The Derby Tup, located on Sheffield Road at Whittington Moor, was named as the Pub of the Season for Spring 2025 by the Chesterfield Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
We visited the pub to hear from the Derby Tup team about their pride at claiming the award and their plans to start serving food in the future – and these photos show what to expect from the award-winning venue.
5. CAMRA award
Chan said: “We went up against some cracking, well-established pubs - never in a million years did I expect us to win. The people that we were up against have messaged us to say well done, so there’s that community and support from the other publicans.” Photo: Brian Eyre
6. Return to the pub
Chan said: ”When I was here the first time, I was running the pub but it wasn’t my boozer, so I was running it on someone else’s behalf and I couldn’t really do what I wanted to do. Now it’s really nice to know that we can make a decision, maybe to put a new beer on or do something different, and people appreciate that. The CAMRA award just tops that off - it was a very nice surprise.” Photo: Brian Eyre
7. Popular beers and ales
Chan said: “It’s a very pale-led pub, but pretty much anything I put on is popular, as long as it’s different. It can’t be the same beer all the time. We’ve got one house beer that we keep on all the time, and the rest of it swaps about. We listen to people - we’ve had people say they haven’t seen beers from certain breweries for a while. They know they can ask if we’ve thought about certain beers, and almost everything I’ve bought has worked wonderfully, because we’ve got people that want to drink it. You don’t get that in a mainstream pub. I’m open to saying, if I can find it, I’ll try it - and the customers are true to their word in coming back and drinking them.” Photo: Brian Eyre
8. Plans to serve food
Chan revealed that plans are underway to start serving food at the pub later this year. She said: “The kitchen is reopening within a couple of months. It was completely gutted, but the wheels are now in motion, and from what we’ve mentioned to people in the pub, there’s definitely a lot of interest. It’ll be Sunday dinners and that sort of stuff to start with.” Photo: Brian Eyre