them cost more look pretty). Another batch of Mayhem is currently maturing in a Bordeaux red wine barrel with roses and will surface in the winter as The Blood, The Wine, The Roses. Meanwhile in collaboration land at Imperial there has been Get In The C (Transatlantic Pale Ale with C-Hops), Drop The C Bomb (as above, with added dry-hops) and International Man of Misery (Dunkelhopfenweissbier featuring a traditional weissbier malt grist and yeast, with untraditional citrus hops), while at the North Riding ‘factory’ near Scarborough there is Raspberry Citra (we’ll give you one guess…). More collaborative fun with barrels at Lost Industry, with the creation of an Old Bruin and a Flemish-style red to be aged in barrels for a wedding next year. The Weird Beard collab God of the Cold White Silence was launched at Sheffield Beer Festival, and is a white stout with cacao, tonka and vanilla. Many people also commented on the huge coconut flavour, however there is no coconut in the brew, the flavour comes purely from the tonka beans and the Styrian Wolf hops. As well as doing the rounds in the autumn, some of the brew is tucked away in a rum barrel and will emerge in time for Sheffield Beer Week in March. Finally, the big news, after a long hiatus Steel City are finally back brewing under their own license. The first brew at the new home, Lost Industry, was Demons Are Back, a 5% Transatlantic Pale Ale. Flavour comes from Rakau hops in the copper and a liberal dry-hopping with Simcoe. Yet another barrel was pressed into use for another variant, this time a white wine barrel, along with 10kg of grapes, copious grape juice and a kilo of Hallertauer Blanc hops. Following on the My Dying Bride theme from The Blood, The Wine, The Roses, this will be named My Wine In Silence. Dave Unpronounceable