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.
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.
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask, third, shared with Finn at Manchester Beer & Cider Festival, Coast To Coast Bar. Bubbly surface, scattered lacing, unclear orange coloured body. Mid-sweet apricot aroma. Blended taste of saison fruits, apricot and added a tart basement touch. Tart and sweet ending. Satisfying cleanser. (Day 3 of the festival, 24.01.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Feb 2020
at 08:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the 2020 Manchester Beer Festival. Gold pour with a white head. Citrus,bitter hops and otange marmalade in the nose. Sweet citrus, orange marmalade, oodles of bitter hop in the taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Jan 2020
at 12:12
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Gravity. På Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 2020. Delt med Rune. Gusjerødbrun. Uklar. 0 skum. Lett honningaroma. Smaken honning & syrlige bær. Tørr avslutning. Honningpreget gjennomgående.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2020
at 21:46
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared at Cotteridge Convention 2017. Cheers! Pours cloudy orange with a frothy, off-white head. The aroma holds toffee and coffee. Big sweet flavour with notes of bread and oily coffee. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Oily finish, lightly warming, with more rich coffee, light caramel. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2019
at 20:39
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at Beer Dock Crewe, High Street, 07/12/19. Clear golden amber with a well presented off white cap. Nose is bitter orange, grass, toasted malts, melon. Taste comprises caramel, orange peel, citric tinged straw, tangerine. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with assertive hop bitterness. Not bad.
Tried
on 12 Dec 2019
at 08:50
7/10
Tried
on 07 Dec 2019
at 22:57
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2019
at 19:30
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2019
at 14:20
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Keg at the Rusty Bucket, Eltham. Black pour with a blink and you'll miss it tan head. Warming aromas of raisins, the finest Bordeaux, plum jam, blackberries, blackcurrants, prunes. Flavours of red grapes, raisins, strawberry jam, dark plums, prunes. Huge alcohol burn. Finishes like a fine red wine. Excellent!
Tried
on 21 Oct 2019
at 04:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask. Steel City Beer Festival. Pale gold. Decent white foam. Nose has punchy hope leaf and oil. Bitter peel. Some berry fruit. Minimal malt presence. Taste is oily and pithy bitter. Surprisingly some sweetness on the lips. Medium body. Fine carbonation. Long bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2019
at 17:15