Gordon Biersch Festbier

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
San Jose, California USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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(Bottled om 08/31/2009) A mostly balanced lager that leans slight toward sweet and spicy. Clean and well made without being very distinct, which I don’t think is an issue for this style.

I’m not a huge Gordon Biersch fan but this is a pretty good beer. It has a lot of flavor and is smooth for a Oktoberfest style beer.

On tap at brewpub. Comes clear amber with decent white head. Aroma of malt and yeast. Taste is sweet malt, caramel and bread. Decent but unremarkable.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle from State Line Liquors. It pours a deep copper color with a small, off-white crop of foam. The nose is a little musty and stale. There is some honey in there. The flavor has light malt, honey, and cracker notes. Thin on the palate and rather drab. This one seems a little watery and dull. Light in body with carbonation that seems to hurt rather than help. It thins out a beer that’s already thin. Drinkable, but certainly not their best offering.

Draught at the brewpub. Cloudy golden colour. Small creamy white head. The flavour has a hint of rough bitterness, a good mouthfeel. Creamy or papery finish.

On draft at New Orleans location. Copper in colour wtih medium carbonation. Simplistic bready and caramelized malt aroma. Similar bready-caramel caombo in the mouth, with a faint herbal hop and mineral kick on the back end. Surprisingly light bodied. Drinkable stuff, but very muted overall. Average at best.

(On draught at the San Diego location). Pours a clear copper color with off-white head. Aroma is bready, caramel malts. Taste is malty sweet with a hint of esters and bitterness. Medium bodied with a slick texture. Smooth. Not bad.

Tap. Pours a crystal clear amber with a big fluffy off white head. Malt was the predominant character in this brew with lightly spiced finish

On tyap at Gordon Biersch Broomfield poured a hazy tarnished gold with a lasting ivory head. Aromas of bread, spicy hops and light citrus. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a smooth finish. Flavors of carmel, bread and light fruittiness with a smooth lingering malty finish.

Pour was copper with huge head out of a gravity under barrel. smell was a little Roasty kind of a bit of cinnamon and old cheerios. taste was malt up front decent spice smooth. good mouthfeel.

On tap at the restaurant. Pours a down copper with a ruin white head. The aromas are dough, light lemon, musk. The mouthfeel is slightly bready a a little dry with a medium body. Cheers!