Beermaker in bankruptcy (Iron City)

Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^

[evets]

Pittsburgh Brewing, forced into bankruptcy yesterday to avoid a cutoff of its water supply, plans to get rid of more than $6 million in pension obligations and emerge from bankruptcy with its ownership group intact, Vice Chairman Joseph Piccirilli said.

From left, Pittsburgh Brewing Co.'s Valerie Stoltz, director of human resources; Tony Ferraro, vice president of sales and marketing; Jeff Vavro from media relations; and Joseph Piccirilli, vice chairman, talk after a news conference at the brewery in Lawrenceville yesterday afternoon

[Jaxter]

I live in Sharpsburg...

..comes from here.

[Ditto]

Pittsburgh Brewing is one of a handful of independent local brewers who managed to survive the A-B/Miller/Coors mass marketing blitz. In fact, in terms of production, I believe it was the largest brewery in the country that was not owned by the big three. It was the old-timers who kept the brewery going. Those old beer drinkers are passing on and young beer drinkers are totally hooked by the marketing blitzes of the flavored waters sold by the big three.

Fifty years ago, every city of even moderate size had at least one, if not two or three local breweries. Pittsburgh had three good sized breweries up until the 1960s. Today, aside from Yuppie micro breweries, few cities have a local brand. It's all Bud, Coors or Miller, all boring flavored water, with some overpriced imports thrown in if you actually care about taste.

It will be the end of an era when Pittsburgh Brewing finnaly goes under.

[evets]

I used to live in Etna!

Merry Christmas!

[Ditto]

They were the first beer cans that date to the 1930s at the end of prohibition. Before that, beer was only sold in bottles.

[ex-snook]

The best I could afford. It was great.

[Ditto]

Actually IC light, was what I thought tasted like tap water.

IC Light tastes like a heavy German dark beer compared to Coors, Miller or Bud Light.

[Jaxter]

Merry Christmas from the 'Burgh!

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

When I was in high school in the eighties, we could always scrape together seven bucks and get us a case of this:

My favorite...well, sort of a in a tie with Penn Pilsner.

The price has gone up to $16/case however.

[mak5]

Gimme a Duke! The old Duquesne clock stayed up on the South Side for years.

[mak5]

Fort Pitt, that's it!

[Pompah]

An Ice Cold Falls City. Mmmmm.
Now that takes me back a few years.

[decal]

Never had an IC, being from TX and all.

Its reputation is it's adequate as a bottled/canned product, but it's supposed to be VERY good out of a keg. Can anyone confirm this?

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Rolling Rock is, thankfully, still around."

Rolling rock is not a bad beer - at least as good as any of the 'name' brand American beers. A cold one is really refreshing on a hot summer day.

I say that though my beer preference is usually a British amber or pale ale or good German beer, and occasionally a black beer, ala Guiness or similar Irish brew - room temp, of course.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Fierce Allegiance]

I know you have a "unique" sense of humor, but Geney Cream? EEEEEEyuck! When we were scraping sidewalks for nickels to buy beer in highschool, we'd even pass up that stuff. Arghurgle.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Probably made my switch to cheap sherry and scotch possible.

[Paulus]

O now your killin me.. MMMMM.

[Fierce Allegiance]

LOL, geney cream would be a good switch-facilitator to ANY other beverage.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Freshman year we bought a case of something so bad we threw it out after the first six pack. Can't remember what it was, but we bought it off the back of some guy's truck.

[alarm rider]

Having read the whole thread, I think that there is one, vile brew missing.

The absolute worst beer I ever had was something found in the South. "Dixie" it was called. It was rumored that they cut it with embalming fluid, but it didn't taste that good.

I have had Iron City and I thought it was strange tasting and probably toxic.