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Iron City Beer

Percentile
2
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bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4371.79/5.01.8/5.04.5%19.9Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker
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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JackLanders (55), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/52/101/55/20
Mar 31, 2004  
Not much aroma. The head was white, essentially tasteless and short-lived. Beer was straw colored. Very thin with no body whatsoever. Tasted somewhat of rice. Very little bitterness. This beer may be missing a few key elements. Like, say, hops and barley. It's like drinking bad alcoholic tapwater. I remember trying this both on tap and in bottles a year or so ago and thinking that it wasn't half bad for the price. It's gone way downhill since then and I would be embarrassed to be seen drinking this weak, girly swill - let alone brewing it. My wife brought home a 6 pack and I ended up dumping several bottles down the drain. I doubt that there are even enough hops and barley in this bottle to qualify as a beer. Maybe it's really sake, what with all of the rice. But the label is misleading because this is not beer.


 pkbites (327), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/57/20
Mar 23, 2004  
Pittsburgh Brewing must be pushing west. I found this at the Pick-N-Save in Milwaukee. $10.99 for a 30 pack on 03/22/2004. Nice color; deep yellow. Not dark or orange, but not watery yellow. Fair aroma. Lots of flavor, bold, but not overall good. That is to say, it's not watered down, I'm just not overly found of the taste. Kind of a funny- malty/stale yeast taste. I'm so used to American beer being watered down, then I find one that ain't and I don't really like it. But I don't exactly hate it either.


 Shag (1923), Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/103/58/20
Mar 21, 2004  
This was do-able for a mass produced lager. Nothing offensive in the taste. Pretty clean and straight foward just nothing in the taste dept. I could see this for a night of swilling, if thats the goal


 haddon90 (1035), Alexandria, Virginia, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/101/59/20
Mar 15, 2004  
On tap at TGI Friday's at Pittsburgh International Airport. Clear golden color with little or no head. Light aroma. Crisp, watered down, typical American Standard. Nothing overly special about this beer.


 TheOrange (405), Kent, Ohio, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/57/20
Mar 15, 2004  
Flavor starts out good, but has a fairly watery finish. I like my American Standards to be more crip then this was crisp. But my biggest knock on this beer is it's high carbonation.


 ross (1709), weddington, South Carolina, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/53/101/54/20
Feb 29, 2004  
haha the can says it all with this beer- bland, not very good, beer. if you could find a beer in a can that was white with black letters that said nothing but "beer" this would be that beer.


 raymow (738), Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/103/59/20
Feb 1, 2004  
I guess you could say that this is toward the upper end of the mass produced crap that's out there (Bud, Miller, etc.). It's drinkable, but by far nothing special. If you're going to drink this, you might as well go for the IC Light - it tastes about the same & has less calories and less carbs.


 Crash (448), Macomb, Illinois, USA
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/102/55/102/57/20
Jan 12, 2004  
Not really any smell. Orange in appearance with no head or lacing. An ok light beer.



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