Beck’s Oktoberfest

Brewed by Brauerei Beck & Co./Becks (InBev)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Bremen, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Date: 10/12/2000
Mode: Bottle
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta

rich malt flavor, no bitterness, boreing

Aroma: 3/10; Appearance: 3/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 3/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 1.7/5.0
Score: *+/4
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Orangey-amber; caramel nose; some toast, caramel in the palate; slightly syrupy in the finish, with only the vaguest hint of hops; sweetens out right at the end with a toffee note.

(Bottle) Pours a deep copper body with a large frothy off-white long lasting head. Aroma of perfume, spruce, and lemon. Slightly metallic finish.

Clear copper body with small beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, toffee. Taste is mild sweet, earthy, toffee. Finish is slightly metallic. A little less sweet than the typical O-fest. Light-medium body.

12oz bottle-pours a foamy to thin off white head and amber color. Aroma is caramel-medium malt. Taste is somewhat sweet caramel-medium malt, secondary spicy hops. A great offering from Beck’s. OK carbonation. Thanks Dad for sharing. 3.5

First time I tried this one was back in 1993 in Massachusetts. I have head it again a few times since and its good every time. Nice foamy head. Felt a bit thin regarding mouthfeel. Sweetish malty aroma with some hops. A nice average roasted malty flavour, nicely hopped and with a little caramel.

Warm caramel/toffee aroma. Reddish amber color with a white head that just fizzed out completely. Thin to medium bodied with mild carbonation. It is slightly cooked caramel sweet, and there is enough bitter to keep it from being cloying. However, it is all about the malt. The finish, once the sweetness drains away, does impart some bitter. Too bad it didn’t arrive sooner. To me it’s more Newcastle Brown in flavor than anything else I can think of.

Crystal clear, copper lager with a small, fizzy, white head. The aroma is malty and sweet with notes of caramel, syrup, clover honey and a whisper of milk chocolate. Sweet, malty, toffee notes abound in the flavor and are nicely evened-out, but not entirely balanced, by a crisp hop addition. Medium-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and fizzy carbonation. Short, malty, but crisp finish. Ends a bit grassy. A pleasant surprise.

Bottled, 330ml, pasteurised. Orange amber with fizzed head. Dull malty carbonated beer, flatish taste, cardboardy initially. There is a vegetal hop and a malted sweetness with caramel. Poor to average.

Bottle. Poured copper color with an average frothy white head that was mostly lasting with fair lacing. Moderate toasted caramel malty aroma. Medium body. Medium sweet flavor with a light bittersweet finish of moderate duration.