Marzenbier
F.X. Matt Brewing Company (Saranac) in Utica, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
5.65
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Orange golden Marzen with a thick fluffy white head. Nice caramel malt in aroma with light perfumy notes, and pears. In mouth, crisp malt with nutty notes, but none of the fruitiness expected from aroma, rather dry. Bitterness fades in midmouth. Medium bodied.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2005
at 18:37
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Golden amber with a small white head. Smells wheaty, yeasty, and only slightly malty. Flavor is yeasty and slightly malty, and very thin. Watery, plain. Boring.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2005
at 17:11
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Another selection from the winter sample pack. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer pours a bronze color with a medium sized tan head that fades quickly. The aroma is sour malt. The flavor is sour malt, bitter and a light but a sharp hop presence arrives in the finish. A rather unremarkable beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2005
at 14:54
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
2004 bottle. Medium amber-orange, with some light copper hues and a small white head. Very clear, as all of Matt’s beers are. Aroma gives off some nuttiness, light traces of hops and a hint of toffee. Flavor starts out with a moderate malt base, buttered popcorn, light caramel and peanuts. Smooth, though very artificially carbonated mouthfeel. Decent hops bitterness on the finish and that’s it! Quick show here, not much to think about. Quick, clean and crisp, with a decent malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2005
at 11:41
2.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
Crystal clear amber coloured body with a super thin white head that fades fast. Aroma of light german hops, light body odor, cardboard and some malt. Light-bodied; Mild malty taste with almost nothing else for flavours. Aftertaste is very bland, nothing going on at all. A horrible beer, but that was expected. Light-bodied; I sampled this 12 ounce bottle pulled from the sampler pack purchased at Total Wine in McLean, Virginia.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2004
at 00:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bronze color is on the light end of the scale for a marzen. Attractive toasted malt nose. Perhaps a tad too balanced palate, though, lacking the toasty darkly fruity, almost juicy malts of good marzens. Clean, with a mild iron-like hop finish. Borderline empty finish, definitely too watery for an authentic marzen. I don’t mean to sound like I’m rating to style, merely pointing out what this beer is and is not. Decent enough is what it is.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2004
at 17:56