Festbier
Ardent Craft Ales in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.81
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Our Festbier is a traditional German lager with a malty backbone and light hoppiness. This full-bodied, amber-colored beer features a bready aroma and slight malty sweetness in the classic Marzen style, served in 1/2 liter steins at the beer garden. Prost!
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7/10
Canned. Poured amber ish big head caramel malts, dough bread etc. Pretty good
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Crystal clear coloured body with a thinnish off-white head that fades relatively quickly, and still leaves a small lace on top after a few seconds. Aroma of very robust grainy and earthy malts with some nuts, funk and especially dry characteristics, along with a nice caramelised sugar scent that you'd expect, just not as strong as it is here. Medium-bodied; Robust earthy and especially nutty flavours come through at first with a grainy funk that shows through everything and brings out a little sweetness and a lot of cereal elements, especially after the initial nuttiness fades. Aftertaste shows a good deal of caramelised sugars and sweetness with a kick of malts, big time cereal and a good dose of earthiness, with some of the lager yeast still noticeable here. Overall, a pretty nice marzen with a dry and especially earthy and cereal-y bite with the associated nuts and sweetness here still of course, but a robust product that goes down relatively easily. Good to sample during the Oktoberfest season and incredibly locally. I sampled this sixteen ounce pint-sized can purchased from Whole Foods in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 24-Septenber-2021 for US$3,99 sampled on the train from Washington to New York before heading to Alaska on 04-October-2021.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2021
at 03:08
7/10
Clear copper amb bod med foam off wht head. Bready toasty arma. Bready toasty spicy flav. Med full bod mod carb. 7/4/7/4/15 3.7
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2019
at 13:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
4 oz pour on draft at Aslin's 3rd anniversary party. Clear golden brown with beige head. Aromas of malt, floral. Tastes of malt, citrus, floral. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Oct 2018
at 00:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft pour at the Aslin 3rd Anniversary party. Poured a nice clear, toffee colored amber color with a small slightly off-white head on top. Aroma was classic German lager notes, sweet malts. Light herbal and floral hops. Light crisp malts. Touch of grass. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2018
at 06:04