Coney Island Freaktoberfest

Bottle from Once Upon a Vine South on 09/19/2008. Pours a slightly hazy red body with a rather large frothy pink head. Sweet grainy and toasty aroma. Sweet slightly grainy and toasty flavor with some citrusy hops. Medium body with moderate carbonation. This is more of an American Pale Ale with red food coloring instead of an Oktoberfest. Really not that bad, but the color tends to surprise you.

Weird cherry red color in the body, bright, artificial pink head. Malt and sweet candy aroma. Malt and fruity sweet flavor. Not great, but it’s different.

22oz bottle (10/9/08 Pre GABF Tasting)-Pours a ruby red body with a small red head. Aroma of malt and hops. Taste of hops with a bitterness along with a little malt. This medium bodied brew is well balanced and is a great blood red beer.

Tasting - Perfect Pour. Cherry red, pinkish white fizzy head. Aroma was citrusy with a light cherry earth undertone (from the cherry skins for those who did not know). Hoppy citric flavors fade into a weird autumn-like cherry taste. Hard to really explain at this point. Light bodied, soft carbonation, bittersweet finish. I think the Freaktoberfest name is appropriate here. Might want to go back to the drawing board on this one...

Just from the name, you know this is going to be a wierd one. It pours a crystal clear redish/orange color. I would suppose food coloring was used to get this color. I actually like it. The bottle labeling lets you know to expect something freaky, and it delivers with the color. Not much head on it and it is gone quickly. The smell is of a little hops, a little malt and just a little bit of skunk. The taste has a lot of malt in there and a nice kick of bitterness at the end. Just a little of the skunk in there. Not bad. I will try it again and I praise the Shmaltz guys for trying something new with the color.

22oz bottle. Pours bright red in color with pink head. Aroma sweet maly and citrus hops. Taste grapefruit and malt with bitter finish.

Keep your eyes closed and it is not a bad beer. Color is dark read with a pink head. Malty taste finishes with a well balanced hop bite.

22 oz. bottle shared by Tmoney99. Pours red with a small pink head the disappeared without a trace. The aroma was fairly weak. Some light malt with artificial berries and a hint of floral hops. The flavor was not much more than a macro lager with some not quite ripe fruit, slightly more roast, and more sweetness. This was a little dry and bitter in the finish. Pretty much a mess of a beer.