Imperial Märzen
A. Le Coq
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Imperial Märzen is an amber lager with a full taste, where the sweetness of the malt dominates over the bitterness of hops.
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.31/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.31/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
From the bottle, it pours a clear copper color with a modest head, slowly diminishing to a thin layer and robust ring. Slight aromas of caramel malts and toffee. Taste is also muted: slight caramel malts and light bitterness. Body is medium and fills the mouth nicely.
Oct 18, 2018
Reviewed by metter98 from New York
3.48/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +19.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A: The beer is clear copper in color and has a moderate amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a half finger high beige colored head that died down, leaving a large patch of bubbles on the surface, a collar around the edge, and some lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of caramel malts and toffee are present in the nose.
T: The taste has flavors of caramel and toasted malts and toffee and some hints of associated malty sweetness. No hops are noticeable, but there seems to be enough underlying hops to keep the sweetness from becoming cloying.
M: It feels medium-bodied and a little smooth on the palate with a low to moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer seems to be a little sweeter compared to other beers in the style.
Serving type: bottle
Apr 29, 2018S: Moderate aromas of caramel malts and toffee are present in the nose.
T: The taste has flavors of caramel and toasted malts and toffee and some hints of associated malty sweetness. No hops are noticeable, but there seems to be enough underlying hops to keep the sweetness from becoming cloying.
M: It feels medium-bodied and a little smooth on the palate with a low to moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer seems to be a little sweeter compared to other beers in the style.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.42/5 rDev +17.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.42/5 rDev +17.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
400ml bottle - ok, a Märzen, released in Alberta in January. As always, the reps around here sometimes appear to have a hole in their heads.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of sparse snow rime lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, some bruised apple and pear fruitiness, a suggestion of buttered bread, and some rather mild earthy, leafy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a fading toffee sweetness, muddled domestic citrus and pome fruit esters, a hint of brown sugar, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly flat in its anemic frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, with nothing really existing that could get into any sort of trouble here. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much the only lingering show in town.
Overall - this comes across as an adequately well-constructed (if plain) version of the style, definitely skewing to the sweet side of things, and a little thin-seeming. Also, I'm nit-picking, but aren't Märzens supposed to have a wee little extra bit of the ol' boozy-booze?
Jan 19, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of sparse snow rime lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, some bruised apple and pear fruitiness, a suggestion of buttered bread, and some rather mild earthy, leafy, and grassy noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a fading toffee sweetness, muddled domestic citrus and pome fruit esters, a hint of brown sugar, and more well understated earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly flat in its anemic frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, with nothing really existing that could get into any sort of trouble here. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much the only lingering show in town.
Overall - this comes across as an adequately well-constructed (if plain) version of the style, definitely skewing to the sweet side of things, and a little thin-seeming. Also, I'm nit-picking, but aren't Märzens supposed to have a wee little extra bit of the ol' boozy-booze?
Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.32/5 rDev +14.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.32/5 rDev +14.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a brown 13.5 oz. bottle. Has a bronze color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is mild, malts, hints of caramel. Taste is of malts, a bit bready, light and easy drinking. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is almost drinks like an oktoberfest light.
Jan 08, 2018
Rated by Dentist666 from Russian Federation
2.11/5 rDev -27.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2
2.11/5 rDev -27.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 2
12,5% Plato. Appearance - ok, taste - awful.
Jul 01, 2015Reviewed by adrigallego from Spain
1.8/5 rDev -38.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.25
1.8/5 rDev -38.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 1.75 | overall: 2.25
P: Strange (400ml) but beautiful bottle, with best before date at the back.
A: Poured dark ambar colour, with small white head, little retention.
S: Very soft, reminds malt and maybe green apple.
T: Worst aspect, as it has a very diluted flavour, notes of malt, apple and caramel, quite sweet but nothing very remarkable. A very simple flavour, I expected something more complex... Almost reminds water with some colourant.
M: Very soft, light body, medium carbonatation, dry finish.
O: Quite underwhelming beer...
Dec 13, 2014A: Poured dark ambar colour, with small white head, little retention.
S: Very soft, reminds malt and maybe green apple.
T: Worst aspect, as it has a very diluted flavour, notes of malt, apple and caramel, quite sweet but nothing very remarkable. A very simple flavour, I expected something more complex... Almost reminds water with some colourant.
M: Very soft, light body, medium carbonatation, dry finish.
O: Quite underwhelming beer...
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