Category: Breweries

Did you know that there is a long history with Christianity and beer?  Throughout the ages the church has been associated with the industrialisation of beer brewing in its abbeys and monasteries; vicars and godly businessmen such as Reverend James or Arthur Guinness renowned for making ales and ethical employment; and a healthy list of patron saints dedicated to the art of brewing – and drinking – ale.  Here at Emmanuales, we see ourselves as a link in a long, forgotten chain of Jesus-people with a passion for crafting beer.  We’re not out to force religion down people’s throats – just beer!  Which is why we’re celebrating our heritage with a range of special beers, The Gospale According to… Highlighting some of the world’s most beloved hops, The Gospale According to… contains one variety of hop, meaning you’ll experience and appreciate the aromas, flavours and nuances of each breed in our three different beers: The Gospale According to… Sister Citra, The Monastic Order of Mosaic and Saint Centennial. This year, we are aiming to upscale production, meaning for the first time we’ll be able to offer more bottles than ever before, as well as a range of cask/keg.  If you are a landlord and want to stock this exciting new brand in your venue, then contact Nick at info@emmanuales.co.uk Finally, if you’re a craft beer fan, a landlord, a retailer, or you’re still awaiting for you friend to arrive and are looking through this magazine because you’re bored and they’re late; take five minutes to fill in our survey at www.emmanuales.co.uk and you could be in with a chance to win an exclusive brew day us; help shape the beer, discover the hops, and brew unto others as you’d have them brew unto you! Blessings upon you and your camels.

Here at The Sheffield Brewery Company, we are proud to present our range of Finely Polished Beers.  Drawing design inspiration and names directly from the original polishes as made by Joseph Pickering & Sons, made here in rustic building where the brewery now resides, our first two Finely Polished Beers have gone down a treat.  Razor Paste (5.6% Razor Sharp IPA), crammed full of Mosaic and Citra, and Brightshine (4.0% Crisp Golden Ale) have been greatly received by consumers and landlords alike.  March sees the release of American IPA, Knife Powder.  Combining a variety of malts with all American hops (Simcoe, Chinook, Athanum and Willamette), Knife Powder is intensely hoppy and immensely drinkable. March also sees the return of Peddler Night Market, meaning that we’ll be throwing our doors on Friday 3^rd & Saturday 4^th March for beer, banter and good times.  Live music will be provided by fiddle, guitar and mandolin trio ‘The Peddlers’ (Friday night only).  Make the most of the opportunity to sample our beers fresh from the source, check out our fantastic venue, and eat some great food whilst you’re at it. We are delighted to announce we now have an off-license, meaning you can purchase beer directly from the brewery.  Whether you’re looking for a gift, a pin/cask for a party, or just something for yourself, we have a beer for you!  Pins/Casks are available to pre-order.  Contact us at sales@sheffieldbrewery.com or on (0114) 272 7256 for more details. Watch this space for further exciting news from The Sheffield Brewery Company.

Exit 33 Brewing has two new specials out. Night Light 4.6% – Golden orange in colour with a hop forward flavour. Hopped with U.S hops all the way! Centennial, Columbus & Simcoe. Brewed with a large percentage of Munich malt to balance the large hop presence. Generation X 4.2% – A pale session ale big in citrus & tropical fruit notes. Hopped generously with Azzaca, Bravo & Mosaic hops. Definitely a beer for the latchkey kids of the 70’s (or anyone born before or after to be fair!) *Can be drunk without adult supervision!

Neepsend Brewery won awards at three beer festivals during 2016 – Sheffield, Stockport and Chesterfield Market. They celebrated their 100th gyle brew back in December which was Century IPA, a 6.6% ABV beer brewed with a combination of Citra, Mosaic, Amarillo and Centennial hops. The final brew of 2016 for Exit 33 Brewing was a new batch of Triple Hop, using Chinook, Eldorado and Simcoe whole leaf hops. Bradfield Brewery are sponsoring the shirts at Stocksbridge Rugby Club. North Union Brewing are selling their kit ahead of impending redevelopment of the area they are located. It is understood family commitments are being given priority before relaunching the brewery in the future. If you are interested in buying a brewery you can direct message on Twitter, @NorthUnionBrew. Hopjacker‘s latest new beer is their modern interpretation of a Biére de Garde. It has a strength of 7.4% and a lovely spicy, earthy flavour from the Abbaye yeast, sweet maltiness and subtle bitterness. It is dry hopped with Comet, Mosaic and Vic Secret for citrus and tropical flavour and aroma. Beers recently available from Intrepid Brewery alongside their regular Blonde and Porter has been a Breakfast IPA brewed with coffee from Buxton Roastery, a single Hop Pale Ale brewed with Galaxy hops, an American Pale Ale and a Dunkle. You can now order sweets that claim to pick you up when suffering from a hangover! Thornbridge Brewery have teamed up with Simpkins of Sheffield, who have been manufacturing confectionary since 1921, to produce Thornbridge branded hangover sweets containing Glucose, Ginseng extracts and fruits of the forest flavours. Drone Valley Brewery have collaborated with Clifton Park WI to brew a Cherry Belles Porter, this 5.8% ABV beer debuted at the Barrack in Apperknowle mid January. Emmanuales new series of specials for 2017 are being brewed under the banner of ‘The Gospale according to’ with the first being Saint Centennial, a single hop, dry hopped IPA. Mitchells Hop House have established their core range of beers – Madness (IPA, 5%), Independent (Blonde, 4%), Marilyn (Golden, 4.3%), Dennis (Pale Ale, 4.5%) and Butchers Beer & Beef (Bitter, 4%). Looking ahead there are plans to invite cuckoo brewers to the Hop House for collaboration brews. Sheffield Brewery Company are again to produce a series of specials for 2017, this year the theme is ‘finely polished beers’. Actually the series was launched in December 2016 with Brunswick Black, followed by ‘Razor Paste’, a 5.6% IPA ready for the new year. Tapped Brewco had a SMASH (Single Malt, Single Hop) beer on the bar at the Sheffield Tap as part of their TRYanuary campaign in the new year.

A belated happy new year to you all, and a great big welcome to our new look core range artwork! Rest assured that the beer behind the pumpclip is exactly the same brew that we all know and love, but with a fresher appearance that looks more at home on a 2017 bar. As usual, we’ve got new beers galore for you this month! Heathen was our fastest-growing beer of 2016, and this year will see us create a new range with the same look (artwork created by the wonderful James D Murphy), but which will be available in both cask and keg. First up, we’ll have Salvation stout – coconut edition (5.5%), packed full of Sorachi Ace hops and 50kg of coconut toasted by our own fair hands. Coming later in February we will be releasing the first iteration of our new Voyager IPA, and the inaugural Reaper cereal beer, which will initially take the form of a Hopfenweisse. We’re really looking forward to use this range to explore new ingredients and expand our outlook on exciting beer styles. Look out for other limited edition beers in this series later in the year too. Our Animal Vengeance series is back with a… erm… vengeance, too. Lion Tamer (4.3%) will roar across the tastebuds with citrus and pine flavours from the Cascade and Chinook hops. Doctor Morton’s Cattle Prod is an old favourite making a return: a classic 4.1% pale ale with notes of refreshing orange and melon. Finally, our next Beerhead is a little Excuser (3.6%), promising to be a light session IPA brimming with fresh fruity twists and an uplifting floral aroma. Cheers!

In addition to a successful and award winning range of core beers which includes Barnsley Bitter, No.7 and Porter to name but a few, the brewing team at Stancill has announced plans to produce not one, but two special brews each month throughout 2017. The brewery plans to launch a series of new experimental brews, exploring different brewing techniques and beer styles which have not been previously available in Sheffield. This month, Stancill will release its American Nut Brown which offers a fresh perspective on the traditional pint – combining the full flavours of a traditional best bitter, with a strong hoppy aftertaste developed through the use of Chinook hops, commonly associated with IPAs. Head brewer Dean Pleasant believes the new beer will provide a completely different taste to all other Stancill beers, as he is planning to use a brand new yeast strain to create the beer. Dean said: “I’ve always believed that as well as producing our popular choice of beers, it’s important to experiment, innovate and develop – it’s the lifeblood of the brewing industry and by devoting additional time to the creation of new specials, we’re hoping to explore some old and long-forgotten beer types whilst adding our own interpretation to the recipes.” Each month will see the release of a brand new special alongside an as of yet un-named blonde ale, which also explores different characteristics of the popular beer variety. Previous Stancill specials have included 2016 world cup themed ales Zidane Zidane and Four Lions, summer themed special American Beauty and the much loved Christmas tipples Blizzard, Red Velvet and its unusual green beer Mistletoe. American Nut Brown will be making its way to pubs throughout Sheffield and further afield throughout January and will be available at the brewery’s pubs The Norfolk Arms in Grenoside and The Horse & Jockey in Wadsley. CAMRA members can benefit from a 20% discount in both pubs, making a pint of any Stancill tipple just £2.

It takes determination, grit, passion and something special to work in the pub industry, and the newest addition to the Stancill Brewery team has just that… and much more. Earlier this month, the brewery welcomed Katy Streets who joins as the brewery’s new Business Development Manager. She will work within the brewery’s newly established pubs division, overseeing future growth of the business as well as overseeing the growth and development of The Horse and Jockey in Wadsley and The Norfolk Arms in Grenoside, both of which opened last year. Katy will be working closely with managers Ashleigh McMain and Tracy Brown, as well as 16 members of staff across both pubs to enhance Stancill’s pub offering and real ale experience for beer connoisseurs across Sheffield. Katy is no stranger to the pub industry. She joins following a five year stint at the True North Brew Co where she was responsible for managing The Old House pub on Devonshire Street. Before joining True North, Katy spent time working in London and New York, working alongside Dave Wickett at Kelham Island Brewery, where she found herself running his New York bar and even found herself learning the craft of brewing, both in Sheffield and New York’s Brooklyn Brewery. Katy will work closely with Stancill Brewery founders Thomas Gill and Adam Hague to ensure the breweries pubs are the place to be every day of the week. Katy said: “Stancill Brewery is a company which is built on a passion for producing good beer and I’m looking forward to the challenge of working with the company’s pub managers to help enhance and compliment their current offering as well as helping to support the company’s exciting future plans. “My experiences in New York, London and more recently Sheffield have taught me so much about the pub industry, both behind the bar and behind the scenes. It’s clear the re-launches of The Norfolk Arms and The Horse & Jockey last year by Stancill have rekindled community spirit and the love of true, real ales and I’m sincerely looking forward to working alongside such a great team at Stancill Brewery.” Tom Gill, managing director of Stancill Brewery said: “Last year was a very exciting one for Stancill, the opening of our two pubs was very well received by Sheffield’s beer lovers, but we’re keen not to rest on our laurels. Katy brings with her a wealth of knowledge and experience which will be invaluable to the future of our pubs division. On behalf of both Adam and I, I’d like to wish Katy every success in her new role.”

Stancill Brewery is launching a search to find Sheffield’s best home brewer, with a unique opportunity to see their home brew transformed into a pint which can be enjoyed by beer lovers across the steel city. The new competition which will be launched at the beginning of February will give the winner the opportunity to work alongside head brewer Dean Pleasant to produce their beer inside the brewery. Once brewed, the winners beer will be available on the pumps at the Norfolk Arms, Grenoside and the Horse & Jockey, Wadsley. At the time of going to press final details of the competition are being confirmed, but more information will be available soon. For more information, visit: https://www.facebook.com/StancillBrewery/

Steel City attended the European Parliament All Party Beer Group’s pre-xmas bash with their AFA pale and Mayhem stout. The beers went down well, and the latter raised both eyebrows and chuckles depending on political allegiance! A particularly interesting reaction was observed from a Tory MEP… Both beers are available (at time of writing!) from Hop Hideout and Beer Central. Due to forthcoming changes at host brewery Toolmakers, Steel City’s tenure there is ending. The swansong brew was a home collaboration with Lost Industry, in for a penny in for a pound, those mad bastards Jimmy and Nathan convinced Dave to go big or go home, so Steel City wil be signing off with an Imperial Pale Stout. Master of Puppets will hopefully approach or hit double figure ABV, with all the mouthfeel and roasty flavour of an imperial stout, but pale. The brew involves grains selected to provide stout flavours without colour (so the opposite of Black IPA!), supplemented by coffee, cacao nibs and vanilla, along with Bramling Cross and Sorachi hops. It will be available in cask at the Shakespeare, and keg at Sentinel during Sheffield Beer Week. The Shakespeare will also have a special version Pastor of Muppets, with some sort of adjunct (possibly including wafers, red wine and the tears of choristers). The mini kit was also pressed into use – normally the mini kit uses first runnings to make a stronger beer, but this time once the main brew was in the copper the runnings were still at 1050… So it seemed a waste to not use them! For the simple reason that it seemed a good idea at the time, the brew is a stollen pale stout, Drink It Like It’s Stollen, yes made with real stollen. Also available during the Beer Week will be the return collab, no details as yet but expect sour… Negotiations are ongoing regarding a new home, in the meantime there should be plenty of ‘away’ collabs in the UK and abroad!  

Happy 2017 everyone! Okay, so we may be a bit late on that one, but we’ve been busy working hard these past few months to bring you some exciting new developments. With the New Year comes an exciting new collaboration with Lincoln Green Brewing Company. We have teamed up to see whether two beers brewed to the exact same recipe, using identical ingredients from the same batches can taste the same when brewed in two different locations. The end result will be the aptly named Gemini, a 4.3% American hopped pale ale. We are very excited about this collaboration and look forward to hearing the feedback from those who get a chance to try it. This month will also see the return of some old favourites, including the rich and fruity Farrier, a premium amber bitter with blends of sweet caramel which boasts an impressive 5.5% ABV and last but not least the lovely Henrietta Grande, a stronger, hoppier version of our award-winning Henrietta. This 4.0% Golden Ale is packed full of wonderful hop character from German, British and American hops. Finally, we are also happy to announce that we will once again be hosting guided brewery tours this summer! We have 6 tours running from April to September, and tickets are already selling fast. For details on how to book please see our ad on