North High Brewing Company Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest

 

North High Brewing Company in Columbus, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn
Score
6.36
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 50 Ticks: 6
Rich, malty, amber lager. The Vienna malt base creates a biscuity backbone and the melanoiden malt delivers a hint of toastiness.

Available August - September

Hops: Chinook
Malts: Pale, Munich, Caraffa 1 & 2, Golden Oats, Flaked Oats (listed at 5.6% on website)
 

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

Nutty toffee malt and hay aroma. Amber with small head. Moderately sweet creamy nutty toffee malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.

Tried from Can on 08 Sep 2023 at 23:36


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sample at Daily Growler Powell during the Pre-Thanksgiving Hoof Hearted + Schmidt's Sausage Party on 11/23/2022 (as Dirndl Dropper).

Tried from Growler on 30 Dec 2022 at 20:38


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can bought somewhere in Columbus. Pours hazy amber orange with an off-white head. Aroma: roasted malts, caramel, spicy, light peppery hop. Taste: moderate sweet & light to moderate bitter. Soft & crisp, malt dominant. Medium body, soft carbonation, drying finish.

Tried from Can on 19 Jul 2020 at 13:58


4.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Can. Cloudy iced tea look about it. Smell is a sorttah fest nose. Taste is malty and somewhat bold. Yes malty almost medicinal. Gets almost viscous in the end. Thick malty finish, almost cloying but never quite gits thar.

Tried from Can on 08 Mar 2018 at 23:28


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 ounce can into dimpled mug, canned on 8/18/2017. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep orange/light copper color with a 1 finger dense and fluffy off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big brown sugar, brown bread crust, toasted biscuit, light caramel/nuttiness, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice aromas with good complexity of bready malts and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. A bit fruity/yeasty, but not overwhelming. Taste of big brown sugar, brown bread crust, toasted biscuit, light caramel/nuttiness, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of brown sugar, brown bread crust, toasted biscuit, light caramel/nuttiness, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malts and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Nicely clean on lager flavors, minimal fruity/yeasty notes. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth and creamy/bready/grainy mouthfeel that is great. Minimal hop stickiness or dryness. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.4%. Overall this is a delicious Oktoberfest. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malts and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the minimally bitter/drying finish. Very clean and rich Munich, Vienna, and Melanoidin malt complexity; with just enough earthy hop balance against sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2018 at 18:35


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a hazy toffee color with a medium sized fluffy orange-tan head that lingered and left minimal lacing. The aroma was dry with citric and perfumey hops. The flavor was dry and bitter with strong perfume followed by citrus and chalk. Long perfume and citrus finish. Medium body. Not good.

Tried from Can on 15 Aug 2017 at 18:59