12oz bottle poured into glass mug. Clear brown. Aroma is lightly leafy, lightly toasted malts. Flavor has a light soft biscuit sweetness. Low bitter and short finish. Nice sweetness is the best aspect.

12oz bottle. BB 12.31.18. Clear brown color. Poured into willibecker glass. Halo lacing sticks around. Aroma has the signature Saranc layering that is lager yeast and minerals. A soft biscuit caramel toffee is there making for an enticing lager aroma. Flavor is nicely clean with a lager toffee backed good flavor. Straddling the line of very easy drinking yet flavorful. Sweetness stays behind after I swallow and then it all goes away. None of the mineral and yeast. Sometimes Saranac could still make it happen.

Guava and grapefruit nose. Cloudy amber, full of fine sediment, thin head, nice lace. Mango, guava, rosehips. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Fruity and dry.

Almost perfectly golden coloured body with a good, two centimetre tall pure white head. Aroma of very nice and pure blueberries, some light grassy and herbal malts with very little else, aside from nice sweetness, perhaps a bit too much. Light-bodied; Grassy and herbal flavours at first with a big dose of hay, some lighter grain and yeast flavours with a dose of blueberries, lemons and light fruit right behind. Aftertaste shows some grass, herbs, dry malt, light grain and a dose of the blueberries that is pretty hard to miss. Overall, a very subdued and grassy, herbal beer with very light malt, a good deal of blueberries, but the quality that makes it the most effective is how easy it goes down - which is almost exactly what you'd want from the style. I'm usually a proponent to smashing Saranac beers on how bad they are, but this is almost exactly what it 'should' be - not bad at all, if you are buying it by what it says on the label or what you'd expect if someone told you the name of it. That said, it wasn't great or amazing, but you wouldn't expect that at all. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 22-September-2018 for US$1,39 sampled in my hotel room here in Princeton, New Jersey on 20-October-2018.

Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a honey caramel color with a large foamy orange-white head that lingered and left minimal lacing. The aroma was malty with caramel and perfume. The flavor was mildly bitter and malty with caramel and perfume. Medium length finish. Medium body.

Sampled from a bottle this beer poured a bright yellow-gold color with a large foamy yellow-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was dryish with a crisp herbal and perfumey hop note. The flavor was sourish and bitter with leafy floral and perfumey hops. Long finish. Medium body.

Very sweet

Tastes closer to a brown ale than a Black and Tan.