Iron City Beer

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

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

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!

Aluminum bottle shared with the guys at the Barrios’ 500th Swallow Tasting. Clear golden pour with no head. Weird Raspberry tart aroma note. Absurdly sweet fake corn flavor. Metallic penny. Very flat. Like a really bad euro strong lager, but without the alcohol, and goodness. I’d take a bud over this one any day.

Well, for .99 cents how can ya go wrong, besides, it had a kinda cool little bottle. Well kinda just what i expected, a happy medium between HighLife and something slightly better. Light golden color with a small white head. Kinda no taste, or at least a lack of taste, but better than some crap beers. Wheres the 40’s of this stuff?

Damn! My can musta rusted because this beer’s terrible! Wait a minute, I’m actually drinking from a bottle, so there’s no excuse for this horrible taste. I keep sipping the Edison Light Beer instead because by comparison, that tastes frickin’ delicious.

UPDATED: SEP 28, 2007 (**IMPORTANT NOTE: This rating is for "Olde Frothingslosh" and not Iron City, they are not the same brew tho this site considers them to be the same.**) Oh frothy sloshy, why am I the first to rate you? You have been around Pittsburgh for fifty years now. Only specially made in batches once in a while. I remember fondly those models on your cans, probably some of the more collectible in existence. This can is the 50th anniversary can, has a picture of Rege on it. Oh my garsh its frothingslarth, is proudly printed on the front. Pop the lid of this 12 oz can and you get a sour whiff of Pittsburgh style lager. The pour of this brew is ubiquitous pale yellow lager, like any typical american brew. The taste is near Iron City but more like Old German. You gotta love this stuff, cheap and fun. You know, KDKA was the first commercial radio station in the USA. Not quite as smooth as I would like but it is definitely OK with it’s gentleman like manners. No hops or malt detectable so it also lacks that bitterness inherent with such brews. Finish is well behaved and friendly, a good session brew. Try it, you may like it. Iron City lovers will accept this in stride.

UPDATED: DEC 12, 2008 [bottle] Pale gold color with good white head. Mild malty aroma with a good initial malt taste. A bit watery but good and smooth to drink. Folks, people complain about it, but you cannot beat this beer. This was brewed for German steel workers. It may taste odd, but it is an acquired taste. Give it a chance.

bottle - A hard pour yielded a 2 finger, rapidly fading head on this clear yellow beer. It smells like mild malt and adjuncts. It tastes like sweet corn and other adjuncts. I’ve had worse and it’s not as watery as some. That’s as close to "good" as I can justifiably come with what’s apparently a favorite of many in Pittsburgh. It’s crap.

This beer tastes like the can that it came out of. Pours yellow and fizzy, the aroma is heinous. This is the kind of beer you have to hold your nose to drink. Overly sweet malts, with little to no hops present. Very corny, a beer to drink while eating Frito's, perhaps.