Sheffield Beer Week is returning for the ninth time in March, with a renewed focus on showcasing the brilliant beers made by the city’s brewers.

Sheffield Beer Week

The week, from 6th-12th March, revolves around core strands, including beer and food, community and heritage, International Women’s Day events, and celebrating access to vital green spaces under The Outdoor City banner.

Sheffield breweries Tapped Brew Co, Little Critters, Heist, Loxley, Abbeydale (look out for their Cloud Peak session IPA with Sheffield Beer Week and Indie Beer Feast), and True North are already planning special beers for the week. Tapped Brew Co, housed at The Sheffield Tap pub, is even planning a live brewing day.

Saint Mars of the Desert and Stancill breweries are hosting open tap days, while the rejuvenated Kelham Island Brewery will be highlighting its flagship beer, Pale Rider, which started the ‘beer journey’ for many people in the city.

The Festival of the Outdoors, organised by Visit Sheffield, has become a vibrant month of annual activities in March, and to tie in Sheffield Beer Week is hosting a number of events under this banner.

Local historian Dave Pickersgill, editor of CAMRA’s Sheffield’s Real Heritage Pubs, will be hosting his popular heritage pub and brewery walks. There will be a number of running events, too, including a trail club organised by Abbeydale Brewery and its Rising Sun pub, and Hop Hideout beer shop’s all-abilities welcome run social.

As always, there will be a celebration of great independent brewed beer from across Sheffield, the UK, and beyond, with venues Jabbarwocky, The Crow, Rutland Arms, Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield Tap, Heist Brew Co, Stancill Brewery, Saint Mars of the Desert, Craft ’n’ Berry, Hop Hideout, Beer Central, True North pubs, and Shakespeares already planning events. More venues and events will be added.

On the weekend of 3rd and 4th March, to kick-off the week, Sheffield’s craft beer festival, Indie Beer Feast launches. This is a celebration of great independent craft beer, with brewery bars, street food, low-intervention wines, and fine cider. The beer festival champions and supports The Everyone Welcome initiative.

Award-winning beer writers Adrian Tierney-Jones and Pete Brown will be heading up to host pop-up tastings and to judge the Indie Beer Feast beer of the festival. Sheffield beer shop Hop Hideout will be hosting a bar and bottle shop.

Breweries pouring will include:

  • Saint Mars of the Desert
  • Heist Brew Co
  • Triple Point
  • Abbeydale Brewery
  • Neptune
  • Rivington Brewing Co
  • Attic Brew Co
  • Crossover Blendery
  • The Kernel
  • Rock Leopard
  • Wild Card Brewery
  • Beer Ink
  • Redwillow
  • Little Earth Project
  • McColl’s Brewery

• Find out more at sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk/