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COMING SOON
DEVON ALES FESTIVAL
FROM THURSDAY JANUARY 14TH
WINTER ALES FESTIVAL
FROM THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11TH
MORE INFOMATION AND BEER LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OUR TWITTER SITE CLOSER TO THE DATES
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THE AUDIT ALE FEAST HELD AT THE FAT CAT 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 Feasts were often held to celebrate the presentation
of a set of annual accounts, then known as an Audit. The Cutler's
Feast in Sheffield that was first held in 1625 was for this purpose
as were the feasts held in Cambridge and Oxford Colleges. Some of
these feasts dated back to the thirteenth century. The university
colleges that had their own breweries usually brewed a strong beer
to be presented at the feast and these were sometimes called Audit
Ales. As the university breweries closed during the last century commercial
breweries were called upon to brew the audit ales for the feasts.
Beers Served Kelham Island: Bitter, Easy Rider dry hopped, Cadillac IPA, Pale Rider, Aged Night Rider and Audit Ale
MONDAY NIGHT QUIZ KELHAM BITTER £1.20
-------------------- Available now at The Fat Cat FAIRTRADE FATCAT BAGS PUBSTOP POSTERS
MORE AWARDS
JUNE 2008 THE FAT CAT HAS WON RUNNER UP IN THE SHEFFIELD CAMRA ANNUAL PUB OF THE YEAR AWARD & RUNNER UP IN EAT SHEFFIELD BEST PUB FOOD CATEGORY AND WAS FEATURED AS THE PUB TO VISIT IN THE DAILY EXPRESS FEATURE ON THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD
HAPPY MONDAYS! From 8pm onwards Monday nights will involve the following. Monday Night Quiz Every monday as usual with the prize being 8 pints of award winning Kelham Island Beer!! Curry! Between 8 and 10pm for just £2.75 you get Curry (Chicken or Vegetable), Naan bread and Onion Bhajii Beer
Offers A selected Kelham Island Beer will be available to purchase for just £1.20 a pint!! ...................................................................................................................................................
THE FAT CAT RE-OPENS!
Sir Bob Kerslake and Jan Wilson visit The Fat Cat
Sir Bob Kerslake ( Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council) and Jan Wilson ( Leader of Sheffiled City Council) paid Kelham Island Brewery and The Fat Cat a visit after the flood. (Pictured from left. Stephen Fearn, Sir Bob Kerslake, Jan Wilson, Dave Wickett, Dominic Flynn and Michael Williams) THE FLOOD 25th June 2007 Monday 25th June started much like any other day. It rained all day, and it was hard rain, but nobody sensed that it was going to be anything other than a wet day.
At around 2pm one of the staff said that the River Don appeared to be high. By 2.30 it was clearly rising fast. Around 3.30 water started to fill the car park and it rose at an alarming rate. Three of us worked trying to fill bags with sand. At first it lapped around our ankles within fifteen minutes it was up to our knees. At that point I got all of the staff to leave the premises. At 4.45pm the River Don burst its banks and a wave swept down the street. I just managed to get my car away, later on it would have been totally submerged.
Both The Fat Cat and the Kelham Island Brewery had extensive flooding. Remarkably the flood waters had gone by the following morning. We were left with a six inch layer of contaminated, stinking sludge which is proving very difficult to remove.
. Cleaning out the cellar of The Fat Cat on Wednesday we had numerous helpers and well-wishers including the Professor of Human Resources from the University of Sheffield. He remarked that it made a change from the work he should have been doing. One of the buckets of sludge he lifted out from the cellar contained a live fish. We’ve kept him and called him nemo. He deserved to escape.
Soon we were inundated with reporters. Radio 4 and Radio 5 did live broadcasts form the brewery and I was pleased to see that on the Wednesday BBC TV News covered Tony Blair leaving Downing Street followed by the flood at the brewery including an interview with the brewer. BBC news 24 carried it every hour. The BBC obviously thought that the loss of 40,000 pints of beer was almost a big a story as the loss of a Prime Minister! Stuart, who names our guests beers in the brewery and who is a massive Springsteen fan has already decided our first brew at the brewery when we are back will be named after a Springsteen song “After The Flood” Attached are some photos taken when it was still possible to walk around. The Brewery has started brewing again on Monday 2nd July and The Fat Cat is opening on the same day at 6pm |
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