Pittsburgh Brewing Company
Iron City Beer was established in 1861 in the heart of Pittsburgh, and in 1899 twenty-one local breweries combined to form Pittsburgh Brewing Company. The company stayed open through Prohibition and introduced its first canned beer, Iron City, in 1936. IC Light followed in 1978 and is still its best seller. After contract brewing in Latrobe from 2009, production came home in 2022 to Creighton, in the former PPG Glass Plant No. 1, built in 1883.
Beers by Pittsburgh Brewing Company
16 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Pittsburgh Brewing Company brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Coffee Porter
Their beers place in the Top 45% of the catalogue on average, across 16 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Pittsburgh Brewing Company
Iron City Beer was established in 1861 in the heart of Pittsburgh, and in 1899 twenty-one local breweries combined to form Pittsburgh Brewing Company. The company stayed open through Prohibition and introduced its first canned beer, Iron City, in 1936. IC Light followed in 1978 and is still its best seller. After contract brewing in Latrobe from 2009, production came home in 2022 to Creighton, in the former PPG Glass Plant No. 1, built in 1883.
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