Herkimer Oktoberfest

Brewed by Herkimer Pub & Brewery
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

On tap at Herkimer Pub & Brewery. Caramel-amber with a thin tan head. Aroma of toffee, malt and fruit. Taste echoes the smell. The best beer of the sampler and it wasn’t all that good.

Tap. Murky orange pour with a small carbonated head. Very sweet aroma of caramel malts. Medium palate. Sweet bready caramel taste, with a slight metallic tinge.

Autumn Brew Review 2011. Copper color with a towering head. Aroma of Munich and caramel malts, light buttery notes. Strong floral hop flavor with a bracing bitterness. Moderate grain taste. Way more bitter than usual for the style, but a really nice change up.

Sampled at ABR 07 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pours a clear coppery amber brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a fine film and white ring. Aroma of sweetened caramel malt, a touch of brown sugar and hardly any flowery hop character. Taste is medium bodied, light carbonated with some sweet caramel malt flavors. Finish is slightly watery with a sweet caramel malt aftertaste.

ABR 2007. Light copper color with a faint burnt malt nose. Typically light flavor for a marzen.

Poured from a growler, the beer is a deep copper gold, lightly effervescent, and topped by a thin head of white foam. Slight head retention - it reduces to a thin film in no time - but provides a decent ring with stalagtites of foam lace. The initial aroma is lightly sweet, but then - bang - delicious toasted malt comes into play. The flavor is similar, but reversed. It is initially toasted, earthy, dry, and delicious, and then a sugary caramel malt comes in and holds strong into the finish. Ultimately a hair too sweet for my preference - the sweetness plays the trump card in the end. Medium body, moderate but effective carbonation. Mild and smooth. Sweeter and maltier than the ’everyday’ Red Flyer Marzen.