Coney Island Freaktoberfest

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

Blood red with a slight fruity taste. Rather sweet. Very slight bitter finish but not too noticeable.

22oz bottle from Jans Wine and Boos#2 (Tampa, FL). Pours a creepy clear strawberry cola color with a massive pink/strawberry head that settles slowly. Aroma is slightly sweet and slightly grainy with notes of corn, spice, perm solution, some hints of honey. Flavor is slightly sweet and slightly malty with notes of honey and spice. Generally light body with a quick, uninteresting finish.

Pours slightly hazy blood orange flesh color with a 1-2 finger fluffy pink head that has decent retention and leaves some pink lacing. Aroma is weak, grainy, sweet malts, a little toast and some caramel. Flavor is sweet, too sweet, citrus flavors, maybe it’s the power of suggestion but I taste some cherry, slightly toasty, tinny bitter hop finish with another hint of berry. I wouldn’t say it tastes terribly off but it would probably taste better in season.

Pours like blood with a cm of pink strawberry mousse head. Aroma is sweet and caramunichy. Taste is grainy and astringent with sweet fruity notes chorded in with the roasty bitterness $4/22oz.

Bottle. Pours a hazy blood red with a small pink head. Sweet grainy aroma with caramel, light citrus and toasty malts. Flavor is toasted malts, caramel, grainy, earthy and has notes of some fruitness with a medium body and a lightly bitter finish. weird.

Had a bottle of this stuff on Halloween. It’s decent - pours a blood red color and has a malty, fruity aroma. Taste is pretty much typical Oktoberfest, malt and a mild bitterness. I got a little bit of fruit out of this, maybe strawberry/raspberry. Flavor is average overall though.

Sampled during Cellar’s Wine & Spirits Wednesday tasting. Pours a dirty rust/red brew with a hot pink head that slowly dissipates to a thin off-white ring. Aroma of caramel malt, some floral hops, a hint of grapefruit and tangerine. Taste is medium bodied, with flavors of golden grain malt with some caramel, stale toffee, a hint of grassy hops and some apple. Finish is a tad watery, with a fast disappearing caramel malt. With the red coloring I was expecting some berry or cherry flavors but none of those where there.

Bomber from Knightly. Poured blood red with a short, fizzy cap of white head.. would’ve really thrown me off if I wasn’t expecting it! The aroma opened with drawn caramel and toasty grapefruit amplified by rum warmth.. deep and by all means interesting. The flavor had a strong, grainy caramel sweetness at the core with quite a lot of bitterness around (dry grassy notes, grapefruit, and herbal notes were present).. dry and slow-moving on the back-end leaving me slightly parched.. warm finish with more of the above. Medium-bodied with a fuller feel on the palate.. balance was not entirely there, but it flowed OK.