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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7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap at Black Iris, Lincoln. Black colour with a slim off white head. Aroma and taste are wooden barrel malty and rich. Slight fruity tart. Full body.

Tried from Draft on 07 Jul 2023 at 21:15



7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Keg from Black Iris taproom. Black, opaque with a ring of beige head. Coconut in the aroma, some bourbon. Sweet taste, booze and liquorice with more coconut. Light sourness in the finish. Syrupy body with light carbonation. Brilliant.

Tried from Draft on 07 Jul 2023 at 15:39


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Keg at Black Iris. Aroma is boozy. Fruity. Coffee. Dark and glossy. Creamy beige head. Mist have been barrel aged - fruity booze. Underlying coffee. Medium bodied. Oily. Flat carbonation. Long somewhat astringent finish. Pub punchy stuff but maybes well be a standard Impy Porter.

Tried on 07 Jul 2023 at 15:19


7.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Can share, thanks Dave! Dark brown, almost black, translucent with a ring of off-white head. Whisky aroma, some liquorice and grassy/floral notes. Nicely balanced taste with sweet grappa and salt liquorice notes. Chalky bitterness in the finish. Medium carbonation. Another brilliant impy from Steel City.

Tried from Can on 04 Mar 2023 at 21:26


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can shared thanks @evilempire. Black colour with a tan head. Some whiskey aroma with bitter chocolate and liquorice hints. Full rich body.

Tried from Can on 04 Mar 2023 at 16:32


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg draught at BrewDog Sheffield. Amber gold an hazy with a thin white head. Pastry aroma with notes of umami, fruited caramel, cream cheese icing. Sweet/sour interplay in the taste going to a more traditional fruity sour, sweet cheese in the finish. My dear Lord.

Tried on 04 Mar 2023 at 16:09


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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft at BrewDog Sheffield. Hazy dip golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are tart and tangy lemon, slight herbal and Cakey. full body.

Tried from Draft at BrewDog Sheffield on 04 Mar 2023 at 16:01


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught at BrewDog Sheffield. Murky dark brown, no head. A little less translucent than the others in the series. Lots of rum in the aroma, eclipsing everything else although I'm getting some hard citrus peel. Sour taste, a touch of mojito and more rum. Tongue-coating tartness on the finish. Thin body. Another impressive beer from the series.

Tried on 04 Mar 2023 at 16:00


8.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Keg draught at BrewDog Sheffield. Murky dark brown with no head to speak of. Honey and berry aroma, not very sour smelling with a little bit of vanilla. Bit berry on the taste, sweetervthan id have inagined. This hides the booze so well which is dangerous. Drier in the finish. Love, love this.

Tried on 04 Mar 2023 at 15:52


Brewery Stats
Score 6.86
Beers173
Ticks591