Issue 505 March 2020 sheffield.camra.org.uk /sheffieldcamra @shfcamra Issue 505 2 March 2020 The free magazine of CAMRA Sheffield & District Issue 505 March 2020 Letter from the Chair 5 Branch AGM Pubs 5 WhatPub survey volunteers 3,000 monthly Beer Week heritage walks Editor circulation Beers by Queers at Dev Cat Andy Cullen Live music and good beer [email protected] Kelham Island Tavern Articles, comments and suggestions are most welcome so please send Breweries 10 them in* Welbeck Abbey Kelham Island Bradfield Advertising St Mars of the Desert Alan Gibbons Abbeydale [email protected] Wards & Vaux Blue Bee Quarter Page £50+VAT Steel City Half Page £70+VAT Full Page £100+VAT Inside Front Cover £110+VAT Back Cover £120+VAT Awards 16 Discounts for regular placements Pub of the Month PDFs or high-res bitmaps (300 dpi) only please Design from £30 Updates from £10 Travel 18 Hopping around Bosnia A Grand Day Out.. on the Next copy deadline Nottingham Road Friday 6 March RambAles return! Opinions expressed are those of the Festivals 24 author and may not represent those Sheffield Beer Week of CAMRA, the local branch or editor. Festival news Beer Matters is © CAMRA Ltd. Festival guide *For legal reasons a full name and address must be provided with all contributions. Diary 30 Committee 30 Issue 505 March 2020 Branch AGM WhatPub survey Dear CAMRA member, volunteers needed! As chairman of CAMRA Sheffield & District I would like to take WhatPub (whatpub.com) is this opportunity to ask members to actively support the Shef- the rather handy public face field branch in 2020. The Sheffield branch committee is seek- of CAMRA’s pub database, ing support from members to arrange social activities, edit maintained by volunteer our monthly magazine Beer Matters and communicate with members of branches across national CAMRA. The committee meet monthly at the Dog & the country. The website is Partridge and it will be difficult to continue with our current -ac designed to be an online tivities without some extra support. If you are interested please guide listing every pub and contact a member of the committee. club in the country. It also al- lows members to score their I would like to invite all members to attend the Sheffield branch beers, which helps gives an annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 1 April (8pm) idea where the best beer is to in the function room (disabled access) at the Greystones on be found! Greystones Road (S11 7BS). At the meeting we will chose the committee for the next year, and debate and vote on any We think we have everywhere motions submitted. The deadline for submission of motions is in Sheffield you can go for a four weeks in advance of the AGM (17 March) to Phil Ellet at pint listed on WhatPub, how- a branch meeting or email [email protected]. ever we are equally aware Formal business includes reports from the chairman and treas- that the information for some urer. Following the AGM a short branch meeting will take place of the pubs are now out of to share pub, club and brewery news. Social activities and date. Formal survey work future meetings will be announced. As I mention above Shef- undertaken is very limited field branch are always keen to encourage CAMRA members and we rely on members and to get in involved in social activities, judging and join the publicans to submit up-to- committee. Please consider an active role to support Shef- date information on things field CAMRA branch. like opening hours, beer range, food service etc. The Greystones can be reached by bus 83 (stop outside the pub) or 81/82 and 88 (stop near the Co-op on Ecclesall Road There is a link on every pub’s and a steep 10min walk up Greystones Road). page to submit updates, so if you run a pub or go to a pub I look forward to meeting you at the AGM, for a beer, please consider checking their WhatPub en- Glyn Mansell try is correct and if not, let us Chair, CAMRA Sheffield & District know the latest details. Issue 505 March 2020 Letter from the Chair Pubs Inn Brief The Gardeners Rest at Neepsend is hosting a bar billiards tournament on 18 March with a 6pm start. To take part you need to register in advance at the bar and the entry fee is £1. Beery events coming up at Shakespeares on Gibraltar Street include tap takeovers with Howl- ing Hops (27 February) and Torrside (9 March) then “Collabracadabra”, a festival of collabora- tion brew beers from 13 to 15 March. The Devonshire Cat host one of their regular Abbeydale Brewery Funk Dungeon events on Thursday 27 February from 5-8pm with brewer Jim hosting private tastings. The Funk Dungeon range tend to be sour, barrel aged and other experimental brews and the latest releases will Sheffield Beer Week be available on cask, keg and can. pub heritage walks Jabbarwocky bar on London Road are hosting a Wylam tap takeover from 6 to 8 March with a range of two cask and five keg beers plus a As part of Sheffield Beer Week, we are leading selection of cans. three pub heritage walks: The Blue Stoops on Dronfield High Street is On Sunday 8 March (14:00), we’ll be in the West hosting tap takeovers with Ilkley and Drone Val- Street area and on both Thursday 12.(16:00) ley Breweries between 9 and 15 March. and Friday 13 (14:00), we’ll be on Kelham Island The RateBeer website has been naming their finishing with a tour at the Sheffield Brewing Co. annual award winners with national recognition given to the Sheffield Tap(brewpub category) All three walks will include Victorian tilework, and Shakespeare’s (pub/bar category). Within terrazzo flooring, art deco glasswork, a mention South Yorkshire Hop Hideout was the top bottle of long-gone Sheffield Breweries and much shop so along with international honours for the Brewery of St Mars of the Desert there is a lot more…. of love for Sheffield’s beer scene there! After the last two walks, Sheffield Brewing The Masons in Crookes was due to reopen on 21 Company will be showing a series of films: a February following refurbishment. collection of short dramas, humorous trade Mid February saw a number of venues in our films, perceptive documentaries and archival area joining in Tiny Rebel Brewery’s 8th birthday newsreel items, together presenting a history of with tap takeovers, including the Head of Steam, the British boozer. Two Thirds Beer Co, Millowner Arms and Ches­ terfield Alehouse. Full details and booking information is available: Sunday 8.March: tinyurl.com/vpd2gj Toolmakers Brewery tap room is hosting a com- edy night on 5th March with free entry. Thursday 12.March: tinyurl.com/raklr8t Friday 13 March: tinyurl.com/rfeqtkb The New Barrack Tavern is hosting a cider & cheese tasting night on 18 March, check their Fa- If you can’t wait until Sheffield Beer Week, you cebook event or ask at the bar for more details. could try the third edition of Sheffield’s Real The Swan at Ridgeway has announced that they Heritage Pubs: sheffield.camra.org.uk/rhp. will again this year be teaming up with three other pubs in the village to put on Ridgeway Dave Pickersgill beer festival on Saturday 16 May featuring real ale, live music, food and more. Issue 505 6 Pubs March 2020 Old Hall Hotel Real Ale, Real Food & Real Fires A Traditional 16th Century Coaching Inn Market Place, Hope, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S33 6RH Established 1719 /TheOldHallHotel @oldhallhope Homemade Food Served All Day | 6 Cask Marque Ales Outstanding B&B | Roaring Open Fires Muddy Boots & Dogs Welcome | Friendly Atmosphere A Pub Done Different Peak Hotel The Peak Districts’ Eccentric Alehouse How Lane, Castleton, Hope Valley, Derbyshire S33 8WJ Established 1809 /ThePeakHotelCastleton Find us on TripAdvisor @peakcastleton Homemade Food Served All Day | Outstanding B&B 5 Cask Marque Ales & Large Selection of Craft Bottles Muddy Boots & Dogs Welcome | Roaring Open Fires Issue 505 March 2020 Live music and good beer The last week in January saw just the price of your pint! a national Independent Venue Beers by Queers at week, celebrating independent- Church House, City Centre: ly operated live music venues. Located next to the Cathedral the Devonshire Cat It also saw a local MP call on tram stop (and also the actual the government to support Cathedral of course!), this pub Inclusivity and diversity. Two such venues and a local venue hosts live music at the week- words that are not mentioned operator bemoaning that bands end, normally of the rock genre. often enough in connection often bypass Sheffield as they Beer range is normally from the to the beer community. struggle to sell tickets here, Heineken Star Bars list plus a calling on the public to support local guest. However they are two of the live music by buying tickets for pillars of Sheffield Beer Week gigs and going out to venues to and they are at the heart of see bands. what we want to achieve with our Sheffield Beer Week Other issues highlighted in the plans here at the Dev Cat. last few years include residen- tial developments close to live On Friday 13 March we’re music venues where the new proud to be hosting the neighbours attracted by City launch party of the collabora- Centre living complain about tion beer between Abbey- the noise! dale, Sheffield based LGBT community - Out & About Sheffield has a great history of and The Queer Brewing both music and pubs with the Project.