Great Lakes Oktoberfest

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Bottle courtesy of crizay. Pours copper brown with a creamy tan head that lasts. Smells of biscuits, tea, earthy, some honey, some citrus. Tastes of biscuits, some sweet honey, dry malt, hints of dough, some underlying sweetness. Mouthfeel is very thick and full bodied. Finish is peppery and slightly earthy.

The pour is a light copper and is crystal clear. A nice head forms but then diminshes immediately. The aroma is full of rich sweet caramel malts and a sense of fresh bread. A bit of dried fruits are notable as well. It has a rather nice aroma to it. The flavor is very much like the aroma. Sweet rich caramel malts, some sweet dried fruits, and the finish is actually full of wonderful grains that lead to a nice baked bread freshly pulled from the oven. This is a really good beer.

Bottle. Pours amber with a biege head. Smell and flavor is rotting cereal grains. Not sure If I got a bad six pack but this a total drain pour.

Nose is bathroom. Tastes like Perrier with cereal grains and the water at the bottom of peach yogurt. Looks like my roommates faked urine sample that was delivered as a warm specimem but was clearly chilled leading me to beleive it was not his urine. Smelled like someone Pine-Soled a european public restroom. Butter you tried to put in the microwave but it exploded. Low score because I feel like I’m about to vomit when after I drink it, but with projectile vomit with things that I haven’t ate. So if I were to projectile vomit, I would give it a higher score, because I actually successfully projectile vomited.

Very nice fall beer. Malty aroma from a clear amber with a big diminishing head. The flavor is nicely malty sweet up front and balance with a gentle hop bite. Very easy going down. Very well done.

Bottle. Pours transparent copper with an off white head. Aroma of light raisin, caramel, toasted malt, soft fruitiness. Flavor are sweet, malt and earthy... notes of caramel, soft earthy grass/pine, a nice dry malt, bits of fruits come through as well as a tinge of yeast. Medium bodied, sweet with dryness throughout, bitter dry finish. One of my favorite Great Lakes offerings and one of my favorites Oktoberfest brews.

Bottle: Pours a Nice light amber golden color. Aroma is a mild floral hop, apple cider. Flavors are apple cider, light hop, lighter than I’d prefer malt backbone with a bit more bitterness than I’d like to see at the end. It’s good to be sure, but I feel like it could have been better if it was changed up a bit.

Tap @ Great Lakes - Orange pour, marzen maltiness a bit bitter for an OF (though IBU is listed at 20...). Nice balance, pair well with food.

So being a big fan of the style....had to try. Color is perfect for style - orange amber with copius off-white, toasted marshmallow head. Aroma is carmel malts and a nice background noble hops, slightly skunky. Taste is spot on - layered malt - first caramel, then toasted. FInishes with light, clear bitterness and slightly dry. Well done!