New Glarus Staghorn Octoberfest Beer

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear amber with a small head. Average lacing. Aroma is toasted malts, caramel and cinnamon. Taste is sweet roasted malts with cinnamon and slight graininess. Medium bodied.

12oz Bottle. Aroma glows with a bevy of slowly cooked whole grains, light fruity yeast character and snappy distant hop essence. Rich and inviting. Pours a very, very clear ochre-orange, with a soft, soapy foam lying above. Flavor develops some slightly tangy deeper malt character while defining a crisp, cool edge to the fruity Munich profile. Good levels of Munich here. Bright, refreshing and classic. This is quintessential German-American brewing. Nothing wildly flavored, just clean, fresh bright malty beer. A true Marzen.

Clear red color, lots of carbonation. Frothy head. Roasty aroma. Woody. Initially slightly sweet, then tangy and sour in finish. Light body. Thin texture. Long finish. Overall impression: decent beer, but not as good as their fat squirrel.

12oz bottle. Filtered amber brown color with a satisfactory head. Brewery fresh aroma, delightful. Malty body is crisply balanced with the minimal to-style hopping. This is an awesome Oktoberfest, with subtle fruity notes shining through in the aftertaste. Malty all the way, very well done.

This smells like beer, not in a stereotypical way, it smells like what it smells like inside a brewery, beautiful caramel malt aromas, followed by sweet and very mild floral and noble hop notes. The beer pours with a nice white head that leaves a pretty thick ring around the edge of the glass, and plenty of lace on the sides. The colour is a reddish orange and just looks gorgeous in a dim lit room. Oh my, this tastes better than I remember! There is a slight sticky sweetness that almost overwhelms the flavors, but works as a good canvas for noble earthy hops, French bread, and a cherry like fruitiness. The palate here is so well rounded silky on the top sharp on the sides, really not much happening going down.

Pours a true copper color with a robust whitish head that settles quickly...solid levels of lacing. Aroma is all sweet malts and toasted nuts..nothing amazing, but pleasant. Flavor is slightly more robust than the average Marzen...it is very sweet, full of roasted malt flavors, but is not as thin as I feel most oktoberfests are, but it remains highly drinkable. Slight hints of spice keep this one interesting as well. Good offering from NG, if not overwhelming in any category.

Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells of sweet malt, some nutty hints, toasty. Tastes of sweet malt with a decent peppery splash on the finish.

Pretty nose that almost goes as deep as some cheap single malts scotches. However, smells very authentic and earthy--not that scotches don’t, but this smells very unique. Perhaps I feel this way because I haven’t had an un-pasteurized beer in a while and I have been drinking alot of Macallan lately. Anyway, Palate is fruity (?) mildly hoppy, creamy, and finishes pleasant but a little fluffy in a breadlike kind of way (if that makes any sense). Overall, OK but not one to hang your hat on.