Steel City Ale®

Sheffield · Small batch · Three ales

Steel City Ale®.

Forged In Sheffield®

A Reyt Good Pint

Molten metal being poured at a steelworks, glowing orange against dark machinery.

The lineage

Forged In Sheffield®.

Three generations of Sheffield steelmakers.

My father worked in steel, and his father before him. I also worked in steel alongside my father. So did my uncles, my cousins, and most of the men I grew up around — a family that lived inside the heat and the noise of one of the hardest industries this country ever built.

Steelmaking does not tolerate mediocre. The metal will tell you. The men around you will tell you sharper. You learn that the work is the work — no clever way out, no shortcut that holds, no story that survives a bad batch.

We make ale to the same standard. Small batch. Hand-crafted. Nothing in the glass that has not earned its place. When we say Forged In Sheffield®, we mean it the way our fathers meant it — not a phrase. A fact.

The making

Small but capable.

We work in small batches. One mash tun, one copper, hand-fed, run slow enough to keep what matters. Our brewery is small but capable — Sheffield-sized, Sheffield-built, run by people who learned to make things properly. Nothing here is contracted out and rebadged. Every glass is ours.

Our Ales

The Forge Tap

Flagship

Bitter

ABV
4.0%
IBU
30

A proper Yorkshire bitter — the everyday pint we brew for ourselves.

  • Toffee
  • Biscuit
  • Dried fruit
  • Dry finish

Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggle

Malt: Maris Otter, Crystal 60, Roasted Barley

Little Cracker

Pale Ale

ABV
4.2%
IBU
35

A pale ale with personality. Bright, sessionable, dry.

  • Citrus peel
  • Blackcurrant
  • Biscuit
  • Crisp finish

Hops: Jester, Challenger, East Kent Goldings (late)

Malt: Maris Otter, Munich Light

The Anvil

Stout

ABV
4.8%
IBU
40

A stout with weight. Dry, dense, deep.

  • Coffee
  • Dark chocolate
  • Roasted barley
  • Dry finish

Hops: East Kent Goldings, Fuggle

Malt: Maris Otter, Roasted Barley, Chocolate malt, Flaked Oats