Sheffield is still best city for beer: once dubbed the beer capital of the world, and the birthplace of the craft beer revolution in 2016, recent work has shown it can still retain its title. The new report by beer writer and Barnsley boy Pete Brown says Sheffield is still the best place on Earth for beer lovers. He found its breweries makes 780 different beers every year. There are 300 cask ales and 300 craft keg beers for sale in Sheffield every day, and the city has 362 places to enjoy a drink. Furthermore the city has 4 breweries for every 100,000 people, which is way more than London at 0.4.
Original St Austell Brewery up for sale: the former home of the St Austell Brewery is heading to auction with full planning permission to turn it into 9 homes while retaining lower ground floor office accommodation. Tregonissey House was founded by William Hicks in 1870 and guide price is only £425,000
Beer enthusiasts in Bruges founded ‘t Hamerken in 1988 with a view to collecting objects and documents for conservation in the Bruges Culture library. Every 2 years it presents ’Het Gulden Hamerken’ (The golden hammer) to a person who has made an impact on brewery history. The thirteenth award has been made to lambic brewer Frank Boon who moved from blending lambics to brewing them. Lambics can be fruity (Kriek) or sour (Geuze) or sweet (Faro) but they are all nice.
AJ’s : Next open day – June 29th 12-
Beowulf : New brewer Joe Dash is back from holiday and brewing a new beer for the Euro’s called ‘Three Lions’ 4.5%, golden pale ale with passion fruit and mango tastes, described as “moreish & refreshing”. His other new beer is called ‘Brim’ which is Old English for surf, shore, wave or edge, which is appropriate for a brewery on the edge of Chasewater. Its 4.5% , a premium pale ale, with hints of passion fruit, pineapple and peach. He is also supplying 3 casks for the Chasewater Beer Festival. Check by phone before turning up to buy bottles. 01543 454 067
‘Diary dates: Severn Valley Railway beer festival 15-
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