Steel City Brewing
Client Brewer in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England 🏴
Established in 2009
Closed in 2025
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.
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.
Dedollewaitor (22075) reviewed Blanes Half IPA from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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.
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]
Dedollewaitor (22075) reviewed Sweating Bullets from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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.
Dedollewaitor (22075) reviewed Shadowplay from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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.
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.
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
Fin (18271) reviewed Blanes Half IPA from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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
Fin (18271) reviewed This Corrosion from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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
Fin (18271) reviewed Saint Brendan from Steel City Brewing 14 years ago
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
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| Beers | 173 |
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