(large bottle) bright red with pink head. Faint malt aroma. Flavor is slightly sweet malt, but a medicine aftertaste.

Well, it’s certainly eye-catching. Pours blood red, with a pinkish head. And the label is just good, old fashioned nightmare fuel. Actually, every other aspect is fairly normal or an octoberfest,, but it does look weird.

Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of caramel and the crust of fresh bred, light to moderate note of herbs for the hops, light dough for the yeast and background notes of solvent and raspberry. Head is frothy pink with good lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is hazy cherry red. Flavor starts lightly sweet, moderately acidic and sour, then finishes sour again, heavily and enduring bitter. Palate is light to medium, dry with a carbonation between lively and fizzy. It finishes moderately astringent, lightly alcoholic and fairly dry. This is a goof of a beer. It tasted more like an ESB or a Bitter than a Marzen. The aroma was okay, but every other aspect of it "freaked" me out.

Bottle from Crown #19. Poured hazyr red color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate fruity citrus aroma. Medium body with a soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met with a very interesting beer.

This was an odd duck. Pours a muddy red, with a pink head. Must have been some of the worst chill haze I’ve ever seen, because it totally cleared when it warmed. Aroma was sweet malt and earthy, slightly floral hops. Taste matched, with a surprisingly bitter, slightly strange, very drying finish. Some fruity esters floating about, undefined, but there as well, as if it was fermented a bit too warm. Not bad, just very odd, appearance aside.