Draft. Amber minor head, a lot of sweets and malts. Nothing super-special but a decent Marzen.

Draft at a club in Niles, IL with Polish clientele, that seems to keep in rarely-distributed German beers along with the Okocim and Zwyviec. But server knew little about the beer, and I only had the blue checkerboard on the tap handle to tell it was supposed to be an Oktoberfest beer. Poured in a Maisel’s weiss glass, it sure appeared to be a weizen to me. And I see by the other ratings that this is indeed one of the sickly pale lagers now being passed off in Germany as Okto bier. So, a pale pils color with a short-lived white head. Clean beer with very little besides a lightl malt smell. A bit of hop sharpness, perhaps bigger than I’m thinking as there’s little malt to balance it. I kept thinking I had notes of lemon and weizen spices. Okay on draft.

Until I found RateBeer, I thought this was this worst Oktoberfest I had ever had. Knowing that it is a Helles helps a little but there are better of those around too. Gold color, little malt in the aroma. Thin body, watery and disappointing. Lacking in the malty/ crisp/ dry palate a good Dortmunder/Helles should exhibit.

Hazy golden colour with a thin white head. Fairly yeasty aroma with high levels of sweetness and malt. Medium-bodied; Subtle sweet flavour with some other flavours. Aftertaste left with a very small subset of the sweetness and spiceyness. Overall, a wierd beer, not an Oktoberfest at all (a bit deceiving in the name). I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Beers of the World in Rochester, New York and tasted it on 17-October-2003.

Golden straw; biscuits, hay in the aroma; sweetish body; soft maltiness - fluffy, hinting of marshmallows & fresh bread; finishes med. long - balanced between clean malt and a touch of grassy hop.