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 - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, Winter 12 pack. Pretty good chocolate aroma. Dark brown color with a dark tan head.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Chocolate aroma and a deep brown color. Light chocolate flavor but still watery.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
A nice lager, and fairly unique. I think this style should be explored further. A reddish brown lager, but not bocklike, with its heavy use of caramel and chocolate malts, giving this a medium-dry chocolatey finish with light caramels, no strong melanoidings. Easy drinking yet characterful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
This is a new beer for me. I have had many Saranac products but have never encountered this one until the new holiday pack came out. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a small white head. There was a mild sour malt aroma. The flavor was sour, malty and had a dry chocolate malt flavor. A roasted malt element lingers on the finish. A bit thin in body. Rather pleasant overall but not a beer I would really seek out.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Deep dark brown in colour, with a thick moka head. Caramel malt aroma. Nice nutty roasted malt taste with powdered cocoa and more intese nuttiness in post-taste. Downside, this beer is very thin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Just like the mountainberry, this beer blew my expectations away. Subtle chocolate aroma that comes out in the nose but builds up into a dry maybe even slightly roasty finish. Would appreciate some more bitterness, but as it is, this is a well balanced very drinkable chocolate beer and a great concept. 2004 bottle. wow, it’s good to see my palate had developed. This is just a chocolatey mess, not truly bad, but rather boring and not complex in the least. Filtered to all hell, lifeless, fake carbonation. Not a dunkel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Dark brown in colour, but not opaque. Definate chocolate noticable in the aroma. I've had many of Saranac's beers, and they've all been watered-down and very thin...but this one actually has some body! The taste isn't excellent, there is not enough of a given element to even describe the 'whole' taste, but at least there is a body to this beer!