Festival Bier (2024)
Newbarns Brewery in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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Each year to celebrate the beginning of the harvest season, we brew our interpretation of a Festbier. This 5.6% golden lager beer is brewed with some of our favourite heritage barley varieties, this year focussing on the Irish barley, Hunter, and is hopped entirely with Saaz hops.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
440ml can. Poured a clear yellow golden colour with little life. The aroma is grainy, yeasty, light malt. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a somewhat light, crisp, buttery yeast, sweet malt, bready, light hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2024
at 14:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Keg at the Newbarns taproom, Leith, 05/10/24. Golden pour topped with a lasting just off white cap. Nose is pale malts, cereals, corn husk, light breads. Taste comprises bready and pale malts, straw, toasted grains, earthy fruit rinds. Medium bodied, light spritzy carbonation, semi drying close. Tidy Marzen.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Dec 2024
at 16:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home picked up from HOTM. A very clear bright gold coloured pour with a decent lasting sticky white head. Aroma is nice earthy cereal, green apple, fennel, leafy, light sweetness. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, mellow crisp carbonation. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty cereal grains, light apple, leafy hop, spicy finish, Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2024
at 22:37
7/10
Tried
on 05 Oct 2024
at 20:09
7/10
Malty, clean, slightly sweet
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Oct 2024
at 20:00
7/10
Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2024
at 18:35
7/10
Tried
on 21 Sep 2024
at 19:55