Iron City Beer

Brewed by Iron City Brewing
Style: Pale Lager
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

The Lure:
Nice can. Malt husks are floating on top of the water I think, with some grass blades. Doesn’t smell awful, obviously made for chugging.

The Festivities:
Reeks of adjuncts (maybe corn?). Cleanly brewed thankfully, I may have even noticed hops. Urine dominates though, but very subtlely. The classic blend of bland and blond.

Transcendence:
Go Steelers (buuurrrp) go!

There is not much to be said about Iron City. It’s not the greatest beer out there but it’s also far from the worst I’ve had. Give it a try.

Interesting "can". It looks like a hair care product. Clear and golden with little head. Sweet and grainy aroma. Light bodied with a clean finish. Little in the flavor department but better than most American Premium’s.

(12 oz aluminum bottle: Obtained in trade with Eyedrinkale, thanks Mike!) Well, cool bottle, let’s start off with that. Pop the cap, pour the beer, and the medium yellow liquid is capped by a white head that is nearly an inch tall. The occasional carbonation bubble rises through the beer, and if there were more, this would be a really nice looking beer initially. The head does fade to a rim within 5 minutes or so, and any lacing left on the glass dissipates as rapidly as the head. The nose is dry straw and grain, typical of the style. A rather light flavored lager, wow, there’s just not much going on here. Watery and thin on the palate and the flavor. Hard to hate how this beer tastes since there just isn’t much flavor. Lightly sweet, grainy, minimally bitter, can’t really detect any hops. The finish is very short lived, fading away rapidly. Probably not something I’d ever buy, but if I were really thirsty, I could probably finish an entire pint without retching. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting.

I can’t believe I paid $6.99 for a sixer of this. One would’ve been fine. Aluminum "bottle" does keep the beer cold on the way home, but the advantages end there. Pours thin, piss yellow, and with a small head. No lace to speak of around the glass. Aroma is a dull mix of hops and straw. Taste has some weird hybrid banana in there somewhere, but it is soon overpowered by the stale malt and dull hops.

I gave it a few extra points for the cool metal bottle. Unfortunately they filled the cool can with another palllid macro-swill. No appreciable aroma, flavor or finish that I would care to comment on.

Who buys this stuff? It smells like a cheap champagne and the aftertaste is something I might burp up after drinking a Budweiser. Out of all the beers I can’t get in Texas, this is one they actually allow. Crap!

04.11.05 12oz alumibottle ’thanks’ to Eyedrinkale. For god’s sake Mike, what did I do to deserve this? I mean, I thought we were pals? I shared a 20 year old Liefman’s Kriek with you and you thank me with this corn soup?

okay, that’s outta my system...lol
Pale straw pour looks like a hundred other beers out there; big white head fades. Aroma is cornflakes. I’d swear there are no hops before I even sip the stuff. Not much taste al all other than more corn flakes. True, it’s not very good. The bottle was cool; I guess the high average score is a sentimental vote.