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.
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask conditioned Reading BF 2012. Hazy pale gold lasting bubbly white. Lovely green hop. Golden hoppy not sure its entirely balanced. Good hops though
Tried
from Cask
on 03 May 2012
at 06:41
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Reading BF 2012. Congrats Ian! Pours a lightly hazy, rich gold with a bubbly, lightly foamy white head. Big hop aroma with juicy citrus, bubblegum, mango, light pee. Medium sweet flavor, fairly sweaty, plenty of sugary malts, mango, some citrus. Medium to full bodied with soft to fine carbonation. Warm finish with some gritty, fairly abrasive hops, some pine, mango, sweet bread, sweaty grass. It’s a big beer that throws some big punches, but the punches aren’t really landing.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2012
at 16:53
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Reading BF 2012. Hazy mid brown with lasting off white head. Rating 10,000. Well its a hell of a beer. Bit of a flat mouthfeel. Bit of alcohol burn. Hops and alcohol on aroma. Good Simcoe finish. Drunk with Chriso Patrik Jan and Charlotte. 7 years after this all started at Reading with Chriso Duff and Phil so it finishes full circle. Beer has some hop punch but I guess the beer of this strength probably needed a bit more time to condition. Thanks to Gazza and Dave for brewing it.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 May 2012
at 10:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Gravity cask at Stourbridge beer festival. Pours a hazy gold with a thin head. Aroma is pine, mango and grapefruit. Taste was piney to start with a bitter grapefruit finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Apr 2012
at 01:53
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
cask at bow ... light amber ... light haze ... thin white head ... very dry lemon ... soft hop nose ... dry mouth feel ... soft fruits ... light lemon ... very dry ... not me im afraid guys
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Apr 2012
at 04:42
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at the Euston Tap, London. Pours dark brown with a creamy, tan head. Nice roasted malt nose, some dark earth and grass. Very true. medium sweet flavor with dry roast, baking cocoa, bitter earth. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Great condition. Roasty finish with creamy chocolate, light coffee, dirt, dry earth. Very nice intensity. Rich but not at all overbearing. Extremely solid, well-rounded beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Apr 2012
at 08:03
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
cask at cloisters ... deep black ... thin tan head ... dark heavy chocolate roast malts nose... huge malt roast ... big chocolate ... light hop ... just smooth solid roast ... in fact so nice i ordered another ...dark mellow malts ... hint of coffee .... nice nice nice nice nice ... with a little pine hop
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Mar 2012
at 05:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift. Peachy estery aroma. Yes bit alcoholic and not subtle. Estery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2012
at 04:46
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift. Pale gold, haze, white head. Fresh aroma. Some lemon hop. Not bad. It’s decent. Hoppy drinking Kolsch. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2012
at 04:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, courtesy of Tom at Craft Beer Co, Clerkenwell, London at the end of the evening 25.02.12 Gold in colour with a white head. Some pine noticeable on the nose, little bit of resin and also some tropical fruits showing, this ends with a nice dryness. Another cracker from Gazza and Dave, (rating on phone) A8 A4 T7 P4 Ov15 3.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2012
at 00:01