3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Really malty nice beer - no idea if it’s a good example of the style but I liked it
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Trader Joe’s was selling big, huge aluminum barrels of this stuff. I exaggerate, but the cans on display were more-than-generous; more apt to be footstools or pieces of a makeshift barrier than a beer serving size. Still, splitting one of these azure monoliths with a friend didn’t seem too greedy. Orange and frothy, this looks like a festival beer - good for celebrating outdoors where heady rays of sunshine and noise from adjacent crowds make good complements to the otherwise simple notes of honey paired with the crispness of pilsner malt and sharp carbonation. Unengaging, the Pauler Marzen is best left to being a session beer, or served with powerful dishes, or to slake undiscriminating thirsts. It deserves a glass boot more than a chaise.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
tasted in 2009 and 2011. clear golden beer, tasty, slighty bitter. good oktoberfest bier
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
1 litre can with Paulaner dimpled mug. Bright clear golden yellow, lasting foamy white head. Sweet grassy, grainy lager malt aroma. Not to sweet malt taste, balanced with a firm hop backbone. Crisp clean finish. Brewed for mass consumption. Great solid lager. LF (Lagerboy Friendly)
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
It is virtually odorless but it pours a pretty transcendent gold with a thick white head full of carbonation. It is relatively smooth & has a decent amount of flavor. It’s ok & probably true to the form but I’m not a huge oktoberfest fan in general.
4.1 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
floral, cereal, basement aromas, herbs, cough drop, licorice, rocky head, white foam, golden, medium sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, salty, full body, creamy, lively, bitter,
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Clear golden with nice white head and lace. Grassy honey aroma. Clean honey mild sweetness with grassy noble dry finish. Simple but very pleasant.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle (500ml from Peckhams, Glasgow):
Light & watery on the nose, this is not what I have come to expect from a Paulaner beer. There is some lager malts on the nose and a little biscuit along with a pilsener like aroma. It is a clean smelling beer with a sugary sweetness towards the end and some light alcohol grain notes.
Straw gold with a thin white head that is little more than a soapy lacing for a head.
A clean lager like taste to begin with along with the usual malts that were mentioned in the aroma. There is also some vegetable adjuncts and a bit of grain and alcohol too. Again there is a sugary sweetness but it’s not strong on flavour.
Smooth & medium on the palate with a sweet, crisp finish that has a pleasant sugary feel to it although it is nothing special
Pleasant enough and a good alternative from the usual pale lagers but it was quite similar to them in a number of ways and it wasn’t good value for money.
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