Chocolate Amber
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.13
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tawny reddish brown color. Thick creamy tan head. Perfumy toasted malt nose. Silky roasted malt flavor with a wonderfully delicious chocolate character. Nice soft dry hop finish. A real nice brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a dark amber. Medium bodied. Nose and tastes of mild chocolates, grasses. Rated 11/13/02
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16th September 2008. Very dark beer that shows a red tint in front of a light. Some mild toasted malt and a little chocolate in a soft beer that has no bitterness or dryness. Seems like a modest porter but no worse for being so.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Medium brown with decent head. Aroma of malt, chocolate. Flavor is malty, rich, roasted, and full of chocolate and caramel, but also with good hops. Finish of hops and a bit of malt. Avery nicely balanced amber, decent bitterness to go with the chocolate malty sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Grass and chocolate malt aroma, not strong. Black pour with a thin tan head, somelacing. Prominently smokybark flavor with currants underneath. Charcoal lingers on the palate. I was worried about tasting this right after St. Bernardus 12, which I loved, but this beer held its own.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz bottle from Beastiefan2K; nose of freshly ground roasty coffee; clear dark brown with a medium tan head; flavor is caramel, coffee, and light hop bitterness. lots of bubbles to tingle the tongue.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Not exactly amber - it’s actually fairly opaque, with a creamy, well-sustained, off-white head - slight chocolate and roasted malt aroma, with a hard water mineral component underneath - fairly creamy mouthfeel, with a nice balance of mild sweetness, roasted aspects, and a very subtle tartness - the roastiness really comes to the fore later on, along with an almost espresso-like bitterness - a mineral flavor develops late, detracting a bit from the enjoyment, but credit where credit is due, Saranac has a decent beer here.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
12 oz bottle from 2006 seasonal pack...faint aromas...a little fruity based malt...color is like a root beer...so where’s the chocolate????....mouth feel is missing , well a little bit of everything...it starts with just a tease of creaminess then its all watery..2007 mixed pack...looks like a darker version of pepsi with a skim of a beige head....a weird chocolate aroma....watery tainted chocolate flavor...I used to really like saranac...but frankly this is piss poor....a touch of toffee and a sweet and sour finish with the same weird chocolate...its like a dollar store bunny left on the shelf and reduced for clearance...the rating is reflected by this one
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
184th rater, wooohooo. 4th brew of the my "Stay @ Home b/c of Snow Rating-Extravaganza." 12 oz bottle poured into small curved goblet glass. Pours dark brown with ruby tints, no head and just a bit of lacing, can’t see through the beer. Aroma is cheap, corn, faint dark malts, and lagered fruitiness. Taste is similarly metallic, empty, some lagered fruitiness and the only redeeming quality is a somewhat sweet, chocolatey afttertaste. Body is watery, carbonation is medium, bitterness low. Barely worth drinking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Seems like the Saranac selection never ends. Brown 12 oz bottle. I’m hesitant because when it says chocolate on a beer it rarely tastes that way. The bottle says chocolate amber lager. Pours dark transparent brown in my steeler stein. No aroma that sticks out. A little hoppy on the taste bud onset but fades back some at the swish. Kind of roasty but no chocolate as I suspected. This is one of the better dark beers I’ve had from saranac. Finish has some lingering bitter hops or roasted malts. Not quite as refined as Kloster Dunkel.