Dead Ringer
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.64
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Dead Ringer Oktoberfest lager is inspired by old-style Mãrzen brews customarily enjoyed during Bavaria's world-famous beer festival. Thanks to it's abundance of toasted malt and a lower hop bitterness,this dark reddish brown lager is loaded with sweet,caramel toffee flavors and aromas. All the taste and celebration of Oktoberfest packed into one bottle; no lederhosen required.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Medium amber brown pour. Lots of fresh malt and caramel. Really a nice example
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber in Color with a three finger head. Aroma is roasted grains with a tad of hay and grass. Taste is a nicely balanced märzen beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:12
7/10
I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. I'm not saving I don't like it but I'm confused.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:43
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle rather rich deep brown amber pour. Full toasted malt flavors mellow malty palate and a touch of brown sugar. A good fairly big example Of the style
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2019
at 23:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber-brown beer with a tan head. Toasted malt aroma. Toasted malt and light caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Light caramel and light toasted malt linger with light mineral notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2018
at 20:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Many thanks to Erzengel for sharing! A clear dark amber beer with a mid-sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of caramelish malt, cookies, red malt. Taste of deep caramelish malt, nuts, cookies, bread, moderate sweet malt, mild bitterness.
Tried
on 13 Dec 2018
at 21:35
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Many thanks to Peter for this bottle! Grainy malty nose. The beer starts grainy and malty. Easy to drink, moderate bitter in the aftertaste with a nice and round malty body. Round and deep, moderate bitter, very smooth and round. Very nice, smooth with a nice bitterness and a nice depth. Very nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2018
at 22:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Nice and crisp deep brown coloured body with a smooth, two to three centimetre tall rich light brown head. Aroma of copper, metal, light grass, a ton of caramel, nuts and yeastie scents and ending with a dash of grain and very light spices. Medium-bodied; Strong showing of chocolate and caramel notes with a heavy hand of grass and pure nuttiness with hazlenuts and pecans leading the way, that end with a smooth, but lightly bittered dash of grain and earthy flavours towards the end with a lot of sweetness, still. Aftertaste shows a blend of metallic notes, a hint of grass and white pepper and ending with a moderate sweetness, mainly from fruit, but also from chocolate. Overall, a nice and rich beer, full of complexity, with some wide-ranging profiles and a nice and sweet kick from the pungent flavours and finally showing some perfumey and grainy characteristics from the rest of the show, but this is well-worth trying, especially if you can find this fresh and still available in New Jersey. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Joe Canal's in Lawrenceville, New Jersey on 21-October-2018 for US$1,78 sampled at my house here in Washington on 18-November-2018.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2018
at 06:07
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2018
at 21:14
5/10
From backlog. Bottle at Surf Motel, Carlsbad, Ca. Reddish brown with offwhite head. Malts, hops and Caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2018
at 20:15