Climax Oktoberfest

Brewed by Climax Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Roselle Park, New Jersey USA

(draft) Beige head atop clear copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, peach, some caramel, strawberry, light alcohol. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, earthy, some berry, light alcohol. Light-medium body, low carbonation.

on tap-pours an offwhite head with hazy amber color. Aroma is substantial malt&hops. Taste follows. This was good, but will try again and see about a rerate.

Cask at Barcade under the name Hofmann(sic) cask-conditioned oktoberfest. Eternal rocky off-white head tops the dark amber and hazy robe. Both heavily malty and heavily hoppy nose. Generous toastiness is like biting in a biscotti, grainy, soft, clean. Awesome complexity in the hop profile and fruitiness for an Oktoberfest. Several notes of leafy lemon, juicy figs, litchis, peach join together in a spicy, peppery medley of flavours that are attached together by expert hands. Light-medium bodied, oily restrained carbonation, finishing quite bitter, close to astringent. The softness of the malt, the suppleness of the union of the elements together. Climax rules with lagers, impeccable execution.

Tap at Barcade. Nice deep amber beer topped by a thick beige head. Aroma is nicely malty with a soft toasted malty aroma. Flavour is quite sweet with a chewy toffee/caramel quality. It’s pretty sweet and has a lightly greasy/slick mouthfeel that I don’t really care for. It’s not really bad but maybe it’s still a bit too early for O-fests.

Draft at the Drafting Room in Exton. This one pours dark coppery, toward the brown end of the spectrum, with a medium off-white head. The aroma is caramel malty, with some red wine, nut, and roasty notes. The flavor has that dense malty element, plus some nuttiness, tobacco, and merlot hints. Decent complexity and pretty good balance.

Bready, toasty, round, brown malt character is pleasantly inviting in the aroma. Clear, copper coloured body is topped by a low but long lasting, off white head that coats the glass. Toasty, bready malts are dominant up front with moderate finishing bitterness. Mid-palate floral and perfumey hop flavours and caramelized, doughy characteristics emerge. Medium body fills the mouth with gentle effervescence. Sampled on tap at Barcade in NYC with Olivier_MTL and Rastacouere.

Growler purchased at Oaktree. Pours a nice clear deep ambe rwith a thin off white head and some lace. Aroma is nutty, toasted malts, bready, munivh and vienna with a nice herbal hop balance. Sharp hoppy flavor with nicely toasted malts, nuts, light caramel, toffee, and a nice clean bitter finish. Nice lingering finish in the mouth. Solid Oktoberfest.

Pours a translucent golden amber with a bubbly off white head. Aroma of fruity, sweet malts and banana. Flavors of teh same. Kind of an interesting Okt.