French Broad Oktoberfest Amber Lager

Brewed by French Broad Brewing Co.
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Asheville, North Carolina USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein

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Rich and malty, and very drinkable. Has a lot better balance than the amber. Touch of caramel and honey sweetness, and well balanced overall. Something consistent to drink when you don’t want to put a lot of thought into your beer drinking experience.

Draught at Bean and Barrel. Pours a brownish orange with a thick creamy off white head. Leaves a lace. The aroma is lightly sweet, malty,caramel, and toffee. The flavor has much more of a hop profile than I usually expect. Shows some sweetness, caramel, hop bite, more malt as it warms. Palate was waxy with a mellow carbonation.

pours a amber copper with mild head. flat light malty aroma leading into a similiar taste, good and light and sessionable.

UPDATED: SEP 30, 2007 Name: Oktobrfest Marzen
Date: 09/23/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Asheville

clear golden yellow, fine creamy cream head, nice yeasty bready aroma, good malt flavor, touch of sweetness, light bitterness for balance, would make a good session beer,
-------- /> Name: Oktobrfest Marzen
Date: 09/21/2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewery

clear amber, fine beige head, scattered lace, bready aroma with a touch of sweet munich malt, rich malt flavor, bready munich character is quickly countered with lots of earthy hops, sweetness comes from behind and brings out the bready quality,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Copper colored beer with a nice fluffy white head. Caramel and chocolate aroma and again the flavor is surprisingly chocolatey with a bit of apple and caramel at the finish. Maybe a bit too sweet and thin but not bad.

On tap Knox Brewers Jam. A dark amber pour with a slight clinging lace. An ok beer for what it is just not enough flavor or palate to suit me. A slight off bitter finish. Not a bad beer but not one of my favorites.

Dave had at Tyler’s. Metallic smell, but not metallic taste. Flat taste and one dimensional. Pretty bitter.

Draught at Tyler’s in Chapel Hill. Deep amber color with thin off white head. Subtle spicy hop aroma and flavor with a hint of caramel. Moderate carbonation which I thought was appropriate. Decent grainy aftertaste.

On tap at Barley’s I was impressed at first with a nice aroma, and a distict head. Mouthfeel was a little overcarbonated, and the first taste was of very slight diacytel. The finish was lacking however, the beer ended in a flat cardboardy taste, where I really wanted a lingering maltiness. A perfectly drinkable beer, just dissapointed right at the end.

2005 Knoxville Brewer’s Jam Copper body with a fleeting white head. Slight hop aroma that is mirrored in the dry hop bite of the flavor. A bit off style, lacking a good malty backbone, but there are no real problems with this beer other than style.