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Winter is rapidly approaching, and with it comes more of a thirst for settling down for a cold evening with a pint (or several) of a roasty, toasty dark beer. So we thought it was about time for Black Mass to take its turn in having a bit of a makeover for our 20^th birthday celebratory series!

Given that Black Mass is quite the heavyweight already at a devilish 6.66%, we’ve ramped up some of the flavour components but brought down the ABV to create a robust yet still eminently quaffable beer. All hail BABY BLACK MASS – a 4.8% espresso stout, brewed in just the same way as our original sultry dark ale but with hefty additions of freshly ground coffee and lactose for a full-bodied, extravagantly bitter-sweet tipple.

Following on his spectacular range of our anniversary year artwork, Carl Flint (http://www.carlflint.com/) has once again reimagined the original design to give this special beer it’s own identity whilst remaining in keeping with the history behind it.

On sale from November 21^st so keep your eyes peeled for this popping up on bars round Sheffield and beyond soon!

Mine’s a pint!

Here at brewery HQ, Team Abbeydale are professed foodie lovers. We love good food almost as much as we love good beer, and the marriage of the 2 together is just exactly how it should be done in our books!

There’s pizza, and then there’s PIZZA. And we think the guys at Proove have nailed it. Using the freshest and best quality ingredients, they make pizza the ‘Napoli way’ with delicious crispy bases, the finest Italian meats and cheeses, all baked in their incredible wood fired oven.

And what, we ask, would you prefer to wash down that pizza slice with? BEER!! Of course. And we wanted to take the opportunity to showcase some of our favourite beers of the moment along side a specially crafted menu of antipasti, pizzas, parmigiana and even a naughty dessert.

 

Tickets are available from Proove:

Proove Broomhill | 261 Fulwood Rd | Sheffield | S10 3BD

By telephone on 0114 294 5185

Join us in the feast!

Tuesday 15^th November, 7.30pm

6 courses matches with 6 beers

£30

 

Here is our carefully crafted menu to excite the taste buds….

Parmigiana with Goat’s Cheese

Served with a glass of ICED TEA DEAD PEOPLE

Peach iced tea beer – 4.6%

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Antipasti Selection

A selection of meats, cheeses & vegetables, served with rosemary and salt focaccia

Served with a glass of FLOR DE LA MAR

Centennial hopped pale ale – 4.1%

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Pizza Gamberetti

Fior Di Latte, San Marzano tomatoes, gamberetti, asparagus, garlic, basil oil

OR

Pizza Verde (V)

Fior Di Latte, San Marzano tomatoes, asparagus, courgette, artichoke, garlic, basil oil

Served with a glass of FROLICKER

Sorachi Ace hopped Session IPA – 3.8%

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Pizza Quattro Formaggi

Fior Di Latte, Ricotta, Parmesan, Gorgonzola

Served with a glass of HEATHEN

American pale ale – 4.1%

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Calzone Vesuvius

Salami Picante, speck, red onion, Fior di Latte, chilli

OR

Calzone Fungi (V)

Portobello mushrooms, red onion, Provola (smoked Mozzarella), garlic, chilli

Served with a glass of FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST STOUT

Smoked malts, cacao, coffee and maple syrup – 4.9%

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Chocolate Cheesecake

Served with macerated cherries, steeped in Amaretto

Served with a glass of RED PARALLAX

Belgian cherry red ale – 4.7%

What do you get when you barrel age Black Mass over dates, vanilla pods, cherries, cocktail cherries, sultanas AND then blend it with super fresh Absolution and lactose? You get Just Desserts!

We are very excited to announce our latest alcoholic dessert concoction and this Christmas Pudding Black & Tan has arrived just in time for the festive season. It’s alcohol content is currently being calculated so still to be confirmed but it will be landing around the 6 percent mark. It’s going to be available in cask and keykeg from late November. There is a very limited quantity available due to its barrel aged nature so get your pre-orders in soon as we already have a couple reserved!

National Cask Ale Week starts tomorrow and runs until October 2nd. The eagle eyed amongst you might spot that this is actually an 11 day long “week”, but when it’s in celebration of our beloved beer, who are we to argue?!

Cask beer is far and away the majority of our production here at Abbeydale (even though our keg offering continues to grow massively this year!) and we’re pretty darn proud of it too. With our hugely popular core range, alongside weekly specials ranging from pale and hoppy ales to fruity and roasty stouts, there’s always plenty of variety available and something to suit every palate. One of the aims of Cask Ale Week is to encourage more people to try real ale, and as autumn draws in we reckon there’s nothing finer than spending an evening in a cosy pub with a couple of pints.

You can find out more at caskaleweek.co.uk including details of upcoming events in your area.

Mine’s a Moonshine… Cheers!

Due to ever increasing demand, we’ve just taken delivery of two new brewery vessels! A 60BBL (brewers’ barrels) fermenter – this equates to a capacity of over 17,000 pints – and a 60BBL conditioning tank, increasing our brewhouse production by 25%. In drinking terms, that’s a potential of an extra 898,560 pints!!

These have been specially commissioned to enable us to increase production of our flagship beer, Moonshine, whilst freeing up precious space in our smaller vessels to allow us to continue experimenting with new beer styles and flavours.

It was a bit of a hair raising afternoon with our not-enormous access absolutely pushed to the limits, however we are pleased to report that both vessels are now settling in to their new homes. Now for the immensely satisfying job of peeling off the protective coating…!

The story of this beer, as all good stories do, began in a pub. Myself (Christie) and Josh from Blue Bee were drunkenly admiring the many qualities of the Sorachi Ace hop over a pint of Brass Castle’s ‘Life’s A Beach’. And we both thought that it would be fun to take a similar idea to the next level and make something boozier. So to Makro it was to clean out the shelves of pineapple and dessicated coconut. Two weeks later and after a very full mash tun we have crafted ‘Getting Caught In the Rain’, our Pina Colada IPA at a very healthy 6.9% ABV! To give you an insight into how tasty it will be, it contains a mere 25 kgs of pineapple, 25 kgs of lactose and 15 kgs of lovingly hand toasted desiccated coconut  (that took far too long, don’t try this at home). What sounds more appetising than pineapple, coconut and booze?! Available very soon in cask and KEY KEG (shock horror) via Blue Bee Brewery.

Peace and love,

Christie 

Sunfest is almost upon us once more! This year, not only is it our 20th birthday here at Abbeydale, but it’s also the tenth Sunfest… a double cause for celebration!

Sunfest X starts on Thursday 7th July at the Rising Sun, Fulwood Road, Sheffield, and runs until Sunday 10th July. Here’s what to expect by way of cask ales!

 

Abbeydale	Not Just Jam	4.1%
Abbeydale	Barrel Aged Black Mass	6.66%
Abbeydale	Hop Smash	7.4%
Abbeydale	Red Wit and Blue	4.6%
Abbeydale	Sipper	3.7%
Acorn	England’s Dreaming	4.5%
Alechemy	Line Breaker	5.0%
Alechemy	Bad Day At The Office	4.5%
Ashover	About Thyme	4.5%
Ayr Brewing Co	Hiphopopotamus	4.0%
Bad Co	Slow Rider	2.8%
Bad Seed	Summer Ale	3.8%
Bad Seed	Session IPA	4.0%
Barlow Brewery	Orange Is The New Black	5.0%
Black Iris	Dark Angel	4.5%
Black Metal	Will-O-The-Wisp	6.0%
Blue Bee	Amarella Pale	3.9%
Bollington	Eastern Nights	5.6%
Bournemouth Brew Co	Stouty McStoutface	4.3%
Bradford	Northern Soul	3.8%
Bradford	Solero MK2	4.2%
Brass Castle	Mint Royale	3.3%
Brass Castle	Moka	5.0%
Brewster’s	Brittania’s Brew	4.8%
Brown Cow	Over The Moon Gold	4.2%
Caveman Brewery	Neolithic	4.1%
Cerne Abbas	Gurt Stout	6.2%
Chantry	Teeming Gold	4.3%
Chin Chin	Chin Up	3.8%
Cromarty	Brewed Awakening	4.7%
Dancing Duck	Sapphire	4.2%
Dorset Brewing Co	Chesil	4.1%
Emmanuales	Glory, Glory Aleluia	5.1%
Exit 33	Ginger Daze	3.8%
Fallen	Chew Chew	6.0%
Fernandes	Butterscotch & Raisin	4.7%
Five Kingdoms	Bysbie Blonde	4.5%
Fixed Wheel	The Kaiser	5.0%
Fixed Wheel	Summer Smiles	4.8%
Flipside	The Euro	4.1%
Fool Hardy	Risky’s Ginger Sister	4.0%
Great Heck	Proverbs 31:6	6.0%
Hilltop	Raspberry Beret	4.7%
Hopcraft	Mate, Spawn & Die	5.4%
Hopcraft	Temple Of Love	3.8%
Hopjacker	Spanish Suspect	4.7%
Intrepid	Journeys #5 – NZPA	4.3%
Jaw Brew	Surf	4.3%
Kelburn	Goldihops	3.8%
Kelham Island	Imperial Stout	7.0%
Kingston Farm	Zummertime	3.9%
Lenton Lane	Outpost	4.5%
Little Critters	Rye Fox	4.3%
Lost Industry	Lizzie Ward EIPA	6.5%
Magpie	Five For Silver	3.9%
Martland Mill	Lancashire Loom	4.2%
Martland Mill	Bombers	4.4%
Merlin Brewing Co	Dragon Slayer	5.6%
Neepsend Brew Co	Astraeus	4.2%
Northern Monk	Heathen	7.2%
Northern Monk	Eternal	4.1%
Oakham	Enough Rope	4.3%
Oldershaw	Ultimate Goal	4.6%
Ossett	Sizzler	4.0%
Partners	Mungo Mild	4.4%
Pied Bull	Matador	5.0%
Pilot	Orange/Green	5.1%
Pot Belly	Crazy Daze	5.5%
Prospect	Ginger Stinger	4.4%
Rat	Iron Rat	4.8%
Rat	Ratsputin	7.4%
Raw	All Along The Herb Garden	3.9%
Raw	Gin & Tonic	3.8%
Redwillow	Weightless	4.2%
Revolutions	The Paris Match	4.5%
Revolutions	Rip It Up	4.5%
Riverhead	Honey Blonde	4.5%
Saltaire	Belgian Red	7.2%
Seven Bro7hers	Water Melon Wheat Beer	4.5%
Sheffield Brewery	Festivale	4.0%
Slightly Foxed	Fox Glove	4.3%
Steel City	Beleidigung Zur Geshichte	5.3%
Sunbeam Ales	Honey & Lavender	5.2%
Sunny Republic	Guardian Angel	4.0%
Swannay	Island Hopping	3.9%
Tarn 51	Par 4	4.0%
Tarn 51	About Time	4.8%
Titanic	They Think It’s Ale Over	4.5%
Toolmakers	Vardy’s Measure	3.8%
VOG	Dark Matter	4.4%
Waen	Bunny Boiler	4.2%
Waen	Lemon Drizzle	3.7%
Welbeck Abbey	Flying Start	4.2%
Windswept	Weizen	5.2%
XT / Animal	Sloth	4.6%
Yeovil Ales	Hop 125	4.2%

 

We’ve also got an extended keg selection available this year. Firstly, we are thrilled to be putting on a real showcase of our keg range…

 

Abbeydale	Heathen	4.1%
Abbeydale	Last Rites	11.0%
Abbeydale	Double Brimstone	8.1%
Abbeydale	Lady Ra Ra	4.5%
Abbeydale	Full Moon Lager	4.3%

As well as this, we’ve gone with a bit of an international flavour this year, here’s a taster of what’s to come…

Arbor	Basta Rosse	5.0%
Bad Seed/Mashtun & Meow	Mojito: Lime Gose	4.9%
Black Iris/True North	Morning Glory	5.0%
Blackjack	Belgian IPA	6.0%
Brew Age	Hopfenauflauf	5.4%
Buxton	Nth Cloud	8.2%
Dry & Bitter	Alone In The Dark	6.7%
Elgood’s	Coolship Ale	6.0%
Firestone Walker	Velvet Merlin	5.5%
Gypsy Inc	Pale Trail	4.7%
Gypsy Inc	Tipsy Gypsy	4.7%
Hardknott	Brownian Motion	4.5%
Pica (Magpie)	Oatmeal Stout	6.5%
Redwillow	Faithless 54	4.6%
To Ol	Sur Mosaic	6.0%
White Hag	Fionnabhair	5.0%
Yeastie Boys	Pot Kettle Black	6.0%

Last month we embarked on our very first run of bottled beers, and we chose the first of our special birthday beers Double Brimstone – 8.1%! So for a few weeks, the 150 bottles were conditioning nicely at the brewery, and when they were ready, we have sent them out into trade! Find below where will be stocking them so you can find yours!

The bottles are 750ml sharing bottles that have been bottled conditioned and wax sealed. Price will vary by outlet.

Sheffield

The Rising Sun
Devonshire Cat
Archer Road Beer Stop
Beer Central
The Dram Shop
Starmore Boss
Turner’s
Walkley Beer Co.

Outside of Sheffield

Beer Stop – Dronfield
Brew Cavern – Nottingham
Cotteridge Wines and Ales – Birmingham
Tall Boys Beer Market – Leeds
Three Stags Head – Wardlow Mires, Peak District. 

We would like to announce the newest permanent beer to our range. 

When we first started brewing keg beers early in 2014, we set about a series of one-off beers that were (imaginatively) named ‘Pale Ale #1′, ‘Pale Ale #2′ etc.  Our favourite recipe was ‘Pale Ale #6′, which formed the basis of Mosaic. The initial artwork for Mosaic was originally intended to be a stop gap and the long term plan had always been to rebrand the beer at some point.

So we set about upon a task of coming up with a new name for this wonderful beer.  We wanted something that was worthy of us shouting about, something that recognised our past, but also can help drive the image of the brewery forward in this ever changing industry.  We enlisted the talents of a new, young artist who is starting to create a name for his work, especially in relation to good beer, and I hope you agree he has done a fine job. We hope this is the start of a long working relationship between him and the brewery.

We present Abbeydale Brewery ‘Heathen – American Pale Ale’, with artwork by James D Murphy.  

Now in just it’s second year, Sheffield Beer Week has already firmly established itself as a key part of the events calendar, not just here at Abbeydale but across Sheffield and beyond. Co-ordinated by beer guru Jules Gray, who also runs bottle shop Hop Hideout, Sheffield Beer Week hosts events galore and is a real showcase of the breweries, pubs and other beery venues worth shouting about in our fine city.

Sheffield Beer Week also handily happens to be at the same time as the SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers) Beer X conference and festival, meaning that there are already hundreds if not thousands of beer lovers in the area and plenty of brewery folk around to both lead and attend events.

Here’s a little overview of what we’ve got going on…

Firstly, we’ve made a special collaboration beer in conjunction with beer bloggers Mashtun and Meow (mashtunandmeow.co.uk) and food and beer events duo Karma Citra (@KarmaCitra on twitter). “Wet Yer Whiskers” is a 5.5% unfiltered coffee white stout brewed with oats, lactose and cacao nibs. Look out for it popping up on bars across the city!

On Tuesday 15th March, our Office Manager Laura will be teaming up with Liz Casserly, our wonderful GM down at the Devonshire Cat, for a women’s networking event and tasting session. From 7pm, free entry.

Also on Tuesday 15th March, our Sales Director Dan and the beardiest of our brewers, Jim, will be hosting the online Craft Beer Hour from the Rising Sun on Fulwood Road. Expect tweets about the upcoming celebrations for the brewery’s 20th birthday, including our first foray into bottling. There’ll also be a competition to win a bottle from the very first batch! Join in on twitter using #craftbeerhour between 9 and 10pm, or if you’re in the area pop along and have a pint!

On Saturday afternoon (19th March) Liz at the Devonshire Cat is also hosting a tasting session featuring oodles of our beers, perfect if you haven’t had chance to try our whole range yet.

For more of what’s on during the week, a full list of events is available on the Sheffield Beer Week website, sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk.

Some of the Abbeydale team will be spending time at the Beer X conference (Dan’s even presenting a little speech!), and we’re having a big night out at the festival on the Friday too, so please do come and say hello if you spot us!