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.
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Craven Arms; light brown pour with foamy tan head, big coffee aroma, taste is sweet some chocolate and a big quite well balanced coffee hit. --- Beer merged from original tick of Unholy Trinity on 02 Mar 2014 at 13:52 - Score: 7
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Mar 2014
at 11:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask @ Old Gate, Hebden Bridge. Black with a thick off-white frothy head. Has a dry coffee bean aroma and taste with very few roasted malts evident.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2014
at 07:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at The Rutland Arms; dark brown pour with thin dark tan head, coffee and spirit aroma, taste has rich roast coffee, chocolate a hint of spiced rum some sweet sugar, a crazy beer but very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Feb 2014
at 11:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the micro bar... Golden amber... Thin tan head... Deep coffee roast nose... dark rich coffee malts dark ans heavy... Complex.. Bitter roast... Nice
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jan 2014
at 06:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Hop Hideout, Sheffield. Hazy golden colour. Minimal, white head. Aroma of Honeydew melon, lemon zest. Light honey notes, too. Taste is initially ripe orange sweet, with the bitterness coming, slowly, some time after. Could be a lovely beer, but the condition is not right I don’t think. It feels a little lifeless and a bit stale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2013
at 11:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Birmingham Beer Festival 2013. Poured a crystal clear light amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is of citrus fruit stale malt with some hoppy spice. The flavour is weak bitter with a weak bodied slightly watery palate. All the enjoyment is up front and then it rapidly fades.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Nov 2013
at 02:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Craven Arms; hazy yellow pour with thin white head, yeasty aroma, mdicinal taste, citrus, drying and a bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2013
at 08:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at Brum Beer Fest; light yellow pour with a sopay white head, earthy hop aroma, resinous hop pine taste with a malt backbone.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Oct 2013
at 13:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Had this at Oxford Beer Festival, Oxford, Thursday 17th October 2013 Pours a straw coloured with some haze and a white head. Punch fruity nose with citrus being the most dominant feature. In the mouth the fruitiness flods through again, There is a softer more exotic fruit in there not sure what but also a streaky sweet juicy citrus flavour underpinning. Tasty, decent beer and a good start in the new premises. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried
on 18 Oct 2013
at 00:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Froma a bottle shared at the GABF 2013 in Denver courtesy of jmgreenuk.. Pours a clear dark cola brown with an ecru head. Slightly sour nose. Very bitter. A bit of licorice flavor. Bitter roast finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2013
at 14:57