25/10/2026
Here here 🍻
Sheffield has been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2029. What an achievement for everyone and the city 📣💚 Recognition for its incredible cultural scene!
We just want to shout out the brilliant ‘B**r Culture’ as Sheffield B**r Week particularly. Brewing is hugely creative (obviously balanced with a lot of graft and cleaning!), creating b**r recipes to achieve look, aroma, and flavours that people will appreciate and enjoy, artwork and lots more, to deliver the finish packaged b**r.
In addition cask ale is an inherently unique and British way of brewing and serving b**r that takes in multiple processes, people and then from brewery to the final venue and cellar person itself to look after and serve this historic, yet thoroughly modern ale. In ways that could really be said to be recognised by the likes of as intangible cultural heritage. Sheffield is a city where cask has always been brewed, revered, respected, and valued - across generations. The city has b**r and brewing heritage and history intertw**ed in its landscapes, architectural DNA, pubs AND people.
In 2016 and 2024 The University of Sheffield ‘B**r Report’ highlighted its potential stake as the ‘Real Ale Capital of the World’ with a thriving brewing industry, b**r tourism and positive regeneration in the steel city. Not to mention that stainless steel was created in the city by Harry Brearley, in 1913, which has driven another transformational change globally in b**r and brewing practically, and economically. Harry Brearley’s discovery fundamentally transformed b**r production!
This year under our ‘Synth City’ b**r week theme we discovered so many stories of Sheffield’s electronic and synth pioneers performing their early gigs in local pubs. Imagine seeing Cabaret Voltaire in 1978 at The Broadfield as one example of many! Just cementing how pubs can serve as the vital bedrock of the live music ecosystem, which continues through till today. B**r and music so intrinsically and symbiotically linked.
We could go on, but we won’t, we’ll just thank and recognise the local breweries, pubs, venues, b**r shops, people (both sides of the bar/counter!) -
Past and present. Cheers 🍻
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