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 - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
deep brown black ... bubbly tan head ... soft coffee roast malt nose ... light fizz ... deep roast ... light coffee ... solid roast malt ... light chocolate ... but mostlt nice coffee roast ... quite a light body ... easy drinkin ...
yespr (55573) reviewed Independence Day Pale Ale from Steel City Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Handbottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a fully gone head. Aroma is fruity and mild spiced. Herbal hoppy. Dry hoppy and bitter. Mild peachy and dry grapefruity. Bitter and bone dry finish. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Hand bottle at ChrisO pre GBBF 2010. Pale gold, thin white head. My lasst rating of the evening before falling asleep under the bit of the ceiling that had already fallen down. Blinding beer Gazza and Dave, for an American Pale Ale this is everything I want especially in terms of hops. Lovely hop aroma mix of PNW hops, really drinkable. Would love to try this on cask fresh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Handbottled@The Chriso Rock The Roof Down pre-GBBF Shindig. Golden colour, mall white head. Arom is grass, wood, quite much citrus fruits as well as some mild caramel and bready malts. Flavour is quite fruity and floral with also some slight grassyness as well as bready malts. A quite plesantly balanced end easy to drink beer.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Bez Suchého Chmele - Tři from Steel City Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Handbottled@The Chriso Rock The Roof Down pre-GBBF shindig. Goldeny amber colour with small white head. Aroma is lots of citric hoppyness along with some slight caramel malts and toffeeish notes. Flavour is sweetish malts along with a quite big citric and floral hoppyness to it. Richly hopped golden ale!
Fin (18516) reviewed Merton Ruination from Steel City Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask, gravity at Merton Summer Beer Festival, 16-07-10 Very pale gold appearance with a a slim white head, decent clarity also. Wonderful fresh hoppy aroma. This is fresh clean and crushingly bitter in the mouth, streaky hops zipping about the mouth, plenty of juicy citrus, grapefruit I’m getting mostly. Nicely bitter and a real corker that went down well amongst the CAMRA lot especially. Hats off to Gazza, great stuff. A8 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 4.0
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask-conditioned at the Royal Oak, Bath 15/07/10. Pale gold with a decent, frothy white head. aroma of grapefruit hops, creamy malts and a touch of hay. Flavour was similar, with plenty of hop character, some balancing malts and long,dry finish. Very good.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Worcestershire Sourced from Steel City Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London England N1 7TA.Clear medium yellow orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, old malt - keller notes, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, grapefruity. Flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a long long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091228]
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed 51st State from Steel City Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask handpull at Reading BF 2010. Hazy pale gold, disappearing white head. It’s hoppy, wow, it’s hoppy. Rather lovley. Very good lime hop. It’s really good, lovely biting hop. Great.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Black No.1 from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Hand bottle at home ... deep black no head... smooth chocolate malts... deep rich little woody nose ... little carbonation despite the head ... some bitter chocolate roast ... light charcoal ... hint of coffee ... good and solid ... nice roast ... well this is my third Steel City stout and they seem to be able to hit that spot for me ... Just what i want from a stout ... cheers Guys