Traditional Lager
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Premium Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.07
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A simple, well-made Classic American Lager brewed with only choice ingredients. It is extremely mellow - refreshingly smooth, glass after glass.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Gold to light amber coloured lager with a thick dissipating off-white head. Fruity apple malt aroma with light german hops. In mout, slightly sweet grainy malt with chalky notes, and cardboard. Thin to medium bodied. Plain. Bought at CJs in Potsdam, NY, fall 2004.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2005
at 16:47
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Poured a clear golden color lager with a nice medium foamy head with pretty good retention. Aroma of floral malt and crisp hops is easily detectable and clearly enjoyable. Taste is refreshing with the floral malt and crisp hops being the main attraction here. Nice to get a adjunct-free lager once in a while.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2005
at 08:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep gold color, average white head. Compared to the world class beers of this style, this one is a very tame, safe middle of the road beer that just goes one step up the ladder from the BMC versions. Still a drinkable beer that might lead a beer drinker on to bigger and better things.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2004
at 09:40
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Basic lager. Nothing else to it. +++Sampled from a 12 oz bottle this beer poured a dark golden color with a small white head. There was a nice sweet malt aroma. The flavor had a light smooth maltiness but had no noticeable hop presence. Relatively flavorless. Inoffensive but really not worth the effort.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2004
at 20:04
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Light amber coloured body with a soapy off-white coloured head. Aroma of light malt, some spices and just about nothing else. Light-bodied; Sweet caramel taste with odd malt flavours. Aftertaste is very unpleasant and watery. Overall, another severly lacking beer in many key qualities from Saranac. I got this from an Adirondack 12 pack purchased at Harris Teeter in Pentagon City (Arlington), Virginia and sampled on 23-December-2003.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2003
at 01:40