Festbier
Batch Brewing Company in Detroit, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
7.11
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willisread (9801) reviewed Festbier from Batch Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam that dissipates. Lovely, grainy malt nose with some light grassy hops and faint toffee aromas. Dry on the palate with toasted cracker malt, grass and light pepper on the finish. Very nice crusher.
superspak (10160) reviewed Festbier from Batch Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 ounce can into dimpled mug; no can dating, but is a recent release. Pours crystal clear deep golden/amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great complexity of bready malts and light earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, floral, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity and robustness of bready malts and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with no yeasty notes presence. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 5.1%. Overall this is an awesome Festbier! All around great complexity and robustness of bready malts and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very clean and rich Pils/Munich complexity; with nice noble hop presence/balance against sweetness. A really enjoyable offering, and outstanding style example.