Posts by: Dave Pickersgill
Record-breaking Steel City fest
The Sheffield Beer Festival (SCBF48) raised a whopping £2,700 for Weston Park Cancer Charity (WPCC) – a remarkable donation rate of £1.20 a minute. Th...
Workers take over brewery
Sheffield-based Abbeydale brewery has become an Employee Ownership Trust. The change of ownership covers the whole business, encompassing both the bre...
Steel City brewer scoops top title
Jim Rangeley, Lead Brewer at Abbeydale, the City’s oldest brewery was recently named as Brewer of the Year at the 2024 Brewers Choice Awards. Jim was...
Gladiator’s festival debut
The Steel City Beer and Cider Festival (SCBF48) will be opened by local legend and South Yorkshire firefighter Brontë Jones, runner-up in the BBC’s 20...
Walk the talk in Little Chicago
Following the success of the 2023 pub heritage guided walk booklet, Sheffield and District CAMRA has produced a second focussed on Little Chicago, whi...
Push to enhance Local Inventory Project
The CAMRA National Pub Heritage Group (PHG) is encouraging branches to develop lists of pub and club interiors that retain elements of historic intere...
Steel City retains real ale capital crown
Sheffield has retained its position as the real ale capital of the world, with the thriving brewing industry driving tourism and regeneration in the s...
'Cathedral of brewing’ fears realised
In early 2020, Carlsberg and Marston’s announced a joint venture, with the Danish corporation taking 60 per cent of the new Carlsberg Marston’s Brewin...
Is Steel City still world’s real ale capital?
Beer writer Pete Brown is revisiting his 2016 BEER report, with an updated version to be launched during Sheffield Beer Week 2024 (4-10 March). The or...
Festival beer mats auctioned for charity
Three limited-edition sets of 12 mint beer mats promoting the 47th Sheffield Steel City Beer Festival (SCBF47) are to be auctioned on eBay. On one sid...
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