F.X. Matt Brewing Company
F.X. Matt Brewing Company brews in Utica in upstate New York and has been run by the Matt family since 1888, when Francis Xavier Matt reorganised a local brewery as the West End Brewing Co. It survived Prohibition on soft drinks and in 1933 was among the first to sell beer again, under the Utica Club name. The Saranac line followed in 1985 and later became the flagship. A new brewhouse opened in 2019, and in 2023 the company bought Flying Dog Brewery. Fred Matt leads the fourth generation.
Beers by F.X. Matt Brewing Company
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
F.X. Matt Brewing Company brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 11 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Utica Club
Their beers place in the Top 22% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About F.X. Matt Brewing Company
F.X. Matt Brewing Company brews in Utica in upstate New York and has been run by the Matt family since 1888, when Francis Xavier Matt reorganised a local brewery as the West End Brewing Co. It survived Prohibition on soft drinks and in 1933 was among the first to sell beer again, under the Utica Club name. The Saranac line followed in 1985 and later became the flagship. A new brewhouse opened in 2019, and in 2023 the company bought Flying Dog Brewery. Fred Matt leads the fourth generation.
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