Coney Island Freaktoberfest

Shmaltz Brewing Company
Brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
San Francisco, California USA

Light fruity malt. Clear RED color with a medium pink head. I was shocked when I poured it into a glass. Sweet malt with a light caramel finish. Palate is carbonated and sticky.

650 ml. Sangria color with a persistent eight-inch of creamy pink foam. Delicate frosty lace left behind. Typical aromas of sweet molasses, grain, and corn are accompanied by citrus-resin. Flavor is caramel, grain and a citrus-resin finish that becomes more dominant after a few sips. Light-medium body is sometimes smooth, sometimes fizzy, and dry on the finish. I enjoyed the hoppiness and blood-color of this one more than most standard offerings of the style.

Pours a candy cherry red with a pink foamy pillow head. Aroma is very malty and sugary sweet. Tiny hoppresence but a bit candy-like. Flavor is extremely malty and syrupy sweet. Not a lot of presence here but a slight attempt at getting the octoberfest style right. Kind of a swing and a miss though as the finish is too bitter and there is a strange aftertaste that lingers. I’m not really for gimmick beers so it just seems strange, nothing else.

Pours a red color that looks like it’ll stain your hands with a pink head. Smells of plastic. Taste of cough syrup, corn syrup, super bitter... whats the point here?

I guess the "freak" came out of the bottle with the first pour. I really wasn’t expecting to see this color to come out. Pours light blood/reddish, almost like grenadine. Pink head. Probably with the Halloween spirit in mind. Aroma, is of light hops with somehting of a cough sirup. Taste, hoppy and malty close to a soda or candy licorice. Not a bad brew, I appreciate their idea of the Freakbeer spirit for Halloween.

Bottle courtesy of sebletitje. Pours a clear cranberry red with a one finger pink head that leaves good lacing. Aroma is sweet and fruity with hints of sweet malt. Taste is like malty cough syrup. Medium thin mouthfeel with a mild amount of bitterness. Not very good.

[Bottle] Pours a blood red with a small pink head. Aroma is lots of malt, tin, and a little hop. Thin, sweet front. Extremely metallic. Fail.

Bomber. Glowing red with a pink head. Weird. Odd nose, too - sweet grapefruit and sweet malt, a bit herbal. Sweet malt and grapefruit flavors, some grass. Looks strange, tastes good.