The list of venues for the 2026 Half Pint Marathon has been published and it is quite a long one this time with 32 pubs, bars and taprooms taking part!
All of the venues will be serving at least one of the two special charity beers throughout September, which have been brewed by Triple Point and Abbeydale. It is expected that one will be cask and the other keg.
For every pint sold, 25p will go to Sheffield Mind, a local mental health charity which provides vital services, information and advocacy across the city, helping people access support when they need it most.
The event, co-ordinated by True North Brew Co, also celebrates Sheffield’s independent bars, pubs and taprooms encouraging drinkers to explore the city trying new places – you can do a bit of a crawl enjoying a half pint in each bar! Pick up a Half Pint Marathon card and get a stamp in each venue you order a half of the special beers and when you collect 13 stamps you can exchange the card for a limited edition print.
The Dove & Rainbow on Hartshead Square in Sheffield City Centre has an upcoming celebration of 20 years in its current guise as a rock and alternative bar run by Dawn Gunther. The event takes place on Friday 6 November from 8pm.
The Waterbear Green Room in Sheffield City Centre opened for the first time under the new ownership over Tramlines festival weekend and was one of the fringe venues, no real ale was available. This was just a temporary opening and work is still ongoing with regular opening expected to launch in September.
The Pig & Whistle at Gleadless Townend is holding a German Oktoberfest themed event from 25 to 27 September.
The Brothers Arms in Heeley held their summer bash music festival on 22 August.
True North have sold two of their pubs to other operators – the British Oak in Mosborough and the Old Grindstone in Crookes.
The Abbeydale Tap micropub is hosting a weekly cask club Tuesday to Friday between 5pm and 9pm with rotating beers available for just £3 a pint or 4 for a tenner.
The Fat Cat celebrated 45 years on 21 August with some special birthday beers on the bar.
The Hammer & Pincers at Bents Green offers discounted beer on Mondays.
Princess Royal at Crookes is saying goodbye to Jane, the landlady of 18 years, next April.
The Closed Shop at Commonside is now open and has cask ale.
The former Mesters Tap at Woodseats has had the decorators in and has reopened as The Counter Micropub.The bar offers 2 cask lines and 6 keg lines plus a selection of cans.
John Coyle, the manager of the White Lion at Heeley, has announced he is leaving. His replacement is moving down from another pub in the group.
The Greenhill Tap on Westwick Crescent, Greenhill, has tried introducing a local cask ale at the weekend following customer requests, starting with Drone Valley Derbyshire Blonde, available Thursday to Saturday. The venue is a new small bar and tapas restaurant in premises that was previously “Sarah’s Kitchen”.
The reopening date for the Red Deer in Sheffield City Centre has been announced as 26 August. It is under new management and has had an internal refurbishment including a new kitchen, renovations to the outside of the building and some improvements to the outdoor drinking area too. The pub is leased from Heineken’s Star Pub Company.
The Foresters on Division Street in Sheffield City Centre, which is operated by the Pub People Company, has temporarily closed for a refurbishment. An investment of £250k will see both the interior and outdoor drinking area transformed.
Eyam Brewery‘s tap room in Tideswell is now also opening on Thursday evenings from 5pm to 9pm. There are plans to introduce a quiz night on Thursdays at some point. They continue to open 1pm to 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays, midday to 6pm on Sundays.
The Horse & Jockey in Tideswell hosted a Timothy Taylors tap takeover on 6 August. This saw 4 of their cask ales on the bar (Landlord, Boltmaker, Golden Best and Blonde), spin the wheel competition with merch to be won and a representative of the brewery around to answer questions. This was followed by their regular quiz night and was well attended.
Angela and Glyn have finally closed the doors and retired at the Queen Anne in Great Hucklow after 19 years there and 38 years in the trade.
The Mallard pub and cafe on Moorthorpe station, which was opened by Jolly Boys Brewery, is changing hands in September and will become a tap for Chin Chin Brewing Co.
The Canary bar on Waverley’s Olive Lane pedestrianised shopping street continues to host a regular programme of events including DJs, live music, quizes, game nights and street food pop ups as well as a regularly changing range of craft beers on both cask and keg.
The Blue Bell in Harthill is hosting “Hartfest” on Saturday 5 September. This sees an afternoon of live music from 3pm with food also available.
The Dronfield Arms celebrated 15 years under its current ownership over the weekend of 22-23 August with Abbeydale Moonshine reduced to just £2.50 a pint and on Sunday there was a guest food trader and live music.
Dann and Martha at St Mars of the Desert brewery held their annual SMOD fest over 4 weekends in July and August. Their Attercliffe taproom was full to bursting with advanced bookings essential to guarantee a seat.
The beer list was excellent with the usual Smodfest, Hopenfest and Smokeyfest beers plus an excellent ‘the dream’, a collaboration with Manchester based Blackjack brewery and Lukas from Thornbridge.
Jules of Hop Hideout fame supplied the food with her Camembert Volitaire cheese and savoury plates.
A great time was had by all with branch members Paul & Bev Manning, Dan Rowe and Dave Pickersgill all enjoying the festival.
Following the recent demise of Beer Central in Moor Market it looked like Sheffield had lost one of its longstanding bottle shops. However, ex-employee Vince Cooper has now taken over the premises and opened as Barrel & Anvil. We’re glad to say that Vince has been exceptionally busy since opening, but he found time to answer a few questions about setting up the business and his plans for the future.
First of all Vince, congratulations on opening Barrel & Anvil. Can you tell us a bit about your background?
I started at Pangolin in 2020 having never poured a pint and spent a year there whilst working for Morrisons. This was my job for 15 years, I spent more time down the beer aisle and hundreds of beers have been tried over the years. I did a little stint at Beer House S6 as manager which I loved. When Beer Central started looking for staff when reopening I got a job.
When did you first think of starting up?
As soon as the previous owners made myself and Ciara redundant I messaged the market team about taking on the unit myself. The seeds were planted before that as the owners were looking to sell and unfortunately for them we were way apart in terms of valuations.
Has anyone in particular been helpful whilst setting up that you would like to mention?
I guess the main person is Sean Clarke the original owner of Beer Central. He’s been very helpful the last 4 months, always there for me and still is. Debbie from Neepsend Brew Co has been a good ear too. Matt from The Bear also gave me some wise advice that’ll stay with me.
Why take over the Beer Central site, rather than looking for new premises?
The Moor Market still has fantastic footfall, there’s 70,000 students around the city centre, lots of city workers who are interested in beer, and the traditional ale fans flock to the market for their beer if supping at home.
Everyone was gutted when Beer Central closed its doors, you ask some of the other traders and one of the most popular questions was “will it reopen as a beer shop?”
I spoke to family and they were like ‘give it a shot’, so here we are.
What will you do differently to the previous owners?
Have beer on the shelves and try to cater to as many folks as possible. I’ll be doing it all myself mostly then come October time I’ll employ someone else for Saturday and just see where we go from there. I should hopefully have a fully functioning website by Xmas time. The socials interactions are great at the moment.
Hopefully it’ll be more like how it was when Sean was in charge but with my little spin on it.
Any particular suppliers or beers you want to mention?
Courier Brew Co have been fab, Thistly Cross Cider, Adam over at Track, the guys at Distant Lands have been fantastic. I’m excited to have Ashover Brew in the shop… the list is endless.
Will you be doing the box saves? It feels like half of Sheffield must have typed “One please Sean” at some point in the past, so we know it’s a popular option.
I’ve just started doing box saves. Once the website is up and running there should be an option to pay for products, build a box etc.
Great. So it’ll be ‘One please Vince’ in future!
Finally, what are your opening hours?
Currently Monday – Saturday 9am – 5.30pm. These may be subject to change, but we’ll announce it on our socials if they do.
Barrel & Anvil is located at Outlet MS3, The Moor Market, Sheffield, United Kingdom, S1 4PF. Visit www.facebook.com/barrelandanvilsheff for more details.
A disused Sheffield city centre pub is set to be re-opened as a live arts and community media centre following acquisition for Sheffield Live!, the city’s community radio and television operation. The neighbourhood is undergoing major renovation including plans for a new urban park to open next year.
The plan is for the former Tap and Barrel, (42 Waingate S3 8LB), to be renovated to accommodate radio, TV and podcasting studios, a public cafe and bar, and performance space for local artists and promoters. Sheffield Community Media, which hosts Sheffield Live! radio and TV, has purchased the former public house with the support of social investment lender, The Key Fund. It plans to raise further investment from a community shares issue to refurbish the bar and performance spaces.
Steve Buckley of Sheffield Community Media said: “Acquisition meets our long held ambition to find a space for live performance, community arts and social enterprise that can integrate with our broadcast media facilities. We are inviting people to get involved and we welcome expressions of interest in use of the space and contributing to the project.”
Sangita Basudev, co-founder of Sheffield Live! said: “We are excited to be moving to this iconic location, on the site of Sheffield’s former castle and opposite Lady’s Bridge, the first bridge across the River Don. With Castlegate now part of the city centre conservation area we look forward to developing our role in promoting local heritage and connecting communities.”
Sheffield Community Media has benefitted from support with concept design from the University of Sheffield School of Architecture and has been assisted by Co-ops UK in developing the investment model. It looks to build on these and other partnerships as the project progresses.
The pub has had several previous names: Boulogne Mouth, Bull and Mouth, Boulogne, Tap and Spile. Opened in 1790, it is believed that the original name was a reference to the town and harbour of Boulogne which was besieged by Henry VIII in 1544–1546. Over time, the name became the Bull and Mouth.
In March 1854 it was acquired by Sheffield brewery, Thomas Marrian & Co. Ltd. It was rebuilt in 1914, as the brewery tap for local brewery Duncan Gilmours. Plans show a multi-roomed pub with a Central Bar. The building retains a Gilmours doorstep and has the name, ‘Bull and Mouth,’ in the mosaic floor of the vestibule adjacent to Waingate. 1973 saw an opening out of the pub: the servery was moved to the right side, with the Hall, Public Bar and Smoke Room becoming a large Lounge. The Concert Room remains at the rear of the pub. The pub was refurbished in the early 1980s and again in 2015. It was renamed the Tap & Spile in early 1992. The Tap & Spile brand was launched in the mid 1980s by Allied Lyons (later Allied Domecq) as a traditional-style concept, focusing on cask ales. Interiors often had bare floorboards, sawdust on the floor and wooden benches. The pub became the Tap & Barrel in 1998, closing on 4 July 2023.
The former Beer Central shop at the Moor Market is making a comeback as “Barrel & Anvil” – and the founder of Beer Central, who sold up to become a business advisor, is the guy that offered the advice to the guy opening the new shop! That guy is Vince, who had been working at Beer Central prior to its closure as well as a stint at the Beer House in Hillsborough. His craft beer journey started when he worked in Morrisons way back when the supermarket stocking Brewdog and Meantime was an exciting, eye opening development!
The Tram Stop micropub at Hillsborough Park is now open and looking smart, although cask ale doesn’t feature. There are however some local beers on keg and in bottle.
The upstairs seating area at Hope Valley Tap & Bottle in Hope has now opened, adding a drink in option to the retail shop on the ground floor. A selection of local craft beers are available on keg as well as a wide range of bottles and cans.
The Old Queens Head by Sheffield bus Interchange continues to run a cask club promotion on Mondays.
The food shack outside the Raven Inn at Walkley is back in business for the summer with Freak Street Cafe taking a guest residency there serving their Himalayan inspired street food.
Following the closure of the “Av It Bar” in the premises on Wellington Street in Sheffield City Centre that was originally the Devonshire Cat, work is taking place to convert it into a new venue opening soon – Alura bar & bistro.
The Harlequin held a Shandy Fest on 18 July including all sorts of exotic and imaginative beer & pop combinations!
Chapeltown Tap are holding a “Pup in the Pub” event on 23 August combining a dog show with their usual bar offering.
The Castle Inn at Bradway has been closed for a refurbishment and reopened on the evening of 17 July.
The Red Deer on Pitt Street in Sheffield City Centre, a Georgian building dating back to 1825 owned by Heineken’s Star Pubs, has closed for refurbishment with work beginning on 20 July, It is due to reopen in late August with a new operator leasing the pub – Karl Seery and food once again available. The refurbishment work is to refresh the interior, upgrade the beer garden and renovate the building’s exterior.
The Royal at Woodhouse has reopened following refurbishment with 3 real ales available – Bradfield Farmers Blonde, Ossett White Rat and Timothy Taylors Landlord.
The Two & Six Micropub in Sheffield City Centre are celebrating their birthday on 5 August with a tap takeover from Wensleydale brewery and complimentary cheese pairing.
There are two free bus services that circle Sheffield City Centre during the daytime and of course there a number of pubs along the route! Buses run until 7pm Monday to Saturday and until 4pm on Sundays.
Bus SC1 starts from Sheffield Interchange and goes to Fitzalan Square, Cathedral, City Hall, Pounds Park and Moorfoot. This bus runs about every 10 minutes.Bus SC2 heads out Sheffield Interchange the other way to Moorfoot, Arundel Gate and Millsands. This bus runs every 20 minutes.
The Sheffield Connect buses are operated by South Pennine Community Transport with funding from Sheffield City Council. They are usually electric buses painted in a dedicated green livery although sometimes a minibus is used instead. Other buses and trams also operate in the City Centre but aren’t free!
We’ve handpicked a selection of pubs of interest that are close to the routes to inspire an afternoon trip around town, a more comprehensive pub guide is available on the camra.org.uk website.
Originally the hunting lodge for Sheffield Castle, this Tudor building (with modern extension) has a fascinating history. The U shapes lounge surrounds a central bar and adjoins a superb beamed dining room, upstairs function room for hire. Owned by Thwaites and the cask beer range is typically four of their regular ales.
Opened in 2009 this was originally the first class refreshment room for Sheffield Midland Station, built in 1904. After years of neglect the main bar area has been subject of an award-winning restoration retaining many original features. Further seating has been provided in the entrance corridor and to the right of the bar. Usually three beers are from the on-site Tapped Brewery, opened in 2013 in the impressive former dining room and which can be viewed behind the glass screen.
Traditional pub now made into a single room. Exterior retains features of the now defunct Duncan Gilmour Brewery. There is also a beer garden at the rear. Real Ales selection always includes some from Blue Bee along with changing guest ales.
The food offering caters for all – whether it be chip butties or typical pub meals off the main menu or the bistro standard specials on the blackboard, all are freshly made by the Rutty’s kitchen team.
A juke box also features but beware – the staff humour extends to a forbidden music board, ignore at your peril!
Two roomed corner pub with a music orientation, with regular DJ nights (Wed-Sat) and live music. The larger room has basic seating and a dance floor/stage and DJ box whilst the smaller room is comfortable, quieter and more traditional. There is also a beer garden at the rear with some covered and heated smoking areas. The pub offers four mostly local cask beers. Very much a nightlife venue, remaining open until 3am most nights. Note it doesn’t open in the daytime midweek, only on Saturdays and Sundays.
A traditional style multi roomed pub with large beer offering, reopened in 2015 following a sympathetic refurbishment. The changing beer range is sourced mainly from local and regional micro breweries, with six cask beers and up to 11 craft keg beers. There is also a quality spirits offering. Hot food is not served, but cold tapas style small plates are available whenever the bar is open. The large beer garden has a heated, covered area.
Popularly known as Fanny’s after a former landlady, though much altered over the years, retains the feel of a traditional local. Three separate seating areas, one with pool, around a central bar and an upstairs function room. Popular with Sheffield United fans on matchdays and the items on display around the pub reflect this!
A large, tastefully decorated pub opposite the infamous ‘Cheese Grater’ car park, which can be admired from the popular beer terrace. Good value all day homemade food and at least four real ales mostly from local breweries.
A micropub offering up to four cask ales, real cider and craft keg alongside a lager and selected wines and spirits. Also included is an adjoining room used as an art gallery, which is available to hire as an exhibition and event space.
A one room pub devoted to rock and alternative music with a DJ or live music on most nights. Popular with all ages. Closing times may be later than those published if busy.
The Harlequin takes its name from another former Ward’s pub just round the corner, now demolished. The large open-plan interior features a central bar with seating on two levels. Kirkstall Bitter is the regular cask beer, plus up to five changing cask beers from far and wide with the emphasis on microbreweries. Also three real ciders on handpump as well as ciders in bag in box. A range of boutique bottled beers are also available. Occasional events include live music, quiz nights, tasting nights, games nights and tap takeovers. Good, simple food menu. Reached from the SC2 bus stop via a footbridge over the river Don.
A triangular shaped pub on a sharp corner with raised seating areas and lots of wooden and brass features (More character than Gerard Depardieu). The friendly staff serve up a choice of cask beers to an exclusively vinyl soundtrack.
Dating from 1796, a cosy multi-room Irish run dog friendly pub in the city centre. A menu of Irish bar food is available to soak up the range of mainly local cask ales, interesting craft beers and ‘the best Guinness outside Dublin’.Welcoming to anyone that brings a nice attitude, they host regular events including a quiz night, games night and folk music sessions.
Centred around a tiled corridor drinking area, the three rooms comprise a snug, lounge and pool room. Sign outside reads “Flynn’s” as a reference to the Flynn family who have owned the pub for over 40 years. A two star pub interior of outstanding national historic interest. Offers two cask beers, and bar food Monday to Saturday lunch times. Has live traditional Irish music in the back room six days a week, mainly folk sessions. Cash only, no Credit/Debit cards accepted.
Hop Hideout is an award winning speciality beer shop and tasting room, founded in 2013 as a ‘labour of beery love’ by Jules Gray. One of the first ‘drink in’ beer shops in the UK, they have a range of chilled beers available to browse, enjoy there and then or takeaway – including seven fresh rotating draught taps. In addition from time to time they have a beer in their own wooden pin, meaning gravity poured cask ale is offered (but check socials to see when this is on). Owner Jules has a penchant for wild ales, funky beers, natural wines and farmhouse cider and loves nothing more than helping you find something you love to drink. The current City Centre location in Leah’s Yard is the third, having originally opened on Abbeydale Road and since relocated.
Following a £1m interior renovation, the Fargate opened on 22nd October 2025. The pub is part of the regeneration of the street which saw three years of construction come to a close earlier in the year. Located in the City Centre Conservation Area, the venue brings together the storied elegance of the former bank with a carefully designed pub interior.
Dark polished wood, elegant leather seating, herringbone floors, brass accents, chandeliers, and curated artwork create the impression of a bar that could have stood here for more than a century. The striking horseshoe bar serves 10 cask beers and 16 keg lines. The ground floor also features screened booths, a snug, banquette seating, and full-height glazing to the front, offering a light and inviting space.
The original spiral staircase leads to the first floor. Here, a pizza kitchen with an Italian corner oven, is visible through glazed screens. The design combines reclaimed timber walls, decorated ceilings, and original architectural details to create a brighter, more contemporary setting.
Branded, ‘Thornbridge & Co,’ the two-storey pub is a joint venture from Peak District-based Thornbridge Brewery and York-based importer and distributor, Pivovar.
A pub in the heart of the city. Part of the areas social scene since 1828. Consists of one main room with partitioned seating, a beer garden and an upstairs meeting room.
There are seating areas either side of the entrance corridor leading into the main bar area. Five handpumps, a 22 line keg wall and a display fridge showcase the Vocation beer range. A menu of burgers, wings and loaded fries is available Tuesday to Saturday.
Tramlines music festival takes place in Hillsborough Park over the weekend of 24-26 July with a busy programme of music and comedy over several stages along with other attractions. However if you haven’t bought a ticket for this then you’ll be more interested in the Fringe @ Tramlines.
The centerpiece of the fringe is an outdoor stage on Devonshire Green in Sheffield City Centre hosting live music with free entry, however a huge number of pubs, bars, clubs and other venues also join in hosting live music and DJs, many of which offer free entry – just buy drinks!
You can see what events are scheduled on the Tramlines Fringe page of clashfinder.com, real ale venues confirmed as taking part at the time of going to press include the Frog & Parrot, Shakespeares, Alder bar, Harlequin, Head of Steam and Gardeners Rest.
Many of the breweries in our branch area have their own bar, in some cases on site, or a pub they regularly supply, that is a great place to go and try their beers. Here is our guide to them to help you enjoy a session on the locally brewed ales!
ABBEYDALE BREWERY
The original Abbeydale Brewery pub is the Rising Sun at Nether Green which has been extended over the years offering a bar showcasing a huge number of Abbeydale beers on cask and keg along with guest ales, it also has a dining room serving good quality fresh food and an outdoor drinking area. 471 Fulwood Road, Nether Green, S10 3QA. Buses 83 or 120.
This has now been joined by their Beerworks micropub on Abbeydale Road, just around the corner from the brewery, as the official Abbeydale tap room. This features a selection of Abbeydale beers on cask and keg plus a fridge full of cans available to drink in or take away. 298 Abbeydale Road, S7 1FL. Buses 75/76, 86 or 97/98.
BLUE BEE BREWERY
The brewery is based in a small industrial unit in Neepsend and doesn’t have an official tap, however it does have some common management with the Kelham Island Tavern where you’ll always find some of their cask beers on the bar among a wide range of ales. The pub has two rooms, beer garden and a no swearing policy. 62 Russell Street, Kelham Island, S3 8RW. Buses 57/57a, 81/82 or 86.
BRADFIELD BREWERY
Their original tap pub is the Nags Head near Loxley in a rural spot just down the hill from the brewery, which was originally set up on a dairy farm as a diversification project for the family business. The Nags Head is a two room pub offering a reasonably priced range of Bradfield beers and good, simple home cooked pub grub. Stacey Bank, Loxley, S6 6SJ. Bus 61/62.
Bradfield have since taken on two more tap pubs, the King & Miller in Deepcar and the Wharncliffe Arms on Wharncliffe Side
DEAD PARROT BREWERY
The brewery and its tap – Perch – is located on the same complex around a yard that doubles up as their beer garden and events space. The name of the brewery is a little bit of an in joke with the kit and pipework coming from two breweries that are no longer with us – Henry’s Brewhouse and the Frog & Parrot, the latter pub now managed by the brewery owners brother.
Perch is in premises that was once home to the council parking enforcement officers but has now been converted into a modern bar which offers Dead Parrot beers on cask, mainstream keg beer brands and a fridge full of Belgian and other beers in bottle and can. 44 Garden Street, Sheffield S1 4BJ.
EYAM BREWERY
Eyam brewery started out life in the famous plague village before moving to bigger premises in the neighbouring village of Great Hucklow. Many of the beer names reference Eyam village’s history! The newly opened tap room is of the modern style in an adapted industrial unit in the Peak District village of Tideswell, a few miles away from the brewery. Here you can find a range of their beers on both cask and keg along with a shop selling bottles, cans and merchandise such as t-shirts and hoodies. The bar is open at the weekend Friday to Sunday and on some Saturdays a food trader pops up outside. Eyam Brewery tap, 7a Meverill Road, Tideswell, SK17 8PY. Buses 65 or 173.
FUGGLE BUNNY BREWHOUSE
Fuggle Bunny brew a range of mainly easy drinking session beers that tell a story with the pump clips designed like book marks. The brewery is in an industrial unit just off the main road between Halfway tram terminus and Killamarsh and contains a bar that opens every Friday plus special events held on the last Saturday of the month. Unit 1, Meadowbrook Park Ind. Est, Station Road, Halfway, S20 3PJ. Buses 26/26a or 120k.
LITTLE MESTERS
Little Mesters relocated started out in a small shop unit at Meadowhead but have since relocated to proper industrial premises with bigger kit in Attercliffe. Their tap bar, Mesters Tap, remains in Woodseats. 706 Chesterfield Road, Woodseats, S8 0SD. Buses 24/25, 43/44, 75/76/M76 or X17.
LOXLEY BREWERY
Loxley Brewery is based at the Wisewood Inn and as you’d expect a range of their beers are on the bar. Food is also served and there is a beer garden. 539 Loxley Road, Loxley, S6 6RR. Buses 52a or 61/62.
NEEPSEND BREWERY
The Wellington pub next to Shalesmoor tram stop is Neepsend’s tap offering a range of their beers on both cask and keg as well as guest ales and cheap sandwiches! Classic multi roomed venue also featuring an outdoor drinking area. You can buy mini kegs of Neepsend beer to take home. 1 Henry Street, Sheffield S3 7EQ. Blue or Yellow tram; buses 57/57a, 81/82 or 86.
ST MARS OF THE DESERT
SMOD open the tap room at their brewery in Attercliffe every weekend except in winter. 90 Stevenson Road, Attercliffe S9 3XG. Buses 9/9a, 52/52a, 207 or X3.
TAPPED BREW CO
The brewery is located in the Sheffield Tap bar on the railway station, you can see the brewery as you sit drinking in the back room! Platform 1b Sheffield Station, Sheaf Street, Sheffield S1 2BP. Blue or Purple tram, various buses and trains.
TOOLMAKERS
Toolmakers is a small batch brewery supplying cask ales to the Forest pub next door on Rutland Road, near Neepsend. The brewery also has a separate tap room that hosts events including live music and comedy. Rutland Street, Neepsend, S3 9PA
TRIPLE POINT
Modern complex hosting brewery, bar, burger kitchen and beer garden with a range of their cask and keg beers on the bar. Cans and merch available to take home. 178 Shoreham Street, Sheffield S1 4SQ. Buses 1, 24/25, 47/48 or 51.
The Devonshire Arms in Dore has opened a cafe in the conservatory area offering a brunch menu from 8am to 3pm Tuesday to Saturday.
The previous management of the Blue Bell in Harthill has left due to ill health and the pub is now being run by Ella Ebbs and her father Andy Ebbs, both of whom are local and known to many of the regulars. Food is no longer available following the change of management but they are hoping to get the kitchen back open soon.
The Anglers Rest in Bamford is hosting a beer festival at the pub on the weekend of Bamford Carnival.
The Washington pub in Sheffield City Centre has a happy hour promotion Sunday to Friday until 9pm and all night on Mondays with Abbeydale Moonshine available for £4 a pint among other offers.
Planning permission has been granted to convert the Masons Arms in Crookes to a children’s nursery, so another lost pub in the area!
The Tunnel Tap micropub in Totley features a regular calendar of monthly events including board games club (first Saturday), film club (first Sunday), Tunnel Tracks Open Mic (second Sunday), quiz night (third Sunday) and karaoke (last Sunday of the month).
The Tickled Trout in Barlow has been awarded Silver at the Visit England awards for excellence 2026 in the pub of the year category.
The Foresters on Division Street in Sheffield City Centre are running drinks offers Monday to Wednesday including cask ales at £3.50 a pint. Tuesday is quiz night (8pm start), last Wednesday of the month is open mic comedy jungle (7:30pm start) and on Sundays it is board games from noon and music bingo from 6pm.
The George in Castleton has recently shared a photograph of produce growing in the pub’s garden, once ready it will be used as ingredients in dishes on the specials board!
The Fox & Hounds in Marsh Lane is under new management.
The Horse & Jockey in Tideswell has a new chef and menu featuring pub classics, pizza and the odd special. The Steak & Ale pie tried by your editor is certainly reccommended!
The Royal Oak in Chesterfield will be hosting the launch of the second edition of the “Historic Tales & Traditional Ales” booklet on Saturday 11 July, 1pm.
The Anchor Inn at Tideswell is holding a 10th anniversary celebration on Saturday 15 August from 2pm until late featuring beer, food and live music with fund raising for Ashgate Hospice taking place.
The No Bounds Festival takes place from 9 to 11 October bringing together internationally acclaimed artists, grassroots venues, community organisations and pioneering cultural practitioners across ten independent venues and exhibition spaces in Sheffield and Rotherham. Two of the venues – Alder and Fagan’s – have cask ale.
The Sheffield Half Pint Marathon this year takes place 1 to 30 September, raising money for the Sheffield Mind charity. This annual event sees two breweries producing a special beer which is stocked across a number of venues with participating buying a half pint of the special beer at every venue to fill their collector card up. The breweries and venues were yet to be announced at the time of going to press.
The former Tap & Barrel pub on Castlegate, which has been closed for some time except for occasional special event openings such as the flower market, has been sold to Sheffield Live, the community radio and TV station. They plan to renovate it to accommodate radio, TV and podcasting studios, cafe & bar and performance space. More on this next month!
the Sportsman in Norton Lees reopened Tuesday 16 June at 5pm.
