Category: Breweries

Bradfield Brewery’s Farmers Pale Ale has struck gold in Rotherham CAMRA’s Beer of Yorkshire Awards 2015. Farmer’s Pale Ale is one of the ales that started the Bradfield Brewery story 10 years ago and continues to be a best seller for the brewery.  It has been awarded the Gold Award within the Strong Bitter category at this year’s Rotherham CAMRA Beer of Yorkshire Awards held at Magna. And the winning didn’t stop there, Bradfield’s popular Farmers Brown Cow swooped Bronze in the Best Bitter Category. Farmers Brown Cow has also been around from the early days, first introduced in July 2005 as a special brew, now brewed all year round due to its popularity. Head Brewer Paul Ward attended the ceremony on behalf of Bradfield Brewery to receive the awards. Paul has been at Bradfield Brewery since they began brewing in 2005, and now boasts nearly 20 years experience in the brewing industry and creating the champion beer of Britain in 2004. On collecting the awards, Paul said, “We are delighted to be receiving these awards for our ales. I take great pride in creating real ales that compliment the industry and I know people will enjoy. Colleting these awards shows that our ales unique which is what we strive to achieve and we would like to give special thanks to Rotherham CAMRA for showcasing our ales.” Bradfield Brewery ales were amongst over 90 real ales which were blind tasted at Rotherham Beer Festival held at Magna in June. Bradfield Brewery is based on a working farm in the peak district, within the picturesque village of Bradfield. After brewing their first brew in 2005, the brewery has gone from strength to strength, with customers enjoying Farmers Ales all across the county. Farmers Pale Ale is a distinctive fruity pale ale balanced with a floral bouquet, full bodied and strong at 5.0% ABV with a predominantly dry aftertaste. Famers Brown Cow is a premium bitter, a rich deep coloured ale with a smooth creamy head. A citrus aftertaste gives way to a long dry finish.

Exit 33 is providing beer and the infrastructure behind the Brothers Arms beer festival at the This is Heeley event 24^th – 26^th July. To coincide with summer a new Exit 33 seasonal beer is being introduced for the next 3 months.  Golden Cascade 4.5% is a great tasting well-balanced pint characterised by a fresh hoppy clean taste through the use of Cascade hops. This beer is also brewed with Munich malt, which adds a golden hue and imparts a sweet malty and biscuity background flavour.

We have an exciting new partnership on our hands! The Roman Southwell Archaeology Community Project was established in January 2014 and since then has quickly gathered pace. They have not only conducted field walking and aerial surveys, but are now well on their way to conducting an excavation. To help raise awareness of this project, and perhaps a little cash too, we are teaming up to brew a Roman-style beer. The community group have researched the style of beer which would have been brewed back then, and we have formulated a recipe. We will be brewing a 3.8%  British barley focused pale ale using the aptly named British Boadicea hops. The beer is to be called ‘Roman Southwell Gladiator’. These hops are named after the famous Queen of the Iceni tribe, who led a rebellion against the Romans in the 1st century AD. They have a distinctively fresh British meadow aroma of herb and fresh grass – a truly Romano-British beer! The beer will be brewed on Monday 8^th June at Welbeck with the help of the volunteer archaeologists. They will be able to measure out all the raw ingredients and add them to the brewing process, just as our ancestors have done for centuries. We will be launching this beer at the Hearty Goodfellow in Southwell on Thursday 25th June at 7pm. Please join us on the day for a taster and to meet the group. The beer will be available to purchase in most of the Southwell pubs after this date If you miss it on cask, or would like to try the bottled version, the group will be retailing the beer at all their events from the start of July. For further details about the project please contact Matt Beresford matt@mbarchaeology.co.uk

It’s that time of year guys, SunFest is upon us! The Rising Sun at Nether Green (the 83A and 120 bus stops right outside the pub!) is the place to be from 9th – 12th July for over 100 beers and ciders plus top quality entertainment and of course the annual Dog Show on the Sunday afternoon.  Look out for a beer list to be released shortly before the festival via our website, Facebook and Twitter. Our charity partner this year for SunFest is The James Brownhill Memorial Fund (JBMF). The fund has been set up by James’ family following his death on the Frendo Spur in the French Alps, above Chamonix, July 1st 2011. James was an avid climber and mountaineer, he constantly strove to improve his skills and abilities, helping him progress into many areas and disciplines of the climbing world. The fund awards volunteers with bursaries to undertake courses to consolidate and develop safe climbing practice for teaching new and inexperienced climbers in individual and group situations.  James will be greatly missed, but through the fund we hope to preserve a passion and attitude to safe climbing that James constantly upheld. James was a local lad, whose favourite beer was Moonshine, so we are honoured to be supporting a local charity with strong links to both the pub and the community. www.jbmf.co.uk Like every year, we brew a special beer for SunFest, and this year it will be ‘Summit’. A pale 4.1% hoppy beer brewed with American hops (including a good dose of Summit). We will be donating 10p for every pint of ‘Summit’ brewed to JBMF. All the other beers to come out of Abbeydale HQ this month are all brand spankingly new, so much so, as we go to print the recipes are still being formulated by our (mad) brewers!!! Expect another beer in our Signature series and the latest beer in our Albion British hops series. Exciting times ahead! See you at SunFest!

Beer Club

Our Last Friday of the Month Beer Club has quite a following now and we’ve had some fabulous nights! May’s event featured the Soft Hands Trio, with Steve (pictured) on the brewery’s very own “Joanna” (tuned by Elb) donated by Mary and collected by Monk Eys Removals (also pictured). June’s event was an altogether different affair with an amazing BBQ selection and acoustic tunes brought to you by Nick. July’s event will be another band night and all details are available on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SheffieldBrewery.com

Brewery Tours

 

Book a reception or private party and enjoy a classic venue and all we have to offer in a truly unique and authentic atmosphere. It works equally well for corporate networking – ask Forgemasters! Silverdale School staff! Thanks Tom and Lauren (pictured) – massive congratulations and hope you enjoyed the honeymoon!

New Brews

Millowners Ale – the return!

At the request and kind promotion of Kelham Island Museum Trust this lovely 4.5% malty style traditional ale is back. Hopefully at the time of going to press our brew will be going through the bottling phase available in late July/Aug in bottles but we hope to supply a few retained casks to those pubs who get in first! A launch is being organised with the Trust so look out for details on www.facebook.com/SheffieldBrewery.com.

Sheffield Summer Ale

Our seasonal will be out and ready for your local.  This hoppy pale beauty based on Calypso hops from the US – is a 4% but packs a punch. Can’t wait to get your tasting tackle around this belter then get your orders in as we’ve a limited supply!  We deliver direct and through SIBA.

Collaboration brew with 18 Bikes – Midland Red The guys at 18 bikes had expressed an interest in a collaborative brew for a while so for our eighteenth batch of beer we joined forces. We provided the brewery, they provided the bikes… for more on that check out the video provided by the fantastic Richard Baybutt – it is available on the brewery website. They requested a thirst quenching beer to have after a ride in the stunning Peak District countryside. Possibly a bitter / brown but preferably light on the ABV but not a hop monster like an IPA. Their flagship road bike frame that they manufacture is a Midland Railway Red frame called Monsal. What better reason to create a red beer? Unlike the Irish Red beer which is quite mellow, the American Red can be though of as a more malty pale ale with plenty of refreshing hops, both in bitterness to balance the malt and in the aroma with fruity american hops. The formal name for this style of beer is an American Amber which covers a broad range but this Red Intrepid Pale Ale will have a bit of a hop hit with the malty smooth base from the malt. Since we are going for a much lower ABV than the American ales tend to go for and we have increased the nuttiness a little to reference the request for a bitter / brown we are going to dub the beer a Midland Red instead. Intrepid Journey #3 : Indian Pale Ale (American) 5.4% Following the success of the Eighteen Collaboration we thought it would be a good idea to test out the NZ Waimea hops in an IPA. The American style of an IPA is quite a bit lighter in colour than the UK version and with bags of late hops thrown in for flavour. Traditionally an American IPA would have just American hops in it but we have late hopped this with Waimea (New Zealand) & Cascade (US), bittered with Galaxy (Australia) and Waimea and dry hopped. This beer has a lot more hops in it than any of our other beers. Hoppyness is measured in IBUs, the IPA has 70 IBU, Explorer is 30 IBU. But it’s not all about bitterness, this beer starts with plenty of fruity flavours too, all from the trio of hops. The slight caramel from the malt is just enough to counter the hop bitterness.

A new brew has just been popped into the fermenter which will appear in time for the Three Valleys Beer Festival. It hails from Dronfield’s Community Brewery, now officially known the Drone Valley Brewery, in honour of the small river that flows through our little town. The beer will be a 5.2% abv traditional IPA and it will be available in several pubs on the Three Valleys route, look out for the eye-catching Drone Valley pump clip. The beer has been brewed at Barlow Brewery (thanks Glyn) and other popular styles will follow until we get our own premises, hopefully before the end of the year. Happy drinking, Pete Bishop. Update – the beer is to be launched at the Three Tuns in Dronfield on Friday 29th May, 7:30pm. Also, the venture is being supported by the Plunkett Foundation and the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation who are helping us with business plans and funding. More about the Brewery venture can be found at www.dronevalleybrewery.com

Steel City have gone all political in the wake of the election results! (A quick word from the editor – CAMRA is a non party political organisation – views here are from the brewer, who also advocates a system of democracy of one-man-one-vote as long as he is the one man with the one vote…) The first brew after Britain sentenced itself to five years of pain is Just What Nobody Wanted, a name taken from a Skyclad track and very fitting given two thirds of people voted against the ruling party. The beer itself is a Transatlantic Pale Ale, featuring Columbus for bittering followed by Mosaic, Azacca and Pacific Jade for flavour. An even more politically explicit version for Glastonwick beer festival has added lemongrass and chilli and is named appropriately. The minikit was also fired up, though not politically… Sean from Beer Central came along to brew an exclusive bottling for the shop, a keykeg will also be produced for the Shakespeare. Mango Fruit Machine is, as the name suggests, a Mango IPA. Weighing in at 6.5%ish, Mangosaic features 120IBU of Columbus followed by Mosaic and Azacca for flavour, then mango pulp added both before and after fermentation. Approximately 60 bottles will be produced (Steel City’s new craft-as-you-like blue-glass swing-top bottles, no less!), look out for the announcements on social media (Beer Central and Steel City Brewing on Farcebook, @BeerCentralLtd and @SteelCityBrew on Twitter), they’re sure to not last long!