Festbier 2024-

Utopian Brewing in Bow, Devon, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn

Score

7.21

ABV: 5.6%

IBU: 30

Ticks: 8

Our Helles style Festbier is everything we love about Oktoberfest without the lederhosen. Brewed in the traditional Bavarian style using a double decoction mash to develop depth of flavour and body. Fermented slow and cold, and lagered for six weeks, ensuring a clean, soft mouthfeel, which is full flavoured and beautifully balanced.

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7.5

Boozehound74 (437) ticked Festbier 2025 from Utopian Brewing 2 weeks ago

Tried on 22 Nov 2025 at 16:38

7.6

Fergus (31281) reviewed Festbier 2025 from Utopian Brewing 1 month ago

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home picked up from HOTM. A mostly clear bright golden orange coloured pour with a lasting rocky white head. Aroma is green earthy cereal grass, cut grass, green kernels, dusty, green apples. Flavour is composed of semi crisp, tart, earthy cereals, hay, biting grass,. Palate is semi sweet, crisp, light tang,

Tried on 01 Nov 2025 at 23:07

7.8

LazyPyro (9821) reviewed Festbier 2025 from Utopian Brewing 1 month ago

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

440ml can, 2025 version, appears to be identical to 2024 with no recipe change this time.
Clear pale golden with a white head. Aroma of bready malts, straw. Taste of pale and bready malts, grains, a bit of straw and grass, light sweet with a drying bitterness to finish. Medium bodied. A very nice Helles.

Tried from Can from RAD Beer on 22 Oct 2025 at 18:16

5.3

BlackHaddock (17179) reviewed Festbier 2024- from Utopian Brewing 6 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

440ml can from The Jolly Vintner, Tiverton. Drank at home on 13th May 2025. Pale golden body, decent white head. 100% British Ingredients apparently, well they didn't come together to produce a very good Festbier in my opinion, this wasn't malty or laden with flavour, just a bog standard Lager. It wasn't a bad beer, just a poor Festbier.

Tried from Can at The Jolly Vintner on 13 May 2025 at 16:00

7.4

Theydon_Bois (45766) reviewed Festbier 2024- from Utopian Brewing 11 months ago

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

Can on the train to Manchester, picked up from HOTM online, 04/10/24. Clear golden with a thinnish just off white cap that dissipates to spotting and a swirl. Nose is pale malts, grains, herb, straw, toasted bread, grass. Taste comprises pale and bready malts, fruit rinds, biscuit, hint of vanilla, hedgerow, straw. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Tidy logger-bier.

Tried from Can on 11 Dec 2024 at 13:20

MusingAnorak (11835) ticked Festbier 2024- from Utopian Brewing 1 year ago

Tried from Draft on 03 Nov 2024 at 14:48

8.6

Leighton (34888) reviewed Festbier 2024- from Utopian Brewing 1 year ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home in Hackney - picked up from HOtM. Pours clear honey-gold, effervescent, with a foamy, mostly white topping. Light to medium sweet flavour with kites of fresh grains, sun-kissed malts, straw, biscuits. Light bodied with average, massaging carbonation. Balanced finish, some husky bitterness, a little grass, dry biscuits, fresh cereal. Hugely drinkable. Excellent.

Tried from Can on 15 Oct 2024 at 22:09

WingmanWillis (38005) ticked Festbier 2024- from Utopian Brewing 1 year ago

Tried on 04 Oct 2024 at 12:59