Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Chico, California USA

Draft. A nut brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, nuts, and wood - very malty, leading to a dry roasted finish. A bit odd for an Oktoberfest, but nice.

Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear nut brown. Sweet and caramelly. Blown up cookie malt form a midsized body with clean edges. Toffee is more or less the one flavour. Finishes with fairly low bitterness. A beer with a pleasant surface, but no depth and no resemblance to the style it’s marketed as.

From tap at Bishops Arms. Pours clear golden deep amber with a small tan head. Aroma is spiced and light fruity. Malty, spiced and caramelish flavoured. On the dark malty side. Lingering roasted and bitter flavoured finish.

Bottle 355ml.
Clear medium to dark amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bread, roasted, caramel, dusty, prune notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [270908]

Draught at Bishops Arms, Malmö. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized off white head. Aroma of malts, caramel, rye bread and hops. Malty flavour of caramel, cookies, hops and grass. Dry hoppy finish.

Date: 03/22/1997
Source: Brewpub

very dark brown, fine tan head leaving a trail of thick lace in its wake, light sweet malt aroma with just a hint of hops, dry malt flavor with a touch of bittering hops coming out at the end, a hint of an ester in the finish, a little off style wise, but tasty
-------- /> Date: 09/23/2006
Mode: draft
Source: brewfest

clear dark amber, big sweet carmel malt aroma, whispy white head, well carbonated, sweet malt flavor, nice bitterness, very textbook

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

On tap at The Rake. Malty and sweet, some nice nutty malt flavours on finish. Yeah, it grew on me.

Sampled on 10/11/06: Pours a clear copper mahogany with a nicely-lacing off-white head. Rich, authentic Munich malty aroma has good grainy character and a touch of noble hops. Body starts fairly full and malty drying some toward a more bitter toasty finish. Pretty true to style and drinkable.