Sounding the Synth Sirens for Sheffield Beer Week 2026
9th to16th March
Sheffield’s breweries will be celebrating the city’s sonic and synth musical heritage in 2026 under the banner of ‘Sheffield Synth City’ for Sheffield Beer Week. Running from Monday March 9th to Sunday March 15th, 2026. The week-long celebration of the city’s independent beer scene will pay homage to Sheffield’s legendary electronic music heritage and continuing legacy, home to pioneers of synth-pop, electronic, and bleep-and-bass, including The Human League, Heaven 17, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, Warp Records and everything in-between. Breweries involved so far include Abbeydale, Tapped Brew Co, Triple Point, Kelham Island, Bradfield, Little Mesters, Emmanuales, Ticking Clock, Thornbridge, Duality, True North, Little Critters and Saint Mars of the Desert. These unique brews will be inspired by classic electronic music genres, iconic Sheffield bands, or even the flavour profiles of their favourite analogue synths. This theme will create an innovative mash-up of two of Sheffield’s celebrated cultural exports—its renowned brewing industry and its influential music scene.
“Sheffield is a city of steel, beer, and synthesisers. ‘Sheffield Synth City’ allows us to blend the creativity of our independent breweries with the ground-breaking spirit of our electronic music pioneers,” says Jules Gray, Founder of Sheffield Beer Week and Hop Hideout. “It’s powerful to showcase how innovation thrives across all creative industries in the Steel City.”
During the rest of the week expect ‘Sheffield Synth City’ beer collaborations pouring around the city, tap takeovers from local to global independent breweries, meet the brewers, brewery tours, beer walking tours, beer and food pairings, beer and music pairings and more. This multi-venue event will be celebrated throughout Sheffield’s hospitality venues – from brewery taprooms, pubs, micropubs, bars and beer shops.
South Yorkshire artist Lewis Ryan is working on a visual map project alongside. Sheffield’s Abbeydale Brewery celebrate a big milestone reaching 30 years of brewing in 2026! Then International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day (@IWCBD /unitebrew.org) on International Women’s Day – 8th March falls in the week once again, so look out for additional events, including a Thornbridge beer launch at their venues such as Hallamshire House, The Stag’s Head and The Greystones pubs. Local historian Dave Pickersgill, editor of CAMRA’s ‘Sheffield’s Real Heritage Pubs’ will hold his much-loved beer and history walks. While Strange Britain’s Adrian Finney will host his popular haunted pub walking tour. Tartarus Beers will be helping The Wonky Labrador with their 3rdbirthday merrymaking. Woodland Brewing will be hosting a meet the brewer at The Bear. While beer broadcaster Pete Brown will be interviewed by music and culture writer Daniel Dylan Wray focusing on his latest groove of beer and music pairing at Hop Hideout beer shop.
Plus a number of international Belgian breweries will be popping up around the city such as Brewery Vanhonsebrouck (Kasteel beers) at The Crow and Timmermans at Hop Hideout. Ceramic studio Earth Paper Fibre will be hosting a beer tankard making workshop in Leah’s Yard. There are plenty more events to be announced, this is just a musical snippet. Check the Sheffield Beer Week website to discover venues and event listings throughout February, as they begin to be advertised.
On the weekend of 6 to 7thMarch, to kick-off the week, Sheffield’s craft beer festival, Indie Beer Feast launches. A celebration of great independent craft beer with brewery bars, street food, rum, fine wines, and cider. The beer festival champions and supports The Everyone Welcome initiative. British Guild of Beer Writers’ members and leading UK award-winning beer writers Pete Brown, Rachel Auty (Women on Tap) and Adrian Tierney-Jones will be heading up to host pop-up tastings and to judge the Indie Beer Feast ‘Beer of the Festival’. Alongside further pop-up tastings from breweries pouring at the festival and Sheffield, via Brazil, based journalist and broadcaster Livia Barreira of ‘Living in Sheffield’. This year’s botanical inspired artwork has been designed by Sheffield based illustrator Sanpo. Breweries pouring and announced so far include Sheffield’s Abbeydale, Derbyshire’s Thornbridge and Ashover Brew Co, Manchester’s Cloudwater and Courier Brewing, Nottinghamshire’s Liquid Light and Ticking Clock, Somerset’s Yonder, Liverpool’s Neptune, Leeds’ Tartarus, Reading’s Siren, and Birmingham’s Attic. Alongside additional bars from Hop Hideout beer shop and specialist rum aficionado RumKeg876.
Get ready to tune in and follow the beat:
Stay up-to-date with all announcements by following @SheffBeerWeek on social media (Facebook / Instagram) and checking the official website.
Head to http://sheffieldbeerweek.co.uk
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