Foggy Bottom Lager

Formerly brewed at Matt Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager
Utica, New York USA

Had on tap at their brewpub at Reagan National Airport in D.C. (down by the Continental gates - hard as hell to find!) No real apparent aroma - I tried! Dark copper appearance, with a solid head, not much lacing. Crisp, clean lager flavor with a bit of a hoppy back end. Well balanced. Finishes strong.

Light in the body, a bit watery & bland, nothing really all that special or distingusable

Orangish body with a small off-white head. Nose was sweet with an almost ice-tea like aroma. Very light lemon notes as well. The taste has almost no hop to it but is comprised of malt with more of the ice-tea thing going. Very smooth finish and very easy to drink.

Grainy malt aroma, with whiffs of molasses or dark syrup of some kind. Straight-up, somewhat old time label, and a color I can't discern through the brown bottle. A lively marzen, with something plant-like going on: green tea or sassafrass or green twigs or grass or something. I'm not sure, I'm not a deer. Mildly acidic, mildly sweet. The flavoring hops make an initial feint, but then quickly retreat. Finish is somewhat starchy, with more of those green herbivorous notes (pistachios? raw potatoes? green tomatoes?) and a building malt bitterness. A good whack better than the Stoudt's American Pale Ale that I had immediately prior. Sorry PorterPounder, but I was stranded in DC with a 10 days to go before I got back from the trip... I'm trying to hang onto the Foggy Bottom Ale!

This isn't the worst lager I have ever had, but it certainly is not memorable. The taste was malty with a hint of hops. The texture was sharp and harsh (I thought), but a friend of mine thinks it's pretty smooth.

From 2000 Notes - Clear copper. Malt aroma. Flavor is mostly malt with some hops. Ok but nothing special.

Looking at the other ratings, I might've gotten a bad keg (at the Norfolk VA airport). Mine was bright orange. It was excessively sweet, like gatorade sweet, and tangy. Something wrong here maybe, but not a good maerzen.

Copper hue with small frothy white head, good lacing. Heavy malty aroma of light bread, cereal, roasted grain, and caramel. Undertones of flowers, grass, dough, apple and a tiny hint of sour cherry. Sweet malt and tart/sour fruit initial taste, developed wheat like undertones on the finish. Light to medium-bodied, dry and fizzy mouthfeel and slight metallic feel. All in all, a respectable lager with some nice characteristics, the tart/sout aspect did shock me, you could do much worse.