Sheffield Tap, Sheffield

Official site of the Sheffield Tap, contains beer lists - www.sheffieldtap.com

Official site of the Sheffield Tap, contains beer lists - www.sheffieldtap.com

Back in Sheffield and another visit to this super bar on the station. Really busy and a great atmosphere for a station bar. Plenty of ales on offer again and we enjoyed Fernandes Chinook and Dark Star Over the Moon this visit. Finished our crawl here but it is THE place to start of finish your Valley of Beer crawl and hope it gets noticed by CAMRA to go in the next edition of the Good Beer Guide. Deserves to be there.

This is quite apart from the stereotypical 'station pub' and due to the deluge of praise it had been getting I felt in need of a visit. Inside it is a sympathetically restored boozer with classy tiling and a nice ornate bar as pictured above. Thornbridge dominates on the beer front and my pint of Lord Marples was okay (I'm not a huge fan of Thornbridge generally, it must be said) but what really struck me was the range of speciality beers in the fridges behind the bar - manna from heaven for Belgian enthusiasts I would wager. A useful and thoroughly decent addition to Sheffield's excellent and thriving pub scene.

On arrival in Sheffield for their recent festival managed to spend a bit of time here and as well as their own superb range of Thornbridge Ales, they had a couple of Heskett Newmarket ales on. Great condition. Viewed the bottle range and feel an afternoon or two could be spent here sampling the 200+ continental beers on offer.

This place is just beer pornography. Loads of Thornbridge, plus lots of real ales from a guest brewery as well. The superb interior is worth a visit to take in on it's own but the Tap's real party piece is it's huge selection of beers both in bottle and on tap from around the world. Most of which have their own proper branded glasses as well. The more I visit the Sheffield tap, the more I like the place.

Superb tiled Victorian interior in this relatively new pub to the Sheffield beer scene. Full range of Bernard Czech lagers on including the dark and the non filtered lager.Also (this might be the one that Thomas below may have had as it is a fltter beer to the normal ones) American micros on draught and a huge selection of American bottled beers plus other bottles from around the world. There are about 10 hand pumps dispensing mainly Thornbridge ales but also some from hawkeshead at time of our visit. Will be happy to wait here longer when changing trains at Sheffield station,

I have visited this pub on numerous occasions. I usually settle for the Thornbridge ales. These ales are always distinctive and enjoyable. However on my last visit I tried a pint of czech lager (Bernard) it was dispensed completely flat and tasted oxidised. I complaned to the barman who was abrupt and rude, the manager eventually came and informed me it was ment to taste that way! I work in a brewery so was unconviced by his excuses. He refused me a refund even tho I only consumed a mouthfull. Needless to say I wont be returning to this pub after such shocking customer service.