Category: Breweries

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 40^th 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

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 Stout came 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!

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.  

Two great returning classics from the Kelham stable will be in the pubs for November. Bud Ekins 5% – Superb amber bitter, brewed with a selection of traditional British hops and a blend of maris otter and crystal malt. Bud was the hard drinking trials rider who stood in for Steven McQueen to make the jump in the ‘Great Escape’ and drove the 67 Charger in ‘Bullitt’. It’s a beer that Bud would have approved of. Get Your Kicks 6.6%  – With this epic American IPA. We have found a selection of the best hops the USA has to offer & carefully blended them to create a monster of a beer with a huge, pungent aroma of citrus, passion fruit, lychees, strawberry & blackberry. This golden beer takes you on a journey of mouth watering juicy flavours seducing the palate into thirsting for more. We look forward to seeing everyone for the 40^th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival 29 Oct to 1 Nov). If you’ve never seen our brewery you will pass us as you walk in so give us a wave. Call in the brewery shop and say hello.