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The '''Kelham Island Brewery''' was a small independent brewery based in the [[Kelham Island Quarter]] area of [[Sheffield]], [[South Yorkshire]], [[England]]. It closed down in May 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/kelham-island-brewery-announces-it-is-closing-after-32-years-of-trading-in-sheffield-3684062|title=Kelham Island Brewery|date=6 May 2022|work=The Yorkshire Post|accessdate=10 June 2022}}</ref>
However, the brewery was saved from closure in September, 2022, by a group led by the co-founder of the city's Tramlines festival, James O'Hara, who was joined by his brother, financial analyst Tom, Simon Webster and Jim Harrison from Thornbridge Brewery, creative agency founder Peter Donohoe and Ben Rymer from beer festival organiser We Are Beer.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
[[File:FatCat2010.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Fat Cat public house]]
In 1990 the brewery was opened (the first for 100 years to open in Sheffield) on purpose-built premises on Alma Street by the owner of the Fat Cat public house, Dave Wickett.<ref name=Wickett>[http://www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/dave-wickett-alumni-award-1.174318 University of Sheffield 29 July 2011] Sheffield's Dave Wickett honoured by university</ref> As well as the Fat Cat, the brewery owns a British-styled pub in [[Rochester, New York]] (United States), named the Old Toad.<ref name=Wickett/>
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