AleChemist

01/05/2026

Not your everyday brewing ingredient...

22/04/2026

And our newest addition that should be nicely ready for the long hot summer daze, a crisp, refreshing IPA - rested on organic Juniper berries, Cheers!

22/04/2026

Two new beers into the fermenters this week, the first being another vibrant, sessionable New Zealand IPA

15/04/2026

It's Abbeydale Live again in Sheffield THIS WEEKEND - yes, WEEKEND as this year sees a two day even packed full of music and fun vibes. We've a lovely array on the bar at Cole's Corner and will be restocking the website on Friday night too, go check www.MadeByMartyn.co.uk

08/04/2026

So around 200 cans into today's run I'd had several seaming issues. (That's where the can lid is sealed to the can body.)
I wasn't happy with that so to test, I put out lots of towels and turned 200 cans upside down to leave overnight. This is the glamour of running a micro brewery...

09/10/2025

Coming soon to Abbeydale Road :-)

25/09/2025

Webshop in support of The Boathouse now restocked. Sheffield orders will be delivered this Saturday (27th September)

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25/09/2025

Huge can drop coming to Cole's Corner Sheffield TOMORROW.
Including two amazing new lower alcohol New England style IPAs

23/09/2025

We can beers at 1°c in order to maintain a consistent level of CO2 within the beer and not frothing over the top of the can before seaming the lid on. We then take about 50 cans at random and turn them upside down on a clean white towel.
This is to test the quality of the seam between the can and the lid. As the filled cans come up to room temperature the pressure builds inside the can and any slight imperfections in the quality of the seam will result in beer weeping out, leaving a mark on the towel.
We then check again during labelling and a final check during packaging ready to send the cans out.
When we first started canning we were getting a 2% failure rate. These days it's about 0.2% or around 1 in 500 which we're happy with.
Any can that fails is, erm... "Disposed of" that evening... ;-)

12/09/2025

4,000 empty cans and boxes collected today. It would be cheaper to just buy a pallet of cans, but buying this way, and collecting them gives us far fewer damaged cans as industry standard loss is 20% when shipping with neanderthal couriers - so for the sake of our fragile planet, we'll carry on doing it this way for the foreseeable future :-)