Welcome to the Bambers Beer Blog. In this blog I am going to be posting about the different places we drink and what Beer we had when we were there. I have been doing this for a while on Twitter and thought it's time to expand the amount of characters I'm aloud to use. So we start in Sheffield. My old uni ground.
On future blogs I will put pictures on but I was practically phoneless when I was in Sheffield so pictures weren't going to happen on my spare.
First pub we go to is the fat cat. Brewery tap to the kelham island brewery. There is nothing bad I can say about this pub. I had the kelham best bitter which was cheap and really tasty. A nice session ale.
The plan was to go to the kelham island tavern next but it was just too busy. We would not fit in.
So the second pub we went to was the Shakespeare. This is another old fashioned pub with plenty of real ales on. Again very busy but we managed to grab a seat this time. I have a pint of the Barnsley bitter by the stancill brewery. After it was poured I heard either one of the regulars or bar man call it Barnsley sh****r which put me off slightly but it tasted fine. Not to much substance to it though.
At this point we were getting hungry so headed to the Benjamin huntsman spoons pub. It was typical spoons. Very busy but the food was what you expected and nice and cheap.
After this we had a quick pitstop at the hotel. It was my first time stopping in an ibis and was very impressed.
We then headed to the Rutland arms. When I was at uni I really liked this pub but I found it was trying a little too hard. Trying to be hipster that is. I had a pint from the yeovil brewery. There Christmas Beer which was very tasty. But the super loud jukebox playing random music when no one was touching it was winding me up a little.
Fifth pub and still my favourite in Sheffield was the bath. An old fashioned pub owned by the Thornbridge brewery. Stayed for 2 beers here. First being the amber ale by the pig and porter brewery and the second was the chop and change by the vocation brewery which was way too fruity for me.
Sixth and final pub of the day was the 3tuns. An interesting shaped building. A gem with all the concrete crap offices around it. I started with a pint of the kelham brewery easy rider which is a fantastic pint then I tried a pint of the blue bee brewery beer which was tasty but a little cloudy. Not sure if it was ment to be. Didn't say on the clip.
I love Sheffield for real ale and missed a couple of pubs so will definitely be back
Bamber out.
