Steel City Brewing

Client Brewer in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2009

Closed in 2025

Contact
105 Olive Grove Road, Sheffield, S2 3GD, England
Description
Steel City Brewing is a brewing company with a very new world outlook on life! Rather than buying our own brewery - with all the associated cost and hassle that entails - we have decided, initially at least, to become what's known in Europe as a "Cuckoo" brewery... We started off doing our first brews at The Brew Company, before capacity issues saw us move to Little Ale Cart, where we spent three years proving even the most Heath-Robinson brew kit can be used to make good beer! We then outgrew the kit moved to Toolmakers brewery, before moving again to Lost Industry in 2016.

When we started we were (and still are) huge fans of hops and there just weren't enough brewers in the UK using them, even though that sounds ridiculous in today's beer world. So, rather than moaning into our beer, we thought we'd do something about it and brew some of our own! Over time as the beer scene evolved, there was less need for our style of hoppy beers since everyone was brewing with them so we evolved too and widened our style portfolio.

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried on 29 Aug 2025 at 19:49


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tried from Draft at Joule MCR on 16 May 2025 at 20:30


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Joules, Salford, 16/05/2025.
Murky reddish orange topped with an off white cap.
Nose is ripe fruit esters, peach, plummy notes, berry pips, hedgerow.
Taste comprises funk, grass, damp cloth, mixed red berry yoghurt, lactic tang.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced acidic spike.
Tidy sour.

Tried on 16 May 2025 at 09:36


6

Tried on 05 Jan 2025 at 14:55


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6


Cask (gravity) @ #NRHBCF 2019 - Day 2 [ The 44th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival (The 12th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], 🇬🇧 Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.

[ As Steel City My Wine In Silence ].
ABV: 5.5%. Cloudy - hazy looking with a medium orange yellow colour with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt, pale malt, funk, leather, grapes. Initial flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic, finish flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and heavy bitter with a long duration, tart, grapes, wine - white wine, funky, oat, sharp, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20191010]
7-3-6-3-12

Tried from Cask on 17 Feb 2024 at 08:10


6

Tried on 22 Jan 2024 at 20:36


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

22/1/2024. Can from Beer Central, Sheffield. Pours very dark mahogany brown with a frothy off-white to beige head. Aroma is sweet brown sugars, roasted malt, caramel, dark fruits, cheap rum and raisin. Very sweet with moderate bitterness. Medium body, smooth, average carbonation. Too sweet.

Tried from Can on 22 Jan 2024 at 18:33


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5


Cask (gravity) @ #NRHBCF 2019 [ The 44th. Nottingham CAMRA Beer and Cider Festival (The 12th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], 🇬🇧 Motorpoint Arena Nottingham, Bolero Square, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1LA.

[ As Steel City Hop Manifesto Reloaded ].
ABV: 5.8%. Clear medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, fruity hops, grapes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, earthy hops, pale malt, sweet malt, wood - citrusy hops, dry, hops bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20191009]
7-3-7-3-15

Tried from Cask on 17 Dec 2023 at 07:06


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

16/9/2023. Can at the Vojens GP beer share. From Beer Central, Sheffield. Pours black with a frothy beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, berries, ash, roasted malt, dark chocolate. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness, light tartness. Medium body, quite fizzy. Interesting collab and complexity.

Tried from Can on 17 Sep 2023 at 11:54


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Black Iris taproom, Notts get together, 07/07/23. Black with a decent tan cap that escapes to edgework. Nose is mellow brandy, dried fruit rinds, dark malts, toffee, chocolate. Taste comprises chocolate, toffee fudge, rummy notes, light booze tunes, dried fruit rinds, dates. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a light drop of alcohol. Solid.

Tried from Draft on 23 Jul 2023 at 16:25


Brewery Stats
Score 6.86
Beers173
Ticks591