2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
12oz bottle - pours pale copper with light white head and thin lacing. Nose is caramel and grassy hops.Flavor adds dough and/or cereal. Sweet with weird bitter/sour finish. light to medium body. Best by Jan 2013, shoot. OK until the finish.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Lizardville Rocky River. Clear orange pour with a small white head. Dusty toasty malts, a little bready, with some caramel sweetness. Not a huge fan of this one.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Poured a nice copper color with a fluffy eggshell colored head. Aroma is caramel, bread, nuts, toast, lemon and earthy. Taste is honey, caramel, grass, lemon, toast, with a nice sweet and dry finish. Easy to drink.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Pours a honey brown color. Head dissipates quite quickly. Smells of malt. Very plain in fact. Taste isn’t very complex. Slight hint of caramel. Honestly tastes like a standard lager. Wouldn’t buy again
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a dark gold with a nice white head. Has a bready aroma. Thin but tasty malty sweet caramel dominates. Smooth & good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a clear dark orange color with ok head. Flavor is biscuit grain and caramel and works pretty well. Grassy hay wild aroma. Touch of sweetness on the finish. Perfect for fall.
1.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
I’m not feeling it with this beer. I don’t get the vibe that it is a German festival lager - there’s a lot missing. As a lager, it’s not too bad. However, I’d reach for a can of Yuengling before a bottle of this. Does that make me a bad person?
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours brown with a white head. Aroma is biscuit, caramel and toast. Taste is sweet. Light bodied with smooth texture.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Tap. Pours clear mahogany with a small, fizzy white head, short retention with light lacing. Aroma is cookie malt, spicy hops and a clean lager character. Flavor is malt dominant with light hops and bitterness and a sweet finish. Medium body and carbonation.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Few breweries make a true Märzen-style beer (better known as an Oktoberfest) year-round. If you’re going to, you better make something really good to make me want to drink it out of season. That can’t be said of Heavy Seas Märzen, at least not for me. While not a bad beer at all there’s nothing particularly unique or exciting about it. Just a decent American amber lager.
I poured a 12oz bottle into my OktoBEERfest mug.
Appearance: Dark copper hue, clear, forms an average sized, white, soapy head which mostly evaporates and doesn’t lace the glass.
Smell: A nose so mild it’s virtually odorless with just a faint sweet lager scent.
Taste: While not the most delicious or robust beer for the style, Heavy Seas Märzen is at the very least a well-balanced brew. Significant toffee malt sweetness throughout the palate with a consistent, light spicy hop bitterness in the background. There’s some toasted bread flavor in there as well, but that’s pretty much it. Well, through the middle the toffee flavor is amplified a bit, just before finishing quite clean. Those looking for strong confectionery, syrupy flavors may be a little disappointed. It’s a satisfying taste all around, but that’s about it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Drinkability: With a clean palate and finish to match, Heavy Seas Märzen is no challenge to drink at all. The mouthfeel is comfortable with the right level of carbonation. I do get a bit of a sourness on the back end, though. At 5.25% ABV no one is going to struggle getting down a bottle or two.
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