Saranac

ABV: 5.3%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Year Round

Why you shouldn’t be afraid of the dark …

The malt we use to brew this beer is what gives it a really nice, dark color. The cool thing about it, it gives it the color without tasting too roasted or chocolaty, resulting in a beer that’s not real heavy. This is very common for a traditional German black lager, or Schwarzbier.

One of the hops we use in this brew, Mt Hood, is a U.S. grown variety. Although it’s grown in the U.S. due to good growing conditions, it has a lot of German lager characteristics making it perfect for Black Forest.

If you gave someone a blind taste test, they would tell you it was a beer on the lighter side. Because of this unique characteristic, its a great gateway beer to darker styles. So, if people say they don’t like dark beer, have them try it!

ABV: 5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Fresh seafood, goat or mild cheeses, salads
Seasonal Availability: Summer

Saranac Blueberry Blonde Ale is a traidtional blonde ale with a kick of juicy blueberry. You’ll notice a light golden haze from wheat malt and oats and a low hop bitterness, which really shows off the fruit. With a medium-light body and fresh blueberry flavor, we’re sure we’ve captured refreshment in a bottle!

Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Summer/Winter

Legacy IPA: Our founder’s century-old IPA recipe is full flavored, hop forward and blends our breweries past and present. We use lighter malts to allow the hop flavor to shine through. We’re proud to share our legacy of great beers.

Pale Ale: Our Pale Ale is true to English style – rich and fruity with a crisp hop finish. Delicious rich and flavorful, this is a complex brew with an easy-going taste.

Summer Pils: A crisp, refreshing German-style pilsener with an American (hop) twist. Perfect for summer days, nights and in-between.  OR  Black Forest: Brewed to pay homage to our founder’s homeland, our German-Style Schwarzbier is brewed true to style with a deliciously sweet malty flavor.

ABV: 5.4%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Winter

Why this beer is delectable …

Caramel, caramel, caramel! There is caramel in this beer, make no mistake. We took a traditional style porter and added REAL caramelized sugar for a delicious caramel flavor.

This is a traditional dark English style porter with a sweet caramel flavor, making it a very attractive beer to people who don’t usually like dark beer. The rich color comes from roasted barley, chocolate malt and caramel malt, which also add a nice roasted flavor.

We use East Kent Goldings hops, a very traditional English ale hop, which has roots back to the late 1700s. The other hops, Willamette, is a U.S. grown variety although it has a lot of the same characteristics as an English ale hop.

ABV: 4.7%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Fall

The German style “festbier” is brewed with dark and light munich malts. These malts are Decoction mashed-a unique process that allows us to extract more flavor from our grains. The dark munich malt provides a reddish-copper color and a toasty malt flavor.

Our Dark-tober(fest) takes inspiration from traditional German-style Octoberfest beers. The flavor profile features a more bready malt character with less caramel sweetness as compared to an American-style Octoberfest. This beer is a bit bigger, maltier, and darker than the American-style, and favors the traditional Munich malt character. Straight delicious.

ABV: 7.0%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: One Offs

Disruption is a nitro infused Brown Ale, brewed with a distinctive mix of caramel and chocolate malts. Northern Brewer and Eastern Kent Goldings hops balance the deep maltiness, imparting their own rich earthy-fruitiness.

Disruption was once a wild, ravenous black bear but you mustn’t fret. Our brewers have tamed this mighty beast: the nitro not only gives this bear a smooth mouthfeel with a creamy finish, but it also accentuates the sweet malty character of the grains for greater depth in cocoa, caramel and coffee flavor. Pour disruption down the center of the glass and marvel at its cascading beauty. Get ready to experience the dark side of this disruptive brown ale.

ABV: 4.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Summer

Gen IV is a hop-forward Session IPA which embodies four generations of Matt Family brewing – Nick and Fred helped pilot brew the winning recipe so it must run in their blood. We’ve used Amarillo and Citra hops to deliver big tropical and citrus aroma and flavor, and wheat malt for a sturdy backbone to hold onto more hop character without driving up the ABV.

How did we do it? Well, we wanted to pack an uncanny amount of hops into this beer so we used White IPA which beer experts consider one of the best in craft. And we wanted to pack an uncanny amount of hops into this beer so we used our Gas Chromatograph to measure essential oil concentrations of hops so we precisely selected Amarillo and Citra to deliver the best aroma and flavor. We’ve taken our learnings and brewed a flavorful and easy drinking delight. Enjoy!

ABV: 9%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Smoked or rasted game, duck, aged cheese (Roquefort, Stilton), dark chocolate
Seasonal Availability: Limited

Saranac Chocolate Orange is a limited edition small batch brew from our “High Peaks” series, a line of beers that are bigger, more complex and flavorful. Brewed as a full-bodied robust Baltic-style porter with five different hops and four different malts, this beer pushes the porter style to a new level. We start with generous amounts of chocolate malt, and then add blood orange peel. In fermentation, the finest hand-selected, purest cacao nibs are added to enhance the chocolate malt flavor. Look for a dark chocolate roasted flavor finished off with a unique surprise from blood orange peel, making this an extra special treat!

ABV: 7.3%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: April 1

This unfiltered beer is a perfect dream. It’s brewed with wheat and oats for a silky smooth body, and it finishes with a burst of citrusy hop flavor. You’ll notice a nice blend of traditional Belgian brewing spices, including orange peel and coriander. It’s hoppy and it’s big, but it’s refreshing. In our opinion, it’s really good, all the time, anytime.

ABV: 7.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: February 15-October 1

Saranac Imperial Amber ale brewed with a portion of locally grown heirloom hops, this beer showcases big citrus and herbal hop character with a firm, resinous bitterness. German specialty malts provide a bold amber color and lend a balanced maltiness.

ABV: 5.80%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Seafood, pizza and Mexican cusine
Brewery: FX Matt
Seasonal Availability: Limited
Beverage Type: American Double / Imperial IPA

A hop lover’s delight. In the India Pale Ale tradition this brew is very hoppy in both aroma and flavor from the generous amounts of cascade hops used in brewing. Look for a medium to full body and golden straw color.

ABV: 8.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Chicken, Fish, Camembert, Waldorf salad
Seasonal Availability: Limited

Saranac Lemon Ginger is a limited edition small batch brew from our “High Peaks” series, a line of beers that are bigger, more complex and flavorful. Brewed as a traditional Belgian-style Saison, we use lemon peel and ginger to create a unique twist, pushing the Saison style to a new level. We start with wheat malt and German Saphir, U.S. Vanguard and Czech Saaz hops. We then ferment with traditional Belgian yeast, which produces a fruity and estery aroma, perfectly complementing the lemon peel and ginger. Look for lemon citrus, ginger spice, and a hop nose that tops off the experience without causing a bitter taste. Imagine a delicious traditional Saison, yet even more refreshing!

ABV: 5.8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Seafood, pizza, mexican
Seasonal Availability: Year Round

A hop lover’s delight. In the India Pale Ale tradition this brew is very hoppy in both aroma and flavor from the generous amounts of cascade hops used in brewing. Look for a medium to full body and golden straw color.

ABV: 4.80%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Burgers, chicken or pizza
Brewery: FX Matt
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: American Pale Lager

A simple well-made Classic American Lager brewed with only choice ingredients. It is extremely mellow refreshingly smooth, glass after glass.

ABV: 6.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Year Round

When our founder began brewing back in 1888 a few things were different, like the significantly lighter grains he used in his first IPA (we agree – he sure was ahead of his time brewing IPAs back then).

The lighter grains resulted in a noticeably lighter color in the beer, which allows the hop flavor to shine through. We’ve re-crafted his original creation, staying true to his technique, but we’ve modernized the recipe with the most innovative hops available today.

We’re proud to share over 125 years of brewing expertise with you: our Legacy IPA.

ABV: 5.3%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Minnestrone Soup, Pork Ribs w/ BBQ Sauce
Seasonal Availability: Winter
Beverage Type: Euro Dark Lager

Brewed with a special blend of domestic and Belgian malts for a delicate nut-like character, you’ll love this Lager’s rich taste and signature hop aroma. The exceptional full-bodied taste reflects our Brewery’s extraordinary commitment to brewing beers of the highest standard of quality.

ABV: 5.5%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Winter

At the brewery, winter packs a bone-tingling chill. Snow buries our brewery all winter, which is why the Union Suit, or as they’re known today, Long Johns, originated in Central New York. Long John Lager is a robust yet easygoing Dunkel Lager – perfect for frosty winter nights. We capture our German brewing heritage by using Pilsner, Munich, Caramunich, and Carafa malts along with Hallertauer Mittelfrueh hops, that blend together to produce a rich garnet, copper-hue color and toasty, caramelized, nutty flavor. We use decoction mashing. a unique process designed to extract more flavor from our grains, to accentuate the rich malty flavors. Long John Lager is a perfectly blended treat for those cold winter nights ahead of us.

ABV: 5.4%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Roasted meats, stew.
Seasonal Availability: Fall
Beverage Type: Marzen / Oktoberfest

Saranac Octoberfest is a med-bodied, copper colored lager. It’s rich, malty taste is subtly balanced by Saaz and Tettnang hops. The beer is aged slowly in the tradition of the Octoberfest beers of Munich.

ABV: 5.50%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Lamb, beef, stews or cheeses.
Brewery: FX Matt
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: English Pale Ale

A beer that would make the English jealous! This true English Pale Ale is rich and fruity, yet finishes crisp. You’ll love the copper amber color and medium body.

ABV: 4.70%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Picnic fare
Brewery: FX Matt
Seasonal Availability: Year Round
Beverage Type: American Pale Wheat Ale

This wholesome combination of unfiltered wheat beer and real pomegranate juice makes a smooth refreshing beer with all the goodness of pomegranate. Look for a light body with a slight tart finish and golden straw color.

ABV: 5.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Spring

This complex beer will keep you guessing. At first taste, you might think our Prism Ale is a normal white ale, but you won’t be fooled for long. The smooth, unfiltered body transitions quickly to a citrusy and fruity flavor in the finish.

The “Prism” name speaks to the juxtaposition: a smooth white ale with a colorful finish. You won’t be disappointed.

ABV: 5.40%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Birds or fowl
Brewery: FX Matt
Seasonal Availability: October
Beverage Type: Pumpkin Ale

Saranac Pumpkin Ale is brewed with Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Allspice, Cloves, Ginger and Vanilla. Look for a full-body and amber color. We’re sure you’ll enjoy this special brew!

ABV: 4.2%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Summer food, BBQ, light fare, light cheeses like feta, Key Lime pie
Seasonal Availability: Summer

For nearly 100 years, Europeans have mixed lemonade and beer as a refreshing beverage during the summer months. We continue this tradition with Saranac Shandy-A refreshing blend of lemonade and lager. Kick back, relax and enjoy!

What makes Saranac Shandy special?

We make an actual lemonade with REAL lemon juice, sugar and water and mix it with a traditional light lager to achieve a nice lemon aroma and taste. •Using lemonade made with real lemon juice results in a nice refreshing finish. •We use carified lemon juice to achieve a clear, light color. •Simply put, it’s delicious, sweet, clean and crisp. All characteristics you’d expect to taste in a real lemonade, except for it’s even better…it has beer in it!

ABV: 4.7%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Summer

With more than 2,800 bodies of water in the Adirondacks, it’s not too hard to find a sunny place to relax, rest your feet and look out over the water. To celebrate summer in the Adirondacks, we’ve brewed a beer with generous amounts of wheat malt for a light, refreshing taste. Look for subtle hints of lemon.

ABV: 8%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Salads, Shellfish, Chicken, and Fish
Seasonal Availability: Year-Round

This is a spin on a classic Saison, brewed with yeast from Belgium, 2-row North American barley, and Herman Hallertaue Mittlefruh hops. The beer is brewed in a traditional manor, except for the addition of NY sourced grape juice in fermentation, from Corot Noir grapes. The grape juice is known for its deep red color and an attractive beery and cherry fruit aroma. It adds a distinct fruity nose and hints of pink color. These grapes were developed at the Cornell University New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.

ABV: 6%
Category: Craft / Specialty
Food Pairing: Bleu Cheese, Poultry, Pork
Seasonal Availability: Year Round

Saranac White IPA is a tasty innovative twist on a traditional IPA. We’ve taken a delicious American IPA bursting with Citra hops, and given it a whole new direction by adding the refreshing fruitiness of orange peel & coriander and the softening characters of wheat malt and oats. You’ll notice the complex hop flavor you’ve come to expect in an IPA, balanced with the extraordinary bright flavor of a wheat beer. Cheers to twisting tradition!

Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Fall

Legacy IPA: Our founder’s century-old IPA recipe is full flavored, hop forward and blends our breweries past and present. We use lighter malts to allow the hop flavor to shine through. We’re proud to share our legacy of great beers.

Black Forest: Brewed to pay homage to our founder’s homeland, our German-Style Schwarzbier is brewed true to style with a deliciously sweet malty flavor.

Pumpkin Ale: A hearty ale brewed with pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice and ginger with a full body and amber color. This beer brings the fall season to life!

Octoberfest: A medium bodied copper colored lager. Its rich, malty taste is subtly balanced by Saphir and Perle hops. The beer is aged slowly in the Munich tradition.

Dark-tober(fest): With Munich malts providing its deep reddish-copper color and bigger, richer character, this is an Octoberfest that truly embraces its dark side.

Autumn Pils: Sterling hops? Czech. Saaz hops? Czech. Clean, crisp, pilsener taste? Czech. This fusion of new- and old-world hop character yields a Czech-style pilsner with a citrusy earthy character and a crisp snappy finish.

Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Spring

Pale Ale: Our Pale Ale is true to English style – rich and fruity with a crisp hop finish. Delicious rich and flavorful, this is a complex brew with an easy-going taste.

Prism: This lighter wheat ale might have a hazy appearance, but one thing’s crystal clear: it practically sparkles with bright, citrusy flavor.

Heart of the Hop: At the heart of this beer is a citrusy combination of Simcoe and Citra hops, while Rye malt adds a dry spiciness, and caramel and carafa malts give it the dark amber hue.

Goat Rodeo: Two types of German hops combine with a trio of malts-German Pilsner, Caravienna, and old-school floor-malted lager malt. The brew is step-mashed for added depth, making a rich, slightly herbal bock.

Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.20%

Availability: Summer

Notes / Commercial Description:
Why is Summer Pils the perfect summer refreshment? Becauase this German Pilsener uses traditional (Tettnang) and exciting (Cluster, Cascade and Belma) hops for a floral and citrus aroma, with a tropical fruit and spicy hop flavor – some may even call it WILD HOP.

Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Summer

Legacy IPA: Our founder’s century-old IPA recipe is full flavored, hop forward and blends our breweries past and present. We use lighter malts to allow the hop flavor to shine through. We’re proud to share our legacy of great beers.

Summer Pils: A crisp, refreshing German-style pilsener with an American (hop) twist. Perfect for summer days, nights and in-between.

Gen IV: Inspired by four generations of brewing: Fred and Nick Matt helped “pilot brew” this Session IPA with a hop-forward, tropical character. Dynamic and easy drinking.

Cloud Splitter: Bursting with citra hops, our twist on a Belgian-style White is hopped like an American India Pale Ale. Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbelievably good.

Category: Craft / Specialty
Seasonal Availability: Winter

Legacy IPA: Our founder’s century-old IPA recipe is full flavored, hop forward and blends our breweries past and present. We use lighter malts to allow the hop flavor to shine through. We’re proud to share our legacy of great beers.

Pale Ale: Our Pale Ale is true to English style – rich and fruity with a crisp hop finish. Delicious rich and flavorful, this is a complex brew with an easy-going taste.

Long John Lager: Warm up during the winter months with our robust yet easygoing Dunkel Lager. The caramelized malty sweetness is nicely balanced by a toasted maltiness that’ll surely light up your taste buds on a cold winter day.

4059′ Porter: Named for the height of nearby Porter Mountain (no kidding), you’ll hold its roasted character and full flavor in high regard, too.

Into the Dark: Full flavored, hop forward. Brewed with imported dark malt for a deep color and roasted flavor. It’s an IPA. With a dark side.

Chai Brown Ale: A perfect blending of brown ale with chia spices – a lively, balanced brew with hints of coffee, cocoa, and vanilla that is sure to suit your taste buds to a ‘tea’. Very Zen.

This American Pilsener is a style less seasonally tied to fall and is a hop forward pilsener perfect for the beach, a BBQ, a tailgate, and so much more. This crisp pils highlights the Citra hop which gives the beer a refreshing juicy character. It’s fruity with tropical notes of orange, pineapple, and guava because of its dry hopping process.

BREWER’S NOTES

Style: American Pilsener
Food Pairings: 
Cheese Pairings: 
Malts: Pilsner, Carapils
Original Gravity: 13.0
Hops: Citra, Centennial, Huell Melon
IBU: 30
ABV: 5.3%

Not just another coffee beer. An amber lager with a cold brewed coffee twist.

BREWER’S NOTES

Style: Coffee Lager
Food Pairings: BBQ, Roasted or smoked meats
Cheese Pairings: 
Malts: Pilsner, Vienna, Munich,
Original Gravity: 
Hops: Magnum, Hallertau Mittelfruh
IBU: 20
ABV: 5.2 %

Combining the intensely piney, citrusy, and tropical fruit aroma and flavor of Citra, Mosaic, and Simcoe hops, this Double IPA is a liquid jam-session of big hop flavor. Packed with pineapple, mango, and passionfruit hop character, this is a big beer with a full body and firm bitterness. An IPA as melodic as the music inspiring its creation.
ABV: 7.8%, IBU: 75

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