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Your Local: The Old House

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The Reader : Phil Vintin, chief elf @HelpSheffield Why is this ‘Your Local’?   “Good food and good music. The menu offers gluten free options and a wide selection of local beer.” The Local:   This eclectic Division Street late night music junkie boozer offers 6 hand pulled ales and 12 draught taps including many a continental and American craft beer from Anchor and Brooklyn breweries.  The hand pulls rotate offering beer from the likes of Saltaire, Marble, Abbeydale, Kelham Island, Magic Rock and new local start up Stancill (their Barnsley Bitter is a local award winner). House ales can be purchased for £2.50 a pint Monday through to Friday 5-9pm making this a destination not only for beer choice but for price too. Last month the beer menu was revitalised and re-launched. They now showcase an extensive bottled range with Belgian favourites St Bernardus, Urthel and Orval sitting alongside quirkier European offerings from Norwegian innovators Nogne O. Much like fami

Tickets up NOW! Indy Man Beer Con - Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th October 2014

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Straight from the festival organisers.........tickets now up for sale! Get in quick I say. Indy Man Beer Con - Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th October 2014 Victoria Baths, Hathersage Rd, Manchester. "A joyous event held in the crumbling splendour of the Victoria Baths"  -  The Guardian “Indy Man Beer Con has rewritten the rules on what a British beer festival looks like”  -  Financial Times Independent Manchester Beer Convention  (Indy Man Beer Con/IMBC) is a world class showcase for the best breweries from the UK and beyond. Returning to the stunning surrounds of the Grade II listed, architectural gem Victoria Baths for it’s 3 rd  year, running from  Thursday 9th October to Sunday 12th October , IMBC brings together the most progressive, forward thinking breweries from across the UK, Europe and USA for a multisensory, headlong, hop-forward beer extravaganza. Spread across 5 rooms over 4 days with more than 80 taps serving up the finest bee