Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen

Brewed by Paulaner Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Munich, Germany

Bottle. Dark golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hop. Flavour is dry malt, hop, hay, apple, roasted, caramel. OK beer, but nothing more.

The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Quite dark, nice head. Starts strong, alcoholic, modest malty and fruity. Not so intense finish, almost washy. Average beer!

Bottle. It pours a nice dark golden body with a lively carbonation and a decent off-white head. Pleasant but weak aroma of malt, sweetness, a little nuttyness and fruity hoppyness. Quite sweet on the palate, full body, with caramel, some lightly roasted malt and fruityness. Some lingering bitterness, adding joy to the sweet and malty finish. There’s some notes of cooked vegetables in the finish, pulling my score down a little bit, but if drank by numbers, I don’t think it would be noticed. A nice one, easy to drink and quite refreshing. (080417)

Originally, I liked this a lot, but after further exposure to marzens, I find it rather ordinary. It has a sweet malty, fruity ester aroma. It’s appearance is dark amber body w/ some wispy whitehead which quickly dissipates, it turns into a super tiny collar. It’s flavor isa composite of moderate malty sweet flavor, some muted hops. I find it to be smooth. A good session

Bottle. Nice malty smell, sweet, light hoppy. Dark red clear body, foamy white head, which is fast diminishing. The flavor is moderate sweet (but a strange sweetness), the duration is only short. The body is light and dry with a soft carbonation. Not really a good one for my taste.

(cleaning out my beer bottle collection as pictured in my profile and utilizing ratebeer.com) As I recall, it was a balanced marzen with nice amber colr and somewhat sweet.

On Tap- Taps a sparkling amber topped with a frothy head. A malty, biscuit nose is accompanied with floral notes, and some lemon zest. Caramelly, biscuit flavour profile is backed with zesty, spicy hops with a smack of lemons towards the finish. Nice and bitter with excellent balance. Strange time of year to find this on tap.

Light amber with off-white head that laces well to the glass. Sweet caramel & doughy aroma. Sweet malt prevails throughout, a little thin, a touch sticky, but overall a decent brew.