Left Hand Oktoberfest

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Pours a rich, clear, dark honey-brown with a thin but somewhat persistent head. Aroma is strong, malty and spicy - I got hints of cloves and cinnamon - with a touch of hops. Flavor is rich, mouth-filling, mainly malty, with spicy undertones. Smooth and very pleasing, this is an excellent autumn beer.

Beautiful copper color. Huge malty sweet aroma. very bready and sweet and full of malty bomb goodness. My favorite oktoberfest by far. Could drink gallons of this brew.

Thin, even white head on a classic orange brown body with normal clarity...nice roasted malts with a slight sweet, doughy aroma...medium to full palate, with a smooth texture and finish...sweet, even malts...a lingering finish, impressive in its singular effect...another winner from Left Hand, a beer equally made for sessioning or swigging....bring on the candy corn.

Amber colored. Slightly hazy. Small white head. Aroma of caramel, toast, and nuts. Flavor is the same, but it is really nice. It just works together. Its got all of the flavors from most fest beers, but they work together the best. Smooth and drinkable. Each sip made me want more. The best Fest beer I have drank this season for sure!

2008-09-25, bottle, 2008 editon The americans are better then the germanens on their own backyard. chocolate, roasted malt, caramell, nutty

UPDATED: SEP 6, 2011 Poured from bottle into Summit Pint glass. Clear copper-amber with foamy white head (looks like a root beer float on top) with excellent lacing, especially for a lager. Aroma of biscuit, toast, sweet fruit, metallic bitterness - little too mild. Slightly sweet toast and biscuit backbone with some fruit and caramel undertones. Finishes with a moderate spicy hop bitterness. Definitely more bitter than standard for the style. Moderate carbonation, medium body (fairly full for a lager). Despite the slightly sweet backbone, it finishes very dry. Excellent Marzen, although the bitterness is a bit high for the style. Paulaner had always been my favorite. This year, now that I have experienced a lot more beer, I prefer this one over it. Great job.

Pours a clear medium amber body with small cascading bubbles throughout leaving a thick creamy tan head. The aroma is caramel, nuts, plums, chocolate essence. Very malty and complex, this taste is wonderfully sweet upfront of caramel, pitted fruit, with a nice hoppy bitterness for balance that ends sweet coating the palate with a caramel sweetness. Great Oktoberfest Left Hand.

This was really enjoyable. Picked up a bottle today that was brewed on 8-13-03. It poured a nice amber/orange color with a thin white head. The taste was malty but finished somewhat dry, which lended to the drinkability. Very nice.

UPDATED: SEP 7, 2010 Left Hand Brewing Company--Oktoberfest Marzen Lager--Malt Liquor--Brewed on the banks of the mighty St. Vrain--2009 Release--12 oz. Bottle--6.00% ABV--25 IBU’s. (4.1 / 5.0) Oktoberfest--Lacy thin off white head. Clear pretty rich bright deep amber color. Malty mild floral hop front with fruit hint. Malty cloying sweet caramel mild fruit smooth rich Marzen body. Smooth mild hop rich satisfying malty lager end. A touch fruity, but nice rich Fest. Sampled 11/17/2009. 6-Pack--$9.75. Left Hand Brewing Company--Oktoberfest Marzen Lager--Malt Liquor--2010 12 oz. Bottle. 6.60% ABV. 30 IBU’s. (4.25+ / 5.0) Thin white orange thin lace head. Clear thin bright pretty rich dark orange ruby color. Mild hop toasted malt ester front. Fully fermented thin dry sweet tangy toasted sweet caramel fruit malty Fest body. Smooth dry sweet mild hop lingering Festy end. Sampled 9/7/2010. 6- Pack Purchased @ PCC--Fremont, Seattle 8/24/2010 For $7.25.

UPDATED: SEP 23, 2011 Excellent american oktoberfest. Nice and malty!! with a tiny hop presence. This is one of the more flavorful of all Oktoberfests i have tried. A step above schaflleys, lienkugels, and so on and so on. Better than Sammy Oktoberfest ... maybe the best American oktoberfest there is!