Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Benny & the Fest

Benny & the Fest

 

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Richmond, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular
Score
6.72
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 4
Hardywood Benny & the Fest is our take on a traditional marzen lager. Malt forward with a light sweetness and dry finish, Benny & the Fest is a wonderfully crisp treat to pair with the cooler temperatures of fall.
 

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7

Canned. Poured Amber Ed brown. Malty and some light hops. Pretty well executed.

Tried from Can on 20 May 2025 at 01:50


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Ever so slightly hazy copper and bronze coloured body with a very fast-dying, just off-white head that fades quickly and leaves just about nothing after a few seconds. Aroma of metal, malt, caramelised sugars, toffee, light apples and pears with a hint of spice, but some more treacle and raisins at the end - quite nice and still mild. Medium-bodied; Strong rich malty and nutty flavours show through with a smooth, but pungent body with some light medicinal and metallic, earthy and rustic bite. Aftertaste shows some deeper malts, quite a bit of sweetness from caramelised sugars and toffee with a slight rustic and dry note with a good deal of bitterness from malts with a light hit of hops towards the finish. Overall, a nice and crisp, quite malty beer with some slight medicinal, grassy and herbal flavours with a dash of sweetness near the end and a healthy bit of sweetness from the toffee and treacle. A good beer and one for when it gets slightly chilly here for Winter. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 02-November-2020 for US$4,49 sampled at my house here in Washington on 13-January-2021.

Tried from Can on 14 Jan 2021 at 07:46


7

Clear gold bod sml wht head. Bready toffee arma. Bready toffee nutty flav. Med bod mod low carb. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4

Tried on 21 Sep 2019 at 16:49


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft pour at Matchbox Vintage Pizza Bistro Mosaic. Poured a very slightly hazy, but mostly clear, amber color without much of a head to speak of. Super malty, some light earthy notes, but not overly aromatic one way or the other with the hops. Sweet, light grassy and crisp notes.

Tried from Draft on 09 Oct 2018 at 06:07