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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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep rubious brown, nearly black, with a soft, fluffy head that’s quite large. Aroma is not strong, and only smells slightly milky. Flavor is malty, with only the slightest tinge of a chocolate flavor. Kinda plain.
Tried
on 09 Jan 2005
at 22:12
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2004
at 02:23
5.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2004
at 14:58
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2003
at 18:58
4.9/10
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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!
Tried
on 24 Jan 2003
at 19:31