McNeills Oktoberfest

Brewed by McNeills Brewery
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Brattleboro, Vermont USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Bottle. Pours a dark copper amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, toffee, bread and spices. Flavor was toasted & caramel malts, bread, a hint of toffee and a touch of bitterness with a crisp and dry finish

22oz bottle in a lager glass. Pours amber with a thick, light tan head. Aroma of caramel and cereal malts and some floral hops. Flavor about the same, with the malts really strong. Average texture. A decent beer of this style.

Bottle. Pours hazy red orange with a kahki soapy head and fades to a tight kahki collar. Aroma is malt and spice. Taste is sweet malt with a bitter pumpkin spice. Palate is medium and sticky which finishes dry and spicy.

Draught. Good malt aroma. No head. The flavour is nicely malty with a little sour hint. Seems slightly infected, but not too bad. Slightly spicy hop note.

Draught from the rattler. Poured a dark unactive amber. Earthy hoppy aroma. Caramel and malts with light hops finish.

Bouteille de 22 oz partagée avec MartinT. Arôme: Légère odeur de caramel et d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de caramel fruité avec une pointe d’houblons. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement fruité. (Rating #3338)

My Bottom Line:
Toasted cereals and spicy hops coalesce in this quenching, simple Oktoberfest.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam surfs the hazy dark amber.
-The finish is quite forgettable, sadly. A tad underhopped?
-The crunchy malt profile makes for a nice body.
-The spiciness and prominent cereals made me hallucinate rye at times...

Bottle.

Dark orange-red, whitish head. Grainy toast aroma. Taste is grainy, some caramel, little else.