Hi all,

We are opening a new cask ale brewery here in Sheffield on Carlisle Street East.
Called The Brew Company we have have successfully sold out our test brews at the Kelham Island Tavern and The Hillsborough Hotel and had fantastic feedback from the CAMRA chairman and drinkers alike.

We are nearly ready to open our brewery in a lovely Victorian building which is under refurbishment. Our brewery will be installed on the 23rd of June and our first beers will be available the first week in July, so look out for our distinctive pump clips on a bar near you!

We will be offering brewery tours and tutored tastings in our very own visitor centre.

I'll update the forum when we are open for business but until then you can check us out at www.thebrewcompany.co.uk

We also have a blog at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/

Yes Please!!!!

Yes Please!!!!
I see a day out coming up :D

I see a day out coming up :D

We met at the D&R CAMRA POTM presentation!

You will get an invite to publicans day :)

Yes Please!!!!

I'll get the reply right in a minute!!

We met at the D&R CAMRA POTM presentation!

You will get an invite to publicans day :)

We met at the D&R CAMRA POTM presentation!

You will get an invite to publicans day :)

Oooh..look forward to seeing some of this fine ale on our bar in due course as well....the ECLIPSE Porter definitely appeals to me, I like my ale dark and delicious

Oooh..look forward to seeing some of this fine ale on our bar in due course as well....the ECLIPSE Porter definitely appeals to me, I like my ale dark and delicious

Ahh, Eclipse Porter ,possibly my fave! I brewed two casks of this one and because Abyss had previously sold out in 4 hours in the KIT, they had both casks of Eclipse. Which then sold out in two nights. Not bad considering the pub has 12 pumps!

I'll be down to see you soon with a price list and an invite :)

Sounds excellent. Can't wait to try them all out. A tour of the Brewery would be interesting too. Is that gonna be a regular thing, or organised visits only?

Out of interest, where are you based?

Sounds excellent. Can't wait to try them all out. A tour of the Brewery would be interesting too. Is that gonna be a regular thing, or organised visits only?

Out of interest, where are you based?

Tours will be pre- arranged visits only and we will need a minimum number of people to do one (10)
The tours will include a talk on brewing techniques, ingredients, a phyisical tour of the brewery, a tutored tasting, a chance to 'pull your own pint' all for a nominal fee of course but it's great value. There is obviously then the chance to purchase a few more pints at the bar :)

You can find our location on our blog page at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/find-us/
and also more about events at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/brewery-events/

Hi all,

We are opening a new cask ale brewery here in Sheffield on Carlisle Street East.
Called The Brew Company we have have successfully sold out our test brews at the Kelham Island Tavern and The Hillsborough Hotel and had fantastic feedback from the CAMRA chairman and drinkers alike.

We are nearly ready to open our brewery in a lovely Victorian building which is under refurbishment. Our brewery will be installed on the 23rd of June and our first beers will be available the first week in July, so look out for our distinctive pump clips on a bar near you!

We will be offering brewery tours and tutored tastings in our very own visitor centre.

I'll update the forum when we are open for business but until then you can check us out at www.thebrewcompany.co.uk

We also have a blog at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/

If it tastes as good as the stuff brewed at bradfield,its got to be a winner :thumbsup:

Excellent news, we already have some great locally produced beers and another local brewery can only help. With increased fuel costs it makes more sense for pubs to get beer in from Sheffield (as long as it's good) than import stuff from down South or elsewhere

Hi all,

We are opening a new cask ale brewery here in Sheffield on Carlisle Street East.
Called The Brew Company we have have successfully sold out our test brews at the Kelham Island Tavern and The Hillsborough Hotel and had fantastic feedback from the CAMRA chairman and drinkers alike.

We are nearly ready to open our brewery in a lovely Victorian building which is under refurbishment. Our brewery will be installed on the 23rd of June and our first beers will be available the first week in July, so look out for our distinctive pump clips on a bar near you!

We will be offering brewery tours and tutored tastings in our very own visitor centre.

I'll update the forum when we are open for business but until then you can check us out at www.thebrewcompany.co.uk

We also have a blog at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/

OMG! Some Good News at last!!!

By the sound of it, it looks like it will not be far from Club Xes!
Maybe Gary and Simon could get some real ales on tap in addition to the regular Stella/Carling/Boddingtons, etc...

OMG! Some Good News at last!!!

By the sound of it, it looks like it will not be far from Club Xes!
Maybe Gary and Simon could get some real ales on tap in addition to the regular Stella/Carling/Boddingtons, etc...

Thanks for that Tyranna! I've contacted them via their website so fingers crossed!
Do venues on the gay scene ever have hand pump cask ale on the bar?
If not i wonder if they are missing a trick?

Who on earth sells beer in wine glasses?

Put some proper pint pots on your website.

Who on earth sells beer in wine glasses?

Put some proper pint pots on your website.

You must have some strange looking wine glasses in your house!! And if you look at the Brew Crew page you will see a pint pot!

The glasses shown on our website are sample glasses so visitors can sample different styles without getting sloshed. Drinking good beer doesn't always have to be about being a big man that only sups pints.

I like a pint and we serve pints and halves and samplers.

When i was at the great british beer festival last year they did 3rd of a pint glasses allowing you to sample a lot more than meerly a few pints. :)

This sounds like a good place for Rotherham CAMRA to have a trip to.

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I've got no problems with it...

Thanks for that Tyranna! I've contacted them via their website so fingers crossed!
Do venues on the gay scene ever have hand pump cask ale on the bar?
If not i wonder if they are missing a trick?

Lions Lair does.

Hi all,

We are opening a new cask ale brewery here in Sheffield on Carlisle Street East.
Called The Brew Company we have have successfully sold out our test brews at the Kelham Island Tavern and The Hillsborough Hotel and had fantastic feedback from the CAMRA chairman and drinkers alike.

We are nearly ready to open our brewery in a lovely Victorian building which is under refurbishment. Our brewery will be installed on the 23rd of June and our first beers will be available the first week in July, so look out for our distinctive pump clips on a bar near you!

We will be offering brewery tours and tutored tastings in our very own visitor centre.

I'll update the forum when we are open for business but until then you can check us out at www.thebrewcompany.co.uk

We also have a blog at http://thebrewco.wordpress.com/



How about trying to make some gluten free beers/lagers? you could make a killing if you can get the flavour right

We are a cask conditioned beer brewery.
I don't know enough about manufacturing in a gluten free way and would imagine the legal hoops to jump through would be many, and to be honest i need to stick to what i know for the start up!

Lager production is a totally different kettle of fish, which requires a lot of investment in equipment to filter to and carbonate as well as a longer period 'lagering' (maturing).
It's not something i would consider brewing. As i say we brew cask conditioned beers.

Have you actually read the error? Are you trying to look at it at work by any chance?


I've got no problems with it...

I am reading it at the Library, so any personal pages aren't allowed to be shown.

Just to let you all know, the brewery was delivered yesterday and will be installled and commisioned early next week. The malt delivery came yesterday as well and is currently filling the malt store and brewhouse with that beautiful malty aroma! Yum.
The first brew will be next week and is called Abyss. ( http://www.thebrewcompany.co.uk/beers.php?id=3 ) This is a dark malty beer, russett brown in colour and packed full of flavour.
We will also be brewing our pale ale and a bitter next week.
Don't forget to look out for our pump clips on the bar in mid July!
Our website will be updated with pubs stocking our beer soon.

Forgive my ignorance but is this area particularly good for brewing? If so why. Sheffield does seem to have quite a well established tradition for brewing i've often wondered why.

Also are any of your ingredients local such as the malt?

The water is local....

Most of the brewers in our area get their Malt from a Maltster in Castleford I believe, Hops come from all over - Southern England, Europe and America.

I'm sure BlackSheep will answer in due course..

As for Sheffield's brewing tradition, we used to have a number of large breweries (on an industrial scale) such as Stones, Wards and Whitbread but they are all gone now (although the Stone Brewery building is still there at Neepsend), however what we do have now is a number of successfull microbreweries, that are encouraged by Sheffield's very good real ale pub scene.

But does the water have special qualities that make it good for brewing?

But does the water have special qualities that make it good for brewing?

My chemistry teacher used to tell me that hard water was best for brewing and in some areas water is often deliberately hardened with gypsum in the process of Burtonisation.

I'm not sure how hard Sheffield water is compared to anywhere else

My chemistry teacher used to tell me that hard water was best for brewing and in some areas water is often deliberately hardened with gypsum in the process of Burtonisation.

I'm not sure how hard Sheffield water is compared to anywhere elseSo are we saying then that breweries tend to scattered around hard water areas?

Forgive my curiosity but i genuinely don't know

So are we saying then that breweries tend to scattered around hard water areas?

Forgive my curiosity but i genuinely don't know

Well they are scattered all over the country but the water, its hardness and other qualities, will make a difference to the final product.

I'd think that if you brewed 2 identical pints of beer in Manchester and Sheffield with the same hops, same barley, same recipe but with the different water then the final product will be different.

I'm only surmising though, I'm more an expert on drinking it than making it :)

Nice debate! Andy C is correct when he says that malt comes from Thomas Fawcetts in Castleford - they are the nearest maltster and one of the best in the country.
All my hops are from the UK, generally grown in Kent.
There aren't many brewers who don't treat the water prior to brewing. We have to have the correct PH to start with so most breweries use water treatments, which are all natural, calcium salts. This process has been refered to as Burtonising water simply because Burton is said to have water which needs no treatment.
Taxman is right to say a beer made in a different location to the same recipe will be different. The characteristics of beer come from many things. Recipe interpretation, raw ingredients, different suppliers, water, brewer experience, yeast strains, even the size of brewing vessells and shape of fermenters can affect taste! Of course it is all down to the publican to look after the ale and serve it correctly so you the drinker gets a good pint as the brewer intended. This is why cask conditioned beer (real ale) is so varried in colour, flavour and aroma. 600 small brewers nationally producing dozens of styles, with thousands of variations. You never quite know what your going to get when you drink traditional ales. I love the whole process from making it to drinking it!!

Blacksheep, I have asked the Social Secretary to get in touch with you if he wants to arrange a Brewery Trip.

Blacksheep, I have asked the Social Secretary to get in touch with you if he wants to arrange a Brewery Trip.

Thanks!

I will arrange an SF brewery trip sometime this year as well if enough people are interested.

Unfortunately, due to a bereavement, the commisioning of the brew kit has been put back by one week.

We will be brewing next week now so beer is on the way!

Blacksheep, sorry I should have private messaged you with the above information. I am also sorry to hear of your loss.

Our first brew is about ready to come out of the fermenter and be racked into casks.
The 2300 pint batch will take two weeks to mature so the flavours become more rounded.
The first brew is called Abyss which you can read about here http://www.thebrewcompany.co.uk/beers.php?id=3


Cheers!

Sounds good, shall have to get some friends together for the brewery tour; been to Kelham Island every year for the past few years :P