Saranac Seasons Best Nut Brown 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. We hope you'll enjoy it. Happy Holidays!

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231 reviews

Utica, United States

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3.5 This is a really solid beer for the colder months. Taste includes malts, nuts, coffee, fruity sweetness. Very low bitterness, medium thickness. Really tasty winter beer.

3.0 12oz bottle. Pours a deep copper color with a fluffy, light-tan head. Aroma is earthy, mild roasted malts with floral hops and a touch of brown sugar. The flavor is smooth with the taste coming from the roasted nuts and malts and a bit of hops that kicks in through the finish. Medium body with moderate carbonation.

2.8 Bottle. Pours clear brown. Nose of malt, caramel and nuts. Taste is very watery, some nuts and light malt.

3.2 Not as much harshness in malts as most other american dark lagers, easy and smooth to drink, decent.

2.8 Poured into a pint glass. 3.0 A: Nearly clear amber color. I could only get a half finger of off-white head that fell mighty quickly and left a few rogue strands of lacing. 4.0 S: Decent aroma with a pleasant biscuity nuttiness. Earthy hops and caramel. 3.0 T: Nuts in the taste too, but this time seems watered down. Caramel suffers the same fate as does other lightly toasted malts. Basically I’m getting two parts good nut brown lager mixed with one part water. 3.0 M: Lighter body. Carbonation is fine. Smooth, but not very creamy. 3.0 D: Like always, Saranac manages to make another mediocre brew that’s drinkable but not particularly enjoyable. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 04-12-2010 00:41:47

3.5 12oz bottle pours ruby red – amber with thin tan head. The aroma has a mild metallic note followed by sweet nuttiness, malts, some chocolate malts and a bit of dark fruity esters. The taste comes off initially a touch sharp and metallic then becomes roasty with malt, a bit of nuttiness, some chocolate malts and increasing levels of burnt malts that never get too much or approach ashy. Still, a tasty brew with plenty of rich flavors.

3.4 Dark Amber color with a white head. Caramel malty aroma with a light floral hop undertone. Strong caramel and nutty flavor. Light bitterness at the end.

2.9 This is probably Saranac’s finest beer. A seasonal winter release, the aroma is of toffee, caramel and bread. Not much hop presence detected in the nose. It has a very thin off white head and a dark amber body. Slightly sweet taste. Lively carbonation, thin mouth feel. This is a solid offering from a usually sub-par brewery. If you only try one Saranac in your life, this is the one to seek out. Decent.

3.3 Caramel and pecan nose. Clear light brown, thin head. Flavor is less of caramel but quite a bit more nutty. Decent and a good value.

2.2 12oz. Bottle: Aroma of malt, burnt leaves, trash, slight diacetyl, and a hint of caramel. Poured copper/amber/brown in color with large, brown head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout as a film on top of the beer, as well as around the edges. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is slightly sweet. Tastes of malt, trash, slight caramel, slight diacetyl, and a hint of nuts. Light to medium body. Oily, then dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, slight nut, trash, and hint of caramel finish is dry. Pretty darn bad.

3.1 Pours a nice clear amber with a nice offwhite head. Aroma of toasted caramel malts, some light fruituness. Tastes is toasted caramel malt, breadiness with some nice sweet nuttiness and some bitterness. Palate is nice med body with good carbonation. Finish toasted caramel malt with some nice hops bitterness followed by nice sweet bitter nutty aftertaste. Overall an average and easy drinkable brew.

3.2 Red with foamy white head. Aroma is sweet fruity and hops. Flavor is spicy, with caramel malts.

3.2 Lightish brown with a little head. Light aroma with some malt and nutty aromas, nuttiness comes out more on the palate. Somewhat bitter with good carbonation.

3.5 Bottle. Roasted aroma, slightly vinous. Slightly sweet and spicy. Seemingly clear dark brown colour. Big stable creamy tan head. The flavour is roasted with a good spicy hoppiness. Tastes like a macro beer, but a good one, very well-balanced and quite flavourful.

1.6 Bottle. Sweet malty nose, chocolate and roast and nuts with a light element of Kool-Aid. Amber pour with light carbonation and a sudsy off-tan head. Taste is very, very dirty! Low bitterness and high filth. Medium metal and some sort of spicing or floral note. Fullish body too big. Ugh.

2.9 bottle - Pours dark brown with a one finger light tan head. It smells of caramel malt and some mild hops. The flavor is mild to moderate hops bitterness with caramel malt and a little bit of a spicy character. It’s medium bodied and just decent at best.

2.9 Pours amber with an off white head. Aroma is caramel malt and light hops. Flavor is lightly roasted nuts, caramel, lightly bitter hops.

3.5 Pours mahogany with a frothy thick beige head. Aroma- caramel, spice, biscuit, nut. Taste is buttery biscuit, honey. Finishes with roast malt and burnt malt. Good balance and smooth texture.

3.1 Pors dark brown with a nice head. Aromatic notes of malt push the nutlike flavors into the forefront. The finish brings out some of the hop notes for a nice finish.

3.2 Bottle from joshuahfl. Pours dark copper with a two-finger fine beige head. Rather malty aroma. Medium body with sharp carbonation. Flavor is something roast malt, suggestive of nuts. No particular nut though. Finishes with a rather grassy bitter. Flavorful and pretty smooth.

3.2 12oz bottle. Pours a clear, copper colored body with a finger-width, frothy, off-white head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate, petri dish looking lace. Aroma is nutty, light to medium sweet malts with some caramel, and an underlying earthy fruit. Flavor is a light earthy and grassy, grapefruit hop up front with a dry, nutty, lightly sweetened malt balancing this out. Finishes crisp and dry with a lively carbonation and a good amount of fllavor after a light to medium body. Finishes and lingers with nuts, grapefruit bitterness, mild spiced caramel, and a hint of toast. Overall, this was a lot more flavorful than I anticipated, especially towards the end. Its nothing crazy, but it has a fairly decent bitterness to go along with the lighter, nutty malts. Very sessionable and an enjoyable winter lager.

2.3 Pours a clear deep reddish brown. Aroma of molasses and horse blanket. Tastes better than it smells. Slightly bitter on the initial taste with a slight molasses and malt flavor through the end. Not that good

2.6 pours brown, beige head. Aroma, malty, nutty, some pine/citrus hops. Flavor, caramel malts, nutty, had this notable Belgian malt aspect, thin bitter finish of pine hops. Finishes with hints of nutty / bready malts. Not that great.

3.1 This is not bad, but not great either. Going down the singles section at toast looking for new stuff. Decent flavor, bit thin. Would drink again at $1.50.

2.9 Pours a lasting ring of beige head with a copper body. Aromas of caramelized malt and some hops. Flavor is caramelized malt, butter, grassy. Finish is roasted and bitter.

2.8 Pours brownish copper. Nice aroma of roasted nuts, malt, and caramel. Tastes watery wet. Stale water and malty nuts. Tastes thin. Bitter malts and stale flavors. Not real exciting. Bottle might be old and past its prime.

3.8 Clear and glassy reddish brown. Puffy styrofoam head. Takes on a ruby/mahogany color in the light. Slightly bitter, nutty malt. Some sweetish toffee. Really well-crafted. Bitter, very nutty but biscuity. This smell is the definition of the term "nutty" in a beer. Real real good. Malt is dark and roasted. Very nutty. Not the brown sugary taste many browns have, not at all. Dark and roasted, like amber malts bitterly mingling with darkly sweetish toffee and caramel. Bitterness of a red, sweetness of a brown. Light-bodied. A bit ashy; feels like an amber/red. A solid beer, bitter in the amberish malt, sweet in the caramel malts. A good offering.

3.1 Bottle. Pours a copper body with an off white head. Some caramel and nut character with a nutty earth y finish and a hint of dried fruit. Not bad.

3.3 Pours a clear, dark, reddish brown with two fingers of creamy beige head (and sheeting lace) that diminishes with time. The nose is of sweet nutty and caramel malt notes with a pleasant supporting notes of floral and herbal hops. Light-bodied with soft carbonation and a tight, light, yet significantly bitter finish. The palate turns a touch astringent and drying at the finish. With food, this could be a plus. As a standalone beverage, however, I find that characteristic a tad off-putting. The flavor more-or-less follows the aroma with some Munich malt character thrown into the mix and the herbal hops cranked up beyond what is detected on the nose. Overall, this is a nice interpretation of the style and a pleasant surprise from Saranac.

3.3 Dark brown with some red. Decent sized head. Aroma of nuts, lightly roasted malts, chocolate, and a lot of aroma hops, probably cascade. A decent brown malt flavor, slightly nutty and chocolately, some caramel, not a lot of hop bitterness, but the aroma is there. A decent beer, not mind-blowing, but reliably well done.