A great new Coffee Porter and our fastest ever selling seasonal will be on offer to Kelham fans this month. Cabby Chino 4%is lavish porter brewed with black, crystal and chocolate malts pepped up with a shot of coffee added during the conditioning process. Full bodied and rich with roasted notes and malty, caramel sweetness supporting the aromatic coffee and dark cocoa flavour.

King of the Rocket Men 4.5% is back, but probably not for long as demand for this special space beer always outstrips supply. A great Pale Golden Ale with an interesting blend of internationally sourced hops to give a refreshing crisp light flavour. This blazing adventure in a glass will take you to infinity and beyond.

Beer for the barbecue, wedding or other special occasion?

Don’t forget the Kelham Brewery Shop, open in the week until 4pm & until 5pm on Saturdays. We try to keep in stock 5 Litre (8.8 pint)cans of Pale Rider 5.2%, Easy Rider 4.3% and Kelham Best 3.8%. Our 18 & 36 pint beer boxes need to be ordered and can be collected the following day. Start planning you next ‘Garden’ event now!

The next beer in the Punktuation series is Hyphen – we’ve just received a preview of the pump clip! It seems it is a 4.7% beer brewed with British hops.

Word from The Hive… What is known as Light Blue Season is well and truly under way. That is, the time of year when the blue of the sky is complemented with the quenching character of a pale 3.6% ABV summer quaffer full of super Summit hops. The biggest sporting event of the year is celebrated with a one-off special brew called Hops on t’Bike, well balanced at a non-wobble inducing 4.0% ABV. The 9th instalment of the pUnK-tuation series has been brewed: look out for Obelus, more commonly known as ‘the division sign’. Ah, the joy of division… The beer is 4.5% ABV, pale in colour and extremely hoppy in the Blue Bee style. Bittering is courtesy of British Admiral hops, with aroma from the powerful US Citra variety. Recommended listening comes ‘Curtissy’ of Joy Division and their post-punk debut ‘Unknown Pleasures’. Intense.

Next new single hopped IPA is Sticklebract, a 5% New Zealand hopped  beer which packs a powerful pine, citrus aroma. Also we have Sunstorm 4.5% pale straw coloured beer brewed using Galaxy and Warrior hops.

Following the success of our North American IPA, Orange Wheat Beer and Belgian Saison,  the latest in our range of different beer styles is West Coast Pale. At 4.3% this features the American hops Cluster, Columbus and Cascade to give hints of sherbet and black pepper, with a fabulous citrus flavour.  This should still be on the bars of Sheffield at the beginning of July. Also be on the look out for newest specials Trance Sister (3.8% golden pale), Dr Morton’s Eternal Combustion Engine (4.2% pale and dry hopped) and the Sunfest Special Dr. Morton’s Survival Kit (4.1% pale featuring the excitingly named ‘Experimental #30D’ hop!) Talking of Sunfest, it’s that time of year again when we take over The Rising Sun car park in Nether Green from 10th-13th July. There will be 100+ beers and 20+ ciders on offer, mainly new and/or special beers from breweries both near and far. Aside from the beer we have plenty to keep you entertained with live music in the evenings, dance groups and the infamous Dog Show on Sunday afternoon, and if you are feeling peckish, the Whirlow Hall Farm hog roast is returning on the Saturday. Anyone wishing to volunteer at this years festival, please contact the pub on 0114 2303855. To get to The Rising Sun on Fulwood Road, you will need to hop on a 120 or 83A bus heading to Crimicar Lane/Fulwood and there is a stop just outside the pub! Our chosen charity this year is Cavendish Cancer Care and 10p from every pint of the Survival Kit will be donated to that fantastic cause. You may well have seen our collaboration with Founders brewery in Michigan in May, which saw the creation of 3712. This flew out almost as fast as a transatlantic jumbo! Seeing how well this went down we have teamed up with another brewing great, however slightly closer to home with an away trip to Raw at Staveley. As this goes to print there has been no decision made yet on the style or strength, however it should be ready to be launched at Sunfest. Make sure you come down and say hello, we should be there all weekend! Last but not least, due to public demand we have been asked to provide Tramlines with our winning Tramlines #2 beer from last year. This will be available from mid-July and throughout the festival.

The new brewery premises at a rural farm location near Ashford in the Water are almost ready for occupancy. The new brewery equipment is expected to arrive in June with installation and commissioning to take place in July. The new brewery site will enable much greater capacity for brewing the core range of beers whilst it is planned that the exisiting barn brewery on the Chatsworth Estate will be turned into a visitor centre with limited brewing capacity being retained to facilitate experimental and special one-off brews. Whilst the setting up of a new brewery is taking place in the background, Peak Ales continues to brew to capacity. However, the popularity of their cask ales has impacted on a reduced ability to produce bottled beers for the take-home market. A third brew of the ever popular seasonal ale – Summer Sovereign – is planned to take place as soon as a production slot can be found.

Beer number six in our light versus dark series arrives in July. Mind Control 6.9% Double IPA. Mind bending and hypnotic with a double helping of a trio of the best aroma hops the world has to offer. Citra gives citrus and jasmine, Chinook blackcurrant and elderberry and Nelson Sauvin gives fresh crushed gooseberry. A completely mesmerizing strong pale ale. This beer will also be available in minikegs from the brewery shop – the ultimate BBQ beer? For people who want to remain vertical we also have for July our pale and golden Sweet Home Alabama 4.2% Summer Beer. A very light tasty ale brewed with the finest blend of Cascade and Amarillo hops for an aromatic hit of berry fruits and a sorbet citrus zing perfectly complimented with British lager malt. A golden beer for a golden summers evening. Tramlines Music Festival dates for your diary – Kelham Brewery/Fat Cat car park. Friday Evening 25 July ‘Everly Pregnant Brothers’ and Saturday Afternoon 26 July ‘Lucy Spraggon’ and ‘Steel City Rhythm’