Oktoberfest
Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
6.17
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Inspired by the ultimate beer celebration and crafted in the classic Märzen-style, Summit Oktoberfest is the perfect fall beer. Full in body thanks to a blend of European hops and Moravian 37 malts, it starts right with toffee flavors and finishes clean and crisp like the autumn air.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Lactic toffee malt aroma. Amber with giant light tan head. Lightly sweet toffee malt and hay flavor. Pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2012
at 13:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 3
Overall 11
Bottle. Amber body Huge, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of caramel, tasted grain, bread, grass. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture turning sticky, lively carbonation. Husky grain in the taste and dusty grain mouthfeel and flavor in the finish. Average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2012
at 18:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Nice crisp clear amber and copper coloured body with a perfect, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of nuts, light spice, alcohol, caramel and a bit of toffee - nice smells. Medium-bodied; Strong potent spice and caramel kick with a lot of toasted malt, alcohol, nuts, earth, pumpkin pie spice and a good pungent toffee flavour. Aftertaste is quite strong with a lingering spicey taste, a bit of alcohol and a good malt presence. Overall, a nice marzen, one of the better i’ve had recently - with great complex flavours and a strong finish. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 04-September-2011 for US$1.45 sampled at home in Washington on 25-September-2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2011
at 00:04
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a small frothy white head that diminishes quickly leaving decent lacing. The aroma is a fruity malt with raisin and cereal. Thin mouthfeel with a bready malt with caramel and raisin. Easy to drink hiding the alcohol well, a very good marzen.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2010
at 00:32
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark copper orange with a mid-sized head. Sweet malts with light earth and a bit of toasted malt in the aroma. Flavor is full of lightly sweet malts, caramel, light fruit, faint spice. FInish has a light alcohol burn. Decent brew.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2010
at 18:40
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz. screwtop bottle. Taking a break from preparing my weekly Chicago beer calendar to enjoy this. Hearty malt smell under the cap. Pours a big load of foam over an autumnal brown beer with lots of bubbles. Smell in glass is very grainy. Off for an Oktoberfest, maybe they should offer that as characteristic of Minnesota and other barley regions? Taste has some phenol and age to it. Can’t decipher the bottle code, but I got this in July, so it might be a refugee from last year. Well, sometimes I can get behind a grainy lager. This does have some nice hop bitterness intact. Nothing here is bad, just a little aged, so I’m rating this overall a touch more than the sum of its parts. Quick! Pour me a fresh one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2010
at 23:06
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
A golden amber beer with a thin white head. In aroma, nice caramel malt with notes of cinnamon, very nice. In mouth, a sweet fruity malt, with light German hops, a light buttery notes. Not bad. On tap at Ike’s MSP, Sept. 13 2009.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2009
at 08:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Enjoyed at the Minnesota State Fair, both via a draft 16 oz glass and a 12 oz bottle. Pour is a dark orange golden copper with an off white head. Aroma of caramel malt, grass and straw. Taste is pleasantly mild sweet caramel with a floral aftertaste. Palate is medium, with a dry finish. Medium carbonation and the grassy body made this quite drinkable. Nice one.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Sep 2009
at 13:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to swalden28. Pours with an orange body and an off-white head. Aroma of caramel and toast. Taste is extremely bitter for a Marzen, with some caramel and bready flavors. Light bubbles and a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2009
at 14:50
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz shorty bottle. Highly filtered orange-brown color with a minimal, patchy head. Classic robustly sweet aroma. Creamy malt taste, with some noble hoppy bitterness upfront. Just noticing the ABV..pretty impressively covered up..could easily pass for 6.0%. Certainly some rich sweetness in the aftertaste though now that I have been made aware of it’s strength. Unique and classic and the same time.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2009
at 00:22