Oaktoberfest
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.68
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Oaktoberfest is a true German Märzen bier, brewed with premium imported Pilsner and Vienna malts. It’s spiced with Bavarian hops from the Fatherland, and fermented with the famous Bavarian Augustiner Lager yeast from Munich. We utilized German Hallertauer traditions for both bittering and aroma additions, adding a rich, noble hop presence to this beer.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
16 oz can purchased at Plaza Liquor in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is clear golden with a one inch white head that is lasting and falls with splotchy lace. The aroma is hay and cracker malt along with a hint of herbal soft lemon. The taste is a crisp honey cracker malt, grass, soft herbal and finishes toasty with additional hay. The palate is light bodied with active carbonation and a softly sweet malt and mineral earth finish. Easy drinking beer, well made.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2016
at 15:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
$2.65 pint can, Wine Warehouse. Pours clear golden with a large off-white head. Lightly sweet aroma of grasses, autumn leaves. Taste is a bittersweet lager with plenty of grasses and browning leaves, minor grains and possibly corn. Not bad at all.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2016
at 18:19
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Light orange with a white head. Sweet toasted grain, light earthy hops, mild but sharp bitterness. Finish has more of the faintly caramel malts with a bit of a snap right at the end. Solid.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2016
at 22:06
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz. can. 1st thing, don’t use oak, it it is not used. Once I got around the fact that this was not aged in oak, I realized it still is a very enjoyable fall seasonal. Aroma is toasted grain, bready, mild musty basement.
Flavor has some noble hops to balance out the Vienna malts. Body is light but also made for drinking in large doses. Pretty nicely balanced. I don’t like the appearance of fall seasonals at the beer store. Mostly because it means summer is over but aside from that ... this beer is drinking really well and I could drink it in pretty large doses right now. That means something to me.
Flavor has some noble hops to balance out the Vienna malts. Body is light but also made for drinking in large doses. Pretty nicely balanced. I don’t like the appearance of fall seasonals at the beer store. Mostly because it means summer is over but aside from that ... this beer is drinking really well and I could drink it in pretty large doses right now. That means something to me.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Sep 2016
at 21:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can poured into a tulip. Canned on 8/22/2016. Clear golden yellow with 1-2 fingers of off-white head. Aromas of citrus, caramel, malt, honey. Tastes of caramel, malt, biscuit, light floral. Medium body with a dry finish. Pretty solid.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Sep 2016
at 18:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Poured a nice amber color with a small white head. Aroma was light lemon, sweet malts. Light oak, woody notes. Pleasant, light oak, sweet. Light malts. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Sep 2016
at 00:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can from Uptown. I agree, no oak is confusing. Pours a clear orange hue with a medium white head. A big sweet malt nose. Soft perfume, big sweet round flavors, toast. Clean and flavorful. Could drink many.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2016
at 00:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle pour into pint glass from The Drinkery, Londonderry, NH. Aroma is mild bready malt with yeasty dough/basement. Appearance is gorgeous golden color with tremendous sparkle, persistent finger-width foamy off-white head with nice lacing. Taste is mix of mild bitter and sour over sweet. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, average to lively carbonation with dry bitter over sour finish. Overall, the standout here is the appearance with pretty mild and average aroma, taste and palate. Beer was old so may color the rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2015
at 22:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
The Sampler, Brooklyn tap: Pours amber with a whitish head. Aroma is slight oak-aging, but mostly a lot of caramel and malt. Taste is slightly oaky at the top, but then gets to be more like a normal marzen with the sweet caramel tastes hitting it up. Good though.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Dec 2014
at 22:46
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pour is a clear tan with an average white head. Aroma is a little caramel malt with some bread. Flavor is a bready malt but kinda watery and flat after that. Finish is watery and cracker malt. The name is kinda deceiving. It’s not a oak aged marzen the name has something to do with the Spanish name of the city this is made.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2014
at 15:36