Coney Island Freaktoberfest

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

65 cl bottle, Fargo, ND, USA via Chicago. Pours a surprsing deep rose colour with a bright pink head. Malt aroma, some taste in the background like the flavor of pink icing. Warm hop bite, maybe some sour aftertaste. Certainly better than the average rating, not what I was expecting.

Had on Halloween ’09 @ Pony bar. Pours great dark brown w/ reddish hue, nontransparent. Taste is a bit off.. caramel, fig, sweet malts, some metal?

Bringing forth the brillance of a hallows eve with a freatoberfest seemed fit, so I endulged at the old forge, lanesborough, MA with delight with bro Pat. It was a great way to finalize the end of October, the best month ever.

Bottle. Pours red not unlike a kriek or framboise. Short, dense pink head. Aroma is toasted malt, spicy hops, caramel, and light citrus. Taste is citrus, caramel, light toffee, toasted and sweet malts and spicy hops. Body is medium with a prickly carbonation. Ends with more caramel, sweet malts, spicy hops and citrus fruit. Not bad beer but more a novelty.

Pour ruby red with a med pink head. Aroma of lite malt and fruit, Apperance is mis-leading, teast more like malt or a marzen. Over all good beer how ever not the best

Pour ruby red with a med pink head. Aroma of lite malt and fruit, Apperance is mis-leading, teast more like malt or a marzen. Over all good beer how ever not the best

22 oz bomber courtesy of Slipstream. Pours a Hawaiin Punch red with a medium sized pink head. Aroma of slight skank, old malt and light hops. Taste is skunky with a touch of honey and light malt. Interesting to say the least.

Bomber bottle. Poured warm, but dammit, I’m finally getting off the flu and I want at least one Oktoberfest while the month is still in. Yikes! Definitely blood red pour, even a spongy pink head. Some sweet malts in the nose, a bit of bitter balance. Taste has a load of malt that I’d expect from an Okto style. Don’t think you can really get this color from a malt, but my nose is too stuffy to get a hint of what the real source might be. Still, there’s a peppery and earthy hop to it, and it’s not stinted (being warm probably helps the hops come through). Alcohol is well hidden. If I were hosting a party, I’d be serving some of this.