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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7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Hand bottle at home ... deep brown black ... no head ... soft roast malts ... hint of run and chocolate nose ... soft fruity roast malts ... some sour raisin ... light chocolate ... light bitter back bone ... but decent roast ... again a little thin probably from the hand bottling ... but once again a totaly drinkable pint.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Mar 2010 at 09:49


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Hand bottle at home ... deep black .... no head ... roast malts big coffee hit nose ... little licorice up front ... soft gentle roast ... little bitter chocolate malt in finish ... really tasty ... little smokey (hint of charcoal) ... soft coffee finish ... i suspect that this has suffered a little in the hand bottling as is possibly a bit thin... but its smooth and tasty ...

Tried from Bottle on 13 Mar 2010 at 09:22


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask-conditioned at the Wenlock Arms, London 11/02/10. Almost black with a slight tan head. Big aroma of black coffee, chocolate and fruits, both dark and a hint of orange. Full, slightly vinous mouth feel, with more chocolate and fruit and a lingering, charred finish. Very enjoyable.

Tried from Cask on 12 Feb 2010 at 23:49


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

Cask, gravity at Merton Winter Beer Festival 06-01-10 Pours very dark brown in colour. Initially this is smooth in the mouth but then a real crushing roasty bitterness takes over, lovely dark bitter cocoa powder, in fact some of them bitter chocolate covered coffee beans but not lasting so long and this tends to make way for a wonderful dryness at the end but the hook is a nice green fresh hoppiness to finish. The best yet from Steel City, very good stuff. A6 A4 F6 P3 Ov12 3.1

Tried from Cask on 07 Feb 2010 at 01:20


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask@The Wenlock Arms, London. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, herbs, nectar, some wood and mild hay as well. Flavour is wood, nectar, herbs and some slight wooden notes as well. Quite dry bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 05 Jan 2010 at 08:50


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Cask gravity at Pig’s Ear BF 09. Some hop on aroma. Hoppy on finish. Fullish in mouth, decent citrus hops and flavour soe orange fruits. Grew on me. Decent and well made.

Tried from Cask on 28 Dec 2009 at 07:11


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask gravity at Oxford Beer Festival, 15-10-09 Pours a lemony colour with white head and whilst there is a little haze, it looks pretty decent. Lovely hoppy nose, its likely that I’m picking out the American hops possibly the Amarillo. Taste is very much tingly hops to start and a pleasant streaky bitterness that leaves a little hop burn on the roof of the mouth. I understand that this didn’t end up quite as hoppy as Gazza and Dave expected but regardless of this it is still a pleasant hoppy little number and for their first brew a pretty solid start. Soft mouthfeel but nicely refreshing and the finish is dry. A good start to my night working at Oxford Beer Festival. A7 A3 F7 P4 Ov15 3.6

Tried from Cask on 16 Oct 2009 at 00:26