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The Kelham Island Brewery was a small independent brewery based in the
Kelham Island Quarter Kelham Island is one of Sheffield's eleven designated Quarters. Formerly an industrial area, the island itself was created by the building of a goit, or mill race, fed from the River Don to serve the water wheels powering the workshops of th ...
area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It closed down in May 2022. In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) on purpose-built premises on Alma Street by the owner of the Fat Cat public house, Dave Wickett.University of Sheffield 29 July 2011
Sheffield's Dave Wickett honoured by university
As well as the Fat Cat, the brewery owns a British-styled pub in Rochester, New York (United States), named the Old Toad. Its beer ''Pale Rider'' won the " Champion Beer of Britain" award at the 2004
Campaign for Real Ale The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is an independent voluntary consumer organisation headquartered in St Albans, England, which promotes real ale, cider and perry and traditional British pubs and clubs. With just under 155,000 members, it is th ...
(CAMRA) organised Great British Beer Festival.Champion Beer of Britain
list on CAMRA site
The brewery is situated next to the Kelham Island Industrial Museum.


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List of breweries in England This is a partial list of breweries in England. Beer in England pre-dates other alcoholic drinks produced in England, and has been brewed continuously since prehistoric times. As a beer brewing country, England is known for its top fermented cas ...


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Kelham Island BreweryThe Fat CatThe Devonshire Cat
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