Steel City Brewing

Client Brewer in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2009

Closed in 2025

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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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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ RBESG Grand Tasting @ Dean Swift, London 2011. Pours cloudy yellow with a small creamy white head. Exotic hops. Floral and fruity. Medium and smooth body. Easy and tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2011 at 07:27


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ RBESG Grand Tasting @ Dean Swift, London 2011. Pours cloudy yellow with bubbles on top. Fresh and exotic hops. Grape mainly. Dry and bitter.Low carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2011 at 06:57


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Handbottled from Gazza @ RBESG 11 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift, 10 Gainsford Street, London, England SE1 2NE.Unclear medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, moderate hoppy, citrus, herbs, exotic fruit, peach. Flavour is moderate sweet and light heavy bitter with a long duration, sharp, dark citrus - orange peel bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110807]

Tried from Bottle on 28 Aug 2011 at 03:24


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

London. RBESG 2011. Pours muddy orange with a small creamy white head. Pine and exotic hops in the nose - a bit of yeast as well. Warming hot alcohol. Sweet and nearly cloying. Ends dry.

Tried on 26 Aug 2011 at 03:42


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

London Week, 2011. Pours unclear amber with a small white head. Coffee, fruit and some vague oxidized notes. Roast, caramel and hops. Smooth.

Tried on 26 Aug 2011 at 02:28


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ RBESG, London 2011. Pours unclear amber with a white head. Hoppy and dusty/yeasty nose. Citrus, caramel and yeast. Medium bodied.

Tried from Cask on 26 Aug 2011 at 02:26


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Handbottled from Gazza who brought this along to share with Fin & Loz 18.08.11 cheers mate! Loz said sasparilla on the nose and I have to wholeheartedly agree, I just thought soft drink but Loz nailed it. Some sweetness and then warmth from the alcohol, really dry at the end. Warm gold in colour with a thin white head, I get a metallic twang from somewhere, it’s nice but not as good as some of the belters that we’ve had this evening. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2011 at 23:31


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Handbottled from Gazza who brought this along to share with Fin & Loz 18.08.11 cheers mate! Fruity nose, bitter but not undrinkable. Touch cloudy, nose is a touch muffled but there is plenty going on it’s just that I am not quite as good as Gazza and Loz when it’s comes to identifying the individual components. There are streaky tendrils of citrus (mostly bitter seville orange and grapefruit) lashing around the mouth, it’s nice, very nice and at 3.2 a great session beer, finish is very dry. A6 A4 T7 P4 Ov13 3.4

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2011 at 23:27


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

Handbottled from Gazza who brought this along to share with Fin & Loz 18.08.11 Real earthiness from the off with this one, malty with chocolate, but with the addition of some soft cooked preserved lemons and a goodly lacing of cocoa powder. This is marvellous and considering it’s a little older than the others according to Gazza it’s held up extremely well. there is grapefruit with some pithiness, its quite soft in the mouth, it’s a belter of a beer. I just needed my new record player in place in order that I could have had Andrew Eldritch and Patricia Morrison aka The Sisters of Mercy belting out the song that this is named after.Much like Kernel it has to be said, Steel City’s greatest attribute is their consistency, another corker. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2011 at 23:23


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

Handbottled from Gazza who brought this along to share with Fin & Loz 18.08.11 cheers Gazza! Pours clear gold with a large foamy white head. Clean aroma, very grassy. Soft in the mouth but a great buzzing clean flavour, touch of citrus rippling around the mouth, bit of lime, another very good beer from the Steel City boys. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.9

Tried from Bottle on 21 Aug 2011 at 23:16


Brewery Stats
Score 6.86
Beers173
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