Iron City Beer
Pittsburgh Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Pale Regular|
Score
4.24
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From 1861 to present, Pittsburgh Brewing Company continues to produce fine beers as legendary as the city they come from. Iron City Beer is proudly recognized as one of the finest true lager beers brewed in the United States.
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4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Opens with a big nose of corn adjunct. It’s a pretty decent pour, clear but awfully light yellow, and a scrum of bubbles on top. Taste is less than inspiring for the story of a struggling local brand. A bit sugary and fusel, I’m pretending there’s some kind of hop balance there, maybe even of the Noble variety, but it just doesn’t match up to even that little bit of imagination. Guess I should admit that those local brands that survived so long did so by imitating the cheapest aspect of the big brewers.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2012
at 19:52
4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Originally rated July 2005. Sampled from their aluminium bottle. Pours a rich golden colour with hardly no head, no lacing and very low carbonation. The smell is kind of sweet and malty with hints of grass. There is no sweet malt in the taste though, just grain malt at the beginning, and some corn at the finish. Pretty watery mouthfeel. Nothing special here... except the cool bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2012
at 17:55
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear pale yellow with little head, little lacing, low carbonation, and very little aroma. Taste is light malt mostly corn and finishes with a hint of hops. Taste is not bad, it could be a good session beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2010
at 19:16
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear, apple juice-gold with a bare, white head. Ligt malt, corn and apple aroma. Swee flavor with faint dough and some light fruits. Light to medium in body with fizzy carbonation. Crisp and sharp in the finish, with some lingering apple notes. Light dryness. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2010
at 04:26
2.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
On tap at Blue Palms of all places. Didn’t finish the sample size pour. Speaking of pours, it comes in the glass with no head over a pale yellow body. Aroma? All I could smell was soft malt-tea. Nothing else at all. Flavor of corn, grain, urine, butter, acetaldehyde, and adjuncts. Watery and fizzy. Blah.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Dec 2009
at 00:47
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Draft at Horse Brass Pub, Portland, OR. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a sweetish malty grainy corn aroma. Sweetish grainy corn flavor. Has a sweetish finish with some grainy hints.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Dec 2008
at 04:37
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle. Not much aroma, just a bit of malt. Golden color with a decent white head. Thin bodied with fizzy carbonation. The flavor is rather clean malt and light hop. The finish is not quite dry, and just a little bitter. Arguably better than Bud.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2008
at 18:32