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BREWERY NEWS 4Sheffield Brewery CompanyExit 33Blue BeeAbbeydaleWelbeck Abbey

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PUB NEWS 8Shiny SheffThe Angel, SpinkhillOld Hall, HopeCAMRA DiscountsACV Update

AWARDS 12Pub of the Month

FESTIVALS 18Record breaking 3 ValleysFood Festival beer tent successFestival Guide

DIARY 24

THE COMMITEE 26

PUB CRAWL 14Wrong side of t’Pennines

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Beer ClubOur Last Friday of the Month Beer Club has quite a following now and we’ve had some fabulous nights! May’s event fea-tured the Soft Hands Trio, with Steve (pictured) on the brewery’s very own “Joanna” (tuned by Elb) donated by Mary and col-lected by Monk Eys Re-movals (also pictured).

June’s event was an altogether different affair with an amazing BBQ se-lection and acoustic tunes brought to you by Nick.

July’s event will be an-other band night and all details are available on our Facebook page.

Brewery ToursBook a reception or pri-

vate party and enjoy a clas-sic venue and all we have

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to offer in a truly unique and authentic atmosphere. It works equally well for corporate networking – ask Forgemasters! Sil-verdale School staff!

Thanks Tom and Lauren (pictured) – massive con-gratulations and hope you enjoyed the honeymoon!

New BrewsMillowners Ale – the return! At the request and kind promotion of Kelham Is-land Museum Trust this lovely 4.5% malty style traditional ale is back. Hopefully at the time of going to press our brew will be going through the bottling phase available in late July/Aug in bot-tles but we hope to sup-ply a few retained casks to those pubs who get in first! A launch is being organised with the Trust so look out for details on www.facebook.com/Shef-fieldBrewery.com.

Sheffield Summer Ale: Our seasonal will be out and ready for your lo-cal. This hoppy pale beau-ty based on Calypso hops from the US – is a 4% but packs a punch. Can’t wait to get your tasting tackle around this belter then get your orders in as we’ve a limited supply! We deliver direct and through SIBA.

Tom and Lauren’s wedding

reception

Exit 33 is providing beer and the infrastructure be-hind the Brothers Arms beer festival at the This is Heeley event 24th – 26th July.

To coincide with sum-mer a new Exit 33 seasonal beer is being introduced for the next 3 months. Golden Cascade 4.5%

is a great tasting well-bal-anced pint characterised by a fresh hoppy clean taste through the use of Cascade hops. This beer is also brewed with Munich malt, which adds a golden hue and imparts a sweet malty and biscuity back-ground flavour.

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As ever we are rolling out the specials. The first of which contains over 20 kilos of root ginger along with a healthy amount of cayenne pepper. Ginger Beer 4.8% is a pale ale with a fiery ginger kick perfect for the summer sunshine/rain. If spice is not your thing we have the perfect refreshing pale ale in Cosmic Gold 3.8%. This beer is packed with Australian Galaxy hops and then dry hopped with Citra giving passion fruit and peach hop flavours.

On top of this Citra IPA 5.0% will be hitting bars throughout Sheffield in June. This American hop is one of many people’s fa-vourite including ours and should give lots of passion fruit and mango flavours. Finally in the pipeline American 5 Hop Ver-sion 5 4.3% and as ever is a great way to use our left over hops which is not a bad thing as this time we have: Citra, Simcoe, Cen-tennial, Columbus and Chinook to play with.

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Welbeck Abbey

It’s that time of year guys, SunFest is upon us! The Rising Sun at Nether Green (the 83A and 120 bus stops right outside the pub!) is the place to be from 9th – 12th July for over 100 beers and ciders plus top quality entertainment and of course the annual Dog Show on the Sunday afternoon. Look out for a beer list to be released shortly before the festival via our website, Facebook and Twitter.

Our charity partner this year for SunFest is The James Brownhill Memo-rial Fund (JBMF). The fund has been set up by James’ family following his death on the Frendo Spur in the French Alps, above Chamonix, July 1st 2011. James was an avid climber and mountaineer, he con-stantly strove to improve his skills and abilities, helping him progress into many areas and disciplines of the climbing world. The fund awards volunteers with bursaries to under-take courses to consolidate and develop safe climbing practice for teaching new and inexperienced climb-

ers in individual and group situations. James will be greatly missed, but through the fund we hope to preserve a passion and attitude to safe climbing that James constantly upheld. James was a local lad, whose favourite beer was Moonshine, so we are honoured to be supporting a local charity with strong links to both the pub and the community. www.jbmf.co.uk

Like every year, we brew a special beer for Sun-Fest, and this year it will be ‘Summit’. A pale 4.1% hoppy beer brewed with American hops (including a good dose of Summit). We will be donating 10p for every pint of Summit brewed to JBMF.

All the other beers to come out of Abbeydale HQ this month are all brand spankingly new, so much so, as we go to print the recipes are still being formulated by our (mad) brewers!!! Expect another beer in our Signature series and the latest beer in our Albion British hops series. Exciting times ahead!

See you at SunFest!

We have an exciting new partnership on our hands! The Roman Southwell Archaeology Community Project was established in January 2014 and since then has quickly gathered pace. They have not only conducted field walking and aerial surveys, but are now well on their way to conducting an excava-tion. To help raise aware-ness of this project, and perhaps a little cash too, we are teaming up to brew a Roman-style beer. The community group have re-searched the style of beer which would have been brewed back then, and we have formulated a recipe. We will be brewing a 3.8% British barley focused pale ale using the aptly named British Boadicea hops. The beer is to be called ‘Roman Southwell Gladiator’. These hops are named after the famous Queen of the Iceni tribe, who led a rebellion against the Romans in the 1st century AD. They have

a distinctively fresh British meadow aroma of herb and fresh grass – a truly Ro-mano-British beer!

The beer will be brewed on Monday 8th June at Welbeck with the help of the volunteer archaeolo-gists. They will be able to measure out all the raw ingredients and add them to the brewing process, just as our ancestors have done for centuries. We will be launching this beer at the Hearty Goodfellow in Southwell on Thursday 25th June at 7pm. Please join us on the day for a taster and to meet the group. The beer will be available to purchase in most of the Southwell pubs after this date If you miss it on cask, or would like to try the bottled version, the group will be retailing the beer at all their events from the start of July. For further details about the project please contact Matt Beresford matt@mbar-chaeology.co.uk

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After being closed for six months, The Shiny Sheff at Lodge Moor reopened after a major refurbish-ment, even the car park is weed free.

The pub got it’s name from HMS Sheffield, a large model is displayed in the tap room. The original HMS Sheffield was fitted out with stainless steel from Sheffield and be-came known as the Shiny Sheff. There is interesting information about the ship around the room in which there is also a dart board and pool table.

The conservatory has been opened up to bring it into the lounge which has a panoramic view of Higger Tor across the back wall of the raised area and there are photos of the Peak District around the wall. The managers Andy and

Paul are making everyone welcome, with regulars in their favourite seats and former customers return-ing. Bradfield Farmer’s Blonde is the regular beer and there will be two rotat-ing guests.

There is a full menu from tasty snacks to roast dinners and mouth watering desserts. Throughout the week there is something for everyone, Tuesday is free pool and poker night and on Thursday there is a music Quiz. Friday is Karaoke night there is live entertainment on Saturday night. On Sunday night there is a general knowledge quiz and open the box. You have got to be “Init To Winit”

The 51 bus to Lodge Moor serves the pub and there are wonderful views across Rive-lin Valley from the decking at the front of the pub.

The Angel Spinkhill Com-munity Interest Company (CIC) recently concluded the sale of The Angel, to Chris and Jean Norfolk. Chris is a successful and experienced local restau-rateur who the CIC be-lieve has the vision and expertise to take The An-gel forward as a thriving pub/restaurant.

Commencing with an Asset of Community Val-ue (ACV) listing, this has been a lengthy and com-plex process. However, the CIC have remained focussed upon their origi-nal goals of:

• Saving The Angel,• Returning it to our com-

munity under the guid-ance of an experienced professional

• Retaining it for the future of the community.

These goals are based upon supporting community in-terest as opposed to finan-cial gain.

In January 2014, North East Derbyshire District Council refused an ap-plication to convert The Angel after villagers, with the support of Shef-field CAMRA, made their case to save the pub at a

planning meeting. The plan would have allowed a property developer to have converted The Angel into two houses, retain a small portion of the pub for a small public bar and build two detached houses in the garden. The coun-cil’s planning committee unanimously refused the application due to the site being listed as an ACV – the first in North East Derbyshire. It was the first time in the country an ACV listing was been cited as the primary reason for a council to refuse planning permission.

Over the next few weeks the CIC will be:

• Returning all donations and investments, without which none of this could have happened.

• Inviting all donors to a meeting, in the school hall, to outline the work which the CIC has un-dertaken

Sheffield CAMRA would like to congratulate all involved for their parts in saving the Angel and wish then good fortune in the future.

Dave Pickersgill

The Angel, Spinkhill

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Sheffield CAMRA is taking

part in a national CAMRA pilot

scheme which is encouraging

local branches to nominate pubs

as Assets of Community Value

(ACV). The branch has identi-

fied eleven local pubs : a mix of

heritage, suburban, city centre

and rural. With assistance from

CAMRA HQ, the paperwork will

be completed and submitted to

the relevant Local Authority. We

then await their decisions.

Pubs that are ACV-listed require

planning permission to be demol-

ished or for any other change of

use. Currently only one Sheffield

pub, the Castle (Bolsterstone)

has ACV status. In addition, The

Plough (Crosspool) has recently

applied.

CAMRA DiscountsHere is an updated list of pubs

offering discounts to card carry-

ing CAMRA members. Restric-

tions or conditions may apply. If

we’ve missed your pub out, let us

know! This information is printed

in good faith based on reports

received but mistakes can hap-

pen or promotions end/change

so check details with pubs before

making a special trip or placing

your order at the bar.

Three Merry LadsLodge Moor (10p off a pint)

SportsmanCrosspool (10p off a pint)

PlaceBroomhill (loyalty card)

Fox & DuckBroomhill (30p off a pint until 7pm)

The YorkBroomhill (50p off a pint of True

North beer 4-7pm weekdays)

Bulls HeadRanmoor (50p off a pint Mon-

Thur)

Hallamshire HouseCommonside

Bath HotelSheffield Centre (until 7pm)

CremorneLondon Road (Mon-Fri until 5pm)

Red DeerSheffield Centre

Dog & PartridgeSheffield Centre

Dove & RainbowSheffield Centre

JD Wetherspoons(vouchers)

The Beer StopDronfield (20p off a pint)

Coach & HorsesDronfield (20p off a pint)

Travellers RestApperknowle (20p off a pint)

Miners ArmsHundall (30p off per pint)

Jolly FarmerDronfield Woodhouse (15p off

a pint)

The TalbotDronfield Woodhouse

The Old Hall Hotel at Hope, which was recently damaged by fire caused by a faulty piece of kitchen equipment, is now fully back open – bar, restaurant and accommodation.

To celebrate this and get the word round, a special relaunch evening was held with invited guests includ-ing regular customers and other locals, journalists and local CAMRA Chair-men along with a VIP guest – Simon Theakston, MD of Theakston Brewery, whose

beers can always be found on the Old Hall’s bar.

Landlord Rick Ellison was the perfect host and guests enjoyed sampling Theakstons beers and a number of dishes from the restaurant’s new menu, then when it came to toast the relaunched Old Hall out came the obligatory giant bottle of fizz…..

The Old Hall continues to host regular beer & cider festivals, the next one will be August bank holiday weekend.

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Vote for Pub of the Month!Our Pub of the Month award is

a bit of positive campaigning,

highlighting local pubs that con-

sistently serve well kept real ale

in friendly and comfortable sur-

roundings.

Voting is your opportunity to

support good, real ale pubs you

feel deserve some recognition

and publicity.

All CAMRA branch members are

welcome to vote at branch meet-

ings or on our website.

It’s not one pub against another,

simply vote YES or NO as to

whether you think the pub should

be PotM. If we get enough votes

in time we will make the award.

Nomination forms are available

at branch meetings and on the

website. The pub must have

been open and serving real ale

for a year and under the same

management for 6 months.

Winners compete alongside our

Good Beer Guide entries for

branch Pub of the Year, the win-

ner of which is entered into the

national competition.

The list of nominees includes

which buses to take if you fancy

a trip to try them out:

The Nominees

Bull’s HeadRanmoor (buses 120, 784, 786)

Dove & RainbowCity Centre

Old Hall HotelHope (buses 272, 273, 274)

Old Queens HeadCity Centre

Porter CottageSharrow Vale Road (buses 65, 81, 82, 83, 83A, 84, 85, 88, 215, 240, 241, 272, 799)

Rising SunAbbey Lane (buses 65, 70, 215, 272)

Three Merry LadsLodge Moor (bus 51)

Vote online now atsheffieldcamra.org.uk

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The Cremorne at 185 Lon-don Road S2 4LH was a mid Victorian street corner local and although the ori-gin of the name is not clear it could be named after the 1872 Derby winner.

Originally comprising two small rooms, in the 1980’s it was opened out and extended into the ad-joining property, part of which is at a lower level. The interior is fairly ba-sic, with the walls partly exposed brickwork and the floors a mixture of flag-stones and bare boards, although the seating is comfortably upholstered. An outside drinking area is accessed from the lower level.

At one time created a Tetley Festival Ale House with a plaque still inset in the floor, it is now free of tie and has ten handpumps dispensing up to eight real ales and two traditional ciders. The regular beers are Kelham Island Best Bitter and Saltaire Rasp-berry Blonde and always a beer from Pictish. The rest are mainly sourced from Yorkshire, with the aim of providing a variety of styles and strengths, with at least

one dark beer. As well as the two ciders there is now a craft keg line, and two gluten free bottled beers from St. Peter’s Brewery are available.

The pub is open 3-12 Mon/Thu, 3-1 Fri, 12-1 Sat and 12-12 Sun, with food, comprising pizzas and sandwiches available 6-10 (12-10 Sat/Sun). There is music every evening, with live acoustic Sundays, al-ternating folk or jazz jam sessions Mondays, open mic Tuesdays and DJs or live bands in between. Close to Bramall Lane, the pub is busy on home match days, but always offers a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Regular cus-tomers come from a wide area giving a good mix and providing a lively commu-nity spirit.

Congratulations to man-ager Rachel, her assistant Tom and all the staff on achieving the pub of the month award. Join us for the presentation which will be on Tuesday 14th July from 8pm; there are regular buses from town (20/20A, 75/76, 87, 97/98) stopping outside.

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There are many excellent pubs and breweries in Manchester On a bright sunny day in early June I took a trip over the Pen-nines to sample their wares.

Starting off at the Mar-ble Arch pub on Rochdale Road (top left). The birth-place of Marble brewery, this pub has plenty of Marble beers on, as well as guest ales from the likes of Darkstar and Hawks-head. Marble have long had a reputation as an out-standing brewery and the beer I chose was Marble Pint, which was the per-fect beer to start off with on a hot summers day, in a pub with a wonderful grand interior. The food menu looked very entic-ing as well, although this wasn’t the venue where I chose to eat.

From the Marble Arch I set off back down Rochdale Road towards Manches-ter town centre, coming to The Angel. Another friendly traditional pub with beers from the likes of

Liverpool Organic and Pic-tish. From there I headed to Bar Fringe on Swan Street. A small bar with plenty of Belgian beers and 5-6 cask ales.

Carrying on down Swan Street, past the Smithfield pub, which is currently closed for refurbishment I came to the Crown & Kettle (top right) at the junction with the Oldham Road. This was my favour-ite pub of the visit. I start-ed off with an IPA from the much hyped Cloudwater brewery.

Then I sampled a couple of pale ales on cask from another new Manches-ter brewery called Track. Both of which impressed me more than Cloudwa-ter IPA. The ceiling in the Crown & Kettle is also of note, although I dread to think what the cost would be for much needed repairs to this ceiling.

From the Crown & Ket-tle I headed away from Swan Street to Pie & Ale. A new place that, as the name suggests, specialises in craft beer and pies. The

cask ale was good and so was the food. Looking at places such as Craft & Dough in Sheffield, and Bundobust in Leeds, I think that the craft beer & street food combination is going to be a trend to watch out for before too long.

I then headed to Port Street Beer House (bot-tom right), a bar that I’ve heard much about for some time. As such I was quite enthusiastic about visiting this place and happily this small, cosy bar didn’t dis-appoint. The beer I had in Port Street Beer House was Thornbridge / Wild Beer Co Tart, which was indeed

quite tart!My final stop before

catching the train back was the Piccadilly Tap. Another new bar on the approach to Manchester Piccadilly station that was very busy when I visited. Downstairs it has a similar layout to London’s Euston Tap. The beer I sampled in here was an old favourite. Thornbridge Cocoa Won-derland.

I came away very im-pressed with the Man-chester beer scene. It has a very good mix of brewer-ies and venues and is right up there as one of the top beer destinations in the UK right now.

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The sun shone down on the Dronfield area on the 6th June and an estimated 8,000 people descended on the town to enjoy a day of beer, cider, food and music!

Participating venues in-cluded the Castle Inn, Bar-

low Brewery, Tickled Trout, Miners Arms, Jolly Farmer, Talbot Arms, Hyde Park Inn, Victoria, Manor House Hotel, Green Dragon, Three Tuns, White Swan, Dronfield Arms, Coach & Horses, Royal Oak and Travellers Rest.

Local thirst for lo-cal beers. The Sheffield Brewers Cooperative tent was in the peace gardens as part of the annual Shef-field Food Festival in May. Brewers from Abbeydale, Blue Bee, Exit 33, Kel-ham Island, Sheffield and Wood Street manned the bar showcasing two beers from each local brewery.

The weekend was a

success selling a whop-ping 3,240 pints in just 26 hours of trading!

Next year the plan is to take to the stage in the main tent to do a joint meet the brewer with a live brewing demonstration and a special local food and beer-pairing event.

Pete RobertsExit 33 Brewing

Record breaking 3 Valleys!

Food Festival beer tent a success Local thirst for local beers

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Festival GuideThese are the events we’re aware of in or near Sheffield over the coming months. Links and updated info on our website.

June

Manchester Cider & PerryFri 26 – Sat 27 JunAn annual celebration of traditional cider and perry with a range of about 40 to choose from. The venue is Cop-per Faced Jacks in the Palace Hotel, near Manchester Oxford Road station (hourly East Midlands Trains service direct from Sheffield). The festival is open midday to 10:30pm, entry is £2 for CAMRA members, £3 for non-members.

July

Worrall Folk FestivalFri 3 – Sat 4 JulWorrall Festival returns on 3rd-4th July with an impressive music line-up featuring some of Sheffield’s best up and coming bands.

The festival launches with a Friday night folk concert with performances from Sheffield folk legends Jack’s Rake, Leon O’Doherty, Buskin’ Bud-dies and Dogwood Rose. Saturday kicks off at 1pm with a free Gala fea-turing music, stalls and activities for all the family. An Americana themed concert starts at 4:30pm with per-formances from Santiago Kings, Blue Rooster, Backyard Buskers and more. There is also an open mic session for budding musicians to showcase their talent. Saturday’s headliners are The Fargo Railroad Co, a superb southern rock styled band from Sheffield with hints of Ryan Adams and BlackBerry Smoke.

Ale and cider fans are in for a treat with a selection of eleven locally brewed ales and 6 boxed ciders on offer. Food will be available through-out the weekend including a BBQ and pulled pork sandwiches.

The event takes place at Worrall Memorial Hall, Towngate Road, Worrall, S35 OAR, and is organised by Worrall Community Association Ltd. Advance tickets are available for Friday night priced at £4 for adults, under 16s free. Saturday is free to attend. All proceeds from the event go towards maintaining community facilities.

OakstockSat 4 JulThe British Oak at Mosborough are hosting Oakstock, starting at lunch-time it features ten hours of live music, hog roast, BBQ, pizzas and good beer. Entry is free, there is fun for all the family and the event is to raise money for Macmillan Cancer

Support.The pub is on the main road

through Mosborough which is served by Stagecoach buses 50, 50A, 53, 71 and 71A.

Derby CAMRA SummerWed 8 – Sun 12 JulHeld in Derby’s Market Square, this festival features 200+ real ales plus continental beers, cider and mead. Food and live music also features. En-try free for CAMRA members. Open from 6:30pm on Wednesday, all day 11am to 11pm Thursday to Saturday and Sunday is a lunchtime drink up from midday to 2pm. Frequent trains run between Sheffield and Derby, journey about 35 minutes.

SunfestThu 9 – Sun 12 JulThe annual beer festival at Abbeydale Brewery’s Rising Sun pub in Nether Green (bus routes 83A and 120 stop outside) which sees the pub’s bar going all Abbeydale and the car park closed off to make way for a beer tent housing about 100 guest beers along with a food tent and music tent. Also look out for the charity fundraising going on.

BassetlawFri 10 – Sat 11 JulHeld at the Grafton Hotel in Work-sop, a 5 minute walk from Worksop railway station, featuring 24 real ales, 10 ciders plus food and live music.

Wortley Men’s ClubFri 17 – Sun 19 JulWortley Mens Club has won CAM-RA’s National Club of the Year award this year and they are putting on a beer festival with around 50 real ales, 10 ciders, live music, food stalls and kids entertainers. The festival is open 5pm-11pm on Friday, midday to 11pm Saturday and midday to 7pm on Sun-day. Bus 29 from Sheffield will get you there.

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On the Edge 9 Pin #2Sat 18 JulThe On the Edge brewers are back for another one of their 9 pin events at the Old Junior School on South View Road in Sharrow, featuring 9 new beers, just a pin (small cask) of each, available until the beer runs out! Also promised are summer tunes, pub games and sandwiches, plus outdoor drinking if the weather permits!

Tramlines FestivalFri 24 – Sun 26 JulSheffield’s massive annual music festival that takes over much of the City Centre and beyond. There are a number of big main stage venues which require a wristband to enter (see www.tramlines.org for details of ticket sales) however there are also lots of venues putting on live music that you can go in free of charge – and many of these are real ale pubs. Also all the venues can be easily reached either by tram or high frequency bus.

Some of the key free venues with real ale include the blues stage at CADS, Shakespeare’s pub and the Brothers Arms, however there are many many more.

The Beehive, HarthillFri 24 – Sun 26 JulThe Beehive in the village of Harthill, near Rotherham, is the tap for Harth-ill village brewery. The pub also fea-tures home cooked meals, guest ales and a snooker table. However for the beer festival a marquee appears on the field behind the pub and is filled with a range of 50 real ales and 20 ciders plus food and live music.

Bus 74 runs from Sheffield to Harthill and passes the pub’s front door, additionally Mon-Sat daytime bus 26/26A runs there from Crystal Peaks.

August

Rock the Carnival @ Barlow BrewerySat 15 AugBarlow’s annual village carnival is a great day out and features a parade, funfair, scarecrows, well dressings, stalls and more. Barlow Brewery runs a music festival on the Satur-day alongside the carnival, a small admission charge gets you into the farmyard where there is a programme of live music (acoustic during the af-ternoon and livelier rock’n’roll into the evening), a beer tent showcasing the brewery’s beer range and food. Wristbands are issued so you can come and go as you please – you can enjoy watching the carnival parade with pint in hand!

TM Travel bus 16/16A (Dronfield-Chesterfield) runs past the brewery gate.

Miners Arms, HundallThu 27 – Mon 31 AugFollowing the success of the Miners’ inaugural beer festival as part of Three Valleys Festival in June, they are host-ing another one over the August bank holiday weekend to coincide with the charity cricket match and Land Rover trials in the village. An outside bar will host a range of beers and ciders and Deli-Licious of Dronfield will be providing a food stall. TM Travel bus 14 (Dronfield-Chesterfield) runs past the pub door during the daytime.

October

41st Steel CityWed 21 – Sat 24 OctOur own annual beer & cider festival is confirmed for 2015 and back at Kelham Island Industrial Museum following last years success, with a few tweaks following customer and staff feedback. Everything you loved about the festival will be there again plus we will have more beer and a slightly bigger capacity!

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Sheffield & DistrictInfo and bookings:

Phill Wood (see committee section)

Branch meeting8pm Tue 7 JulThe monthly meeting open to all our members to catch up on campaigning issues, share pub, club & brewery news, vote for pub of the month and any other business – plus have a pint or two to-gether of course. Venue TBC.

Worksop train trip2:30pm Sat 11 JulJoin us for a visit to North Nottingham-shire and the 1st Independent Basset-law Beer Festival. The Festival is hosted, and run, by the CAMRA award-winning ‘Grafton Hotel.’ The pub was built in 1865 by Joseph Garside of the Creswell Holme Brewery, taking the name from his second wife, Lady Catherine. Today, it serves as the tap for the local Grafton Brewery (established 2007). Grafton were winners of the 2015 SIBA Special-ity Beer Award.

The festival will have 24 real ales, 10 real ciders, a craft keg bar and bottled beer from around the world. There is no entry fee and the food stalls are do-nating 10% of their takings to Worksop Town, the 4th oldest football club in the world.

There will also be the opportunity to visit other outlets in the centre of Work-sop, including the award-winning, ‘Mal-lard,’ tap of Double Top Brewery.

We will be leaving on the 14:44 train from Sheffield, return trains run on a regular basis. The journey by train is half an hour, a day return ticket costs £6.40 (note there is also a Duo offer of £9.60 for two people travelling together).

Pub of the Month8pm Tue 14 JulJoin us for a beer as we present the July Pub of the Month award to the Cremorne on London Road. See the article for more about this.

Buses 20/20A, 75/76, 87 and 97/98.

Wortley Club festival bus trip1pm Sat 18 JulWortley Men’s Club recently beat off competition from over 28,000 clubs nationwide to become the CAMRA National Club of the Year 2015. They are hosting their third annual Beer Festival from Friday 17th until Sunday 19th July.

Join us for a visit to the picturesque village of Wortley on Saturday after-noon. We will be leaving Sheffield on the 1301 TM Travel, 29 bus from the Interchange (1328 from Chapel-town), arriving in Wortley at 1342. Return buses are at 1613, 1829, 1939 and 2139.

Festival planning meeting8pm Tue 21 JulWe continue to discuss arrangements for our annual Steel City Beer & Ci-der festival, which takes place this October at Kelham Island Industrial Museum.

The meeting venue is the New Bar-rack Tavern on Penistone Road, served by buses 53 and 79A (or Bamforth Street tram stop is a short walk away). A pre-meeting about sponsorship will also take place at 6:30pm.

RambAle11am Sun 26 JulOur usual monthly country walk, en-joying the scenery at a leisurely pace with a number of pub stops along the way. This month we walk from Meadowhead, The Norton, to Totley via Dronfield Woodhouse.

Beer Matters distribution and committee meeting8pm Tue 28 JulThe committee discusses any business that needs to be decided ahead of the next branch meeting, also the August issue of Beer Matters should be avail-able for distributors to collect, with all having a social pint together. The venue is the Rutland Arms on Brown Street in Sheffield Centre.

District Pub of the Year7pm Fri 31 JulOur minibus will take you to the Anglers Rest at Millers Dale for the award presentation with a beer stop on route there made at another good pub.

Dronfield & DistrictInfo and bookings: Nick Wheat (socials@dronfieldcamra.org.uk)

Hawaiin Shirt Appreciation Party bus trip1pm Sat 4 JulBus trip to the Hawaiin Shirt Appre-ciation Party at the Arkwright Arms in Sutton-Cum-Duckmanton

Subbranch meeting8pm Tue 14 JulVenue: Miners Arms, Dronfield Woodhouse.

Tramlines bus trip(time TBC) Sat 25 Jul Bus trip to Tramlines Festival includ-ing beer festival at the Brothers Arms in Heeley.

Subbranch meeting8pm Tue 11 AugBranch meeting at the Hare & Hounds in Barlow.

Buses and TramsSouth Yorkshire:Travel Line 01709 51 51 51www.travelsouthyorkshire.comDerbyshirewww.derbysbus.info

TrainsNational Enquiries 08457 48 49 50www.nationalrail.co.uk

Trading Standardstrading.standards@sheffield.gov.uk Consumer advice (0114) 273 6289 Sheffield Trading Standards, 2-10 Carbrook Hall Road, Sheffield S9 2DB

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The Committee Andrew CullenChairmanBeer Matters Editorchairman@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Louise SingletonVice ChairmanBeer Festival Organiserfestival@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Sadie SkipworthSecretaryBranch Contactsecretary@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Alan GibbonsPub of the Year and Good Beer Guide coordinatorpotm@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Mike HumphreyMembership Secretarymembership@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Kate MajorPress OfficerYoung Members Contactpress@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Mark BoardleyPubs Campaign Coordinatorpubscampaign@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Paul CroftsPubs Database Officerpubsofficer@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Dave PickersgillPub Heritagepubheritage@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Phil WoodSocial Secretarysocial@sheffieldcamra.org.uk

Rob BarwellDronfield Subbranch Chairmanchairman@dronfieldcamra.org.uk

CAMRA (National)230 Hatfield Rd, St Albans, Herts, AL1 4LWwww.camra.org.uk01727 867201

DIARY

Sheffield CAMRA’s new Pubs Officers, Paul Crofts and Mark Boardley on the challenge of keeping track of Sheffield & District pubs.

As you may know, Sheffield CAM-RA has been looking for members to get more involved in its activities, and in particular for new committee members. In response to this both myself (Paul) and Mark independ-ently offered to take on the role of Pubs Officer. (Disappointingly no one made any reference to buses – “wait ages for one and then two turn up at once” etc. We suspect that the chairman, as a Supertram employee, has placed an embargo on any transport -based jocularity!) This function has been neglected for the last couple of years and needs a fair bit of work bringing things up to date so it was decided that two heads would be better than one, and we would share the work.

Our initial plan is to get the What-pub website up to date. If you’re not familiar with Whatpub, we’d recom-mend having a look next time you’re on t’internet. It has lots of informa-tion on pubs across the country and is a great way of finding places to visit. You can do a basic search by entering a keyword such as an area or pub name, and then up to 36 dif-ferent filters can be applied to nar-row the list down to pubs that suit your requirements, whether that’s for food; parking; disabled access; dog-friendly pubs; proximity to pub-lic transport, etc.

Sheffield & District has 586 pubs and a good proportion haven’t been surveyed for over 3 years, so obvi-

ously this might take a while. And this is where CAMRA members can help. When you’ re visiting pubs in the area, any information you pick up that you think may be relevant can be emailed to us at the addresses below and we will act on it immedi-ately. Mark is handling the East of Sheffield, and I’ll handle the West, though you can email either of us and we’ll sort it out. As well as details on the beer choice and pub facilities, you can also send us photos. The pub frontage is the first thing we need, but a few internal photos can also be included.

We have already started on the updates, but obviously we can act a lot faster if you help us find the ma-jor errors and out-of-date informa-tion on the site. There are over 1400 members in the Sheffield branch so if each person sent us an update on just 1 pub it would give us more than enough to start on. (Yes, we know. It would also give us quite a bit of duplication. Our maths isn’t that bad. Mark will do 45%, I’ll do 45%, we’ll pass 25% to the commit-tee and the remaining 7% we’ll leave till next year!) We’ll need to verify the information sent in, but it will be a massive help in knowing where to start.

So, in summary – Get to the Pub! And if your other half asks what your doing, tell ’em Paul and Mark said it was all right. Cheers!

Paul CroftsPubs Database OfficerMark BoardleyPubs Campaign Coordinator

What do the pub officers do?