Matt Utica Club

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: Pale Lager
Utica, New York USA

Pours yellow and fizzy. Smells and tastes like apples and sweet malt. Not bad for what it is.

Spoiled yeast taste to begin, but it evens out a bit. Lacked the old malt taste because it was drowned out by an old and diluted hop taste. . .

12 oz bottle at The Federal in Durham, NC. Clear pale golden color without any head or lace. Smells strange...like lemon squeezed into a glass of water. Tastes suprisingly similar...a little lemony and there is a metallic aftertaste. Crisp and exhuberantly carbonated. Poor effort.

On tap at El Bait shop. Pale yellow with a medium poofy white head of rapid reticence. Faint lager aroma, but only a suggestion. Thin watery and cold. This has the grainy adjuncts that You want in a classic retro. I’m sure there are folks in NY who like this the same way we in Omaha like our Storz. Nostalgia is goodstalgia.

Chris always talks about the good old days of Shulz and Duli (sp?), so when I found this at a beverage store near the beach in North Carolina, I just had to get some to share wth him. It’s basically a light lager with not too much of an adjunct presence, well carbonated, a very little bit of hop dryness at the end.

This beer pours with a golden body topped by a thin white head with some lacing. The aroma is slightly sweet and rather well balanced between malt and hops. A slight tomato aroma is detected. The flavor is slightly sweet and malty with a touch of grassy hops and a touch of tomato like character. Light bodied and smooth yet slightly dry.

12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market in Cary, NC. Pours a pale gold color with a medium head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel, corn and light grass. Taste is grassy with grain and corn. Watery, thin bodied.

Chance to try a version of a once proud brew. Well, at least old time, if not that proud. Pale gold, slight head fades quick. Slight aroma of corn with a hint of artificial honey. Flavor is sweet adjunct, with absolutely nothing on the finish. Maybe a bit of drying bitterness, but that might just be my imagination looking for something. Not a good beer, but by no means as nasty as many of the ratings make it out to be.