Category: Breweries

Firstly it’s that time of year again – SunFest! We are celebrating our 10th anniversary of the festival, so expect to see 120+ beers (with at least 100 on cask across the tent and the pub!) Keep an eye peeled on social media outlets for the beer list prior to attendance, there is going to be some beauties on sale! Thursday 7th – Sunday 10th at The Rising Sun, Fulwood Road. Plenty of food and entertainment across the weekend too. As always we are supporting a local charity and this year we have chosen to support the Seven Hills WI, whose nominated charity this year is Light Sheffield, helping Sheffield families affected by perinatal mental health illnesses, including Post Natal Depression and anxiety.  Please find more information at sevenhillswi.blogspot.co.uk and lightsheffield.org.uk Right onto the beer! Last Rites made a very long awaited return last month, and the 10 casks we filled were instantly snapped up, although when they will appear on the bar is anybody’s guess (but I would bet some will be around Christmas!). The rest of the brew has been put into (evil) kegs and some more 750ml sharing bottles.  Look out for these in Beer Central, Dev Cat, Dram Shop, Hop Hideout, Rising Sun, Turners, Starmore Boss and Walkley Beer Co. We have been very busy hosting foreign brewers over the last couple of months, and the Hop Smash should be appearing on the bar already which is our 7.4% American IPA with freshly squeezed Grapefruit juice and zest. This beast of a brew was brewed with Bret Kuhnhenn from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company from Michigan.  Look out for some bottles of this one as well! Brand new as well is ‘Sipper’ a Session IPA (or SIPA if you will) and this combines six glorious hops for a refreshing citrus punch! Very easy drinking beer at 3.7%. The pump clip is the first in a new series of ‘Beer Heads’ by the very talented Carl Flint. After the phenomenal reaction to Laura’s ‘Lady Ra Ra’, we have another staff brewster with her Signature beer, Liz, our GM down at the Dev Cat, brewed her nod to our cousins over the pond with ‘Red, Wit and Blue’, a 4.6% Red Rye Wheat beer with American hops. There is another Lost Treasure series beer released this month too with ‘Aztec Gold’, a 4.1% single hopped pale beer with Azacca hops from the US. Expect plenty of citrus and tropical fruit flavours bursting through. As mentioned earlier, we are supporting Seven Hills WI at SunFest, and the annual SunFest special beer will be a 4.1% Lemongrass and Earl Grey Pale Ale. 10p from every pint will be donated by the brewery to the WI and in turn to Light Sheffield. As we go to print, the name is still TBC! There will be a new birthday beer too, look out for ‘Full Moon Lager’ our twist on our flagship beer Moonshine. We’ve been told Moonshine has converted many a lager drinker over the last twenty years, so we thought we’d pay homage to that! Cheers and beers! Robin – Abbeydale Brewery

Another month passes without a Steel City brew… but finally a second brew of the year is on the horizon! Forked Tongues is a ‘home’ collab with Isaac from Spanish craft brewery Reptilian. The collab has been an idea since meeting at Birrasana beer festival in Catalunya a few years ago, and is finally happening. Both brewers love their citrus hops, so Forked Tongue is a 100IBU+ Transatlantic Pale Ale featuring Chinook hops and a shedload (scientific measure of quantity there) grapefruit. The Lost Steel Industry Mojito Sour test batch was an unqualified success, and the sourness so extreme the guys sent a sample to be tested at the Thornbridge lab. The first test revealed a pH of 3.45, and the second revealed a score of ‘sour as ****’ from Dom. A full-length brew has now taken place on Lost Industry’s big kit, so look out for it over the summer!

The Spring bank holiday weekend saw the launch of Sentinel Brewery and the attached bar with the first beer brewed on site available to try as well as the menu of meals and bar snacks. Some of Sheffield CAMRA’s committee were invited to come along to the launch and try the first beers with the wider membership invited to a brewery tour a few weeks later when they hosted our June branch meeting. A premium experience is offered with what is basically an industrial unit made quite funky, both the beers and the food are quality and the way the beer is served sees a lot of attention to detail with the customer offered a choice of four measures and a choice of glass style to ensure that the flavour and aroma of beer can be enjoyed to the maximum regardless of beer style. If you want to get even more serious about tasting your beer, professional ‘Beer Academy’ tasting training courses are hosted there every few weeks. Sentinel beers are available on both cask and keg plus there will be some beers on tap that are piped directly from the conditioning tanks. The bar is open every day except Monday, from 11am until 11pm (midnight Friday and Saturday) and is located on Shoreham Street, between BBC Radio Sheffield and the inner ring road,  a short walk from the Rutland Arms, Royal Standard or railway station. See www.sentinelbrewing.co. for more details.

SUMMER OF LOVE….SOMETHING’S BREWING….. FESTIV’ALE 4.0% Festiv’Ale is a deliciously fiery ginger and lemon tinged Summer ale at 4% made with Centennial hops and infused with bags of ginger flavour. This is number six of our top ten reasons we love the Sheffield city region. Whether you love music, literature, film, comedy, beer, making things, comedy, people, history, theatre, sport the Sheffield city-region offers a tantalising range of festivals to suit all comers. So we thought we’d celebrate with a Festiv’Ale! The Sheffield Brewery Beer Club – diarise our next event: a weekender – Fri July 1st and Sat 2nd July 5pm – 11pm.  Our fourth first Friday/Saturday back at the beginning of June was another fab weekend – and the sunshine certainly brought a fun loving crowd! Hello to all our new members. Congratulations again to our neighbours, the mighty Peddler Market, www.peddlermarket.co.uk they’ll be open again the same weekend, and will showcase another fresh line-up of Britain’s best street food traders, alongside top-notch craft beers, freshly made cocktails, live music and art. You’ve got to be there, the atmosphere is brilliant and gets better at each event! We’re looking for small semi-acoustic bands/artists. Big thanks to Tom from Silverdale School for playing a fantastic set on the Saturday of our last beer club weekender. Any smallish bands or singers fancy playing at our Beer Club please get in touch with Pete at the brewery. Viewing of Blanco Art Studios in Albyn Works Sat 2nd July at 2pm – Our brewery forms part of Albyn Works and the folk who run the place are opening up an area to create artist studios. This will be an opportunity to grab a space and become part of this newly formed arts workspace. At the same time pop over to Peddlers and grab a bite!

As the UK looks forward to a packed summer sporting calendar, Stancill Brewery has given a nod to the city’s armchair athletes with two new limited edition summer specials. Which promise plenty of surprises with a slight hint of bitterness thrown in for good measure! To celebrate Euro 2016, head brewer Dean Pleasant has created a true taste of the continent, paying tribute to the host nation and one of football’s greatest players with its 4.0% Zidane Zidane. Brewed using varieties of French hops; the result is a pale ale with plenty of character. The easy-drinking session beer gives way to slightly spicy aftertaste: strong head optional! Stancill Brewery’s second offering is it’s patriotically named Three Lions. As it’s name suggests, Three Lions is an all English affair which is made using English hops – Fuggles and and some home grown First Gold – to create a refreshing summer drink and, a little like the national team, goes down quickly to leave a slightly bitter finish! Behind the scenes, Stancill Brewery is also working on a second craft lager to complement its popular Sheffield Pilsner: More news on this soon! Thomas Gill, Managing Director, Stancill Brewery said: “This summer is one of the busiest sporting calendars for a few years with England’s athletes, footballers and cricketers all set to take centre stage. We wanted to create a beer which could be enjoyed at any time, whether calling into your local after a kick around in the park, or cheering on the national team. We know England doesn’t have a get track record in the Euro’s, so we thought it was fitting to leave a slightly bitter finish in the beer! “The French hops used in Zidane Zidane aren’t commonly used on their own, but the result is a refreshingly moreish beer, which I think will prove to be a popular choice during the Euro’s”

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Following the story about Stancill taking on an apprentice which included  a little bit of brewery history, supplied by the brewery, I have been asked a question by a few about the ‘missing link’ not mentioned in the article – why is the brewery called Stancill? Well the simple answer is Stancill Brewery was set up when Oakwell brewery closed and the head brewer from Oakwell, Jonny Stancill, brought the kit from Oakwell to the new brewery and was the original head brewer.

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Stancill Brewery will soon be opening their first pub, this is due to be announced in July.

Sporty Tykes is a delicious golden ale at 4% made with Challenger and Calypso hops and infused with aromatic elderflower heads grown locally. It’s number five of our top ten reasons we love Sheffield and is in homage to the city’s great sporting traditions past, present and in the future! Whether you admire our Olympiads, watch your local team, play in the park or throw a dart there will always be some activity in this region which excites us as Sporty Tykes! The Sheffield Brewery Beer Club – diarise our next event: a weekender – Fri June 3^rd and Sat 4th 5pm – 11pm.  Our third first Friday/Saturday was another fab weekend – and the sunshine certainly brought a fun loving crowd! Hello to all our new members. Congratulations again to our neighbours, the mighty Peddlers Market, they’ll be open again the same weekend, and will showcase another fresh line-up of Britain’s best street food traders, alongside top-notch craft beers, freshly made cocktails, live music and art. You’ve got to be there, the atmosphere is brilliant and gets better at each event! We’re looking for small semi-acoustic bands/artists Big thanks to Tom and Richard from Silverdale School for playing a fantastic set last Friday. Any smallish bands or singers fancy playing at our Beer Club please get in touch with Pete at the brewery. A few facts on Sheffield and why it’s the National City of Sport Courtesy of Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Sheffield Sheffield has a long history of involvement in sport. Although cricket was the first organised sport, it has gradually been supplanted by football. Both the main two local football teams grew out of cricket teams. Sheffield can claim many firsts in football the most famous one being Sheffield F.C. being the world’s first and oldest football club. Today it has a club in every major team sport in England. Sheffield became the first UK National City of Sport in 1995 and is now home to the English Institute of Sport (EIS). Today the city is home to two league clubs Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United, top flight ice hockey (Sheffield Steelers) and basketball (Sheffield Sharks) and a Premier League speedway team (Sheffield Tigers). Sheffield Eagles is the main rugby league club. Sheffield Tigers and Sheffield Rugby Club make up the other There are six boxing world champions from Sheffield including Clinton Woods and Johnny Nelson. David Sherwood is a top ten British tennis player from the city and the former England cricket captain, Michael Vaughan, was brought up and lives in Sheffield. Joe Simpson, a famous climber also comes from the city. Steve Peat “Peaty” was the MTB Downhill World Champion. The largest stadium is Hillsborough Stadium, the home of Sheffield Wednesday, which holds around 39,850. The now-demolished Don Valley Stadium was formerly the largest athletics stadium in the United Kingdom. Bramall Lane is the world’s oldest major football ground and holds around 33,000 and Sandygate Road, home to Hallam F.C., is the oldest football ground. The World Snooker Championships has been held at the Crucible Theatre since 1977. Our inspirational Jessica Ennis-Hill famously won Gold in the London Olympics 2012. So all in all we’ve a lot of sporty tykes who love this city! PS: whoever was playing in goal at the University pitches on Thursday 12^th May in the evening at around 7ish – come and have a pint on us! Lookout for more in our Top Ten series which we’ll be releasing at the end of each month. Details of everything on our new website www.sheffieldbrewery.com THANK YOU AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT 10 YEARS OF CONTINUING TO BREW THE HALLMARK OF A PERFECT PINT!

Our latest brews have included Osiris – a 4.2% New Zealand Pale Ale hopped with Green Bullet and Pacific Jade. It is clean, crisp and zesty with a smooth bitterness and notes of citrus and grapefruit – and a tweaked version of our stout utilising even more varieties of dark malt. Our latest IPA, which was dry hoped with mosaic in the conditioning tank, has started making its way out into the world and showcases the unique characteristics of the mosaic hop nicely with a big and distinctive aroma and flavour. The collaboration brew with Abbeydale, Kelham Island, Exit 33, Blue Bee and Sheffield breweries for the Sheffield Food Festival went well (though some unnamed brewers retreated to the Fat Cat rather early in the day) and we were delighted to have representatives from the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind along for the brew. Watching a pink elephant (the charity’s mascot) adding the aroma hops to the brew made for a slightly different Thursday afternoon at the brewery than usual! The beer – a six hop pale ale – will be available at the Sheffield Brewer’s Co-op tent at the Sheffield Food Festival at the Peace Gardens on the 28th-30th May. Next up in the brewing plan is our Breakfast IPA collaboration with Hopjacker brewery, lots more Blonde to keep the thirsty drinkers of the Sheaf View and Blake Hotel happy and a red rye IPA when we can squeeze it in. Follow us on twitter and Instagram @NeepsendBrewCo or find us on Facebook to keep up to date on our latest brews and news. Gavin Martin, Neepsend Brew Co

In April the brewery was officially launched by Natascha Engel MP who exchanged calling ‘order’ as deputy speaker to taking orders behind the bar. Well over 100 members and guests enjoyed the band, Blind Badger and the buffet from Chariots kitchen, Dronfield. To finish the night in true style, one of the members fell into the river-it was very cold by the squeal that was heard…! Beer production is now in full swing at this, member owned and volunteer run, brewery on the banks of the river Drone at Unstone. The stock range includes the popular Dronny Bottom Bitter (3.7%) and Gosforth Gold (4.0%) both of which are getting repeat orders, to the stronger Fanshawe Blonde (4.8%), the ‘fabulous’ Stubley Stout (5.2%) and the ‘splendid’ proper, Drone Valley IPA (5.2%). Recent additions have been the seven malt Coal Aston Porter (4.5%), a 6.4% strong pale ale and a weissbier beer in recognition of the twinned town of Sindelfingen in Wurttemberg. Several pubs around the Three Valleys beer festival will have Drone Valley beers on offer. A chance to collect them all! Both the Three Tuns and the Pioneer club in Dronfield will have specific bars selling a selection, for all tastes. We continue to welcome new members and investors, many of whom are playing an active role as registered volunteers. Jez Horton Chair, Drone Valley Brewery