Our 500th issue of Beer Matters magazine is published on Tuesday 27th August 2019. We are celebrating with a bumper 48 page issue. In addition to the usual pub, club and brewery news, awards, listings and trip reports we have a number of articles looking back over the years at how the real ale scene … Continue reading Beer Matters 500th issue
As with all branches of CAMRA, Sheffield & District is volunteer run and we need more people to help out to be effective. If you fancy getting involved, here are some things you can do that require varying levels of time/commitment/effort: Brewery Liaison Officer (BLO): This is a role that is all about building a … Continue reading Get involved! Volunteers needed
Owner John Mitchell writes about the history of his family business You could say beer runs through my veins and a drop of wine! I have been retailing and wholesaling in Sheffield for over 50 years. It all started when my dad Dennis opened his Butchers shop at Meadowhead in 1935, in 1963 we became … Continue reading Mitchells Wine Merchants & Brewery
The new edition of the Good Beer Guide is now out and features the very best real ale pubs in each area, as selected by local CAMRA branch members that drink in the pubs. It also contains listings of all the breweries in the UK producing real ale at the time of going to press … Continue reading Good Beer Guide 2017
At the beginning of September a number of CAMRA volunteers went out and did various pub crawls across the City to undertake our annual beer census – also known as the Beer Capital Survey – to record the beers out there on the bars on a single day, giving an idea how many different beers … Continue reading Annual Beer Census results
Elsecar by the Sea beer festival (Barnsley CAMRA) The CAMRA Beer Festival instructions: go and drink A CAMRA Beer Festival gives the chance to try great beers. The one at Barnsley was even better. I participated the Barnsley CAMRA Beer Festival and I have to admit that I enjoyed it very much. Barnsley is one of … Continue reading Matteo Malacaria – My Yorkshire beer experiences so far…
The 2018 Champion Beer of Britain competition has now begun (yes the process takes over a year!) and this is an opportunity for all local CAMRA members to have their input into which beers from our region are nominated to be entered into the competition. Once entered into the competition the beers are judged in … Continue reading Which are your personal champion beers?
Brian Holmshaw of Sheaf Valley Heritage is running a number of local history events that may be of interest to CAMRA members: Nether Edge Festival Beer and History Walk Beer on the Edge 4-7pm, Saturday 24 September at Bowling Club, 8 Nether Edge Road S7 1RU (usually one Abbeydale beer). Includes visits to various Nether … Continue reading Sheaf Valley Heritage events
Following the branch AGM in early April there are some changes to people and roles on the committee. The new committee for 2016/17 is led by a new Chair – Kate Major – who joined us as secretary last year. Other committee members include Tony Kennick, Paul Croft, Mark Boardley, Andy Cullen, Sarah Mills, Louise … Continue reading The new Sheffield & District CAMRA Committee