Delicious beer and dirty burgers – a warm welcome awaits you in a unique environment
Just a short stroll over the bridge from Eastleigh railway station you’ll find the Steam Town taproom and burger bar. Craft produced in our award-winning micro brewery, we make a changing range of cask, keg and small pack beer for your enjoyment onsite, at home (both take out and for UK delivery) and out to the local free of tie trade. If you’re feeling peckish, we also offer a great food menu, all prepared using the best ingredients from local producers by our chefs.
Our brewing goes from strength to strength
Brewing at Steam Town started shortly after opening in Feb 2018 and by October 2024 we were flying past Gyle (or brew number) 900 – that’s almost 15,000 pints!
We brew mostly with top fermenting house yeast (LA III originally), harvested each week for continuity and subsequent brews. Our Steam Town Brewhouse yeast has been kept clean and nurtured by our brewhouse team since August 2020. In no small way our yeast contributes character and flavour to our beers and as such, looking after it is a very important part of our brewhouse work.
In addition to beers made with our house yeast, we also produce our own lagers; we’ve collaborated with Alfred’s Brewery in Winchester and Total Saints Podcast on some session strength lager beers, but our 4.8% Helles style lager, ‘Disco Fluff’ is a firm favourite on our bar and out to the trade. Made with a clean bottom fermenting Pils yeast, the process for making lager is more time consuming, but when done well results in a very flavourful beer compared to some of those that you’ll find on a supermarket shelf.
We tend to brew 3-4 times each week; every brew or brewlength is approximately 10HL or 1000L at a time, approx 1,600 pints. We package our beer into larger casks and kegs for our dispensing onsite and out to the local free of tie trade in the region. We also package beer into cans and mini-keg formats. Please see our shop for ordering to collect or send to a friend.
There’s nothing cloudy about our conscience
At Steam Town we do everything we can to minimise waste and we make use of as much of our by-product as possible. Over the last 7 years (and counting), approximately 250 tons of used spent malt has been added back onto the land locally via smaller herds of cattle and pigs at Emmetts farm, Upham. Spent grain is dug out of the mash tun, collected daily and woofed down as an afternoon favourite by the farm animals.
Recently we’ve also switched all our smallpack away from glass to cans, reducing our carbon footprint along the way. Producing, transporting and recycling steel and aluminium takes much less carbon compared to its glass equivalent. It’s also better for keeping soon-to-drink fresh beer, keeping out the UV light which quickly turns beer.
At the heart of our community
Our taproom and restaurant customers make our business; without their support we wouldn’t be here however, neither do we allow disrespectful and unacceptable behaviour. Since opening we’ve always listened, reinvested, updated, reformed and fine-tuned. As a result we’re not the same taproom we opened in 2017 and neither is the kitchen or production brewery. In addition to the significant investment in spaces and equipment, we’re also growing a culture within work that seeks to challenge, be self-critical, create, grow and be clear on how we give back to our local communities.
Over the last 7 years we’ve worked with and supported a long list of local charities, other organisations and individuals. This is because they’re working hard to help and support others in need and bring about positive change to lives and communities. We believe that businesses and individuals that profit in work can also make a difference by helping to support others.
