Great Lakes Oktoberfest

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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I would have to say this is the best Oktoberfest I have ever had. It is fantastic even out of a bottle. Is this Great Lakes first year with this product? I have not seen it before.

Pours up a nice golden orange with a thick white head. Lots of foam, but I poured the end kind of rough. I’m glad I got it as a gift. I never would have bought it, but it’s quite good. Hard to put my finger on the flavor, but I haven’t had an Oktoberfest since I started rating beers, and this is what i imagine they should taste like.

clear copper with an aggressive head with a cascading stream of tightly carbonated bubbles flowing to the top. The smell is full and malty with some pepper and spice in the background. The beer itself is very full and crisp. A subtle kick from the spicy hops cuts through the caramel malt and a distinct earthiness. One of the most complex Oktoberfests you’ll find. Some lean toward a watery body, but not this one! More aggressive and complex than most others of the style, I think it’s delightful.

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a dimpled mug. Appearance: The body has a deep orange amber color with very good clarity. Its head builds up thick and creamy. It’s just off white in color and slowly fades to a thinner covering. Smell: The aroma has nice spicy and earthy hops with a wonderful sweet malty character. Taste/Mouth feel: Its flavor has a deep malty base with light toasty bready notes and nice caramel sweetness. Balance comes from spicy, herbal and earthy hops. The texture is smooth and easy drinking with modest carbonation and a good solid medium to full body. Notes: Absolutely wonderful balance of flavor, body and drinkability.

On tap in Akron. Very light aroma. Flavor is almost sweet with hardly no hops. Great balanced flavor. Finish is smooth. Great beer.

Had a pint of this on tap at the brewpub before the Nine Inch Nails concert Sunday night. The supreme nose is rich caramel malt and butterscotch. Pours clear copper with a frothy off-white to beige head that leaves the scene quickly. The brew starts very malty but the balance is stellar and the depth is deceptive. The medium, dry and soft body feels very astringent at the finish. The biggest surprise of the night for me at the brewpub.

Hands down, this is the best Oktoberfest I’ve EVER had. I’ll be buying more of this. The bottle is best by 10/24/2007. Pours to a golden falling leaf colored amber body with a really creamy, rocky white head. The aroma is awesome. Crisp grains, nicely toasted pale malts, seemingly has specialty malts too. I swear it has a pumpkin or squash quality. Perhaps it’s just the unique combination of malts and hops. Nice balanced noble hops. Pure autumn in a bottle. The flavor is full of toasty malts, crisp grains, noble hops. Nice smooth bitterness seems to have a brown sugar and butternut squash thing going on under the malts. Whatever they used, this is the best Oktoberfest I’ve ever had. Nice bitterness on the palate is followed by a great texture, crispness, medium body. Man, I could drink this one all the time.

Nice amber color with a thin off white head. Nice caramel malt flavor.Very tasty beer. Excellent Oktoberfest beer!

12oz bottle, stamped best by 10/23/11. This is brewed in keeping with the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516: barley, hops, yeast and water. It pours a very nice amber with nice full head, wonderful amber/red color is pint glass makes this appealing. A very smooth drinking beer with medium bitter. I am very pleased with this Great Lakes Oktoberfest, it is excellent.

Pours dark orange with a thin off-white head. Aroma of toasted malt, crackers, light toffee, and caramelized malt. Taste is bready, toasted malt, and doughy lager yeast. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and lightly sticky with moderate carbonation. Quite nice.