Category: Breweries

In 2015, Steel City managed to brew 7 times. Dave decided this was a frankly ridiculous state of affairs, so with grit, determination and sheer hard work has managed to get 2016’s tally to 4… The final brew of the year is a collaboration with Imperial brewery of Mexborough (well, Dave has emptied their hop store a few times now…), a strong stout featuring Steel City’s favourite sugar, dark muscovado. In keeping with the ‘Black Metal series’ the beer is named Mayhem, after the band but also making passing reference to Theresa Mayhem PM (ooh, little bit of politics there…). Mayhem weighs in at 6.66%, and is 66.6EBC and 66.6IBU. A little bit more politics in view of America ‘Trumping’ the UK in the mad decisions stakes, a special version for the Shakespeare is dry-hopped with American and English hops and named ‘Dumb & Dumber’. After the death of the minikit earlier in the year, a borrowed boiler was put to use for ‘Nigel Fromage’s Schokolade-Kirschkäsekuchen‘, a Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Imperial Stout which should end up well over 10% ABV. The brew features lactose, cacao nibs, cherries and shortbread. A pin will be making its way to the Boardwalk for Chris & Kate’s grand opening whenever that may be, and the rest will be bottled, available from Beer Central, Hop Hideout and Cotteridge Wines. Speaking of Black Metal, the long awaited collaboration with Black Metal Brewery is finally happening in December, no details yet apart from it’ll be an Imperial Stout. Finally, Dave and Gazza were pleasantly surprised to be invited to the European Parliament British Pub & Beer Group xmas reception in Brussels. Unfortunately there’s no Turkey’s Voting For Christmas left to send… Might have to brew a new one and call it ‘Economic Suicide’… Dave Szwejkowski

It’s the most wonderful time of year to live in Sheffield.  There’s nowhere more magical than walking down Fargate during the festive season, savoring the smell of roasted chestnuts, enjoying the hearty brass bands of Yorkshire, and taking in the fairy lights hanging from the Christmas trees. We end our tenth year celebrations this month with our final Ten of the Best range special: Ginger Secret Santa is a full bodied, winter warming, Chocolate Ginger Bread Stout celebrating Sheffield at Christmas.  Mashed with a variety of specialty malts and more packets of ginger nuts than you can cram into a stocking, Ginger Secret Santa is Christmas in a pint glass. It doesn’t stop there with the celebrations!  This Christmas, you can purchase a selection of The Sheffield Brewery Company beers in 500ml bottles.  Beers on offer are Seven Hills (4.1% Pale Ale), Millowner’s Ale (4.3% Best Bitter) and new comer Brunswick Black (3.4% Porter). Gift packs are available from www.sheffieldbrewery.com with collection  from the brewery, or down your local bottle shop.

That time of year already! It’s going to be a storming end to 2016 for us here at Abbeydale as by the time you read this the new artwork for our core beers – Moonshine, Deception, Absolution, Black Mass and Daily Bread – will have been unveiled! We hope you’ll agree that the new designs form a much more coherent and modern looking range whilst at the same time paying homage to the history of the beers they represent. We’re thrilled with how they’ve turned out! We also hope you’ve been loving the new look Devonshire Cat, recently reopened just in time for festive frolics! Anyway, onto the beers. Kicking off December will be Destiny at 4.3%, destined to have a hearty Munich malt backbone, and single hopped with Simcoe at different stages of the brewing process. Our popular Beer Heads series now has a little Reveller to add to its repertoire, another session IPA at 3.9%. This one has a blend of American Simcoe, Summit and Chinook hops for a cornucopia of fruity flavours including pink grapefruit and passionfruit.  Surreal Ale #1 is making a return at 4.1%, and the next in our Animal Vengeance series will be out this month too… this time it’s the Crocodile Farmer! A 4.0% pale, promising to be full snappy Motueka and Rakau hops from down under. The first beer of 2017 will be a return for Doctor Morton’s Crispy Automatic Duck, pale and aromatic with a distinctive orangey bouquet. We can also announce that January will witness an evolution of the range which began with Heathen earlier this year. Full details still to be confirmed at this stage but expect an exploration into exciting ingredients, forward-thinking beer styles and more of that amazing artwork that makes Heathen so instantly recognisable! Finally, may I wish you all a very beery Christmas and a hoppy New Year! Laura

Christmas comes but once a year and to celebrate, Sheffield’s Stancill Brewery has produced a trio of seasonal festive specials to enjoy by the fireside in your local, bringing together flavours from Christmas past, present and future! Blizzard is features the classic characteristics of everything that’s great about a Stancill brew; a smooth, sweet and malty pale ale which is golden in colour and complimented with a creamy white head. If you do happen to get stuck in a blizzard, this is what you would want in your belly to warm you up! Meanwhile, Red Velvet is a the epitome of a festive brew. Rich, fully flavoured and full bodied. The strong spicy and winter berry notes are contrasted with milk chocolate and cocoa – all the scents of Christmas rolled into one! With an ABV of 6.0% it’s guaranteed to keep Jack Frost away from your door and fill you with festive spirit. In stark contrast, Mistletoe is arguably one of the most unusual beers produced by Stancill Brewery. The pale, hoppy beer is refreshing with hints of lime and citrus flavours. A cheeky beer, filled with festive cheer. One kiss of your glass and you’re sure fall in love with it. Did we mention it’s also a festive green colour? Stancill’s range of festive beers will be available at selected pubs across the city throughout December including The Horse & Jockey and Norfolk Arms. And if that wasn’t a good enough reason to celebrate Christmas with a Stancill beer, don’t forget CAMRA members will receive a 20% discount, making a pint of Stancill beer just £2.00 a pint. How’s that for spreading good festive cheer?! On behalf of all the Stancill Brewery team, we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and happy and enjoyable 2017.

True North Brewery have made their brewery tap day sessions, where the brewery is opened up to the public with a temporary bar open, a monthly event. This month the brewery will be open Friday 11th November 5pm-11pm and Saturday 12th November 12pm-11pm.

The weather may be getting colder but things are heating up at The Sheffield Brewery Company this November. The mash tun is steaming and the fermentors are in full flow as release several new beers this month to quench the thirsty people of this beautiful city. Our first autumn special, Bessemer (3.2% ABV) – a smooth and highly seasonable bitter – is a perfect for a quick lunch time pint on a rainy autumnal day. But the brewing madness doesn’t stop there! Celebrating the release of a salmon draft into the River Don, we’ve brewed up a very special draught beer for the occasion. To mark this momentous occasion, The Salmons Return is a Dark Rye IPA made with all the best kind of hops (Mosaic, Rakau and Ahtanum) and is our penultimate beer in our Ten of the Best range. As you are aware, this year is the 10th year we’ve been established as a microbrewery in Sheffield. Incidentally, we will also be brewing our 600th gyle this November. Well, you can’t miss an opportunity like that to brew a special 6.00% IPA, can you?! Ten Years and Six Hundred Beers will be a short run India Pale ale available in cask and bottles, hopped with a variety of lush hops, including Mosaic, Centennial, Chinnok, Rakau, Cascade and whatever else we can think to chuck at it. Also, this November, as a local independent business, we are proud to be serving Sheffield Brewery beers and local gin in the Winter Gardens and Millennium Gallery for the MADE 16 Festival’s aftershow event. MADE is the UK’s premier business event for entrepreneurship, offering an experience to educate, inspire and motivate early stage entrepreneurs and established business owners. Finally, our award winning Sheffield Porter, hoppy Seven Hills and malty Millowner’s Ale will be available in 500ml bottles just in time for Christmas. Details to follow at www.sheffieldbrewery.com

We’ve been busily brewing more new beers over the last month. Mosaic IPA (5.5%) is the latest in our series of single hopped IPAs and was brewed (and dry hopped) with a fairly silly amount of the the wonder hop, Mosaic, for big tropical, pineapple and blueberry notes. After the success of Manna, our mango infused tropical pale ale, we thought we would have a go with another fruit – this time oranges in Mandarin (4.3%) brewed with German Mandarina Bavaria hops and curacao oranges for big citrus bitterness and bags of orange aroma and flavour. Our latest stout saw us experiment with coffee and the result is Coffee Oatmeal Stout (4.8%), a seriously smooth oatmeal stout brewed with coffee from a local supplier with loads of roasted, coffee and chocolate notes. We also found time to fit in a rare repeat brew of Triton (4.5%), a pale ale tipple hopped with Citra, Cascade and Chinook with a brand new 4.6% American Red Ale coming up next. At the time of writing, our return collaboration with Hopjacker Brewery (a 6.7%ish Lemon and Earl Grey IPA hopped with bags of Centennial) brewed at the Dronfield Arms was freshly pitched and we we’re looking forward to trying it at the Steel City Beer Festival. By the time you are reading this the Wellington on Henry Street will finally (after one or two delays!) be open showcasing a range of our beers and we should have brewed our 100th gyle. Expect something 6%+ with one or two hops in it! Citra. Mosaic, Amarillo and Centennial have been put aside for this one… Gavin