Würzburger for Oktoberfest

Could swear that the last time I had this (15 or 20 years ago so maybe my memory is not so hot on this) it was a traditoinal Okfest/Marzen red lager. Now it’s more like the HBHaus, blonde, sweet, and boring. An abomination. Served with a nice, white head and lots of lace. Head mostly fades to thin cover. Color is a nice medium yellow gold. Aroma is sweet malt. Flavors about the same. Body is ok but carbonation is scant. Finish is forgettable. Borrrrrrinnnnng....

Draft at Dankhaus in Chicago for their Oktoberfest. Pours on the amber side of gold with a white head. Nose is sweet malts, clean. taste is much the same, enough bitterness to prop it up. Quite drinkable and nice.

On tap at house of brews with Hans Reimürstägen. Pours true copper. Bitter but sweet malt tones. Crisp palate & Very drinkable, das uber!

Tap at Ginger Man and the Half Pint. Pale golden beer, slightly hazy with a thick creamy white head. Very fresh pils malt aroma. Lightly minerally with a soft baked bread crust as well. Flavour is also very fresh with a prominent crackery maltiness and a light floral hoppiness toward the back. Minerally/flinty bitterness. Comes across more like a slightly hoppy helles and is much more in the German festbier style than the typical Marzen we see on this side of the pond. Really great balance and a very nice beer.

Draft. Amber minor head, a lot of sweets and malts. Nothing super-special but a decent Marzen.

Draft at a club in Niles, IL with Polish clientele, that seems to keep in rarely-distributed German beers along with the Okocim and Zwyviec. But server knew little about the beer, and I only had the blue checkerboard on the tap handle to tell it was supposed to be an Oktoberfest beer. Poured in a Maisel’s weiss glass, it sure appeared to be a weizen to me. And I see by the other ratings that this is indeed one of the sickly pale lagers now being passed off in Germany as Okto bier. So, a pale pils color with a short-lived white head. Clean beer with very little besides a lightl malt smell. A bit of hop sharpness, perhaps bigger than I’m thinking as there’s little malt to balance it. I kept thinking I had notes of lemon and weizen spices. Okay on draft.

Transferred over from the other WB fest listing (rated the wrong one way back when). Bland and yellow. I have been told that this is the O’fest trend now in Germany. What a shame. Kinda reminds me of a strong Budweiser. Not a bad beer, but it just doesn’t blend with that refreshing October Canadian cold front, if u know what I mean.

This was skunky and nasty. Like a Rolling Rock almost but not quite that. It was boring with some bitterness. Whateeeeeeever!