The news from Utica is good. F.X. Matt, makers of the Saranac brand, will live on after the fire that took out the canning building two weeks ago and in fact beer is still being brewed now.
The news is also good about this beer. I picked up a six at the Alex Bay Mart the other week for a pittance - made more pittanced by the wave through by the lad at the border. This beer pours a orange-chestnut with a white rim. Medium bodied with dark cherry and vanilla malt cut by tobacco hops. I had the occasion last weekend to consider this brew with a wee dram of decent bourbon, Woodford Reserve and the combo was a natural. Plenty of BAer respect.
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Vrigil - June 13, 2008 12:09 PM
I think F.X. Matt should brew a commemorative smoke beer. Lagunitas made Undercover Investigation Shut-Down Ale, other brewers have made things to commemorate an event, Great Lakes Blackout Stout honoring the northeast blackout of 2003; a smoke beer just makes sense ... something like Saranac Burning Down the House Smoke Porter.