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.

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6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at Reading beerfest] Gold, moderate white head. Floral and pine aroma, sour and bitter grapefruit taste. A little pepper in the finish. Very thin and watery - for me this was all hops and no balance. Sorry Gazza, really wanted to like it!

Tried from Cask on 29 Apr 2011 at 16:24


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22nd April 2011
Mason & Taylor single hop fest. Light pale gold beer, no head. Light dry palate. Good fresh hops with a lingering bitter aftertaste. Full of hoppy goodness but the condition seems a bit off.

Tried on 29 Apr 2011 at 10:50


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

Cask handpull at Reading BF 2011. Gold clear lasting thin bubbly white head. Simcoe and Citra on the aroma. This is good. Better than the BAGS I thought. Really easy drinking delightfully hoppy beer. Tasty hoppy beer.

Tried from Cask on 27 Apr 2011 at 11:46


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask handpull at Reading BF 2011. Clear pale ish gold colour with lasting bubbly white head. Lots of Chinook on the aroma. Touch of rubber later on with the hops. Quite light on the malts as you would expect. Lovely hoppy finish. Just that touch of rubber. Good though.

Tried from Cask on 27 Apr 2011 at 11:36


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Cask gravity at Mason & Taylor Hip Hop BF. Towards bottom if the barrel. There was certainly some barrel tipping going on. Thats pretty good. Theyve put some hops in there. Wow just like hop tea on the finish. Harsh aggressive but almost completely wonderful. Wow that does have a hell of a finish. I may still be tasting this beer next week. Sat chatting to Dave you know Dave from The Wenlock. Hardcore. Jesus thats just on the right edge of becoming undrinkably hoppy but is just restrained enough. Crazy beer.

Tried from Cask on 25 Apr 2011 at 05:17


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at the Wenlock Arms on 23rd March 2011. Slightly hazy gold with thin ring of foam. Hoppy and rich yeasty aroma. Bitter in-mouth; liquid giving some richly hoppy and bitter notes. Textured mouthfeel and increasingly bitter aftertaste. Impressive for its strength.

Tried from Cask at Wenlock Arms on 23 Mar 2011 at 22:00


8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival 04.02.11 Pours black with some reddish glints and with a light beige head on top. Aroma is quite big hoppiness but there is also some roasted notes and a goodly lacing of decent cocoa powder. In fact the latter was what I also liked in the mouth and whilst I really enjoyed that clean crisp green juicy hoppy bite I also liked the interplay with the nice smooth but dark cocoa richness that sat on the tongue. Overall a great beer and vying for my festival favourite with the Crouch Vale Pioneer. Great stuff again Gazza! A8 A5 T8 P4 Ov16 4.1

Tried from Cask on 07 Feb 2011 at 00:20


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

bottle at home ... my this is clearly the base beer of Vladichestvo ... you get all the same stuff without the vanilla ... blacl ... thinist bubbles head ... sweet roast ... light charcoal nose .. loft easy roast ...little caramel toffee ... soft roast ... my i know i only get the steel city beers in the fav style but i always really enjoy them... i think i prefer this to vanilla version as it a little less sweet .

Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2010 at 08:28


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

bottle at home ... thanks to the Evil Empire ... dark black... thin bubbles ...soft roast malts ... light toffee nose ... very sweet vanilla ... loads of chocolate... soft smooth and sweet ... light roast ... light sweet caramel ... this is nice... i like its sweetness without being overpowering sweet

Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2010 at 08:17


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

bottle at home ... thanks to The evil empire ... copper brown ... thin white head ... huge capsicum ... light malt ... juicy pine hop nose ... well found a bit of chilli skin ... so there def chilli in it :-) ... soft capsicum front ... a hint of burn but no actaly burn ... light body ... little hop ... and again a chilli flavour in the finish ... light soft malt ... this is not really a session beer as no ones gonna want pints of it . but for a nice unusual half im really enjoying it ...

Tried from Bottle on 24 Dec 2010 at 07:45


Brewery Stats
Score 6.86
Beers173
Ticks591