2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
From tap at Jacob Wirth. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is light butterish and malty. Mild fruity, vague butterish and toasted malty to caramelish. Bitter and toasted malty finish.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
UPDATED: NOV 7, 2009
Name: Octoberfest
Date: November 22, 1995
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Sandy Springs
dark, bitter finish, uneventfull
Name: Octoberfest
Date: October 01, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Appearance: clear copper, wispy off white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, breadyness, lots of balancing earthyness
Flavor: dry bready malt flavor, lots of earthyness adds dryness, light spicyness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Clear light copper body, with medium white head. Caramel and slightly hoppy aroma. Body is lightly caramel, turns mildly German bitter in the aftertaste. Not much to this one, pretty easy drinking.
2.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
12 oz bottle-pours a thin retaining light tan head and amber color. Aroma is medium malt-toasty/some caramel, secondary earthy hops. Taste is tea, light/medium malt-toasty, thin, fizzy, secondary earthy hops.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear copper with a creamy/foamy off-white head. Aroma of mild roast caramel. Med minus body. Flavor is slightly brown ale type roast with a little noble/earthy hop. Quite drinkable, but "light" for my taste.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Party Source. Poured clear copper color with an average frothy white head that was mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted sweet malt aroma. Light to medium body with soft carbonation. Light to medium sweet flavor with a light to medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle… Crystal clear amber ale with a small, fizzy, white head… gone in a flash. Toffee and caramel aroma with a note of singed sugar. Medium to full-bodied with an almost chewy mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Well-balanced. Nice, malty caramelized flavors. Crisp, lightly sweet finish.
2.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Free bottle in the United lounge at Dulles airport. Ordinary from start to finish. Astringent bitterness and not much else.
2.1 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Wow this is just not right. Bizarre and stank aroma leads to a taste that is overly malty and funky. Just not riight. skip it if you can.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Draft. Clear reddish-orange pour with a sizable well-retained head. Aroma was primarily sweet malts, with only a hint of hops... but not a whole lot really going on. Flavor struck all the wrong chords with me, however.. it picked up a nasty berry-like sweetness similar to their Berry Weiss (which is awful), which clashed with the little bit of hops on the finish. The only highlight was the little bit of caramel malt that found its way to the tongue. Really proved hard to swallow.
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