Amsterdam Oktoberfest

12 oz bottles. Deep amber-brown colour, with light ruby highlights. The aroma is loaded with sweet beechwood smoke, soft earthy maltiness and a lingering nutty maltiness as well. Linger soft insistent smokiness over a clean, toasted malt character. Well-lagered, crisp, herbal bittering. Perhaps they’ve changed the recipe this year, but this is an excellent rauchbier. Highly underrated.

Significant smoke and some other lager that is passable, but the whole thing didn’t get pulled off. Smoke-like colour and smoke in aroma. Undesireable mustiness and I agree with Pootz/Pootzboy its like burnt toast.

Bottled, 5.5% ABV fresh from the brewery. Pour shows a nice orange-amber clear beer with a rocky off white cap that reduces to a lace fairly quickly. Nose is dominated with a mild smokey mustiness, light malty smells much like a mild rauchbier. Front side is pleasantly malty, slight sweetness,...hops sit in the background ...medium-light body with a smokey presense. Finish is not too quick with the smokey malts and hops leaving an impression of burnt toast on the palate. This is a hybrid mild Rauchbier with a medium bodied Marzen...carried off well. The best lager from this brewer. Complimented the Waterloo County spareribs and kraut perfectly.

Rerate:Headless, brown amber body. Enjoyable but a bit weak. C'est What Fest. Of Small Breweries 2002 - a little but sweet, thin bodied. Am still looking to try an octoberfest that impresses me.