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The Beauchief Relaunches & Everyone's Welcome

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The event will start mid-afternoon with entertainment for kids and carry on into the evening, with food, cooking demos, beer & cocktail tasting, DJs and more. The whole building will be open, including the bedrooms, and everyone is welcome to attend. £10 vouchers for the restaurant to the first 500 attendees and beer vouchers to the first 100. @BeauchiefSheff

Beer X Marks Sheffield as Hotspot

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“ Arguably one of Britain’s greatest brewing cities ,” Renowned beer writer and local lad Pete Brown, citing Sheffield as a brewing city to watch out for. The Society of Independent Brewer’s ( SIBA ) annual conference welcomed beer producers, suppliers and consumers to Sheffield for a three day event culminating with an immense BeerX festival back in March. The occasion combined numerous events from the organisation to provide one platform wholly celebrating the success and importance of the brewing industry in Britain. Having gained 100 new SIBA members within the last year, the society represents a good chunk of the industry with 652 members. Industry speakers at the conference included head brewer Garrett Oliver from Brooklyn Brewery , Shadow Minister for Small Business Toby Perkins MP, Community Pubs Minister Brandon Lewis and chef/TV presenter Simon Rimmer, providing a diverse mix of voices over the three day event. With the announcement a couple of weeks later fr

Record Store Day...it's bigger than Christmas...Events listing

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LP Store, Sheffield 2013 Events Record Store Web Audio Gold - London Audio Gold are having a free turntable surgery in the shop on RSD, with their best man on hand to offer help and advice and carry out minor surgery there and then for free (parts will be charged of course). Larger/longer issues we will book jobs in for later. They’ll also be full of all sorts of vinyl accessories for the day, again to focus on the fact that vinyl is at its brilliant best when ones turntable has had a little love. The record store itself will be plumped out with several collections we've been holding back and some guest stalls from collectors/dealers and of course RSD releases. We always keep bins of good records that we sell at £1 a piece in aid of Gilles Petersons Steve Reid Foundation, which is a tributary of the Musicians Benevolent Fund. We'll be plumping them out too, so there'll be bundles of bargains to be had. Live bands performing in store all day. Avalanche –

Cooking with Craft Union

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“Nothing quenches the thirst like a Wheat Beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India Pale Ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a Dry Porter or Stout, or accompanies chocolate like an Imperial Stout. Nothing soothes like a Barley Wine.” Legendary beer writer, Michael Jackson’s extract from ‘The Beer Hunter’ is a simple introduction to the world of food and beer pairing and although this dining concept is new to many, it has been gaining some ground over the last few years. Indeed, brew master of the widely acclaimed Brooklyn Brewery, Garrett Oliver , was another early champion with his seminal publication ‘The Brewmaster’s Table’ some ten years ago. Back here in the UK the idea of pairing food with something other than wine has been bubbling away for some time. St Austell Brewery in Cornwall offers visitors a tour which finishes in its restaurant where Cornish hog’s puddings are partnered with a glass of Proper Job, an authentic IPA made with Cornish spring wa

Your Local: The Red Deer

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The Reader: Clare Tollick, food blogger @FeastAndGlory Why is this ‘Your Local’? “Very local for me as I live just around the corner. There is always friendly, welcoming staff behind the bar. They cook good Sunday dinners with locally sourced meat from butchers John Crawshaw , plus it’s enormous!” Favourite tipple: Stouts and porters are Clare’s favs and with the Red Deer having a rotating beer choice means there is always something new to try on each visit. On a recent visit Clare savoured Nook Brewery’s Cherry Stout 5.2 per cent (brewed in Holmfirth). The Local: In August 2010 New Zealander Jacob Nickles took over the lease of the Red Deer from Punch giving it a new direction and increasing the selection of quality real ales available to nine handpulls. Two Yorkshire beers are a constant mainstay in addition to well-loved nationals and interesting guests plus one, as Camra says, ‘real’ cider. As cellar manager Jacob can ensure the quality of the cask offering and is prou