3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Exemplar of the style and a credit to the brewers. I poured a 12 oz bottle into a shaker. This caramel-colored beer gave off a lively bready aroma, and flavors followed suit, with dough, yeast, caramel, vanilla, and the merest whiff of grass. I’m not a fan of Oktoberfests, but this is definitely a good session beer and the perfect addition to an afternoon of football here in the American South.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a nice copper color with hardly any head. Nice malty aroma. Strong malty taste. Light and dry. Kind of watered down, but not too bad.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours an orange amber color with soapy white head. Aroma of caramel, candi sugar, and toffee. Sweet caramel taste with a light bitterness and sweet sugary finish. So dough mixed in. I am not a big fan of Marzens. They tend to be bland and watery. This one has a nice bold flavor and thicker mouthfeel. I am enjoying it.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours razor-clear amber with thin head, ok retention. Aroma is very cereally toasted malt and nuts; smells like a fresh mash if you’ve ever experienced one; perhaps a bit heavy on the crystal malt, though. Taste is bready and nutty with a mild spicy noble hop finish. Body is medium, average carbonation, creamy mouthfeel, dry-ish finish. Overall, a delightful oktoberfest that tastes very fresh.
4.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
Having had nothing but pumpkin ales for the last two weeks, I tired of that and decided to get back to the fall classic: Oktoberfest-Marzen. For good lager-type brew, can’t do better. Saw this in the store and picked it up, as I love Victory Brewing and surprisingly haven’t had it yet.
Here goes:
Pours a beautiful shiny orange/copper-amber with a solid thick and bubbly white head. Nice retention. Thin lacing that sticks for a reasonable while.
Aromatic notes of sweetness, caramel-like barley, bread and dryness.
Toasted barley, and sweetness all around wave on the tongue,followed by a slight hint of faint hop twang, and finishes nice and dry. Medium body, with very minimal carbonation,allowing the barley sweetness and other characteristics to come through easily.
I really like this one. As good as any authentic made-in-Germany Marzen. And a lot better than some.
Victory scores another home-run with this one, but then again, when do they not?
Four Stars(out of four)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Bierkraft, Brooklyn, NY. A dark amber coloured pour with a small off white head on top. Sweet, malty aroma. Tastes sweet, malty, caramel. It’s not bad.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. A slightly dark amber pour. The aroma of this beer was familiar, but I could not quite name what I was smelling, so I looked at some previous ratings. When I saw someone mentioned the aroma as being stale tobacco, I immediately recognized what I was smelling. To me the aroma is pure stale tobacco. The flavor is the same tobacco, with a little hop bitterness and some sour flavor. Body is medium. Carbonation is medium.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Video review at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-y3FAKNLI
Appearance: Burnt orange, ½-finger head dissipates, average lacing
Smell: Funkiness,raw dough + carmel malt, lemon citrus, hint of pistachio nuttiness
Taste: Medium body, carmel malt, lemon, pistachio nuttiness, cracker, portobello mushroom + slight bitterness on finish, medium carbonation, drinkable
Pairings: Beef brisket
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