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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
(Mondays 8-11pm)

A selected Kelham Island Beer will be available to purchase for just £1.20 a pint!!

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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.

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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