Allgäuer Festbier

Brewed by Allgäuer Brauhaus (Oetker Group)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Kempten, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Pale amber with a thin white head. Aroma had caramel, sweet malts and grain. Taste was coppery, that’s it. Some caramel and currant were there but very little. Palate was slightly thicker then water. This was weak.

Yuck, yuck, yuck. This was a pale lager / cheapo pilsner that tasted like some of a weak island beer from a third world country. I can’t believe this came from Germany or that I bought it without checking on it first. It slipped into my shopping cart a few weeks ago, when I was on a festbier run. Poured a cloudy murky yellow-orange color with an initial head that was ok. It was all downhill from there. Aroma was of semi skunked pilsner, spices absent. The flavor was grassy and skunky with a typical pilsner hoppiness to finish. Some caramel in there, but I didnt enjoy it one bit. What is so Oktoberish about this beer, the mere fact that it has more body than a pale lager? Trash.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours copper with an off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts and grain . Flavor is sweet, malty, weak, and thin for and oktoberfest. But drinkable.

Bottle. Pours orange\gold with a small off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts hardly any hops. Flavor is sweet, thin watery, slight hops and carbonation. Thin body, not a good oktoberfest, but a better than average brew.

Bottled. This beer has an aroma of mostly malts. It’s a very thin beer, watered-down, and unimpressive.

Bready malt forward aroma with notes of bubblegum and herbal, floral hops apparent. Hazy deep golden body is topped by a dense, fine bubbled, white head that recedes slowly to a lasting cover with nice lacing. Pleasant sweet malt flavour has notes of rye-like spice and herbal, grassy hops with light finishing bitterness. Medium body with soft bubbles that feel somewhat still despite the carbonation. Tulip glass. Allowed to warm from fridge temperature. Bottle (State Line Liquors, MD, Oct-05).

(500ml bottle) Lightly hazed golden body topped by big off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, green apple, bread, light caramel. Taste is medium sweet, bread, apple, faint earthy. Watery light-medium body, minimal carbonation.

Bottle from State Line, Elkton, MD. Pours hazy dark straw with 2-finger white head. Aroma of malt, corn flakes, hopcit. Tastes malty, with corn flakes and some hopcit in the finish. Not real complex.