Festbier
Bitburger Braugruppe in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 🇩🇪
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
6.55
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A German style Festbier – tasty, full-bodied and delicately malty-mild. Created by our brewmasters to enjoy the traditional German beer festival atmosphere. A very special malt composition, including Pilsner Malt, Münchner Malt and light Caramel Malt, accounts for its fine color and smooth body. Additionally, the beer is refined with Bitburger’s proprietary and unique hop blend called ‘Siegelhopfen’ (seal hops), which is sourced from a farm just a few minutes from the brewery. This drinkable 6.2% ABV full-bodied beer is the perfect marriage of hops and malt with a slightly sweet backbone, while finishing dry.
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7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle at home. Pours orangeish copper with an off-white head. Nose is orange jam, grains, hay and a gentle earthy touch. Taste is moderately sweet, showing grains, hay, light herbal and citric notes, but a tad less intense than the aroma was. Also, it’s slightly lacking body-wise. Other than this, this is surprisingly alright.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2025
at 12:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Gold in color with a two finger head. Aroma is grains and yeast. Taste is grains and malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:00
7/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Nice copper color. Medium foamy head. Nice caramel nose. Rich deep melanoidin malt flavors. Medium bodied, semi-sweet. Excellent festbier - and i know SN collab'd with them a few years ago so I'm curious to try this side by side with that, but that is not to be, given it was maybe 3 years ago?
Tried
on 27 Dec 2022
at 16:01
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Hazy honey with a medium sized foamy head. Sweet and tangy with fruity and grapey hops. Medium finish and body.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2022
at 22:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle pours out caramel color topped with a sand head. Nose is nice grain some sweetness and toffee. Taste is more of the nice sweet grain malts and some toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2022
at 03:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle from Brewers Haven. Clear amber pour, creamy, fluffy white head, thick lacing. Malty, bready aroma. Taste is malty, sweet and finishes with a light peppery snap. ' Tis the season...
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2022
at 02:14
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Pours amber with a large quickly fading head.Nose shows bready malt, slight vegetal and cardboard notes.Flavours include more vegatl and cardboard notes along with soft biscuity cardboard and faint spicy hops.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2022
at 22:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle; BB 19th May 2022. My third beer in a mini O'fest tasting session with myself while in California at my daughters. Poured into an old Aying Brau glass tankard it had a misty amber body, off-white crown that soon turned into a wisp and collar with some lacing. This is by far the most bitter and 'almost' hoppy beer of the three. It's got plenty of caramel maltiness just like the style should have, but I've never had an O'fest beer so bitter and hoppy (not that I've had hundreds of them, although I've been to 9 Munich Oktoberfest's, etc, etc).
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2021
at 01:11
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
bottle @ interspar (budapest) golden colour, normal body, average carbonated, white head, caramel aroma, malty, grainy, smooth sweetness, easy to drink
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2021
at 20:30