Category: Pubs

Pub news Three Valleys Festival special

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The Three Valleys Festival takes place on Saturday 4th June with 17 venues all holding mini beer festivals and a free bus service from Dronfield railway station calling at all the venues every 15-30 minutes. You can hop on and off to try the different beers, food and entertainment offered by each venue. The buses operate from midday until 9pm. Here is the latest news on the plans of each venue. Barlow Brewery, Barlow Live music, Brewery bar, Sausage sandwiches and burgers by Moss Valley Fine Meats Dronfield Arms, Dronfield 4 bars will be in operation on festival day with a total of 25 real ales and 7 craft keg beers: pub bar: 7 cask ales and 3 craft keg beers; Decking bar: 6 cask ales; Gravity bar: 12; cask ales; Caravan bar: 4 craft keg beers. There will also be food, live music throughout the afternoon, a disco in the evening and an auction. Horse & Jockey, Unstone Live music throughout the afternoon and evening, food and beer. Manor House Hotel, Dronfield MUSIC from the superb Sam Wain Piano: Rock n roll, boogie-woogie & Jazz. Starting at 4pm & playing all day til 8.30! (with a few breaks!). BEER: in association with Abbeydale Brewery, a real ale marquee serving ONLY cask ale. Our 8 selections will be posted in due course. Our main bar inside is open as per normal. FOOD: Once again the ‘I ❤ Ostrich’ guys will be serving their quality street food… Special hotel room rates available for festival goers, however book early as they tend to fill up quickly! Miners Arms, Hundall As Dronfield CAMRA Pub of the Year 2016 & Cider Pub of the Year 2015 you can expect an amazing range of beers & real ciders at the Miners! Our inside bar will be taken over by the legendary Pictish Brewery, Rochdale. Outside you will find at least 20 real ciders, Perry & fruit ciders – plus 15-20 (tbc) Gravity real ales from breweries such as: Titanic, Arbor, Saltaire, Drone Valley, Siren to name a few! Food will once again be provided by Delilicious, Dronfield with their fabulous Gourmet burger menu! Music in the garden from The Score, Russ & Andy & Junkyard Dog will really get you in festival mode! The Talbot There will be a Fish n Chip van on the day, provided by Dodsons, who won the 2015 National Fish n Chip Awards.  We will be showcasing ales from Peak Ales with a mobile hand pump bar this year. Live music: 2pm – Rattled. They play 50s 60s 70s and the odd modern day song – The Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Johny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Amy Winehouse plus more.   Live music: Evening – G-Men. Yew Tree, Coal Aston All the daytime action will be outside in the car park with live music: Rooster will be playing Rock/pop/Blues 2 till 3.30, Nutty Boys 4 Till 6, Rooster then going to do last set 6 till 7. Burger van and outside cask ale bar until 7pm. Pub bar inside open as usual in the evening.

Head of Steam opens

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The former Old Monk on Norfolk Street has reopened as part of the Camerons Brewery owned Head of Steam chain following a significant refurbishment offering a combination of craft beer and BBQ. It is now a smart and comfortable bar, the majority of the beer range is showcasing Cameron’s own range along with a number of popular world beers on tap and in bottle, however there are also a few handpumps offering guest beers too along with a real cider.

Pub news Inn Brief

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old hall fireplace The Old Hall Hotel at Hope has had a small refurbishment of the lounge bar area, as part of this a long covered up inglenook fireplace has been revealed and brought back into use. The Rose & Crown at Whittington Moor, Chesterfield (opposite the football stadium on bus routes 43/44/50/50a/X17) has been owned for the last year or so by Chris Sinclair, who also owns the Dronfield Arms, since the pub company sold it off. With the departure of the established tenant, the opportunity is being taken to give it a refurbishment and add a range of real ales and craft keg lines, with some of the pumps showcasing the Hopjacker beers brewed at the Dronfield Arms. A manager is being recruited to run the pub, which is planned to close in May for the refurbishment and reopen in August, in time for the new football season. A number of Dronfield pubs have started to reveal their plans for this years Three Valleys Festival, which takes place on Saturday 4th June. The Talbot Arms will be showcasing the range of Peak Ales, they will also have a band on in both the afternoon and evening plus a fish and chip van. The Dronfield Arms will be adding extra outdoor bars and an all afternoon programme of live music. The White Swan will be bringing their upstairs bar into use. The Manor House Hotel will be repeating last years festivities with an Abbeydale Beer tent, Sam Wain entertaining on the keyboard outside all afternoon and food from I love Ostrich. They are also offering discounted hotel room rates for festval goers, which are expected to book up quickly! Unfortunately the Blue Stoops is not expected to be ready to open in time and will no longer be part of the festival. However for those that live in Mosborough, sister True North pub the British Oak plans to open early to serve breakfast for those joining the festival feeder bus there. Other venues for this years festival are Barlow Brewery, Derby Tup (Whittington Moor), Horse & Jockey (Unstone), Miners Arms (Hundall), Royal Oak (Coal Aston), Yew Tree (Coal Aston), Pioneer Club (Dronfield), Three Tuns (Dronfield), Coach & Horses (Dronfield), Green Dragon (Dronfield), Jolly Farmer (Dronfield Woodhouse), Miners Arms (Dronfield Woodhouse) and Hyde Park Inn (Hill Top). Ship Inn Shalesmoor The Ship Inn at Shalesmoor is making some subtle changes to their operation, they no longer serve food – however customers are welcome to bring their own as long as they are buying drinks at the bar! They are also looking to extend the beer range and are holding a mini beer festival for St George’s Day. Planning permission has been applied for building a house on the car park of the George & Dragon in Holmesfield. Meanwhile in Harthill permission has been applied to build housing on the field behind the Beehive pub and to build an extension to the pub itself.

Castle Inn, Bradway

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The Castle Inn at Bradway is now open in it’s new guise following a refurbishment, under the new management of well regarded local chefs Jack Baker and Jack Windsor. The majority of the pub is now for dining and food is served all day from midday – until 7pm Sundays, 9pm Monday to Thursday and 9:30pm Friday and Saturday. Away from the weekend there are themed promotional food evenings at tea time such as pie night, chippy night and tapas night. A big investment has been made upgrading the kitchen and there has been the addition of a rotisserie and pizza oven. The next stage of development will be in the summer when they plan on opening the rear beer garden up to customers which will feature a barbecue pit. There is a seperate tap room reserved for drinkers which is now much more comfortable following the refurbishment. Additionally a new decking area has been constructed at the front of the pub with plenty of tables and seating along with canopies and heat lamps. On the cask ale front Bradfield Farmers Blonde is the regular beer with another two or three rotating guests, a mix of local beers such as Abbeydale Moonshine and nationally known brands such as Fullers London Pride and Timothy Taylor Landlord. On a Sunday evening the lounge bar opens up to drinkers alongside the tap room for a quiz night, this starts at 8pm

The Springvale, Commonside

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I took the tenancy on the 2nd of December after spending the last year as manager for Enterprise Inns which means we are heading in the right direction but we still have a long way to go with lots of future plans. We now have our own house cask ale which is a nice session beer of 4%. We have a new menu coming in the next couple of weeks with some noticeable changes, new sharing plates and more burgers. One we all can’t wait for is the foot long hot dog served with onions, mustard and tomato sauce not forgetting our home made chips. For our younger customers we have a toddler/ coffee morning starting on Tuesday the 9th of February at 10 am. And finally for those who love to play music or to listen to live music we have the start of our all new jam night. Aimed at all ages and abilities there will be a place for you at our Wednesday night jam, list opens around 8.30pm. Heather Gamwells.

White Lion, Heeley

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Jon and Mandy celebrated their first year at The White Lion on February 23rd. The pub has gone from having 5 regular beers to an average of 10 handpulls at any one time. The range of guest beers has vastly expanded with only 4 beers being kept as permanents and the rest devoted to beer from all over the country, recent weeks have seen beers from Somerset and The Isle of Man. Always a popular live music venue, the range and diversity of this has also expanded and, with events on every evening of the week, you can expect to hear everything from live jazz, blues, rock and funk to ska, soul and rockabilly.

Punchbowl, Crookes

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Since opening at the end of September we have rotated and changed our eight hand pumps and offered 76 different beers and sold over 250 casks. These have included 19 different Blue Bee beers as well as other local breweries such as Abbeydale, Exit 33, Shiny, Sheffield Brewery Company, Bradfield and Ashover brewery to name a few. Our house beers are now Blue Bee brewery Reet Pale and Tempest Stout; the stout was added when we took off Guinness to add a real cider option which should be up and running in the next week or so. Our free weekly quiz hosted by Dan each Thursday from 8pm is going from strength to strength as people try to win the weird and wonderful prizes on offer (as well as a £20 bar tab for the winners). On the food side the pizzas are flying out the oven with some great offers on wine and real ale; for instance a pint of either of our house beers (Reet Pale or Tempest Stout) is only £1.25 when you buy any pizza, or get two pizzas and a bottle of wine for £18.99 Mon-Wed. The previous regulars have either warmed to the lack of sport, Carling, shots, karaoke and late night discos or found somewhere else to drink which leaves us with a lovely relaxed atmosphere, great customers, good quality beer (Cask Marque have been twice and passed us with full marks both times), good quality food plus real cider on its way. So if you haven’t been in to see what we’ve done with the place yet why not pop up soon (52/52a bus stops right outside).

Railway Hotel, Bramall Lane

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Our weekly Thursday quiz is now underway and has been well received by all who’ve attended so far, we fire away from around 8.30pm each week for those interested in joining us. The winners each week get to select their 8 pint prize from across our range of taps, and we finish the evening with a few rounds of card bingo. We’re now gearing up for Sheffield Beer Week and are looking forward to our Tap Takeover & Meet the Brewer evening with Chantry Brewery from Rotherham, we’ll have a range of their pales, bitters, stouts and porters on for your sampling. We’ll also be organising out first tasting night in March, with a range of great bottles we’ve managed to get our hands on from Brasserie de la Senne, in Brussels. For more information on the above as well as the others events we’ve got on in the coming weeks wander over to our page at facebook.com/RailwaySheff.

Community Pub focus – Shiny Sheff

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The Shiny Sheff was originally built as a Whitbread pub in the late 1960’s. It was closed for a short period in 2015 and has since reopened with a new look and a new Landlord, Mike Cashmore. Mike moved from the Sportsman (Crosspool) taking on the reigns in the summer of 2015. Regular beers are Abbeydale Moonshine and Bradfield Farmers with the prospect of more to come as trade grows. The pub is a well-used suburban family pub, catering for all ages.  In addition to one-off events (eg. a celebration of Burns Night), regular events include karaoke, a twice-weekly quiz and weekly live entertainment. Other attractions include free wi-fi and a selection of children’s books. Mike wants to increase the community reach of the pub and is looking to plan further charity events as custom increases. Opening times are from 11:30 with 23:00 closure, Mon- Thu, midnight on Saturday and 23:00 on Sunday. Food is available daily from 12:00-21:00. The extensive menu caters for all and also includes ‘two for a tenner’ offers: members of the ‘Golden Club’ can also receive a ‘6th.meal free.’ The pub (274-276 Crimicar Lane, Lodge Moor, S10 4EP) is currently managed by the Bermondsey Pub Company, an independently run company which is owned by Enterprise Inns. They run 13 pubs, mostly in the north of England. The name came from HMS Sheffield, the most heavily decorated ship which has formed part of the Royal Navy. During the Second World War, the ship took part in actions against several major German warships. Unlike most Royal Navy ships of that time, her fittings were constructed from stainless steel instead of the more traditional brass. This was an attempt to reduce the amount of cleaning required. Her nickname, the “Shiny Sheff,” stemmed from this. The front bar of the pub includes a large model of the ship and numerous framed memorabilia, including many newspaper cuttings. Ex-crew members still use the pub as a regular meeting place. The stainless steel ship’s bell, (made by Hadfield’s), hangs in Sheffield Cathedral along with the battle ensign. The Shiny Sheff is one of the many community pubs which deserve our support.   – Dave Pickersgill