Dicks Harvest Ale

Brewed by Dicks Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Centralia, Washington USA

12 oz bottle, via Indiana_Red. Pours a clear light copper with a fizzy off-white head. Nice toffee malt aroma with some toasted notes. Pretty clean aroma. Flavor follows aroma in step. Finish is moderately bitter and again, very clean. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate fine bubbled carbonation. A decent American Oktoberfest. It could use a little more thickness in the body, but it’s quite drinkable.

Bottle Pours a slightly hazy light brown with a light, off white head. This quickly dissipates and only spotty lacing remains. Dark woody malt aromas and a fruity sweet hint as well. Wody flavors and easy on the hops. About what I expected for the style. Thin feel though and not as robust or heacy as I hoped. Wierd bitter twang at the end. Softly carbonated.

ྫྷ oz bottle: Obtained in trade with Larry Pitonka, thanks André!) An odd hybrid, this fruity and woodsy beer definitely doesn’t taste like an Oktoberfest to me, and I’m sure the ale yeast has something to do with this. The beer was shockingly fruity on my first few sips, mostly because I didn’t expect it to be fruity in the least, but in reality it is only mildly fruity. The malt is minimally sweet, earthy, woodsy, lightly roasty. Hops is mildly bitter. I’m just not enjoying this much at all. The nose is fruity, actually very much like unripe canteloupe, woodsy, dusty. Medium bodied with good carbonation and a very dry mouthfeel. Medium amber in color, quite clear, capped by a tiny off-white head that soon dissipates without leaving any lace on the glass. Dick’s really misled me by saying that this is an Octoberfest style beer on their web site. It doesn’t come close in my opinion, and I don’t really even like this beer either.

Nice brew! Limited aroma - hoppy out of the bottle, but sweet malts dominate the pint glass. Lighter golden in color with minimal head. Fruity malts with some toasted grain, honey soaked, mild hoppiness makes it not too sweet. Enjoyable for sure. Thanks André!

not bad at all, this tastes like Dicks answer to Fat Tire. sweet malty nose, amber color with thin head and lacing. Wheaty grain taste, maybe a hint of brown sugar for extra alcohol. Good balance with the hops, not overpowering.

This bottle was a bit hard to get ahold of, i guess they only have it available in the mixed 12 packs, so rather than paying all that money we just cut open the 12 pack in the store and just took the one bottle. Pours a translucient amber/red with a off-white head. Sweet malty aroma with hints of caramel and floral hops. Taste starts with a dry malt, toffee, lightly roasted notes, with a well balanced fruity hop finish and some brown sugar tasting kick to it.

Bottle pours a translucent copper, small white pancake batter like head, light carbonation, with fairly sticky lacing.   Grains, vegetables, and nuts in both aroma and flavor.   Good body, medium mouthfeel.   Finishes slightly sweet, a bit more malty than the front.   Needs less vegetable & graininess and more maltiness.

ewwww peanut butter. Smells and tastes like a bad peanut butter and vegetable mixture, though the aroma isn't that strong. Palate is wet and thin, and the flavors don't exactly hit a marzen, more sweet and nutty, needs a musty wheat and roasted malt flavor. The appearance is actually quite nice, considerable lacing along the glass and light brown complextion.