Current and recovering Pittsburghers will appreciate this one. Iron City, that swillish brew from the Steel City, has come out with an “aluminum beer bottle.” Looks pretty strange and allegedly keeps beer cold longer.
Not sure if I’m ready for the aluminum bottle. I’m still recovering from their disco phase. (“Hey, give me an IC Light …”). and those 16-ounce returnable bottles from my youth. I think we affectionately referred to it as “Old Homicide.”
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Kinda cool lookin, though it brings to mind a sinister tube housed in a nitrogen deep freeze that contains some godawful substance intended for world domination, or Microsoft merger.
Bill Gates as Strangelove, or Clouseau’s greatest nemesis, Chief Inspector Dreyfus.
How are you going to break this bottle and use it as a weapon in a bar fight? Isn’t that a key consideration for beer-drinking Pittsburghians?
what happened to their steel pride? they never even used aluminum cans! is there any steel still produced in the burgh? i know some folks that do fabricating but i’m guessing that it’s imported steel.
i don’t know… the beauty of bottles is being able to see the beverage. this defeats that. if i were inclined to drink iron, i think that i’d pass.
I think the Edgar Thomson Works over in Braddock is still making steel. I think there are a few others. It blew me away the first time I returned to Pittsburgh after they’d razed the J&L Works. That hulking, rotten-egg stinking mill along the Parkway East pretty much defined trips into Pittsburgh when I was a kid. Homestead is gone, too. It’s now a riverfront shopping plaza.
There’s a trend story here for a Pittsburgh features writer: Steel Town beer switches to aluminum packaging.