Meet the Brewer: Steel City Brewing Fri 21st March

Our next Hop Hideout event is with the black metal enigma Dave from Steel City Brewing.

Fri 21st March 7-9pm. Held next door to our shop at Electric Candlelight Cafe (doors open 6.30pm).

With an appetite for IBUs Steel City beers lean towards hop forward brews.

In recent months Steel City have travelled to Fullers, brewing collaborative blonde ale 'Steel'; whilst still finding time to cuckoo brew down at Tool Makers in Sheffield and hooking up with Raw Brewery (Captain Morgan and Unholy Trinity).


On the night you'll sample 6 beers (and maybe a few surprises) - including a Hop Hideout glass £10. Tickets available in shop:
Captain Morgan's Revenge
Unholy Trinity
Phantom of the Hopera
Phantom Extra
Grim Overlords
All Hallows

New Brews

On order & hopefully droppin' by end of week new brews from:

Bevog Brewery
This Austrian brewery is creating a bit of a storm over the t'interwebs - we're sourcing all 4 beers - their pale ale, smoked porter, IPA and oatmeal stout. 

www.facebook.com/BevogBrewery

Mikkeller goodies.....

To Ol

Brewdog

Steel City

Better Beer Blogging with Leigh Linley

Our next event at Electric Candlelight Cafe is with beer blogger, food writer and all round good Yorkshire bloke Leigh Linley: Fri 28th Feb 7-9pm 
(doors 6.30pm) £5 Tickets in Hop Hideout. Free Hop Hideout glass & special offers on Yorkshire beers on the evening. 

Leigh's been writing about beer since 2007 on his blog The Good Stuff and last year he brought out the book - Great Yorkshire Beer, which was checked recently by the New York Times.  

"So, Better Beer Blogging it is – 28th February. Come down to Sheffield, pull up a chair and we’ll have a chat. If you’re thinking about starting a beer blog – perfect. If you’ve been blogging a while but feel a little stuck in a rut - perfect. If you’re just being nosy – perfect. You’re all welcome."

Beer Photo Journal *New brews*

I'll let the photos do the talking:


Ommegang, De Prael, Dominion, Celt Experience, Bear Republic, Titanic, William Bros, Wold Top, Moor, Dark Star, Wye Valley, Bristol Beer Factory, Sam Smiths, Schenider Weisse, CamdenTown, ClownShoes, Vedett, Bad Seed, Ilkley, Five Points, Buxton, Saltaire, Ticketybrew, Emelisse, Flying Dog, Wild Beer Co, Anderson Valley, Harbour, Founders, Brew Fist, NMBCo, Mable, Hitachino, Sly Fox, Brew by Numbers, To Ol, Anarchy.......and breath. 

Inc Wold Top's wheat free Against the Grain

and some Sheppy's cider!

Ilkley Brewery goodies

Pale ales

IPAs

Lager, Kolsch, Pils

Five Points

Stouts

Meet the Brewer: Northern Monk Brew Co Sat 25th Jan

We're really pleased to announce that our first event as Hop Hideout and our first event in 2014, the crew at Northern Monk Brew Co have kindly said yes to hosting a Meet the Brewer night with us. 

The last 12 months have been a perfect storm for this small newly formed Bradford brewery. Developing from home-brewing routes, commercially brewing in June 2013 and launching at the ace Sparrow bier cafe in July to a host of applause from peers.  

Our Meet the Brewer will be hosted at Electric Candlelight Cafe (next door to Hop Hideout) 7-9pm (doors 6.30pm) on Saturday 25th Jan. 

NMBCo brewers will be hosting, taking you through a selection of beers in the session and sharing their story. 


I think we may head to The Broadfield after!


Here's a little taster from NMBCo:

"Progressive, bold, British Craft Beer. From the North, with Love."

We take our influences and ingredients from the best of the World of Beer and brew it in Gods own country. The history, heritage and tradition of a quintessentially British drink, the progressive approach to technique, ingredients and dispense of brewers in the US and the commitment to excellence demonstrated by monastic brewers for thousands of years. 

STRANNIK 

"In a word, superb.
Strannik is a big satisfying Imperial Stout.
It pours as black as pitch with a cappuccino head and its smell is cocoa powder, coffee grounds and sour damsons.
The finish is long and dry, sticky and bitter and very more-ish.
Two beers in and Northern Monk are looking frighteningly good." 

CAMRGB 

"Beer of the Week
Strannik Imperial Stout
So new that few of the drinkers at Leeds International Beer Festival will ever have come across it before, Northern Monk is typical of a crop of confident emergent brewers who have dispensed with the need to produce a standard bitter or a session ale, and have dived straight in at the mad, bad and dangerous end of the market.
Black as death, strong as wine, rich as treacle, Strannik is their take on an Imperial Stout, a style made famous by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia.

At 9% ABV, fiercely strong Strannik is characteristic of the style, now revived by many brewers, notably Masham’s Black Sheep, whose hard-to-find Imperial Russian is one of the best examples out there.
Strannik makes all the right moves – the initial sweetness of treacle giving way to the bitterness of coffee, dark chocolate, woodsmoke, and a long, throat-soothing beautiful aftertaste. Fabulous."

Yorkshire Evening Post 

NEW WORLD IPA 

"And what a way to announce yourself.
A big, juicy, delicious IPA wrapped in an excellent label."

www.camrgb.org - Campaign for Really Good Beer. 


http://www.northernmonkbrew.co/about