Festbier
Tucher Bräu in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.49
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To many, the festbiers of Bavaria are a liquid voyage to the tents of Oktoberfest. For Tucher, nestled in its home in northern Bavaria and out of reach of the festivals that overtake Munich’s fairgrounds each fall, the focus is on Fruhlingsfest and celebrating the end of the cold winter months. As such, this festbier is brewed as a fuller-bodied helles lager with a slightly louder presence of old world hops instead of a marzen and is available to festivals year-round!
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can. Oooh this one nails it. Rich malts, solid hop balance. Richer, more depth than most US examples of the style I try. Decoction or something. This is quite enjoyable, deeper malt tone than I anticipated.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2025
at 04:07
6/10
Smooth, slightly bready malty and sweetish with some earthiness and grassy hay. Easy going.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Aug 2025
at 21:01
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a brassy gold with a large white head. Aroma is an ok cracker pils malt. Flavor is more clean cracker malt with a little herbal hop at the end. This was just kind of ok. The herbal hop ending was the best part.
Tried
on 19 Oct 2024
at 19:29
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Khyber Pass: pours gold with white head. Aroma is malty, light hoppiness. Taste is sugary. Lightly bitter. Ok.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2024
at 04:05
6.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Fruity and very…green? Some grainy sweetness mixed with apple and a firm floral bitterness. Eh.
Tried
on 18 Sep 2024
at 01:26
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml can from Brewers Haven. Clear golden pour, white foamy head. Musty, grainy aroma, sweet. Taste is malty, sweet with some light vegetal notes. Just a bit off, but it might be because it's the US version
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2024
at 03:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Honey, barley malt, and hay aroma. Golden yellow with nice off-white head. Moderately sweet barley malt and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Aug 2024
at 00:09
7/10
Heavy malt, sweet.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2023
at 17:33
Go Birds 🦅
Tried
from Can
on 14 Sep 2023
at 20:01
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Currently checking to see if this is the right place for this, our data base is a little confusing since this brewer is said to be out of business. Its a big pounder green can, just like the one pictured here, that says Tucher Festbier Aus Bayern on the front. Date code is 211918. Got it for cheap, $1 off the mixed six sales rack. I hope it aint cheap because its years old, hehehehh. The Seller assured me its a somewhat fresh can. Pour is lite pale with a fading white head. Nose is typical cheap pale american lager. First big swig is a little more like a pils than a fest. As the session moves to the middel, it does start to replicate many of the characters of an old country oktoberfest beer. Yea, now I'm gettin the festive attitude, the pils bitterness starts to fade. Becoming more friendly as I near the bottom of the can. In the end, its just a pretty good Oktoberfest beer, and it wasn't bad overall. If it is old stock, aging didn't seem to make it nasty.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Aug 2023
at 19:19