Between Wednesday October 16th and Saturday 19th later this year, Sheffield CAMRA will be holding its 48th annual Beer and Cider Festival down at the famous Kelham Island Museum. We hope you can join us for some or all of it.
Over those 4 days we’ll be bringing you a choice of over 200 different cask beers, a further 50 keykeg beers, 30 ciders and food stalls, along with talks, tastings and music most nights, but like all beer festivals it is completely organised and staffed by volunteers, who gather together from Sheffield and beyond to set it up, staff and otherwise make it happen.
Set up starts on the Sunday beforehand (13th) with getting the floors protected and the stillage erected. The casks start arriving on the Monday and need to be put in place so the beer is allowed to settle. The bars are then erected and stalls set out. Glasses arrive and need to be washed and made ready, banners erected, tables and chairs set out, etc, etc, etc.
Lots of jobs which need lots of people. Could you help us out and help by doing a shift?
You don’t have to be a member of CAMRA or have a background in hospitality or bar work or worked at a previous beer festival but obviously such experiences all would be helpful. There’s also lots of other jobs which will need doing and are just as important.
Training will be given for anything you’re not sure of or have never done before.
We have shifts starting at 09:00 right through to after 23:00 when we close and need to clear up. We especially need people who can arrive and stay late to cover all our shifts. Food tokens are available to everyone who does two or more shifts and drink tokens are available for everyone who helps. You should also get a specially designed T-Shirt to keep as a souvenir.
After the festival we also arrange a volunteers reunion social trip, this year it is on 9 November with our coach taking us to Nottingham for the day to enjoy a number of good pubs and tap rooms there!
An online volunteer form, along with all other information, is available at our Festival Website at sheffield.camra.org.uk/festival – just click on the ‘volunteers’ tab or get in touch on 0792-341-6865 and we’ll post out a printed version for you to fill in & return.
Please get your form filled in asap as we have already started allocating jobs. We need everyone to be as flexible as possible as we won’t necessarily be able to give you the job you most want to do but we’ll try and find a suitable alternative if we can.
Do help us make this 48th Sheffield Beer & Cider Festival yet another successful one whether you join us as either as a visitor or as a volunteer. Whichever you come as – we can promise you an enjoyable time.
Malcolm Dixon, SCBF48 Staffing Officer: (festivalstaffing@sheffield.camra.org.uk or 0792-361-6865
One Valley Festival sees numerous venues across the Dronfield area including pubs, clubs and brewery tap rooms all put on special events involving beer, cider, street food and music all on the same day. The 2024 event takes place on Saturday 8 June.
Here is a quick guide to the venues expected to take part. Keep an eye on their Facebook page for the latest updates.
Most of the venues are close to the railway station and can be walked between; All the venues are served by one of the four local Stagecoach bus services – 15, 16, 43 and 44 – all charge just £2 per ride or a Silver DayRider pass is available offering unlimited travel on them all (£6.20 adult or £16 for a group of 5, buy from the driver or on the Stagecoach app).
Until 5pm there is also the Travel Derbyshire On Demand minibus that can be booked on their app for any journey in North East Derbyshire at a cost of £4 per ride, subject to availability.
CORE ONE VALLEY FESTIVAL VENUES
Manor House Hotel, High Street, Dronfield (get there by bus 15 or 16): As normal their coffee shop will be open serving cooked breakfasts from 8am and the hotel bar will open at 10am, however festivities kick off outdoors at the rear of the building from noon with two outside bars – one of them serving Abbeydale cask beers. Pellizco will be there slinging Mexican food and Britpop Resurrection will be performing live at 5pm and 6pm, followed by DJ Brad Gee playing an outdoor set from 7:30pm. https://www.facebook.com/manorhousehotel.co.uk
Blue Stoops, High Street, Dronfield (get there by bus 15, 16 or 43): Features a large outdoor drinking area and outside bars will be in place for the festival. Inside the normal bar and restaurant will be operating. https://www.facebook.com/thebluestoopsdronfield
Victoria, Stubley Lane, Dronfield (get there by bus 15, 16 or 43): Old Skool street corner local boozer with a small outdoor drinking area.
Green Dragon, Church Street, Dronfield (walkable from Dronfield station and bus 44): The car park will be closed off to make a bigger outdoor area with an outside bar open from midday, Smiths fish & chip van and music – DJ Higgz 2pm to 4pm, Vocalist Hayley-Lou 4pm to 6pm and DJ Higgz from 6:30pm until late. https://www.facebook.com/GreenDragonDronfield
Dronfield Arms, Chesterfield Road, Dronfield (walkable from Dronfield station, bus 44 stops close by): This pub is the home to Temper Brewing and a branch of Pizza Pi, for the festival the car park is closed off for a party with outside bar and music stage with live acts during the afternoon from 1pm then a DJ taking over at 6pm to keep things swinging as the sun sets. (stage line up: 1pm Magenta Apricot, 2pm Kickback, 3pm Issac, 4pm Dronny Bottom Buskers, 5pm Chris Paul, 6pm to midnight DJ Phil). https://www.facebook.com/dronfieldarms
Underdog, Chesterfield Road, Dronfield (walkable from Dronfield station, bus 44 stops close by): A barely noticable passageway runs down the side of the building to a rear courtyard area where for the festival an outside bar will be serving a range of craft beer, flavoured ciders and alcoholic slushies. Also present will be Butlers Family Bakers’ selling hot pork sandwiches. https://www.facebook.com/TheUnderdogDronfield
White Swan, Chesterfield Road, Dronfield (walkable from Dronfield station, bus 44 stops close by): If the weather is good their patio area proves popular and for the festival they have an outside bottle bar. Also featured is a pizza van and Bethany Grace will be singing between 1pm and 3pm. https://www.facebook.com/whiteswandronfield2023
Pioneer Club, Stonelow Road, Dronfield (get there on bus 15 or 44): Expect a full range of drinks on the club bar inside, live entertainment, DJ and food stalls. It will be a family friendly venue too with a bouncy castle, childrens entertainer and other kids activities. https://www.facebook.com/PioneerClubS18
Miners Arms, Carr Lane, Dronfield Woodhouse (bus 16 stops outside or bus 43 is a short walk away): This is a suburban community local with a decent beer garden. On festival day real ale on the pub bar will be joined by a cider shack outside, there will be live music at 1pm and 8pm with a DJ providing the music inbetween, returning later on in the evening to host a throwback disco once the band has finished. BBQ food will be served from midday to 6pm and there will be a dessert van from 4pm to 7pm. In the daytime there will be a bouncy castle for the kids. https://www.facebook.com/theminersarmsdronfieldwoodhouse
Jolly Farmer, Pentland Road, Dronfield Woodhouse (get there on bus 43): A suburban community pub that serves food. Festival day routine sees them open early serving cooked breakfasts (advance booking essential!) then into the afternoon their outdoor area hosts a pop up bar, BBQ and live entertainment. https://www.facebook.com/jollyfarmerdronfield
ONE VALLEY EXTRA VENUES
Beer Stop, Callywhite Lane, Dronfield (walkable from Dronfield station or bus 44 stops right outside): A small craft beer shop that offers on site drinking with a patio area at the front – expect as usual a choice of beers in keg, can and bottle www.facebook.com/BeerStopDronfield
Drone Valley Brewery, Unstone Industrial Complex, Main Road, Unstone (bus 43 and 44 stop at the end of the drive): For the festival their brewery tap operation cranks it up a gear or two – bigger bar in the brewery showcasing their range of cask ales plus lager and cider, separate outside cocktail bar and a food stall provided by Gow’s Kitchen of Coal Aston. There will be live music throughout the afternoon: Simon Lancaster at midday, Tony Bovill at 12:45pm, Ed Hulse at 1:30pm, Dog & The Enigmas at 2:15pm, Shambles Duo at 3pm, Charlotte Hall at 4pm and Cobalt Tales at 5pm. https://www.facebook.com/dronevalleybrewery
Miners Arms, Hundall Lane, Hundall (get there on bus 15): Always a popular destination on festival day is this rural pub up in the hills! On the day the beer garden gains an outside bar with a range of ales, lagers and ciders along with a food stall and outdoor live music stage. Music kicks off from 2pm with Steve Birks and Hallowed Travellers. https://www.facebook.com/minershundall
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AND DJ SCHEDULE
Here is a summary of what all the venues have announced so far. Please check for any changes directly with the venues before making any special journeys!
12:00 – Drone Valley Brewery: Simon Lancaster
12:00 – Pioneer Club: DJ John
12:45 – Drone Valley Brewery: Tony Bovill
13:00 – Dronfield Arms: Magenta Apricot
13:00 – Jolly Farmer: Ding & John – live singing and DJ sets throughout the afternoon
18:00 – Pioneer Club: Alan Squires (guitar & vocals)
18:30 – Green Dragon: DJ Higgz
19:30 – Manor House: DJ Brad Gee (until closing time)
20:00 – Miners Arms (Dronfield Woodhouse): Brude (classic rock band)
BUS STOPS / RAIL STATION
Use these links to view the next buses scheduled from the nearest stop to each venue, there are separate links for each side of the road. Click on the time of the bus and it will show you where the bus is and if it is on time or click on the map link so you can see on a map where the bus stop is and where the buses are.
1 June sees the first ever Kelham Pride celebration. This is a free all day festival that kicks off with a parade starting from Kelham Island Museum at 1pm via Ball Street Bridge to the event’s main stage at Burton Street (Peddler Warehouse). There will also be events taking place in venues around the area including Happy’s Bar, Grafters Bar and Alder and a couple of local breweries have brewed a special Pride beer for the occasion.
On cask look out for Blue Bee’s special.
For more details of the event visit their website – Kelham Pride.com
We are very happy to confirm we have the go-ahead to organise our 48th Steel City Beer & Cider Festival this year, which will take place from 16 to 19 October.
The venue is once again the wonderfully atmospheric Kelham island Museum with the same format as last year – bars spread across the Upper Hall, Brearley Room, Crucible Room and a marquee serving a huge range of real ales (around 200!) plus over 50 other craft beers in keykeg, bottle and can along with a selection of around 30 different ciders and perry.
The upper hall will also be home to the live music stage and stalls whilst in the courtyard you’ll find a number of street food traders. Meanwhile the Millowners Arms pub, located within the site, will be trading as normal exclusively for festival visitors with some additional beer choices plus all your other pub drinks such as wines, spirits and soft drinks.
New this year will be a street food trader in the rear courtyard by the Crucible room where the keykeg bar is based, adding to the experience for those hanging out around this part of the festival!
For more information visit the website – sheffield.camra.org.uk/sc, this will get updated as details get confirmed, alternatively follow the Steel City Beer & Cider Festival on Facebook, Instagram and X for updates.
Lots of beery venues across Sheffield put on special events over the first week or so in March! Here are some photos of various Sheffield CAMRA committee members attending events!
Paul and Bev at St Mars of the Desert’s tap room – beer week sees the tap room commence their programme of weekend openings following a winter hibernation!Dave Pickersgill was signing copies of the Sheffield Heritage Pub book at Indie beer Feast’s Hop Hideout bar. This event is a craft beer festival held at the beginning of beer week at Trafalgar Warehouse in Sheffield City Centre. Many of the bars at this festival are hosted by breweries.Paul and Bev at the Riverside Bar where there were two tap takeovers taking place – Black Iris on cask and Brew York on keg, whilst the kitchen was celebrating national pie week!The Kelham Island Tavern showcased a number of Blue Bee special editions which were twists on their regular beers. This included a Charred Oak edtition of Stanage Stout, Chocolate edition of their Dark Mild, New Zealand hopped version of their Amercian Five Hop and a triple hopped pale ale featuring Citra, Simcoe and Nectaron hops.Shakespeares hosted a number of events with various tap takeovers, including Liquid Light brewery.On the Wednesday of Sheffield Beer Week we presented our March Pub of the Month award to the Oxbow micropub in Woodhouse Mill. Also on the night was a pub quiz and a couple of pop up food traders outside with pizza and doughnuts available to order! For beer week the Oxbow ran a couple of tap takeovers featuring beers from Lords Brewing of Huddersfield and Neon Raptor of Nottingham.Towards the end of Sheffield beer week, just on the border, was the Rotherham Real Ale & Music festival at Magna. This annual charity fundraiser featured 150+ cask ales, cider, gin, wine, food, cinema and a busy programme of live music. Among the team of volunteers behind the bar on Friday night was Beer Matters editor Andy Cullen.The Dog & Partridge organised a dark beer showcase for the duration of Sheffield Beer Week then additionally hosted an Abbeydale meet the brewer on Friday evening.
If you want to read more about Sheffield Beer Week and look back at the list of events taking place, you can visit the beer week page here.
Can you believe it’s our tenth annual Sheffield Beer Week!?! 2024 is going to be an exciting year. Through a challenging climate, Sheffield’s beer businesses have survived in a buoyant local market.
2024 sees the revisiting of Sheffield University’s commisioned ‘Beer Report’ which has broadcaster Pete Brown reviewing the regional beer landscape once again. Look out for a launch during Sheffield Beer Week.
Key Beer Week strands include ‘Beer and Food’, ‘Community’ and ‘Heritage’; with ongoing organic strands including International Women’s Day events, 10 years of Beer Week, and celebrating our access to vital green spaces alongside The Festival of the Outdoors. Visit Sheffield’s The Festival of the Outdoors has become a vibrant month of annual activities in March. There’ll even be a running and beer event which includes a brewery tour during the beer week from Triple Point Brewery, Hop Hideout and Run Talk Run. Heist Brew Co are also collaborating with The Foundry Climbing Centre on a beer to go alongside their beer and climbing social.
There’ll be more special beers being released for Beer Week including Triple Point Brewery collaborating with Indie Beer Feast, Sheffield Beer Week and The Festival of the Outdoors to highlight the South Yorkshire green spaces and Peak District campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite.
Lost Industry and Thornbridge are both brewing their own International Women’s Collab Brew Day beers. While Abbeydale are re-releasing their 2023 Sheffield Beer Week collab Cloud Peak due to demand; this year it will include a limited art print alongside.
Beer shop Hop Hideout is collaborating with Heist and Indie Beer Feast on a super limited sour-style beer. While new microbar The Wonky Labrador are collaborating with Triple Point on a birthday beer. Just to name a few!
With a influx of breweries heading to Indie Beer Feast, you’ll find a number of tap takeovers and meet the brewers happening at venues like Pangolin (Turning Point Brew Co), The Beer House S6 (Amity Brew Co) and Kelham Island Tavern (Siren), and more to be announced.
The Rutland Arms, The Crow Inn, Beer Central, The Riverside Kelham, Heist Brew Co Tap, Shakespeares Ale & Cider House, Hop Hideout, The Wonky Labrador, Dog & Partridge and The Old Shoe have all started to plan events and will be announcing in the coming weeks.
Thornbridge Brewery are set to host Bundobust, Newbarns and Red Willow at their pubs – The Greystones, Hallamshire House and The Stag’s Head. Brewery tap openings so far confirmed include Brewery of St Mars of the Desert, Fuggle Bunny Brew House, Heist Brew Co., Triple Point Brewing and Tapped Brew Co.
Beer historian Dr Christina Wade, who specialises in the hidden histories of women in the brewing trade, will be launching her new book – The Devil’s in the Draught Lines (published by CAMRA Books). Hop Hideout will be celebrating with a collaborative beer alongside Dr Wade and Torrside Brewing which takes its inspiration from historical women’s recipes featured in the book. In addition to hosting a Queer Brewing tap takeover (owner Lily was commissioned to take photographs for the book).
On the weekend of 1st to 2nd March, to start the week, Sheffield’s craft beer festival, Indie Beer Feast is back at Trafalgar Warehouse. It’s a celebration of great independent craft beer with brewery bars, street food, low intervention wines and fine cider. The beer festival champions and supports The Everyone Welcome initiative. British Guild of Beer Writers’ members and leading UK award-wining beer writers David Jesudason (current Beer Writer of the Year), Pete Brown and Adrian Tierney-Jones will be heading up to host pop-up tastings. David will be discussing his latest book ‘Desi Pubs’ and Pete will be launching ‘The Beer Report’. Hop supplier Barth Haas X have sponsored the talks and tastings and will also host their own trade panel discussion. Dr Christina Wade will be celebrating her new book launch and Henry Kirk of soon to launch new brewery, Sunken Knave, will be discussing his passion for Old Ales. Look out for more talks to be announced.
Breweries pouring include Sheffield outfits Heist, Triple Point, Kelham Island, Grizzly Grains and Abbeydale. In addition to Manchester’s Track, Liverpool’s Neptune, Leicester’s Round Corner, Reading’s Siren, Leeds’ Amity Brew Co and Tartarus, Wales’ Sobremesa Drinks, Derbyshire’s Thornbridge and Torrside, North Yorkshire’s Turning Point Brew Co and Hitchin’s Crossover Blendery.
Jules Gray, Sheffield Beer Week founder shared that, “A decade of showcasing great independent beer in Sheffield is something to be hugely proud of as a city and community. A city with a long-standing heritage of beer and brewing, that goes back hundreds of years. It’s a testament to everyone involved and everyone who supports the beer scene. Beer is part of the city’s fabric, it’s culture, it’s heritage, jobs, economy and keeping the high street vibrant.”
Jules Gray
For the latest information on Sheffield Beer Week events visit their website and follow their socials. Most of the events can be easily reached by public transport and the maximum single fare charged in Sheffield is currently £2 on buses and £2.80 on trams, alternatively a range of daily and weekly unlimited travel passes are available, see travelsouthyorkshire.com for all your timetables, maps and ticket information.
Events listed at time of publication (more likely to be added, check their website & socials). Note some events require tickets booking in advance.
Thursday 29 February:
12:00 The Devil’s in the Draught Lines Queer Brewing Tap Takeover & Torrside Beer Launch, Hop Hideout (City Centre)
12:00 Kernel Irish Whisky BA Imperial Brown Stout Launch, Rutland Arms (City Centre)
13:00 Amity Brewery Tap Takeover & Meet the Brewer, Beer House S6 (Hillsborough)
18:00 Turning Point Brew Co Tap Takeover & Meet the Brewer, Pangolin (Hillsborough Park)
19:00 Crossover Blendery Meet the Brewer, The Crow (West Bar)
After last year’s successful post-covid return, we were looking forward to welcoming everyone to another great festival this year. Little did we know the weather would have other ideas. Here’s how it eventually worked out.
Setup
Set up went particularly well this year, thanks to a good number of enthusiastic and willing volunteers. Starting on Sunday morning, we rattled through setting up the racks and cooling system and by the end of Monday all the beers were in place and chilling ready for opening. Tuesday saw us finishing all the bars and signage, and by Wednesday at 5, with all the food stalls in place, we were open.
Wednesday
The Beer of The Festival, contested by all our local breweries, was again sponsored by our friends at Beer Central and judging began straight away. By 6.30 we were ready to announce the winners. Heist Brew Co. took Gold with their “The Bad Part Of Gnome Town”, a hazy session IPA, and one of their first attempts at a cask beer! Silver was a porter named Brook from Tapped Brew, (also the best pun of the evening) and Bronze was Little Critters’ Pecan and Maple Stout, Great Danish. Purity Brewing hosted a drop-in Q&A session and things were well underway, with everyone enjoying themselves and it seemed like we might top last year.
Thursday
A slight change in the opening hours for this year meant we opened at 11.30 and we had a steady stream of visitors from the off. As usual Thursday afternoon saw a lot of beer tickers arrive to sample the best of what we had on the bars, and a number of works events also boosted numbers early evening. Mike from the Old Shoe ran a talk on cider and an excellent set from folk-rock band Kingfisher Blue rounded off the evening nicely. However, by this point we had already had the flood alert warning and were expecting the worst on Friday.
Friday
Rain! And more rain! When we arrived at 9 o clock the river was already quite high, and the management at Kelham Island Museum were planning hourly assessments to track the water levels. Unfortunately, late morning saw a directive from the Museum that we had to close. Everything that might get water damaged was either taken upstairs, or simply placed on top of the bars. The Museum even had to drive their two Sheffield-built early 20th century Simplex motor cars up to the upper Hall and park them in front of our stage. A disappointed festival committee trooped off home (after a quick pint in a local establishment of course) to follow the weather forecast and hope for the best for the following morning.
Saturday
Fortunately water levels peaked early evening on Friday without there being any flooding at the Museum and after discussion with the Museum staff on Friday night we got the green light to open, albeit at a slightly later time to allow to put everything back in its correct place.
The weather then decided to improve steadily and, in the end, it was a great day. The River Don engine drew it’s usual admiring crowd; the Loxley Silver Band entertained everyone upstairs; the boys from Kelham Rapper did their sword dances anywhere there was space (however tight that might be!); St Mars of the Desert hosted a well-attended talk on their beers; and live music from Galloping Dick rocked the Upper Hall to finish. The volunteers did their best to reduce the beer surplus at the afterparty, aided by pizzas from Sunshine Pizza Co, and the festival drew to a close.
Sunday
As always at the festival there is an amount of beer left which sadly has to be poured down the drain. As a result of Friday’s closure there was a lot more to dispose of this year, with an obvious effect on the festival’s finances. We’d like to say a thank you to Bradfield brewery, who kindly took back the unopened casks of their beer, and the Rutland Arms and Kelham Island Tavern, who bought the unopened kegs and cider boxes. And thanks to the volunteers who came and dismantled it all on Sunday. They did an incredible job and by 3 o clock we had everything cleared and back in storage.
Final verdict
Overall the festival was a great success on the days we were open, and had we been open on Friday we would no doubt have exceeded last year’s visitor numbers. We raised £1750 for the festival charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance, thanks to generous donations of unused portions of beer cards, cash, and sales of a special beer from Abbeydale and MKM Building Supplies. Feedback was excellent, and we had several encouraging comments from new visitors, and also new volunteers, who are already looking forward to next year. Here’s to 2024 (and hopefully better weather!).
The organisers of the recent Steel City Beer & Cider Festival would like to thank the following for donating items to the festival tombola and to sell for this year’s festival charity – the Yorkshire Air Ambulance:- Blue Bee Brewery, Kelham Island Tavern, Peak Ales, Ossett Brewery, Alan Gibbons, Sheffield Tap, Chantry Brewery, Terry Palmer, MKM Building Supplies, Purity Brewery, Paul Goddard, Tom Pugh, Paul Manning, Bradfield Brewery and everyone who donated anonymously. Apologies if we have missed anyone.
By the time you’re reading this, our annual Beer Festival will be over and hopefully it’s been another great success.
The Festival Committee will be meeting in November to review how things went, and where we can make improvements for next year, and as part of that review we would love to receive feedback from visitors on anything related to the festival.
Opinions on the range of drinks; the food stalls; the live music; layout of the festival; the range of activities and events; the volunteers – we want to know what you think.
If anyone wants to be more involved, either by attending the November meeting, or even becoming part of the committee for next year, please mention it in your email and we’ll contact you personally for an informal discussion, and probably buy you a pint while we’re at it!
For the first time, events at the forthcoming Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival will include a guided historical walk: Sheffield’s Little Chicago Quarter in 1925. This will explore streets that feature in the leader’s book ‘Sheffield 1925: Gang Wars and Wembley Glory,’ with a narrative explaining how Sheffield briefly became the most turbulent city in Britain because of an escalating gang war involving the Park Brigade, Mooney Gang, the Gas Tank Gang and many others.
The short walk will explore the social and Industrial heritage of the area, examining the myths and reality of a tumultuous year in Sheffield history, before finishing at the Beer Festival.
Dave Pickersgill, editor of ‘Sheffield’s Real Heritage Pubs,’ will provide an illustrated presentation while, the three tastings: ‘Bridging the Gap between Beer and Cider,’ ‘Cask is Craft?‘ and ‘From Europe to Mars,’ will, between them, cover a wide spectrum of the 21 st century UK beer scene.
Mike Pomranz (Old Shoe) will compare two beers and two ciders: two ‘single variety’ and two of a ‘funkier’ description before sampling the single box of a 2023 mixed-variety Sheffield grown and made cider from his Exemption Ciderhouse. Mike successfully delivered a similar, more cider- focussed event, at the recent national Members’ Weekend.
Julia Gray will introduce four contrasting beers: two cask (gravity and hand-pull), one key-keg and one from a small pack. An experienced beer trade professional with almost twenty years in the field, she aims to showcase, “the variety and quality of beer currently available in the UK.” Jules owns a local independent award-winning beer shop and tasting room, Hop Hideout (established 2013). In 2015 she set-up a city-wide beer celebration in her hometown: Sheffield Beer Week. In 2018, this was followed by a new craft beer festival: Indie Beer Feast, now an annual event.
Dann Paquette and Martha Holley from local brewery, Saint Mars of the Desert (SMOD), will introduce two European favourites and the beers which they have inspired. SMOD draw their brewing inspiration from many sources, from traditional 19 th century recipes to the bright, vibrantly hoppy beers of New England. Their greatest influence is possibly the Belgian monastic style. As Martha put it, “this is an ideal opportunity for us to look back to our key influences, the Belgian and German beers which inspired us to produce such classics as Clamp and Jack D’Or.” After seven successful years managing the ‘Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project,’ in Boston, Massachusetts, Dann and Martha spent two years travelling. In 2018, they relocated to the best beer city in the world. On RateBeer, they were quickly named as amongst the top ten new breweries world-wide. Their brewery and taproom is hidden behind old industrial units in a currently unfashionable part of the city.
The 47th Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival will be held at Kelham Island Museum: 18-21 October 2023. Advance tickets for all events are available: https://sheffield.camra.org.uk/2023/07/tours-talks-tastings/
