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Meet the Brewer – Abirradero, Barcelona

Meet the Brewer - Abirradero, Barcelona

Remember back in February when the team from Instituto de la Cerveza Artesana (ICA) and craft beer bar Abirradero in Barcelona came over to brew the absolutely delicious Encantada with us?

Well… myself and our brewer Jim have just made the trip over to Spain for the return leg of the collaboration, including hosting a Meet the Brewer in Abirradero, showcasing four of our beers!

This will be the first of three posts from our visit, focusing on the event itself. Look out in a couple of weeks for loads more info on a very special trip we were lucky enough to be able to take to learn more about the history of Encantada, and also of course for details of the beer we have made with ICA.

Abirradero opened in 2015 as one of the instigators of the Barcelona craft beer scene. The emphasis at Abirradero falls keenly on gastronomy, and a commitment to flavour in everything they do… they even make their own sodas! Well over half of the 40 taps that line the bar are dedicated to their own beers brewed just 10m down the street at ICA, with styles ranging from a seaweed gose to an imperial ice cream stout. The menu is similarly wide-ranging, with flavour and innovation always being right at the forefront. Many of the dishes incorporate beer too, including Encantada battered calamari! We were lucky enough to make our way through most of the menu during our few days there, and seriously cannot recommend the bar enough for both beer and food… everything was exceptional.

Onto the event! We sent four different kegs of our beer along with cases of Heathen and Voyager cans, in our first ever international export, so it was already a really big moment for us. Our Encantada, of course, made the trip (as did a very special one off keg of barrel aged Encantada), along with plum porter Salvation 3 and Voyager 3 IPA, hopped with Galaxy, Lemon Drop and Centennial.

Having covered the bar in Abbeydale merch and decked out the staff in Moonshine t-shirts, we were ready to kick off the event. There was a great turnout and loads of interest in what we do as a brewery. The fame of ICA’s Encantada in Barcelona meant that many people were keen to try the “new” Encantada all the way from Sheffield, and from there we were happy to persuade them to sample our other brews… we even managed to convince a Guinness drinker to try a Salvation 3 (and are happy to say he enjoyed it)! Our beers were all met with a great reception from the locals, and a Sheffielder even turned up!

We were particularly honoured to have been introduced to special guest Manel, head archaeologist for CIPAG and the Cova de Can Sadurni, the site where the oldest remains of beer ever found in Europe and which inspired ICA’s Encantada was discovered… more on that in our post next week.

A huge thank you to the team at ICA and Abirradero for inviting us to showcase our beers internationally for the first time ever, and for being such fantastic hosts.  We had the best time!

Cheers!

Laura

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Cold Conscience

Cold Conscience

We are excited to announce that for the third time we have teamed up with the guys down at Brewdog Sheffield to brew up something delicious, fruity and unique.  This time, our collaboration has been completed by local band Alvarez Kings, who have named the beer Cold Conscience in honour of their brand new single. The beer itself is a 4.5% pale with a difference… it’s packed full of mangoes and lychees! New Zealand hops help to emphasise the fruity characteristics of the brew and provide a light but lingering bitter finish. Quaffable, refreshing and absolutely perfect for summer!

It’s always a fun brewday when we have the Brewdog guys around – thanks to Jack, Matt and Kyle for the inspiration behind this delicious brew and of course for digging out the hopback!

Come on down to our launch event at Brewdog Sheffield from 6pm on Thursday 20th June for a fantastic warm up to Tramlines. As well as the first pour of Cold Conscience, you can meet the team and witness some live Abbeydale-themed artwork coming to life!

Don’t forget you can also catch Alvarez Kings at Tramlines Festival, taking place this weekend at venues around the city.

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Cavendish Cancer Care

Cavendish Cancer Care

We are pleased to introduce to you our charity beer for this year -Triple C! Dreamed up in collaboration with local charity Cavendish Cancer Care, 10p from every single pint sold of the 40 brewers’ barrels brew will go to support the charity.  Taking inspiration from the charity’s name, this 4% pale ale has been created with three hops that all also begin with the letter ‘C’ – Cascade, Centennial, and Columbus – which provide a vibrant fruity flavour with tropical and citrus notes alongside a spicy hint of resinous pine.

We have a long standing relationship with Cavendish Cancer Care, having worked with them on and off for a number of years. We are delighted to have teamed up with them as our charity partner for the whole year and be organising a variety of events with them throughout 2017, at both of our pubs as well as at our upcoming beer festival Sunfest, which is where you will have the opportunity to drink the very first cask of our charity brew!

Cavendish Cancer Care (reg charity 1104261) is a Sheffield charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for people living with cancer in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire. They believe no one should face cancer alone, so provide emotional and physical support through counselling and complementary therapies. Their services are provided free of charge and they rely on the donations from supporters and help from volunteers to continue their very valuable work, with only two weeks per year of NHS funding provided.

See www.cavcare.org.uk for more information, including if you would like to get involved with Cavendish or might know someone who needs their help.

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Sunfest 2017!

Sunfest 2017!

HOW is it almost July – or as it’s known here at Abbeydale, Sunfest Month – already?!

This year, Sunfest takes place from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th July, and as always is based at our lovely pub, The Rising Sun. We’ve searched far and wide for a huge selection of cask ales yet again, with our own team here also rustling up some extra-special limited releases; these are marked with an asterisk in the list below.

Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Triple C 4.0%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Birdhouse 4.2%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Cosmology 5.0%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Dock of the Bay* 8.2%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Elderflower Deception* 4.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Fields of Wheat* 5.7%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Gonna Guava Good Time* 5.3%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Mango Heathen* 4.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Peanut Butter Janie Time* 7.0%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Princess RaRa* 8.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Salvation 3 4.7%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Summer fruit cup  3.2%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Voyager 3 5.6%
Acorn Brewery, Barnsley Fiesta 4.5%
Arbor Ales, Bristol Gingerly Pale 4.5%
Ashover Brewery, Ashover Haylo 3.0%
Bad Seed Brewery, Malton/Northern Alchemy, Newcastle Chucklehead 5.0%
Beer Ink, Huddersfield Styrian Wolf 3.8%
Beer Nouveau, Manchester Government Ale 3.7%
Blue Bee Brewery, Sheffield The Final Geek 4.5%
Brass Castle Brewery, Malton Misfit 4.3%
Brew York, York X-Panda 4.5%
Brightside Brewing Co, Manchester Kashmir IPA (GF) 5.0%
Bullfinch Brewery, London Rascal 4.4%
Burning Soul Brewery, Birmingham OCT IPA 6.7%
Campervan, Leith, Edinburgh Leith Juice 4.7%
Cromarty Brewing Co, Cromarty Happy Chappie 4.1%
Cromarty Brewing Co, Cromarty Hit the Lip 3.8%
Dancing Duck Brewery, Derby Donald *Uck 4.2%
Elusive Brewing, Finchamstead, Berkshire/Torrside Brewing, New Mills Creature of Havoc 4.6%
Emmanuales, Sheffield Beer Thou My Vision 3.8%
Fallen, Kippen, Stirlingshire New World Odyssey 4.1%
Fernandes Brewery, Wakefield Double Chinned 5.5%
Fintry Brewing Co, Stirlingshire Clachertyfarlie 3.9%
First Chop, Salford Hop (GF) 4.1%
Five Towns Brewery, Wakefield/North Riding Brewery, Scarborough Seasoned Old Pro’s 8.3%
Fixed Wheel Brewery, Birmingham Blackheath Stout 5.0%
Great Heck Brewing Co, Great Heck Black Jesus 6.5%
Half Moon Brewery, York Midsummer 3.6%
Harbour Brewing, Cornwall/Zipline Brewing, Lincoln, Nebraska Relax 4.5%
Harthill Village Brewery, Chesterfield Dark Hart (GF) 4.8%
Hopjacker Brewery, Dronfield Papaya Don’t Preach  4.0%
Horbury Ales, Ossett JFB 4.9%
Hybrid, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire Apex 4.1%
Ilkley Brewery, Ilkley Crossroads 5.4%
Lawman, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire Mr Beast 5.0%
Lost Industry Brewing, Sheffield Chocolate milk stout 5.0%
Mallinsons Brewing Co, Huddersfield Daniella 4.5%
North Riding Brewery, Scarborough Huell Melon 4.0%
North Riding Brewery, Scarborough Mosaic 4.3%
Ossett Brewery, Ossett Simcoe Solstice 4.8%
Rat Brewery, Huddersfield Rat to the Future 3.8%
Raw Brewing Co, Chesterfield Raw DOG 6.1%
Red Willow Brewery, Macclesfield Faithless 71 4.1%
Revolutions Brewing Co, Castleford Back II Life 3.6%
Riverhead Brewery, Huddersfield Redbrook Premium 5.5%
Saltaire Brewery, Shipley Raspberry Blonde 4.0%
Siren Craft Brew, Finchamstead, Berkshire Yu Lu 3.6%
Sonnet 43 Brewhouse, Co. Durham Aurora 4.4%
Tempest Brew Co, Galashiels Little White Cloud 3.7%
Titanic Brewery, Stoke-on-Trent Captain Smith’s 5.2%
Torrside Brewing, New Mills. Snap Decisions 5.2%
Torrside Brewing, New Mills. Kuwa-Niwa 4.5%
Totally Brewed, Nottingham Blueberry Muffin Mild 5.6%
Track Brewing Co, Manchester Sonoma 3.8%
Turning Point Brew Co, York Lucid Dream 5.0%
Welbeck Abbey Brewery, Worksop. Paul’s "Get On Parade!" 3.9%
Whippet Brewing Co, Leeds English Whippet 4.2%
Wild Weather Ales, Reading Sub Lime 3.8%
Wilde Child Brewing Co, Leeds Hedonistic Existence 6.3%
Wilde Child Brewing Co, Leeds Opaque Reality 5.9%
XT Brewing/ Animal Brewing Co, Long Crendon. Fantail 4.8%

 

And as well as the above cask selection, we’ve increased our keg offering to 30!

Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Black Hole Sun(dae)* 5.6%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Chuckle Vision* 4.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Double Brimstone – BA* 8.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield/Instituto de la Cerveza Artesana, Barcelona, Spain Encantada 7.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Heathen 4.1%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Orange You Glad It’s Summer?* 8.5%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *Passionfruit lager* 5.4%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Reaper 2 5.5%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *"Strong and Stable"* 8.4%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield/Beer Ink, Huddersfield Tropic Like It’s Hot 6.0%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Unbeliever 2 3.9%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Voyager 2 5.9%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield Voyager 3 [Reserve] 5.6%
Abbeydale Brewery, Sheffield *"Weak and Wobbly"* 3.8%
Boundary Brewing, Belfast Forever Ago 6.0%
Cross Borders Brewing Co, Dalkeith, Scotland Braw 5.2%
Fallen Brewing Co, Stirling, Scotland Chew Chew 6.0%
Fierce Beer, Aberdeen, Scotland Tropical Tart 4.5%
Founders Brewing Co, Michigan, US Nitro Oatmeal Stout 4.0%
Bifficio Hibu, Milan, Italy Avanti March 6.5%
Hopjacker Brewery, Dronfield Papaya Don’t Preach 4.0%
Hopjacker Brewery, Dronfield Styrian Wolf 4.8%
Lost Industry Brewing, Sheffield/Steel City Brewing, Sheffield/Beer Ink, Huddersfield Do You Even Iron Bro 4.9%
Mallinsons Brewing Co, Huddersfield Nelson Sauvin 3.8%
Odyssey Brew Co, Herefordshire Little India 4.5%
Oedipus Brewing, Amsterdam Slomo 4.5%
RedWillow Brewery, Macclesfield Godless 5.6%
Revolutions Brewing Co, Castleford Dominion 5.0%
Time & Tide Brewing, Eastry, Kent. Domino 8.6%
Tiny Rebel Brewing Co, Newport Gin & Juice 4.5%
Totally Brewed, Nottingham Sorachi Mango 6.0%
Verdant Brewing Co, Falmouth Headband 5.5%
Wild Beer Co, Somerset Rooting Around (Spring) 3.0%

 

It’s shaping up to be an absolute cracker of a weekend, so please join us for a pint or two!

Cheers!

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P*SS UP IN THE BREWERY – FULL BEER LIST!

P*SS UP IN THE BREWERY - FULL BEER LIST!

Cask

Abbeydale  – 4 Degrees of Separation – IPA – 7.0% – Collaboration with Magic Rock, Northern Monk and Siren

Abbeydale – Black Lurcher – Stout **served from the wood** – 7.0%

Abbeydale – Burnt Ends – Rauchwine – Event Exclusive – 8.0%

Abbeydale – Daily Bread – Best Bitter – 3.8%

Abbeydale – L3mon Cub3d – Lemon, Lemongrass & Lemon Thyme Pale – Event Exclusive – 6.5%

Abbeydale – Mango Heathen – Event Exclusive – 4.1%

Abbeydale – Marauder – El Dorado Session IPA – 3.8%

Abbeydale – Reaper 1 – Hopfenweisse – 5.0%

Abbeydale – Salvation 1 – Coconut Stout – 5.5%

Abbeydale – Salvation 2 – Rice Pudding Stout **with jam** – Event Exclusive – 5.9%

Abbeydale – Voyager 1 – Citra, Centennial and Mosaic IPA – 5.6%

Abbeydale – Voyager 2 – Galaxy, Vic Secret and Sorachi Ace IPA – 5.9%

Abbeydale – Why Not Give Even More of a Toss – Pale Ale – 4.0% – Brewed for the Festival of Debate

Beer Ink – Starbeer – Peanut Butter, Chocolate and Caramel Stout – 8.5% -Collaboration with Steel City and Lost Industry

Magic Rock – The Magic Spanner – Pale Ale – 3.9%

Northern Monk – Patron’s Project Helvellyn – IPA – 5.0%

Siren Craft Brew – White Tips – White IPA – 4.7%

Keg

Abbeydale – 4 Degrees of Separation – IPA – 7.0% – Collaboration with Magic Rock, Northern Monk and Siren

Abbeydale – Boston Booze Party – East Coast IPA – Event Exclusive – 9.9%

Abbeydale – Burnt Toast – Toasted Oatmeal Stout – Event Exclusive – 11.0%

Abbeydale – Deception – Dry Hopped Pale Ale – Event Exclusive – 4.1%

Abbeydale – Double Brimstone – American Brown Ale – 8.1%

Abbeydale – Encantada – Neolithic Fruited Gruit – First Pour – 7.1% – Collaboration with Instituto de la Cerveza Artesana

Abbeydale – Last Rites – Barley Wine – 11.0%

Abbeydale – Old Smoakey – Barrel Aged Smoked Porter – 5.7%

Abbeydale – Salvation 1 – Coconut Stout – 5.5%

Abbeydale – Tangerine Pale – Brett Fermented Pale – Event Exclusive – 5.6%

Abbeydale – Tropic Like It’s Hot – Pineapple and Grapefruit IPA – 6.0% – Collaboration with Beer Ink

Abbeydale – Unbeliever 1 – Barrel Aged Berlinner Weisse – 4.0%

Abbeydale – Unbeliever 2 – Gose **with Japanese pea flowers** – Event Exclusive – 3.9%

Abbeydale – Voyager 2 – Galaxy, Vic Secret and Sorachi Ace IPA – 5.9%

Abbeydale – Wanderer – Belgian Tripel Saison – 8.5%

Beer Ink – S’more Than A Feeling – Imperial S’mores Stout – 9.0% – Collaboration with Abbeydale Brewery

Magic Rock – Fantasma – IPA **Gluten Free** – 6.5%

Northern Monk – Esben Bø Jensen – Double Dry Hopped Saison – 7.0% – Collaboration with Alefarm

Siren Craft Brew – Acid Jam – Imperial Kettle Sour – 9.7%

Twisted Barrel – Detroit Sour City – Berliner Weisse – 4.5

Please note that due to the limited availability of some of these beers, although each session will have them available to start with, we cannot guarantee their availability all day!

Tank

We are happy to confirm that we will be serving the following beers straight from the tank!

Moonshine – Pale Ale – 4.3%

Deception – NZ Pale Ale – 4.1%

Heathen – American Pale Ale – 4.1%

Revelation – Pale Ale – 4.1%

All cask and keg beers will be available in third of a pint, half pint and pint measures. Tank beer can be served by the pint only.

The evening session is now verrrrry close to being sold out, but you can still get one of the last few tickets, or one for our afternoon session, at crowdfunder.co.uk/abbeydalebrewery.

Cheers!

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It’s our party we can brew what we want!

It's our party we can brew what we want!

We promised special beers and here they are! These are all exclusive to our brewery event on Saturday May 6th and so will not be going on general release. Some are small batch brews conjured up by our wonderful brewers, with others being unique twists on some of our most well loved beers and styles. Assuming all goes to plan, here’s our super special Abbeydale line up…

Deception… ON KEG! For the first time ever we’re fizzing up our beloved Deception, and enhancing the flavours with the addition of fresh grapefruits. Finally, it’s going to be dry hopped with more Nelson Sauvin along with Galaxy and Mosaic.

Heathen…. ON CASK! With added mangoes for an extra burst of fruity flavour intended to boost the wonderful Mosaic hop.

Salvation 2: Wi’ Jam In – Rice Pudding Stout, with a dollop of strawberry jam straight into cask for an even more authentic school dinner experience!

Peaflower Gose – a beer like you’ve never seen before, quite literally. Decided against calling it German Blue…

Tangerine Pale – primary fermented with a rarely used strain of Brettanomyces, that results in a wild beer but without the barnyard funk that’s so often associated with Brett. Dry hopped with Galaxy and Vic Secret.

Burnt Ends – a smoky and sumptuous Rauchwine.

L3mon Cub3d – a lemon, lemongrass and lemon thyme pale.

Boston Booze Party – an Imperial East Coast IPA with (direct quote) “loads of hops”.

Burnt Toast – a rich and luscious toasted oatmeal stout.

Obviously we’ll have plenty of our usual suspects available too, including (we hope, subject to yeast behaving) beer served direct from the tank!

Full beer list including guest beers to be confirmed next week!

Tickets available now at crowdfunder.co.uk/abbeydalebrewery

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4 Degrees of Separation

4 Degrees of Separation

Collaboration time again here at Abbeydale – and this time it was a particularly special one for us as it meant a reunion day in the brewhouse too!

In our first EVER four-way collab, three guys who spent time at Abbeydale earlier in their careers returned for one day only… Dave Kerr from Northern Monk, Richard Morley from Magic Rock, and Sam Lee from Siren all back in town, teaming up with our very own Jamie Memmott to create a hop forward, super juicy IPA that’s bound to knock your socks off.

We’ve got a pretty damn extensive hop store here, and the guys had free reign over the shelves. They’ve gone for four absolute powerhouses of the humulus lupulus world – Nelson Sauvin taking centre stage, backed up by Amarillo, Cascade and Galaxy, to provide a massive hit of gooseberry and grapefruit flavours with floral notes, passion fruit and orange lingering on the palate.

It was a great day having the old gang back together, and definitely an eventful brewday (particularly as Sam brought us all some of Siren’s new release Bourbon Milkshake, an 11% milk stout, to try, there’s probably a good reason why this isn’t described as a breakfast beverage) with everyone pitching in and Morley up to his usual tricks of trying to fix everything (even when it wasn’t necessarily broken…) Speaking of pitching, our house yeast has been replaced in this brew by US-05, which accidentally ended up on a van having a little tour around Sheffield shortly before it was needed in the beer! Thankfully our driver brought it back just in the nick of time and it’s now happily fermenting away.

We are mega excited to find out how this beer, named "4 Degrees of Separation", turns out! Keep your eyes peeled for details of where this will available soon… we have a feeling it won’t be around for long!

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Brewers Emporium launch night!

Brewers Emporium launch night!

Please join us at the Devonshire Cat next Thursday 16th March any time from 5pm to celebrate the launch of our fantastic new range as part of Sheffield Beer Week! The full range will be available across cask and keg. Open until 2am!

The Brewers Emporium range is a constantly rotating and evolving series of beers, where our brilliant brewers have been given free reign to select unusual and interesting ingredients to create exciting recipes for your drinking delights. The new beers will sit alongside existing core keg beer Heathen, an American style pale ale which is likely to be a familiar sight to many of you! Look out for Voyager IPA, Salvation stout, Reaper cereal (killer) beer and more!

Also being released under the Brewers Emporium banner is something we are all VERY excited about… our Funk Dungeon project, where we intend to explore barrel ageing, souring, and mixed fermentation beers. You can now follow the Funk Dungeon on Twitter @AbbeydaleFunk – look us up!

The artwork for the Brewers Emporium range has been created by artist James Murphy, who started working with us in 2016, beginning with the distinctive Heathen branding that has successfully launched our new and exciting craft beer range. James’ original and detailed work for the ever-expanding new range will allow each beer to stand out on bars and beer shelves across the country, with each beer represented in James’ characteristic, hand-drawn style.  An exhibition of James’ artwork will accompany the beer at our launch event next week, so come on down for what promises to be a brilliant evening!

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Encantada

Encantada

It’s an exciting week at Abbeydale Brewery as we are hosting our friends Daniel Fermun and Iñigo Echeverria from Instituto de la Cerveza Artesana (I. C. A) and renowned craft beer bar Abirradero in Barcelona for a very special collaboration brew.

Today we are brewing something a little bit different to our usual beers… An unhopped fruited gruit that will be packaged with B’ Lambicus for an ever-developing flavour.

“Gruit”, or “Grut”, means herb – a popular addition to beers many moons ago. A brewers’ blend of herbs and spices often remained a very closely guarded secret, much like some breweries treat their hop additions today! After the passage of the Reinheitsgebot in 1516, the gruit ale gradually faded away into obscurity.

Our recipe is loosely based around I.C.A.’s incredible Neolithic style fruited gruit, Encantada. It is based on a recipe akin to one found in caves with remnants of early settlements not far from the Catalonian capital. Archaeologists found residual evidence of the oldest remains of brewing beer in Europe, a wheat and honey beer that was flavoured with thyme.

For today’s collaboration, we have decided to produce a beer a little more in tune with British tastes, based on a traditional ale, with mugwort, yarrow, juniper berries and heather flowers.  We are also using a small portion of lightly smoked malt to emulate the flavours of more ancient malt drying techniques.

The beer, coming in at a target 7.4% ABV, will be fermented with a mix of our own house yeast and a Belgian strain of Abbaye yeast for its ability to ferment higher gravity worts and alcohol. Towards the end of fermentation we will be splitting part of the wort off into wooden barrels with our house mélange of wild yeasts and bacteria and leaving it to age for a year or so – we aim to release it for International Gruit Day (yes, that is a real thing!) on February 1st next year. In the meantime, the remainder of the wort will be fruited liberally with raspberries before being transferred with locally sourced honey and a secondary pitching of Brett Lambicus before being allowed to secondary condition in kegs, both for the purposes of ageing for the Brett character to shine or to be drunk fresh for a fruit forward beer.

Salut!

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Poet in Residence

Poet in Residence

Last summer, we were invited to take part in the “Poet in Residence” project as part of Sheffield’s Year of Making programme (read more about the project at opusindependents.com/projects/wordlife/wordlife-projects/digital-poet-in-residence/) which was to culminate in a showcase of readings given at Wordlife’s 10th birthday party in November.

We were paired up with the wonderful Gav Roberts, a self-proclaimed beer fan who brought with him an infectious enthusiasm and an absolute passion for his work.  As part of the residency, Gav had to spend a minimum of ten hours with us, learning about the way we work, interviewing our team and of course sampling some of our wares, which we’re sure he found particularly arduous…! We had such a laugh we’re thinking of taking him on permanently 😉

The reading itself took place at Weston Park museum, where Gav was let loose alongside the three other poets in residence – Charlotte Ansell, Gevi Carver and James Giddings, who had been working with Portland Works, Hope Works and Archipelago Gallery respectively. Not only was there a more traditional reading, inside the museum itself (a sell-out event!), but each poet had their work broadcasted on the side of the building… a triumphant spectacle indeed! It was a great night and felt like such a fitting tribute to our wonderful industrial city and its history.

We hear Gav’s also been working on an Abbeydale-themed epic, fitting in oodles of our beer names, which we absolutely can’t wait to hear!

A massive thank you to Now Then magazine and Wordlife for having us on board.

Cheers!

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    A true Sheffield institution founded in 1996 and employee owned since 2024, Abbeydale Brewery blends heritage and tradition with creativity and innovation, showcasing these values across an unparalleled range of beers.

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