"When Sam Adams came out with the Boston Lager, who would have thought it would sell outside of Massachusetts?" Rieth said. They also have the Detroit Lager, and while they originally were considering changing the name, they've recently thought better of it. The brewery's seasonals, the Blocktoberfest, the Winter Bock and the Maibock, will all hit shelves during the fall, winter and next spring, respectively. Those are the only four Atwater beers currently available in Massachusetts, but more will come later in the year. It's almost like an American wheat beer with orange peel and coriander." "We just wanted a good lawnmower beer (Beer Nut Note: That's beer geek for a light, refreshing beer.) with some extra flavor in it. "The idea was not to make a Belgian beer," said Fritts. It's kind of a hybrid between a Belgian wheat beer, an American wheat beer and a German kolsch - a light ale. The Dirty Blonde is the brewery's summer beer. "We had a lot of fun with that label," Fritts said. The Dirty Blonde Ale, featuring a painting of a curvy blonde woman with a tattoo on her lower back on the label, is the brewery's newest beer. There's not a ton of hops that hit you in the face, but that's keeping in line with what we like to do. "That was our goal, and I think we've done that. "At the end of the day, it's a really session-able IPA," said Fritts. The beer uses a mixture of two-row pale malt and crystal malt to balance the magnum and cascade hops. Rather than being a hop bomb that needs to be 10 percent ABV to handle the bitterness, it is the kind of IPA you'd see people drink three or four of at one sitting. The Salvation India pale ale is more along the lines of a Harpoon IPA, Reith said. In typical American porters, the grain overwhelms the porter flavor." "There are 14 pounds of coffee in it per batch, and a lot of vanilla. "It's not quite as harsh as some of the American porters can be, which is how we designed it to be," said Fritts. The top-selling beer is the Vanilla Java Porter, Rieth said.īased on the Baltic porter style, the Vanilla Java Porter uses a lager yeast, rather than the ale yeast featured in most American and English porters. There is a pretty fair amount of caramel malts. "This was one of the more exciting beers I was looking forward to when I came here. "One of the things our customers comment on is that the yeast kind of hides the alcohol in it," said Fritts. I would have guessed it was about 5 percent ABV. I have never tasted a beer with such high alcohol that had a nearly invisible alcohol flavor. One of those original beers is the brewery's biggest, the Voodoo Vater, a nearly 10 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) doppelbock. Originally opened as a German-style brewery, all Atwater's equipment came from Germany and the first four beers produced were all German-style lagers.
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