Our brewing story goes back to 1996 when Patrick Morton and his Father Hugh decided to pursue their mutual love of fine beer and put their faith and money into creating their very own brewery.

Patrick, who started his working life in his father's Scissor works, always used to make beer at home using full mash brews and even dabbled with cider!  Then in the early nineties, by a string of bizarre coincidences, Patrick was offered a job as a brewer at Kelham Island Brewery where he stayed until leaving to start up Abbeydale. Finally, in 1996, with much love, hard work and gallons of high quality beer, Abbeydale Brewery was born.

Our Identity

Our identity was inspired by our location. We named our brewery after the district that runs along Sheffield's Sheaf Valley towards the old abbey at Beauchief (pronounced bee-chiff).

And our logo, lovingly but painstakingly drawn by our resident artist Ivan, was inspired by the frontage of Beauchief Abbey itself (which is now partially restored as a church). Much of our identity is inspired by the Abbey, like our use of language and imagery, but it's all very tongue-in-cheek. We don't think the Spanish Inquisition team would be too impressed if they ever chose to time-travel and pay us a visit!