Dakota Light
Matt Brewing Company / Saranac Brewery

Dakota Light pours a surprisingly dark golden body given the style; and the creamy white head holds better than most and leaves a very nice initial rings of lace about the glass.

The nose is mainly clean, although there is something going on in the background; and at best it delivers a generic beer aroma - there's not really any malt or hops here.

The body is light-medium with a dextrinous edge, and fizzy in the mouth with a delicate, fine-bubbled carbonation that releases readily as it warms.

The flavor is quite blank except for some mild fermentation character, and there's no real malt to it. It's kind of adjunct-sweet, but not quite; and there's a bit of a wet-cardboard character in the finish. No hop flavors are found, and the bitterness is appropriately kept to a minimum.

In essence, Dakota Light is a cheap, boring, and quickly-made light beer with 105 calories per 12 oz. serving. It gets past its flaws, however, as they're masked by the added water. There are better economy-tier light beers out there.

An unbelievably strange beer. I had like no cash and I wanted a crappy case of beer...this case cost 8 bucks!! But man I got what I paid for. First of all, the cans look like seltzer or soda. Sky blue color...you could easily drive by the po-lice chugging a few of these and they wouldn't know the difference.

Anyway...it pours out the lightest color of any light beer I have ever seen. It's nearly clear! Nasty. The smell, somehow, is rather fruity, malty, and not all that offensive. Now on to the taste. This beer, has the oddest, processed additive taste I have ever tasted. It tastes much more like dirty watered down champagne than beer. It's actually quite reminiscent of that water, that you used to get at camp, that you just know wasn't clean. Honestly...everyone says all American macros taste like water, but this is as close as one has ever come. I mean, even Coors Light and Bud have some flavor, albeit not good, but this tastes like air.