Bitburger Braugruppe Festbier

Festbier

 

Bitburger Braugruppe in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany 🇩🇪

  Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular
Score
6.55
ABV: 6.2% IBU: - Ticks: 29
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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5.5
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


5

Tried from Bottle on 01 Nov 2021 at 21:17


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours hazy deep gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes leaving scant lacing. Dark, earthy caramel aromas. Sweet with molasses and dark caramel upfront turning to soft, mildly bitter earth in the lasting finish.

Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2021 at 21:58


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at German American Society of Trenton Oktoberfest. Amber orange pour. Frothy beige head. Toasted malt aroma. Sweet toasted malt flavor. Some herbal hops and mineral notes. Tasty.

Tried from Draft on 26 Sep 2021 at 00:13


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

On tap at Banhof. Clear light amber with small white head. Aroma is caramel, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is caramel malt. Descent for a fest beer.

Tried from Draft on 19 Sep 2021 at 17:54


8

Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2021 at 19:00


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8

0.33 bottle. Traditional label, the beer is beautiful, lighter amber with a creamy solid head. Delicate caramel malt aroma, nothing distracting. Outstanding taste. Full-bodied, yet round, clean. Dried fruit, biscuity, a little sweet, a little raisiny. Fruity finish. A perfect drinking fest bier, reminiscent of light lager beers. On tap, it can be the pleasure of Oktoberfest itself... (P.S.: it was available in SPAR for the past 2 winters, I always gladly bought the small six-packs...)
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Hagyományos cimke, a sör szép, vilagosabb borostyán krémszínű tömör habbal. Karamelles finom malátás illat, semmi zavaró nincs benne. Íze kiemelkedő. Testes, mégis kerek, tiszta. Aszalt gyümölcsös, kekszes, kicsit édeskés, kicsit mazsolás. Gyumolcsös lecsengés. Világos bak sörökre emlékeztető, tökéletes ivó fest bier. Csapolva maga lehet az oktoberfest élvezete... (Ui.: az elmúlt 2 télen kapható volt a SPAR-ban, mindig örömmel vettem a kis hatos pakkokat...)

Tried from Bottle on 05 Sep 2021 at 19:05


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle from a local Grocery Outlet store. Pours clear copper with an off-white head. Mildly roasty malt aroma over hops that seem near, but not exactly, Saaz. Med body. Roasty caramel malt is the main flavor, but there's some grassy hop bitter. Tasty Marzen.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Nov 2020 at 00:39


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12oz bottle. Dulled amber-orange body. Quite malt forward for the style, perhaps the caramel malt is out of place. So darker than normal, but not that rich, full malt depth you might find in a more premium version. A pleasant enough Fall macro lager, just not that impressive of a Festbier.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2020 at 06:10


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Deep copper and bronze coloured body with a thinnish, pure white head that stays afloat nicely, but fades to just a thin layer over top. Aroma of caramelised sugars, toffee, light biscuity malts, some yeast a dry apple bite towards the end. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong caramel and toffee notes dominate with a lot of biscuity and herbal malts noticeable with a floral bitterness and a yeastie and bready bite that show the malts and yeast almost more than anything else. Aftertaste shows the dry grain with the biscuity and very bready yeast notes, all finishing with some rustic earthiness, a bit of flowers and more malts than anything else, but some subtle sweetness at the very end from the caramelised sugars. Overall, a relatively simplistic, very malty, earthy and super nutty beer that has a nice balance of sugars and yeast, that is easy-drinking, yet still full of traditional flavours (gotta love Germany!). I sampled this 33 cL bottle, purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 05-October-2020 for US$1,99 sampled at my house here in Washington on 19-October-2020.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Oct 2020 at 06:55