Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen

Bottle. Pours a dark amber with a small light tan head. Aroma of cardboard and sweet roasted malt. Flavor of very sweet malt (some brown sugar) and cardboard still. Bland. Not digging this one...

Bottle. Aroma of sweet malts, graham, overripe fruits. Flavor quite sweet, a bit too sweet perhaps. Oktoberfest not really a favorite style of mine, so for me, this beer just kind of is.

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass a very nice dark amber with a smaller head. It smelled of roasted malts and a bit of carmel. It is smoothed and pretty full bodied. I was picking up some dark fruits in the taste. You also start to get a bit of a dough taste in your mouth as it warms. A good Octoberfest.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a very aesthetically pleasing dark amber color with a light off-white head that dissipates quickly. Heavy flavor of roasted malts with a hint of bread which is greatly apparent at mid-tongue. Light to medium bodied with a bitter finish. Not bad.

Bottled 50cl. It pours a beautiful amber beer with an off white head. The nose is rather pleasant with hints of caramel which is accompanied by a huge amount of mint. Lightly smoky. The taste is a bit sweet, malty with a low bitterness. Acidic. Raisins and molasses showing up. Surprisingly light bodied. Nice lacework. Stale bread and mint sneaking in. Some metallic notes showing up in the finish - which reminds me a bit of a malt liquor unfortunately. The aroma promises a bit too much: the taste is poor. A mediocre Oktoberfest.

Bottle pours a clear amber color with a sllightly thin tan head. Aroma of sweet caramel and roasted malts. Nice flavor of rich malts but also a bit of hoppiness in the finish. I love the overall flavor of this one...my favorite Oktoberfest beer.

maltly nose, flavor is malt with some hop dryness on finish, not bad oktober, but nothing special

Drinking beer and talking about beer always gets me in the mood to watch BEERFEST!!! That aside, whether it’s October or June, I am always in the mood to quaff a delicious Oktoberfest brew, and Hacker-Pschorr presents a fine example of this classic marzen. From the bottle into my glass, she pours a bright golden brown with a creamy, foamy head which lingers around the rim of the glass long after. Caramel and bready malt in the nose, maybe a bit of apple. I can def taste the faint hint of apple that I got in the nose, along with smooth mild malt sweetness. I get a lingering bit of hop bite on the top back of the tongue after each swallow. As the Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest warms a bit, I get more of the bready mouth feel mixed in with the apple and caramel. Watching tiny bubbles swim to the top of my glass, I find myself transported to Germany, sitting at a long table, throwing back my beer, and watching the festivities with a silly grin on my face. She finishes sweet with a hop flourish. Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest is definitely one of the best examples of this style. I have had Paulaner and Sam Adams, and H-P is still my favorite.