Iron City Light
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
3.87
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A refreshing light lager that has a smooth taste, and can be compared to the regular kind.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Pours a clear, light yellow with a fizzy white head. Light malt aroma with some corn and sugar. Mild flavor with some sweet grains and very little bitterness. Light in body with average carbonation. Finishes crisp and clean with short-lived sweetness. Not bad!
Tried
from Can
on 14 Sep 2010
at 13:41
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
16 ounce bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours an amber color with a thin head. Poor head retention and lacing. Taste is grassy and light toasted malts but is otherwise devoid of flavor. Weak grainy slightly toasty aroma. Thin bodied. Generic beer. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2009
at 01:11
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a dark straw yellow color with a large white head. The aroma was sour, tangy and tart with a touch of citrus. The flavor was sweetish, tangy and tart with a touch of windex The finish was short and dry. Drinkable for a light beer.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2009
at 16:19
2.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle on 09/27/2008. Very clear pale yellow body with a small frothy white head. Corn and grain aroma. More corn in the flavor with some honey hints and a grainy finish. Very light body with rather high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2009
at 14:40
2.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Excessively pale. Smell takes me back to China - this beer is so watery and grainy it could be Chinese. Tastes the same. Too weak to complement uncooked ramen. Assy.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2008
at 15:00
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Light aroma of "corn" and grassy hop. Watery gold color with a non-persistent white head. Light-plus body with crisp carbonation. Flavor is very dilute pale malt with a small amount of grassy hop. Finishes dry and somewhat herbal.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2008
at 18:28
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
At the Trivia Pub. Yes I had this many times before but I did not want to rate from memory. This is said to be the original light beer, the first of it’s kind. Has a ubiquitous pale yellow american lager appearance and color. The aroma is lightly tart. Rather clean and crisp on the initial flavor impact. Very little if any detectable bitterness. However, it does has a slight iron city industrial background that is so prevalent in Pittsburgh Brewing’s beers. Good amount of welcomed carbonation provides some exciting tingle. Finish is mild and well behaved, no offense in this brew. Finish provides a little of that Pittsburgh Brewing industrialism that lingers for a short while after the session. Good session brew. Also, decent personality for a light beer.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2007
at 07:21
2.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Bottle. Aroma-less golden liquid with a few bubble scattered around on the surface. Maybe you could make a case for calling the aroma a little \"malty\" or something, but all I can really pick up is a very faint and sweet apple juice scent. Flavor is more of the same. I don’t know what is in there, but I’d be somewhat surprised if it included the promised 4.15% ABV. A little bit of a corn flavoring with some sweet apple juice to round out the palate. Very simple, very light and very blah. Its best quality is that there are no unseemly scents or flavors. I honestly don’t think there is enough flavor for anything to go horrendously wrong. Probably best suited for emergency thirst quenching between mowing the front and back lawns in August.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2007
at 23:00
3/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 5
Flavor 1
Texture 6
Overall 2
Very beefy aroma. Clear yellow color, no head. Virtually flavorless up front, but leaves barley and hops on the palate. I’ve had worse.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2007
at 17:15
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 1
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 1.5
Can, 355 ml, "gift" from Marc Gratton, “savoured” on April 27 2007; eye: faded straw, thin white head, light effervescence, clear, light lacing; nose: dominant and disagreeable odour, slight hops, corn; mouth: really bad but unknown taste which to my astonishment and my great pleasure disappears totally in that really short finale, thanks to the brewer for this, a bit of corn, a bit of hops, thin, watery texture, lightly acrid; overall: once in a lifetime is sufficient FRANÇAIS Canette, 355 ml, « cadeau » de Marc Gratton, « savourée » le 27 avril 2007; œil : paille léger, petite mousse blanche, légère effervescence, claire, légère dentelle; nez : odeur inconnue dominante et désagréable, très léger houblon, maïs; bouche : goût inconnu très désagréable mais, à ma grande stupéfaction et mon plus grand des plaisirs, ce goût disparaît totalement grâce à cette finale très courte, coup de chapeau au brasseur pour ce tour de force, assez carbonatée, un peu de maïs, un peu de houblon, mince, texture aqueuse, légèrement âcre; en résumé : une fois, c’est assez
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2007
at 15:45