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Gordon Biersch Festbier

Gordon Biersch Festbier - Oktoberfest/Märzen

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48
overall
Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen

Palo Alto, California USA

bottled
available

on tap
common

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
773.03/5.03.01/5.0Winter5.3%59.7Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein
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Commercial Description:
Gordon Biersch's Festbier is the style of beer most commonly served during the modern day Oktoberfest celebration. It a full bodied, rich, moderately hopped, bronze lager.
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 AtlAggie (131), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Nov 5, 2009  
Bottle. Aroma strongly of yeast, bread, malts, and a metallic twinge. Flavor (and mouthfeel) is fairly thin--roasted malts, yeast, slight hop bitterness on end, finish is overall pretty clean. Easy to drink, but fairly forgettable.


 Skeegle (476), Maryland, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/53/103/510/20
Nov 5, 2009  
Not full bodied, an antonym of rich. This seemed to have that american macro brew skunkiness all throughout, with a clean crisp finish that was forgettable but lucky because the it cuts off the flavors. Not a good beer in my opinion, the only thing I liked was that there were mild apples moving around somewhere.


 illidurit (851), Santa Cruz, California, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
Nov 2, 2009  
On tap at some Gordon Biersch restaurant at the San Jose airport. Pours golden orange with a big lacy white head. Aroma is bready malts with a citrusy twang. Flavor is similar, mostly bready with a bright orangey note. Sweet and thin but drinkable enough.


 kimcgolf (824), Dacula, Georgia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Oct 27, 2009  
Pours from the tap to a light copper color with thin white head that lingers to mid-glass and leaves okay lacing. Nose is faint, but trends toward malted nuts and caramel. Mouthfeel is medium bodied and somewhat sweet, and the taste picks up the malty flavors of the nose. A fairly short, but pleasant finish. Not a bad falol ber.


 SSSteve (2045), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/510/20
Oct 25, 2009  
clear orange under a large frothy white head. bright aroma with some fresh hops and citrus. tart and cery carbonated. bitter. some bready malts in the finish but quite hoppy for an oktoberfest style beer. seems to sweeten up with some caramel showing up after it warms. more hoppier than the "marzen", but less toasty malts.


 kidmartinek (972), austin, Texas, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/511/20
Oct 24, 2009  
Pours brilliant amber. Decent head. Slightly skuny aroma. Rich malt character. Full flavor, slightly spritzy. Rich malty finish.


 drowland (1360), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 20, 2009  
Tried a sample at Brewfest Tallahassee. Not quite as nutty and caramelly as the Marzen, but nice and drinkable. Session away.


 tmoreau (527), Lombard, Illinois, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Oct 7, 2009  
On tap at the Bollingbrook, IL. location and served as a full sampler glass. The color was a hazy straw and the head was a grainy, white foam that left a few ribbons and spots of lacing on the glass. The nose was a touch of yeast and light Pils malt aroma, with the flavor adding some noble hints. Thin. Kind of a light German Pils. Okay for what it is, but no where close to an Oktoberfest/Marzen as the commercial description implies.



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