Staghorn Octoberfest
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.88
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100% Natural - great Midwestern and European Malts, the world's most expensive hops, fresh yeast from Germany, and clear Wisconsin water make our Staghorn Octoberfest "Wisconsin's Real Red." You will find absolutely no additives, preservatives or artificial agents of any kind in this bier. Staghorn is brewed using the time honored methods to release the smooth flavor of our roasted malts.
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."
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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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to a coworker hooking me up: Poured a coppery caramel with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is nice malty, caramel. Taste is sweet grainy, caramel, nice fall beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2026
at 00:46
8.1/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2024
at 17:49
6.1/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2024
at 00:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - many thanks to Drake! Pours honey-gold with a soft off-white head. Brown leaf, brown grass, light cinnamon? Flavor is brown west grasses and leaves, cinnamon, light honey. This is interesting. I almost want more of that cinnamon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2019
at 01:32
7.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2018
at 03:32
7.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2017
at 18:35
6.5/10
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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
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2017
at 21:55
7.5/10
Tried
on 23 Nov 2016
at 21:37
5.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2016
at 21:55
7.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2014
at 13:25