Issue 479 October 2017 @shfcamra /sheffieldcamra sheffieldcamra.org.uk The free magazine of CAMRA Sheffield & District Issue 479 October 2017 News 4 Steel City 43 Welcome Freshers! Cider and Perry Month Young Members Champion Beer of Britain 3,500 monthly circulation Opinion 9 Dom’s Casks of the Month Editor Dominic Nelson [email protected] Pubs 10 Heritage Pubs - Shakespeare’s Articles, comments and Harlequin suggestions are most Church House welcome so please send PUBlic Transport - More Tram Pubs them in* Carbrook Hall Closed Shop, Commonside Plough, Sandygate Advertising Paul Crofts [email protected] Breweries 18 Exit 33, Neepsend, Shef- Quarter Page £40+VAT field Brewery Co, Stancill, Half Page £60+VAT Steel City, Abbeydale, Acorn, Full Page £90+VAT Thornbridge, Blue Bee Inside Cover £100+VAT Back Cover £110+VAT Discounts for regular placements Awards 28 Pub of the Month PDFs or high-res (300 dpi) District Pub of the Season bitmaps only please Yorkshire Pub of the Year Design from £30 Updates from £10 Travel 32 A Grand Bank Holiday Day Out Beer Adventures in the Far East Next copy deadline Friday 6th October Quiz 36 Opinions expressed are those of the author and may not represent those Festivals 37 of CAMRA, the local branch or editor. Beer Matters is © CAMRA Ltd. Diary 38 *For legal reasons a full name and address must be provided with all contributions. Committee 38 musicians J & M Select, fol- lowed by The Beat Merchants, and closes with blues and soul classics from Highway Child. Saturday has the ever-popular afternoon spot from Loxley Silver Brass Band; another session from J & M Select, and a storming finish to the festival Steel City 43 from Vegas 6. Sheffield Beer & Cider Festival 2017 Stalls An array of food, hot and By the time you read this, the discerning drinker. With cold, will keep festival visitors the annual Steel City Beer & the popular move to cans fed in between beers. Stalls Cider Festival will almost be gathering pace, we should are spread throughout the upon us. maybe call these our Bottle & museum so you don’t have to Can Bars! leave a particular area when No doubt you’re all eager to you feel peckish. A number of attend and would like a bit Fancy Dress Friday traditional games and stalls more information to help plan will add to the entertainment your visit. Seasoned visitors Friday night is fancy dress with the chance to win bottles will already have a good idea night at our festival, and this of beer and, of course, our of what to expect but for any year’s theme is Victorian. tombola stall will be offering first-timers, here’s what’s on There’s always a number of the finest quality merchandise. offer. staff participating, but visitors are encouraged to join in the Full details are available at Beer and cider fun too. There’s no actual sheffieldcamra.org.uk. prizes, but your picture may Obviously! We have a great well end up in a future issue of selection of around 250 beers, Beer Matters. including cask and keg, plus 40 real ciders. As well as an River Don Engine interesting range of regular See you beers, several breweries have The spectacular River Don produced one-off specials just steam engine will run sev- there! for the festival. The full list is eral times during the festival on our website for those of as a reminder of the area’s you who want to plan their industrial heritage. Run times beery treats in advance. Be are 12pm, 6pm and 8pm on warned though, beers can Thursday, 3pm, 4pm and 8pm Anyone who fancies helping sell out pretty quickly so the on Friday and Saturday. out can still fill in the staffing list will change as the festival form on the website. If you’ve progresses. Live Music never helped before we can guarantee you’ll have a great Bottle bars We have the usual array of time, and this year we are of- top quality live music selected fering free food for volunteers International bottle bars, by Saxbob. Thursday night doing a six hour shift, in addi- one in each main room, will features good-time rockers tion to the free beer and free provide even more choice for Dosch; Friday starts with local t-shirt of course! Issue 479 4 News October 2017 Issue 479 October 2017 and Collegiate Campus on Ecclesall Road. City students will find a number of pubs serving real ale in the vicin- ity. Rutland Arms, Red Lion, Roebuck. Globe and Howard, are just some of those popu- lar with students looking for Welcome Freshers! post-lecture relaxation. Mean- while, Collegiate Campus also It’s that time of year again Near to the university, the has several options nearby: when Sheffield welcomes University Arms - our branch the Portland House is a around 20,000 new students pub of the month for May micropub owned by Wel- who are beginning their 2017 and a regular feature in beck Abbey Brewery and the degrees at one of our two CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide Nursery Tavern also serves excellent universities. Shef- - serves up to eight real ales real ale alongside reasonably field & District CAMRA would at any one time. The Doctor’s priced meals. A little further like to welcome you to what Orders round the corner also up Ecclesall Road, the Beer we think is the best city in has a selection of ales from House stocks an excellent se- the country for real ale! There local brewery Little Critters (I lection of well-kept local ales are more than 300 pubs in can personally recommend C and is well worth a visit! the Sheffield region serving Monster and Nutty Ambassa- real ales and ciders, so there’s dor!). For those with lectures Of course, if you’re not al- plenty of choice for even in St George’s Church or the ready a CAMRA member, we the most discerning drink- Stephenson Building, the Red also welcome you to join the ers. Furthermore, whichever Deer is ideally placed for a campaign and help us sup- university you are attending post-study pint. Meanwhile, port the promotion of real ale there is a real ale society you students in halls can check at a local and national level. can join. out the excellent pubs of Those aged under 26 are Broomhill and Ranmoor. eligible for discounted mem- bership, but with all the usual The University benefits including £20 worth Sheffield Hallam of Wetherspoons vouchers. of Sheffield Our monthly branch meet- The University of Sheffield University ings take place on the first has a long-established Real Sheffield Hallam’s Real Ale Tuesday of every month; Ale and Cider Society, which Society was founded just simply check out our branch holds socials every Thursday over twelve months ago and diary (on our website or at and organises regular trips at the end of its first year was the back of Beer Matters) and pub crawls. A year’s awarded “Best New Society” for the venues of upcoming subscription costs £3 and by Hallam Students’ Union. meetings. Or why not head members receive discounts The society holds regular so- down to our annual Steel in a number of local pubs. cials, day trips, brewery tours, City Beer and Cider Festival, The University also holds an meet the brewer evenings taking place at the Kelham annual beer festival in Bar and ale trails. Members can Island Museum from 18-21 One and Interval, which this also get discounts with local October? year featured more than 100 breweries, pubs and beer real ales and ciders. Both Bar shops. Welcome once again to Shef- One and Interval also serve a field and we hope to see you selection of real ales through- The university is located on soon! out the year at very reason- two separate campuses, City able prices. Campus in the city centre Dominic Nelson Issue 479 6 News October 2017 Cider and Perry Month Twice a year, in May and natural cycle of the apple and September to November, and October, CAMRA makes a pear trees found in orchards by October production is in special effort to promote real around the country. full flow. ciders and perries. Unlike real ale production, which October is a very active time According to WhatPub, there can happen at any time of for cider makers, especially are 70 pubs in the Sheffield the year, real cider and perry for those who make only a & District region serving real can only be made when the small amount. Harvest time cider, so why not go out and fruit is ripe and is tied to a for cider fruit is roughly from try something different? Issue 479 October 2017 News 7 Young Members CAMRA is hosting its first The forum coincides with the ever Young Members’ Forum Robin Hood Beer and Cider this October. Festival being held at Not- tingham Castle, and attend- It aims to debate and pro- ees will receive a queue-jump mote the ideas and issues pass and a token for a free that affect the campaign’s pint once inside the festival. younger members. Sheffield & District CAMRA The Young Members’ AGM currently has a vacancy for a will also take place at the Branch Young Members’ Con- same time, and will see the tact. The BYMC is responsible election of the new chairman for organising social events and committee members. at a local level and should be the first point of contact Champion Beer of Britain Every CAMRA member aged for Young Members in the between 18 and 30 is auto- branch.