Iron City Beer

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

Well done aluminum bottle. Pours with an abundant head. Nice sparkling golden appearance. Aroma is not pleasant. Corn and hopless. While no flaws were apparent. It seems like a lot of work for something mediocre at best. If you have the brewing equipment and the malts available and it’s not going to cost any more and it may increase your potential market, why not cut out the corn and adjuncts and do something interesting like adding a touch of wheat, or Saison du Pont yeast?

Another poor beer. Fizzy, little/no hop character. Somehow manages a bit of skunk, even though it’s an aluminum bottle. Tasted like dirty dish water and look thin and weak.

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. . .

It’s shaped and capped like a bottle, but formed of aluminum..."alumabottle"? "can’bot I can’t crush it, nor will break when dropped...huh! Clear, clean, pale yellow hue, small head disappears instantly. Aroma: faint, yet still foul. Cooked corn, spoiled grain...not pleasant in the least. Sweet, yet putrid. I fear to drink it... Taste: hollow, wet, no taste to speak of, no flavor, no character, any trace of the above vanishes immediately. What little taste there is holds no appeal, even cannot be redeemed by the lightness, follows through in the finish. Not good. If were stuck on a desert island with nothing but this beer, I’d try my best to grow gills and get away!

Alumabottle. Pours a clear yellow with a small white head that disappears quickly. Strong taste of corn and sweeteners. I purchased this beer more for the container than for the beer itself!

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...

Gross. Although the aluminum bottle looks neat. OK.. I have to use more space for the review... So... No flavor, No hops, No color. Leaves you asking what you just paid for.

Pours a light yellow,with aroma of corn and sweet adjunct,And thats exactly how it tastes!It had a small white head that was gone in a matter of seconds.The aluminum bottle is pretty neat though!