Iron City Beer

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

Hey I am originally from the burgh and nothins better than a permantis smammich and one of these yins try it and see

(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.

Or "Arn city" as the locals pronounce it. Sampled from a 16 oz can - ice cold - as that is the only survivable way to drink this one. It pours a medium golden color with a large soapy white head. The aroma is sour macro tang. The flavor is your typical macro sour tangy loaded with corn. Uggh.

Al Bottle. Yellow body with a thin ring of bubbbles. Taste-holy burnt plastic, Batman! Are you kidding me? Tastes burned, scorched, and neglected! Not only does this taste like a bad macro, it tastes like a bad macro filtered through the remains of a burnt plastic factory! You guys are going to have to come up with a better gimick than a metal bottle...

Wanna hear a good joke? Here goes.... "Iron City beer is a wonderful premium lager." Now wasn’t that funny? The pour has a fizzled out head with no retention nor lacing. It looks straw into the glass. The nose is a "spot on" trio of corn, skunks and burning tires. The flavors have lots of cheap sweetness, reminiscent of American Macro swill, with a touch of something that tries to make the hops build a more well-rounded brew. The finish doesn’t really exist, the body is sparse, the mouthfeel is watery with no texture. If anything separates this from a cheap macro, it’s by a thin margin. This is quite honestly a marketing ploy..... in the "cool" insulated metal bottles. Oh yeah, remember my joke at your next party.

Bottle: Looks like a normal beer. Has almost no head. Aroma is carboard. Taste is lacking, mouthfeel is decent.

I’ve read that Pennsylvania was looking for environmentally friendly ways to rid itself of the endless slag heaps left behind by its decaying steel industry. Take just one sip of Iron City and you’ll discover were the slag is going. Seriously, if your looking to turn your colon into a Superfund site, drink some of this crap. By the way, the character rescued by our hero "Michael" in the Deer Hunter didn’t loose his legs as a result of a fall from a helicopter while fleeing the VC. He lost them as a result of Iron City abuse. Interestingly, this is the same movie where Rolling Rock is praised as a "good beer." Oh the humanity!

355ml alum. bottle. Gold colour, poor head retention, a few tiny bubbles stuck to the edge of the glass then totally vanished. Aroma was corny, a little grain. Very light in the flavour dept, weak citrus note, thin malt and corn. Thin body, average carboantion. Corny grainy clinging aftertaste. Not sure why the LCBO bothered to get this one.