Sheffield – Salt

I’ve been to Salt’s brewery in the sunny town of Saltaire and this is their outpost in the Kelham Island area of Sheffield. Note the rather lovely gateway, although it’s hard to miss, which the brilliant Nikolaus Pevsner said was the “most spectacular survival of factory architecture in the city”.

Some of the keg range.

And some of the cask range, with Ossett being one of the owners of Salt Brewery, hence their presence here.

The Alpacalypse from Salt, a clean tasting pale which has some fruit flavour to it, slightly lemony. There was a bit of sweetness and it’s certainly sessionable, I imagine quite agreeable to the lager drinkers as well.

The Jet from Ossett Brewery, a oaty, roasty real ale with a bit of coffee taste to it.

It’s a busy venue with a younger crowd buying lagers and it wasn’t quite clear to me why they’d pick here over anywhere else. The food option is Seoul Chicken which looked rather agreeable on the menu, although I didn’t see anyone ordering anything when I was there. Decent mix that though, craft beer and chicken.

Anyway, all rather lovely and I found it useful to charge devices as they’ve conveniently put lots of power points all over the place. The service was friendly, the venue was clean and the atmosphere was inviting. The venue was formerly known as Stew & Oyster, but then they decided not to sell oysters and so it made some sense to change the name. Always positive (well, nearly always positive) to see a mixture of cask and keg.