Tiny 'nanobrewery' in Sheffield neighbourhood could create latest beer in burgeoning beer industry
Another small scale brewery could be set to open in Sheffield - providing yet another beer from the city’s burgeoning brewing industry.
The latest brewery, described by city brewer as a ‘nanobrewery’ because of its small scale, will look to sell direct to wholesalers, if it gets planning permission from Sheffield Council.
The man behind the sceme wants to run his small scale operation from a site in Meersbrook, as a part-time activity alongside his full time day job.
The brewery would use a 250 litre brew kit, which he says is comparable in scale and operation to a large home-brewing system, and would be based in a 24 square metres room in the Gordon Works, on Valley Road.
He said in his planning application: “Total production is anticipated to be approximately 400–500 litres per month, with brewing taking place once or twice per month only.
“No retail sales or public access are proposed. All beer produced would be supplied to external venues via wholesale or occasional local delivery by myself.”
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The proposed nano-brewery constitutes a very small-scale light industrial process. Due to its limited scale and operational characteristics, the process would be capable of operating within a residential environment without adverse impacts.
He added: “The character of the proposed activity is consistent with the long-established pattern of small-scale workshop production in Sheffield, historically associated with the city’s ‘Little Mesters’, where individual craftspeople operated from small workshop units within multi-tenanted works buildings such as Gordon Works.
He says he thinks brewing on the scale he proposes represents a craft food and beverage production process comparable in intensity to other small workshop or studio-based manufacturing activities.
Sheffield’s brewing industry has grown in recent decades, with small breweries springing up in locations all around the city, with their products now served in many of Sheffield’s pubs.