Victory Festbier

Brewed by Victory Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Downingtown, Pennsylvania USA

This particular Oktoberfest pours a clear amber color woth no head at all. It has an aroma of mild citrus and some hops and caramle malt. As you drink it there is an initiall bitterness which fades instantly and becomes very smooth. It contains some earth tones and mild hints of honey. The palate duration is very quick, and is mildly sweet and bitter. The finish is also very watery.

Pours a clear orange-copper with a fully fading, thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet and grainy, with caramel malt dominating. Toasted grain and bread also whaft the nose with a touch of toffee sweetness and earthy hop citrus poking through. The flavour is weaker on the caramel than the nose and stronger on the grainy, bready malts. The hops are a little under-pronounced for my tastes, leaving the beer less crisp than desired. The finish is short, watery, and lacking character.

Pours a darkish copper with a thin head. Aroma is over sweened malts, sort of a faint vomit smell. Flavor also has an overpowering sweetness of malts, grains and caramel syrup.

Not bad. Pours out a nice orange color with a small beige head. aroma is malty and rather sweet. as was the flavor. A little to sweet for my liking, but over all not a bad beer at all.

Pours Amber with off white head. Nice sweet aroma with a bit of malt. THe flavor is quite full for a Märzen with hints of caramel, fruit and a nice finish. Held up well in comparison to Ayinger’s Oktoberfest.

Pours bright orangish amber with a mostly receding light tan head. Aroma of sweet rich maltiness, dripping with toffee and notes of bread and toasted grain. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, slightly sticky with lush carbonation. Very nice festbier, one of the best American examples of the style.

The pour was a copper amber with a thin offwhite amber head. The aroma was grainy, sweet, malty, a little peat maybe. The flavor was sweet, easy to drink, malty, grainy. A little carbonated.

On draught at the Mill Hill Saloon in Trenton, NJ: The beer pours a clear copper color with a medium thin light beige head that dissipates slowly. Spotty lacing. Light malt and caramel along with hops in the nose. Medium body with a soft mouthfeel. Flavors of toasted malt and caramel, plus mild hops and fruit. The finish is sweet malt and a hint of hops. Slightly above average all around.