Coney Island Freaktoberfest

Appearance: Clear, red food dye body with a thin, thinning, pink head. Smell: First and foremost, the nose is grainy, with secondary notes of gently toasted malts. Predominately spicy hop character with very minor notes of citrus. Taste: Pale malts, a touch grainy, and then some sweet, toasted maltiness following close behind. Spicy hops, even a bit of citrusy grapefruit with a medium amount of bitterness present. Unfortunately, a slight strange and lingering astringency begins to creep into the taste. Drying to the end with a final ’pop’ of graininess. And you’re left with that odd taste, which I’ll attribute to the dye, as I’ve gotten that when using stage blood orally for Halloween. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Not the best oughta the Shmaltz bag.

<b>10/30/2008</b>: FREAK! What? RED beer? Seriously, it is really red with a raspberry-colored head to boot. It looks like fruit punch! However, Coney Island Freaktoberfest does smell like beer. Unfortunately, there really isn’t much else to note. Maybe it is slightly dry like cranberries, but there really isn’t any berry to it. My mind keeps telling me that it should be berry-scented because of the color, but it really isn’t, but maybe it should be... As far as the flavor goes... Um, what the? This beer tastes a lot like a generic macro lager, but with more roast and is slightly dry. What the hell is this supposed be? I definitely doesn’t taste like an Oktoberfest. This beer is just weird, both in color and flavor. It tastes like Autumn, but I think the color freaks with my mind. Overall, this beer definitely freaked me out!

<i>1 pit, 6 fl oz bottle shared by Tmoney99 at the weekly Party Source gathering. Thanks Tom! Rating #102 for this beer...</i>

Draft… Cloudy blood-red lager with a small, creamy, pink head. Good retention. Ultra-restrained toffee and caramel nose. Medium to full-bodied with lively carbonation. Malty, fruity flavor provides sweet toffee notes alongside very modest hopping that provides a veneer of balance. Lightly bitter, astringent finish.

Bottle. Thanks Bartzilla! Surprised at the low scores for this one. I thought it was tasty. Awesome red pour. Rich, malty and nicely hopped. Reminded me of Arrogant Bastard.

Bomber thanks to John. Pours...well you know, a blood red color with a medium pink head. The aroma is caramel, malts and light hops. The flavor is mostly dominated by a rich caramel malt with some balance between the sweetness achieved by a large bitter hop presence. A nice example of the style.

Creepy blood red color with a pink head. malty sweet fest spicy aroma. Medium body. Dull malty grainy flavor, with little spice. has a mildly bitter finish. Crappy green beer for St. Pats, why not acrappy red beer for Halloween ?

poured froma 22oz bottle at first I was like what the hell is this This beer definitely wins on appearance for the name, pours a blood red with a thin white head. Starts to go downhill after that. Aroma is almost non existent, just some bread dough and hint of fruit. Taste is malty and fruit tart. Didn’t really wime over.

Draught. Pours a brilliant, clear, cranberry red with a pinkish linen white head that quickly disappeared. This is probably the reddest beer I have ever seen. Mild aroma of malt. The flavor is weak malt with some astringent hops. There is also an accompanying off-taste that I cannot identify. I didn’t like this one all that much and have no interest in re-visiting it.