Iron City Beer

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

Bottle. Light gold color. Small head. Aroma is grainy, grassy, Cornish and sweet. A medium bodied lager. Malts are mild, fruity and sweet, corn and rice. Hops are mild and slightly bitter. Fairly neutral tasting beer. No really objectionable flavors. Not bad for a macro. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

This canned brew poured a small head of white colored finely sized bubbles that left behind a transparent softly carbonated light yellow colored body and a minimal lace. The aroma is very mild with malty and doughy notes while the mouthfeel is crisp clean and mildly tingly from start to a lingering tingle in the finish. The flavor is that of a mild malt hop with a bit more body that some American Standards.

Standard. Yellow, milky white head. Had this from the new aluminum bottle. Musky aroma. Solid malt, like a brick building. Only for steelworkers.

Bottle. What a way to finish off a bad day of work. Pours a golden nectar with a soda like diminishing white head. Skunk, malt extract, some earth and corn galore. Taste is a little better than the aroma much like your classic macro lager.

Poured a golden color with a small white head and no lacing. Sweet, malty, corn, grain aroma. Grainy, malty, lightly sour, abbrasive mouthfeel. Extra appearance points for innovative aluminum bottle.

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. . .

(355 aluminum BOTTLE) Purchased at the LCBO in Ottawa, ON. Pours a highly carbonated, deep golden body with a quick dissipating, white head. Nose is full-on TIN - like the bottle. A very syrupy sweet and corn flavour. Finishes somewhat clean. The nose is such a turn-off though...

I threw this in with a few trades when the bottle/can first came out, cause it looked pretty cool. To those that got this from me, I appologize. Taste was nothing but corn. Not only that, but it didn’t even have much head retention if any. Total drainpour.