Fest Bier
4 Hands Brewing Co.

I am rating this as a Wiesn, not a Märzen (the current BA style designation for this beer).

The beer pours golden with a creamy head. The smell is malty, but not at all strongly aromatic. The taste is malt with mild and distinctly German hops. Feel is medium and pleasant. This beer accomplishes what few Festbiers can: drinkability without sacrificing character.

The one stumble here is that the hops, while mild to my taste, are too strong for a Wiesn. If you like more hops and find yourself deciding between this and its Weihenstephaner counterpart, choose the 4 Hands.

Certainly enjoyable, tho at first I got a lemony taste from this. I later attributed it to a biscuity taste as I drank more of it. Strangely, I had a little sediment on the bottom of my stein.

 

 

 

 

Tasted in a Rastal stein from a one pint can on September 7, 2021.

 

A: Light corn yellow pour sits a dirty tangerine in the vessel. Strong macro-bubble presence. Dull white head, bready texture, porous surface, with a steady retention. Slight dirty haze .

S: Soft dried wheat and damp noble hop flowers. Distinct lager bready yeastiness. Fairly clean and crisp. Buttery bread and maize, with warming some dry flowery hops.

T: Dry yeasty bite, mixes with a dried honey sweetness, and herbal hops. A spicing of thyme, dill and estery pear drop along with some possible bubblegum yeastiness as highlights. Some orange-grapefruit grind with some sweet sugary grains flashes rounds things out.

M: Nice viscosity, thick body, crisp carbonation and bready fullness. Nice fullness and crisp palate of grains.

O: Herbal noble flowery hops, buttery bread backbone and traditional by style.

Not bad but for me it's too hoppy for the style.
It tastes ok though.
Over carbonated with no head retention.
So close but misses the target for the profile.

Light gold in color with a hazy complexion. There’s a fingernail of dishwater on top. The aroma is of light grains. I’m tasting faintly bready malt. The mouth is light and quaffable. ; Hands tends to make consistently reliable offerings, but this seems a bit of a miss.

 

Pours a slightly hazed gold with 3 fingers of pearl colored head. Alright head retention & lacing

S: Breadyness, some grassyness

T: Breadyness, grassyness & a little bit of lime up front. More bready sweetness plus grassy & grainy bitterness as this warms. Finishes a little dry, grassy with lime & bready sweetness

MF: Medium body, slight carbonation, good balance

Solid festbeer, so easy to drink

 

 

 

16 undated can poured into a mug at fridge temp 5.8% ABV per label. The beer pours hazy gold tinted yellow with off white head. The head recedes to a thin ring and single layer of bubbles. No lacing. The aroma is mild with sweet malt and yeast. The taste tangy, barely toasty malt with moderate bitterness and minimal hop flavor, maybe some grassiness. The mouthfeel is thin to medium bodied with average carbonation and a dry finish. Overall, good. Balanced, dry and very drinkable. Points off for being hazy and very light malt flavor. Would drink all day, which was probably the goal.

From a sixteen ounce can, this brew is a lightly hazy gold color with a soft white, fluffy head. The aroma is lightly malty with a bit of caramel underneath. The taste is tilted sweet with more malt and some bready, light toasted notes. Medium-full in body and enjoyable.

Color is a bright yellow golden color with nice small no real lacing.
Smell is of malts with a sweetness.
Taste matches aroma. Nice mild beer with some malty sweetness.
Clean beer little to no aftertaste.
Overall not a bad beer nothing wrong or bad here, but nothing to make it stand out

Poured from a can. Golden in color with a small white head. Smells of malt and caramel. Taste follows the smell with nothing really standing out. Can is awesome looking. Beer is ok.