Oktoberfest 2016
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Mahrs BräuLager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn Out of Production
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Score
6.94
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We’ve partnered with Mahrs Bräu, one of Germany’s most highly regarded brewers, to create a golden-hued festival beer right here in the USA. Using traditional techniques, heritage German barley, and the Record hop varietal - a nearly forgotten German-grown hop - we’ve created the most authentic take on the style this side of the Atlantic.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle pour into shaker pint glass from Greg & Jane’s Beer and Wine. Appearance is clear light yellow with greenish tinge, nice sparkle, minimal white head with fair retention and no lacing. Aroma is subtle cracker malts and European hops. Taste is biscuit malts with earthy hops, light yeast. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with foamy texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, true to the style, with straightforward aroma/taste and nice, crisp palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2016
at 19:25
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home from supermarket. Dusty gold with white filmy head. Nose is soft malt and hay. Tastes of hay, white pepper, pils malt hint of citrus. Crisp palate not nearly as caramel and malty as most modern oktoberfests
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2016
at 21:36
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
I'm shocked by the high ratings. The beer is relatively thin, and it's not without its off flavours. I expect cleaner beers from Sierra Nevada. Bottle in Berkeley. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2016
at 17:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle (Gordon’s). Pale gold. Not quite clear with a white head. Aroma of biscuity dough and hay with lemony hops. Consistent with how it looks, it’s one of the lighter bodied, less caramelly modern Oktoberfest beers, but it’s still a pretty rich malty lager, with honey and lemony hops coming through with a bit of a struggle. Again, fair enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2016
at 08:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle stored cold. The aroma is mild malty, bready, with citrus hops. Color a deep gold, maybe a orange hue, weak white head.
Of course anybody could guess with SN in a collaboration, the beer is going to have a elevated hop profile. Also corn is notable. Mouthfeel is thin, malt is covered by a harsh tangerine hoppiness. Well, not harsh but assertive. It drinks more like an IPA to me... I guess that is not really a negative but I don’t find a traditional Marzen here.
Of course anybody could guess with SN in a collaboration, the beer is going to have a elevated hop profile. Also corn is notable. Mouthfeel is thin, malt is covered by a harsh tangerine hoppiness. Well, not harsh but assertive. It drinks more like an IPA to me... I guess that is not really a negative but I don’t find a traditional Marzen here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2016
at 00:23
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pour is a clear pale lager yellow with a small white head. Aroma is a bready malt but way low key and not very noticable. Flavor is a little better. A very dry malt makes an appearence but nothing really comes out and grabs me. It looks like I liked last years version a lot more. This years is a much lighter version of this style and not very flavorful.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2016
at 18:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Big Hunt pours a lightly hazy dark orange with some fluffy, white head. Nose if grist, biscuit, yeast, some orange, straw, a little toffee. Flavor is yeasty dough, cracker, biscuit, orange, honey, straw, some root veg. Mostly dry, chewy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2016
at 14:44
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
Bottle: Pours clear gold with a thick white head. Slightly floral, lemon, grain malt aroma. Flavour is slightly bitter floral/grassy hops....very lagery-feeling. Really nice....decidedly different from the usual offerings in the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2016
at 17:18