Oktoberfest
pFriem Family Brewers

 

Murky golden body with a full white head. Smells of bready yeast with a full fresh white loaf, bright malts and lemon hops. Taste has lemon hops and multivitamin hints within the bready yeast, bright malts, and slight apple. Feel is sharper but still yeasty, medium bodied and crisp, well made and balanced

Clear light yellow gold. Nice bready/malty aroma and flavor. Nice balance with little to no hop character but not sweet at all. Light to medium bodied with a crisp dry malty finish. Crushable!

This one pours a golden yellow-ish color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This definitely smells like a little bit of a hoppier festbier – there’s honey, doughy bread, some light fruitiness, and spicy hops.

This is definitely a more West Coast-style festbier, if that makes sense. It’s got a sort of almost grape-like and citrusy character to it, with a nice dry and herbal hop bitterness, and a really wonderful lightly sweet breadiness.

This is super drinkable, crisp, clean, and just so nice to drink.

pFriem does basically everything well, and this is definitely no exception.

Light gold and clear body jam-packed with lively, tiny bubbles; thick, white head, long-lasting, dense with a creamy texture on top. Wonderful cereal grain aroma infused with some zesty, peppery hop scent; a hint of floral qualities. Clean taste; mild biscuit; refined hop bitterness balances things; Noble hop flavor. Medium-heavy body; soft and creamy; crisp; fine note of dryness rounds things out.

This is a superb Oktoberfest offering. Very balanced with a respectable complexity and well-rounded. Quite enjoyable.

ABV: 6.1%; pouring temperature: 42.2 °F; canning info: 08/19/25
Source: Tavour (pFriem Artisan Ale Club)

Deep golden color with a big, white head. Bread, malt, honey, and grass in the aroma. malty but crisp and refreshing taste with balancing, herbal bitterness. Good.

 

Had this beer at the brewery yesterday. Pours a dark amber color with a nice head that dissipates rather quickly. I love the roasted malt flavor of Marzen beer and the mild hopping. This is another good beer from pFriem. 22 IBUs Rated 9-26-2023

about as light as they come in this style space, definitely festbier before marzen here, but still somehow seeming to not sacrifice anything, and it is just so high in drinkability, one of the most refined and dialed examples of this style i have seen from a domestic brewer, a joy to drink on tap, and something i want to fill my glass with again and again september through november at least, just gorgeous beer, perfectly lagered, and i think for a lager program, pfriem wins the best in show award this year, epic releases from japanese to canadian to a whole mess of others, elite level across the board, and this stands out even among those! golden, brassy at the darkest, totally unassuming in this style space, with a puffy airy white head over an inch tall, this looks great. nose and taste of old world lager yeast all bready and doughy and complimentary to the grain, which hits dusty german pils-like, with some richer undertones, minerality, and pretzel character, a little sweetness but only for a second, herbs and tea from the hops and indeed crisping bitterness, this is so balanced and almost delicate, impressive! its grain forward but the yeast is right there, this could have been made in bavaria! racy carbonation, dry as a bone on the swallow, and each sip begs for another. this is a triumph, subtle, especially for these guys, but immaculate! not to be missed this season...

 

 

Clear bright yellow brew with plenty of foam in the Orval chalice. Mouthfeel is crisp and light, with clouds of bubbles on the tongue. Aroma of bread and alfalfa. There is just the right hoppy tang. Hops are listed as Spalt and Tettnang. Warm and malt flavored with a touch of roasty grain, and the slight sweetness is really appealing. This is really a credit to pFriem to make such excellent beers in the lighter styles. From the 16 oz can, can't read the date but it suddenly appeared at the store and here it is the day before Oktober.

 

 

 

A: The beer is crystal clear yellow in color and has a moderate amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a thin collar of white bubbles around the edge of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of white grapes are present in the nose.
T: The taste has flavors of white grapes along with notes of biscuit and toasted malts.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and clean on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: The aromas and flavors of white grapes in this festbier are quite unique and interesting.

Serving type: bottle

500ml bottle into a tall glass. Bottled 8/26/21, so almost 7 weeks old.

Beautiful looking beer. Crystal clear medium golden yellow body with nice slow streams of carbonation. Bright white head persists in very good form throughout, leaving modern art design lacing.

Malty, doughy, floral aroma.

On tasting, strong but clean malty taste. Crisp, a light hop bite. A little less sweet than other festbiers, nicely balanced

Mouth medium, finish clean, malt and hop balance is spot on.

Overall, loving this one. Well put together and thought out. Would grab again in a heartbeat. Thanks Pfriem.