Our two Christmas beers will be making their last ever appearance this December. Fairytale of New York 4.2% a festive dark ale brewed with Belgian yeast. A welcome pint for the festive season. A dark full-bodied winter warmer brewed with a specially selected Belgian yeast, a trio of roasted malts and Slovenian hops resulting in a spicy, sweet toasted aroma with hints of dark chocolate and a lavish warming flavour.
The Adventures of Captain Chrimbo 5.4% strong IPA. A strong full flavoured IPA brewed with a blend of our favourite hops used throughout the year. The pungent hoppy aroma is more inviting than a kiss under the mistletoe. The fruity lychee and orange zest aroma is mixed with a full malty body and bitterness for a celebration of flavours perfect for the festive season.
As a prelude to our 25th anniversary we are producing a very special bottled beer. Anniversary 6.5% IPA will be available for Christmas by the case or in gift packs from the Kelham Brewery shop and selected independent retailers.
January brings the return of Blondie4.9% and the brand new Hi Ho Silver 3.4% Pale Ale.
Blondie is a 4.9% a West Coast Pale Ale brewed with an America Ale yeast specially selected to give a crisp clean fermentation which allows the massive hop aroma to come through. With a base of lager and wheat malt and a hint of crystal malt, this beer screams hop character. The New American Delta hops give a complex citrus, melon, grassy flavour and the classic US cluster hops add spiciness with chinook used for bitterness and an extra secondary aroma addition for floral notes.
Hi Ho Silver is a 3.4% fresh light pale ale specially crafted to celebrate the start of our 25th Anniversary year. The best British pale ale malt is selected for a subtle biscuit malt character complemented by the delicate aroma of German lager hops with floral hints and orange spice. The perfect beer to start the new year!
On top of all this brewing we’ve taken on a new pub. The Tap & Tankard (formerly the Sportsman), on Cambridge Street, should be open by early December. We’ve an ad in this issue so keep an eye on www.kelhambrewery.co.uk for news on the opening date.
Another busy year coming to an end, expansion plans for 2015 are on the drawing board, watch this space!!!
We welcome a new addition to the Acorn family tree, Paul Hicks whose role as Sales Executive will see him mainly focusing on South and West Yorkshire.
Seasonal beers are; 12th Noel, originally brewed at 4.8% now weighing in at a mighty 5.9% Rich ruby coloured ale, roasted malts and English Bramling Cross hops combine to release rich berry fruit flavours. Cracker 4.1% is brewed with Maris Otter Pale Ale malt and Vienna Malt to create a pale straw coloured seasonal ale. Lemon and grapefruit dominate the hop aromas. Winter Pale Ale 4.5%(available Jan 15) pale golden ale brewed with English Fuggle and Goldings hops for a citrus and grapefruit aroma with a lasting bitterness.
Steel City are back from yet another 3-month gap! Dave is his usual festive self, with Christmas is Cancelled being available by the time you read this. The name is inspired by the long-standing tradition of Xmas beers being not only brown and malty, but full of spices that have absolutely no place in beer. As the pumpclip states, ‘To hell with the forced cheer. Screw the once-a-year drinkers. But most of all, stuff your spiced beers up your…’ – if that’s not enough of a clue, CiC is a very pale, very bitter, very hoppy brew with 100+ IBU of Magnum followed by Centennial and Pacific Jade for flavour, topped off with Green Bullet in the fermenter. Remember, a hop is not just for Christmas…
In other news, Steel City have acquired a few 5-litre minikegs for home sales, and if a trial run is successful will be making these available more readily in the new year.
Some readers may remember way back in March Dave and Shazz travelled to Hebden Bridge to brew with Dan at Bridestones. Well, ever since then the beer, a 6% Oatmeal Stout, has been maturing in 18-year-old Highland Park barrels. And now it’s been unleashed! On tapping the two barrels, Dan couldn’t believe just how different from each other they tasted! One then received a tree’s-worth of cherries, while the other received vanilla pods, before maturing a further month. Both will be available side-by-side at the Shakespeare autumn festival, as well as at Craft Beer Co in That London. Hopefully bottles will also be available. Truly, these beers are So Craft It Hurts…
Launch of The Last Friday of the Month Sheffield Brewery Beer Club – Grand Opening Event– 29th November 2014
As we’ve done every year we are open again during the Kelham Island Museum Victorian Christmas Market weekend. Only this time, not only are we celebrating everything which is great about Christmas and the Kelham/Neepsend area, we’re also launching our very own membership only Sheffield Brewery Beer Club – it’s free to join.
In support of Kelham Island Museum we are planning on opening our doors in the afternoon of the 29th Nov from 2pm right through until 11.00pm.
Email us your details (to sales@sheffieldbrewery.com) to become one of our first members. There’ll be an eclectic mix of music, beer, BBQ food and a great atmosphere for everyone so please email us your details so we can add you to our membership list. Check out our website for further details.
The Last Friday Sheffield Brewery Beer Club will be open every last Friday of the month (except December/January). The idea is to build on our great reputation for offering excellent tasting beers plus a few guest ale appearances.
We are based Albyn Works a Victorian industrial polish works where you can enjoy a beer in our authentic real ale bar in the middle of an actual brewery. You’ll see the mash tun, copper and fermenters – smell the hops and soak up the essence of a fully operating real ale brewery.
Bus 53 passes the brewery
Fuggling Fantastic News – And the Winner Is…….
Well, well, well….. The winner goes to Fuggle Bunny Brew House Limited for their latest creation Imperial Black Russian Stout – Chapter 7 – Russian Rare-Bit 5% – scooped First Place in the Stout category at the CAMRA Sheffield 40th Ruby Anniversary Beer & Cider Festival at the Kelham Island Museum. We would just like to thank all the people that voted for this little cracker, we are really made up………I thank you. We are proud as punch to have received our very first award since opening in April of this year and hope it is the first of many.
Best Steak and Ale Pie at the Brewery Tour
We would also like to thank CAMRA who turned up for our first brewery tour, Pie & Pea supper. The evening was a great success and everyone enjoyed themselves, the consensus according to the feedback regarding our Handmade Steak & Ale pies, were the best they had ever tasted. No fuggling wonder as our local Butchers Bextons who made the pies for us used our award winning Stout to macerate the steak with. A further compliment for us is that Bextons were so impressed with the finished product that they have asked if we can supply our stout for them to use in their own produce – negotiations are in progress, now that’s what I call a result.
2015 on the Horizon
More New and Exciting Chapters in the adventures of FUGGLE – keep hopping in and out of our web site for his latest antics. Hope it is another good year for all concerned in keeping Real Ale at the forefront of the Beer Industry and remember ‘there’s a beer for that’ – Good Luck
After our very successful first open day we will be holding further ones on the 6th and 13th December. Everyone is welcome to come and sample our beers as well as some guest ales. We will not be having an open day in January but will be back on the 7th February 2015.
Our Christmas ales will be available during December, which are Christmas Box4.2%, a good hoppy blonde full of flavour and Nutcracker4.2% which is a smooth hoppy blonde with citrus undertones.
On our next brew will be a wheat beer so watch this space.
We were very pleased that our Black Edgestout at 5.2% won 3rd place in the last Imperial Brewery beer festival.
Remember all our beers can be tried at the Forest adjacent to the brewery on Rutland Road.
The story so far…
It has been a year since the great move of the Brewing Equipment from the now demolished Oakwell Brewery in Barnsley to the world famous Real Ale city of Sheffield.
This was no easy task! Over 10 tonnes of kit was dismantled, transported and reassembled in just 4 weeks! It was a race against time, with the demolition company on site at Oakwell, and the clock ticking with the 2 week “Get Out” deadline. Anything that was left behind, or not removed in time was to be flattened!
Our saving grace was Tim Gill our Managing Director’s father. He has been an engineer all his life, working at another great South Yorkshire institution TATA steel. Tim and a small team of engineers conducted the decommission, transportation and reassemble with faultless precision and speed. Towards the end of the dismantle, the team was forced to work in the dark, without power. The demolition team had cut the electricity supply to the site. Daily we had to fight off the scrap metal merchants coming onto the site attempting to take the copper piping that we use to help cool the fermentation vessels. Things became very heated indeed! Working all through the night for the deadline week, our fantastic team of South Yorkshire engineers freed the last pipes from the condemned site and we left.
This was end of an era for Barnsley Bitter brewed in Oakwell, Barnsley since the 1850s. From the ashes of Oakwell, two young lads born and bred in Barnsley, with all the passion and heart of their fellow townsfolk have brought back the Brew after just a 9 months absence from the market. With a hiss and a jeer from many a nay-sayer, we battled through and got our first firkin of Barnsley Bitter, brewed in Sheffield to the Market in February 2014. Two months later, it was crowned the Champion Bitter of Yorkshire 2014. So why did we do it?
The same Brewery, the same brewer, the same yeast, the same recipe, but better water. More than that: if you believe you have a top quality brewer, producing the best beer in the country, with the best water in the country and the best ingredients in the country, why wouldn’t you want that real ale to be produced in the most famous real ale city in the world!
Stancill Barnsley Bitter. Ingredients: two hearts forged in Barnsley. Made In: the most famous real ale city in the world. Champion Bitter of Yorkshire 2014.
From all at Stancill Brewery, a massive thank you to every last one of you who have supported us either with your kind words, messages or just by buying a pint of Stancill.
We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy 2015 – it’s going to be a big one!
Well I think we can all agree that last months Steel City Beer Festival was a roaring success with a fantastic new venue that really worked and has the potential to grow for future years! Well done guys! Our Full English Breakfast Stoutcame 2nd in the Stout category, and such has been the positive reaction to the beer, we have included it in our brew plan for 2015!
As you might have seen on our Facebook page and mentioned in an earlier addition, we have recently taken delivery of some rather large, rather shiny new vessels which have increased production capacity to a whopping 240BBLs/week (a smidgen under 70,000 pints/week), and they are now fully commissioned and in use.
If you weren’t already aware, it’s that time of year again when the once-a-yearers come out to play and take your favourite spot in your local! To soften the blow, we have these beery treats coming up.
First up is Dr Morton’s Rude Elf, a 4.1% pale session beer to placate the angry elf in all of us! A good dose of the NZ hop Rakau gives a burst of tropical fruit, notably passion fruit, on the nose leading to a dry bitter finish.
Continuing on the festive theme, we have Dr Morton’s Christmas Camel, 4.3% and pale it packs a hoppy punch with a combination of five American hops with a pleasant floral aroma. Perfectly balanced and incredibly moreish!
We also have the next release of our Albion Ales series. Following the success of the green hopped Scepter’d Ale and the (previously mentioned) fantastic Full English Breakfast Stout, step forward Jester, a classic Abbeydale style beer, 4.1% and single hopped with the Jester variety. This English hop was grown to try and replicate some of the new world hop flavours that have become so popular over the last few years. Expect plenty of fruity aromas with grapefruit and lychees coming forward.
Finally we see the return of Advent, a pale beer, hoppy and well-balanced at 4.6%. Fruity aromas, light caramel flavours with hints of fruit and a lasting bitter finish. Dangerously easy drinking and perfect for the festive period!
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you all in 2015!
Cheers & Beers!
Peak Ales have successfully brewed a batch of Bakewell Best Bitter at their new, bigger brewery at Ashford in the Water. An open day is planned soon to celebrate!
Following the brew day at Blue Bee, a number of Steel City Beer Festival organising committee members visited Sheffield Brewery to brew another beer to promote the upcoming ruby anniversary festival – the pump clip carries the festival logo and the beer is called Ruby Ruby Ruby. Look out for it in local pubs and at the festival itself, which runs from 29th October to 1st November.
