Staghorn Octoberfest
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.88
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This Octoberfest combines a smooth amber body with a clean, crisp finish. Be sure to hold this one up to the light of any harvest moon and enjoy "Wisconsin's Real Red."
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at the John-Don tasting, 10/25/24. Clear rusty orange, thin off white head. Grain, caramel. Smooth and flavorful. Really nice. 8/4/8/4/17
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle to glass 2024...Copper color...a little caramel and a happy bite that is shrouded in a mellow malt. Not bad New Glarus...not bad
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours crystal clear orange, small beige head, goos lacing. Aroma ia roast, nutty, caramel, toast, noble hop. Flavors isia and plus sweet, light bitter. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into dimpled mug, best before 1/9/2017. Pours slighjtly hazy orange/light copper color with a 1 finger dense and fluffy off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of bread dough, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of bready malt and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big bread dough, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Minimal herbal, grassy, spicy hop bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of bread dough, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel/pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Minimal dryness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.25%. Overall this is a delicious Oktoberfest style. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Nothing but rich and clean Pils/Munich malt flavors, with just enough hops to balance the sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Admittedly not my favorite style, but this was crisp and refreshing- true to form. Good beer
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. A- Celery, malty, bread. A- Copper color, clear liquid, off white head. T- Caramel, nutty, dried stone fruits, spice, bread. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish. O- For a style that has never impressed me, I actually enjoyed this one. The subtle apricot/stone fruit that was underlying the caramel was really nice. A touch of spice on top of all that made for a drinkable beer. A bit of an odd ingredient in the aroma but didn’t kill the beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Caramel malt, light pepper and hay aroma. Amber with small head. Sweet nutty toffee malt and light hay flavor - very nice. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle as shown. Pours a clear orange with small frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is strong spice, bready malt, and caramel. Thin mouthfeel with nice spice upfront, cinnamon and nutmeg, good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 oz. bottle. Clear copper color, lasting bubbly head with traces of lace. Aroma is floral with German malts and lager yeast. Taste is sweet caramel malts that are slightly balanced by some earthy bitterness keeping it crisp and very clean finish. Decent bready malt body. Really true to the style and I am drinking this a tad on the old side, pretty drinkable and well made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Gorgeous golden amber. Smell is explosive! A huge amount of floral, malt and cherrywood. Pretty good. Very straight up bright and almost oaky in the stickiness of it. Lots of darker fruits with just as much citrus. Slightly peppery finish.