Category: Breweries

We hope a good time was had by all at the Steel City Beer Festival down at Kelham Island Museum last month! It’s always a fantastic event and it was great to have the opportunity to show off so many of our new specials, including the Sheffield debut of 1868 (10.3%), our collaboration with Jules of Sheffield Beer Week and renowned beer historian Ron Pattinson.

Onward to what we’ve got coming up! Setting sail this month we have Voyager 6 (5.7%), a juicy IPA with a heady fruit aroma – this time, Ekuanot, Cascade and Galaxy hops have been selected to pack in an abundance of tropical flavours.

Classic English pale Dr Morton’s Chicken Vindaloo (4.1%) is making a return, but with a bit of a kick this time as we’ve added some cayenne pepper to the recipe! Whilst the main batch is intended just to give a gentle tickle, we’ve got a bit of extra spice to ramp up a couple of casks, so look out for these special editions!

Now we’re into November I just can’t wait any longer to start talking about Christmas (sorry not sorry), and so we also have a few festive treats lined up for release later in the month. New to the Beerheads series we have a merry Caroller (3.8%), this time showcasing the Cashmere hop, which promises notes of tangerine, lemon, lime and honeydew melon. And our next stout, Salvation 6, will be themed around Christmas cake, being released just in time for stir up Sunday!

We also have some hugely exciting upcoming beers from the Brewers Emporium range. We’re getting our brew on with our very first imperial stout – the recipe is still to be fully confirmed but we can tell you that Lost Souls (11.0%) will be a smooth, full bodied, boozy treat that’ll knock your socks off! As well as this we’ve got a couple of new releases from the Funk Dungeon, which will only be available in very limited quantities, so look out with particularly beady eyes for Methuselah 2 (8.1%), a wild stout with cherries and cocoa nibs, and Brett Tangerine, a superb dry yet fruity brett fermented pale.

Cheers!

Laura

O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant; O come ye, O come ye down to The Sheffield Brewery Company for something truly magnificent. Since our conception (perhaps not by virgin birth… wait, was that too far?!), we’ve dreamed of putting on an event of biblical proportions. So, this Christmas, we have decided to have one, and you’re all invited! On Friday 8 December, we are hosting our first annual Beer & Carols event. ‘It Came Upon the Midnight Beer’ will feature funked-up festive hymns performed and led by singer/songwriter and recording artist Tom Read, artisan wood-fired pizzas from The Alfresco Pizza Company and a mix of Emmanuales beers available on cask, keg and bottle. Beers will include staple favourites such as Jonah and the Pale (5.0% Transatlantic pale ale), Oh Hoppy Day (6.1% India Pale Ale); Christmas wonders such as Ale Mary (8.0% spiced barley wine), Gloria (white chocolate and raspberry stout), bottles of our raspberry Baltic porter God Rest Ye Berry Gentlemen and very limited-edition 500ml bottles of Ex Nihilo (7.8% Almighty Stout). Did I mention we’ll be selling our very first branded t-shirts, along with gift packs? Doors open, beers poured and food is served from 4pm until midnight. Families are more than welcome. And the best gift of all is that entry is free. The event takes place at our home in The Sheffield Brewery Company, Unit 111, JC Albyn Complex, Percy Street, Sheffield, S3 8BT. Come and have a sing along to some Christmas carols, invite all your friends – even your Uncle Scrooge – and be full of good cheer, hearty food and great beer! Nick Law

Gosh, we all love Christmas don’t we? Even if it gets earlier every year and people bang on about it in November (ba humbug!). There’s no better place on Planet Earth than seeing the Seven Hills dusted in white snow, the Five Rivers frozen over, and the good folk of Sheffield with smiles on their faces and bellies full of hearty ale. So, why not kick off your Christmas festivities with The Sheffield Brewery Company this December?! On the first weekend of the month, we’ll be hosting our monthly Brewery Tap Room opening with the usual line up of our Finely Polished Beers – including this year’s seasonal special, a chocolate orange stout (because, let’s face it, we’re all disappointed when Santa doesn’t slip one in our stocking) made with real Terry’s Chocolate Orange – and artisan street food. However, this year is extra special. On Saturday 2 December from 10.30am, we will be co-hosting (with Emmanuales) the Beer O’Clock Show’s renowned Crimbo Crawl, led by Steve and Martin from the podcast. The crawl will be staggering its way through some of Sheffield’s finest beery locations, starting at 10.30am with a pre-crawl gathering at the brewery, including mini-tours around the venue and Hopinions priced pints. Be sure to pop over to the Crusty Cob for one of the finest bacon butties in Sheffield, which you’re more than welcome to bring back to the brewery. The following weekend, we’ll be hosting the Emmanuales’ It Came Upon The Midnight Beer beer and carols evening (see Emmanuales news for further details). Don’t forget, our brewery now has an off license. So if you’re looking for a gift to show them how truly spectacular Sheffield really is, then swing by and pick up one of our gift packs. As usual, check out our website www.sheffieldbrewery.com for more details. Nick Law

Waterloo Sunset (4.0%) is our take on a traditional London porter and celebrates 50 years since possibly The Kinks’ greatest ever track. For Halloween we have a returning IPA in the shape of IPA of the Dead (5.9%) and a limited run of a brand new amber full bodied IPA we are calling Wicked Liquid (4.8%). We look forward to seeing everyone wander past the brewery en route to the 43^rd Steel City Beer & Cider Festival. For the festival Saturday on 21 October we will be opening our shop between 9am and 5pm for a CRAZY SALE to clear space for our Christmas stock. Tickets are now on sale for Illuminate the Gardens, taking place on 4-5 November at the Botanical Gardens; a chance to enjoy a Kelham pint with a cracking firework and lighting display. Looking a little further forward we have Smoke on the Water (4.5%), a continental-style lightly smoked rauchbier, and the always well received return of Wild Rider (5.5%). If you are already planning for Christmas don’t forget the Kelham Island Brewery Shop for your beer requirements: 9 pint cans, 18 pint and 36 pint boxes are available.

We are honoured to be asked to brew the house pale ale for two Leicester pubs, The Blue Boar and The Alestone.  Packhorse Pale is named after the nearby packhorse bridge which was the only route into the city in times past. The beer will be on sale by the start of November. Our two new specials for November are: Simpatico (4.5%) – A golden ale brewed with Amarillo & Citra hops, balanced with Munich malt and unmalted oats. Centennial IPA (5.0%) – A single hop India Pale Ale showcasing citrusy Centennial. We also have the usual free live music at the Harlequin. November’s gigs are: Saturday 4:  Atomic (80s tribute) Saturday 11:  SFS (rock and pop) Saturday 18: Glam Rocks (70s glam rock tribute) Saturday 25: Rooster (rock and blues) Pete Roberts

T’is the season… pay respect and be merry! Who else cannot believe we are in November already? Time flies when you’re having fun as they say! There’s a never a dull moment at Bradfield Brewery, the moments are instead very colourful – this month it’s all things red and blue! Red is for the poppies – remembering the fallen. Our Poppy Ale (4.3%) is back for another year, supporting the Royal British Legion with this fruity blonde ale. We donate 10 pence from every pint sold to the Royal British Legion and we are very proud to be supporting this worthy cause again for 2017. Poppy Ale will be available in 9-gallon casks and 5-litre mini kegs from 24 October, while stocks last! And then there’s the blue – the wonderfully magnificent Farmer’s Belgian Blue (4.9%)! Back again for 2017 (some would say Christmas would be ruined if it wasn’t!). The first pint of this year’s first brew will be served at 4pm on Thursday 26 October at our brewery tap, the Nags Head at Loxley. Bottles and mini kegs will be available from the brewery shop from Saturday 28 October and it will be available in cask to pubs from 30 October. Visit our website or follow us on social media for further news on brews! Jackie

By the time you’re reading this our 200^th gyle celebratory brew, Double Century IPA (7.2%), a beast of an IPA brewed with a sextet of hops in extremely generous quantities will have flown the brewery nest and hit bars. We’re really excited about this one and would love feedback. Following the example of our 100th gyle, Century IPA, we used the landmark as an excuse to indulge our hop habit and spare no expense to produce a proper IPA with massive hop character and flavour. We’ve brought back a couple of old favourites in recent weeks. Maia (3.8%), our Spring Autumn pale ale, last brewed in…well, spring, was intended to be a one-off but the quenching and refreshing Citra and Azacca hopped pale full of citrus and mango flavours garnered great feedback last time, so we decided to squeeze it into the brew schedule again. Another old favourite, Manna (4.3%), a mango pale ale chock-full of tropical hops and real mango, which was another to be very well received when we brewed it last year, will also be making a return.

Beers making their debuts will include Bunyip, a 4.5% Vic Secret pale (named after a creature in Aboriginal mythology associated with Victoria, Australia where Vic Secret hops are grown if you were wondering) and Wolf IPA, the latest single hopped IPA showcasing Styrian Wolf hops from Slovenia. It’s rare for us to stray far from the US, Australia or New Zealand for most of our (considerable) hopping needs but we’ve been impressed with this relatively new European variety which brings intense fruity characteristics. An as-yet-unnamed Mocha Porter is on the cards soon too, along with a ~6% NZ IPA. Kefka will keep the unusual non US/NZ/AU hop theme going and be the first beer we’ve brewed with all English hops, showcasing the Jester variety. Points if you get the name reference straight away. Gavin Martin

Howdo folks, what a busy month!  There seems to be the odd festival on at the minute. We have plenty of new beery stuff coming out at the minute.  To get into the autumnal spirit we have Serie Saison – Le Pommier (6.8%), an apple saison brewed with belle saison yeast and just a hint of cinnamon, a collaboration with Ben of Brimming with Beer in Brimmington.  Also fresh out is Neon Kiwi (4.6%), a kettle-soured ale with kiwi fruit and a collab with our friends at Neon Raptor.  Last but not least, we have introduced a range of cask pale ales Shade of Pale (4.6%). We have created several varieties of this beer, dry-hopping and dry-fruiting (if that’s a thing!) in the cask.  Keep an eye out for these (a few will be appearing at Steel City Beer Festival). So far we have: raspberry/vanilla, passionfruit, Sorachi Ace/chilli, Citra, orange/lemon/Citra, blueberry, forest fruits and pink grapefruit. Oh, and we’re pleased(ish!) to announce that Dave Unpronounceable of Steel City infamy will be taking up some of our space (and generally messing things up) for the foreseeable future! And finally, we are proud to announce that we have adopted six oak barrels (four whisky and two red wine) and hope to be expanding our souring program in the near future.

There’s a chill in the air over here at Welbeck, and we can tell that the winter season is almost upon us. As such, we’ve brewed some impressive specials this month to help get you warmed up and ready for winter! We’re bringing back some seasonal favourites this November, starting with Morvern. Morvern is a 4.8% dark and rich Scotch Ale, a revival of this forgotten traditional style which is low in hop character but full of malted grains to give a nutty and slightly smoky character. Next we see the return of Pineapple Lodge. Named after a Grade II listed building in the heart of the Welbeck village, this full-flavoured IPA is made with the perfect balance of American malt and New Zealand hops. Notes of tropical fruits are enhanced with a rich and deep malt backbone from specialty Vienna malt, giving an almost pineapple-like flavour. With a healthy 5.0% ABV it’s definitely a winner. Finally for our Brewers Choice range we introduce Amie’s Outlander. Inspired by our manager at Portland House, this beer is a sessionable pale ale, brewed at only 3.7%. It may not be a high ABV, but it’s crammed full of Amie’s favourite American West Coast hops to give a zingy punch. Our 2018 brewery tour dates have now been confirmed, and we will once again be running six tours throughout the spring and summer months. Our 2017 tours were our busiest yet, completely selling out, so we’d recommend getting your tickets soon. They make an excellent Christmas gift or a great night out with friends. For details on how to book see our ad in Beer Matters. Now, roll on winter!

Movember is upon us which means Stancill’s sensational seasonal stout is heading back to the pumps! Available throughout November, Movember Stout (5.0%) features roasted coffee and chocolate flavours which evolve and develop throughout the drink. The result is a pleasant, tasty beer with plenty of character. To mark the launch of Movember Stout, all male members of the Stancill team will be growing moustaches, culminating in a yet to be announced charity evening which will see additional funds raised for Movember. For each cask sold, the brewery will be donating to the campaign, which aims to raise awareness and help fund a cure for prostate cancer. Thomas Gill, managing director of Stancill Brewery, said: “This year we’ve slightly tweaked the recipe and the result is a fully flavoured, highly enjoyable beer which also helps to support a really good cause. Since we first launched our Movember Stout back in 2014, it has helped to raise hundreds of pounds for the Movember campaign.” “All the staff at the brewery are getting behind our Movember campaign this year and we hope that with the return of our Movember Stout, coupled with a number of events due to take place within our pubs, that we can raise lots of money for this worthy cause.”