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Pittsburgh Brewing Company

United States · Regional · Known for a full range of stylesWebsite
Known for a full range of styles

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.

16Beers
7Styles
5.5%Avg ABV
1861Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 15%

Beers by Pittsburgh Brewing Company

16 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Pittsburgh Brewing Company brew a broad range across 7 style families.

Signature · 16 beers
Lager 6Pale Ale 5Porter 1Stout 1Wheat Beer 1Fruit Beer 1Belgian 1

Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

malty
5 of 16 beers
refreshing
5 of 16 beers
bready
3 of 16 beers
crisp
3 of 16 beers

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:

typical for similar stylesPittsburgh Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
clean
in 3 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
smooth
in 1 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
crisp
in 3 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
malty
in 5 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 4 in 5
Rarely appears — the field expects it.
light
in 2 of 16 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably less light than typical.

and 3 more traits that set them apart

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.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 45%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 16
beers above the median
#1787
best ranked beer
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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Location
Pittsburgh · Pennsylvania · United States
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