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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Cotteridge Convention 2017. It pours murky dark amber - brown with a medium beige head. The aroma is quite soft, toasty, roasted malt, coffee, grainy, brown bread and greenness. The taste is chewy, roasted malt, quite sweet, coffee, green veg, peasy, oily, umami, tangy fruits, some alcohol and leather. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Has this kind of green coffee character which I don’t really like. So-so.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2017
at 08:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at Cotteridge convention 05/03/2016. Many thanks to Dave for this one. A clear mahogany brown coloured pour with a thin tan head. Aroma is spicy coffee bean, berry, vanilla. Flavour is composed of of rich dark choc, grainy, vanilla. Palate is medium light, grainy, semi sweet. . Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2017
at 14:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours deep orange, amber, nose is vanilla, roasted, coffee, caramel, berries, taste is similar, a little sweeter than the Master.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2017
at 09:46
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep orange amber, nose is huge coffee, roasted, vanilla, caramel, taste is sweet toffee, light citrus, dry, roasted, bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2017
at 08:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at CWC III; cloudy orange/amber pour with a bubbly beige head, aroma has coffee and some rich malts, taste has some chocolate, dark roast, big coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2017
at 13:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home .. sorry Dave just me .. but the only beer that was chilled as it was in fridge ... goldne amber .. small white head .. soft zezty tropical orange fruit nose ... light bitter orange .. dry floral fruit ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2017
at 11:28
8/10
Tried
on 20 May 2017
at 10:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at the Cotteridge Convention III 2017. Poured a hazy medium amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is dry coffee light fruit. The flavour is moderate sweet with a light dry fruity coffee palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
on 20 May 2017
at 10:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2016 [ The 41th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 9th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Steel City / Lost Industry / Landlocked AFA ].Clear medium yellow colour with a small to average, open and frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, fruity malt, pale malt, moderate hoppy, pine, grass, fruity hops, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a long duration, pale malt, fruity malt, fruity hops, citrus, grass, hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161014] 7-3-7-3-15
Tried
from Cask
on 07 May 2017
at 11:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask (gravity) @ NBF 2016 [ The 41th. Nottingham Beer Festival (The 9th Robin Hood Beer and Cider Festival) ], Nottingham Castle, Friar Lane, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EB. [ As Steel City Beleidigung zur Geschichte ].Murky matt medium orange colour with a small, open and fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, moderate hoppy, citrus, grapefruit, medicine - plastic. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, wheat, sweet malt, medicin, plastic, dry, hop bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161014] 6-2-6-3-10
Tried
from Cask
on 06 May 2017
at 15:49