3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20slightly hazy golden pour with white head. Sweet bread aroma. Taste is sweet and malty with a fleshy fruit in the background, maybe pear and plum. Maybe needs to tone down the sweetness, but nice overall.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft at Beggar’s Banquet (from backlog). Golden/caramel pour with a small head. Grain and sweetness. I enjoy that they didn’t pack this beer with spices to make it taste like a goofy pumpkin pie.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Great lakes Oktoberfest pours a clear darker amber with a head of beige bubbles. Nose is of just slightly roasted sweet malt. Taste is caramel and sweet malt goodness. Body is less dense or cloying than typical for this style. Finishes with just a hint of good bitters among a roasty finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Draft. Clear golden color, small white head. Aroma of baking biscuits. Taste is raw brown bread dough, very raw malt dominated. Tasty.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Best before Ocotber 12, 2012.
Appearance: Beautiful clear amber body with almost no carbonation in the body, there’s a thin tan head.
Aroma: Light malt sweetness and a clean fruity backing. The strength is a bit weak, but smells good.
Taste: This is balanced really well with malts and fruit notes, perhaps some pear on the finish. The flavor is very clean.
Palate: Light to medium body with light carbonation.
Overall: I wish I had this a bit fresher, though you know that the seasons are being rushed when the beer is best before the middle of the month it’s celebrating. I’ll revisit this one next year for sure.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Town Table, Elon. GL’s rendition of this style is slightly less groan-inducing than some I’ve had but it’s hard for me to be fair to marzens since it’s just not where my taste buds generally gravitate. Handsome reddish ruddy pour, well carbonated and lively on the palate. Malts and grain everywhere, of course, but it’s straining towards the kind of hoppy brightness that makes me appreciate Foothills’ take on the style. Not quite there, but better than most.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle marked 10/12/12. Sweet Munich malt nose, caramel and cracker, lightly dusty with a hint of noble hops, touch of dough, really nice! Beautiful clear amber with a rocky tan head. Taste sweet with light bitterness, malt forward with a little extra thickness from the alcohol, otherwise light-medium body and a great quencher in low quantities.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Soft amber pour with copper hues and two fingers of sticky sandy white . Aroma shows toasted grain and a caramel-ish malt sweetness and a slightly earthy/herbal hop character. Rich malty flavor, spicy hops, bready and dextrinous with notes of toasted grain and toffee.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Location: 12 oz bottle from jcos, 11/4/12
Aroma: The nose is fairly sweet, toffee, brown sugar, bread, and notes of earth and grass
Appearance: Pours a clear orange color with a small off-white head and light lace-work
Flavor: Medium-heavy sweet, rich, and malty, with a little balance from the earth/grass, but not much
Palate: It has a medium body (leaning slightly light), with average carbonation, and a sticky/cloying finish
Overall Impression:
Thanks Kramer! Overall, this beer is a little too sticky and a little too sweet. It felt too cloying, and lacked the needed balance. I generally enjoy Great Lakes’ beers, and there were some good components to this one, but I don’t think it was for me.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Didn’t do anything for me...way to heavy and sweet. Has the fall flavors of an oktoberfest, but too heavy.
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