UPDATED: JAN 23, 2024 Backlog 8/10/2021: Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clear gold with a full two fingers of off-white beige head. Sweet caramel, honeyed bread and toasted malt aromas. Sweeter than expected on the palate. Bready malt and lingering honey and caramel on the finish.

UPDATED: OCT 7, 2023 The Buechel OGs raid the GABF 2023: Poured a coppery with a white head. Aroma is malty, sweet. Taste is nice malty, sweet but not to sweet.

UPDATED: SEP 29, 2022 Darker amber pour with cream colored head. Very Earthy aroma with a hint of sourness. Flavors of malt and baked goods. A slight bite if alcohol burn in the finish. Could feel it in the throat and chest. This is honestly not my favorite style of beer but this is ok. Can.

UPDATED: SEP 29, 2022 Can poured into a shaker glass. Copper hue with a soapy off white head. Aroma is toasted malt, grain, lager yeast. Initial taste is toasted malt, light grassy hops, biscuit. Fades to grassy and biscuit. Smooth medium-light body. A tasty one for sure! 7-3-7-3-13

UPDATED: AUG 14, 2022 Can. Pours a clear amber color with a medium foamy off white head that has fair retention. The aroma is soft with malts, caramel and earth. The taste, like the nose, is sweet malts, earth, and caramel. There is also a bit of herbal bitterness in the taste. The palate is on the lighter side. Finishes short and semi-sweet. Overall: Not bad, but really distinguished either. something is missing.

UPDATED: DEC 3, 2020 Mellow fruit flavors that are well blended together. Smooth. Medium body. Average carbonation. Decent aftertaste. Not bad.

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2020 12 oz can. Pours a dark amber with a big buff head that fades gradually. Smells of grains bread and yeast. Dry bodied flavors of caramel, leather and chalk. Nice bite in the finish mixes with sticky malt sweetness. Medium carbonation and a sticky mouthfeel. Complex and good.

UPDATED: OCT 19, 2020 Best by 11/03/2020 Pours reddish with off-white head. Smell of bread. Toasty malt flavor, but not a lot Hops make themselves known more than in other beers of this style. A little bitter in the finish but not unpleasant. In that respect it's different than most of this style. It doesn't seem true to style but that doesn't stop me from liking it.

UPDATED: SEP 28, 2020 Pretty reddish color and malty smell. Malt, light tasty spice, great carbonation. Smooth and lightly sweet. A good refreshing oktoberfest, a touch more malty than my ideal.

UPDATED: OCT 12, 2019 Pours dark for a marzen with a creme head. Aroma of sweet malt, oak, fruit. Taste has herbal and earthy notes. Palate has light licorice, barrel notes. Interesting.