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The Brewery of St Mars of the Desert, often shortened to SMOD, is a craft beer microbrewery based in Sheffield, England. The brewery is owned and managed by husband and wife Dann Paquette and Martha Simpson-Holley, who formerly brewed together at Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project in Somerville, Massachusetts. SMOD opened in 2019 and is named after the French village of Saint-Mars-du-Désert, a possible location considered for the brewery.

Beer-scoring website RateBeer named St Mars of the Desert in its top 10 new breweries in the world for 2020. It is one of the few British breweries to use a coolship; the vessel allows wild yeasts from the environment to enter the wort while it cools, adding "earthy notes" to the final beer.

On 25 December 2022, a computer was stolen from the brewery premises and the building was vandalised, causing £2,000 worth of damage. The brewery announced the following month that owing to costs incurred from the burglary, and in light of large rises in the cost of electricity across the United Kingdom, it had let go of all but two of its staff.