Foggy Bottom Lager

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

Serve in Lager glass

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The beer that replaced Old Heurich. Relatively smooth, crisp beer with malty aroma and flavor. Not a bad beer, and the best you can find at RFK during a D.C. United game, but not as good as its predecessor.

Bottle. Amber colour with a fair head. Malty and caramellic aroma. Flavour of malt, bit toasty, caramel, some hops. Mild bitterish finish. Good brew.

Nice coppery color, with aroma of malt, hops, and toffee. Tastes and finishes creamy, malty, with a well balanced finish. This one is worth seeking out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

(12 oz bottle: Obtained 06-May-06 in trade with Otter, thanks Jeremy!) An old favorite from when I lived in the DC area and commuted daily to the Foggy Bottom area of DC, this is a nice standby beer. It’s balanced, flavorful, enjoyable and under appreciated. Malty, caramely, moderately sweet, and mildly bitter flavor has a pleasant toastiness and some honey toward the finish. Body and carbonation are medium. The nose is noticeably more grainy and less sweet or toasty than the flavor. Medium-dark amber color is only a little hazy, and the light-tan head pours to half an inch before settling to a wide ring. Only spotty lacing though. Too bad that the resurrection of this historic District brewing tradition is over because this is, err, was a really nice Maërzen.

Poured an amber to copper color with a decent initial head that laced ok. The aroma was of caramel. The flavor was caramel with some hops (somewhat like an amber ale), and as it warmed a dry spicey-hops (not typical marzen spicing, more peppery) type finish. Dry mouthfeel was the signature of this one and it didn’t remind me much of a marzen style beer, like the label says.