Sheffield Beer Week is back for it’s 8th year and we’re extremely happy that in-person events can go full steam ahead. We all need a little bit of joy back in our lives! This year we’ve teamed up with good friends Saint Mars of the Desert, author Nick Hayes and Sheffield Beer Week; releasing our collab Koelship hopped IPA beer in the week with a walking tour event. Here’s a little more on the project below….
Sunday Times best-selling author Nick Hayes has been on a mission to highlight and campaign for the right to access more of the UK's countryside for everyone. Connecting to the countryside is proven to help mental health and wellbeing and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic was a vital resource for folks fortunate enough to be able to access green spaces. However not everyone has access and only 8% of England is open to such access, for example National Parks. In Sheffield citizens are fortunate to have a wealth of green spaces, parks and of course direct access to the Peak District national park.
Joining forces on a collaborative beer with Sheffield independent businesses, who reside on the Peak District's border for Sheffield Beer Week. The project brings together a number of threads – celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Mass Kinder Trespass which happened within the Peak District. This was key in opening up the area as the first UK National Park some 50 years later, highlighting the much-needed spotlight on the work of the Right To Roam campaign to continue efforts. This also celebrates Sheffield as The Outdoor City and its citizen's access to green, open spaces and adventure trails.
Launching Saturday March 12th, for a whole month of focus leading up to the April anniversary of the Mass Kinder Trespass, will be 'A Right To Roam' beer collaboration between Nick Hayes, Saint Mars of the Desert brewery, Hop Hideout beer shop and Sheffield Beer Week. Tickets for the roam walking tour and beer launch are available via Hop Hideout: https://www.hophideout.co.uk/brew-kits-books/arighttoroam-launch
What better way to call for a right to roam than by ordering a pint of it in a pub, direct at the brewery or a can at your local beer shop!
A Right To Roam, Riwaka and Nectaron hopped hazy IPA,
5.4%
“On 24th April 1932, 400 young people walked up Kinder Scout to protest the lack of public access to the moors. They were beaten by gamekeepers, six were imprisoned, but ultimately they won. We now have a right to roam over 8% of England.
But today, 97% of rivers and 92% of our land is still forbidden to us. Science has proven how urgently we need regular access to natural spaces, for our mental health and physical health and also how we car more for nature if we have a personal connection to it. The Kinder Trespass, in what is now the Peak District, was the first step towards a new relationship with the countryside, but there is still much to be done.
Join us at rightroam.org.uk to campaign for greater access to the English countryside.”