Right on, guys. I look forward to trying your brews at some point. 
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Good luck guys. Shame I’ll miss the first release. But I’m getting plenty of hops where I am at the moment.
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I’ll be up to try Hop Manifesto in Oxford tomorrow. As far as I’m concerned that’s the only beer but it won’t stop me drinking at least a pint of all 3 variations (if they’re all on and in good nic). Good luck with tonight’s launch.
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we are already working on getting our stuff to the states. also a possible collaboration
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So far, so fun:
http://www.reluctantscooper.co.uk/2009/10/steel-city-brewing.h
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now then
our next beer, working title ’Worcester Sourced’ should be brewed next Saturday. It’ll be 4%, pale (of course), bittered with Magnum (80-90 IBU), and flavoured with Worcester-grown Cascades
it also seems we have provoked the wrath of Kelham Island brewery (me and Gazza upsetting people? that can’t be right!)
http://www.thestar.co.uk/letters/Making-a-stand-for-micro.5766
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So will your beers be on in the Kelham Island Tavern in the near future?
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fortunately the Kelham Island Tavern is not connected to Kelham Island Brewery
safe to say our beers won’t be in Fat Tw@t anytime soon though (not that we’d have sold to them anyway)...
here’s the reply I have sent to The Star...
I’ll get the statistical pedantry out of the way first - even if we take David Wickett’s comments about his Kelham Island brewery (’Making a stand for micro-breweries’, October 27th) at face value, that would not invalidate my statement that 90% of UK beers are very similar. His brewery is one of 700, thus representing about 0.1%. In the last year, I have tried over 1,700 different UK beers, and while most were perfectly acceptable, very few were what I would call out of the ordinary. Fewer still catered for my taste for hops. I even tasted a few collaborations with American brewers, and found them lacking - most seemed to be based on the American equivalents of our regional beers, rather than true IPAs like Green Flash or Two Brothers.
Wickett goes on to deride us for using someone else’s brewery - to me this seems a sensible way of starting, and indeed I feel there is a case for small breweries sharing equipment in the longer term. A couple of paragraphs later he goes on to laud his achievement in winning Champion Beer of Britain, and rightly so, though for some reason he fails to mention that the first thing he did after winning was to contract out the brewing of the winning beer.
He also states that not alienating customers is the way to run a business. Well, if one’s goal is making money, then that’s true, and it’s clearly worked for Mr Wickett so fair enough. However, our principle aim is to make the beers that we want to drink. As our tastes are out of the ordinary, this necessarily entails catering for a smaller market.
I’m not sure why Mr Wickett felt the need to leap to the defence of his brewery - no-one was attacking it. Is he that insecure? Personally, I would like to thank him for his contribution to the local beer market - ex-Kelham Island brewers have gone on to start some of the best breweries in the UK.
Although not reported in the original article, I also said that Sheffield arguably has the best pub scene in the UK, and some of the best breweries in the country. There are a lot of good breweries out there, but very few beers that cater to my personal taste. I never said that made them bad breweries or bad beers, just that I was usually left yearning for more hops. While I’m not here to debate the relative merits of Kelham Island beers, I can’t help but feel that the gist of Wickett’s article is ’we brew lots of beers, and they’re all great, just ask me. So why does anyone else need to start brewing in Sheffield?’.
Please note these are entirely the opinions of Steel City Brewing, and do not reflect those of The Brew Company, who are an entirely separate entity and whose only involvement in Steel City is providing the equipment.
Dave Szwejkowski
Co-brewer, Steel City Brewing
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we have also sorted a limited bottling run (72 bottles) of our next beer - so anyone wanting some gimme a shout
hoping most of it will go to trade e.g. Beer Merchants, but I’ll be keeping a few bottles. anyone abroad wanting some it’s worth dropping me a BM, I get about a bit, though until the ridiculous rules on carry-on luggage are relaxed it’s unlikely I’ll be able to get any to europe
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Badass, are you considering sending over bottles or just casks?
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