Saranac Adirondack Amber

medium amber color, decent head with good lacing. smells of good hop quality. well balanced hop-malt content. a pretty good lager, but not very intricate.

Pours medium amber with a somewhat thin eggshell head that last and leaves a little lacing. Aroma is a wet bag of grain and a sweet almost honey like undertone, pretty weak though. Flavor is caramel malt, apples, and a little slightly bitter hops but mostly only in the finish. Mouthfeel is a little more substantial than the flavor indicates. Fairly inoffensive beer for the masses but pretty weak and uninteresting. Would be great for a bbq with lots of macro drinkers.

12 oz into shaker. Nice clear rich golden color with good off-white head that holds and laces well of pored properly. Doesn’t really have an aroma; some very light pale malt, but I gave it some generosity points for not having any off flavors. Very drinkable with a quick finish. Tastes like light cereal and water. Light bodied on palate with medium carbonation - a bit more mouth feel than I expected. Overall: fine and poundable, though not a unique flavor.

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass. Very mild malt and barley aroma, hard to pick out characters, and some grainy hops too. A somewhat cloudy amber-straw color with a smaller, slightly foamy, off-white head with short retention. The flavor is very subtlely sweet, with a mixture of bitter and sour tastes going down. Somewhat watery on the palate, with below average carbonation and a medium body. Not bad as lagers go, but not exceptional either.

Average lager. Nothing outstanding here. Hints of fruit or caramel--nothing really stands out. Smooth though.