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 rum to the same standard. Small batch. Hand-crafted. Nothing in the bottle 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 copper still, hand-loaded, run slow enough to keep what matters. Our facility is small but capable — Sheffield-sized, Sheffield-built, run by people who learned to make things properly. Nothing here is sourced and rebadged. Every bottle is ours.
Our Rums
Our Rums.
Steel City Rum®
British-distilled · Cask-mellowed
Distilled in Sheffield from cane molasses through our copper still, then cask-mellowed for character. The molasses is what we start with; the rum is ours.
ABV
40%
Style
British-distilled · Cask-mellowed
Source
Cane molasses
Sheffield water
Tasting notes
Soft caramel and treacle nose · Sweet vanilla mid-palate · Warm oak close
Steel City Spiced Rum®
Spiced rum · Sheffield-blended
The same Sheffield-distilled molasses base as our Cask-Mellowed, then rested with six warm spices. Sweet-warm, structured, an autumn pour.
ABV
38%
Style
Spiced rum · Sheffield-blended
Source & Spices
Cane molasses
Sheffield water
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Clove
Orange peel
Allspice
Ginger
Tasting notes
Warm vanilla and cinnamon nose · Orange and clove on the palate · Long sweet-spiced finish