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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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
12 oz bottle from Whole Foods-Chelsea. Clear golden pour with a thin ring of fizzy white head and some spotty, drippy lacing. Clean, lighter malt aroma with a light, earthy hop backbone. Tastes mid-sweet, light-mid bitter. A bit over carbonated, and there’s something slightly off to the close as well. Could say average for the style, but there’s something about it that doesn’t quite work for me. Not terrible, but I wanted better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2016
at 16:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle. Pours a bright medium gold color with perfect tiny cascading bubbles that lead to a generous rocky beige head. Sweet grainy malt nose. Sweet caramel malt flavor. Floral hops with notes of cut grass. Slightly dry finish. A bit sweet for the style, but decent nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2016
at 19:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From the bottle. Pours a clear yellow-gold with white head. Cracker like malt and a dry finish make for an enjoyable Fest beer. As it warmed, it got a little too grainy. Spicy hops. Good for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2016
at 22:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours bright gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet biscuit and hay aromas. Sweet and sour hay upfront turning to overripe fruit before the lasting bitter earth finish.
Tried
on 11 Sep 2016
at 18:19
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear deep golden, large fizzy white head, dissipates quickly, some lacing. Aroma is clean, malty, bready, hints of citus, grass, floral notes. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, malty and clean, bready, biscuit. Medium light body. This is really good actually!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2016
at 21:59
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Gold color, lighter than I usually expect from the style. I found this beer to be very dry, for the style. Dry malt flavor, some hops, providing some bitterness. I like Mahr’s brewery, but overall found this a lighter beer for the style lacking the palate of the best examples.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2016
at 16:23
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Churchkey. Slightly hazy golden color. Peppery floral aroma. Taste is lightly toasted biscuit. Way hoppier than your average Oktoberfest. And it’s August for God’s sake. This is worse than pumpkin beers in August.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Sep 2016
at 19:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed on a glorious Friday after work on Labor Day weekend. Appearance is pale gold with a modest white head. Aroma of lager yeast and light hay. Taste is like a quintessential Oktoberfest brew, overall good stuff. Would have again, nothing that sticks out though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2016
at 17:03