Sprecher Oktoberfest

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Deep amber color. Aroma is malty with some a little biit of fruit and hops. Flavor leans a little to the hops, but plenty of malt character. Toasted malt hints.

16oz. Bottle: Aroma of malts, nuts, toasting, dried oak leaves, and a hint of caramel. Poured orange/amber/slight copper in color with a small, tan, head that diminished but lasted around the edges. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor is light to medium sweet and medium bitter. Tastes of malts, dried oak leaves, light nuts, light brown sugar, slight caramel, and a hint of vanilla. Medium body. Slightly oily, then dry texture. Average carbonation. Malty, slight caramel, light oak leaf, finish is lightly dry.

Bottle from Capones. Poured a deep reddish amber body sitting underneath a smaller light beige foamy head. Malty aroma with notes of bread, toffee, caramel, that is sweet overall and also has the slightest hint of vanilla as well. Medium bodied with average carbonation that is smooth and easy drinking. Flavor is actually even better then the aroma implies with a good dose of spiceyness, bread, yeast, toffee and slight raisin. Very nice.

NBA draft pre beer. Mildest of hazy amber with a thin off white head that’s gone in a hurry. Aroma of toasted caramel malt, toffee and dark fruit. Taste is mostly malt with caramel and light toasted malt and some dark fruit and light nuttiness mixed in. The body seems a bit thin and oily and it finishes up with some dryness. Bland, boring and redundant just like most of their beers.

16oz bottle 5/14/09 (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours an orangish amber with a small loose tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, and slight hops. Taste begins with sweetness, malt, spices, and hops. This medium bodied beer is pretty well balanced and quite smooth. Decent job.

Pours a semi muddy orange-amber color with a small white head and very low carbonation. It looked a little thicker than normal beer when poured. Aroma is has a lot of caramel malt, some Munich malt seems to be present as well. Very nice fruity nose, orange and pear, with some floral hops added in. The beer feels slightly thick in your mouth. Caramel and light Munich flavors stand out first and the move into flavors of sweet pear, apple and some orange citrus and end in a slightly floral hops flavor. Surprised to see yeast at the bottom of the bottle. It’s nice they give you a full pint for a cheap price but it’s just an okay Oktoberfest but did get better the more I tasted.

Sweet malt, and plenty of it! Orange in color, thin white head, lots of malt. Tight carbonation, a good mouthfeel.

16oz bottle. Pours clear amber with white head. Aroma is caramel and sweet malts. Flavor is caramel and malts and bit skinkyness. Finishes with a taste that reminds me of the smell of an old bar if that make sense. Not a bad Octoberfest but not a good one.