Found this morning, IC Beer Can of 1979 Super Bowl Steelers!?*

[orion024]

Found these cans while hunting this morning! BH 505 hit 'em at 9 inches! They are Iron City Beer Cans made of Pittsburgh Steel with the 1979 Super Bowl Champions Pittsburgh Steelers on them! A couple faces I recognize are HC Chuck Knoll, QB Terry Bradshaw, WR Lynn Swann, RB Franco Harris, just to name a few! For Sale if ya really must have them! Excellent collectors item, with 31 years of wear and tear on them!

 

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[ohiograndpa]

Thats a unigue find actually !!!

 

[DMN]

Now that is some find.

 

[Tank69]

wow that brings back some very um sickening memories lol that Iron City was some cheap nasty beer an it was even worse coming back up ....ah child hood memories lol gotta luv em.

 

[extractor]

Tank, said it best!

 

[orion024]

Compared to Gennesee, I don't think so! Edward Frauenheim – a young German immigrant – formed Iron City Brewing Company in 1861, when Pittsburgh was establishing itself as an industrial superpower. The mills were busy, there were jobs for all, and the beer flowed freely.

In 1866, the business outgrew its original facilities on 17th Street and moved to a four-story brick building on the corner of Liberty Avenue and 34th Street.

From the beginning, innovation was encouraged at Iron City Brewing. We were the first American brewery to produce a lager and the first to brew a true light beer. Through the years, we introduced many more revolutionary inventions in products and packaging. That creative spirit continues to drive our business today. When it comes to our beer and our customers, we settle for nothing but the best.

Prohibition, starting in 1920, forced many breweries, distillers and taverns to close, yet Pittsburgh Brewing Company survived. One of only 725 American breweries left when the movement was repealed in April 1933, PBC produced soft drinks, ice cream and 'near beer' and ran a cold storage business to endure those years. The brewery’s creative efforts kept alive a Pittsburgh tradition and foreshadowed future innovations that would again restore security in times of struggle.

Iron City Firsts

Among Iron City ground-breaking firsts are:

* The "snap top" can, 1962
* The twist-off resealable bottle top, 1963
* Draft beer packaged in cans
* Aluminum beer bottles, 2004
* The original light beer, Mark V, 1976
* First brewery to have its own Presidential Candidate: Dan Crawley of Churchill, PA

 

[willie d]

Being born and raised in Pittsburgh, I have to give you a on those finds.

 

[RJH02]

Cheers!

 

[DougF]

Those are nice - the beer can collectors use citric acid, I think, to remove the surface rust. It's amazing how much better they look after the rust is off. Iron City was the very first to use the pull tab on cans as someone above mentioned. Schlitz was also an early user of the "snap-top".

 

[HCW]

I'm a Giant fan but I remember them.