Oaktoberfest
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.69
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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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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
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Another great American Marzen style beer, although classified here as a Vienna. Pours out medium golden with lazy carbonation and a thin head. It gets better with a nice sweet malt aroma, and even more robust malty taste. Mouth feel is slick and slippery, lingering malt sweetness and a snap of hop bitterness at the very end. Prost!
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2014
at 19:00
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
355 ml. bottle sampled @ Firestone Walker Tasting. Thank you! Bottled on 05/08/2014. Sparkling golden, almost no head. Light sweetish metal nose, faint citrus herbs. Lightly bitter herbal, metal, white sugar, bitter grass & hay finish beer. Light body. Not a very exciting lager. Drinks easily but nothing to get exited about.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 14:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Firestone Walker Oaktoberfest (by Firestone Walker Brewing (Duvel-Moortgat)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
19/X/14 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - bottled: VIII/5/14 (2014-1223) Thanks to Reid and Blayne for the bottle!
Clear pale blond beer, small aery white irregular head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: wort, grains, hay, cow fodder, bit metallic. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty, bit grassy, sweet touch, pretty bitter, cow fodder. Aftertaste: grassy, hay, wort, pretty hoppy.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 2.9/5
19/X/14 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle @ Beuk's postponed Firestone Walker and other nice beers allowed as well tasting (Brussels) - bottled: VIII/5/14 (2014-1223) Thanks to Reid and Blayne for the bottle!
Clear pale blond beer, small aery white irregular head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: wort, grains, hay, cow fodder, bit metallic. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: malty, bit grassy, sweet touch, pretty bitter, cow fodder. Aftertaste: grassy, hay, wort, pretty hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 13:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On Tap at Bier:Thirty Boise Clear orange amber Full lasting sandy head. Big fresh light toasted malt and noble hop aroma. Classic but bold Oktoberfest. Clean and smoooth and fairly bitter. Not much "oak" Great seasonal.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2014
at 17:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a crystal clear deep golden color with a huge bubbly off white head that persists forever. A bit of sulfur dripped off this at first pour, but slowly dissipated as I waited for the head to recede. Earthy mineral water, rich bready pilsner malt and a hint of spicy floral hop. The flavor is clean rich bready light caramel malts with barely a touch of spice. Medium body moderate to high level of carbonation. Tastes better than it smells, I could drink these but pales in comparison to some of the imports.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2014
at 19:34