2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Draught at Pour 24, Las Vegas, NV. Clear amber, minimal head. Slight caramel and red apples. Sweet with clean mouthfeel and light-medium body. Slightly apply with caramel and butter. Tinny finish. A Las Vegas style supericial interpretation of the style.
2.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Date: 01/04/2006
Mode: Draft
amber with a slight haze, whispy white head, no aroma, nice sweet carmel malt flavor, light balancing hops,
Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Draft in Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas.
Pours clear amber color with a moderate frothy white head that was mostly lasting with fair lacing. Moderate sweet malty aroma. Medium body with little carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of an average duration.
My expectation where not met with a soft beer.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tap, Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. Headless bronze. Unsubtle peardrop aroma with alcohol showing, and some English-like caramel and aniseed. Autumnal apple and blackberry fruit, wash of caramel stillness. Lacks body and condition; bit of an end of festival feel to it.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
On draught at the Las Vegas Sports Lounge at the airport. The beer pours a clear dark ambe color with a medium thin off-white head that diminishes quickly. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of grainy malt and mild hops. Light body with flavors of sweet caramel malt and grain, along with touches of druit and hops. The finish is sweet and malty at first and leaves a short light hoppy aftertaste. Average overall.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: AUG 13, 2006 Decent, but an average varietal that’s made simply as a marketing gimmic. Brewed by the Gordon Biersch guy and sold by a different dude. This is very much like the GB O-fest, but not as good and much lighter in character ... true amber with a quickly subsiding head. Mildly bitter with a crystal malt character.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: APR 15, 2008 I’ve had this twice since my original rating (see below), and both times it has failed to impress in any way. Bland and stinky, not even much in the way of sweet maltiness. Dirty lines may be part of the problem.
ORIGINAL RATING: I had Biersch’s Marzen the day before I tried this on tap at Sin City in the Aladdin shops area, and this plays out more like a straightforward amber ale by comparison. It is fairly full-bodied with lots of toffee malt flavour and a hint of apple fruit. Very good (3.4).
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
On tap at Sin City in the Flamingo as Oktoberfest and apparently as the Amber as well. Had it as the Oktoberfest, and the bartender who didn’t seem to know anything about the beer wasn’t really forthcoming, so I’m glad we didn’t get a duplicate of what was a mediocre beer at best. Pours a clear light brown with a thin white head. Light malt and toast on the nose. Malty, with a bit of banana and a light toffee flavor. Sweet and lightly bitter finish.
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