Titanic Brewery Steerage Beer Review

It's time for another brew from Stoke on Trent's Titanic Brewery. In this case I'm going for their golden session ale Steerage. I've reviewed a few of their beers recently, some good, some bad, and a couple which have been excellent. Naturally I'm hoping this one will be one of their better offerings. I do have fairly high hopes as I love a good golden ale, it just reminds me of simpler times before craft beers started creating a whole plethora of weird and sometimes wonderful beers. Anyway me and some work friends always meet up between Christmas and New Year because they all just miss me so much when I'm off. So this beer was opened just before beginning a Skype call with them as due to covid this was the nearest thing we could get to having actual fun.

Steerage comes in the now very familiar standard 500ml Titanic Brewery bottle featuring a ship which will presumably sink in the near future, poor ship. At 3.8% this is certainly a session beer and most people should be able to manage a few before waking up the next day with a bad head and fuzzy memory. The beer pours a nice light gold/orange with a decent, but quickly vanishing head. I can't really complain about the looks of this beer, it just looks nice and drinkable. I'm sure we've all looked at a beer and thought this before only to be disappointed, but still it's not a bad start.

Steerage has a really nice floral aroma with hops and malts backing it up just about perfectly. It's also not too overpowering, which I guess is to be expected in a 3.8% beer. I don't know there's something about the look and smell of this beer which makes me think I'm probably going to like it more than the last couple of Titanic beers I've had. Maybe best I don't get my hopes up though, ever since been bowled over by their Plum Porter every other Titanic beer has been a bit of a let down, but that really is because that one raised the game so much.

Fortunately in the case of Steerage the taste is really nice. The texture is light and decidedly drinkable while the malts compliment the fruitiness really well. This is a quite a sweet beer with little or no bitter aftertaste, which makes a refreshing change. I don't think it'd be wrong to say this is just about the ideal session ale. Often these type of beers can be a bit bland, but there's just about enough going on with Steerage to really engage the pallet. This is one of those beers you can quite happily drink pint after pint of without getting bored, bloated, or excessively drunk. I really like Steerage from Titanic Brewery and am happy to award it 8 out of 10.