Braxton Brewing Company Oktober Fuel

Oktober Fuel

 

Braxton Brewing Company in Covington, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn
Score
6.38
ABV: 6.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 11
Fall means football, tailgating, festivals, crisp air, and cool evenings. It also means good beer. Germany’s Oktoberfest begins in September and ends in early October. The tradition of gathering with friends, family, and your community over a stein of traditional German beer dates back centuries. More recently, you could find us gathering with those people in our garage over a homebrew, watching a game, or tailgating. Now, we’re excited to continue this tradition with our Braxton community. We’ve brewed Oktober Fuel — a traditional Oktoberfest Lager — for you, our community. It’s fuel for fall.

This traditional Oktoberfest style lager is brewed using the finest German malts, decoction mashing and noble hops. Oktober Fuel has an aroma that is dominated by complex malt characteristics including bready, biscuity and slightly toasty. It is light amber to dark orange in color, with a beautiful, long lasting off-white head. Starting with a complex malt sweetness this beer will finish crisp and dry. Oktober Fuel has a nice spicyness of noble hops to balance the malt complexity this style is known for.
 

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7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can. Amber-copper in color with a two finger head. Aroma is malty sweet. Taste sweet up front and well balanced finish.

Tried from Can on 10 Mar 2025 at 05:03


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sample @ GABF 2019. Pours a golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty grainy weak grassy hoppy aroma. Fruity malty grainy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy weak hoppy finish.

Tried on 31 Jul 2022 at 21:44


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can

Tried from Can on 04 Aug 2021 at 20:22


5.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3

Ratios are all out of whack; toned-down bread and caramel, but the Noble hop presence is amped up to a unwieldy degree, turning the pint overly floral and bitter, almost perfume-y. Interesting, but using Nobles so aggressively makes for an odd märzen.

Tried on 08 Oct 2020 at 16:09


4.4
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 7

Can. Amber body. Frothy off-white head, diminishing. Aroma of toasted grain, light bread, caramel, plastic. Lightly sweet start. Bitter finish. Medium body, watery/sticky texture, lively carbonation. Flavor of grain, chemical, light chlorine aftertaste. Way too much bitterness for a marzen or even a fest beer. That combined with off-putting, clunky flavors put this in the drain pour category.

Tried from Can on 18 Sep 2020 at 22:51


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from explosivedog: pours amber/copper with off white head. Aroma is toffee and caramel, mostly. Taste is sweet maltiness. Low bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Can on 18 Nov 2019 at 04:07


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours copper. Orange peel, strawberry, toffee, biscuit, little sulfur, little Christmas cake, tangerine, caramel. Medium body. Very nice.

Tried from Can on 16 Oct 2019 at 00:58


4.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Blue can. Nice clear orangy pour. Typical mild perfumy sweet beer nose. Stronger festy flavors. Yes, very marzenlike. Sweet cloying beery flavor. It feels more like 6+% dude. Gets near bad-ass in the middle, hehehehh. Bitter malt session finish. Difficult to endure at times. Got this for a buck & a half at kroger, walton kentucky. Good deal! However, this has a long way to go to match up with favorites like Climax Hoffmann, Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen, Voodoo The James Brown or even Assawoman Bay MD; which are all in the same style. YEAH

Tried from Can on 17 Sep 2019 at 20:33


7

Tried on 26 Aug 2017 at 12:39


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Nutty caramel malt and hay aroma. Dark amber with giant light tan head. Mildly sweet caramel malt and moderately bitter herbal hay flavor. Good body. Mild acidic finish. Pretty good.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2016 at 20:26