Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Märzen

pours brown/amber clear- This is one of the better Octoberfest brews that I have tried. I still have not tried one that I ’really’ like. Just not my cup of ’beer’. Certainly drinkable - but not great.

Bottle. Pours amber with an off white head. Sweet caramel aroma with light toasty notes. The flavor is toast and sweet, not overly malty with some hoppy hints. Pretty good.

The aroma is sweet and malty, much like Optimator. Appearance is rusty and cloudy. Has some underlying citrus flavor and even a little nutty perhaps. The palate is smooth and creamy. Good enough, but nothing thrilling. Optimator is better, methinks.

Pours crisp medium amber with a 2 finger coarse foamy off white head that has great retention. Aroma is nice grainy malt, a little caramel, toast, and some sweet caramel, a hint of floral and citrus hops. Flavor has lots of grainy, straw like malts, caramel, a little citrus hops and an interesting fruity -berry like- taste that comes in just as the finish comes in with a caramel sweetness and leafy hops.

Appearance: Dark brown. Clear. OK amount of white head. Aroma: Fruit. Nice malt. Taste: Quite sweet. Caramel and malt. Some hops. Info: 355ml bottle, 13/11-2008, 193/300

Bottled at my favorite JPM training burger place near Wall Street. Spaten Oktoberfestbier is a clear golden color with a nicely formed white head. The flavor and aroma are not ver good, but full of malt with hints of alcohol. The texture is smooth and makes for a nice burger compliment.

spaten is a pretty decent lager, nice and crisp, but this marzen is very mediocre, probably not as good as Gordon Biersch Marzen. Smell very lagerish.

Flaske. Lysegul gennemsigtig øl. Sur duft som en dårlig pilsner. Smagen er en kende bedre, men stadig ikke noget at råbe hurra for. Mundfylden er tilgengæld ok, med en anelse bitterhed der redder øllen på falderebet.