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

12 oz can purchased at Belmont Beverage in South Bend, Indiana. The pour is a clear golden amber, with an off white head that falls quickly. The aroma cereal grain malt, a touch of grass. The taste is lighter, cereal grain, soft grass hops and not too much less. The palate is light bodied with soft carbonation and a decently clean finish. Worked well enough for tailgating.

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

Very light. Too light and too little body for this style IMO

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

12 ounce can into dimpled mug; no can dating, but is a recent seasonal release. Pours fairly crystal clear deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger fairly dense off 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 retaining the cap. Aromas of cracker, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big cracker, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/caramel, light pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Slightly increasing dryness from bitterness. Fairly clean finishing. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6%. Overall this is a delicious Oktoberfest. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and pretty refreshing to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish. This tastes like a step between Pale Festbier and Amber Marzen overall. Clean and flavorful Pils/Munich malts, just enough bitterness for balance, and solid noble hop flavor presence. A very enjoyable offering, and great style example.