SUNFEST, the Rising Sun Beer Festival, 9-12 July 2009

[Andy C]

http://www.risingsunsheffield.co.uk/index.html

 

It's that time of year again and hard to believe we are onto number three already. It doesn't seem like more than a pint or two since Patrick of Abbeydale Brewery said to Rob of The Rising Sun. "I think we should have a beer festival". As always we aim to make it bigger and better than the year before!

 

What's On This Year?

 

* 5 Abbeydale Regulars plus the Shepard Wheel Charity Ale available inside the pub along with our wide selection of belgium bottled beers and our continental lagers.

 

*Abbeydale and Beerworks specials plus more than 50 ales from local and micro breweries across Yorkshire, Manchester and Cumbria in the beer tent.

 

*Real cider and perry avaialble from the beer tent

 

*Soft drinks and low alcohol beers available both inside & out.

 

*Plenty of music and entertainment planned, see below.

 

*Food available all day 12noon to 10pm, including a Hog Roast Saturday 4-10pm!

 

Entertainment Schedule

 

All to take place outside, weather permitting.

 

Friday 10th July:

9-11pm: The Gentlemen of Jazz

 

Saturday 11th July:

2pm: Morris Dancers

4pm: The Loxley Brass Band

9-11pm: Scuppered (folk/rock band)

 

The Charity:

 

Shepard Wheel Restoration Fund

 

Last year between Sunfest and the Charity beer (then Pain in the Arch) we raised over £1000 for cancer patients in Sheffield. This year we want to do evern better or our new chosen charity. Sunfest '09 will be raising moneyfor the Friendsof the Porter Valley Shepard Wheel Restoration Fund.

 

For those os you not local, the Porter Valley is just behind the pub, where the Porter Brook runs from Ringinglow down to Endcliffe Park. It is now a lovely and very popular walk but is also the site of some of the earliest industrial activity in Sheffield with remenants of early water powered industry all the way down the valley.

 

Sheoard Wheel is a water powered grinding wheek where knives, scissors and shears would be ground. The present buildings date from the 1780s and it was operating until 1930, restored in the 1960s but then allowed to fall back into disrepair again. A poject is now underway to restore it to full working order and this is what we will be supporting, itis a fascinating place to visit and there will be representatives from FOTPV available during the

 

festival to tell you more.All you have to do is buy a pintof 'Shepards Wheel' and Abbeydale Brewery will donate 10p to this excellent cause.

 

You can also help by: Putting cash in the collecting buckets, putting unused beer tokens into the collecting buckets and making purchases from our charity table in the beer festival tent or buying some of the pumpclips we have on offer.

[Andy C]

We are now in the final stages of planning for Sunfest 2009.

 

An incomplete beer list of non-Abbeydale beers is given below, which is still subject to change if brewers change their minds about what they have, whether we can have it and whether it is ready when we go to fetch it! I'll try to keep this updated as we go.

 

We need to add about 10 more beers which will hopefully include some from Bazens, Blue Monkey and Loweswater and more from Pictish, Barngates, Beartown, Bollington, Foxfield and Watermill.

 

We also have at least 2 ciders and a Perry.

 

You will note there are threee Ginger Beers, also a Honey beer from Ulverston and a strong wheat beer from Crown Brewery in Sheffield.

 

Given it is summer, and based on last year's consumption we have placed a slightly greater emphasis on pale beers but that said there are some fabulous stouts and porters and traditional bitters. We have tried to go for quality rather than quantity in the darker beers so there are a number from well known breweries such as Brewsters, Boggart, Hawkshead, Hornbeam, Acorn and Suddabys (brewed by Susan Simpson at Brown Cow Brewery) and a few surprises like the Milton Marcus Aurelius which is an Imperial Russian Stout at 7.5%, and an oatmeal stout from Bollington.

 

New breweries are represented by Blue Monkey, Buxton (where we have gyle 2!) and Thorne, new home of ex-Abbeydale Brewer Mike Richards. On that note there are also beers from Acorn, new home of ex-Abbeydale brewer Richard Hough. Local Breweries are represented by Acorn and Thorne and closer to home by Sheffield Brewing, The Brew Company and new to the festival for this year, Kelham Island.

 

Brewery Beer ABV

Acorn Aurora IPA 5.00%

Acorn Ginger Nuts 4.20%

Acorn Old Moor Porter 4.40%

Atomic Fallout 5.90%

Barngates Cracker 3.90%

Beartown Ginger Bear 4.00%

Blythe Ridware Pale 4.30%

Blythe Staffie 4.40%

Boggart Rum Porter 4.60%

Boggart Sundial 4.70%

Bollington Oat Mill Stout 5.00%

Brewsters Cheval Moor 4.00%

Brewsters Hop a Doodle 4.20%

Brown Cow After Dark Coffee Porter 5.00%

Brown Cow Summer Sessions 3.70%

Buxton Special Pale Ale 4.10%

Crown Wheat Beer 5.90%

Foxfield Strong IPA 5.90%

Hawkshead Organic Stout 4.50%

Hawkshead Red 4.20%

Hawkshead Windermere Pale 3.50%

Hornbeam Black Coral Stout 4.50%

Hornbeam Lemon Blossom 3.70%

Kelham Island Pale Rider 5.20%

Kelham Island Reelin’ in the Years 4.10%

Marble Ginger 4.50%

Milton Marcus Aurelius 7.50%

Ossett Big Red 4.20%

Ossett Pale Gold 3.80%

Pictish Millenium 4.20%

Potbelly Crazy Daze 5.50%

Potbelly Tek’t t’Ride 4.50%

Sheffield Seven Hills 4.20%

Thorne Best Bitter 3.90%

Thorne Pale Ale 4.20%

Tigertops Ace in a Fix 5.80%

Tigertops Orvaltine 4.10%

Townhouse Flower Dew 3.90%

Ulverston Celebration 4.50%

Ulverston Harvest Moon 4.40%

Ulverston Lonesome Pine 4.20%

[Andy C]

PS - The Rising Sun is at Nether Green, buses 40, 86 (First) and 120 (Stagecoach) stop outside.

[Andy C]

The following beers are curently stillaged and cooled in the beer tent, hopefully settling nicely. If they are ready they will all be put on at the opening of the festival on Thursday 9th July 2009 at 12 noon.

 

You will note there are threee Ginger Beers, also a Honey beer from Ulverston and a strong wheat beer from Crown Brewery in Sheffield.

 

Given it is summer, and based on last year's consumption we have placed a slightly greater emphasis on pale beers but that said there are some fabulous stouts and porters and traditional bitters. We have tried to go for quality rather than quantity in the darker beers so there are a number from well known breweries such as Brewsters, Boggart, Hawkshead, Hornbeam, Acorn and Suddabys (brewed by Susan Simpson at Brown Cow Brewery) and a few surprises like the Milton Marcus Aurelius which is an Imperial Russian Stout at 7.5%, and an oatmeal stout from Bollington.

 

New breweries are represented by Blue Monkey, Buxton (where we have gyle 2!) and Thorne, new home of ex-Abbeydale Brewer Mike Richards. On that note there are also beers from Acorn, new home of ex-Abbeydale brewer Richard Hough. Local Breweries are represented by Acorn and Thorne and closer to home by Sheffield Brewing, The Brew Company and new to the festival for this year, Kelham Island.

 

Brewery town county beer

Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Shepherd Wheel Ale 4.1%

Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Alchemy 4.2%

Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Belfry 4.5%

Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Black Mass 6.66%

Abbeydale Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Last Rites 11%

Acorn Barnsley Yorkshire Old Moor Porter 4.40%

Acorn Brewery Barnsley Yorkshire Ginger Nuts 4.20%

Atomic Brewery Rugby Warwickshire Fallout 5.90%

Barngates Brewery Ambleside Cumbria Mothbag 3.60%

Barngates Brewery Ambleside Cumbria Cracker 3.90%

Barngates Brewery Ambleside Cumbria Tag Lag 4.40%

Bazens' Brewery Salford Manchester Deuce 4.10%

Beartown Brewery Congleton Cheshire Ginger Bear 4.00%

Beerworks Sheffield Yorkshire Dr Morton's Hare Straightener 4.3%

Blue Monkey Brewery Ilkeston Derbyshire BG Sips 4.00%

Blue Monkey Brewery Ilkeston Derbyshire Evolution 4.30%

Blythe Brewery Rugeley Staffordshire Ridware Pale 4.30%

Blythe Brewery Rugeley Staffordshire Staffie 4.40%

Bob's Brewing Co. Ossett Yorkshire White Lion 4.30%

Boggart Hole Clough Brewing Co. Moston Manchester Rum Porter 4.60%

Bollington Brewing Co. Bollington Cheshire Cricket 3.90%

Bollington Brewing Co. Bollington Cheshire Oat Mill Stout 5.00%

Brew Company Sheffield Yorkshire Hop Ripper 4.30%

Brewsters Grantham Lincolnshire Hop a Doodle 4.20%

Brewsters Brewing Co. Grantham Lincolnshire Cheval Mort 4.00%

Brown Cow Brewery Selby Yorkshire Summer Sessions 3.70%

Brown Cow Brewery Selby Yorkshire Suddabys After Dark Coffee Porter 5.00%

Buxton Brewery Buxton Derbyshire Special Pale Ale 4.10%

Crown Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Wheat Beer 5.90%

Cumbrian Legendary Ales Hawkshead Cumbria Dickie Doodle 3.90%

Elland Brewery Elland Yorkshire Mr Apollo 4.30%

Empire Brewery Slaithwaite Yorkshire Big Ben 3.90%

Fox Brewing Co. Leeds Yorkshire Nightshade 4.90%

Foxfield Brewery Foxfield Cumbria Nettled Encounter 4.40%

Foxfield Brewery Foxfield Cumbria Hop Utopia 5.90%

Hawkshead Brewery Staveley Cumbria Windermere Pale 3.50%

Hawkshead Brewery Staveley Cumbria Red 4.20%

Hawkshead Brewery Staveley Cumbria Organic Stout 4.50%

Headless Brewing Co. Derby Derbyshire King Street Ale 3.80%

Headless Brewing Co. Derby Derbyshire First Bloom 4.30%

Hornbeam Brewery Denton Manchester Lemon Blossom 3.70%

Hornbeam Brewery Denton Manchester Black Coral Stout 4.50%

Kelham Island Brewery Sheffield Yorkshire Pale Rider 5.20%

Loweswater Brewery Hawkshead Cumbria Gold 4.30%

Marble Beers Manchester Manchester Ginger 4.50%

Milton Brewery Cambridge Cambridgeshire Marcus Aurelius 7.50%

Old Bear Brewery Keighley Yorkshire Duke of Bronte 12.00%

Pictish Brewing Co Rochdale Manchester Magnum 4.20%

Potbelly Brewery Kettering Northamptonshire Crazy Daze 5.50%

Sheffield Brewing Co Sheffield Yorkshire Seven Hills 4.20%

Thorne Brewery Thorne Yorkshire Best Bitter 3.90%

Thorne Brewery Thorne Yorkshire Pale Ale 4.20%

Tigertops Brewery Wakefield Yorkshire Orvaltine 4.10%

Tigertops Brewery Wakefield Yorkshire Ace in a Fix 5.80%

Townhouse Brewery Audley Staffordshire Flower Dew 3.50%

Townhouse Brewery Audley Staffordshire Styrian Pale 4.00%

Ulverston Brewing Co. Lindal in Furness Cumbria Another Fine Mess 4.00%

Ulverston Brewing Co. Lindal in Furness Cumbria Lonesome Pine 4.20%

Ulverston Brewing Co. Lindal in Furness Cumbria Harvest Moon 4.40%

Watermill Brewing Co. Ings Cumbria Collie Wobbles 3.70%