5 Seasons Bavarian Ecstasy Festbier

Appearance: Pours a clear, copper body with a small, fine, white head. Smell: Sweetish, toasty biscuit nose with a slight, underlying fruit character. Taste: Toasty biscuit malts start things off, then a sugary light caramel taste enters with a Red Delicious apple fruitiness. Light floral, spicy hops and bitterness. Still, it finishes relatively sweet with a lingering yeastiness. Mouthfeel: Just barely medium-bodied. Medium-low carbonation. Somewhat sticky mouthfeel. Drinkability: A pleasant light beer, it would be great in great quantities.

Clear copper with a small creamy head. Aroma of caramel and slight corn. Flavor is similar with a light grain and apple touch. Light-medium body is tingly and dryish.

This is what I call a big and tall beer. Large aromas of dark fruits, and a flavor that grabs you and will not let you go. Very malty with lots of earthy wood notes, slight hop bitterness in the finish, very drinkable.

Pours a clear amber color with a white fluffy head. Aroma is sweet, malty, and caramel. Flavor is sweet caramel and a light spicy bitter finish. 6 4 6 3 15 Re-Rate Pours a nice amber color with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, crystal malt, toast, fruity, slightly floral, and some nice hop spice notes. Flavor is malty, caramel, crystal malts, toast, floral, and a peppery light bitter finish.

Pours a dark honey-golden with a nice thick head. Aroma is quite strong and all malty. Flavor is rich and malty with a strong hint of spices. This ale is very smooth and pleasant, and the aftertaste is jazzy with a hint of hops.

Pours golden amber with a thin, mostly receding off-white head. Aroma of bread dough, crackery malts, and light caramel sweetness. Tastes of crisp toasted malt balanced, lightly sweetened crackers. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied, with the perfect balance between sweet and dry. Moderate carbonation. As American brewers go, 5 Seasons has pretty much nailed the German session lagers.

Amber color. Caramel and malty in aroma. Slightly tart and bready in flavor.

Date: 09/26/2002
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Amber, big off-white head, toasted malt aroma, slightly sweet malt flavor, essence of carmel and biscuit malts, the biscuit comes through strong as it warms and the sweetness subsides, best octoberfest yet out of this brewery
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Date: 09/30/2006
Score: iii to ii+

nice caramel and biscuit flavor,
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Date: 11/01/2007
Score: 3.3 to 3.6
Score: ii+ to iii

rich bready aroma with a touch of sweetness balanced by earthyness, rich munich and biscuit flavor, nice caramel sweetness, well balanced, tuned in really well this year,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **4