Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500 ml can from the Advent Calendar. Malty nose, hints of chocolate, touch of biscuit and caramel, herbal Noble hops. Bright pale gold with a large, rocky head. Almost tastes a bit burnt. Cardboard oxidation, cocoa, grass. A bit of corny DMS in there too. Bitter, mineral finish. Worst one of the box so far.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml can from Costco Advent Calendar - Clear old gold body, tight white bubbly top. Nose malt forward, malty caramel taste, bit of grassiness un there too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Can from an advent calendar. Pours clear rich golden with large foamy off-white head, malt aroma, high carbonation, mildly sweet grainy malt taste, mild grassy bitterness coming in later, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Though it’s nice brew, it’s not what I expected to taste when I thought of a marzen.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
500ml can from a Costco Advent Calendar, drank at my daughters place on 9th December 2021. Clean golden/amber body, white affair on top. Not too sure I'd call this a Marzen, it's too light and hasn't got that malty base I associate with the style. Decent enough Lager/Pils though. It does have a more grainy/malty feel than a hoppy one and I quite enjoyed it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Kalea Bier-Adventskalender 04.12.2021 (Hofer-Version) Dieses Bier darf man nicht mit dem Husarentrunk verwechseln, welches letztes Jahr am selben Tag im Kalender war. Es ist ein intensiver Weihnachtsbock mit tollen fruchtigen Aromen, die wunderbar verknüpft mit den karamelligen Malznoten harmonieren. Wirklich tolles Bier für ein frohes Fest.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can from day 8 Costco Lager advent. It pours clear golden - amber with a thick, rugged white head. The aroma is spicy, grassy, rivita, spicy bread, earth, digestive biscuit and cereal. The taste is crisp, firmly dry, bitterness which lingers, spicy, rivita, earth, light tannin, nuttiness, soapy floral vibes and dry grass with lingering bitter - spicy finish. Average body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Not quite as drinkable as I had hoped, mostly due to the spicy edge to it. Fine enough overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can 22 from the CostCo 2021 Advent box. Pours gold with a moderate, creamy white head. Aroma is bready with a little grassiness. Med body. Flavor is bready with some grassiness and a touch something I can't place. It is somewhat like a phenol thing. Overall it's a good, though unusual, flavor. Dryish, tho a sweetness pops in and out. Lightly bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at home from CostCo Calendar. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a lasting fine white head. Aroma is sweet bready, nutty malts, stewed hops, apple. Flavour is composed of rye bread, nutty, stewed hop, grass. Palate is semi sweet, highish carbonation . Meh.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500 ml from the Costco Advent calendar. Aroma is a tad skunky, bready, caramel, grassy. Pours slightly hazy golden with a large cream-white head with excellent retention. Taste is sweet with a moderately bitter herbal hop edge. Better than average festbier.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml can - Costco Advent Calendar. Nice traditional Oktoberfest beer - amber color, malty smell and taste. Solid.