Stoudts Oktoberfest

Brewed by Stoudts Brewing Co.
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Adamstown, Pennsylvania USA

sampled at Andy’s Corner Bar. Reddish amber in color. Aroma is of toasted malts and some caramel malt. Taste is of toasted/slight roasted malt, caramel malt with a light bitter hop finish. made to style.

Pours a golden yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma is very wheaty with malt and grain overtones. Taste is a wheaty lager with a nice hoppy, malty bite to it. Not bad.

This beer looks the part, but the red flags went up for me when it smelled EXACTLY like Miller Lite. As a result I was not at all surprised when it was thin and watery. The flavor is a little hoppier and much less malty than a typical oktoberfest as well. I’d take it over a typical cheap mass market lager, but that’s not saying a lot. Oh well, it sure did wash down my dinner like a champ. If you’re curious, I had 3.5 ears of corn and a microwave soft pretzel and a little snack size can of diced peaches. Curse you, Stoudt’s, for making up such a substantial part of my food budget for today.

orange. almost no head. fruity, malty, toasted aroma. toasted flavor. grainy with a good dose of hops and sweet toasty malts. not bad.

Very light ocotoberfest, very drinkable, not a whole lot of hop flavor, malty sweetness. hints of orange fruit

New Beer around town.
I had very much been looking forward to trying this beer. As we finally got the Stoudts to send it to us… but now it’s gone.
The beer pours a nice amber hued body and a thick cap of head. The aroma is more hoppy than I was expecting. The flavor is rather bready, sourdough, a little grainy, like cracked wheat. There is a dry neatly spicy but rustic hops in the finish.
Compared next to the Penn Octoberfest, the Stoudt’s has more hop bitterness and less caramel sweetness to be placed.

Pours an amber-orange with a thin, mostly receding light tan head. Aroma of toasted malt, bread dough, some higher alcohols, grainy lager yeast, and metallic yeasty notes. Taste is grassy, grainy, and bready. Malty enough to be an Oktoberfest, but perhaps a bit thin compared to some of the better examples. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with lively carbonation. An enjoyable beer, another solid German style from Stoudt’s.

Slightly above average Marzen that pours dark. Hops are evident but not strong enough for a better balance. Malt was rough with some sort of graininness? Worth a once over.