The Princess Octoberfest
Smartmouth Brewing Company in Norfolk, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
6.55
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught from high line. Caramel malts. Pretty standard marten. Nothing to write home about
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Aroma is toasted brown malt with caramel and toffee. Moderate to medium sweet with a mild bitterness. Body is medium. Good Festbier.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Gold pour. Pumpkin with some spice flavor. Not very powerful. Very subtle in flavor. Not a lot of Fall flavors that you find in most Oktoberfest beers. It's still a good beer and very drinkable
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bread nose. Clear amber, medium head. Pecan, bread crust. Medium body, eaay carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Barley and light citrus. Some tin. Easy drinking. Not a lot here but ok. Golden pour with ok head. Crisp finish. Tap.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Ever so slightly hazy copper and bronze coloured body with just about no head at all, and what is there is about a single centimetre of an off-white head that fades fairly quickly. Aroma of metal, light malts, nuts, earth, flowers, yeast and a bunch more, super astringent and pungent metallic twang that is bitter and slightly unsettling. Light-bodied; Strong and pungent nutty, earthy and especially biscuity characteristics with a lot of lager notes throughout that translate into bitterness and a very crisp bite that's pretty astringent and very dry. Aftertaste shows the biscuits, light caramelised sugars and toffee with a lot of nutty, earthy and grainy characteristics at the end that lets up slighlty, but is still quite strong. Overall, a very deep, super dry and one-dimensional marzen with a grainy and very malty characteristic without much sugars at all, no real fruitiness and a simplistic, mild finish. Not great and while I wish I could recommend this, there are others, better, even from here in Virginia or close by. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 12-September-2020 for US$2,29 sampled at my house here in Washington on 07-November-2020.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 ounce can thanks to hershiser2! Hazy copper, large frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of grain, earthy hops, toffee. Taste is toffee, caramel, grain, mild hops. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
$1.95 can, Wine Warehouse. Pours hazy orange with a soft off-white head. Aroma is brown leaves and brown grass, light caramel. Flavor is slightly sweet caramel malt, brown grasses, bread, light grain.