Aldergrove Maerzen Oktoberfest

Brewed by Steffans Aldergrove Brewery
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Marysville, Washington USA

Bottle: Pours a copper bronze color with a nice sticky white head and clean sheets of lacing. The nose is sweet and floral, light toasted pumpkin seed and a grassy juniper and hop note with some peach, maybe some glue. The flavor is...I would put the mouthfeel first. A fizzy/fuzzy creaminess that makes each drink feel like a little fun snap on the tongue. The flavor is sweet and bready with some light fruit and continued doughiness. Finishes light and refreshing with a hint of fruit and spice. Nice oktoberfest.

Received 12-oz bottle via trade with 5000. Pours a hazy caramel amber brew with a very thick and lumpy head that hold a retention that could last until tomorrow. Aroma of caramel malt, some light pear, sweet sugar cookie dough and a touch of roasted nuts. Taste is smooth, creamy, medium bodied, with flavors of light caramel malt, some apple/pear fuit, flowery hops and a touch of cotton candy. Finish is semi-sweet with a mild caramel aftertate that quickly disappears.

12-oz. Crystal clear medium goldened amber. Thickish fizzy white head that falls quickly, leaving lots of scattered lace. Nice room-filling wheaty, brown sugar, dry leaves, and wet hay nose. Lightish body, very clean and drinkable. Light carb. Leaves, brown sugar, caramel, nuts, and toast on the mid-palate. Long peppery nutty finish. Great stuff.

Golden amber color with a lasting thin velvet head. A little hazy. Aroma of lighter fruits and sweet biscuit like bready malts. A little floral hops in the finish. The flavor is sweet and bready. Somewhat fruity. A little floral. Very clean finish. A great take on the style. I would drink this anytime.

12 oz bottle from Bottleworks; Nose of floral hops with a light necatrine fruitiness and a light yeastiness; Hazy yellow-orange with a huge yellow-tinged, glasslacing head; flavor has light bitterness, caramel, apples and peaches; finish is lightly bitter with some fruity notes.

Cloudy amber, huge lasting white head.Big carbonation,great lace.Faint sweet nose. Light sweet start,medium strength good lasting hop end

Bottle. Pours light hazy apricot with a massive, towering, fluffy, persistent, lacy off-white head. Light aroma of brown sugar, toast, fruit. Light body and full carbonation. Lots of caramel in the taste, with some cookie dough, citrus and grass. Crisp and somewhat floral finish.

Clear amber with a frothy head. Nice malt driven sweet bread aromas. Smooth medium body. Good taste is mostly sweet bread caramel malts with some light roasted malt. Liquid sweet bread here. Good stuff.