Iron City Beer

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

It's always hard to describe American Standards. They all taste more or less the same. They taste like beer. No hints of coffee, no mild maltiness, no floral hop finish. It's all just personal prefrence and I prefer Iron City over almost every other beer of this style. Maybe it's because it's not as watery as other Americans maybe it's because my family is from Pittsburgh. I don't know but I like it.

Malt aroma, a little sweet, some apple and butter notes.Golden color, almost no head. Grainy flavor with metal on the edges, rather bland. Tinny finish.

Pours a pale yellow with a small white head. Aroma is corn, malt, grain. Flavor is corn, malt, grains. Watery thin and easy to drink but lacking flavor.

My uncle brought a couple of cases of this beer with him down from Pittsburgh awhile back. I drank a few with him, and it wasn't such a bad beer. Wasn't a great beer either, but ok overall. It has a bit more flavor than Bud or other mega-swills. Pours out a golden straw color, with a decent head that lasts awhile. It has a fair amount of hop aroma & taste in it, nothing to brag about though. I had a pretty fair impression of it. Nothing I would go out of my way to buy though.

Standard yellow, decent head/lacing, mild hoppy aroma. Mouthfeel is a bit creamy, then you get an overwhelming taste of corn, then the watery finish.

This beer was drank specificly for the super bowl. It was a very boring beer. Flavorless and simple. I won’t ever buy it again - for any reason

I hadn’t tried an "IC" since I used to make the Pirates games in the 70s ( mostly for the tail-gaters and bars). Iron City was everywhere in those days..hard to find a corner pub in the Penn state where either this or Rolling rock wasn’t on tap. This new packaging may be an attempt to revive sales and position IC for national distribution. It is one of the better American Macros. Poured a crystal clear gold with a smallish rocky cap that vanishes quickly to a small ring and light lace. Moderate carbonation is welcome in these macro pale adjunct lagers. Nose picks up a strong, grainy, boiled husk aroma and vegital adjuct smells with olfactions of dextrin sweetness. Mouth feel rather watery, distinct grainy husk/corn grit tastes ...sweet, mealy but thin on malt...light dry finish with the green, dry burn you get with rice in a beer.The hops are non distinct in the falvor profile until the finish where they appear as a light citrus note. Good stuff to wash your teeth with watching a live sports event but you’d have to be a real tar to actually buy it to enjoy at a pub or at home.

10/20/06: Pale lager from Steeler Country, had this many times in the past sampled a single for old times sake. Corny light scent, light gold pour minimal white head, crisp yet watery on the palate, typical swill taste. Blue collar beer for sure, used to be able to get this at one of my college hang outs for 50 cents a can.