Christmas social Derby/Sheffield 23rd December

[Andrew Cullen]

Sorry for the short notice, but to celebrate the birthday of Simon Tailby, the North Warwickshire Young Members contact, a social has been arranged meeting at Derby then heading up to Sheffield to do the Supertram crawl, all are welcome.

 

Meet at Derby station at 11:34 for selected pubs in Derby. Then it's the 13:28 train to Sheffield, where we will visit the Sheffield Tap which has recently opened on the railway station. It's a restored Edwardian refreshment room featuring 8 handpulled ales from Thornbridge Brewery and up to 200 bottled beers from around the world, as well as some interesting international beers on draught. We then buy a day ticket for Sheffield's Supertram system and use it to get to a number of good real ale pubs along the route, which includes the brewery taps for Sheffield Brewery Company (Gardeners Rest), Little Ale Cart Brewery (Wellington), Kelham Island Brewery (Fat Cat) and Crown Brewery (Hillsborough Hotel) along with last years National Pub of the Year - the Kelham Island Tavern. If time we shall also visit some fairly cool City Centre bars that serve real ale. We will aim to be back at Sheffield station by 8pm (if you need to get back earlier simply jump on a tram back there).

 

Kind Regards

 

Andrew Cullen

Chairman & Beer Matters magazine editor

Sheffield & District Campaign for Real Ale

 

www.sheffieldcamra.org.uk