Beer and breweries in Sheffield

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The Brew Company

The Brew Company is an independent award-winning craft brewery located in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It produces a permanent range of cask ales as well as seasonal specials and house beers for pubs in the Sheffield area.

The brewery was started in 2008 by Peter Roberts with support from Sheffield Hallam University's Enterprise Challenge. Before establishing The Brew Company, Pete studied brewing at Brewlab, which operates from the University of Sunderland. The brewery is based close to the Kelham Island area of Sheffield, which is often referred to as the 'real ale trail' due to its concentration of thriving real ale pubs and breweries.

Abyss Best Bitter - 4.2% ABV
Eclipse Porter - 4.7% ABV
Elixir Bitter - 4.0% ABV
Frontier IPA - 4.7% ABV
Slaker Pale Ale - 3.8% ABV
Hop Monster Hoppy Ale - 4.5% ABV
Yellow Rose 4.5% ABV

Bock Dark Ale - 5.0% ABV
Spring Bock Light Ale - 3.8% ABV
St Petrus Stout - 5.0% ABV
Brewers Gold Pale Ale - 4.0% ABV
Hop Ripper IPA - 4.3% ABV

The Brew Company has four permanent outlets in Sheffield, with two permanent house beers 'Blonde' and Best Bitter at their own freehouse The Harlequin. They also brew the permanent house beer for the Devonshire Cat (Devonshire Cat Pale Ale 4.0%) and Riverside Pale 4.2% for the "Riverside Live" pub and Anvil Porter for Forum Bars "The York" at Broomhill.

Spring Bock won 'Beer of the Festival' at the Sheffield All Stars Beer Festival on 12 May 2009.

Abyss Best Bitter won a Gold Award and Slaker Pale Ale won a Bronze Award at the Oakwood Beer Festival in February 2009.

St Petrus Stout won Gold at the Steel City Beer Festival 2009.

Hop Monster Won Gold in the best bitter category at the Steel City Beer Festival 2010, as well as 2nd place in the Beer of the Festival, and 2nd place in the Champion Beer of Sheffield.

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Kelham Island Brewery

The Kelham Island Brewery is a small independent brewery based in Sheffield, England.

In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) on purpose-built premises on Alma Street by the owner of the Fat Cat public house, Dave Wickett. As well as the Fat Cat, the brewery owns a British-styled pub in Rochester, New York (United States), named the Old Toad.

Its beer Pale Rider won the "Champion Beer of Britain" award at the 2004 Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) organised Great British Beer Festival.

The brewery is situated next to the Kelham Island Industrial Museum.

Coordinates: 53°23′19″N 1°28′18″W / 53.3886°N 1.4718°W / 53.3886; -1.4718

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Answer 3

Stones Brewery

William Stones Ltd

1968 (takeover by Bass)

Stones Brewery (William Stones Ltd) was a regional brewery founded in 1868 by William Stones in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and purchased by Bass Brewery in 1968. After its closure in 1999, its major brand, Stones Bitter, has continued to be produced by the Molson Coors Brewing Company.

William Stones had started brewing in 1847 in Sheffield with Joseph Watts. Following Watts' death in 1854, Stones continued brewing by himself. In 1868, he purchased the lease of the Neepsend Brewery and renamed it the Cannon Brewery. He continued to brew there until his death in 1894. Stones' success saw him die as one of the richest men in Sheffield, although he lived a modest life. The company was taken over by Bass in 1968. In 2000, Bass sold its brewing operations to the Belgian brewer Interbrew who were ordered by the Competition Commission to sell the Stones brand. In 2002, the brand was purchased by the American Coors Brewing Company, who merged to become Molson Coors in 2005.

Stones Bitter was brewed at the Cannon Brewery from 1948 and was popular with Sheffield's steel workers. It was originally available across the south of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with distribution extended to the rest of the north of England in 1977, and nationwide from 1979, accompanied by a considerable marketing push. Increasing demand saw it also brewed at other Bass breweries from the 1970s onwards. The beer's popularity reached its apex in 1992 when it was the country's highest selling bitter, selling over a million barrels. The beer has been lauded in certain quarters as "one of Sheffield's most famous exports". After the Cannon's closure production was continued elsewhere. Keg Stones Bitter (3.7 per cent alcohol by volume) is brewed by Molson Coors at their brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and the canned product at their Burton upon Trent brewery.

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Answer 4

Wards Brewing Company

Wards Brewing Company was a brewing company based at Sheaf Brewery on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, England, now a subsidiary of Double Maxim Beer Company. The most famous brand produced was Wards Best Bitter.

In 1837, William Roper and John Kiby started a brewery and business on Effingham Street. Roper died in 1842, leaving John Kiby in sole control. He was joined by George Wright in 1860.

Septimus Henry Ward joined the company in 1868 when it ran into financial trouble. Due to the substantial amount he had invested, the primary brand was renamed Wards Best Bitter. George Wright left the partnership a year later. The business continued to expand by buying up other breweries and associated public houses. In 1876, it bought the SOHO Brewery and made it its main premises, renaming it to Sheaf Brewery. It was made a limited company called S.H. Wards & Company Limited in 1896.

The company continued to expand in the twentieth century by acquiring and restoring pubs. This was halted by the onset of the Second World War due to a lack of raw materials. The brewery was hit by three incendiary bombs in 1940, which caused the death of four of its workers. Despite these setbacks, it recovered after the end of the war and continued restoring pubs.

In 1972, the company was acquired by Vaux & Associated Breweries and continued to brew bitter as a subsidiary. Despite still being profitable, the brewery was closed in 1999 as the Vaux company was broken up after an acrimonious takeover by financiers. Members of the Vaux founding family, the Nicholsons, attempted a management buyout of Wards but their offer was rejected.

On the final day of operation, an unofficial celebration to mark the years of dedicated work of the Wards staff was held. The much respected operations manager, and former head brewer Paul Simpson (also an RNR officer) was parodied by one of the brewing operatives who wore a homemade sailor suit. Also on this last day, several 'generations' of the brewery's excise officers, including Lorraine Baker and David Bates, bought everyone else a beer by installing a barrel in the brewer tap, The Devonshire, across the road from the brewery. The cremated remains of the last brewery cat, once to be found in the Sample/Training Room, were spirited away and now rest in the house of one of the former excise officers.

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