Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest

Brewed by Avery Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Boulder, Colorado USA

2007 bomber into a snifter. Pours a deep amber with one finger off white head which settles to the rim. Smells is all malty caramel and sweat bread, cinnamon rolls maybe. Taste is similar - sweet malt, caramel, butterscotch, dough. Finish is very smooth, and alcohol well hidden which likely speaks to its age. Great beer, recommend putting it back.

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Floral malt aroma. Golden bronze coloured very rich on the palate and strong in alcohol with a crisp bitter and dry malt finish.

Golden tangerine pour with lots of hoppiness and iced tea, accompanied by caramel and saccharin. This is Alabama sweet tea with a kick...not a bad beer just lacks complexity and would have a hard time drinking this regularly due to its syrupy nature. Meh.

( 22oz bomber thanks to angrypirate06) Pours clear orange/yellow with ok bubbles and lacing. Nose of sweet corn and alcohol. Taste is more sweetness, toasted corn, alcohol and finishes syrupy sweet.

Poured orange with big head of off white with aromas being of malts and hops that led to a floral bouquet the taste was sweet with a great hop balence. smooth and very creamy, a great octobefest

Pours a clear deep coppery orange/amber color with golden orange hues when held to a light source and a 1.5 finger frothy yellowish head. Decent retention, slowly fades into a lasting ring that leaves sporadic spots of lacing behind. Toasted malty aroma with a lot of peppery spice, slight alcohol sweetness and subtle hops. Hints of roasted caramel and biscuit malt as well as some cinnamon, clove and brown sugar. Medium bodied and the flavor is very similar to the aroma with lots of toasty caramel and biscuit malt and prominent spice character. Lots of cinnamon and brown sugar with subtle hops in the dry finish. Subtle pumpkin and alcohol notes. ABV is very well masked, making The Kaiser extremely quaffable. Very good.

Looks good. Clear mid-range amber color. Serious orange tinge. Light ruby notes. Small foamy head. Minimal retention. Okay lacing. Malty goodness dominates the nose. Complex malts. Caramel, butter and toast. Slight earthy spiciness. Minimal alcohol smell, especially for the 10% it has in it. Nice malty flavor with caramel and toffee notes. Good level of sweetness that is balanced nicely by a slight hops bite. Some heat from the abv content, but not as much as expected. Feels good, with a nice body. I’d like it even better with a little more heaviness/thickness to it, but since it’s an Octoberfest style, that wouldn’t be quite right. Here’s one Octoberfest brew that I could drink alot of. I will look forward to this ’holiday’ from now on, because of this beer.

Poured from big bottle. Aroma burnt brown sugar and vanilla ice cream. Clear dark amber, thin tan head. The big malt flavor along with the alcohol just explodes and expands in your mouth. Herbal aftertaste, which at first I wasn’t crazy about but blended nicely as it warmed.