Category: Breweries

Well first of all we would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! We hope that you have all kept to your resolutions, and ours is to carry on brewing more beer for all of you lucky people! 2015 is looking like the year of collaborations over at Abbeydale HQ, early January saw the launch of the Birdhouse Tea Beer. Rebecca at Birdhouse made us a special blend of green tea, jasmine, hibiscus, rose petals and summer fruits, which were combined with some lovely Cascade hops. If you haven’t been to their shop at Nether Edge, we recommend checking it out! This month brings the launch of a collaboration with another brewery, and we are excited to be brewing with Rat Brewery of Huddersfield for the first time.  The recipe is still being formulated, however expect the brew to be a strong Red Rye beer with plenty of hops!!! Mmmm hops! Did we mention we like hops? Keep your eyes and ears open for more collaborations with other exciting people for later on in the year, with the return collaboration with Raw Brewery on the cards soon! Dr Morton has been very busy recently with the return of Duck Baffler and new arrival Stamped Addressed Antelope last month, and there are several other new arrivals this month with Accent Compensation (4.1%), Sane Again (4.3%) and the return of Cask Paint (4.1%).  All of these will appear at some point in February. We are looking forward to SIBA BeerX returning to Sheffield next month, we hope to see a lot of you there for that. Until next time mine’s a pint!

There are many good things in life – love, health and happiness. The Sheffield Brewery Company, a local independent brewery, claim to be able to help with at least two of those three! They have launched their Sheffield Brewery Beer Club which offers supporters that join some exclusive benefits. Members get an invite to their exclusive Last Friday of the Month beer club events with a free pint at the first event after joining. Members then get a discount at the brewery’s real ale bar. Beer Club Members also get discounts on prebooked brewery tour events for their whole party, discounts on brewery merchandise and clothing, a say in how the brewery is developed and a monthly newsletter. Sheffield Brewery will also be hosting taste testing panels and advice nights for home brewers, home brewers’ challenges and tasting events. The next Members Club event is on Friday 27th February featuring live music with 4 Piece Zero playing in the Cellar venue at The Sheffield Brewery. This band is brilliant live and covers a repertoire of indie rock and punk hits from the late 70s and 80s. To join the beer club online email sales@sheffieldbrewery.com, the first 50 applicants for 2015 get discounted price of £10 for session membership.

Although you may not recognise our name, we actually commenced brewing in Sheffield back in 2008.  Up until early 2014 we were called The Brew Company, but a shift in direction saw us move to a new location and we rebranded as Sky’s Edge Brewing. Unfortunately we recently ran into a trademark problem and so we’ve had a second rebirth as Exit 33 Brewing. (We are located a few miles from the M1 and spend a lot of time going through Exit 33 with our beer so it seemed a fitting name). The same great distinctive flavourful beers remain; as does the contemporary eye catching branding and we are still associated with The Harlequin pub on Nursery Street. By the time you read this, a new website should be up and running at www.exit33.beer

By the time Beer Matters hits the streets, the initial meeting to gauge interest and ideas will have taken place at the Three Tuns in Dronfield. They are looking for a number of local people to invest in the scheme, which will see a small brewery set up in the town available for use by shareholders (kind of a hub for cuckoo brewers), perhaps to supply local freehouses at reasonable prices with a proportion of the profits ploughed into initiatives in the local community such as cleaning up the river, sponsoring youth football teams etc. More on this next issue!