Coney Island Freaktoberfest

Shmaltz Brewing Company
Brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
San Francisco, California USA

Bottle sample. Blood red pour with a medium pink head. Malty caramel aroma with hints of yeast. Sweet malt flavor up front gives way to bitter hops all the way until the finish. Not bad for a beer you’re expecting to taste like kool-aid.

Oh. my. god. It pours cherry cough syrup red. It’s RED!!!! WIth a pink pink head. GROSS!!!! It looks like jungle juice. WARNING!!! Aroma is malty and vegetable hoppy. The color is throwing me off a bit and I swear I can smell red food coloring. Flavor is malty, hoppy, chemical bitter with a slight hint of vegetable (or cherry). IT’S RED!!! BEER IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE RED! As I keep sipping it, I’m hallucinating cherry cough syrup flavor. I just can’t do this red thing. Ew.

Food coloring red in color with a pink head. Aroma is grainy, lightly metallic with some earth and grass. taste is malty, with some metal, overall light bodied. Unimpressive.

guhhh, pink beer with a pink head. I already know this is not going to end well. The smell is i don’t even know, pink? i still cant believe its pink. The taste actually isn’t half bad and its quite refreshing as i can detect hops, some malt, maybe raspberries or blackberries, and some other fruits i cant put my finger on. finish tastes pretty boozey to me, definetly dont want to try it again to figure out what i really make of all this. a totally odd brew for sure.

Light, tangy aroma. I passed this brew by a couple of times, since the label looks like the cap and I thought that I’d had it. I was totally unprepared for the froot punch rose color with the pink head. Bitter, lemon pith flavor. Dry. Unpleasantly bitter finish on a medium body which really kills off the enjoyment of the beer. Wouldn’t take anotehr one for free. Market Square Liquors.

Pours a clear koolaid red with frothy pinkish head, light lacing. Faint nose of some toasted malts, grain and light hops. A cool gimmicky beer, not much else.

pours a clear dark red, heavy carbonation, a medium size dark pink head, and a little lacing. smell is of grain, a few malts, hops, and some raspberry. taste is of grain, sour malt, dandelion, hops in the back, raspberry, and some caramel, ends dry. overall a very strange beer, not that bad just cant get past the color, also has a weird taste that i cant put my finger on.

Bomber. I’m a little sick of odd colored beer, and this is no exception. Imagine my surprise (unsuspecting victim that I am) when the pour was a candy apple red with a massive pick fizzy/foamy head. (I’m having flashbacks to Romulan Ale and Magic Hat Wacko, which are two of my most hated experiences in the last year.) Still, I’ll give this one a shot. Aromas are fairly weak... a bit of dough, light brown sugar and some apple or fruit of some sort... it’s hard, though, when your eyes are assaulted at every turn. Flavor is pretty non-eventful. A bit of an oktoberfest boozy graininess to it, some caramel and a funkiness that might be the dye or whatever. A tingly alcohol presence throughout.