Rock Bottom Rocktoberfest

Brewed by Rock Bottom Corporate Office
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Louisville, Colorado USA

Draught at Rock Bottom Campbell, CA. Not much aroma. Some banana but very faint. Clear, amber body with bubbles. Nice color and lace. Malty flavor with a backbone, nice. Some hop. This is a nice beer! Banana in the finish. I am impressed.

This draft brew from the brewery poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized off-white colored bubbles that was and left behind a transparent typically carbonated light brown colored body and a good lacing. The aroma was malty sweet and mild hop. The mouth feel was crisp semi-thick and tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt hops dough and metallic. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

Draft at Rock Bottom Denver. Copper bodied. Nose is malty, sweet, light hops, and caramel. Taste is sweet malts, caramel, light grassy notes, soft spicy hops and toffee. Body is light-medium with moderate carbonation. Ends with more caramel, light grassy notes, sweet malts, and light hops.

Draft. Small tan head that was mostly lasting, minimal lacing, no visible carbonation, transparent, and an orange brown hue. Malty, spicy, sweet, and clove notes for the aroma. Flavor was sweet, malty and spicy. Smooth mouthfeel. Light body. Very quaffable and nicely done.

On Tap in Bethesda: Pours a deep brown-reddish-amber color with little to no head. Like the previous two ratings mention, its a littl ehoppier han many marzen/octoberfests, but hey its America. I don’t mean that in an elitest way, but our ocoberfests will bever be as good as the originals (according to just about every beer geek) so why not adapt and personalize a little bit. I will say, thier Amber Ale is also a touch hoppier than most ... while it isn’t true to style to the T, its still a good beer and hey the wrong catagory is a better problem to have than no flavor at all. Anyways, I digress the beer had minimal aroma though. The flavor was hoppy, but good with some signifigant malt characteristics as well.

King of Prussia "version" - I enjoyed this beer but as obxdude10 writes, there is too much bitterness for Rocktoberfest to be a Marzen. More of a West Coast Amber style beer.

Sampled at the King of Prussia location, not all that great of a Marzen-style beer in that the hops were way too overpowering, lots of hops all over the place in this beer, overpowering in the nose & finish, but worse yet in the flavors, this was more like an American-style pale ale, copper in color with a very light & thin off-white head, minimal lacing around the glass, just a hint of malt in the flavors but not enough for the style, a very disappointing beer

tap at the s. denver location.it was free for the first half hour of the tapping, so i drank a lot of it. poured a red orange color with a decent white head. aroma brings oranges, malt(words are not coming easy, don’t know how to expand on this). a bit of flower garden in the aroma also. taste is at first sweet with some sulphur notes, some taffy flavor, a bit of karo syrup, caramel, and a bit husky with some burnt notes in there too. a bit drier in the finish then i was expecting. an easy drinker. i like, easy to drink sit and drink 4 of in half an hour.