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Grimm Artisanal Ales

 

 

Great looking marzen with a muted scent and quite a bit of carbonation, but it is very flavorful. It's full-bodied, which I like, and it makes for a good brew to close out the night with. Definitely worth the try, and then some...

The pour is sienna colored with a moderate amount of carbonation. The taste is baked brown bread, biscuity malt, caramel, & honey. Cheers! B

Copper, rust body, with an off-white centimeter of head which falls fast and leaves very little lacing. Smell is wet toast, with some grass, ripe lemon zest, herbs, floral, honey. Taste is nice biscuit, sticky hops, lots of caramel malt, bread crust. Finish is full and toasted bread at first, and then dry with some herbal floral hop bitterness. Easy drinking, very nice cracker like aftertaste.

Good Marzen!! Rich mouthfeel and flavor. Malt forward with lots of bready, toasty malt and caramel. Poured from a 16 oz can into a 12 oz mug, this beer featured a clear copper color and a medium sized foamy white head with somewhat better than average retention. Aroma and taste included lots of malt, mostly of the toasty/bready variety but also with somewhat sweet caramel malt and a touch of honey. There is a balancing grassy hops presence, just not as pronounced as the maltiness. Mouthfeel is rich for the style and, at t5.6% .abv, not exactly designed for massive swilling!!!! I found it very enjoyable.

 

 

 

16 oz can. Pours amber with tall, long-lasting, fluffy white head. Aroma is of grassy hops and caramel malt. Body is medium and crisp. Grassy hops and caramel malt nicely balanced on the palate. Finish is long and dry. Ok brew.

 

 

 

 

2021-10-11
Half liter at the Grand Delancey in NYC.

Rich bronze-gold, big head, clear. Smell is lager yeast and grain tea.

Taste is grain, grain husk, hay, and mild grass.

Mouthfeel is very light and dry. Overall, this is a very good beer.

 

Canned on 9/9/20; consumed on 11/6/20

Pours a heavily foggy copper-orange body capped with two fingers of fluffy, dense, slightly off-white foam: great head retention fades to a half-finger of chunky cap, a full, frothy collar, and thick gobs of soapy, webby lacing holding firmly to the glass.

Aroma opens with bready, pumpernickel spice and an airy yeast, with apple peel and pear accents and a spritzy minerality coming through softly over the middle; light caramel malts and woody wisps of pencil shavings develop on the back end, while faint apricot zest and a prickle of grass works to even the established, sweeter malts on the close.

Taste features bready yeast with touches of grassy spice and caramel malts interspersed between at the forefront of the profile, easing into firmer notes of black bread crusts over the mid-palate and into caramel sweetness tempered nicely by an herbal/floral hop tone to the finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium body along with a fluffy, rounded carbonation offering a pillowy texture over the palate before dissipating to a subtle grit over the mid-palate and eventually, a clean, level, and moderately dry finish; a muddled thinness threatens a crisper texture, though is never fully attained.

A disparate minerality and largely unchecked yeast aside, the foundation of this Mãrzen is largely refined and easygoing; despite this, the flavor profile is engaging yet unestablished and feeling incomplete in its expression, and the end result is thus a safe, unremarkable option for the style.

Clear dark amber body, finger of cream head, light lacing. Toast and caramel malts to the max in the smell. Taste is much the same, starting more bitter, bready, and toasty, going to a sweeter caramel and honey note to finish. Body is medium, crisp, malty and smooth. Good all around oktoberfest

Pours into a becker a clear copper with a full one finger white head atop.Big crusty bread in the nose along with caramel/nougat,more crisp than sweet.A dryer American-brewed O-fest,sharp and quite dry with underlying caramel wich is a nice role reversal.Slightly sharp in the mouthfeel but still doesn't take much away from the drinkability.Very food friendly and highly drinkable,a winner here.