Avery The Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest

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

Amazing. Best Octoberfest style I’ve had. Pours a dark brown orange with a 3cm head. Has hints of caramel, some hop, wheat, dark fruit, and spice. Finishes with a weird "twang" on the tongue. Overall has good body and carbonation.

Rating number 300. 2007 version. Pours a clean, crisp, amber color in the dimpled mug. The scent was of malt, light hops and some wheat. The flavor is very nice for a marzen...which is not my favorite style. This beer hides the alochol well...I was surprised that this was over 9%. I am a big fan of Avery though...they like to push the limits.

Strong aroma of dark fruits and light roasted caramel malts. Hazy orange body with off white head. Similar tastes with a strong thick body.

Pours deep amber with a small bubbly tan head. Strong and very sweet (almost too sweet) syrupy aroma. Some floral hops buried deep underneath, but mostly just sweet syrupy fruit. Flavor is slightly more reserved with sweet notes of apples, toffee, and raisins. Alcohol is noticeable, but unoffensive, and there are hops somewhere in there, but they almost disappear in the sweet body of this beer. Palate is medium, slightly syrupy/oily, and semi-sweet.

If every Oktoberfest tasted like this I would look forward to the end of summer. Sweet smelling. Smooth and slightly syrupy.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma is sweet. Smells of fruits, alcohol, toffee, sweet malts, hops, dough, and a hint of spice. Poured amber in color with a large, foamy, rocky, off-white head that lasted throughout. Great lacing. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of alcohol, malts, and some apple. Medium body. Smooth, creamy texture. Average carbonation. Sweet apple/malt finish. Overall, a decent brew that hides its 9.3%ABV pretty well, but it’s just barely an Oktoberfest.

2006 vintage, aged one year.Dark orange color with medium white head and nice lacing. Malty aroma with light fruits. Flavor also dominantly malts, spices and light sweet fruits. The alcohol was masked well, but just not that interesting to warrant drinking a whole bottle...got boring after the first glass. I suppose the alcohol made up for it, as a 3.6 seems a reasonable rating even though I didn’t enjoy it that much..?

I almost want to say that this is a bad bottle, as I love Avery beers. It pours out with a nice copper red color and thin white head. Malty aroma accented by the smell of band aids (???). Thick malty taste, but aroma was so off putting that I had to pour this out. I will have to get another bottle and re rate this, because I cannot see Avery coming out with something this awful. RERATE Day!!!!!!! I rerated this on Feb 29 because I know it could not have been that bad. Pour golden brown with a thin white head. Aroma is beautiful malty, caramel malt, thick with floral hops. Smooth thick body. Malty taste that has a crispness to it balanced with deliciously bitter hops. If we could only drink this for octoberfest!. A great beer and I am glad I finally got around to rerating it.