Clawhammer Oktoberfest
Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
6.39
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Clawhammer Oktoberfest is a lightly colored, but toasty, rich and full bodied Marzen style lager, brewed with traditional German malt and the finest noble hops. A spicy hop finish and aroma balance out the abundance of malt flavor. Clawhammer means pure high-country enjoyment!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Another great beer for Highland. Pours an dark orange-amber-copper color with a decent head and great lace.. Taste is more floral-hops then most marzen style beers. Aroma is a malty, spicy, floral with slight nuts. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2025
at 05:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
16 ounce draft at The Dapper Dog. Traditional Oktoberfest all the way through. Flavor of toffee, bread, like malt backbone, very malt spice and the finish. Nice malt hardiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2024
at 22:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 day old bottle A: Crystal clear pale amber brown with little head, retention or lace. S: Grainy toasted bread with hints of caramel and herbs. T: Sweet grain and caramel with woody notes. Light but sharp herbal or peppery hop bitterness and a bit of pine or citrus lend balance. M: Light bodied with average to low carbonation. Lightly sticky. O: Well balanced and approachable. Not great but well worth a try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2022
at 00:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Copper color, thick tan head, toast and malt aroma. Taste is sweet malt, wood, toffee and caramel but balanced with enough floral hop bitterness to not be overly sweet or bitter. Some hop aftertaste.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2020
at 18:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
The Aromas are toffee malt, with hints of roast and fruit. Flavors are similar to nose, a little sweet up front with the bitter bitterness in the back too little roast or Vienna malt. A lackluster beer.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2019
at 03:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a light clear copper with a large white head. Aroma is a decent but light toasted bread malt. Flavor is again a light bready malt. It looks and taste like a oktoberfest but this is pretty light all around.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2019
at 01:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
Perfectly acceptable marzen, hitting all the right notes--caramel, toffee, nuts and mild lager esters--without doing anything too remarkable with them. Noble hops add a crisp, floral bitterness to the finish, and the fade grows bready and dry. Pretty orange pour with a beige cap and slight lacing. Subdued nose gives up modest hints of caramel and yeast. Spot-on creamy yet bubbly festbier texture. Not a classic, but drinkable.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2017
at 19:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Lactic caramel malt and hay aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet caramel malt and hay flavor. Sharp finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2013
at 18:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Bready caramel malt aroma. Clear brassy gold with a small off-white head. Bready caramel malt and spicy grassy hops flavor. Body on the lgiht side of medium, lively carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2013
at 18:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle. Poured an amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma is light sweetness and a touch of spice, malts, some grains. Flavor was nice light grain notes, malts. Clean drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Sep 2013
at 21:40