3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: JAN 9, 2006 I purchased a case of seven ounce bottles @ Shangy’s (Emmaus, PA) for less than $8. I brought the case to an open house Holiday party and it was a success on many levels. Seven ounce bottles are a novelty, the beer inside the bottles was actually a decent O’Fest, and having a few kept my acohol consumption down. I wish I had bought a few more cases, it would have made great Christmas gifts.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Served from a 12 oz bottle thanks to Craig. The appearance is a deep orange-red with a little hazy clarity. The aromas are toasted German malts and that’s about it. The flavors are the same, fairly simple but pleasant. The mouth is lightly creamy. Overall a decent Marzen.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Aroma of sweet red apples, raisins and brown sugar. Pours a deep brownish red, one of the darker octoberfests I have seen and probably my least favorite
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle. Dark amber copper body with a decent white head. The aroma is nice and malty, as expected, but with a nice hop quality to boot. Both the flavor and the aroma are pleasantly balanced with a nuttiness that makes it all come together.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
A good but average domestic Oktoberfest. Pours a bright amber with a minimal white head. Taste is sweet toasted malt with the slightest hops. Kind of thin, but decent and inoffensive.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours coppery with a fairly dense head. Smells grainy and sweet corn malty. Some hops present as well. Tastes sweet with the different malts, cereal grains, maybe even nutty, and then some bittering from the decent amount of hops. Long sweet aftertaste. Pretty good.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 oz.
Nice looking copper coloured beer, with a small tan head, leaves nice lacing.
Quite good malt driven aromas, caramel, slightly hopped.
Nice semi-bitter malts mostly, get almost creamy near the end, then a qyuick finish with an after taste of hops.
Ok on the palte, could be a wee bit thicker.
Overall not a bad little beer.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
I like that this is a bit darker and thicker than traditional marzen. It’s also got a strong hops presence. Almost like a holiday brew to honest, but I like it.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a clear amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of sweet malts, caramel, toasted malts, and some spices. Flavor is mostly toasted and caramel malts. A little unbalanced. Not much hop character and has a strange aftertaste. The more I drink the more I don’t like it.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
12oz bottle acquired in trade with shigadeyo (thanks!). Poured a medium orangish color with a light haze and a smaller sized head. Aromas of caramel, toasted nuts, and a little bready. Weaker tastes of toasted malts and caramel. Thinner body. Boring.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A little too sweet and syrupy. No other flavors to offset the caramel malt sweetness. Surprisingly, it is not watery. Easily drinkable and mildly carbonated.
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