Octoberfest
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Autumn|
Score
6.24
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We threw our first Octoberfest festival here at the brewery in 1990 – it was actually inside the brewery, amidst the tanks. We can’t do that so much anymore (there were about 18,000 people at our last Octoberfest), but we still love having everyone here for our Octoberfest each fall. Come join us this year!
Harpoon Octoberfest is a malty tribute to fall, balanced by a gentle hop bitterness. In keeping with tradition, it is a Marzen-style beer, brewed with abundant quantities of Munich, Chocolate, and Pale malts. Those malts provide a solid, full body and create the beer’s deep color. It is a rich, flavorful beer.
Harpoon Octoberfest is a malty tribute to fall, balanced by a gentle hop bitterness. In keeping with tradition, it is a Marzen-style beer, brewed with abundant quantities of Munich, Chocolate, and Pale malts. Those malts provide a solid, full body and create the beer’s deep color. It is a rich, flavorful beer.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007. A deep red beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is sweet malty with quite strong notes of caramel as well as lighter notes of straw. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel and straw, leading to a slightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2008
at 17:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle...pours amber - loved the malt flavor and not too bitter - definitely taste a caramel/chocolate flavor. This one is good...definitely could drink a few more in one setting. I bet it’s tasty on tap
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2008
at 17:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
This ale poured a dark orange colour with a nice bright white head. To the nose you could get scents of ripe fruit, brown sugar and milk. First taste was smooth with flavours of hopps, slightly burnt malts and cider. The finish is hoppy with a litter bitterness. Very good.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2008
at 19:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle, Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Dark reddish brown colour with huge, frothy, beige head. Malty nose with notes of dried fruit. Malty taste with dark and/or dried fruit and spicy hops in a finish with balanced bitterness. Solid malt sweetness in the background. Doesn’t really remind of a german octoberfestbeer, leaning more in the kellerbier or vienna direction. Nice and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2007
at 15:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, from a friend in Georgia. Clear crimson color, with a medium sized white head. The aroma is quite malty, with a pretty malty flavor as well. It’s pretty decent in that most of the Octoberfests I’ve had this season aren’t anything to call home about. I could see myself getting this one again if I could find it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2007
at 23:10
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@SBWF 2007
Dark amber color, creamy beige head. Caramelly malty nose. Also flavor is mostly malty with some caramel. Lightly hoppy. Not really a German oktoberfestbeer, but balanced and good with its own.
Dark amber color, creamy beige head. Caramelly malty nose. Also flavor is mostly malty with some caramel. Lightly hoppy. Not really a German oktoberfestbeer, but balanced and good with its own.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2007
at 09:42