Maerzen Spezial
Privatbrauerei Hösl

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Privatbrauerei Hösl
 
Germany
Style:
Märzen
ABV:
5.6%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.81 | pDev: 0.52%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
2
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 01, 2015
Added:
Feb 07, 2015
Wants:
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Gots:
  1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.79/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
500ml can (simply labeled 'Marzenbier'), day 1 of the 2015 Costco Beer Advent Calendar - bring on once again the lagers and hefeweizens from those little European breweries that I've never heard of.

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some snowy mountaintop profile lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready caramel malt, a faint biscuity graininess, white and red grape juice, and tame leafy, earthy, and grassy noble hops. The taste is grainy, doughy caramel malt, lightly buttered sweet biscuits, a muddled pale orchard fruitiness (apples and green grapes, mostly), ethereal hints of gasohol, and a plain leafy, weedy, and dead grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite light and spritely in its genial frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and more or less smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes well off-dry, as if the lingering malt and fruity essences wouldn't, couldn't have it any other way.

A typical (and I mean that in a complimentary way) version of the style, i.e. lots of robust sweetness, barely tempered by a generally sedate hop offset, all of which duly masks the increase in ABV - not a big deal for this serving, I know, but I hear that they are prone to drink vast multiples of this stuff sometime around the beginning of October.
Dec 01, 2015
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.84/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured very slightly cloudy with a moderate head that slowly dissipated, leaving a nice ring. The slightly hazy may be because of the glass (which I previously used for another beer rated elsewhere), as one would not expect it of a Good German Maerzen. Overall, an enjoyable beer, however. One I will repeat, if I can.
Feb 07, 2015
Maerzen Spezial from Privatbrauerei Hösl
Beer rating: 3.81 out of 5 with 2 ratings