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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6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft. Quinine, caramel malt, and hay aroma. Amber with giant head. Mildly sweet toffee malt and moderately bitter earthy quinine/hay flavor. Okay body. Kind of harsh for an Oktoberfest.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Aug 2016
at 20:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at Toranomon. Cloudy brown-orange, tall fine head. Nose of caramel, bread, lots of apple, and a little spicy hop. Sweet apple flavor, dried fruit, raisin. Spicy, caramel. No thanks.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Mar 2016
at 07:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at BDSB - London. Pours clear amber with a creamy, khaki head. Toasted bread in the nose, hints of cereal, brown sugar. Medium sweet flavor with notes of toffee, toasty bread, dried berries. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Sweet finish with crispy cereal, dry caramel, slight bitter earth. Tasty festbier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2016
at 13:12
6/10
Tried
on 20 Jan 2016
at 12:58
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at BD Sheps Bush. It pours clear dark copper with a small white head. The nose is earthy, brown bread, toasted grain, cereal, light spice and dull sweetness. The taste is firmly bitter, brown bread, cakey, toasted grain, spice, cereal, nut and light alcohol hit with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate, prickly carbonation. A simple malty affair. Fine, but far from exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2016
at 11:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from BottleDog, Edinburgh. Clear amber/brown body with a medium beige head. Steady carbonation. Light lacing. Aroma of caramel, lightly roasted malt and earth. Flavour of stewed tea, peppery hops and brown sugar. Thin to medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. Sweet and well rounded.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2015
at 03:25
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours a reddish-copper with little to no head. Aroma is very grassy. Flavor is also quite grassy, with some malt underneath. Not terrible.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2015
at 18:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep amber, nose is toffee, malty, cereal, taste is sweet, grainy, toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2015
at 09:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle. Dark Amber color. Small beige head. Sweet malt aroma has hints of melon and brewed tea. Flavor is toasted malt with toffee notes. Slightly bittersweet with a touch of brown sugar and raisins and baked apples. Different than most Marzenbier beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2015
at 23:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Sweet malt, tea, dried leaves aroma, not strong. Cloudy, ruby brown, thin tan head. Malt, dried leaves. Bitter finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2015
at 17:14