8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Great Oktoberfest example. Light honey aroma. Hint of sweetness with notes of honey, caramel, sponge cake and a hint of brown bread.

7

Poured amber, white head from can. Caramel, grass, slight hops, really good example of the style

7.2

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

16 ounce can. Bright amber orange pour. Frothy beige head. Toasted malt aroma. Flavor is sweet, tangy, toasted malt. Bready, toffeeish notes. Herbal hops in finish. Not bad.

5.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Caramel color with a medium sized foamy head that left good lacing. Sweetish and malty with a light fruity note. Medium finish and body.

6.8

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

16 oz can. Aroma and flavor are a carbon copy. Solid malt backbone with a mild spicy character. Medium in body and shows a some crispness. It is ok for the style.

7.1

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

Sample during the Oktoberfest Biers! tasting on 10/10/2021.

6.8

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

Nice and very clear copper and bronze coloured body with a brighter orange tint and a very thin, single centimetre tall off-white head that fades relatively quickly and only leaves a sliver of a lace on top. Aroma of nuts, light earth, a heavier dose of squash/pumpkins and a subdued spice element, all on top of a lot of yeast and especially a malted barley note with some caramelised sugars closer to the end, but they fade fairly quickly as well. Medium-bodied; Fairly rich malts, earthiness, nutty flavours and especially rustic qualities that hit strong at first with a lot of the malts and graininess, but some noticeable spices and yeast qualities with a definite lager kick, that's picked up from the bitterness here, at the end, with a dry, herbal bite as well and a lot of yeastiness. Aftertaste is dry, with a good earthiness front and centre with a kick from the caramelised sugars, but more of a bitterness than any sweetness and a light bready quality that definitely brings out the lager characteristics. Overall, a strong, earthy, nutty, rustic and crisp marzen with a lot of the flavours you'd expect from the style with a slight sweetness and pungency that might not be so typical, but great to sample, even though it's from the state of Ohio! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Heinen's Grocery Store in [downtown] Cleveland, Ohio on 30-July-2021 for US$2,89 sampled at my house here on the last few days of Oktoberfest, in Washington on 12-October-2021.