Pittsburgh and the “Home Brew” BLITZBURGH

[Drink IRON City]

Back in the day I was a avid Home Brewer. Not bragging but did participate in many Home Brew contest and acclaimed several 1st place ribbons amongst my awards……….

Durring the Blitzburgh years, I brewed 5 gal batches of (you guessed it) BLITZBURGH beer in honor of our beloved Steelers. It took a total of 9 days brew to drink with approximately a 6.4 ABV %. It tasted ok, but definately knocked your socks off, similar to the team Blitzburgh defense.

I called it BLITZburgh 1 and as I made another batch the number corresponded with it. Eventually I had gotten to around BLITZburgh 37.


The video is about 23 minutes long, but sure brings back the good O’l days of actual hard hitting defense. The kind of defense that actually had brain and calculation power to go with it.

I never get tired of watching these type of videos, it’s real STEELERS football.





Hope you enjoyed



Salute the nation

 

[Drink IRON City]

PS

Yes I did enter this BLITZburgh beer in ONE contest and it took 1st place in its category (not overall).

BLITZburgh wasn’t designed at a competition beer, it was made for game day watching and knocking yaz loopeeee’

Many friends drank it and asked for it regularly.



Salute the nation

 

[Steelr4evr]

Good clip. Man,we went from Blitzing to no blitzing at all.

Even the 70's Steelers started blitzing late in the 70's.


You definitely need unpredictability, talent and design to cover your *** when you do it.

 

[xjx]

What category did it get 1? Were any of the ingredients roasted? Did you add too much hops? Tell us about it.

 

[speedicut]

@Drink IRON City , My go-to was 7# pale malt, 1.5# crystal 60, 4oz challenger/centennial @5 min, 4 oz of same combo at 55 min, 4 oz challenger @ flameout.
Racked on a cake of WH Califonia Ale yeast, ferment @ 70F.
ABV about 5.5%, great football game drinking beer! Great taste, very filling!

 

[Hypocycloids]

Drink Iron City

 

[Drink IRON City]

I liked how there were several defenses that had the nickname to go with it, but I also noticed Pittsburgh was the only team with TWO famous nicknames.

The Steelers Curtain

Blitzburgh

Both were very impressive and I’d like to think each reached near comparable greatness.




Salute tthe nation

 

[speedicut]

The Cold War was going on and Russia had the Iron Curtain, so the name Steel Curtain was perfect.

 

[Hypocycloids]

The Cold War was going on and Russia had the Iron Curtain, so the name Steel Curtain was perfect.

The best nickname in all of sports.
The coolest looking logo.
The best looking uniforms. Black = badass, Gold a symbol of excellence.

Too bad the team being stuck in mediocrity no longer lives up to those attributes.