Sheffield's Emerging Beer Shops

December 26, 2013

Sheffield is a spectacular place to live if you love your beer – heaps of characterful pubs with good quality and great ranges plus abundant first-rate local breweries. Every day in Sheffield is a beer festival!

Hop Hideout frontage

An emerging and growing beer shop scene has now sprung up - Hop Hideout opened in November on Abbeydale Road (next to The Broadfield pub). Housed within a thriving independent shop community at Vintedge, an arcade of vintage clothes, furniture, records (King Biscuit Time), Electric Candlelight Café and Purdy’s sixties styled salon. Focusing on a handpicked selection of beer from UK independent breweries from Yorkshire and beyond with rotating stock to keep up with the new beer.

Saltaire goodies

Staples like Kelham, Bradfield and Thornbridge alongside Magic Rock, Buxton and Ilkley breweries sit on the shelves. London and Manchester are healthily represented by – The Kernel, Partizan, Weird Beard, Marble, TicketyBrew and Quantum amongst others.

Yes - using beard from the brewmaster's beard.....

America, Belgium and Europe are producing some exciting brews and expect to be able to pick up Rouge, De Molen, Nomada, Nogne and Mikkeller in store.

Showing Sheffield’s appetite for the beery beverage – two further beer shops opened up towards the end of November. Beer Central run by Sean Clarke and his partner situated in the new Moor Market and StarmoreBoss on SharrowVale Road (focusing on specialist spirits and wine in addition) run by Jefferson Boss and Barry Starmore. There’s a sense of affinity between all three in terms of sourcing harder to find independent beer offerings and a desire to share their enthusiasm on the beer ranges.

NMBCo & SWB jostling for space on the shelves on HH

NMBCo

Whether you’re meandering in the new Moor Market, sauntering down SharrowVale Road or ambling in the Antiques Quarter along Abbeydale Road you’ll have a speciality beer shop on your journey - independent to the core and browser friendly (as long as you talk beer!).