When asked how many test batches were brewed in creating the Amber recipe, Brock Wagner quickly replies, 'Six.' Saint Arnold Amber Ale is our flagship product and our first official brew. Especially on those crisp, fall days at the beginning of the football season in August. Research has also found this beer to be perfect for tailgating at Texans game. This, combined with the power of suggestion leads many people to inform us that this beer tastes like grass.

This beer has a distinctive floral hop aroma. People rated Fancy Lawnmower Beer either a 1 or a 5, but all anyone wanted to talk about, no matter what they rated it, when they handed their questionnaire in was Fancy Lawnmower Beer. If we just averaged the totals, Golden would have won. We then went around to any parties or bars we were at and handed out these sheets to have people rate their perception of the quality of the beer with each name on a scale of 1 to 5. We made a sheet of paper with five potential beer names on it: Select, Blonde, Kölsch, Golden and Fancy Lawnmower Beer. When it came to naming the beer, we performed our typical expensive, highly sophisticated consumer research program. We developed this beer because we wanted a slightly delicate beer in our portfolio, and one with a crisper, hoppier character than the Texas Wheat.

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