Fest!
Beltway Brewing Company in Sterling, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.41
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jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Fest! from Beltway Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Clear, very light amber coloured body that is definitely closer to golden with a thinnish, single to at most two centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of bread, crisp lager yeast, a dash of biscuity malts and a hint of subdued caster sugars, but not much more than that - very mild in the nose. Light-bodied; Very bready flavours at first dominate with a lot of graininess, some yeast pungency towards the end with a dry, biscuity and malt finish without any real sugars and no complexity at all to speak of. Aftertaste shows only the malts, yeast and bread notes with a big bitterness from the yeast and a biscuity flavour that doesn't lead onto any sugars or additional flavours. Overall, a pretty standard light marzen without any real complexity or pungency and while this might be good for those who don't really want any flavours or complexity, this is substandard for style and for the brewery, and pretty dissapointing! Definitely not worth trying unless you really like the style and have had everything else local! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Glen Allen/Short Pump (Richmond), Virginia on 26-September-2022 for US$2,50 sampled in my hotel room here in Novi, Michigan with two of my kids on 21-October-2022.
radagast83 (13490) reviewed Fest! from Beltway Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16oz can. Poured a clear yellow orange color with a small off-white head. Aroma was light bready malts, light biscuit. Flavor was crisp, light grassy notes. Pleasant malt with some herbal malts.