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Iron City Beer

Iron City Beer - Pale Lager

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 Percentile 
3
overall
Brewed by Iron City Brewing
Style: Pale Lager

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4361.79/5.01.8/5.04.5%20.7Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker
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Commercial Description:
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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 TChrome (1296), Bedford, Texas, USA
1.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/101/55/20
Jul 25, 2005  
Pours a rather ugly yellow color with a mostly dissipating egg white colored head. Aroma is mostly benign with a light corn syrup aroma. Flavor is likewise, begins with almost no flavor and finishes with sweet corn, like that creamed corn in a can stuff, yuck. Don’t be sucker of the slick aluminum bottle packaging. Pass on this unless you absolutely must have another rating. I do now.


 Cartoonkhaki (1149), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/52/101/53/20
Jul 23, 2005  
Golden colour. White quick to go head. Musty adjunct ridden corn aroma and flavour. Sweet grossness. Dry palate. Not a very good beer in anyway.


 jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/57/104/511/20
Jul 22, 2005  
12 oz aluminum bottle-pours a thin white head. Taste is good, mild flavor. Nice finish.


 stegosaurus (1882), Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/102/56/20
Jul 22, 2005  
this is not a good beer, at all. pours a pale golden with a large white head. an aroma of corn and malts, the taste is also of corn and malts, nothing great. this beer is very boring and watered down, drinkable? yes, but i could find macros just as good.


 joet (1699), Fulton, California, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/53/102/55/20
Jul 21, 2005  
Well done aluminum bottle. Pours with an abundant head. Nice sparkling golden appearance. Aroma is not pleasant. Corn and hopless. While no flaws were apparent. It seems like a lot of work for something mediocre at best. If you have the brewing equipment and the malts available and it’s not going to cost any more and it may increase your potential market, why not cut out the corn and adjuncts and do something interesting like adding a touch of wheat, or Saison du Pont yeast?


 NobleSquirrel (1094), Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/101/52/101/54/20
Jul 19, 2005  
Another poor beer. Fizzy, little/no hop character. Somehow manages a bit of skunk, even though it’s an aluminum bottle. Tasted like dirty dish water and look thin and weak.


 ClarkVV (3578), Allston, Massachusetts, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Jul 13, 2005  
2005 new aluminum bottle from Julio’s consumed on 7/1/2005. Finally! I’ve waited so long for Iron City to be distributed in Boston. I’m so excited!. . . . er, wait, no, no I’m not. Ahem, the beer pours with a cornfield yellow body, huge bubbles rapidly rising within. Fizzy head to ring, no lacing. Very clear. In the nose I get a bit of apricot, corn meal and shortcake. Light lager yeast as well. Flavor has more bready shortcake, light pale malts and a touch of sourness on the end. Decent body, at least, with malt sweetness not drowned to death in water. The huge bubbles give a very aerated, not sharp, feel to the palate. Some slight bitterness on the end, not really enough to figure out what it is. I assume it is some attempt at hops. Very light, lots of water in the beer, though it’s not really that thin. Some breadiness lingers, a touch of fruit and sugar. Clean, drinkable when chilled. Now if we could only get some Yuengling out here. . .


 Pigfoot (2226), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
0.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/51/101/52/20
Jul 12, 2005  
It’s shaped and capped like a bottle, but formed of aluminum..."alumabottle"? "can’bottle"?...yet I can’t crush it, nor will break when dropped...huh! Clear, clean, pale yellow hue, small head disappears instantly. Aroma: faint, yet still foul. Cooked corn, spoiled grain...not pleasant in the least. Sweet, yet putrid. I fear to drink it... Taste: hollow, wet, no taste to speak of, no flavor, no character, any trace of the above vanishes immediately. What little taste there is holds no appeal, even cannot be redeemed by the lightness, follows through in the finish. Not good. If were stuck on a desert island with nothing but this beer, I’d try my best to grow gills and get away!



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