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.
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask (handpump) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, grass, light grapefruit. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120502]
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Mar 2013
at 07:36
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask (handpump) @ The 18th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.Unclear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, fruity, glue, young, light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry, unbalanced and quit young - green. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. Congrats Ian - with you 10K ;D [20120502]
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Mar 2013
at 07:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle at home .... very golden yellow ... soft small white head ... soft zezty banana .... sweet citrus nose ... soft floral hop .... juicy fruits .... bananana ... sweet fruits ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2013
at 15:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Snooty Fox, London. Pours clear good with a fine, white foam head. Lime and dry orange in the aroma. Light sweet flavor, lightly toasted pale malts, some sand, citrus rind. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Good conditionz light dry finish, dry white bread, lemon rind, orange. Very good beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jan 2013
at 14:57
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Microbar Beer Festival, Manchester, 2013. Gold pour with a white head. Aromas of pine, citrus and vanilla. Pear and citrus flavour. Good hoppy tang. Long hop finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2013
at 05:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Microbar Beer Festival, Manchester, 2013. Gold pour with a white head. Citrus and vanilla aroma. Nice zesty, citrus flavour. Good stuff.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jan 2013
at 05:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Share from brewer during #brumtwissup; pale yellow pour, thin white head, hoppy aroma, great hop profile in the taste sweet malts. Really good APA wished I had more.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2012
at 10:45
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at London Drinker fest 2012. A dark brown/black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty aroma. This was served in perfect condition. Rich tasting, roasty, malty, hoppy, chocolate, some coffee. Best one I’ve had from Steel City.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Dec 2012
at 07:54
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
hand bottle at home ... deep black ...tiniest of lacing ... dark sweet mellow pine chocolate nose ...soft medium oily body ... soft chocolate ... subdued pine hop ... dark malts
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2012
at 11:55
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
hand bottle at home ... dark black ... no head ... soft sweet chocolate nose ... sweet pine and dark roast ... medium boddy ... soft chocolate ... light pine almost spicy linger ... little charcoal in finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2012
at 11:35