Alpine Oktoberfest

Brewed by Alpine Brewing Company (WA)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Oroville, Washington USA

Pours a translucent brown orange with a thin white head. Aroma is toasty malt, light hops, and a little bit of a metallic note. Flavor is biscuity, bready malt, a little nutty, and a mildly bitter hop finish. Also a little watery, but very refreshing. Quite a decent Oktoberfest beer.

At the Enumclaw Oktoberfest 2009. Of all the Oktoberfest beers at the festival, this was the best. Just like the commercial description. Isn’t fall a great time for beer!

Biscuit malt mixes nicely with moderate caramel and brown sugar. More than your-average-Oktoberfest’s hop finish, but still on with the style. Very solid and enjoyable.

Bomber. Pours clear copper with a thick and lacy pale orange head. Aroma of biscuit, brown sugar and malt; you know the stuff inside malted milk balls? That’s it. Medium body and carbonation. Lightly sweet taste of bread, caramel, filberts. Fairly crisp and just vaguely hoppy finish. I can see why it wouldn’t be too hard to sit around in lederhosen, and watch barmaids showing a ton of cleavage while you pound a bunch of this beer. Damn. I finished the bomber while writing this. I guess I need to learn to type faster.

@GCBF-on tap-pours a thin white head and copper color. Aroma is medium malt-fruit. Taste is medium malt-caramel, fruit, secondary hops bite. OK carbonation. Liked less as it went along.

Amber with small beige head. Candy floss nose.Light smooth sweet malt profile, lightly blended hops

Bomber courtesy of Pitonka 5000. Pours copper with almost no carbonation and some thin white bubbles. Smells of caramel, some pepper, some earthiness, hints of pepper. Tastes sweet and malty with some toffee and caramel dominating. Decent.

Bottle. Amber color with a caramel-like malty aroma. Flavor is malty but not too heavy or lingering. A little sweet and less hoppy. This is a fantastic Oktoberfestbier.