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Festival Time! Our 37th annual Steel City Beer & Cider Festival is to take place at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre from 29th September to 1st October - more info inside... INSIDE BEER MATTERS THIS ISSUE... Steel City Beer and Cider Festival 2011 - details revealed Dave Wickett - double award for local businessman Local Pub, Club, Brewery and Beer Festival News and yet more pub joy for Dronfeldians 2 3 Your Local Brewery News... The Sheffield Brewery Company - www.sheffieldbrewery.com Great music deserves great beer! The Sheffield Brewery Company was delighted to have been specially selected to supply “Tramlines” this year’s outstanding festival real ale. Brewed in its micro-brewery in Albyn Works, Neepsend, Tramlines ale is a delicious session ale which was brewed specially for all of the festival marquee bars and participating festival pubs. Okie (in the photo) ran the World Music Stage bar and said “we sold out of Tramlines on the first night – it was so popular!” The organisers said 175,000 people enjoyed the festival and a big thanks from the Sheffield Brewery Company team must go to the Tramlines committee for making the festival an even bigger success than last year – bring on 2013! Pick up a pint of the festival spirit at the Bowery, Wick@both Ends, The Harley, Henrys, The Cremorne and The Gardeners Rest www.gardenersrest.com (brewery tap). HEATHERFIELD CLUB - TOTLEY The Heatherfield Club, Totley is to hold its first beer festival running in conjunction with the Totley music festival. The event will run over 2 days. Friday 23rd. September from 6pm and Saturday 24th. from 12 noon. We will be featuring new beers with a musical theme from several local breweries. We are sure to hit the right note along with some musical entertainment for a bit of fun and a touch of catering for those other needs. Heatherfield Club, 193 Baslow Road, Totley, S17 4DT Tel: 0777 3333164/ 07504 370786 Email: [email protected] website: www.heatherfieldclub.org 4 Steel City Brewery - www.steelcitybrewing.co.uk Following from our three collaborative brews in July, Steel City have brewed Sheffield Hop Infusion teamwith Sheffield Tap barsteward Dan (who by the way was very happy his first brew with us, Decadent & Desperate, won a bronze award at Macclesfield Beer Festival!), again standing in for Gazza who was busy drinking overpriced beer in London. The brew used Low Colour Maris Otter & Wheat Malt, followed by Columbus and Galena for bitterness (all 120IBU of it!), with a heady mix of Chinook, Citra, Nelson Sauvin, Pacific Jade and Simcoe. August saw a second brew, a porter involving caramalt and chocolate malt, along with Warrior and Sorachi Ace hops, and entitled Darkthrone (another Black Metal reference). Steel City will be the featured brewery in the Sheffield Tap, starting 21st September. A variety of offerings from Sheffield’s most hop-obsessed brewers will feature, many of them exclusive to the Sheffield Tap and some even brewed in collaboration with the Tap. Try our first ever keg beer on dry land, or the world’s first Imperial Kolsch, or simply gorge yourself on hops! If dark beer is your thing, there’s porter, coconut porter, biscotti porter with almonds, vanilla and coffee, or Imperial Porter. Hops come diluted with between 3.2% and 7.8% alcohol. More Brewery news over the page... Combining Tradition with Innovation Available in both cask and bottles Acorn Brewery Ltd Barnsley South Yorkshire Tel: 01226 270734 Email: [email protected] Web: www.acorn-brewery.co.uk 5 Continued from previous page. Blue Bee Brewery - www.twitter.com/bluebeebrewery The Rugby World Cup kicks off in September, in New Zealand, and to mark the occasion, Richard has produced a special beer, Rugbee Rugbee Rugbee drops in at 4.8% ABV, and (no surprise) features New Zealand hops, in this case Pacific Jade has been put-in. It is the first time Richard has used this particular variety; he says it imparts a pleasant pine-citrus note to the beer. Don’t pass on the chance to try some soon! In addition, the Blue Bee boys would like to thank all who came along to Launch Night at the Rutland Arms, nice to see 16 brewers in one room! For those who missed it, don’t fret, we’ll do it all again soon... Thornbridge Brewery - www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk Faced with the delightful challenge of using Stella, a new high alpha hop from Australia, the Thornbridge brew team thought this would work well in a nice hoppy Brown Ale. And so Browne was developed and is now available. It is a medium intensity beer in both flavour and aroma. It has a juicy fruit and floral aroma up-front but nice hints of roasted and caramel-like aromas come through. 6 Peak Ales - www.peakales.co.uk Over the summer, Peak Ales seasonal, Summer Sovereign has gone down extremely well! Now we are going in the Autumn months Peak Ales will be brewing Paxton which will be ready from October, named after Chatsworth’s head gardener many years ago. In other news we have a new full time brewer, Tom Neale. Kelham Island Brewery - www.kelhambrewery.co.uk The new Kelham Island special is Vincent Black Lighting. A rich full bodied continental style dark beer named after the classic bike that was recently sold for $1.2 million. Spire Brewery - www.spirebrewery.co.uk Dave and Sarah would like to thank everyone who attended the opening night of The Three Tuns in Dronfield, and everyone who has visited since. The response from the local community has been overwhelming, so much so that Dave has had to brew to capacity at their Brewery in Staveley for the last two weeks to keep up with the demand of the Dronfield drinking public! An interesting food menu will be launched during September, featuring old favourites like sausage and mash & steak and kidney pie and introducing The Three Tuns all day breakfast... can you handle it? Please note that The Three Tuns will now open every day from noon. 7 Your Local Pub, Club and Beer Festival News The Three Tuns in Dronfield (formerly the open and serving a real ale in the form of Hallowes) opened as planned on Friday 8th Abbeydale Daily Bread at a reasonable £2 August at 7pm and was absolutely packed. per pint. So sorry to the landlord and staff 12 real ales were available along with 2 at the Timbertops and encouragement ciders and a range of continental beers to readers in the area to go in and show and despite having one or two technical some support by drinking their beer! problems on opening night which slowed Abbeydale Sports Club has increased service, the word went round Dronfield their choice of real ale again in the club that a good pub has opened and it has house bar. They are also once again been well supported since. Food service hosting the Sheffield Rugby Union Club is due to commence in September with Beer Festival with real ale, cider, food traditional pub meals available plus pizzas and entertainment to be found in tents baked in an wood fired oven located out on the edge of the Rugby pitch from the the back of the pub. 9th to 11th September. The venue is just Time for a grovelling apology now, the a few minutes walk from Dore & Totley Real Ale Guide to Sheffield & District has railway station and also served by bus an unfortunate error in that it shows the routes 97,98,218 and 293. Timbertops as demolished - in actual More news overleaf... fact the pub is not only still standing but THE DEVONSHIRE CAT DEVONSHIRE QUARTER 49 WELLINGTON STREET S1 4HG - Tel: 0114 2796700 www.devonshirecat.co.uk OVER 100 BEERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD CHOOSE A REAL ALE FROM OUR SELECTION OF 12 DIFFERENT REAL ALES AT ALL TIMES! EVER TRIED A TRAPPIST BEER MADE BY MONKS? THERE ARE 7 DIFFERENT TRAPPIST BREWERIES; WE HAVE BEERS FROM 6 OF THEM! MAYBE SOMETHING A BIT SWEETER? WE HAVE FRUIT BEERS ON DRAUGHT AND IN BOTTLES WE OFFER FRESHLY PREPARED FOOD FOR ALL! WHETHER YOU WANT A LIGHT SNACK, A LIGHT OR HEARTY MEAL, YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! AND OF COURSE, YOU COULD TRY ONE OF OUR RENOWNED HOMEMADE BEEF BURGERS. YOU MAY HAVE HAD FOOD MATCHED WITH WINE? HERE AT THE DEVONSHIRE CAT WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR DIVERSE SELECTION OF BEER STYLES & FLAVOURS TO COMPLIMENT OUR FOOD! ENJOY EXCELLENT BEER & FOOD IN OUR RELAXED AND FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE HERE AT THE DEVONSHIRE CAT! 8 9 Continued from previous page. on 21st - 23rd October. There will be 13 Meanwhile further up the valley on cask ales and plenty of German lagers, Baslow Road the Heatherfield Club is live music and free food! holding their first ever beer festival from The University of Sheffield’s real ale 23rd to 24th September, which will run pub the University Arms has helped to alongside Totley Music Festival. The beer raise awareness of a mountain climb festival has a preview evening for club for children’s charity Action Medical members on the Thursday then is open Research. A jazz, folk and blues event to the public on Friday and Saturday. took place in August where supporter’s Some good news on Bramall Lane. Not a joined Paddington Bear, the official football reference (I try to avoid that sort Mascot of Action Medical Research and of thing) but the fact The Cricketers has University Arms regular Alan Henderson reopened after a few years boarded up.