[okie01]

"That brewery in Utica is Matt Brewing Company, the makers of Saranac."

Would that be the brewery responsible for Utica Club? Which was responsible for one of the great ad lines in beer history:

We drink all we can. The rest we sell.

[mcenedo]

ROTHLMAO - from a guy who grew up in ny who can still remember the Rheingold girl, then went to college in upstate NY and got introduced to Utica Club.

[tphil913]

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.