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.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Douro Negative from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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.
cagarvie (40235) reviewed Czarna Kawa from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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 ...
Downender (11273) reviewed Douro Negative from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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.
Fin (18516) reviewed Black No.1 from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Worcestershire Sourced from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Wheel Ale from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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.
Fin (18516) reviewed Hop Manifesto from Steel City Brewing 16 years ago
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