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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at Dominion Wine and Beer. Pours a clearing cola with an off white head. Nutty nose. Flavors of malt roast.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2015
at 18:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Location: 22 oz bottle from State Line, 12/21/14
Aroma: It has a clean, sweet, malty aroma, with some caramel, toasted pumpernickel, and spice
Appearance: A darker orange/red/brown color, clear in the glass, with a clean, sheeting beige head
Flavor: The taste is clean and sweet as well, malty and bready, spice, and a light bitterness
Palate: The body is medium, it has a very smooth, creamy mouthfeel, with a soft carbonation
Overall Impression: This one is very solid for what it is trying to be. I don’t tend to love this style, but I can appreciate this one. Well made, nice mouthfeel.
Aroma: It has a clean, sweet, malty aroma, with some caramel, toasted pumpernickel, and spice
Appearance: A darker orange/red/brown color, clear in the glass, with a clean, sheeting beige head
Flavor: The taste is clean and sweet as well, malty and bready, spice, and a light bitterness
Palate: The body is medium, it has a very smooth, creamy mouthfeel, with a soft carbonation
Overall Impression: This one is very solid for what it is trying to be. I don’t tend to love this style, but I can appreciate this one. Well made, nice mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2014
at 14:59
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours deep mahogany into a shaker. Mocha head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing to skim surface. Dark caramel and candy corn aromas. Dry with sweet toffee and slight smoke upfront turning to mild bitter earth in the lasting finish.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Oct 2014
at 15:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 oz. bottle. Dark, unclear mahogany color with slow fading head. Aroma is aged toffee and caramel malts. Stale lager yeast and toasted grain.
Flavor is a display of the traditional style guidelines, older malt flavor of caramel and biscuit. Solid toasted grain body with a lager yeast flavor in the backend. Body is much fuller than the typical standard. Light spiciness toward the finish. Overall, it really is much more hearty then I was expecting, nice.
Flavor is a display of the traditional style guidelines, older malt flavor of caramel and biscuit. Solid toasted grain body with a lager yeast flavor in the backend. Body is much fuller than the typical standard. Light spiciness toward the finish. Overall, it really is much more hearty then I was expecting, nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2014
at 17:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Thin white head. Very dark Amber color. Very malty nose of cereal, grains and a touch of apricot. The body has nice bready and caramel flavor. Medium body. Low hop character. Comes across very authentic and not a west coast hop bomb of a German styled beer. Perhaps a bit too high abv, drinks more like 6.5%, but take this down to 5.5% and you have a real winner. Good stuff.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2014
at 00:08
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A little roast comes into this initially. So much that I initially thought I was drinking the wrong beer, especially with the darker colour. Pours clear maroon with ok head and lacing. Some of that trashy marzen aroma with some caramelized malt. Finishes with light sweetness. Definitely good for style, even if it’s stretching the category a little. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Sep 2014
at 16:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours dark ruddy copper with a creamy beige head. Med body. Aroma of light roast malt and spice. Flavor is spicy, darkish malt. Sweet, but not desperately so. Quite tasty, tho hardly bitter in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Oct 2013
at 08:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at the brewery/distillery. Pours with a clear copper hued body with a small off-white head that lasts. Aromas are nutty, caramel, medium melanoidins, malty, and pretty clean. Very slight fruitiness, a touch of raisin and some munich like toasted, rich malt character. Flavors are malty, medium dry, bitterness balances malt to neutral, lightly herbal malt character, grainy and otherwise quite clean. Low carbonation, pretty dry with a nice toasted maltiness still intact. A pretty decent American made Marzen.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 May 2012
at 18:23