Oktoberfest
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn Out of Production|
Score
6.97
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Grab a pack and let your fest commence! This rich Märzen lager features German malts for inviting aromas of honey and biscuity bread, flavors of caramel and graham cracker, and visions of sprawling beer tents. Smooth and balanced, Oktoberfest is here to celebrate.
Admin Note: Originally known as Octoberfest (More recently as Oktoberfest). ABV fluctuated between 5.4% - 6.0%. Brewed until 2015, when Sierra Nevada started to do collaboration festbiers but started being released again in 2020.
Admin Note: Originally known as Octoberfest (More recently as Oktoberfest). ABV fluctuated between 5.4% - 6.0%. Brewed until 2015, when Sierra Nevada started to do collaboration festbiers but started being released again in 2020.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange pour is topped by a large frothy beige head. Spotty lacing. Spicy nose hints at dried fruits and toffee malt. Soft pleasant mouthfeel leads to more toasted malt, light caramel and herbal hop notes. Peppery hop finish is long and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2020
at 20:58
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shaker pint draft at Barley’s Brewhaus in Overland Park, Kansas. The pour is a clear darker golden with a ½ inch creamy white head that leaves nice lace. The aroma is fresh toasted malt grain, along with some grass and hay. The taste is malt forward, clean and crisp with the hay and toastiness to the back. The palate is light to medium bodied, active carbonation and the crisp finish. Nice simple clean Fest bier.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2020
at 23:25
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from a local grocery. Pours light bright copper with a foamy near-white head. Toasty malt aroma. Floral. Med body. It's fairly dry, floral, but the main flavor seems the slightly toasty malt. Lightly bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2020
at 23:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled September 4th 2020.
Pours a clear gold with an inch of foam after things settle down.
Smell is of citrus, bread and toasted malt, fruity.
Toasted and bready malt dominate the taste. Light citrus and fruit are mere byproducts in the taste for me.
Medium bodied.
Decent but not something that I would repurchase.
Pours a clear gold with an inch of foam after things settle down.
Smell is of citrus, bread and toasted malt, fruity.
Toasted and bready malt dominate the taste. Light citrus and fruit are mere byproducts in the taste for me.
Medium bodied.
Decent but not something that I would repurchase.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2020
at 22:53
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours clear gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to coat surface. Toasted hay aromas. Crisp with sweet caramel and fresh bread front to back. Lasting earthy hop finish.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2020
at 21:50
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz from a six pack. Aroma is grainy, light caramel. Pours mostly clear deep golden with a one finger bone-white head with good retention. Taste has a moderate caramel malt sweetness with a light herbal hop bitter edge and touch of savory. A really great example of the style, no surprise there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2020
at 00:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Solid festbier, grainy and semisweet with mild notes of toasted bread and hints of caramel. Grassy bitterness and a floral vein keep it lighter and crisper than its märzen cousins. Nice pint.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2020
at 22:10
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours a crystal clear deep gold color with a thick off white head and great retention. Minimal lacing. Pale malts aroma. Pale malts flavor too with a slight hop bite in the finish. This tastes more like a pale lager than an Oktoberfest beer. It's a good lager but a disappointing Oktoberfest beer compared to previous years. Too hoppy for a good O-fest beer. You hop heads love anything SN does.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2020
at 22:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Golden body with a frothy white head. Aroma of bread, caramel, fruits, light herbal hops. Sweet start, nicely balanced bitterness in the finish as a Festbier should have compared to an Oktoberfest. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Flavors of caramel and bread, toasted grain, spicy hops with just a hint of vitamin B in the finish. Clean, crisp. Enjoy this style more than the sweeter classic marzen/Oktoberfest. Good job here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2020
at 14:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I was a bit surprised there was no collaboration this year. I wonder why. Anyway, it appears they've learned a few things from these collabs over the years and have produced a pretty solid one that reminds me of the 2015 Riegele collab with those spicy hops in standing up against nicely bready caramelized malts. It doesn't quite rise to that level of wonder. But it is much better than say their 2016 Mahrs Brau take. Still a really great ofest worth looking forward too.
Tried
on 01 Sep 2020
at 14:59