CAMRA Sheffield & District
Sheffield & District branch of CAMRA
Onto the beer (finally!), by the time you are reading this, our Easter specials, Dr Morton’s Rabbit Punch 4.1% and Chocolate Stout 4.5% should be on the bar. The Rabbit punch is a golden ale with a good biscuit malt base and European hops for a balanced bitter finish. Look out for sumptuous dark chocolate, raisin and cherry flavours leading to a long rich cocoa finish in the stout.
Our final Easter/egg themed beer is the return of Exodus 4.3%, a well hopped golden beer, with hops from around the globe to give lemon, lime and tropical fruit flavours with subtle malt to balance.
Dr Morton’s Safety Beer 4.1% will be available towards the middle of the month and as the name suggests, we’ve played it safe. It’s our bread and butter, 4.1%, pale and hoppy. But to further protect to public, we won’t even allow you to know which hops have gone into it, just in case it blows your mind!
The end of the month will see the release of the latest beer in our Albion series of British hopped beers. Boadicea will be a 4.0% pale session beer featuring the Boadicea hop. Expect a light floral aroma and a spicy feel on the palate.
Until next time, mine’s a pint! 
However, despite the explosion of flavours in this limited edition beer it does retain one Sheffield Brewery hallmark – at 4.5% ABV it is still quite session friendly! It also joins the Castle Porter from earlier this year in being a beer that is badged up in support of the Friends of Sheffield Castle.
Meanwhile those that have joined Sheffield Brewery’s Beer Club, the next members social night at the brewery will be 27th March with a home brew theme and as usual, live music, beer and food. 
St Georges Best 4.6% Deep golden/amber coloured beer with sweet roast malts, good bitterness levels and a delicate citrus aroma.
Wai-iti IPA 5% 11th in our next range of IPA’s featuring New Zealand & Australian Hops. Rich Golden coloured ale with a smooth bitterness and an array of Citrus aromas mainly of Mandarin, Lemon and zesty Lime. 
Back at home, Steel City hosted a three-way collaboration with David from Raw and Sue from Waen (in deepest Wales). Troika, named after the Soviet judicial commissions which also involved three people, is appropriately a ‘Red IPA’. In keeping with the ‘theme’, Troika uses three hops for flavour, though these aren’t known at the time of writing! The minikit was used to make another irresponsible brew, Raw Steel Barley Waen… A variation on the main brew, yet to be named, will be out at the end of April to celebrate a special birthday for Shazz (her 21st, obviously…)
Steel City All Hallows Eve was named by Ratebeer as Best Beer in South Yorkshire, the second year in a row Steel City have picked up this award, but this year they went one better and also picked up Best Brewer. 
Gentleman Death 6% Baltic Porter. A devilishly delicious dark porter makes its annual appearance for April. Brewed with the darkest of roasted malts and Polish hops. The aroma is sweet, toasted and seductive, the malty body is dangerously smooth and the after flavour is silky, satisfying and luscious.
King of the Rocket Men 4.5% Pale Golden Ale. Always one of our fastest selling ales is back for April. Pale and golden with an interesting blend of internationally sourced hops to give a crisp light flavour. This blazing adventure in a glass will take you to infinity & beyond. 
March 2015 sees the launch of Sheffield Beer Week, the first of its kind for the city.
Running from Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd March, Sheffield Beer Week will showcase the very best of Sheffield’s beer scene. Organisers Julia Gray and Clare Tollick have arranged Sheffield Beer Week during the same week as SIBA’s conference, as the national event already attracts thousands of beer lovers to the city.
Julia Gray said: “Now in its third year at Sheffield, SIBA has already done a lot in terms of highlighting our breweries and pubs, but we want to take things a step further. By encouraging local breweries and pubs to host events such as beer tastings and tours, we see Sheffield Beer Week as an opportunity to show off the best of the city to all SIBA visitors.”
Clare Tollick added: “If anyone is thinking of holding an event throughout Sheffield Beer Week, we can help with ideas and promotion. All events will be listed on our website and shared through our social media accounts. We’ve already listed a pub crawl and a Meet the Brewer event – we’re looking forward to seeing what else people come up with!”
Head over to sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk for details of how you can get involved. 
For his opener Nigel is taking us all back to the sixties summer of love with Hippy Chick 8% Imperial Indian Pale Ale. Hopped to the max with all the most aromatic American hops available. These beautiful resinous hop cones give a massively pungent aroma of lemon zest, blackberry, grapefruit and tropical fruits. Just to increase the aroma further we have added a further addition of pelletised hops before the beer starts to ferment to give a fresh citrus zing.
Making a welcome return for March we have one of Iain’s special ‘Specials’. Zombies of the Stratosphere 4.8%. A blazing extraterrestrial golden ale with a sweet caramalt flavour and a remarkable orchestra of noble resinous lime and pine aromas from two types of Styrian Golding hop varieties. The final adventure of the rocket man saga concludes with a zesty flourish of sublime fulfilment and satisfaction.
In the Kelham Shop we are getting down our limited run of Anniversary Ale 6.5%. It was run of only 5000 numbered bottles and when it’s gone it’s gone. 
