Oktoberfest Festbier Lager
Breakside Brewery - SE Taproom

 

 

This beer pours a golden amber color, with almost no aroma other than some caramel and malt. The taste is light and mellow and easy drinking. Some notes of toasted and bready malts and sweetness with a mild bitterness throughout.

 

Clear golden pour with a large white head. Smell has old world hops with pretzel, crusty yeast, bright malt, and slight black pepper. Taste has mild hops compared to the nose, some kettle corn in with the earth and slightly sweet malt, some cracker and bready yeast finish. Feel is sharp with carbonation and hops, but fade quickly into waves of yeast undergirded by malt. The wife liked it

Look: A beautiful clear, pure orange with a lofty head that quickly swells, holds, and slowly craters away, leaving great lacing on the glass’ wall
Aroma: Raw dough, toasted bread, light floral hop notes, freshly baked bread, and toasted cereal grains
Taste: Starts out with a rush of floral hop notes, including true jasmine, butterfly bush, and petunia, and quickly followed by wave after wave of bready malt. Dough, toast, grains, and bread all in the mix and closes with the return of floral hops
Mouthfeel: Light but full, extremely clean, medium-high carbonation, and a crisp and clean finish
Overall: This is quite delicious. Leave it to these folks to nail any style they want to brew and having never had this, I wanted to try it as I phase out of Oktoberfest season. A very tasty and well-made Festbier that checks all the boxes, seems borderline flawless, and could easily hold its own against some of the best imports. Recommended

L: Brown gold body, thick head.
S: Sweet bread. Molasses, a hint of hops and cracker.
T: Quite sweet upfront with caramel and bread dough, then slightly fruity, then lots of cracker and wheat, finishing with bitter hops.
F: Smooth and full.
O: Quite good, with enough going for it I almost wouldn’t want to slam one after another.

2022-10-05
16oz can served in a pint glass. Canned 9/9/22.

Pours a clear light golden amber with a medium sized head that fades to a broad but thin island and a fairly thin ring around the edges. Light amount of active carbonation at rest. Smell is grainy and light, with a hint of nuttiness, a hint of honeysuckle, and a hint of grass.

Taste is following the aroma nicely, though there's a bit more bitterness as it finishes, making it very drinkable.

Mouthfeel is light and dry, could be a bit more effervescent. Overall, very nice beer.

 

Released in mid-September, right on top of the Fresh Hop beer season, but not a FH offering. A very pretty pour. Light head, fresh bread dough yeastiness on the nose. Taste is very Germanic, controlled bitterness with a well structured malt base holding things together. You could easily down a liter or two of this one during an afternoon in the biergarten.