Brooklyn Oktoberfest

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Brooklyn, New York USA

Bottle (35 cl) from Systembolaget. Clear amber, medium short head. Bready and biscuity aroma with spicy hops. Slightly over-carbonated. Dry and crisp finish. Quite refreshing but not a typical Oktoberfestbier.

Bottled. Pours out in a clear amber colour with a fluffy disappearing off-white foam. Nutty and caramely aroma with sharp metallic and vegetal undertones. Malty flavour of nuts, caramel, biscuit, metal and toasted malts. Quite dry finish of toasted malts and spicy hops.

Poured from the bottle an amber color with a nice tan head. The aroma was spicy and malty with some bread like characteristics. On taste it instantly hits you as a sweet beer. It seems a bit light in body for what the aroma was. A lot of malt flavors in the body and it finished slick. I don’t this is an Oktoberfest I would hunt down again, though it wasn’t bad and I wouldn’t turn it down if offered.

Pours a clear very dark red/amber with a medium fluffy frothy beige head. Strong slightly toasted malt aroma, a bit bready, and some floral hops. Smells more English than German. Sugary sweet malt with not much more character than a cardboard box. Burnt caramel, biscuity, bitter floral hops, light grassiness... not very German. Lighter body, faint stickiness, soft larger bubbled carbonation. Long biscuit aftertaste....

Bottle. Pours average head with a tawny color. Hints of caramel and brown sugar, with a lively carbonation. A good session beer for celebrating the season.

Slight malty aroma. Pours deep bronze with a huge, fluffy head that leaves a solid lacing down the glass. Looks lively, carbonated. Taste is malty, not as much bready yeastiness as some of the German counterparts, some sweet caramel there. A little bit too carbonated, aside from that the palate is adequate. Good marzen, but there are better out there.

RateBeer Rating, Style and Glass: 52, Oktoberfest/Marzen, lager glass. ABV, Volume & Calories: 5.5 % in 12 fl oz. estimated at 150 C Purchased at: Canal’s Lawrenceville, NJ for $1.33 as part of a pre-six-mix Aroma: average - smells like your basic lager. 7 out of 10. Visuals: deep, brilliant, copper color, white head, rocky, staying, long lacing. 5 out of 5. Taste: not watery, but mostly malt, and smooth, well done, not impressive. 5 out of 10. Palate: weaker, slick, okay finish. 3 out of 5. Overall: Better than bud, but not great. I’d not go out of my way for it again. 15 out of 20.

my favorite time of the year keeps getting better as oktoberfest samples arrive daily. a much heartier sample of this type than my last example, this one is a winner.