Category: Breweries

It’s been another busy few weeks at Neepsend Brew Co – we’ve been brewing plenty of new beers, undergone a re-brand with a new logo based on Ball Street bridge and have just taken delivery of another new brewing vessel. Our tropical pale ale, Manna (4.3%), brewed with Citra, Equinox and Mosaic hops and a hundred painstakingly hand juiced mangoes and bursting with juicy, fruity flavours has been very well received and made for a perfect summer beer. Chinook IPA (5.5%), a single hopped American IPA showcasing the distinctively piney US hop, Chinook, also went down a storm. We chose it as our featured beer at the Sheffield Brewer’s Co-operative beer tent at the Tramlines Folk Forest stage, which was a great success and sold around four thousand pints of Sheffield brewed beer in just two days. We were delighted to host the Sheffield Roller Girls for a brew day, with Rollabout Stout (4.5%) the result. A rich, creamy and chocolatey cacao milk stout available out in the world now. And, in very exciting (and long awaited!) news, keep your eyes peeled for The Wellington on Henry Street re-opening sometime in September as our brewery tap. The pub has undergone an extensive refurbishment and will showcase the full range of Neepsend beers alongside ales from other great breweries when it re-opens. Cheers, Gavin

Sheffield Beer Week, The Sheffield Tap and Tapped Brew Co are joining together to celebrate Cask Ale Week by brewing a Sheffield heritage beer recipe this September. Cask Ale week is a nationwide event celebrating the great British cask ale and begins September 22nd. Join in this cask ale celebration and Sheffield beer at The Sheffield Tap all through Cask Ale Week. Head over to @SheffBeerWeek and www.facebook.com/sheffieldbeerweek to find out more details. http://caskaleweek.co.uk

There’s plenty to celebrate here at The Sheffield Brewery Company, as September sees the release of the seventh beer in our Ten of the Best range.  And there’s no better way to raise a glass to the mighty city of Sheffield than to discover the Real Ale Trail. In honour of the trail, which connects the city centre with Neepsend and Kelham Island – the heart of Sheffield’s brewing industry – we’ve been brewing a collaborative beer with The Sheffield Honey Company.  Trail Ale is a 4.0% Honey Amber Ale, hopped with Northern Brewer, First Gold and Calypso, and – of course – honey from local Sheffield bees. You’ll be able to sample it for yourself at our brewery Tap Room, open next on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd September, along with our core range, as fresh as can be! Also, whilst we’re celebrating, our last special – Festiv’ale (4% Ginger and Lemon Ale) won 2nd place out of 134 beers from across the nation in the North Norfolk Railway Beer Festival. Finally, The Sheffield Brewery Company is pleased to announce that Nick Law (brewer of Emmanuales) has recently joined the team as Brewery Manager and brewer. For further information about The Sheffield Brewery Company, visit our website at www.sheffieldbrewery.com Nick Law

Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who came down to our tenth annual Sunfest at the Rising Sun! It was a record breaking year for us and the perfect way to celebrate our 20^th birthday. Not Just Jam, our charity beer brewed with Seven Hills WI in support of Light Sheffield, was the first to run out in the beer tent, and the WI themselves raised over £800 selling tasty cakes and bakes! We still have collection boxes to tot up and proceeds from the sale of the beer to add on, but expect the full total to be donated to Light to be over £2000. We hope you all enjoyed the weekend as much as we did. Onto what’s available this month! First up, in honour of a certain sporting event happening in Rio throughout August, we have Doctor Morton’s O’Limpet Gains, sure to win a gold medal with an abundance of Simcoe, Sorachi Ace, and new TNT hops! The return of Abbey Ale follows shortly after, a firm favourite amongst the Abbeydale team…  A hop driven American style IPA coming in at 5.5%. In a first for Abbeydale, we’re also releasing a sour! Rango Mango is the brainchild of brewer Jim Rangeley and will be the juiciest yet in our Signature Series. As the name suggests, it’s going to bursting with tropical fruitiness from the mango pulp used, backed up by a “metric f***ton” (Jim’s words) of Galaxy hops, all at a thirst-quenching 4% ABV. Deception will be getting a birthday makeover this month too, keep your eyes on our social media for further details on this one! And August is rounded off with Doctor Morton’s Myar Skikt and A-Peach-iation, another fruity one for the summer. Let’s just hope we get some beer garden worthy weather at last! Cheers, Laura

Stancill Brewery has been working on two new summer specials: First up is a 4% summer ale and a genuine first for new brewery apprentice Jonathan Brown. Jonathan joined Stancill in April and after working closely with head brewer Dean Pleasant over the past few weeks, Dean challenged him to make a beer of his own. Jonathan’s first beer features First Gold and Styrian Golding hops, resulting in a well balanced brew with a slight orange aroma and delicate spicy notes. Jonathan was given the honour of not only brewing the beer to suit his own tastes, but to also naming it. He chose Jaxon, naming his first brew in honour of his newly born child. Stancill’s second summer special pays tribute to one of the best known detectives of the 1980s with a brand new American pale ale, brewed using magnum hops. The result is a delightfully moreish 4.5% brew called Magnum PA. We know what you’re thinking… and you’re right. Hawaiian shirt and big moustache optional!

Wait ages for a Steel City beer then three come along at once… sort of! Three collaborations, two ‘away’ and one ‘home’. Firstly, away at Imperial in Mexborough along with Isaac from Catalan brewery Reptilian. Isaac’s favourite style is Double IPA (His IBUprofano weighs in at 9.5% and 256IBU!), so Dave and Dale were happy to indulge… As it was brewed the weekend after Britain lost its collective mind, the brew is named ‘Turkeys Voting for Xmas’, and is 8.5% and a slightly more restrained 130IBU. A base of pale malt and oats keeps the colour as light as possible, while fermenting out as far as the yeast would go means it avoids the stickiness and booziness found in many DIPAs, allowing the Centennial, Citra, Chinook and El Dorado hops to shine. Next day, back at ‘home’, Dave and Isaac (with cameo appearance from Steel City & Hopcraft brewer Gazza and Waen Brewster Sue) brewed Forked Tongues, a Grapefruit Transatlantic Pale Ale. Dave had been planning a grapefruit beer for some time, but as always seems to happen before he got round to it every other brewer in the country did one…! Forked Tongues is 5.5% and 120IBU, with a pale malt and wheat base, Columbus and Magnum hops for bittering, Chinook and Mosaic hops for flavour, and of course an obscene amount of grapefruit. A special one-off keg was produced for Cotteridge Wines’ 21st birthday bash with the addition of orange, and according to Untappd is one of the best-received Steel City beers ever! Forked Tongues will be harder than usual to find, as most of it is being shipped to Catalunya, but the usual suspects (Shakespeare, Devonshire Cat and Dronfield Arms) will be getting some. The beer is unfined, so is likely to be hazy, if this is successful Steel City will probably go unfined permanently – who wants fish in their beer anyway? Finally, back to Mexborough for a four-way collab (originally planned as nine-way but trying to get that many brewers in one place is like herding cats…), involving Imperial, Steel City, Raw and James & Kirkman. Named If Tha’ Brexit, Tha Fixes It, the brew is a Transatlantic Pale Ale featuring a multitude of hops including Dana, Centennial, Summit, Topaz and Ahtanum. Unfortunately given the theme for the names, the guys didn’t have any European hops to hand! Dave Szwejkowski

With summer well and truly here we’ve been struggling to keep up demand for our core beers, but have managed to sneak in one or two exciting specials for your enjoyment!  First off we have our Session IPA, brewed in collaboration with Stuart from North Riding brewery and heavily hopped with Comet, Cascade and Chinook for a tropical fruit aroma, an intensely citrussy flavour and a long dry finish. We’ve also just racked off ALMIGHTY ZEUS, a 7.2% triple dry hopped IPA, which, as the name suggests, is packed full of Zeus hops, but with the addition of a little Comet for a more celestial feel.  Expect orange notes, followed by a big pine hit before a lightly spicy finish.  The ABV is well hidden, so treat Zeus with respect or feel his wrath! We’ve lots more exciting beers in the pipeline, including return collaborations with North Riding, Steel City and Neepsend, so watch this space! Edd Entwhistle.

Before starting Emmanuales in 2014, I spent the best part of ten years trying to make it as a professional musician within the Christian music industry.  For some unknown reason, no matter how hard I tried to kick down Cliff Richard’s door to hand him my demo tape, I had little success in getting my songs ‘out there’. And so, I decided to call it a day and pursue my other passion – making beer – which I felt, unlike music, was more likely earn me more of a crust than the pittance of royalties from music streaming service such as Spotify and Apple Music. You’ll probably appreciate the irony then, that over the last ten years I’ve had little exposure to my music over the airwaves, and yet, seemingly within ten minutes of word getting out about Emmanuales, a researcher from Songs of Praise phones me to discuss putting ‘the Christian brewer with the Jesus beer’ on BBC One. Emmanuales, which is now brewed at and as part of The Sheffield Brewery Company, will feature on BBC’s Songs of Praise program in August (transmission date TBC). In other, less glamorous news, we have new beer hitting the shops. A revised Jonah and the Pale makes its return this month, now brewed with more hops, yet still as smooth.  In addition, we’re releasing a Rhubarb Saison (4.2%) – yet to be named, at the time of writing – to quench that thirst on a hot summer’s day, and our biggest beer yet.  Four Horsemen of the Hopocalypse is a 10% Quadruple hopped with Chinook, Saaz, and Ahtanhum. Keep a look out in August for more Oh Hoppy Day, Nothing But The Blood – a Blood Orange IPA (see what we did there!), and our Black IPA, Midnight Mass, making its first 2016 return. For more details visit www.emmanuales.co.uk Nick Law