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One in the same. They brew quite a few beers, both under their own labels (Saranac, Utica Club, Two Dogs) and under contract for other companies (Brooklyn, Rheingold, and even for their competitor Sam Adams). They have a line of soft drinks (1888) and a "low carb" beer, Accel, which doesn't seem to be going over well in it's targeted market. I would like to try their hard cola, but then again I'm a cola addict to being with. :)

I still don't understand their old advertising campaign with the beer steins (Something and Shooley IIRC). A piece of history lost on this Upstate New Yorker.

BTW here's some interesting trivia: In one of the rooms on the tour they have a cabinet with every single beer Matt's Brewery has ever made in its 100+ year history. Some of the cans have seen WWII in the Pacific and made it back to the brewery, and there was even a point where the beer cans looked like motor oil cans.