Sierra Nevada Octoberfest | Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Brewed by:
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
California, United States
sierranevada.com
Style: Märzen / Oktoberfest
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.80%
Availability: Fall
Notes / Commercial Description:
Germany’s Oktoberfest celebrated a royal marriage and the health of the fall harvest—which in Bavaria, means brewers, barley and hops! Today, Oktoberfest is considered one of the world’s greatest parties, and in honor of that rollicking bash we bring you our version of the classic festival beer. Oktoberfest is medium-bodied and rich with bready and toffee-like malt flavor but maintains a crisp finish marked by floral and spicy hops.
Before 2014, known as Octoberfest and ABV 5.80%
2014 - Only available in Fall Variety Pack
DO NOT REVIEW THE 2015 VERSION HERE.
Added by Boilermaker88 on 10-13-2003
This beer is retired; no longer brewed.
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Ratings: 1,001 | Reviews: 215
3.72/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Not as sweet as my favorite Oktoberfest Bier (Paulaner's Wiesn), but a wonderful rich, yet not too heavy, malty delight. Refreshing and tasty alone, yet flavorful enough to accompany some bratwursts with or without sauerkraut and spicy mustard.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Not as sweet as my favorite Oktoberfest Bier (Paulaner's Wiesn), but a wonderful rich, yet not too heavy, malty delight. Refreshing and tasty alone, yet flavorful enough to accompany some bratwursts with or without sauerkraut and spicy mustard.
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3.25/5 rDev -15.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.41/5 rDev -11%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.7/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
4.19/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.09/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3.28/5 rDev -14.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -14.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.72/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.56/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
4.22/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Not as sweet as my favorite Oktoberfest Bier (Paulaner's Wiesn), but a wonderful rich, yet not too heavy, malty delight. Refreshing and tasty alone, yet flavorful enough to accompany some bratwursts with or without sauerkraut and spicy mustard.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Not as sweet as my favorite Oktoberfest Bier (Paulaner's Wiesn), but a wonderful rich, yet not too heavy, malty delight. Refreshing and tasty alone, yet flavorful enough to accompany some bratwursts with or without sauerkraut and spicy mustard.
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4.85/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
This is a great fall football beer!!! Very smooth...perfecly paired with salmon over the BBQ. (That's what we had) Definitely not too heavy. Overall I wI'll be back at Total Wine for another 6er soon.
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
This is a great fall football beer!!! Very smooth...perfecly paired with salmon over the BBQ. (That's what we had) Definitely not too heavy. Overall I wI'll be back at Total Wine for another 6er soon.
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3.89/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.19/5 rDev +9.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.07/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Didn't know they even bottled this, not doubt the have on draft at those marvelous facilities. So glad to have visited each, with great photos to show, and great times in general among some of the more notable beer drinkers and people that I know. Gold as the hair of a member of the German swim team “Gutvik” good fuck en Deutch. Solid amt of bitterness, akin to someone missing Oktoberfest because it actually took place in September, and they didn't know.
takin another crack, 8/12, old school hops, sedate, gold 6% looks like could be a pils, a bit heavier and into the bitter end, over dry. Made in collab with German brewer Mahrs Brau, really light for a fester, would maybe even put this, in a flight, ahead of the Southern Star, perhaps at end too, to refresh. Could go as a Texan fest, so light and refreshing, kind of thing we need here even in Oct. If this were the only fest beer at a fest, i'd like it, but would probably want to sneak some bourbon in eventually.
West coast hop element? No, apparently an old German variety called Record. Perhaps the most unique of the festies, starting to love the subtle hard toffee sweetness hidden in her golden locks like a pen knife or a joint of what they been perfecting in those hills for years.
http://unicornbrewing.com/faq/
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Didn't know they even bottled this, not doubt the have on draft at those marvelous facilities. So glad to have visited each, with great photos to show, and great times in general among some of the more notable beer drinkers and people that I know. Gold as the hair of a member of the German swim team “Gutvik” good fuck en Deutch. Solid amt of bitterness, akin to someone missing Oktoberfest because it actually took place in September, and they didn't know.
takin another crack, 8/12, old school hops, sedate, gold 6% looks like could be a pils, a bit heavier and into the bitter end, over dry. Made in collab with German brewer Mahrs Brau, really light for a fester, would maybe even put this, in a flight, ahead of the Southern Star, perhaps at end too, to refresh. Could go as a Texan fest, so light and refreshing, kind of thing we need here even in Oct. If this were the only fest beer at a fest, i'd like it, but would probably want to sneak some bourbon in eventually.
West coast hop element? No, apparently an old German variety called Record. Perhaps the most unique of the festies, starting to love the subtle hard toffee sweetness hidden in her golden locks like a pen knife or a joint of what they been perfecting in those hills for years.
http://unicornbrewing.com/faq/
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3.24/5 rDev -15.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Sierra Nevada Octoberfest from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
3.83
out of 5
based on 1,001 ratings.
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25
Very good beer reminds me of a Boston logger.
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